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GK Punk
04-20-2003, 06:30 PM
So I know alot of us here are into anime, what I am wondering is when and what where your first anime, and or mangas?

My first anime I saw was (more than one here actually) Vampire Hunter D, Akira, Urusei<sp> Yatsura

Oh yeah I forgot age, and it was my question :\
It was aroun 1990-91 and I was about 10 or 11...

as for manga, the first I read was Ranma 1/2 (I started in the second series, during the Ice skating)

ChibiKasai
04-20-2003, 06:38 PM
My first anime was Sailor Moon, way back when I was about 10.
My first non-kiddy anime was Fatal Fury. :D

First manga? Mermaid's Forest, followed closely by Inu-Yasha. That was when I was 13.

Kid Icarus
04-20-2003, 06:43 PM
Lets see... the VERY first I saw was Battle of the Planets. Cartoon Network played it back way before toonami... i think it was around 96 or so. Then it was Speed Racer and Voltron.

My first Manga series i actually got in to was Ayashi no Ceres by Yu Watase.

GK Punk
04-20-2003, 06:43 PM
My first anime was Sailor Moon, way back when I was about 10.
My first non-kiddy anime was Fatal Fury. :D

First manga? Mermaid's Forest, followed closely by Inu-Yasha. That was when I was 13.


Mermaid's forest ROCKS! I still have most of those comics laying around in abox from when I moved...

WOW sailor moon at 10?? I think I was 12 when I first got in to sailor moon, but I might have been 13... I can't remember for sure now... I still have a nostalgic connection to that silly series! *looks at piles of fan subs

GK Punk
04-20-2003, 06:46 PM
Lets see... the VERY first I saw was Battle of the Planets. Cartoon Network played it back way before toonami... i think it was around 96 or so. Then it was Speed Racer and Voltron.

My first Manga series i actually got in to was Ayashi no Ceres by Yu Watase.

Sorry for the Double post, when Cartoon Network aired it, they renamed it G-Force... I actually liked their version better but that's just me :lol:
You ever go to Anime Expo? in 2000 they premiered ayashi no ceres with Yu Watase, that was really cool to (basically) watch it with the creator... even though she didn't speak english and was sitting far away from us :lol:

NEW QUESTION TO ADD! you ever go to a con?

ChibiKasai
04-20-2003, 06:47 PM
My first anime was Sailor Moon, way back when I was about 10.
My first non-kiddy anime was Fatal Fury. :D

First manga? Mermaid's Forest, followed closely by Inu-Yasha. That was when I was 13.


Mermaid's forest ROCKS! I still have most of those comics laying around in abox from when I moved...

WOW sailor moon at 10?? I think I was 12 when I first got in to sailor moon, but I might have been 13... I can't remember for sure now... I still have a nostalgic connection to that silly series! *looks at piles of fan subs

Well, I was 10 when they first started running it in syndication. Ahh...Those were the days- coming home from a hard day of 5th grade, and watching Sailor Moon and Mutant League. Wish my life was still like that sometimes. :D

Nickokapo
04-20-2003, 06:52 PM
First anime...damn...i cant remember the exact first anime i saw, but i think my first ones were bishoujo senshi sailor moon, saint seiya and dragonball z...That was probably around '95-96, when i was 8 or 9 years old...i've been a fan of it ever since.

GK Punk
04-20-2003, 06:52 PM
OH! I see what you are saying! I just love Anime geeking out every so often so I keep the conversation alive :lol:

I think when it was in syndication I was about 15 (before that I just saw fan subs.. and only like 20 episodes) I was in high school, but I had to wake up at like 5:30 AM every morning to see it, because FOX was to stupid to air it at a good time :lol:

That Matt Guy
04-20-2003, 07:23 PM
Mine was Speed Racer. And I've hated all anime ever since.

Nickokapo
04-20-2003, 07:26 PM
Hmmmm...i think i've seen that before db/sm/ss i think, but didnt considered it anime because it was all americanized...plus i hated the animation.

MzTheInsomniac
04-20-2003, 07:26 PM
^^ well said^^


EDIT: that was at matthews comment

kyabetsu
04-20-2003, 07:28 PM
my first anime was Vampire Hunter D... i caught it on the sci-fi channel LATE at night during a sleepover. we were just like... WOW!!!

but i didn' know it was a TYPE of movie... i just thought it was like "Wizards" or "The Point" ... this random cool animated thing.

so years passed before i saw anything else...
then it was AKIRA
and i died of joy. i'm still dead. i'm a pretty good typist for a dead woman, but i'm happy living this way.

so yeah... after that i checked out "Dominion Tank Police" but was neither impressed nor deterred. "Ghost in the Shell" renewed my spirits and i've been an anime junkie since then...

mind you... i can't always afford to fuel my habit.
but yeah.
Ranma 1/2 was my first manga... *sigh* i love Ryoga. He's a stupid, sappy, stubborn, directionless twit.... but he's SO SWEET... except when he's trying to beat Ranma to a pulp or posing as a pet pig just to get some Akane eye-candy... but he's SO CUTE AS P-CHAN!!!

and he's soooo lost...
*loves Ryoga even though there a 50 billion reasons why somebody oughta smack that character and explain some stuff to him....*


as for a con?
*sniffle*
I MISSED ONE THIS WEEKEND!!
health stuff got in the way and i couldn't go.
there was even a "Voice Actor" competition!
i wanted to try out! i had my audition piece and everything....

*weeps.*
it would have been my first anime con too...





*gets over it.*
there'll be others.
there always are.
*sigh*
*pines silently for another anime con.*

:wink:

Nickokapo
04-20-2003, 07:34 PM
Ohhh yah i forgot to answer those too!
Well my first manga...not including dojinshi i think it was either dragonball z or the legend of lemnear, i never got into manga that much.
And i've never been to a con.

Nyx
04-20-2003, 08:04 PM
I'd watched anime before, but it was an airing of Vampire Hunter D on Cartoon Network's Saturday Anime that they had all those years ago that got me hooked on the genre.

ChibiKasai
04-20-2003, 08:09 PM
Ranma 1/2 was my first manga... *sigh* i love Ryoga. He's a stupid, sappy, stubborn, directionless twit.... but he's SO SWEET... except when he's trying to beat Ranma to a pulp or posing as a pet pig just to get some Akane eye-candy... but he's SO CUTE AS P-CHAN!!!

Yay! Ryoga fans unite! I still have a little clay P-Chan that I made in 8th grade...he is cuteness defined. :D

::Puts Ryoga fanart on her to-draw list::

-Kishia

Raven
04-20-2003, 08:16 PM
lets see my first anime was eighter sailormoon or dragonball they were on at 6 to 7 am and I cant rember which was on first


but dbz was my first magna

GK Punk
04-20-2003, 08:36 PM
Ryouga's cool but It's all about Kuno :lol:
I've threatened cosplaying Kuno at cons before, just never have done it... yet :lol:

That sucks you missed the con Kya, those can be alot of fun, I've been to a few in my day and I am planing on going to Anime Expo again this year

Dontebell
04-20-2003, 10:27 PM
first anime i saw was voltron,then speed racer.

Barkworm
04-20-2003, 11:08 PM
The first Anime I saw was a show about a female bee and her friends called "Maja" and a show about a girl from Switzerland called "Heidi". Does anyone know Heidi and Maja? :lol:
http://www.kinder-internet2.de/Aktionen/buchvorstellung/images/biene_maja.gifMaja
http://www.emmet.de/portraits/heidi.gifHeidi

Reznorite420
04-20-2003, 11:23 PM
DOWN WITH TEH ANIME!!!!! :P :P :P

Nyx
04-20-2003, 11:27 PM
The first Anime I saw was a show about a female bee and her friends called "Maja" and a show about a girl from Switzerland called "Heidi". Does anyone know Heidi and Maja? :lol:

Ooo, I remember the English Maya the Bee dub that aired on Nickelodeon when I was younger. That one totally slipped my mind.

Tokka-B
04-20-2003, 11:28 PM
Pokemon, and that was it from day 1 on..... :roll: :lol:

Voltron
04-20-2003, 11:41 PM
Cartoon network used to be a pay channel, like HBO or what not. They could show anything they wanted, and one time back in 89 I think, they had a Animarathon. It was nothing but hardcore Akira, Sailor Moon, Vampire Hunter D, Robotech, etc. All uncensored. It was incredible, I was like 3. I peed my pants like, 4 times during the course of the marathon...

Leo656
04-21-2003, 12:12 AM
:lol: Did you bother to change them at all, or did you just wallow in it like a dog?

GK Punk
04-21-2003, 12:15 AM
Cartoon network used to be a pay channel, like HBO or what not. They could show anything they wanted, and one time back in 89 I think, they had a Animarathon. It was nothing but hardcore Akira, Sailor Moon, Vampire Hunter D, Robotech, etc. All uncensored. It was incredible, I was like 3. I peed my pants like, 4 times during the course of the marathon...

Well I know you are joking.. and incase you are just trying to confuse people, Sailor Moon wasn't even created yet...

Voltron
04-21-2003, 12:21 AM
I'm not joking! Dammit, has the line between reality and fantasy blurred that much? No, I know what I saw and perhaps SM wasnt on it but I distinctly remember that happening. The commercial was a guy saying "Like Japanese Animation? So do we....That's why Cartoon Network is bringing you x amount of time of Anime!" and it was glorious. I do believe Sailor Moon was around back then, but seeing as how you are an authority, I will not stand by that statement.

GK Punk
04-21-2003, 01:37 AM
And you wonder why no one responds to you

azure turtle
04-21-2003, 03:05 AM
Erm... Let's try to keep things pleasant, hmm? :)

My first anime? Okay. I'll admit it. The first anime I remember watching was Sailor Moon. After that, I got into DBZ. Since then, I've been branching out into other genres and shows. I'm currently following Trigun and .Hack on CN... But I only catch them whenever I can.

ChibiKasai
04-21-2003, 05:17 AM
I'm not joking! Dammit, has the line between reality and fantasy blurred that much? No, I know what I saw and perhaps SM wasnt on it but I distinctly remember that happening. The commercial was a guy saying "Like Japanese Animation? So do we....That's why Cartoon Network is bringing you x amount of time of Anime!" and it was glorious. I do believe Sailor Moon was around back then, but seeing as how you are an authority, I will not stand by that statement.

Ok, I'll believe you saw Vampire Hunter D on Cartoon Network...But it was probably on around 1995, *not* 1989. I don't think Cartoon Network even exsited in '89. Also, Sailor Moon wasn't even created until 1992, so you definately didn't see that.

As to Robotech...it was always shown uncensored. Now, you could call it a Censored version of *Macross*, but I don't think Robotech as a whole has ever been censored.

That Matt Guy
04-21-2003, 05:34 AM
You never saw any anime besides Speed Racer on Cartoon Network. I have had that channel forever, and it was all Hanna-Barbera and some other odd ball stuff from the 60s and 70s. They didn't start to show anime stuff until Toonami got started.

And I do remember that "x amount of anime" thing but it was like 1996/1997 when they did that, before Toonami

GK Punk
04-21-2003, 05:36 AM
Thanks Chibi and Matt, I was 12 when sailor moon was created I remember hearing about it in Animerica. Hell I have the manga that sailor moon was based on, copyright, 1991

Shellfox
04-21-2003, 11:54 AM
Pretty sure my first show was voltron, if your going to do a show do one of the best

Nickokapo
04-21-2003, 12:07 PM
Sailor moon was around back in 89, so was samurai pizza cats and TMNT 2003.

kyabetsu
04-21-2003, 12:37 PM
http://216.40.249.192/s/games/sailormoon/mars/mars_fsbird.gif

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!

uh... yeah i never followed Sailor Moon... i was in High School by the time it was playing on Afternoon TV where i Lived. And not that i didn't ADORE (still adore) cartoons in High School, but it got repetative. I loved watching for all of 5 episodes, but by then, i'd figured out what each of the characters powers were and who the ChibiMoon was and Why nobody but Serina was gonna have to end up with Tuxedo Mask.

So yeah, i think i found it when i was too old... though i STILL have MAD appreciation for the sweet transformation and attack sequences.

BOOM BOOM BOOM!!

Zenrick
04-21-2003, 12:50 PM
ahhhh definitely Akira many moons ago......it was back when the Sci Fi channel had Saturday Anime at 6am..........what amazing programming, I want it back!

CookSux
04-21-2003, 01:05 PM
GK you sure you have your facts straight about SM being made in 91? If I remember correctly, that was about the time it started being dubbed in America. SM was around in Japan years earlier... but then again I could be wrong. I'm not a devout SM fan as most people. But getting back to subject, my first anime probably had to have been Astroboy. I also remember renting Mazinger Z tapes, and TaeKwon V tapes from the korean grocery store back when I was a kid. I don't think it was until I saw an early broadcast of Sailor Moon on my satellite dish, that I started watching everything anime. Ranma 1/2 was also another show I got into really early in the game. But now, I don't really go out of my way to for the stuff anymore... just figure that it's pointless, since newer shows will never top the classics like Initial D. I'm not really a fan of Akira, Vampire Hunter D, or Ghost in the Shell, although they have huge followings. I'm all about fleshed out story lines and etc.

HorseTechie
04-21-2003, 01:44 PM
Hrmm... *wonders why she is even here* :wink:

I really can't recall what my first-first anime was (or should I say, Manga since I hadn't read many anime comics). Believe it or not, SM or DBz never really appealled. Neither did Pokemon. :dead:

The first kid anime show I did like the minute I saw it was Medabots. So chibi and stuff, but the way it was done was awesome. Sucks that it didn't so as well up against Digimon and TF:RiD. However, some TF fans say that the orginal G1 TF cartoon was a form of anime. If it was, then that was my first!

I also heard the RoboTech was good too, but dangit... deprived me hasn't seen it yet! :(

The first Manga produced movie I saw was Bio Hunter. But I fell asleep on it since hubby put it on soooo late. :oops: Then he rented Ghost in the Shell, and I loved that one. I wish we owned it now.

Sometime later we got Ninja Scroll, Blood, and Akira. I usually like this kind of Japnaese animation overall. So does hubby... unfortunatley it's hard to find reasonably priced Manga movies. We only buy the cheapest deals for now.

Voltron
04-21-2003, 02:01 PM
I can't believe I found someone who is willing to argue that I never saw a damn marathon before.......incredible.

Karpo_007
04-21-2003, 02:33 PM
First anime? The TMNT. No matter how you look at it, the first season was animated by japanese, and thus can be considered anime.

Kid Icarus
04-21-2003, 02:53 PM
NEW QUESTION TO ADD! you ever go to a con?

Does GenCon count? They had an anime room there.

Thats really cool though... you actually got to see Miss. Watase in person o.O

I'm a big fan of hers... Fushigi Yuugi r0x0rz.

Anarchistguy
04-21-2003, 03:03 PM
My first anime EVER would be The Guyver.

Vespera Blaze
04-21-2003, 05:25 PM
mmm... Anime

My first anime ever was Robotech, and I hate to argue with whomever mentioned that Robotech itself had never been censored, but there WERE two versions of the Americanized Macross running around


I saw it when I was about 10, and I can't remember which channel it was airing on, because that was about 1986... But many many moons later when Robotech was released by FHE onto vhs, they neutered the already watered down version.

Silly, huh?

I never did get into Manga, except for a handful of books that I can't read because a friend had them mailed to me directly from Japan, untranslated. There's still around here somewhere.

ChibiKasai
04-21-2003, 05:42 PM
mmm... Anime

My first anime ever was Robotech, and I hate to argue with whomever mentioned that Robotech itself had never been censored, but there WERE two versions of the Americanized Macross running around


I saw it when I was about 10, and I can't remember which channel it was airing on, because that was about 1986... But many many moons later when Robotech was released by FHE onto vhs, they neutered the already watered down version.

Ahh, well, I was just talking about what was aired on TV. However, I'll admit there's a strong possibility of me being wrong, since my information's second-hand.

Ironically, I've never seen Robotech or the 3 series it was made from (Macross, Southern Cross, and Genesis Climber Mospeada). Something tells me I'm missing some good anime.

-Kishia

J Legault
04-21-2003, 05:57 PM
Speed Racer was one of my uncle's favorite. I've seen several episodes.

GK Punk
04-21-2003, 10:11 PM
NEW QUESTION TO ADD! you ever go to a con?

Does GenCon count? They had an anime room there.

Thats really cool though... you actually got to see Miss. Watase in person o.O

I'm a big fan of hers... Fushigi Yuugi r0x0rz.

You want to know what made me jelous? My friend Victoria cosplayed as Alice 19th, THE WEEK after it came out was Anime Expo, so she created the costume just to wear it to show Yu Watase... Yu Watase asked her to stand up and took photos and thanked her for doing the costume, then signed autograph and drew a pic of tamahome for her... Lucky girl....

Casey Jones
04-22-2003, 07:27 AM
mine was either Voltron or Speed Racer. i can't remeber which, i was so young. i didn't think them different from any other cartoon though. i just knew that Speed was funny and Voltron was cool.
then when i was in junior high, one of the guys i gamed with was always wearing Akira t shirts, and he convinced me to go rent it. so i consider that my real anime induction.

SavantiRomero
04-22-2003, 10:27 AM
hmm.. First anime.

Voltron and Speedracer are definetly on my first list, even though, at the time I wasn't aware of what "Anime" was. Back 15-20 years ago.

When I really got into anime was about 7 years ago. I rented Genocyber 1-3 from a local Blockbuster. I was astounded. The graphical detail, the violence, the emotion, the storyline... I was entranced.

I went back and rented Devil Hunter Yoko and The Guyver 1-4. Again I was taken aback from such detail to art, such consistancy in storyline... soooo much more effort and heart put into this, much more than I'd seen from any US made cartoon.

From that time I just keep renting and buying Anime.

I was really caught up in anime series back in 2000 when I cuaght site of Dragon Ball Z. I began watching it religeously (oops bad word sorry) I searched online for eps and Future shows that weren't on cartoon network yet.

Since I've compiled a list of my all time favorites:

Vampire Hunter D
Hellsing
Dragon Ball Z
Fist of the North Star
Genocyber
Urotzukidojii
Berzerk
Hack.//sign
Apocolyps Zero
The Slayers
Record of Lodos Wars
>TRIGUN<----all time fav
Arms (not wild arms)
and many many more, those are just off the top of my head.

HorseTechie
04-22-2003, 11:19 AM
Speed Racer! Duhh.. how could I have forgotten that one. Sheesh, I'm getting old. :roll:

Loolaa
04-22-2003, 11:59 AM
I think the first anime I ever saw was 'Battle of the Planets', except it had those american bits added into it with the robot.
If that's not included then it was Akira.

Knuckles
04-22-2003, 01:44 PM
Used to be a big anime fan, but due to a few reasons I've gotten out of it mostly. Technically, the first anime I ever saw was Speed Racer when I was a kid, (still a fan of that, actually :D ) but I didn't really get into anime till I was in my teens. I really like the Street Fighter II anime a lot--a lot better than most would probably think, but it helps if you're a Street Fighter fan. :wink:

GK Punk
04-22-2003, 07:58 PM
hmm.. First anime.

Voltron and Speedracer are definetly on my first list, even though, at the time I wasn't aware of what "Anime" was. Back 15-20 years ago.

When I really got into anime was about 7 years ago. I rented Genocyber 1-3 from a local Blockbuster. I was astounded. The graphical detail, the violence, the emotion, the storyline... I was entranced.

I went back and rented Devil Hunter Yoko and The Guyver 1-4. Again I was taken aback from such detail to art, such consistancy in storyline... soooo much more effort and heart put into this, much more than I'd seen from any US made cartoon.

From that time I just keep renting and buying Anime.

I was really caught up in anime series back in 2000 when I cuaght site of Dragon Ball Z. I began watching it religeously (oops bad word sorry) I searched online for eps and Future shows that weren't on cartoon network yet.

Since I've compiled a list of my all time favorites:

Vampire Hunter D
Hellsing
Dragon Ball Z
Fist of the North Star
Genocyber
Urotzukidojii
Berzerk
Hack.//sign
Apocolyps Zero
The Slayers
Record of Lodos Wars
>TRIGUN<----all time fav
Arms (not wild arms)
and many many more, those are just off the top of my head.

heh you mentioned Urotsukidoji... how cool is that :)

persephohi
04-23-2003, 12:01 AM
Well, aside from some of the shows I'd watch on Nickelodeon when I was a kid (like Estiban and the Mysterious Cities of Gold, Maya the Bee, etc.) my first "real" anime was Slayers. Prior to that I actually had some pretty strong hatred of it, as the only stuff I'd ever seen was the stuff on TV like Sailor Moon and I am (I need to emphasize this) VERY picky about voice acting. I always have been. But anyway, I thought that all anime was all T&A, extreme violence and run-on sentences and I really had no use for it. But I got roped into a Sailor Moon RP thing with some friends (they were doing a Zodiac-based thing and needed a Cancer) so I started looking at pictures and doing a little research to try and come up with a character, and during this process I happened to spy a few subtitled Sailor Moon movies at Hollywood Video. Figuring I could sell them on Ebay if they sucked, I gave in to my curiosity and picked one up. It was surprisingly not too awful and the acting really impressed me.

Between my friend and I we picked up the other two and decided that, while not the greatest things we'd ever seen, they weren't nearly as bad as we'd anticipated. And that's pretty much all it was for a while until I found a few used Slayers tapes for sale at a local record store. Normally I wouldn't have given it a second glance but a friend of mine online had been raving about the series a few months earlier and she was the antithesis of the anime fangirl. In fact, Slayers was the only show she liked in the genre, but she totally adored it. Given that the tapes were subtitled and the Sailor Moon experience hadn't been that bad, we decided to give it a try. Less than a week later I was scouring the same record store for more tapes, my pride firmly underfoot and no longer in denial about my need for Slayers.

It was actually the only show I really liked to that degree for a long time. I saw some Fushigi Yuugi and thought the first half of the show was pretty good, saw some All-Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku and thought it was cute, saw Dragon Half and thought it was hysterical, but really nothing else my friends threw at me stuck like Slayers did. It's still one of my favorites, truth be told. Now I have some series that I do really like (Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne, Lain, Kare Kano, Evangelion, Kenshin (OVAs in particular), Fake, Gundam Wing, Excel Saga, Inu Yasha, Blue Seed, Kodocha, Hellsing, I could go on and on) but as much as I really like and even love these series, I never really got that same fervor as I did with Slayers. Well, there's always Utena, which borders on a religious experience for me (yes, it's creepy and weird and somewhat stupid, but there you go) but the show's so highly symbolic that I don't have many picture ideas and there's absolutley nothing left to say on it in terms of writing (at least that Alan Harnum hasn't already said and far better than I ever could), so I don't have much to show for said obsession. But it's really the comperable obession I've had as far as anime goes. Sorry for the length of the post, I can get kinda long-winded about transitions in my life. Heh. :P

--Bevin

SavantiRomero
04-23-2003, 03:15 AM
OMFG! How could I forget Evangelon and Cowboy Bebop!!!!?!!??!!?

I hope my forgetfullness hasn't eternally damned myself!

GK Punk
04-23-2003, 03:20 AM
OMFG! How could I forget Evangelon and Cowboy Bebop!!!!?!!??!!?

I hope my forgetfullness hasn't eternally damned myself!

lol those are good ones too

CookSux
04-23-2003, 09:32 AM
Hmm, here is my recommended list of anime that everyone has to watch... and this comes from after many years of experience.

1. Initial D
2. Love Hina
3. Cowboy Bebop
4. Vandread 2nd Stage
5. Hajime no Ippo
6. Prince of Tennis
7. Hikaru no Go
8. Shaman King

Everything else is either bad, or just decent. I chose most of the ones on the list based on how much it got me interested in the show. A lot of them had incredible plots, and made you feel for the characters. Basically just pumped me up, and also cracked me up.

ChibiKasai
04-23-2003, 01:30 PM
Hmm, here is my recommended list of anime that everyone has to watch... and this comes from after many years of experience.

1. Initial D
2. Love Hina
3. Cowboy Bebop
4. Vandread 2nd Stage
5. Hajime no Ippo
6. Prince of Tennis
7. Hikaru no Go
8. Shaman King

Evangelion doesn't make the cut? Blasphemy!

persephohi
04-23-2003, 03:14 PM
Love Hina? Really? I've seen the first couple of DVDs for it and yeah parts of it were funny and some of the characters are interetsing, but on the whole it didn't seem like anything I hadn't already seen in Tenchi Muyo or Dual. Did I just miss something?

--Bevin

GK Punk
04-23-2003, 06:18 PM
Hmm, here is my recommended list of anime that everyone has to watch... and this comes from after many years of experience.

1. Initial D
2. Love Hina
3. Cowboy Bebop
4. Vandread 2nd Stage
5. Hajime no Ippo
6. Prince of Tennis
7. Hikaru no Go
8. Shaman King

Everything else is either bad, or just decent. I chose most of the ones on the list based on how much it got me interested in the show. A lot of them had incredible plots, and made you feel for the characters. Basically just pumped me up, and also cracked me up.

I can't stand Initial D... is it just the Anime that is that bad or is the manga better? as for the rest, it's a good list definetely

Kid Icarus
04-23-2003, 06:19 PM
NEW QUESTION TO ADD! you ever go to a con?

Does GenCon count? They had an anime room there.

Thats really cool though... you actually got to see Miss. Watase in person o.O

I'm a big fan of hers... Fushigi Yuugi r0x0rz.

You want to know what made me jelous? My friend Victoria cosplayed as Alice 19th, THE WEEK after it came out was Anime Expo, so she created the costume just to wear it to show Yu Watase... Yu Watase asked her to stand up and took photos and thanked her for doing the costume, then signed autograph and drew a pic of tamahome for her... Lucky girl....

thats not fair :P . Its cool though. I've heard Watase is REALLY cool with her fans doing fan work like that (she also likes reading fan made manga).

GK Punk
04-23-2003, 06:21 PM
NEW QUESTION TO ADD! you ever go to a con?

Does GenCon count? They had an anime room there.

Thats really cool though... you actually got to see Miss. Watase in person o.O

I'm a big fan of hers... Fushigi Yuugi r0x0rz.

You want to know what made me jelous? My friend Victoria cosplayed as Alice 19th, THE WEEK after it came out was Anime Expo, so she created the costume just to wear it to show Yu Watase... Yu Watase asked her to stand up and took photos and thanked her for doing the costume, then signed autograph and drew a pic of tamahome for her... Lucky girl....

thats not fair :P . Its cool though. I've heard Watase is REALLY cool with her fans doing fan work like that (she also likes reading fan made manga).

Yeah she seemed cool, she was laughing with us and stuff while watching Ayashi No Ceres, she got embaressed during the crowd pop for her bishounen :lol:
I'll see if Victoria scanned that drawing of Tamahome and post it here if she had

Mars-Chan
04-25-2003, 10:36 AM
Ah, Anime. My old friend. I think the first series I ever saw was "Ronin Warriors". Ahhhh, memories. :anime:

lhb412
04-25-2003, 08:52 PM
Speed Racer, cool show, even cooler theme song