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The anime was rather ok, but more then anything I just remember the 'A song of storm and fire' being the most hype track. It did hype moments pretty well.
And Miyuki-chan in Wonderland.
Tsubasa and xxxHolic came out around when I was like 11-12 (and I was 11-12 at the peak of the mid-00s manga boom) so they've done a surprising amount to influence my taste in anime aesthetic and storytelling
[edit] Oh we're talking about Clamp works, and also I'm a dummy.
I just have to keep the hope alive
Four... Oh yeah the cousin.
Yeah, not far enough in to see if it's clarified more in the show quite yet, but someone posted the manga page that synched up to what was happening in one episode. In the anime they just look at each other across the room and it cuts away, in the manga he straight up gives her an engagement ring in the middle of the school library.
Subtext, cowards, etc.
I can still instantly flash back to my Ducktales watching days and seeing the Toonami commercials for Mecha week including Robotech (Macross), Evangelion, and Gundam.
Galaxy brain expansion occurred.
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
Though my earliest show I remember was probably Kikaida. I was hard into the Toku in kindergarten
Oh yeah also 7ish year olds shouldn't watch Guyver.
But
Sailor Moon
Teknoman on Fox Kids
Dragon Ball
Samurai Pizza Cats were all early to mid 90's
mid to late 90's was
Gundam Wing
Dragon Ball Z
Ninja Scroll
Roujin Z
Patlabor 1-2
New Dominion Tank Police
I know Space Channel and Teletoon (in its early days) had ZERO problem showing R rated anime after 9pm on Friday and Saturday nights so they shows most of the Manga Entertainment VHS catalogue at the time, Space showed the less violent stuff saturday afternoons.
I know YTV did a weird thing where they had shown the first three epiodes of Gundam Wing to gauge interest and then before they actually started airing the series proper they aired Endless Waltz.
Still haven't checked out that new thing they did.
Totoro when the first US VHS release was played at our after school program. I'm like 90% this was a thing that happened, because when I watched it for what I thought was the first time in high school I was like, wait I remember this!
Or The Noozles, a show that I would watch at my grandparents house on Nickelodeon, which I loved and never saw the final couple episodes of, which much later I learned was actually a localized anime, Fushigina Koara Burinkī.
Or Maya the Bee on Nick, which apparently also was an anime.
Not sure the relative timing of those.
I think Pokémon was around at about the same time as Sailor Moon, but I'm pretty sure that the earliest anime on ytv was Dragon Ball, sans the zed.
Speed Racer, Robotech, Candy Candy, Space Yamato, Mazinger Z, and some mech robot one that had a robot with a football helmet.
In the early 90s though anime exploded in Mexico thanks to Saint Seiya. That was EVERYWHERE, toys, tvs, tazos (pogs) and lead to more anime shows on TV like Zenki, Magic Knight Rayearth, Captain Tsubasa, Sailor Moon,Slam Dunk.
And just as it looked as if that trend was showing down the big one hit. Dragonball Z.
We actually got all of the OG DB leading into DBZ, so I think that's a reason why it became so massive. We literally grew up with Goku.
DBZ lead to Ranma, and a bunch of others.
I think people really underestimate Latin America impact on anime. No way it becomes popular in the US and English speaking countries with it.
...I've honestly never heard the Japanese intro before, but it's pretty good I guess?
As for my first manga, my middle school library had Dragon Ball and Case Closed/Detective Conan so it was probably one of those I guess.
a good show for the children
I admired the sheer balls to say baldly that every major, sacred religious figure in history was a cool Z warrior in our canon... and not much else. The blandness of Bleach's writing without the style of Bleach's art. The sidekick character was really bad, Accel World bad.
But aside from that, it was Urusei Yatsura Beautiful Dreamer I think?
It was from that time when sabban used to just buy random anime and show the episodes completely out of order.
Orc flautists.
That is all.
probably my real intro was jumping on with the pokemon wave and getting into dbz from there, which my friends at school had already gotten a head start on
The sub is great but because of that song, I'll always prefer the dub
The story behind that is just amazing - they basically got the raw footage...and nothing else. So they had to build the localization from scratch.