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What anime film or series made you a fan of the medium?
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Princess Viola
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Cowboy Bebop in the early 2000's when I was a little kid, like 7 or so.
FairFriend
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I was exposed to many different series growing up in the 90's. Perhaps the one that I used to like the most was Lupin III. The movie that many years later convinced me that I needed to see more was Oshii's Ghost in the Shell. Then NGE sealed the deal.
8 X 11 Printer Paper
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Sailor Moon and Yu Yu Hakusho.
I'm still worried producers canned the anime series on the 46th chapter, because the manga was amazing, this fact made Sailor Moon series was a reality, time proved it was a great business decision according with Sailor Moon success, but this is the main reason I've never enjoyed SM. Dai no daibouken was perfect and squaresoft should have made some games about this franchise, the nearest one is Dragon Quest III but still isn't the same. Would have been one the big serie at dragon ball levels.
michaelius
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I used to think that anime is all rediculus crap like Sailor Moon or Captain Tsubasa or Yattaman since it's what was shown in TV when I was kid but then by total chance I watched Berserk which changed my mind.
I still wasn't fan but I lost initial prejudice then
Then during my fascination with Mechwarrior mercenaries a friend showed me Gundam Seed and it finally made me a fan
I still wasn't fan but I lost initial prejudice then
Then during my fascination with Mechwarrior mercenaries a friend showed me Gundam Seed and it finally made me a fan
ThreePiMatt
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Dragon Ball Z both introduced me to anime and made me hate it. There was two reasons for that, one is not really DBZ's fault, rather Toonami's fault. When Toonami was airing DBZ I remember they were airing like one saga, then reset to the start, then go through to the next, etc. So they'd start with Saiyan Saga, then start over and do the Saiyan Saga and Namek Saga, then start over and do the Saiyan, Namek, and Frieza Sagas. That shit annoyed me to no end.
The second thing was that shit took forever in DBZ. Very specifically it was the fight with Goku and Frieza. That shit went on way too goddamn long. It especially pissed me off when the narrator dude said something like the planet is supposed to blow up in ten minutes and a whole episode goes by and they're still fighting. I mostly stopped watching DBZ after that. Only bits and pieces, mostly in the Saiyaman/World Tournament stuff and nothing beyond that. That largely pushed me into think anime being dumb shit for losers.
Fast forward like a decade-plus. I was reading websites for E3 news and saw a little throwaway story about World of Tanks announcing some cross-promotion with an anime called "Girls Und Panzer." I thought it was an incredibly dumb thing, but dumb in a way I could kind of appreciate. I caught a couple of clips on YouTube, and soon enough signed up for a trial account with Crunchyroll and ultimately fell down a deep, dark, moe-shaped whole to which I may never climb out of. To this day, though, I can't really watch any sort of long-running shonen series and any sort of protracted fight sequence absolutely bores me to tears.
The second thing was that shit took forever in DBZ. Very specifically it was the fight with Goku and Frieza. That shit went on way too goddamn long. It especially pissed me off when the narrator dude said something like the planet is supposed to blow up in ten minutes and a whole episode goes by and they're still fighting. I mostly stopped watching DBZ after that. Only bits and pieces, mostly in the Saiyaman/World Tournament stuff and nothing beyond that. That largely pushed me into think anime being dumb shit for losers.
Fast forward like a decade-plus. I was reading websites for E3 news and saw a little throwaway story about World of Tanks announcing some cross-promotion with an anime called "Girls Und Panzer." I thought it was an incredibly dumb thing, but dumb in a way I could kind of appreciate. I caught a couple of clips on YouTube, and soon enough signed up for a trial account with Crunchyroll and ultimately fell down a deep, dark, moe-shaped whole to which I may never climb out of. To this day, though, I can't really watch any sort of long-running shonen series and any sort of protracted fight sequence absolutely bores me to tears.
I used to think that anime is all rediculus crap like Sailor Moon or Captain Tsubasa or Yattaman since it's what was shown in TV when I was kid but then by total chance I watched Berserk which changed my mind.
I still wasn't fan but I lost initial prejudice then
Then during my fascination with Mechwarrior mercenaries a friend showed me Gundam Seed and it finally made me a fan
Man, Berserk was so good.
Devil May Cry 1 is still probably my favorite single player game of all time. And I always heard from the IGN boards that Dante's design was inspired by Trigun.
The red trench coat, fair skin, light skinnned hair, the silver and black guns.... that's the first anime I properly saw.
Of coarse I saw Yu-gi-oh sometimes on FoxKids... but that doesn't count.
The red trench coat, fair skin, light skinnned hair, the silver and black guns.... that's the first anime I properly saw.
Of coarse I saw Yu-gi-oh sometimes on FoxKids... but that doesn't count.
SigmasonicX
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Like a lot of others, it was definitely Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z on Toonami, maybe also Ronin Warriors. The time I got home from school didn't allow me to watch any other anime on Toonami. I actually watched Toonami more regularly once it moved to Saturdays.
Back in the days of Kazaa, the first series I downloaded were first One Piece and then Naruto--I lost interest in the former after getting through the Captain Kuro arc, while the latter seemed awesome as hell. However, Kazaa was extremely unreliable, so I was skipping tons of episodes, and eventually just got frustrated and dropped both. When the 4Kids One Piece dub started, I checked it out... and then literally turned the TV off after the theme song. After that, I used torrents to continue watching One Piece starting from the Arlong Park arc (skipping the Baratie arc until I rewatched the series later) and became obsessed with it. I also started watching Bleach when the subs were reaching the end of the Soul Society arc and liked that a lot too. I actually never got around to watching the rest of Naruto via subs, instead watching them on Toonami, but I did keep up with spoilers and watched Naruto Shippuden from the start.
Once I started watching One Piece regularly, that opened the doorway for watching other series.
Back in the days of Kazaa, the first series I downloaded were first One Piece and then Naruto--I lost interest in the former after getting through the Captain Kuro arc, while the latter seemed awesome as hell. However, Kazaa was extremely unreliable, so I was skipping tons of episodes, and eventually just got frustrated and dropped both. When the 4Kids One Piece dub started, I checked it out... and then literally turned the TV off after the theme song. After that, I used torrents to continue watching One Piece starting from the Arlong Park arc (skipping the Baratie arc until I rewatched the series later) and became obsessed with it. I also started watching Bleach when the subs were reaching the end of the Soul Society arc and liked that a lot too. I actually never got around to watching the rest of Naruto via subs, instead watching them on Toonami, but I did keep up with spoilers and watched Naruto Shippuden from the start.
Once I started watching One Piece regularly, that opened the doorway for watching other series.
Flying Toaster
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Akira was the first movie I saw, Ghost in the Shell was the first feature I was completely in love with.
Trigun was the series that completely sold me on the awesomeness Anime. Still to this day Trigun has a very special place in my heart.
Trigun was the series that completely sold me on the awesomeness Anime. Still to this day Trigun has a very special place in my heart.
Muffdraul
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Speed Racer I suppose, but when I was that little I had no idea it was made in Japan. Pretty sure it was after I started watching our local Little Tokyo UHF channel, they showed awesome kid shows on Sunday evenings... the first animated one I saw was Yuusha Raideen, wasn't even subbed. I noticed it looked almost exactly like Speed Racer, and my older sister said "Well duh, Speed Racer is Japanese too." Raideen was so fucking awesome, that was when I knew I was born to watch Japanese cartoons. They didn't start calling it "anime" until many years later.
SolidSnakeUS
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Ghost in the Shell and DBZ.
I basically started with these and then spread out from there.
I basically started with these and then spread out from there.
Woah I just learned that DBZ: The Tree of Might originally premiered in a 3 part episode format which is how I must have watched it a kid because I always remembered them being episodes and not a movie, but thought I was just mistaken.
However, this changes the timeline that I must have seen them because of the 1996-1998 run of DBZ. I must have actually seen these episodes in 1998 or 1999. 1999 is my guess.
However, this changes the timeline that I must have seen them because of the 1996-1998 run of DBZ. I must have actually seen these episodes in 1998 or 1999. 1999 is my guess.
JustAnotherMike
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I watched the Toonami block back in highschool, but stopped watching after that. My first or second year of college I saw some people playing one of the first naruto gamecube games in the computer lab.
I asked what it was and one of the people showed the me the sasuke vs garra fight. I was sold and he told me I can get it through a torrent or IRC. I asked him to explain what those were then I began my journey.
I asked what it was and one of the people showed the me the sasuke vs garra fight. I was sold and he told me I can get it through a torrent or IRC. I asked him to explain what those were then I began my journey.
CheesecakeRecipe
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Glad someone covered these. While they weren't what really got me into the medium, they were my introduction when I was young. Then around the early 00s, I came to discover the powerhouses of Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Tenchi Muyo/Universe and FLCL and that's when I really stuck with it.
I was an anime hater until I stumbled across some kind of anime film festival TNT was showing late one night. I watched Vampire Hunter D and Robot Carnival and got hooked.
Looking back, I'm surprised it made such a positive impression on me because I can't stand watching anything dubbed now.
Looking back, I'm surprised it made such a positive impression on me because I can't stand watching anything dubbed now.
LowerLevel
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Yup! Watched it religiously when I was younger before school. Didn't know what anime was really back then. Ranma 1/2 made me a serious fan for a while but I fell off for a bit. Kenshin, Berserk, Champloo and Lodoss War piqued my interest again for a bit off and on. But Attack on Titan and Sword Art Online has me watching and being interested again!
Mauricio_Magus
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I was so young back then, and everyone in Mexico watched Dragon Ball, Saint Seiya, Sailor Moon, and other stuff.
But Cardcaptor Sakura sealed the deal, I loved that show and got into other Magical Girl stuff like Doremi, Ashita no Nadja, and eventually Precure.
But Cardcaptor Sakura sealed the deal, I loved that show and got into other Magical Girl stuff like Doremi, Ashita no Nadja, and eventually Precure.
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Yeah. I always remember the shock me and my friends got when learned that the series stopped right there, with no conclusion, no ending, NOTHING. We loved that serie, to the degree we all stopped watching DB (the OG, not that Z shit) to watch Dragon Quest.
You mean the GREATEST dub of all time (Except maybe KONI Chan)
For me it was DBZ, Sailor Moon, and Ronin Warriors back when they aired in the afternoons in the mid 90s. I would catch them every so often during the summer, then I started watching Samurai Pizza Cats and DBZ before school every morning.
Worst part at that time? Restarting the Namek arc right after Goku showed up on Namek and showed off his new found power.
Worst part at that time? Restarting the Namek arc right after Goku showed up on Namek and showed off his new found power.
Secret Fawful
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Fullmetal Alchemist 04 is the one that truly got me into the world of Japanese animation and showed me how impressive and intelligent anime could be. It's still the greatest anime I've ever seen, personally, with the exception of maybe Monster.
MHWilliams
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Urusei Yatsura and Dominion Tank Police.
Neither series ages well.
Neither series ages well.
FlashbladeGAF
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Akira
Everything blew me away.
from the animation, the backgrounds and the story.
Unfortunately I learned that this was the BEST (at the time) in production values and not all anime had as much care put into it as Akira.
EDIT: That bike is 2D. Someone drew that! Nowadays we take the 3D shortcut.
Everything blew me away.
from the animation, the backgrounds and the story.
Unfortunately I learned that this was the BEST (at the time) in production values and not all anime had as much care put into it as Akira.
EDIT: That bike is 2D. Someone drew that! Nowadays we take the 3D shortcut.
TheJollyCorner
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AKIRA and a whole slew of Streamline Pictures dubs (Castle of Cagliostro, The Professional: Golgo 13, Fist of the North Star, Windaria, Robot Carnival, Vampire Hunter D).
Rented one of these per weekend from Blockbuster through much of the fall 1994. It was a whole new world. Great times.
RIP Carl Macek.
Rented one of these per weekend from Blockbuster through much of the fall 1994. It was a whole new world. Great times.
RIP Carl Macek.
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE GET RIDDA DA BOYD?!?
Man, I grew up watching so much Sandy Frank shit and hating it, and to see someone come around and do a completely non-faithful english dub that is not only really good, but genuinely funny was mindblowing.
I still have to get the DVD's.
It was a mix of shows back in the 90s: probably the oldest was Ronin Warriors, along with Sialor Moon and the original Dragonball. Tekkaman Blade (which was localized as Teknoman) was probably the first show I actually recognized as being from Japan. However, what really introduced me to anime as a whole was the Sci-Fi channel's old Saturday Morning Anime block, which showed a different 90s anime OVA every week. It had stuff ranging from Akira to Record of Lodoss War (albeit just the first three episodes), including a lot of really strange and just plain bad movies.
And I just noticed that someone mentioned Samurai Pizza Cats. That might actually be the oldest series. I might need to check air dates.
And I just noticed that someone mentioned Samurai Pizza Cats. That might actually be the oldest series. I might need to check air dates.
Been watching it all my life but I guess Manga Sarutobi Sasuke. To this day I've no clue what was happening because I was too young to read subtitles.
There are many that I would consider favorites to watch, but nothing that will make me say that I'm an anime fan; my tastes are far too picky to be a fan of anything. I usually tell people I hate it because I don't want to hear about Naruto, One Piece or whatever of the many other ones that seems really popular but I can't stand.
There are many that I would consider favorites to watch, but nothing that will make me say that I'm an anime fan; my tastes are far too picky to be a fan of anything. I usually tell people I hate it because I don't want to hear about Naruto, One Piece or whatever of the many other ones that seems really popular but I can't stand.
I have extremely vivid memories of scanning the Blockbuster aisles and always picking out of the random anime. I didn't know it was anime, but that's what I was extremely drawn to. I picked up the VHS with the episode of Dragon Ball where they encountered Oolong and watched it on repeat while on a road trip. We had rigged a little CRT in the car, probably so I'd stop babbling so much. I freaking loved it. And seeing DBZ air for the first time year later on Toonami basically caused a melt down. I had forgotten the little treasure until memories flooded back watching Piccolo shoot a hole through Goku.
Awesome! After finally going back and reading the DB manga, I feel like it's such a nice, tight story compared to DBZ.
For me, I honestly don't remember. I remember seeing DBZ one morning getting ready for school -- it was the episode where Gohan is being chased by Dinosaurs after Piccolo makes him fend for himself. At some point I borrowed Record of Lodoss War OVA from a fellow D&D player, which went a long way. But the series that really made me consider anime was Cowboy Bebop, which remains my favorite series to this day; but I'm not sure about the chronological order of those three events. I also probably would not consider myself a "fan of the medium" anymore. Usually only 1 series catches me each year.
LordOfChaos
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As a kid, dragon ball Z, as an adult, Princess Mononoke was quite charming.
Crimson-Death
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Mazinger Z
teruterubozu
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solomon
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At the age of 6 I saw Princess Mononoke at my friends house and thank fully the late 90's and early 2000's had a good amount of shows/ anime blocks on TV also for some reason my Local library has a ton of old school Manga's and vhs tapes.Fast forward a couple years around middle school my friend got me into online manga/anime and though now I don't watch it as much I tune in once in a while to see what interests me.
...Scatter...
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Akira, Battle Angel, Fist of The North Star, Macross, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ninja Scroll.
Got away from it for a while except for bigger titles like Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, etc.
Got back into it with SAO, Akame ga Kill, Death Note, K, Log Horizon, Myself;Yourself, etc.
Now LOVING You lie in April and Durarara.
Got away from it for a while except for bigger titles like Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, etc.
Got back into it with SAO, Akame ga Kill, Death Note, K, Log Horizon, Myself;Yourself, etc.
Now LOVING You lie in April and Durarara.
I feel like it's one of those things that I just took to immediately. It wasn't just one show, but I guess I could trace it all back to Robotech in the 80s. Samurai Pizza Cats was easily my favorite cartoon in the early 90s, silly as it was.
In general I watched whatever I could, Canada wasn't exactly great for anime on TV but we did get some stuff. Macross Plus was the first thing to really blow me away but I have a soft spot for Ninja Scroll, Teletoon used to air that uncensored (bless their souls)
In general I watched whatever I could, Canada wasn't exactly great for anime on TV but we did get some stuff. Macross Plus was the first thing to really blow me away but I have a soft spot for Ninja Scroll, Teletoon used to air that uncensored (bless their souls)
These + Speed Racer.Those 3:
AnathemicOne
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Pokemon, DBZ, and YuGiOh of course (would put Digimon but I wasn't invested into it as much compared to the former 3).
The first anime that was not dubbed that I watched was Love Hina, which back then I thought was a good one but looking back right now I know it is shit, and I'm ashamed for watching shit as my first foray into the medium.
The first anime that was not dubbed that I watched was Love Hina, which back then I thought was a good one but looking back right now I know it is shit, and I'm ashamed for watching shit as my first foray into the medium.
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