What was your first anime show or film?
For me? The first anime related thing I saw as a kid was Spirited Away on VHS, I was awestruck from the animation and quality of the film.
For shows it would’ve been the usual Pokemon and DBZ. As I grew older I suppose my first proper anime show was watching streams of Neon Genesis Evangelion due to people talking about it at school.
So what about you? What did you see first?
Akira, as was common at the time. Not counting stuff like Robotech or Speed Racer that I wouldn’t have known was anime.
Show - Robotech, it was on Sunday mornings on sci-fi channel for a while in the mid 90s. Film - Ninja Scroll, dad had a descrambler and saw it on PPV in the early 00s. Good times.
Robotech was my first as well. I remember the scifi channel having “Saturday Anime” - different movies every week on Saturday mornings that I used to record on VHS.
Probably this one, not that I associated it with anime at the time.
Silver Fang, and from that you can identify my age and country.
dbz and pokemon as well but only when id catch it between other activities. Didn’t actually sit through an entire anime until high school where my friend borrowed me Cromartie High.
First film was probably the first Pokémon film in theaters.
I think it was an episode of Cowboy Bebop that came on Toonami one night when I was staying at a friend’s house.
It was the first episode, Asteroid Blues.
I didn’t really watch anime until years later when a friend suggested I watch Yu Yu Hakusho so I did.
Outlaw Star was my first, on early Toonami. I got into DBZ because outlaw star came on later in the night and I refused to miss any of it! It was so… different from everything else on TV.
Still one of my absolute favorites to this day, I prefer it over Cowboy Bebop 😘
Outlaw star was an early watch for me too, was amazing. Really solidified my love of everything space related.
Outlaw Star wars great. I feel obligated to inform as many people as possible that there is a “sequel” to the series called “Angel Links” that takes place in the same universe but follows different characters.
There you go. That’s all the information you need to know about it.
NEVER WATCH IT
It is entirely forgettable, not worth the time or effort, and definitely not worth what I had to pay to get a box set of DVD’s back in the day from Suncoast in the mall because Anime was still niche and streaming wasn’t a thing yet.
Project A-Ko in 1996
Very first was probably Inuyasha, Dragonball Z, or some Gundam way back on adult swim as a kid. My first real one that I engaged with as a semi-adult was probably Death Note.
Mermaid melody Pitchi Pitchi Pitch! It played early in the morning every day in one of my country’s public networks
Pokemon for TV, movie would probably be Laputa.
Cowboy Bebop
I think it was RoboCop, the 1987 one and Child’s Play 2 maybe?
Animation is hard to remember either Candy Candy or Kimba the White Lion. Maybe Saint Seiya?
Édit, oh you mean animatimed movies, nvm
Heidi and Maya the Bee when I was about 4
I watched sword art online because I read a little about the plot and it sounded interesting to me. Second was High School DxD I believe I picked because there wasn’t much else dubbed (I don’t watch anything dubbed really now).
I went through a big binge of practically everything after that but only really watch the odd airing one now.
