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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I think you're thinking of UFO Robot Dai Apolon

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z52A2Nb6Q24

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Drez wrote: »
    Reynolds wrote: »

    This must have been a cry for help. By everyone involved.

    The story behind this is great, although it is on Kotaku.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Gundi wrote: »
    I didn't live in a home with a tv until I was five, and almost one of the first things I ever saw on tv was toonami. So probably dragonball or some gundam show. Whatever was airing on Toonami in the afternoons in 1999.

    Yeah, definitely my earliest exposure to anime there.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    my earliest anime exposure might have been some Ghibli thing, maybe Totoro or Kiki's Delivery Service, or it might have been Robotech on VHS from the rental store in the early 90s.

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    earliest one for me would've probably been something like doraemon, but i was too young to remember it or know what anime was

    got in on the DBZ/pokemon wave, first ghibli for me was totoro rented from ye olde blockbuster

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The latest episode of Demon Slayer fuckin rips

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  • LeumasWhiteLeumasWhite New ZealandRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Almost certain my earliest anime was Sailor Moon, when I was around 8 or so. In my teens it was Dragon Ball Z. First thing I bought for myself was Evangelion, and oh boy was that a difficult step up.

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Yeah I think the first anime I can vaguely remember watching was Dragon Ball and then Sailor Moon came on after that but my mom said that I actually didn't want to watch that because it was for girls, you see.

    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.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    First anime I watched was most definitely Dragonball Z, followed by the original Toonami gamut of Sailor Moon, Outlaw Star, Rurouni Kenshin, Tenchi Muyo, Gundam Wing, Cardcaptor, .hack//SIGN, and I think Big O?

    Then I found TechTV had the WEIRD shit like Betterman and Boogiepop Phantom.

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    My first anime introduction? Two words

    https://youtu.be/gMagZjWmFbE

    Cheez TV

    (This was the Australian morning kids show that the iconic 90s anime appeared on).

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Mine was the one-two shot of Ronin Warriors and Sailor Moon, 6am on UPN33.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I'm going to guess my first anime were Maya the Honey Bee and Heidi, Girl of the Alps.

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Ranma 1/2, Crayon Shin-chan and GoLion.

    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.

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  • SethTheHumanSethTheHuman Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Mine was Voltron, way before I knew what an "anime" was. Because I'm old and stuff.

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  • EvilOtakuEvilOtaku Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    My first anime that i knew was anime was on The SciFi channel at like 2am a blocked called Saturday Anime. It was a rotation of the Tenchi movie, Armitage III, Akira, and project A-ko.

    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.

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  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I probably rewatched the entirety of DBZ multiple times because of how the sagas would come out in the US.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The abruptly ended original run of localized DBZ drove many of us insane

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  • J-bobJ-bob J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Saturday morning DBZ. I remember skipping out on pancakes so I could stay home and get upset that Goku let Vegeta get away.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Glal wrote: »
    I'm going to guess my first anime were Maya the Honey Bee and Heidi, Girl of the Alps.

    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.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    If you were watching Nick back then, you might also have seen Belle and Sebastian.

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  • Dizzy DDizzy D NetherlandsRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Trace wrote: »
    I probably rewatched the entirety of DBZ multiple times because of how the sagas would come out in the US.

    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.

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  • EvilOtakuEvilOtaku Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Reading about the Buu Saga from 3rd hand accounts of Hong Kong bootlegs is a fucking fever dream. I hope somebody saved those Geocities pages

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    EvilOtaku wrote: »
    Reading about the Buu Saga from 3rd hand accounts of Hong Kong bootlegs is a fucking fever dream. I hope somebody saved those Geocities pages

    Reminds me of Dragon Ball AF

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I think my first anime was Moomin. When I became aware of anime being a thing I have no idea. Maybe around the time I first read the Dragon Ball manga or when Spirited Away was in theaters.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Fuck why have I never seen the Moomin anime, I love Moomintroll

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The abruptly ended original run of localized DBZ drove many of us insane

    Don't forget Five Minutes on Namek

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  • ani_game_bumani_game_bum Optimistic, Rule-Breaking Nice Guy The Final World/DestinationRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    When I was a young Bum, God introduced me to anime.

    ...

    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.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ahaa2kBDA8

    Good times :+1:



    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.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    When I was a young Bum, God introduced me to anime.

    ...

    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.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ahaa2kBDA8

    Good times :+1:



    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!

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  • CycloneCyclone Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I only recently found out that David The Gnome wasn't anime at all but was from Spain. So my supposed first anime was actually spanime this whole time.

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  • SethTheHumanSethTheHuman Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Did Seven Cities of Gold and Spartacus count? I'll have to skim those Nick Knacks episodes again.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Did Seven Cities of Gold and Spartacus count? I'll have to skim those Nick Knacks episodes again.

    Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea was French animé

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Fuck why have I never seen the Moomin anime, I love Moomintroll

    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

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  • AbacusAbacus Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I didn't saw Superbook itself, but it had a spinoff called The Flying House (same premise, but with a house that is also a time machine), and did saw that licensed.

    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.

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Just binged my way through reading Oshi No Ko. a:it is _fantastic_, and b:I am not happy about where the last chapter (67) ended and that the next chapter is not out yet.

    Though, thinking about it,
    given Himekawa came from a children's home he probably doesn't know either

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Dizzy D wrote: »
    Trace wrote: »
    I probably rewatched the entirety of DBZ multiple times because of how the sagas would come out in the US.

    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.

    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.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    EvilOtaku wrote: »
    Reading about the Buu Saga from 3rd hand accounts of Hong Kong bootlegs is a fucking fever dream. I hope somebody saved those Geocities pages

    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.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I learned about upcoming Dragonball Z and GT through a sticker machine in elementary school that had scenes from the anime that was airing in Japan, before Internet was even a major thing.

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