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Yes_Cantaloupe
Feb 28, 2005
First first would be Speed Racer on the Cartoon Network, but I didn't really recognize it as any different from other cartoons. The first time I recognized what I was consuming as distinct from American stuff was when my friend bought a handful of the old colorized Viz issues of Ranma 1/2 off some kid (who probably stole them from some other kid's locker) for a few bucks in middle school. They had boobs, and were funny. My mom had finally gotten INTERNET, and through it I soon learned that there was an anime of it and that I could illegally acquire it, and, well, here I am.

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Classy Hydra
Oct 30, 2011

You did wrong, Jack,
rest your soul.
First really relevant would be Cardcaptors. In French dub, no less.

I say Cardcaptors because it was, in fact, a re-dub of the heavily edited original English dub.

Thuryl
Mar 14, 2007

My postillion has been struck by lightning.
The first one I saw would have been Astro Boy at around age 5, but the first time I was actually aware of anime as being something distinct from Western cartoons would be Sailor Moon at age 9-10.

A Doomed Purloiner
Jan 4, 2006


Same, but I didn't differentiate it from any other morning cartoon at the time like Ninja Turtles or Transformers, so the first anime I recognised as anime were Neon Genesis Evangelion and the Patlabor movie.

Motherfucker
Jul 16, 2011

I certainly dont have deep-seated issues involving birthdays.
Devilman.



come to think of it maybe thats why I'm such a gently caress up

experienceBeej
Mar 24, 2014
Kimba the White Lion

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

He just keeps running and running and running...

I remember watching it on TV when I was eating lunch at home on school days. I think it was showing on the PBS affiliate we got in southern Alberta.

After that, no anime until Sailor Moon on YTV and FOX.

My older brother would watch Astro Boy and loved it to death. I wasn't really into it, though.

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!
VHS horrible dubs of Getter Robo G which my mum kindly bought from a local street market, probably because the box art made it look kind of like Transformers. I remember the big bad was basically Hitler with a horn, which was hilarious. I wasn't very old at the time, maybe 6 or 7. When we got satellite TV I used to watch whatever poo poo was on, this was before DBZ was on Cartoon Network as far as I remember so it was basically just Speed Racer and Sailor Moon.

Then when I was like 12 or something I saw some Guyver OVAs, Akira and Ninja Scroll followed by a bunch more hyperviolence 80s stuff they used to show late on SciFi in the UK. This probably broke me somehow but luckily I wasn't really old enough to realise how loving rapey everything was so watching some of it when I was older I was like :stonk:

Soul Reaver
Mar 8, 2009

in retrospect the old redtext was a little over the top, I think I was in a bad mood that day. it appears you've learned your lesson about slagging our gods and masters at beamdog but I'm still going to leave this av up because i think its funny

god bless
I grew up in Switzerland, where we actually got a suprisingly large amount of anime on TV - except I had no idea what "anime" was or that it came from Japan. A lot of my favourite shows were actually dubbed anime.

The problem is that I was so young that I actually have very little recollection of which anime was the first one I watched. All of the following are possible candidates:

Heidi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fffb078iXU

Maja (Maya) the Bee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-mCm7V7Jxo

Nils Holgersson (this was a pretty drat awesome show)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWrCKqGdN4M

or the best of them all (and my favourite):
Captain Future!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ8H2csE9bU

Soul Reaver fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Nov 9, 2015

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
I can appreciate it now as an adult (cause it owns), but as a kid the opening music to Captain Future always creeped me out for some reason.

And yes, Nils Holgersson was p. good

Peel
Dec 3, 2007

Once when I was a little kid I saw an episode of a strange but interesting cartoon about some kind of spaceship. I never saw it again or remembered what it was called, but it stayed stuck in my mind ever since. Going on two decades later I finally found out about Ulysses 31.

But I probably saw Moomin before that.

Brainamp
Sep 4, 2011

More Zen than Zenyatta

Steel Angel Kurumi when I was like 13 or something. gently caress if I know why,

Alpha Kenny Juan
Apr 11, 2007

Doraemon when my dad was stationed in Japan.

My first experience while I was back in the states was a spanish dub of Lost Universe.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

Don't like it? well...

Sailor Moon on Toonami back when Moltar ran it.

Then I found volumes of Ranma 1/2 in the school library.

Agronox
Feb 4, 2005
The time: 1986
The place: HBO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6280C94UY-w

I have very little memory of this, only a snippet of a song, but apparently Orson Welles was a VA in the dub.

It would be fifteen years before I watched another anime...

Agronox
Feb 4, 2005
Excuse me. Orson Welles was the pigeon.

Earth to Terra
Jul 11, 2013

Superbook

Bad Seafood
Dec 10, 2010


If you must blink, do it now.
I always thought Mozgus in Berserk looked like the priest robot thing from Superbook.

TriffTshngo
Mar 28, 2010

Don't get it twisted who your enemies are.
I have one of the boring anime origins. Standard sort of Pokemon, then DBZ, then Digimon, then Yu Yu Hakusho, then subtitled Naruto and Bleach, etc. route. Toonami and saturday morning stuff. Technically I guess Speed Racer was my first but I barely remember it, and I don't know if Pokemon really counts. DBZ is what really triggered it.

Violet_Sky
Dec 5, 2011



Fun Shoe
Probably Pokemon and heavily edited Cardcaptors. Also a lot of people on the internet were going nuts for Zatch Bell when I was 10-12 (remember that?), but I didn't watch it. My first real anime experience was watching subbed Sailor Moon on Youtube.

Violet_Sky fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Nov 10, 2015

esselfortium
Jul 19, 2006

Cumulonimbus Antagonistic Posting
When I was a kid I saw a bunch of Voltron and probably some other older anime on Cartoon Network. I didn't really know what it was, but hey, it was on TV, I was a kid, I'm gonna watch this because it's on TV. After that I occasionally caught an episode of something on Toonami around the turn of the century. I remember seeing one episode of Blue Sub No. 6, part of a Sailor Moon movie, and then seeing an episode of either Tenchi Universe or Tenchi In Tokyo and thinking "It's really weird how they keep changing the name of this show depending on where he is :v:" I didn't really care enough about any of it to make an effort to seek any of it out.

When I was 12 I randomly tuned into a Cowboy Bebop marathon on Adult Swim. Got totally spoiled on the ending of the show, but Jupiter Jazz 1/2 and The Real Folk Blues 1/2 back to back was a hell of an introduction, so it was worth it. At the time I thought all anime series were hundreds of episodes long like Pokemon or DBZ, so my first impression of Cowboy Bebop was that it was a massive saga spanning the lives of countless characters all over the galaxy. "It's like... The Sopranos in space!" (I had never watched The Sopranos.) I still think Bebop's universe could be the basis of an amazing long-running series -- the pioneer setting and gate accident make a good starting point for a lot of stories, and in 26 episodes it gave us little glimpses into so many different worlds and cultures and stories.

I was instantly hooked on Bebop, and from there I started sampling pretty much any shows I could find, from the other shows on Adult Swim and Toonami (most of which were... mediocre) to whatever I heard about online or looked interesting at the video store (most of which were... mediocre). I gave a lot of bad shows more of a chance than they deserved, just because I kept hearing they were good. Bought lots and lots of Newtype USA, reading about interesting-looking shows that I finally tried watching a decade later and found out they were total garbage. :v:

I think FLCL was the next thing I saw after Bebop that was an obvious standout above the rest and kept me interested in what else was out there. Getting to see Spirited Away in a theater was also pretty amazing. Then at some point, thirteen-year-old me reached episode 16 of Evangelion and my mind was thoroughly blown, not least by the fact that you could even do something that abstract in a tv show.

Edward Mass
Sep 14, 2011

𝅘𝅥𝅮 I wanna go home with the armadillo
Good country music from Amarillo and Abilene
Friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever seen
𝅘𝅥𝅮
My Neighbor Tortoro. I don't think you can introduce a child to anime better than that.

Jorenko
Jun 6, 2004

I think you're just mad 'cause you're single.
I watched a whole bunch of Voltron really early on. But the first time I knew that anime was a thing was Saturday Morning Anime on SciFi. I don't remember too many things I saw there, but there were a few A-ko movies, Roujin-Z, 8 Man After, Iria... maybe even Armitage III? This was, of course, soon followed up by bootleg VHS copies of Akira, Vampire Hunter D, and Ghost in the Shell. And then DBZ started on Toonami and the real obsession began.

EVIL Gibson
Mar 23, 2001

Internet of Things is just someone else's computer that people can't help attaching cameras and door locks to!
:vapes:
Switchblade Switcharoo
The first subbed VHS I bought was Cyber City Oedo. I thought it looked cool in the store! I bought it and didn't even hear about it until, honestly, 15 years later being mentioned on a podcast.

WeedlordGoku69
Feb 12, 2015

by Cyrano4747

EVIR Gibson posted:

The first subbed VHS I bought was Cyber City Oedo. I thought it looked cool in the store! I bought it and didn't even hear about it until, honestly, 15 years later being mentioned on a podcast.

Cyber City Oedo owns and is criminally underwatched. I think it might be the most obscure thing Kawajiri has ever directed.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

LORD OF BUTT posted:

Cyber City Oedo owns and is criminally underwatched. I think it might be the most obscure thing Kawajiri has ever directed.

There's no way it's more obscure than Demon City Shinjuku. Or the segment he did for Cockpit.

Sakurazuka fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Nov 16, 2015

Radio Spiricom
Aug 17, 2009

or goku midnight eye. cyber city oedo at least has an region 1 dvd

WeedlordGoku69
Feb 12, 2015

by Cyrano4747
I was about to edit and say Goku: Midnight Eye was probably up there too, but Demon City Shinjuku? Really? I thought that was one of his more well-known works (not counting Ninja Scroll, and... half-counting Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, since that was well-known before he got to it).

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

No because most people think you're talking about Wicked City when they're two different films.
Well, not 'most people' but you know what I mean.

NOTinuyasha
Oct 17, 2006

 
The Great Twist
Love Hina in the school computer lab with a bunch of other nerds maybe around 6-7th grade. That show seemed like borderline pornography at the time.

Condiv
May 7, 2008

Sorry to undo the effort of paying a domestic abuser $10 to own this poster, but I am going to lose my dang mind if I keep seeing multiple posters who appear to be Baloogan.

With love,
a mod


voltron, lots of voltron

jwang
Mar 31, 2013
First anime... was probably My Neighbor Totoro. If it's TV though, that's probably Cowboy Bebop.

madmac
Jun 22, 2010
First anime was almost certainly Voltron, though I was a little kid and assumed it was just a regular old cartoon. I remember being obsessed enough with Voltron to insist on renting the movie and finding it super confusing.

First anime to leave an impression on me as anime...probably DBZ, followed shortly by Samurai Pizza Cats and later Sailor Moon/toonami in general.

Sonata Mused
Feb 19, 2013

I'll show you... a nightmare...
Samurai Pizza Cats got me into anime. Then I watched Sailor Moon on USA before school. I think it was the same block that had that awful Mortal Kombat cartoon.

a kitten
Aug 5, 2006

Hail to thee, o Pizza Cats
Please ring your little bell

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Project A-ko. Really stood out in my child mind in a way voltron and thundercats didn't, but I couldn't explain why.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

The panty shots?

Linnaeus
Jan 2, 2013

haha

THE AWESOME GHOST
Oct 21, 2005

My weird friend from America had an older brother and he showed me Akira when I was like 10 and it hosed me up man

But really all the Arabic cartoons as kids were dubbed anime. Grendizer, Captain Tsubasa, and others were extremely popular. Popular Kuwaiti Urban legend says that when Saddam invaded kuwait a distress signal went out to the effect of something like "Even grendizer can't stop all these tanks"

Effectronica
May 31, 2011
Fallen Rib
All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku, when I was nine, maybe ten? It was a bootleg VHS at a birthday party.

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Genocyber
Jun 4, 2012

Stuff on Toonami and Saturday morning cartoon channels like FoxKids, then nothing until ~2007 when I got into anime thanks to Evangelion thru NEtflix.

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