First anime?
 

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)

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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:

Mine was Speed Racer. And I've hated all anime ever since.

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.

^^ well said^^


EDIT: that was at matthews comment

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:

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.

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.

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

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

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

first anime i saw was voltron,then speed racer.

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/Aktio...biene_maja.gifMaja
http://www.emmet.de/portraits/heidi.gifHeidi

DOWN WITH TEH ANIME!!!!! :P :P :P

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

Pokemon, and that was it from day 1 on..... :roll: :lol:

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...

:lol: Did you bother to change them at all, or did you just wallow in it like a dog?

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

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.

And you wonder why no one responds to you

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.

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.

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

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

Pretty sure my first show was voltron, if your going to do a show do one of the best

Sailor moon was around back in 89, so was samurai pizza cats and TMNT 2003.

http://216.40.249.192/s/games/sailor...ars_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!!

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!

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.

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.

I can't believe I found someone who is willing to argue that I never saw a damn marathon before.......incredible.

First anime? The TMNT. No matter how you look at it, the first season was animated by japanese, and thus can be considered anime.

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.