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I had Digimon World and couldn't figure out how to get a Gomamon (could you even play as a Gomamon?). loving bullshit. Hate that game
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NikkolasKing posted:I watched Pokemon obsessively growing up, right up until Ash made it to the Indigo League.
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symbolic posted:Pokemon: "these cute creatures fight but they're all okay in the end, haha Digimon: it got me into ska SyntheticPolygon posted:I had Digimon World and couldn't figure out how to get a Gomamon (could you even play as a Gomamon?). loving bullshit. Hate that game Nope, you can't! Penguinmon is your water rookie, and none of Gomamon's line are in (they were designed after the toys Digimon World was based on).
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TenementFunster posted:Kagome!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgw69hd8OOI Adult Swim was a master of previews and hype. This is what we were all here for.
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Waffleman_ posted:Speaking of Slayers, we could have had it on TV, but Fox Kids got the broadcast rights and sat on them seemingly for the sole reason of not letting Toonami have it, lol Everything Burrito posted:some of the stuff they ran on that Saturday Anime block on the Sci-fi Channel was pretty great, although it's a shame everything was so heavily edited to fit into an hour. I was shocked when I tracked down Iria: The Zeiram Animation and found out it was actually a multi-episode OVA That block also had LILY C.A.T. which is pretty awesome for a 7 or 8 am start. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKT_GKGEbno TNT (or TBS?) randomly ran anime films. It's how I saw Vampire Hunter D and Robit Carnivale one summer. And for some reason Cartoon Network ran Twilight of the Cockroaches
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Jul 11, 2022 03:14
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Kind of weird how back in the 90s unless you knew about that one video rental store with subbed import tapes your only options to catch anime were going to be the scifi channel or cartoon network, and those probably shaped an entire generation of viewers in America at least. Escalflowne was also insanely edited and weirdly paced when it aired as a Fox Kids morning cartoon.
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a.lo posted:Digimon sucked Digimon Season 1 is an amazing accident. A ten episode or so minseries being almost simulcast in America suddenly pushed into a 52+ episode juggernaut that led to an instant sequel. Digimon 02 is great until the end of the Digimon Emperor Arc, because the main writer left and the new writer was left no notes. Digimon Tamers is amazing, managing to actually have a deeper, darker themes. Too bad the creator went full rightwing chud for the anniversary play by somehow consuming American altright media in Japan. Afterwards, it's a mixed bag. Digimon Froniters is okay but boring. Savers was legit kind of a decent shonen but a bit bland in places. Fusion was just okay, but it's sequel was better. 2020 is lopsided and didn't do enough for the older fans it courted. But, hey, now Ghost Game is legit loving good with its dark, urban horror setting that protrays digimon as legit monsters invading our world and causing supernatural problems.
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NikkolasKing posted:I watched Pokemon obsessively growing up, right up until Ash made it to the Indigo League. That Pokemon episode is so frickin good on a rewatch. It's like the kindest, kid-friendliest way of saying sometimes the "hero" loses, and not just loses, but loses in an unexpectedly humiliating way (Pikachu gets his rear end kicked not by some badass legendary or whatever, but by a fuckin Bellsprout). But no one's traumatized, there's no great tragedy, just poo poo happens and the important thing was always the journey. NikkolasKing posted:And of course DBZ was there, too. I'll never forget I thought the series ended with Vegeta blowing himself up against Buu because they started doing reruns after that episode. Inuyasha really puts things in perspective. To me, having been introduced via Ranma and subsequently obsessing (OBSESSING) over it, Inuyasha was always "that new thing Takahashi is making," and for a while we didn't even know if they'd publish it in English. They did, of course, and in hindsight OF COURSE they were gonna, because the western audience was proving real and ravenous. Not long after, the manga section in bookstores started blowing up, and you could barely move around for all the teenage kids glued to the aisle. It's still like that these days, with the teenage kids still there, but B&N wisely opened it into a big wide section. 
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FilthyImp posted:I thought they ran Iria as a Part 1 and Part 2? At least when I recorded Saturday Anime in like 98. I don't remember exactly, because my strongest memory of watching that block is not watching it because I'd put the channel on expecting it to run and they'd have something else on. All the tv anime I watched was very fragmented since nothing ever seemed to keep a steady schedule.
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pentyne posted:Kind of weird how back in the 90s unless you knew about that one video rental store with subbed import tapes your only options to catch anime were going to be the scifi channel or cartoon network, and those probably shaped an entire generation of viewers in America at least.
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pentyne posted:your only options to catch anime were going to be the scifi channel or cartoon network, and those probably shaped an entire generation of viewers in America at least. Suncoast Video had an insanely strong anime VHS section. What a joy it was to browse all those unknown titles. CN didn't really embrace anime until summer of 99 or 2000? When they ran the block with Gundam Wing and Tenchi Muyo. They experimented with it by bringing in Sailor Moon and finishing the R season. Did well enough they were able to get Goku finish the Jayce/Burter fight and close out the Freeza saga. Scifi didn't have any consistent series, instead licensing OVAs for summer events (like the one hosted by Apollo Smiles, with Tenchi in Love) or their Saturday morning thing. Pre 1995 you probably caught random poo poo like Speed Racer reruns or Robotech or maybe some weird syndicated-at-6am showings of Ronin Warriors or Dragon Ball. Sailor Moon's initial syndicated run in my neck of the woods had a prime 7:00 or 7:30 am spot but it didn't make it too far. And DBZ was on at like 6am randomly following the DB arc where the pig wishes for underwear. What a loving whiplash it was to go from weirdo kid Goku to svelte fighting teen Goku and some Green Dude with too much swag fighting aliens. Everything Burrito posted:All the tv anime I watched was very fragmented since nothing ever seemed to keep a steady schedule. FilthyImp fucked around with this message at 03:33 on Jul 11, 2022 |
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Mazed posted:That Pokemon episode is so frickin good on a rewatch. It's like the kindest, kid-friendliest way of saying sometimes the "hero" loses, and not just loses, but loses in an unexpectedly humiliating way (Pikachu gets his rear end kicked not by some badass legendary or whatever, but by a fuckin Bellsprout). But no one's traumatized, there's no great tragedy, just poo poo happens and the important thing was always the journey. It may have said that at the time, but in the long run it was pretty much just the start of Ash being kind of pathetic and never winning.
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Mazed posted:That Pokemon episode is so frickin good on a rewatch. It's like the kindest, kid-friendliest way of saying sometimes the "hero" loses, and not just loses, but loses in an unexpectedly humiliating way (Pikachu gets his rear end kicked not by some badass legendary or whatever, but by a fuckin Bellsprout). But no one's traumatized, there's no great tragedy, just poo poo happens and the important thing was always the journey. I suppose. I might be more okay with it if I rewatched it now, just like how I've made my peace with Yusuke losing his final fight in YYH. quote:Inuyasha really puts things in perspective. To me, having been introduced via Ranma and subsequently obsessing (OBSESSING) over it, Inuyasha was always "that new thing Takahashi is making," and for a while we didn't even know if they'd publish it in English. They did, of course, and in hindsight OF COURSE they were gonna, because the western audience was proving real and ravenous. Not long after, the manga section in bookstores started blowing up, and you could barely move around for all the teenage kids glued to the aisle. For a long time, Inuyasah was a popular punching bag on this forum and others and I specifically remember somebody who also saw Ranma first got really mad that Inuyasha took its place as Takahashi's signature series.`
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The MCs losing is often the best part of sports and adjacent animes. (Pokemon is of course at its heart a sport anime)
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First watch was Sailor Moon with the DiC dub. Second was probably Pokémon or DBZ, whichever one started airing on YTV first, can't remember. After that it was Digimon, maybe a couple episodes of Hamtaro, then Cardcaptor Sakura, some Monster Rancher, Medabots and a very brief foray into YuGiOh. After Pokémon The Movie 2000 came out and everyone watched it in theaters I sorta fell off the trend since anime was too girly and I was a hot poo poo badass 8 year old who liked grown up stuff. And I remember watching some medieval show where a woman got eaten by a monster and I think it was an episode of Record of Lodoss War? Either way it was weird and I didn't follow up on it. I think it wasn't until I was in university around 2011-2012 that I made another attempt to get back into Anime. I'd seen stuff here and there over the last few years but 2011 was the year I first started watching the Anime Abandon videos by Ben the Sage when he was still on Channel Awesome. That year I watched all of Cowboy Bebop, Code Geass, Gundam 08th MS Team, Trigun, Samurai Champloo and a bunch of Ghibli movies and the weeb roots set in.
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Supremezero posted:It may have said that at the time, but in the long run it was pretty much just the start of Ash being kind of pathetic and never winning. I confess I may never have noticed a pattern because it was like a one-time standout Ash moment to a viewer otherwise glued to Team Rocket.
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cheetah7071 posted:inuyasha is not particularly good with adult eyes Not a particularly healthy Dom and Sub relationship when the girl can beat on the guy at will with a single command whether he likes it or not?
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Arc Hammer posted:Not a particularly healthy Dom and Sub relationship when the girl can beat on the guy at will with a single command whether he likes it or not? Isn't Inuyasha really abrasive, constantly snuck out to talk to Kikyo without telling Kagome, and rude? Plus at least in the manga she uses the command less as it progresses
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mycophobia posted:speed racer this
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symbolic posted:the generational divide can be separated easily with the question "was Pokemon your first anime?" g-force or maybe speed racer
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Willo567 posted:Isn't Inuyasha really abrasive, constantly snuck out to talk to Kikyo without telling Kagome, and rude? Plus at least in the manga she uses the command less as it progresses Dudes Rock.
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As lovely as Harmony Gold became years later, Robotech and Sailor Moon were my first anime.
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Ardeem posted:As lovely as Harmony Gold became years later, Robotech and Sailor Moon were my first anime. Sailor Moon was definitely mine, with DBZ right behind it of course.
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watching dbz after school because all the boys would be talking about it at lunch tomorrow but secretly liking sailor moon more
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watching sailor moon on my grandparents tiny tv but changing the channel when they came in the room in retrospect i dont think they wouldve thought it was any weirder than dbz
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homeless snail posted:watching dbz after school because all the boys would be talking about it at lunch tomorrow but secretly liking sailor moon more epicly this
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I thought Pokemon was okay but I can't think of anything in it I watched as much as Sailor Moon beating Queen Beryl
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Supremezero posted:It may have said that at the time, but in the long run it was pretty much just the start of Ash being kind of pathetic and never winning. I’ll admit I don’t actually keep up with Pokémon but I know I saw some tweet thread or something about how he’s generally been getting farther and farther in tournament brackets as the series has gone on And like, he won the most recent one
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Erg posted:I’ll admit I don’t actually keep up with Pokémon but I know I saw some tweet thread or something about how he’s generally been getting farther and farther in tournament brackets as the series has gone on He should, hes like 47 by now!
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when ash crossdressed into ashley I, as a kid, realized I wanted to be a girl
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Erg posted:I’ll admit I don’t actually keep up with Pokémon but I know I saw some tweet thread or something about how he’s generally been getting farther and farther in tournament brackets as the series has gone on I think after that, they've also been kinda de-emphasizing the whole Pokemon League conceit and just making it an episodic adventure show
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FilthyImp posted:Suncoast Video had an insanely strong anime VHS section. What a joy it was to browse all those unknown titles.
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I got the Evangelion DVD platinum steelbox set and I got the box signed by Spike Spencer and it's probably one of the most valuable things I own at this point.
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Covok posted:Too bad the creator went full rightwing chud for the anniversary play by somehow consuming American altright media in Japan.
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ThingOne posted:I thought Pokemon was okay but I can't think of anything in it I watched as much as Sailor Moon beating Queen Beryl I watched Sailor Moon S1 for the first time when I was 31 and it was still more hype than a lot of Dragonball. Speaking of Dragonball, it’s kind of surreal that it being on Nicktoons means it’s literally been a gateway anime for multiple generations of weebs. It’s so weird looking up meme clips like Android 13’s haircut diss and seeing people talk about how they watched the movies on Nicktoons when they were kids. God I’m old.
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I think Voltron counts as my first anime, but I was like 5 or 6 and it was on in random saturday morning reruns so I'm not THAT old right? gently caress. I was 12 when pokemon started to air.
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Teknoman, Ronin Warriors, and Escaflowne were my first three "anime" beyond just catching Pokemon/Digimon after school or Sailor Moon before school. Escaflowne was my first subbed experience, actually. I still have my old VHS box set and it's in decent condition, though I have no clue whether the tapes have degraded or not having no VHS player for 20 years. I never had cable growing up, so my first experience with CN's Toonami block was in college. So, I never got that initial dose of Cowboy Bebop/Tenchi Muyo/Trigun/etc. that a lot of early 2000s weebs got. Really, I'd say my first big two shows I invested in (e.g.; bought the VHS/DVDs for) were the aforementioned Escaflowne and Serial Experiments Lain which I bought the DVD boxset for purely off a random dork's gushing recommendation on Yahoo chat. Where ever that person is right now, may a thousand blessings be upon them for not leading me astray. 
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