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What anime film or series made you a fan of the medium?
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I was lucky enough to be raised on Hayao Miyazaki's works, stuff like My Neighbour Totoro and even Future Boy Conan. I've been a fan since I was a little kid but it wasn't until I watched Neon Genesis Evangelion I considered the medium in a different, I guess more critical perspective. Anime wasn't really what I watched for a quality story so to speak, kind of like those posts in threads about video game stories where people suggest we watch films or read classical literature instead. I did a bit more digging and having seen Satoshi Kon's entire filmography, I think I've begun to appreciate what anime has to offer compared to other storytelling mediums.
Secret Character
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Fuck me, I'm old...
Gigantor
Astro Boy
Galaxy Express 999
I was exposed to a lot of this stuff when I was real young because my father watched a lot of it. I never thought that it was any different than the American cartoons, really. Once I grew up a bit, my tastes changed...
I still watch a ton of anime, but I'm pretty picky about what I watch.
Gigantor
Astro Boy
Galaxy Express 999
I was exposed to a lot of this stuff when I was real young because my father watched a lot of it. I never thought that it was any different than the American cartoons, really. Once I grew up a bit, my tastes changed...
I still watch a ton of anime, but I'm pretty picky about what I watch.
Pegosaurus
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Those 3:
Naruto, Sailor Moon, DBZ, Zoids, and Pokemon.
Cartoon Network/Toonami was really great back in the day
CopperPuppy
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When I was quite young, I used to rent the original english dub of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind from the video store constantly (then titled Warriors of the Wind here in the US). That was probably the true beginning of my love for the medium.
I've seen the film countless times and it remains one of my very favorites to this day. While I of course prefer the more recent dub, as it is vastly superior in every way, I eventually tracked down and bought a VHS copy of "Warriors of the Wind" out of a sense of nostalgia.
I've seen the film countless times and it remains one of my very favorites to this day. While I of course prefer the more recent dub, as it is vastly superior in every way, I eventually tracked down and bought a VHS copy of "Warriors of the Wind" out of a sense of nostalgia.
The first anime I ever saw was probably Unico in the Island of Magic.
My Dad rented this for me on VHS from some local home video store. I was really young and didn't know what anime was, I just thought it was a cartoon. A really strange cartoon though.
Despite the cutesy art style, it involved some pretty disturbing things, including an evil sorcerer that turns a little girl's entire family into zombified stone puppets which he then uses as building material in his castle. I was only like 5 or 6 and I had nightmares.
I spent a long time ever since then not knowing what this movie even was until I discovered that it was a classic by Osamu Tezuka!
My Dad rented this for me on VHS from some local home video store. I was really young and didn't know what anime was, I just thought it was a cartoon. A really strange cartoon though.
Despite the cutesy art style, it involved some pretty disturbing things, including an evil sorcerer that turns a little girl's entire family into zombified stone puppets which he then uses as building material in his castle. I was only like 5 or 6 and I had nightmares.
I spent a long time ever since then not knowing what this movie even was until I discovered that it was a classic by Osamu Tezuka!
oh god yes. From the Philippines as well? LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4su21XRR8M
Always in my head!
Outside of those, Kenshin was great, and Speed Racer.
Vincent Grayson
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It was that Saturday morning sci-fi channel stuff that got me into it. I remember seeing Akira, Venus Wars, Project A-ko, Ghost in the Shell, Record of Lodoss War, and Tenchi Muyo. Oh, and Vampire Hunter D.
I remember being blown away by this stuff, as nothing in American animation I'd seen at that time came close to appealing to my then 10 or 11-year-old desire for action and crazy shit in my cartoons.
Unfortunately, it was the 90s, so even as my enjoyment of anime grew, it cost me a ton of money to get anything, as I could basically only get it at Suncoast, where I was often paying $30 per VHS tape with like, 2 episodes on it.
I remember being blown away by this stuff, as nothing in American animation I'd seen at that time came close to appealing to my then 10 or 11-year-old desire for action and crazy shit in my cartoons.
Unfortunately, it was the 90s, so even as my enjoyment of anime grew, it cost me a ton of money to get anything, as I could basically only get it at Suncoast, where I was often paying $30 per VHS tape with like, 2 episodes on it.
FlyingSaucer
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Anime : Grendizer/Saint Seiya, when I was a kid.
Manga : Akira
Youngsters nowaday don't even know their Toshio Maeda classics ! ;p
Manga : Akira
Youngsters nowaday don't even know their Toshio Maeda classics ! ;p
Snkfanatic
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Evangelion, when I was in my mid teens a friend showed it to me. I was hooked. Kinda fell in and out of it for many years. About a year ago though I dove back in and have been loving it.
Sir_Crocodile
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The fantastic 12 ep Guyver series in the early nineties.
I'd seen anime before then of course, but this was the first time I really understood the difference.
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I'm really glad Evangelion wasn't my first as I may have never watched another. We got that some ten years later on CNX. Horrible series
Got into manga a bit later (roughly 1995), when the first 12 volumes of "Iron Fist Chinmi" was released in the UK
I'd seen anime before then of course, but this was the first time I really understood the difference.
GUUUYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY-VER
I'm really glad Evangelion wasn't my first as I may have never watched another. We got that some ten years later on CNX. Horrible series
Got into manga a bit later (roughly 1995), when the first 12 volumes of "Iron Fist Chinmi" was released in the UK
Vincent Grayson
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Yeah, Evangelion was definitely the series that has stuck with me the most and kept me continuing to look at anime years after finding anything else that really "clicks", because I keep hoping to find another like Eva that I can enjoy completely and that I can go back to without cringing.
Pretty sure it was Mononoke.
My sister's boyfriend gave this to me on VHS at the time. Blew my mind as a young teenager. Of course my appreciation for Miyazaki only grew as I discovered his earlier films.
Another early one I remember was "A Wind Named Amnesia". The only thing I remember is that there was a sex scene at the end for no apparent reason. Needless to say, it didn't leave much of an impression.
My sister's boyfriend gave this to me on VHS at the time. Blew my mind as a young teenager. Of course my appreciation for Miyazaki only grew as I discovered his earlier films.
Another early one I remember was "A Wind Named Amnesia". The only thing I remember is that there was a sex scene at the end for no apparent reason. Needless to say, it didn't leave much of an impression.
My first night of watching anime was when a friend of mine took me to a club that ran every Saturday night on campus (I think it was in like '98, maybe?). The first three shown were 'fixed' runs through a series, and then there was voting the rest of the night. The week I happened to be there, they were starting (or just barely into) Slayers NEXT, Trigun, and Flame of Recca.
So, all three of those.
Technically speaking, the first one I ever saw and loved was Samuri Pizza Cats (the North American 'dub'/rewrite), and that's why I was even interested in going in the first place.
So, all three of those.
Technically speaking, the first one I ever saw and loved was Samuri Pizza Cats (the North American 'dub'/rewrite), and that's why I was even interested in going in the first place.
mightynine
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Here's how my off and on relationship with anime has gone.
Dominon: Tank Police, Vampire Hunter D and Project A-ko on Sci-Fi Channel when I was a kid dipped my toe into it, Cowboy Bebop on Adult Swim (the original run!) right out of college reminded me why I watch it, and the current incarnation of Toonami brought me fully back in.
I imagine there would not have been gaps in between if I had streaming options like there are today.
Dominon: Tank Police, Vampire Hunter D and Project A-ko on Sci-Fi Channel when I was a kid dipped my toe into it, Cowboy Bebop on Adult Swim (the original run!) right out of college reminded me why I watch it, and the current incarnation of Toonami brought me fully back in.
I imagine there would not have been gaps in between if I had streaming options like there are today.
RockTurtle
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my first anime was a hentai.
i thought it was a disney movie when i rented it from the local vhs rent place.
i thought it was a disney movie when i rented it from the local vhs rent place.
Sevket-Erhat
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SpaceHorror
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DBZ and Sailor Moon introduced me to anime, Cowboy Bebop and Gundam Wing pulled me into the rabbit hole.
NaughtyCalibur
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Blue Seed.
I watched Toonami like anybody else, loved DBZ to death; but Blue Seed airing on The Action Channel for "Animidnight" is what convinced me to seek out more from the medium.
Truly underrated gem of a show imo.
I watched Toonami like anybody else, loved DBZ to death; but Blue Seed airing on The Action Channel for "Animidnight" is what convinced me to seek out more from the medium.
Truly underrated gem of a show imo.
FelixOrion
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5 Centimeters per Second, Clannad, and Toradora! all contributed heavily to making me a regular watcher. I'm a sucker for melodramatic romances.
Also Golden Boy. God bless you, Doug Smith.
Also Golden Boy. God bless you, Doug Smith.
nintendork666
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Those 3:
MAH DOGGG.
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