/animu/ - Anime & Otaku Culture

You're talking about the first anime I ever watch or the anime that got me into the medium? The first one is Pokemon and second one is Hayate no Gotoku.

>>13941

Tekkaman Blade dubbed on TV. I was too young to understand anything then, but that lead to worse things like Eva and BGC2040.

>>13941

First one I ever watched was either Yu-gi-oh or pokemon.

The one that got me into anime was the melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

>>13963

I read the manga first, and even though I enjoyed it very much I didn't care much for the anime at the time. I only came to watch it last year out of curiosity, and can say it's pretty good overall and stands up very well for being that old.

And everyone hates the weirdness of L at first.

>>13977

>But U31 got me looking out for Anime of its caliber

(proofreading my post)

>>13977

> I'm from the subtitled-with-an-Amiga VHS Anime Tapes

Same here. And in my case I stretched that phase for some time, since we didn't had "cable" internet (as we called it) for a long time. It was dial up until early 2000s for me, making anime VHSs my main source of anime

>>13956

>last exile

I completely forgot about that. Worth a rewatch

>oldanime recommendation thread in disguise

>>13977

OH YES, Our Star Blazers!

First animes for me was Pokemon, Digimon, and pretty much any other Saturday morning cartoon anime. Then went to DBZ and whatever else was on Toonami.

The one that got me firmly into anime would be Cowboy Bebop. Also there was Ghost in the Shell and Samurai Champloo late at night.

>>13981

>>14020

>Great job on ruining an otherwise informative post.

If you think Usenet emoticons are a Tumblr thing, go throw your newbie autism over on /a/

(Left out the full-stop on that sentence to see if /a/ B.O trying to shit up the board)

Doraemon

First real anime was Slayers

The first one I ever saw was Dragon Ball Z, and the one that got me into anime was Cowboy Bebop. I know it's a cliche.

Robotech on a broadcast station back in the 80s. There was a lot of Jap shit on the air in the day but it was usually American(DIC entertainment) writing retarded plots and getting the nips to animate it at korean tier quality. I don't really count that shit, but even with the Robotech edit to Macross it was still distinctly Japanese and felt like anime.

>>14544

If you don't consider Doraemon anime I think you should know the casual bar is too blocks down.

>>>/a/

Doraemon is fantastic. Slayers was my first seinen, though, which had a bigger impact on me as a child.

>>14574

For >>14570

>>14542

>emoticons

Doesn't matter where they came from, you're faggot if you use them. Kill yourself.

>>13941

The first time I became aware that there was Japanese cartoons and they were different, was the 80s Astro Boy (which was a Saturday afternoon staple up here in Canada in the early to mid 90s). It just felt so different from everything else. It was often sad or bittersweet and seemed to tackle a bit more heavier subjects than other cartoons at the time. I remember my older brother saying "Oh, that's one of those Japanimation shows. You can tell because they have big eyes." From that point on, whenever I saw something with big eyes I would see if it was one of those Japanese cartoons.

What really got me into actively looking for anime was the one-two punch of Sailor Moon and the original Dragon Ball. They both started airing around the same time up here in 1995, and they were the first time I really got invested in a TV show. I would run home from school every day to watch Sailor Moon at 3:30, never telling my friends why I was in such a hurry in fear of being called a fag. It was the original Dragon Ball that really blew me away though. Ocean dubbed the first 13 episodes and they ran for like a year or so on Saturday mornings. I taped them and watched them over and over again because it was just unlike any fantasy story I'd seen at that point. For years I thought the 13 episodes were all they ever made, until DBZ started showing here. I was pretty confused and thought Piccolo was supposed to be like a grown up Pilaf because they had the same face and ears, and he mentioned Goku being his enemy. Then I got the internet and found out there was like a good 100 episodes we never got.

When stuff like all the Streamline dubs then started popping up in video stores and the late 90s early 2000s anime boom hit, I was all in.

>>13951

>Make a Dragon Quest anime

>Don't use Toriyama's style

This has always confused me.

>>13941

My literally first anime was one of these: Pokemon, Card Captor Sakura, Yugi-Oh, Sailor Moon (most likely, actually), Dragon Ball.

Those were the series that used to air in my country when I was a kid, dubbed, naturally.

Never really got into any of them though.

Later on, through imageboards, I was introduced to Evangelion, that didn't work either though.

What really got me into anime was fairly recent, namely Non Non Biyori.

>>14582

>Watch original dragon ball

>Then straight to DBZ

Same here, took forever to find tapes of the missing in-between

>>14636

Isn't she the one with a mountain of porn?

>>14644

Yeah, sankaku has about 1300 Riesz images, as compared to e.g. Angela from the same game with around 150.

My grandmother had an episode tape of Kimba the White Lion laying around, didn't watch any weebshit for several years afterwards until some faggot talked me into watching PSG.

I didn't realize it was anime back then since I thought it was just another cartoon, but Robotech on VHS was my first. I can't remember when I realized anime was different from cartoons and which was my first then that got me hooked on this shit. I think it might've been Love Hina or something. Lucky Star was the one that nailed it and made cute animugrills my life though.

I want to say Pokémon but I distinctly remember Sailor Moon and Speed Racer being part of my early childhood. I’m unsure of which came first. All I know is that Sailor Moon and the Sailor Scouts made my heart go dokidoki. Mercury is best Sailor Scout

German subbed Lupin eps in the late 80s were first. Had no idea what it was until years later when i saw one of the movies at a con.

Scifi channel showing Dominion, Tenchi muyo in love, one of the urusei yatsura movies etc in the 90s got me interested enough to seek out more.

Well obviously I watched Pokemon/Digimon/Dragon Ball/Sailor Moon/Astro Boy growing up but I always hated weebs and anime until I was in my 20s.

Then someone introduced me to a tiny show called Maria the Virgin Witch. It is set in the 100 years war in France and follows a witch who is a pacifist and tries to stop the two sides from fighting. While it is fairly mediocre, it showed me that anime could be more than a series of ridiculous fight scenes set in Japan with people calling out their attacks as they make them, and served as my gateway into better anime.

The first anime I ever watched was definitely Sailor Moon, the DiC dub, which I still have massive nostalgia for. My sister used to watch it and I would watch along, even though it was "girly". Rewatching it now (with subtitles this time), I'm amazed at how much fanservice is in it. Guess I know now why the transformation sequences made me feel funny.

From there it was Dragon Ball Z on Toonami, but I can't remember if that came before or after Pokemon. I had no idea Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z were from another country at first. I thought Dragon Ball Z was a Warner Bros. show for some reason, I guess because the eyes reminded me of Looney Tunes or something. It had a massive impact on me though because it was the first cartoon I ever saw where they actually animated people fighting, instead of just having a dust cloud with goofy sound effects. I definitely knew Pokemon was Japanese because I thought some of the designs (especially Lapras, for some reason) looked "Japanesey"; I guess that was my way of identifying the overall anime aesthetic of the time.

After Dragon Ball Z ended and I had watched a few other Toonami-aired shows like Outlaw Star, and around when Naruto started to air, I stopped watching anime since I couldn't identify with the newer shows, and I thought I had "outgrown" it. I had no idea the massive volume of anime that existed outside of the few that aired on the cartoon channels on American cable.

It wasn't until the summer after I graduated high school, when I dated a girl that was into anime, that I intentionally sought out anime again. I watched all of Neon Genesis Evangelion on some streaming site and absolutely loved it. One of my roommates in college was a massive weeb, and he introduced me to Toward the Terra (the remake), and I loved that too. From there I decided to watch more anime, and started lurking /a/. Haruhi was my first slice of life anime, and JoJo had just started to air, so I got into that as well.

tl;dr, first became conscious of "anime" during the Pokemon/DBZ era, first anime I actively sought out was Evangelion