First anime? - Page 3

*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

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Originally Posted by Vespera Blaze

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

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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.

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

) 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.

**GK Punk** · 04-22-2003, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by SavantiRomero

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.

--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

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Originally Posted by SavantiRomero

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

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Originally Posted by CookSux

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

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Originally Posted by CookSux

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

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Originally Posted by grunger_kittie

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

. 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

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Originally Posted by grunger_kittie

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Originally Posted by Gwgtrunks

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Originally Posted by grunger_kittie

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

. 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

I'll see if Victoria scanned that drawing of Tamahome and post it here if she had

04-21-2003, 03:03 PM	#41
Anarchistguy Mad Scientist Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Canada (This country is too peaceful, Something's up...) Posts: 2,137	My first anime EVER would be The Guyver. __________________ M.D.K. Maim! Destroy! Kill!!! "When my time comes, I wanna be buried face down, so those who don't like me can kiss my ass!"

04-21-2003, 05:25 PM	#42
Vespera Blaze Mad Scientist Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada Posts: 2,073	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. __________________ Vespera Blaze

04-21-2003, 05:57 PM	#44
J Legault Mad Scientist Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: West Coast Posts: 2,054	Speed Racer was one of my uncle's favorite. I've seen several episodes. __________________ I am a fan of TMNT and I'm still one today. I got into the habbit back in 1992 or 93' when I was little. I would like to thank my 2 year older cousin for getting me in the habbit. 2001 was when I revised my knowledge on TMNT. And today I'm a bigger fan than I was years ago. I have all 3 TMNT Movies, current Toon, and old school Toon on DVD.

04-22-2003, 07:27 AM	#46
Casey Jones Thug Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 76	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. __________________ Close the world. txEn eht nepO. "Barf out! Adolescent irradiated Samurai Rats!" Night Shade on NES

04-22-2003, 11:59 AM	#49
Loolaa Mad Scientist Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: UK Posts: 1,018	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. __________________ ...art stuff..

04-22-2003, 10:27 AM	#47
SavantiRomero Hench Mutant Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 277	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.

04-22-2003, 11:19 AM	#48
HorseTechie Inactive Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Midwest Posts: 5,677	Speed Racer! Duhh.. how could I have forgotten that one. Sheesh, I'm getting old.

04-22-2003, 01:44 PM	#50
Knuckles Hench Mutant Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 260	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 ) 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.

04-23-2003, 12:01 AM	#52
persephohi Thug Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 73	Well this turned into a novel.... 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. --Bevin __________________ “Well we know what to get you for Christmas: a double lobotomy and ten rolls of rubber wallpaper." --Red Dwarf

04-23-2003, 03:15 AM	#53
SavantiRomero Hench Mutant Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 277	OMFG! How could I forget Evangelon and Cowboy Bebop!!!!?!!??!!? I hope my forgetfullness hasn't eternally damned myself!

04-23-2003, 09:32 AM	#55
CookSux Stone Warrior Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Sparta Posts: 928	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. __________________ http://http://cooksux.deviantart.com/ http://www.xanga.com/cooksux http://www.myspace.com/cooksux

04-23-2003, 03:14 PM	#57
persephohi Thug Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 73	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 __________________ “Well we know what to get you for Christmas: a double lobotomy and ten rolls of rubber wallpaper." --Red Dwarf