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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Madican wrote: »
    Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles was one of the first manga I read. And the character Fye D. Flowright the only cosplay I've ever done at an anime convention.

    For all its various faults it was still something I don't think I could easily forget.

    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.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Ah yes that track, I definitely remember that one and Ship of Fools

    https://youtu.be/Atc51MxhoAE

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    And then there's Chobits.

    And Miyuki-chan in Wonderland.

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Madican wrote: »
    Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles was one of the first manga I read. And the character Fye D. Flowright the only cosplay I've ever done at an anime convention.

    For all its various faults it was still something I don't think I could easily forget.

    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

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 13
    Magic knight rayearth made me gay, earth

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  • IronKnuckleIronKnuckle This is also my fault Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    My first anime was Robotech. I'm pretty sure that's why I love giant robots.

    [edit] Oh we're talking about Clamp works, and also I'm a dummy.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Some day they'll finish X/1999

    I just have to keep the hope alive

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    i dunno about the manga but at least in the anime the jr. high schooler's romantic feelings for the much older dude are one-sided and implicitly you understand that everyone in the show is kinda fucked up a little bit, so it comes across better than in other CLAMP works

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  • arthurinscalesarthurinscales Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    oh, netflix has finally added the rest of Monster (in the US at least)

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  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Reynolds wrote: »
    Yeah, like four main characters are gay and it's presented without any further discussion, characters don't question or explain it. Definitely stands out, especially for the 90s.

    The show also continues to look insanely good at all times. There's more care and animation in 10 episodes than all 50 of Macross 7, for example.

    Four... Oh yeah the cousin.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    i dunno about the manga but at least in the anime the jr. high schooler's romantic feelings for the much older dude are one-sided and implicitly you understand that everyone in the show is kinda fucked up a little bit, so it comes across better than in other CLAMP works

    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.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Speaking of gay, I'm caught up on Birdie Wing.

    Subtext, cowards, etc.

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    My first anime was Robotech. I'm pretty sure that's why I love giant robots.

    [edit] Oh we're talking about Clamp works, and also I'm a dummy.

    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.

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  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Vinland Saga S2E4 hit me hard

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    My anime exposure was something like Gatchaman/Go Lions > Guyver > Ranma > Sailor Moon > Dragon Ball.

    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.

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  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Sailor Moon was my first anime but I dont even know what came before it in Canada the original Dragon Ball was pretty early too

    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.

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  • GridlinkGridlink Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I can't remember if Ranma 1/2 or Evangelion was my first anime but I know for sure that Ranma 1/2 was my first manga.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I finished Yuyu Hakusho's manga finally. I've never seen such a clear cut case of "Sure, I'll keep going... but you will REGRET it," in a shonen manga before. It makes the Majin Buu arc look like the height of creative prowess and satisfaction. This is now charted with my other "most bizarre endings to an action manga" list along with Shaman King and the ongoing debacle with Hunter x Hunter (yes, I'm fully aware that is the same person).

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Just how cool was Shaman King when it first came out tho. Such cool designs and a solid start. It was the series I picked up after finally squeaking through the Kenshin manga at a snails pace.

    Still haven't checked out that new thing they did.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    My first anime was either:
    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.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    God I rented Totoro so many times from blockbuster eventually we either just kept it or they gave it to me or something

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  • DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Sailor Moon was my first anime but I dont even know what came before it in Canada the original Dragon Ball was pretty early too

    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.

    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.

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  • KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Growing up in Mexico in the 80s I watched tons of anime without realizing it was anime.

    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.

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  • NeveronNeveron SwedenRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    My first anime was probably Moomin or some other thing that ran on 90s Swedish kids television.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts6Nd9imTwg
    ...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.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYNpIn4fJrA

    a good show for the children

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Just how cool was Shaman King when it first came out tho. Such cool designs and a solid start. It was the series I picked up after finally squeaking through the Kenshin manga at a snails pace.

    Still haven't checked out that new thing they did.

    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.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    My first anime would technically be Voltron I guess, which I count mainly because despite a lot of difference in the details it is still mostly a localization of Golion rather than just taking the footage and writing something entirely different with it

    But aside from that, it was Urusei Yatsura Beautiful Dreamer I think?

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  • DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Just dredged up a memory of something I used to watch quite a bit.
    https://youtu.be/lVQYMWrFaaM
    It was from that time when sabban used to just buy random anime and show the episodes completely out of order.

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    edited April 13
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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Giant Beasts of Ars #5

    Orc flautists.

    That is all.

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    first anime woulda been something like doraemon when i was living in hong kong, but i don't remember it

    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

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I cannot tell you how jarring it was to watch Totoro in Japanese for the first time like, as an adult and realizing the intro song isn't in English, they specifically redubbed the entire into song and the lyrics are burned into my mind

    The sub is great but because of that song, I'll always prefer the dub

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    i like the jp version of the totoro theme too but i tell you what, it was a big disappointment getting the disney release of totoro and realising they re-re-recorded the songs

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    My first anime, still the best 1991

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZNt9p4LWeA

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  • Andy JoeAndy Joe We claim the land for the highlord! The AdirondacksRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    My first anime was probably Maya the Bee.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 13
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    My first anime, still the best 1991

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZNt9p4LWeA

    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.

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I guess the first one for me would have been Battle Of The Planets (if that counts, given what they changed. Huh, and I didn't realise they'd had another try at adapting it)

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Robotech, Voltron, Transformers g1.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    My first anime? Avatar the Last Airbender, Code Lyoko, Kappa Mikey, Megas XLR, Wakfu, Teen Titans, Castlevania, RWBY, Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi, and of course The Boondocks

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    My very first anime was definitely Dragonball Z. The Namek Saga was like Groundhog Day before the movie ever existed, constantly looping from beginning to "Five minutes" every few weeks before rerunning it all again

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