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WeedlordGoku69: Feb 12, 2015; by Cyrano4747

G Gundam on Toonami at age... 5 or 6?

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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.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2015 05:32

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).

# ¿ Nov 16, 2015 06:14

WeedlordGoku69: Feb 12, 2015; by Cyrano4747

Gabberwocky posted:

My first anime was either Pokemon or Dragonball Z although at that point I wasn't really aware of what anime was. When I was 13 one of my friends said that they were a big fan of Neon Genesis Evangelion. I had heard of that because my brother watched it, so I searched through the computer and found two videos labelled "End of Evangelion". I thought I would be cool to just watch the end of evangelion so I could seem like an expert on the show without having seen it.

I think just watching that would be weird enough, but the files were not labelled part 1 or 2, they had their text titles were are not immediately obvious which comes first. So I ended up watching the second part first. This basically starts off with a boy screaming in a giant robot sky cross and some guy reaching his hand into a naked girl who then floats up into a giant naked human nailed to a cross.

I was completely baffled but very entertained. It made slightly more sense when I watched the first half of the movie but it was only when I had actually watched the TV series a couple years later that I actually understood most of it. End of Evangelion is actually still one of my favourite movies.

Oh god, I think I saw End of Eva for the first time the exact same way. I didn't watch it out of order, the files were labeled properly, but it was still split into two "episodes" like that with an ED after each one.

# ¿ Nov 19, 2015 17:40

WeedlordGoku69: Feb 12, 2015; by Cyrano4747

Che Delilas posted:

Edit: And then I went out and rented all sorts of things that Blockbuster ought not rent to 15-year olds. Akira. Ninja Scroll. Genocyber. Angel of Darkness (didn't know it was porn, it was just sitting there next to everything in the dead center of the store).

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guts and bolts posted:

That, and Berserk, which I loving hated. I think I was like 8?

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# ¿ Dec 17, 2015 16:30

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