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[ShadowKingpin]

Dragonball Z

Sailor Moon

Tenchi Muyo

Yu Yu Hakusho

Currently, I am watching Attack On Titan and I LOVE it.

 

[Ultra Numb]

I mean it has to be DBZ.

I remember turning on Toonami one day and this was happening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAEH0Uy9xSE I was like: "What the heck is this, it looks cool as fu*k"

DBZ got me into Anime but Yu Yu Hakusho and FMA really got me into it. Recently I've been watching series like Cowboy Becop, Hunter x Hunter, Baccano and Deathnote.

 

[Daingurse]

Me, too. Though I'm a little bit embarassed to admit that.

I wasn't a big fan of Dragon Ball Z. It was macho. But I did really like Sailor Moon and Tenchi Muyo. I remember I recorded a Sailor Moon marathon with Moltar from Space Ghost... which was kind of... um.. anyway. And he kept making jokes about... true eclipse of the heart or something like that?

Um.. anyway.. I didn't much care for the Moltar parts. But I loved Sailor Moon and wanted to watch it over and over. So I watched and record the whole thing. I think I watched those VHS tapes for months.

Hahahah, I think i watched some host some marathons. Yu Yu Hakusho or DBZ I believe. I actually was a fan of Space Ghost Coast to Coast as a kid, so I dug him. Tenchi Muyo was another one I recall enjoying, not sure how much Sailor Moon I watched, don't think it resonated me as much as the Shonen stuff. I do remember really enjoying a Sailor Moon promo that was on some Power Rangers VHS's I had though. Christ, that was the Green Ranger Mini-series I believe too hahaha. DBZ and Power Rangers, crack for little boys in the 90s.

 

[Chairmanchuck]

In Germany when you are a child you dont really notice what is an anime or not. After school they were showing Nadia - The Secret of Blue Water, Attack No. 9, Ganbare Kickers beside anime from the World Masterpiece theatre. So I guess you can say it just came naturally.

 

[Cyrus_Saren]

Ninja Scroll. Dragon Ball Z got me into it further.

 

[HolyBaikal]

Well it was late night so I more skimmed parts but I'm reading posts off and on in this thread throughout the day now to see where everyone's at.

Wow, just that is a amazing. Thank you for taking the time to read any of that.

I went back and read some of it... and thought most of it was kind of off topic. And a little embarrassing. So I went ahead and removed it. Maybe I'm not as passionate as I thought...
I have it on a notepad file now....

And thank you, I think maybe I should try one of those freelance websites and maybe try to become a journalist or something like that. Becoming a game journalist wouldn't be so scary if there weren't so many people against game journalists right now...

And being a writer isn't just about writing a lot of text. It needs to very interesting and short a lot of times. And a lot of proofreading. But I hope I could do it okay. I just know it's been a long time since I've been in college to take courses..

I love and respect math and science, but I've always been kind of a language and history person. There's so much emotion in language, and sometimes I feel like I could write forever.

Anyway, thank you for the encouragement. I think I may start freelance writing because of what you said.

 

[bobawesome]

And then i watched Berserk in 2001 (i bought a bootleg of it) and once again everything changed

.

Not only it blew my mind , made my interest in the genre peek and seekingly look for new stuff.

I don't think I could have handled this at the tender age of however old I was in 2001.

 

[patapuf]

I wasn't really consious of anime as a separate thing in my childhood. They just showed the usual suspects as part of the saturday morning cartoons.

stuff like cat's eye, DBZ, sailor moon, poke/digimon ect.

I only started looking for series when i was already into manga reading. That was stuff like Evangelion, Git's, Bebop ect.

 

[polg]

Robotech (yeah the American version, didn't know any better back then) when I was a child.
DBZ was on TV at midnight when I was in high school and my mates used to watch it all the time. We would argue about each episode (aka Goku charging his attack for 25 minutes) all day at school.
Evangelion blew my mind too... And became an obsession

 

[-MD-]

Wouldn't really call myself a fan of anime, I've seen maybe half a dozen series or so but I believe Pokemon and DBZ were the earliest ones I watched.

 

[Siegcram]

Original Dragon Ball for me. Never cared much for DBZ, but the original saga is just so charming and has some great stories.

I watched a lot of Detective Conan as a child as well.

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

Naruto was really something special. Particularly with many of the very well animated fights.

 

[MisterNoisy]

Like many others here, Robotech/Macross was my first exposure, airing at some ridiculous hour on Saturday mornings. Later, I watched a lot of the adaptations/translations of Mazinger Z, Getter Robo and Gatchaman and the Thunderbirds 2086 series (which aired on Showtime, I think) and the hook was set pretty deep. The period between the early- to mid-90s and mid-00s is something of a high water mark for the medium for me for anything serialized, with most newer stuff being incredibly off-putting or at least really cheap-feeling and samey.

 

[Wiktor]

I watched and enjoyed Captain Tsubasa and Sailor Moon as a kid, but that's it. Then I started reading about anime and got interested enough to watch some movies on cable station. And they in like a week have shown Akira, Totoro and Ghost in the Shell. yeah..how could I have not fallen in love after combo like that?

 

[squall23]

I was 4 years old when I was first introduced to anime with these 2.

Cyber Formula. Any F1 fan that also likes anime NEEDS to watch this.

Zettai Muteki Raijin-Oh

I am an anime and an even bigger mecha fan today because of these.

 

[Ranger Taffles]

First anime that I ever really watched was DBZ. But the anime that got me genuinely interested in the medium was Death Note. Moreover, although I was young at the time, I also have to credit Spirited Away for bringing a creative side of imagination that just left me blown away.

 

[Bennettt2]

Teknoman, which played in the mornings on Cheez TV way back when.

 

[jhmtehgamr20xx]

Wow, just that is a amazing. Thank you for taking the time to read any of that.

I went back and read some of it... and thought most of it was kind of off topic. And a little embarrassing. So I went ahead and removed it. Maybe I'm not as passionate as I thought...
I have it on a notepad file now....

And thank you, I think maybe I should try one of those freelance websites and maybe try to become a journalist or something like that. Becoming a game journalist wouldn't be so scary if there weren't so many people against game journalists right now...

And being a writer isn't just about writing a lot of text. It needs to very interesting and short a lot of times. And a lot of proofreading. But I hope I could do it okay. I just know it's been a long time since I've been in college to take courses..

I love and respect math and science, but I've always been kind of a language and history person. There's so much emotion in language, and sometimes I feel like I could write forever.

Anyway, thank you for the encouragement. I think I may start freelance writing because of what you said.

Don't know when you'll be back to maybe read this, but you're very welcome. Glad to have convinced someone to pursue their creative dreams, you can never give up on dreams. You just have to have the heart to see them to the end. A tough, but loving heart.

Best of luck to your writing pursuits, maybe we'll even cross paths on this someday

Dragonball Z

Sailor Moon

Tenchi Muyo

Yu Yu Hakusho

Currently, I am watching Attack On Titan and I LOVE it.

AOT seems like an odd show...not in terms of its story or anything, but in its schedule. It's taking like two years between seasons...definitely sure that's not typical of anime. I fear the 1st episode of the new season will be the dreaded "even though you were watching we'll pretend you weren't!" recap.

Ugh, despise those. Only anime that did one I liked was Key: The Metal Idol. In their case it was actually necessary though.

 

[Endo Punk]

The first anime anything I saw was Wicked City and been a fan ever since. Became an avid viewer of the late night anime shows every week on Sci fi channel back when it was awesome. Movies like Fist of the North Star, Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll, Goku Midnight Eye I&II were amazing and only made me love the medium more. Then later with CNX an offshoot of Toonami introduced me to Tenchi Muyo, Outlaw Star and Cowboy bebop; it just became part of my weekly entertainment.

 

[WGMBY]

I caught Princess Mononoke on Cartoon Network when I was Babysitting my sister as a teenager. It was the scene where the main character returns to Iron Town while it is under attack. This leads into a fightscene where he kills several soldiers. I had heard of Miyazaki's name before, but I was amazed at how detailed the animation was.

That let to the rest of his movies, then I started watching various shows on recommendations from friends.

 

[Kotetsu534]

I watched a lot of the shonen series as I grew up (DB, DBZ, Pokemon, Digimon (esp. Tamers), Yugioh, Gundam, several others), but I never thought of them as anything more than throwaway entertainment that was more compelling than other cartoons. Never thought much about it.

I randomly tuned in to a showing of Whisper of the Heart on Film 4 one quiet winter's day when I was alone in the house. I'd have been about 19. It was about 5-10 minutes in. Two hours later I hadn't moved. Utterly spellbinding. Looked up the director only to find out he'd died suddenly not long after releasing his debut, which I'd just watched. Got into Studio Ghibli in a big way after a bit more research, first with the popular Miyazaki features, then Takahata's work soon after. Now own a bunch of their blu-rays, and have DVDs of their more obscure productions (which are often just as good as the popular films).

I've tried to get into other anime films and series, but apart from Satoshi Kon's, none have grabbed me with the character and power of the best Ghibli films.

 

[Crimson-Death]

Teknoman, which played in the mornings on Cheez TV way back when.

I loved it way back in the day, the first true anime I saw when I moved to California, but too bad they stopped showing it halfway through. I then had to hunt it down when I was able to spend the money, and finally saw the entire story of Tekkaman Blade.

To add to my previous post, besides watching Mazinger Z alongside the American-made He-man, Thundercats, other anime I remember from the time are Heidi, Belle and Sebastian, Gigi, Future Boy Conan and the best one and probably the first one I ever watched was Remi. Although not Japanese, another good one was Clementine, a french cartoon that was as good as the others, with unsettling and disturbing elements.

 

[Mr Git]

Akira. Found it on VHS when visiting my dad in the early 90s and watched it, barely understood it but loved it. Also watched Urotsukidoji and was definitely too young for that. Never got round to asking him why he had that one.

Akira definitely shaped my anime tastes, though. I've a soft spot for quite a variety of genres but dark sci-fi is absolutely my favourite.

 

[MagnaderAlpha]

First became familiar of Japanese animation with these:

Robotech

Voltron

Belle & Sebastian

Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics

Even with "American/Western" cartoons, quite a few were animated in Japan during the 80s, and in some cases, you see the Japanese quirks in character expressions(kinda the closest of having genuine American/Western anime, with the exception of IGPX).

But, I became a real LOVER of anime after watching THESE three movies:

Robot Carnival (we seriously need a Region 1 release for this one, dammit!)

Vampire Hunter D

Windaria

The latter two made me fall in love with Yoshitaka Amano and Mutsumi Inomata, before I became aware of their involvement with Final Fantasy and the Tales series. And these three movies were heavy inspiration on me as an artist and even a storyteller(all three have worlds that are shrouded in wonder and mystery where not every aspect is spelled out and even when you get a firm idea of the worlds, you still feel there is more bizarre mystery to them).

Basically, all those got me ready by the early 90s to the point when the ORIGINAL Dragon Ball(yes, pre-DBZ becoming a pop thing), Teknoman, Saban's various localizations of Japanese animation(Gulliver's Travels, The Little Mermaid, Around the World in 80 Dreams), then eventually DBZ, Sailor Moon, Ronan Warriors and such were all welcomed by me with open arms!

 

[MetatronM]

Voltron and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (in its original butchered dub form of Warriors of the Wind) for me.

 

[Harlock]

Starblazers

Groizer X

King Arthur

 

[Rickelodeon]

i watched the DBZs and the Pokemons and the what nots when i was a kid but FLCL in middle school was like the first thing to seriously make me notice anime and it remains my favorite to this day

 

[RCSI]

Full Metal Alchemist (First anime series). While I had seen notable anime before this show, Cowboy Bebop, Card Captor Sakura (my sister watched it...so uh, there!), FLCL, and Pokemon (1st season), I actively started looking for more after finishing FMA.

 

[ibyea]

Full Metal Alchemist. I have seen other anime shows, but this one opened my eyes to the medium's potential.

 

[Lee Chaolan]

Project A-Ko and Sailor Moon.

 

[Elfforkusu]

Gundam Wing.

Convinced me these cartoons could be worthwhile and intelligent!

And then I saw more anime and realized I was mostly wrong.

 

[hipbabboom]

I had seen other anime before that Bebop or DBZ or Princess Mononoke - but they didn't really inspire me to start watching much more broadly the way Kenshin did.

Oh Mumei

Spoiler

<3

, it hurts me to know DBZ didn't quicken your spirit to come to love anime. I started getting into anime back in the early 90's so DBZ was the first TV broadcast of anime I got and I was hooked. I lived in SoCal back then so it aired weekday mornings on local Channel 9. From there I found that there were other things like DBZ such as Tenchi Muyo and so began my scouring of Tower Music, Blockbuster Video and Sun Cost for any and all DVD boxes of anime I could find and it was like I new then that this love affair would run deep (hopefully for the rest of my life).

 

[Kanyon]

First anime movie I ever watched was Akira, followed by Space Adventure Cobra and Ninja Scroll... Have enjoyed the genre ever since. Also a big fan of Macross, Tekkaman and Ghost In The Shell.

 

[hipbabboom]

Voltron and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (in its original butchered dub form of Warriors of the Wind) for me.

That's the thing though. If we are talking about the first anime I ever saw, it was Transzord-Z. 80's and 90's television was rife with re-appropriated (read: bastardized) anime. DBZ was the first time I was watching anime and actually realized it was anime.

 

[Zeuanimals]

DBZ got me into it, Trigun got me deeper, FMA cemented it as a medium I loved, then Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo made me fall in love with it all over again, up until nostalgia of DBZ got me to rewatch a few episodes... And then Naruto and Bleach had to ruin it even further (they had some good aspects but lots and lots of bad aspects too). I fear watching more anime series might just make me not want to watch anymore since every new one I watch pisses me off or just bores me more than the last.

I enjoy a lot of Anime films though, they don't fall into most of the trappings that Anime series fall into.

 

[MissDeviling]

Anime was naturally introduced to me as just normal cartoons, since I was born in Hong Kong. I was raised on Doraemon, Ghibli films, and Sailor Moon, mostly. Coming to Canada, I was lucky that it was the 90s anime boom time, because I was able to continue watching anime (albeit in English as opposed to Cantonese) like Pokemon, Yugioh, and Cardcaptors. It was Western cartoons that took a bit of adjustment in terms of writing and animation style, though Cybersix helped a bit since it was animated by a Japanese studio, apparently. Still not a huge fan of Western cartoons, TBH.

 

[CadetMahoney]

urotsokidoji

 

[SpoonyBard]

Neon Genesis Evangelion and Robotech (Macross basically). Unfortunately Evangelion was so good most of the later series have been kind of weak in comparison, but it got me interested in anime back in 98/99.

 

[JohnCYQ]

It was kinda weird for me.

Back in the mid-late 90s the first anime I ever saw was Dragonball (not Z), but it was so inconsistently aired over here that I never really managed to get into it. Then came pokemon, which I watched for quite a bit but again, airing was inconsistent (they would suddenly rerun the series from the beginning or simply stop in the middle of nowhere).

Fast foward to early 2000s, the first real "entry" into anime for me was Prince of Tennis, and a little later on Naruto and Kimi ga Nozomu Eien. Then the floodgates opened (FMA, Eureka 7, Ouran Host Club etc).

I'm a little sad at how ridiculous PoT ended up though, as well as the endless fillers of Naruto post ep 70+. Still, gotta appreciate what they were.

 

[Fritz]

Queen Millenia

The fact that it had an ongoing storyline was completely new to my saturday morning.

Then my brother rented Akira and finally this magazine released in Germany

Not a big fan anymore though.

 

[Apt101]

I was a little kid when the Sci-Fi Channel launched. They ran a marathon of anime featuring Robot Carnival, Lensman, and Vampire Hunter D. All three of those are what did it for me. The following summer about 10 of us neighborhood kids got heavily into more anime, mostly serial stuff on VHS.

 

[Blusby]

Kara no Kyoukai

 

[Kite]

I was wandering the back shelves of Blockbuster video back in the days of vhs looking for the dirty movies when I found a shelf of these weird cartoons. I rented a few on a whim and have been hooked ever since..

 

[texhnolyze]

Samurai X the series.
I was 10 when I watched it for the first time on my local TV channel. Man, I was hooked each episode. The animation, the style, and even more the soundtrack are top notch for that era. I've also watched some other animes before Samurai X, but none of them made me a fan of anime. I just saw them as regular cartoons, such as Doraemon, Dragonball, Sailormoon, Saint Seiya, etc.

 

[ScOULaris]

Samurai X the series.
I was 10 when I watched it for the first time on my local TV channel. Man, I was hooked each episode. The animation, the style, and even more the soundtrack are top notch for that era. I've also watched some other animes before Samurai X, but none of them made me a fan of anime. I just saw them as regular cartoons, such as Doraemon, Dragonball, Sailormoon, Saint Seiya, etc.

Good man. I just popped the blu-ray in the other day, and it's still such a great film.

 

[Zee-Row]

I used to watch stuff on Nick Jr. Back in the day like Maya the bee , Lil Bits and Grims Fairy Tales and being drawn to the way the characters looked. They always looked odd in comparison to other cartoons I watched. Years later I find out that those shows were anime.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Kimi ga Nozomu Eien.

Jesus Christ... if there was ever a melodrama...

 

[Samurai G0SU]

Ninja Scroll

 

[shattyboombatty]

Robotech was mt first.

Then Ninja Scroll

and

Vampire Hunter D

just blew me away.

Pretty much exactly the same with me! I was about 5 when I saw Robotech. I also saw this movie called "Unico and the island of magic" when I was 3-4 and couldn't remember wtf it was called until recently. It always stuck with me as being awesome (from what I remembered)

 

[The Illiterati]

1996. Ghost in the shell, Akira, Ninja Scroll. They both repulsed and attracted me at the same time.