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I feel like Escaflowne was a kind of dangerous thing to show to the impressionable, somewhat depressed legions of anime dork teenage girls.
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As far as what planted the seeds, it was being home sick from school in like 1st and 2nd grade. Toonami ran around lunchtime/early afternoon, so I'd always watch DBZ/Dragon Ball (I actually never realized until later that the stuff with Goku as a kid was an entirely different show- I think all I ever saw of it was the Jackie Chun fight in the first place) and G Gundam and later Rurouni Kenshin and Yu Yu Hakusho whenever I'd get a cold. Then, later on, I caught scattered episodes of FMA 2003, InuYasha, Cowboy Bebop, GitS:SAC, and Eureka Seven on Adult Swim. As far as what actually made me actively start seeking out and watching anime, instead of just treating it as acceptable background noise, it was Gurren Lagann.
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Jan 8, 2015 03:08
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AlternateNu posted:
weird rear end nose fetish anime
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Jan 8, 2015 03:09
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I remember being bored by Escaflowne. Why I don't know, as at the time I was reading about 3 Yu Watase series which were basically the same thing.
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Jan 8, 2015 03:11
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I've never been able to get into Escaflowne, but that's probably because I don't have a vagina, so whatever. 
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Jan 8, 2015 03:13
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All the Fox Box and Kids WB shows back in the day. There was also a comic book shop in town that rented anime DVDs. So I saw all of Rurouni Kenshin in Japanese through that. Also my cousin was a big fan of Escaflowne.
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Jan 8, 2015 03:24
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When I was a teenager, a friend showed me Ghost in the Shell. It had a naked chick on the cover! How sweet is that?! As a teenager, it's very fuckin' sweet, I'll tell you what.
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Jan 8, 2015 03:32
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I grew up being friends with a bunch of dorks who all watched anime and eventually I gave into the peer pressure
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Jan 8, 2015 03:42
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Davinci posted:I grew up being friends with a bunch of dorks who all watched anime and eventually I gave into the peer pressure Your post makes me feel like I should apologize to some of my old high school friends. ...or maybe be angry with some of my old middle school friends.
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Jan 8, 2015 03:49
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Some video game magazine had an article on Ranma 1/2 because the SNES fighting game had just released. The premise sounded amusing so I bought one of the VHS tapes. Things quickly went out of control from there.
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Jan 8, 2015 03:54
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anime used to be really bad, im glad its good now
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Jan 8, 2015 04:00
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Gaming mags around the early 90's started creaming themselves over this film called Akira then Manga Entertainment started releasing a bunch of stuff with tits and blood in on VHS which was easier to get hold of than porn at the time and I was 13 so that was me ruined for life.
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Jan 8, 2015 04:07
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Voltron got me started, then pretty much whatever aired on TV through the 80s and 90s except Dragonball/DBZ because I hated the style. In college I dated a guy a few years older than me who was an old school fan who traded vhs fansubs that got mailed around and copied a zillion times til they were barely watchable. We watched FOTNS off tapes like that (and Urotsukidoji  ). I borrowed and watched everything he had or we'd watch at his place if he got something new. He was friends with some guy who ran an import/anime store that rented dvds as well, so if an anime was available in the US during the late 90s/early 2000s I've probably seen it thanks to that.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy4MqxYLcqsEndorph posted:actually has anyone here watched tekkaman blade 2
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Jan 8, 2015 04:14
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Head trauma.
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Jan 8, 2015 04:16
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Dragon Ball, Samurai Pizzacats, Sailor Moon and Speed Racer when I was younger and didn't even realize "anime" was a thing. Then one of the networks we had back in Canada started doing a late-night anime thing during the summers and one of the first movies they showed, that I managed to stay up late enough to watch, was Ninja Scroll. I decided anime was awesome that night.
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Nuebot posted:Dragon Ball, Samurai Pizzacats, Sailor Moon and Speed Racer when I was younger and didn't even realize "anime" was a thing. Then one of the networks we had back in Canada started doing a late-night anime thing during the summers and one of the first movies they showed, that I managed to stay up late enough to watch, was Ninja Scroll. I decided anime was awesome that night. I loved Samurai Pizza Cats, but in my mind, it was about as anime as Digimon. It may have originated in Japan, but it was so mangled by the re-write, that it ceased being anime. I likened it more to the Super Mario Bros Super Show mainly because of the goofy narrator. Of course, I forgot to mention this anime in the depths of my pointy nose nostalgia: 
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Jan 8, 2015 04:47
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Watching Robotech on Toonami, which led me to Tenchi (I was a dumb kid, but I still have a soft spot for it), then straight off the deep end to Evangelion.
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Voltron was very popular when I was a young child. I had all the vehicle force toys and probably suffered a poo poo ton of brain damage because of all the lead paint they were coated with. The Disney channel used to show the two Unico movies ALL THE loving TIME when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade and watching them was sort of a secret enjoyment of mine. I also remember seeing Galaxy Express 999 on tv some random afternoon in the mid-late 80s. Then during highschool the sci-fi channel and cartoon network would occasionally have anime marathons and me and my friends thought that poo poo was the coolest goddamn thing. So basically robot toys, lead paint, magical unicorns, tall skinny blonde robots, Vampire Hunter D, Robot Carnival and Ninja Scroll.
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Jan 8, 2015 11:23
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The story line in FFVII both delighted and confused me as a teen. Years later some friends showed me Death Note and I got that confused but nostalgic feeling. The rest, as they say, is history
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I don't know if I ever knew I was getting into 'anime', as I think I was just looking for cartoons on TV and comics in libraries, which were a rarity. In terms of watching cartoons, I think the earliest was Sailor Moon, though I might've watched Akira before that (with the hilarious early dubs that contained such classics as 'you...peabrain!'). For comics, I definitely remember reading some Ranma 1/2 at Borders (which was rather explicit considering my age), as well as some other kung-fu manga that I can't remember the name to (it started with some guy gathering water in buckets from a river, and what he would do as a cool trick was to chuck the bucket in the air and run to catch it at the well to empty it out, using the centrifugal force of the throw to keep the water in the bucket for the journey. does anyone know what I'm talking about? no? ok...)
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Saint Seiya, there was blood... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yskaXkGlnjU&t=1s ...and people died, that was impressive for a child that used to watch bloodless cartoons where nobody dies, also the story advances contrary to the self contained episodes and monster of the week that I was used to. Captain Quack fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Jan 8, 2015 |
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Jan 8, 2015 17:45
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I was like five or six when my dad decided to check out the weird subtitled VHS stuff at the back of the video store down the street. All downhill from there 
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It was Robotech after school and Warriors of the Wind as well. Then later Akira and the Ghost in the Shell movie/manga.
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First stuff I saw was the usual DBZ, Sailermoon stuff on TV. None of that really impressed me much so I asked a friend from school who was already into it for advice. He told me that a certain TV channel would sometimes show the more "advanced" stuff. So I stayed up late to check it out. What they aired was some incomprehensible horror/porn that left me with quiet a few misconceptions towards anime... and that friend. Turns out I watched the wrong program and he had no idea what the gently caress i was talking about. He then lend me his evangelion VHS's so it was all good.
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Oh poo poo, and Sailor Moon too. That was about it until some fucker made a banner ad with SA emotions doing the Haruhi dance and welp, here we are.
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When I was about thirteen or fourteen, I was browsing the local library's shelves and came on some VHS tapes of Martian Successor Nadesico. I was like "Huh! Animation, eh? The art looks pretty cool", let's check this out. So I did, and it turned out it was a pretty fun series! I'd come across Japanese animation before, but only as movies like My Neighbor Totoro, or as episodic kids' cartoons like Pokemon on TV. I had no idea that there were longer-form shows oriented towards older audiences, and the format kind of blew my mind! Of course, being quite poor, I was only able to see whatever anime shows or OVAs the library had on tape -- Ranma 1/2 and so on. Thinking back on it, I never really quite got into the animation side of it, and mainly stuck to manga, probably because the library had a very limited selection of anime shows, but a fairly decent manga collection. My first manga was Battle Angel Alita, which I got into around the age of fourteen, when I was just starting high school. I saw it on the shelves and thought it looked neat! I've been a fan ever since! So, yes, in a roundabout way, what got me into manga/anime was mainly being a bored young teenager hanging out at the library. Hooray for libraries!! 
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When I was thirteen, my best lady friends force-fed me Fushigi Yuugi. Thus began my long hatred of anime for the next three weeks until they also force-fed me Lain. Harettazetta fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Jan 8, 2015 |
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Amazing Nurse Nanako.
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Harettazetta posted:When I was thirteen, my best lady friends force-fed me Fushigi Yuugi. God, one of my school friends was so into that because his (internet) girlfriend loved it and he made us watch it all and now I have an abiding loathing for both it and him.
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Yu Watase was a prolific producer of not very good things but that didn't stop me from reading FY, Alice 19th, and Ceres at the library religiously.
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Being forced to watch the first 2 Evangelion Rebuild movies. My life went downhill from there.
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As did ADTRW.
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The Devil Tesla posted:As did ADTRW. 
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I was severely child molested, and then a guy in middle school gave me a bunch of subbed love hina burned on cds
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Learning about the Bubblegum Crisis from page 20 of TurboForce Magazine #3. I didn't even own a TG16. I think the magazine came bundled with a copy of EGM.
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My dad introduced me to anime I used to watch Fist of the north star with him when I was 9. He got them on VHS and we'd watch em together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET6D2a_tJdM
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Epoxy Bulletin posted:I was severely child molested, and then a guy in middle school gave me a bunch of subbed love hina burned on cds I'm sorry, just thinking about how terrible that must have been really brings a tear to my eye. They were probably in real media format, too.
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I came across a time where I had nothing to do for several months aside from sleep my life away. Obviously I couldn't sleep straight through all that time so I killed all my awake time poking around the internet. Eventually I got led to a manga hosting site. I had watched pokemon as a kid but never got into anime just from that. So there I was with nothing to do but try to make time pass as fast as possible till the next sleep cycle that I hopefully wouldn't wake up from (Because of reasons it was a pretty depressing time in my life and I'd pretty much given up on everything. Too cowardly to kill myself I just wanted to stop living) and I looked at the site and thought "huh I wonder if any of these are any good." Not knowing what was what I decided just to try the top 10 list. I read through Bleach, Naruto and One Piece (well I read them up to the chapters that were released at the time) I enjoyed myself a little so I decided to keep going. I picked another in the top 10 and read Fairy Tail which I really enjoyed. Liking these stories so far I decided to try something a little different so I read Detective Conan. Unlike the previous series Detective Conan wasn't a battle manga but a full fledged mystery series. After that I realized that there is a wealth of great stories of all genre's in this art style and I wanted to read them. I wanted something again. I hadn't cared about or wanted anything for months. I won't say some overly-cheesy thing like "anime saved my life", but I did get into it during a very difficult part of my life, I'm glad it was there, and I've been enjoying and looking for other great stories ever since then.
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Sometime in 7th or 8th grade, I started watching Mew Mew Power when it came on on Saturday mornings, then discovered that it was also on the internet, only with subtitles and japanese audiio. Then I watched Tokyo Mew Mew and realized that more than just the language was different, but that's another story. Followed it up with like... Evangelion, Princess Tutu, and Gravitation, all around the same time, I think. Maybe also a couple of stupid harem series, not sure (I have vague recollections of powering through a series about this poor guy trying to get hired at an almost all girl's school as a pe teacher, but the principle was a misandrist, so he had to crossdress to get the position)
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