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k4kk01 posted:(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) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmABKmme4pw
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k4kk01 posted: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) You couldn't have listed three anime that are any more different than those three are to each other. I don't know how to feel about that.
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Jan 9, 2015 13:59
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raijin-oh and yaiba on tv probably
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Guyver posted:I My Me! Strawberry Eggs For some reason there was a trailer for that on pretty much every ADV DVD at one point, despite looking like utter trash.
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And now I remember why I've never tried rewatching Strawberry Eggs... AlternateNu posted:You couldn't have listed three anime that are any more different than those three are to each other. I don't know how to feel about that. I cast a wide net and was also 13? 14? And also my parents didn't want me watching Naruto, so. 
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Guyver posted:I My Me! Strawberry Eggs This is everything i could ever want in an anime
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Gundam Wing because it's pacifist navel gazing about war and peace seemed so intelligent compared to the cartoons and normal television shows I was watching at the time, that I just started watching anime for that sort of attempt at being high-brow. Granted I was roughly 14 so the standard wasn't high but a gateway drug does what it does. Additionally, I like JRPG's such as FF7 so the whole Visual Novel thing being "A Book you sometimes Make Choices in" fit very well with me, and they interacted well such as with Fate Stay/Night. But I don't think it became a hobby until Angel Beats and Madoka Magica came along.
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Gravitation was gutter trash, btw. It's kind of amazing how much more I hate it the older I get. Granted, I'm not it's target audience, but even then I guess I want to believe there are yaoi series out there with at least some likeable characters.
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Jan 9, 2015 21:12
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k4kk01 posted:And now I remember why I've never tried rewatching Strawberry Eggs... good parents
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Jan 9, 2015 21:18
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Shinjobi posted:Gravitation was gutter trash, btw. It's kind of amazing how much more I hate it the older I get. Granted, I'm not it's target audience, but even then I guess I want to believe there are yaoi series out there with at least some likeable characters. There aren't, which is why I got into sports.
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Jan 9, 2015 21:21
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The Devil Tesla posted:There aren't, which is why I got into sports. Counterpoint: Jojo and Metal Gear
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Jan 9, 2015 21:33
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Guyver posted:I My Me! Strawberry Eggs lol at Guts taking pictures of little girls asses
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Jan 9, 2015 21:36
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This will out me as being Old compared to most of you, but when I was fourteen my best friend borrowed his older sister's brand new VHS tapes of Slayers (dubbed) and we watched it together, thus instantly turning both of us into Huge Anime Nerds via a fantastic two-minute-long magical-girl-style transformation sequence. This was in 1997 I think.
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Agreed.
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Shinjobi posted:Gravitation was gutter trash, btw. It's kind of amazing how much more I hate it the older I get. Granted, I'm not it's target audience, but even then I guess I want to believe there are yaoi series out there with at least some likeable characters. I was introduced to BL via Gravitation by lesbian Harry Potter slash fanfic writers. It was garbage, but I liked the music. I swear good yaoi characters exist somewhere. Maybe.
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Jan 10, 2015 05:06
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Gnossiennes posted:I swear good yaoi characters exist somewhere. Maybe. They do in my head, where the pitcher and catcher from Big Windup are doing it.
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Jan 10, 2015 05:12
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I'm sorry, that joke doesn't work because their relationship goes way beyond subtext.
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Gnossiennes posted:I was introduced to BL via Gravitation by lesbian Harry Potter slash fanfic writers. It was garbage, but I liked the music. If yaoi traditions bug you, about your only hope is to trawl for bara/geicomi stuff that isn't BDSM porn. Or maybe Year 24 Group-vintage BL.
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Hayakawa Nojiko is the best for good BL characters imo. Yoneda Kou is good too (NightS, the one shot, not the whole tankoubon is probably my favorite). I've never really looked into Bara, but maybe there's less straight-guys-in-love stories?
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Jan 10, 2015 05:23
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The Devil Tesla posted:They do in my head, where the pitcher and catcher from Big Windup are doing it. All the sports anime boys should kiss imo KinjouxFuku forever
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Gnossiennes posted:Hayakawa Nojiko is the best for good BL characters imo. Yoneda Kou is good too (NightS, the one shot, not the whole tankoubon is probably my favorite). Well, bara characters are usually gay-identified, but unfortunately they're mostly porn and a lot of it is very fetishistic. I'm sure there are bara equivalents of Plica or Rica 'tte Kanji!? out there, but nobody translates them.
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Jan 10, 2015 05:31
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Existential fear and loathing. But seriously I blame watching Sailor Moon with my sister, Dragon Ball and later Z, and Gundam Wing.
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Gnossiennes posted:All the sports anime boys should kiss imo  confession: I watched that Strawberry Eggs thing purely because Crispin Freeman was the lead in the dub and I had a huge crush on him at the time  It led me to watch several other fairly terrible things as well.
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Jan 10, 2015 06:09
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I guess because it was different? I watched a lot of Toonami when I was in middle school.
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I remember watching Digimon and Medabots as Saturday morning cartoons, then in high school Inuyasha, Naruto and One Piece. After a while, I just stopped. A few years ago, my friend lent me his DVDs of Kino's Journey, and that's what made me start actively looking for anime to watch.
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Jan 10, 2015 07:30
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When I was 11 my dad sat me down and showed me Akira, and the rest is history
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Jan 10, 2015 07:40
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In the mid-80's, I was hooked on the English adaption of Space Cruiser Yamato, Starblazers. I might have been 7 or so? It was a contrast from Loony Toons and Hanna Barbara stuff that was pretty much everything else that was on, a serial story taking the audience from Earth beyond the Solar System to a distant planet to save Humankind. The theme song was catchy and memorable, the characters were endearing and although the series had its light moments it was a lot more serious than what I was used to watching. Voltron played back then, but I never got into it. Robotech was around during those years too, but never on local television so I only heard of it years later. There were only a few seasons I remember that got repeated for years, but even they had stopped being played by the time I entered High School. I never really made the connection between Starblazers and anything else. A neighbor taking Japanese got hooked on DBZ and Sailor Moon, and his pen pal in Japan would send VHS tapes with DBZ episodes and that's how my friends and I got acquainted with the series. I enjoyed it more I think when I didn't know exactly what they were saying :P There was an Anime Club at the University of Washington, and we'd head there to watch Ghibli Studio movies, silly fluff things, slice-of-life comedies. We'd be introduced to fansubbers: you'd send them a blank VHS with proper packaging and postage and they would make their copy and send it back. My friend's walls may as well have been wallpapered with these VHS tapes, and I'd watch movies, OVAs and TV series. I still haven't actually watched Akira, though. I don't watch much anime anymore, and that which I do is usually vetted through volume on Goon recommendations.
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I watched a lot of Pokemon and Sailor Moon, but the first anime franchise I got really obsessed with was Zoids on Toonami. First the goofy New Century series, then the superior Chaotic Century. I collected both shows on DVD and now those discs are worth a lot of dough surprisingly.
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While I was around when Dragon Ball and Pokemon were starting in the US, I moved out of the country and ended up in SEA. The local channels at the time showed (badly) dubbed Gundam shows (Wing and G at the time), along with stuff like Yu Yu Hakusho and Voltes V (pretty much the show of the era). Of course, I didn't understand what it was dubbed in so I rarely watched those shows until a different channel started an hour or so long block of stuff that was actually subtitled. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7451NZexxU this show ended up being the first thing that got me super into it I think.
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