When did you grow up? The 70s?
I am calling bullshenanigans on this one. The animation of cowboy bebop is leagues above the vast majority of cartoons in the west at the time.
Well, I never heard of that anime. Some are saying itâs not anime. I wouldnât know. I have no idea what it even looks like.
80s and 90s.
Theyâre wrong- plain and simple. Itâs as âanimeâ as you get.
That would make 2 of us.
Anime was definitely a thing as we were growing up.
Are you from the West Coast? It wasnât a thing at all in the East Coast. Itâd be ridiculed. I grew up never even knowing it existed.
Must be some weird purist thing then.
You may have ridiculed it. Thatâs not the same thing.
If you had access to Nickelodeon- you had access to anime. Anime started popping up on nick as early as the 80s, and especially into the 90s.
Disney started redistributing anime in this time frame as well due to a deal they had with studio ghibli.
In the early to mid 90s you started seeing anime pop up on the major air broadcast stations- Fox, Wb, etc- as Saturday morning cartoons- and by all means was easy to find âmain streamâ
Transformers. Dragon ball. Heck sailor moon was airing in the US in 95. By the late 90s every kid knew what anime was (ever hear of a little phenomenon known as Pokémon? That was 98. It was hardly the first form of anime we got in the us).
You may have been unaware of it, but anime was absolutely main stream in the us by the 90s, and that fire started burning in the 80s (little things before that but nothing huge Iâd argue).
We had Transformers in the 80s, but I was young when I watched that. Is that considered anime? I didnât hear about Pokemon in 98. Itâs too young for my age group. I was in High School. Nick must have put anime on after I got too old for it. All that stuff would be too young for me in 95. There was no talk of anime with my younger cousins. None of them were into any anime. It was not mainstream for us back then. Itâs probably mainstream in other parts like the West Coast. We were not into anime.
The history Iâve known is that 90s was the explosion period of when a bunch of stuff got popular. Obviously, with limited internet access unless you knew peple that followed it youâd be hard pressed to find it.
It would be the 2000s that really solidified its hold both with more access to things due to the internet and simply rising popularity. Anime/Manga I feel follows closely with the history of Nintendoâs rise in the household name.
Nintendo was already a gaming name from the 90s, but Wii would be its most popular explosion into the casual scene where even your grandmother would know about it. Even if not much detail, likely would know there was some east asian introduction.
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I didnât hear about it until the 2000s. I missed that wave.
I watched this on the previously mentioned networks in those decades in both Ohio and Florida. It wasnt that obscure even out east.
These discussions. Nothing the western hemisphere has produced in the last 10 years comes close to the beauty of made in abyss. Animated or otherwise
Youâre probably younger. None of this stuff was around and it was aimed at children.
Do any of these ring a bell? Fist of the North Star, Speed Racer, Saint Seiya, Mobile Suit Gundam, Akira, The Transformers, VoltronâŠ
The censors on this website will not allow me to adequately express my bewilderment to this utter yapping
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Because of fortnite.
Only Transformers in the 80s. Voltron rings a bell, but I didnât watch it. These shows were not called anime in that time.
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Grew up in the 80s and 90s champ. You were probably just unaware.
So were my peers. It wasnât a thing here.
Ah yes. Your personal impression of things there. Very representative of the nation as a whole.
have you heard of Asterix and Obelix?
It was niche until the 2000s. All of it was also aimed at very young children. It was after my formative years.