What was your first anime? When did you started to watch it? How did you become aware of its existence?
Was it the anime that made you an anime fan? (If you consider yourself as such)
How does it rank for you? Would you say you still like it? Would you consider it one of you favourite anime series?
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The first anime I watched fully knowing it was an anime is Vampire Hunter D back in the late 80’s. I still have a soft spot for it.
Dragon Ball and Toonami pulled me back in hard. I loved anime but didn’t have much access to it until Toonami.
I had watched some anime adaptations (Voltron, etc) when I was younger, but I had no idea what anime was back then, and not sure those would count.
I remember watching Battle of the Planets (Science Ninja Team Gatchaman) before school in 1978-79. I was struck by the art style and how different it was from all the other animation I consumed. Unfortunately it was soon swept away by the wave of shitty '80s animation, and I don’t think I saw another anime until I watched Akira in the early '90s.
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Preeeeety sure it was this Tom Sawyer one, before i even knew what was anime, either that or good old Doraemon, either on national TV
I watched a lot of anime as a kid, Pokémon is the likely candidate among them but could also be Digimon or Sailor Moon.
First time I went back to it as a teen was after watching a Death Note YouTube poop. First half is still great and one of the only Dubs I am still inclined to watch
Naruto, There is a lot that I don’t remember how they were called.
Steel Angel Kurumi and Twilight of the Dark Master My parents really should have been more careful about what I watched. :P
I have a vague recollection of seeing part of Princess Mononoke as a child, so I guess that would be my “first”, although what really got me interested in anime was watching the first couple episodes of Attack on Titan at a high school club.
Late nights on the sci-fi channel back in the day were wild, you waited up til midnight and then had no idea what you’d get. I remember watching urotsukidoji before I was even 10, which definitely didn’t mess me up, no siree bob.
Blue Gender, of all shows, was the one that really got me into anime, and I learnt to pirate things right about at a golden age of Evangelion, Trigun, and Cowboy Bebop, which were all great.
Akira. Hell of a way to get introduced to anime as a kid.
Me too!
I was about 12. The last 1/3rd of that movie really fucked with my kid brain, gave me nightmares for weeks, and turned me completely off from trying any other anime until I found Dragon Ball Z on Cartoon Network like 8 years later. XD
Akira was my intro to anime too. It came on IFC incredibly early in the morning (no idea who picked that time slot) and I was often the only one awake in my house at 4am on a Saturday.
Same! I remember watching Akira as a kid when it was on TV back in the 90s and it just blew my mind.
Created a life long appreciation for anime and animation in general.
When I was a kid I had a few VHS cassettes with various shows and movies on them that were often recorded from TV. This was before the mid 90s Toonami era made anime popular stateside I was like maybe 2-5 with these tapes I’d watch and I didnt even know they were anime.
One of them was the Little Nemo Movie and the other one was a several episodes of a series called Serendipity The Pink Dinosaur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity_the_Pink_Dragon
Apparently it’s on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZWuTSp9NgM&t
As for first anime I knew was anime thats harder to say but probably Voltron? If not Sailor moon/dbz
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The Wizard of Oz was the first, before I knew there was some sort of a difference between this or that animation.
The first “proper” one was either Spirited Away, Chobits (by recommendation) or Bleach. I adore Miyazaki’s work still, Wizard of Oz has a special, nostalgic place in my heart and I want to see it again sometime, Bleach I probably couldn’t bother to watch anymore (soooo much filler and pointless fan-service aimed at teenaged boys, I couldn’t stand all that stuff even then), Chobits I might give a spin sometime just to see if it’s at all not-horrible, but it’s been a while so I can’t really remember. The whole virgin-boy wants sex angle and fan-service thing never appealed to me and ruins so many animes that would be good or even great otherwise.
Fist of the North Star. In retrospect this probably shouldn’t have been my first as it did level-set things a bit oddly as to the ratio between plot and pure, raw violence.
Probably not my first watched anime, but I do love mobile suit Gundam (the OG one : amuro and char) with Chinese voice over
As I grow older I actually watch fewer anime
Now with 3 kids I somehow get back to it
Macross
Neon genesis evangelion
Naruto
Bleach
Monster
Full metal alchemist
Tokyo ghoul
Gurren lagann
Sword art online
Stein gate
Kill la kill
Gundam seed
Witches of mercury
Demon slayer
Etc…
And then there’s the movies
Most of the studio ghibli
Akira
Your name
The girl who leapt through time
Etc…
As you can see there’s not much pattern to the genre. I watch just about anything
The only one I don’t dare go back to is grave of the fire flies I was maybe 15 minutes in when I watch it 20 years ago? I bailed out after that The story is just too heavy for me
I wouldn’t rank any of the above, mostly cuz I have bad memories and don’t remember most of the details
I will just say OG mobile suit Gundam is my all time fav.
