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The story behind this is great, although it is on Kotaku.
Yeah, definitely my earliest exposure to anime there.
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got in on the DBZ/pokemon wave, first ghibli for me was totoro rented from ye olde blockbuster
I think the first time I really watched a amine was maybe Outlaw Star on Toonami? Some out of order episodes of Cowboy Bebop here and there for sure. I don't think I really latched on to it until I was maybe 14 or so and I'd stay up all during the summer watching Adult Swim and Toonami. Ghost in the Shell was extremely my shit back then.
Then I found TechTV had the WEIRD shit like Betterman and Boogiepop Phantom.
Cheez TV
(This was the Australian morning kids show that the iconic 90s anime appeared on).
Ranma was something I watched over at a friend's house and then I found channel 9 which had Shin-chan and GoLions on sometime like 9 at night.
Then my friends cousin brought over the Guyver VHS set. Gonna say maybe not the best thing to let 7 year olds watch but man it was pretty rad.
What drove me actually insane and down the dark path was the 6am syndicated run of DBZ and Sailor Moon. That run of DBZ ended on the cliffhanger of Goku landing on Namek with the preview showing him wrecking shop the next episode was fucking Raddiz again. This led me to the early internet and discovering webrings and newsgroups.
Maya the Bee was anime?
Huh, guess it was. Both that and The Littl' Bits join the Noozles in that block of anime I watched on Nickelodeon before I knew what anime was.
Mean while over here they repeated the Saiyan and Freeza saga multiple times and started Cell several times to then switch back to starting back at the Saiyan Saga. Still never seen anything post Cell.
Reminds me of Dragon Ball AF
Don't forget Five Minutes on Namek
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No, really! It was SuperBook, that one anime with the time-teleporting Bible that sort-of isekaied two kids and a robot into the Old and New Testament times on a weekly basis.
Look, here's the one where they watched The Binding of Isaac.
Good times
Also, Kid Bum #1 and I saw the advance screening of Belle subbed last night. It's really good.
Like, the best chance for an anime feature to win an Oscar since Spirited Away (but Encanto will win) good, imo.
Definitely want to check out the English dubbed version now.
I'm seeing the Belle (EN) dub tonight, very psyched for work to be over!
Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea was French animé
the '90s series has a pretty solid English dub too
anyways my first anime was My Neighbor Totoro, which my mom rented on tape from blockbuster when I was like 3 or 4, circa '97 or early '98 just before the big TV anime boom of stuff like DBZ and Pokemon
Besides that, anime for me, like, almost everybody in Latam at the start, was Saint Seiya, Sailor Moon and Dragonball (original, not Z) before anything else.
Oh right, looking back, Sailor Moon S still holds up as an amazing season, probably the best of the series.
Though, thinking about it,
Sometimes there are things which break a kid's brain, learning about reruns is one of them, realising the rerun cycle isn't being broken this time is another.
There was a group of Asian kids at my school that had access to imported anime. One described the Buu Saga to us the same way. Another let us come over and watch YYH on laserdisc.