I knew someone who did the same, he told me during a train ride.
I looked at him, deadpan expression, leaned closer and whispered:
“Why would you do that to yourself?”
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That’s such an awesome series! I binge watched it immediately!
I love adult anime, I mean the kids stuff is fine but the shows written for a grown up audience have more bite and the jokes can be raunchy which I think is funny.
You just dipped your toes into an ocean of fun my friend, Sirius the Jaeger is also a great show with a Vampire theme on Netflix, though I’m sure your brother has you set straight.
/hugs
My very first anime was Sailor Moon. Can still remember the theme song and all of Tuxedo Masks crappy one liners he says while his girlfriend her friends are getting tossed around by the baddie of the episode. . But my favorite anime is Eureka Seven. Best anime ever made in my opinion. Great music, great story. The only coming of age love story i could actually get into. Plus it has mechas so that was a big plus for me. English dub or Japanese with subtitles, doesn’t matter both were done perfectly.
Yu Yu Hakusho
Have Hiei’s black dragon tattoo’d down my entire right arm.
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Hellsing from a senior in High School.
Edit: Actually now that I think about it need to amend this, Hellsing was the first content I was informed about that was “anime” vs cartoons.
As a kid I used to a watch a ton of that Robot lil dude show on Cartoon Network (can’t remember what it was called) which had DBZ and such.
First and still favorite.
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I need to finish up Crystals though, next season coming I think.
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I watched Dragon ball z and bobobo-bo Bo-bobo
I got into anime around the time of the Birdy the Mighty OVAs, but that wasn’t the first one I’d watched. Inuyasha, Dragon Ball/Z, Outlaw Star, Cowboy Bebop, Gundam Wing, Heavy Metal, Zodiac Knights, Trigun, Ronin Warriors, Tenchi Muyo, and Sailor Moon were among the many I was first exposed to when I was a kid. I saw some of the OG Gundam series, too, including Double X. I was technically exposed to it later, but Gunnm (Battle Angel Alita) is another mega favorite of mine.
There was a few others, though I don’t watch much anime nowadays. There’s a few I need to catch up on.
Robotech and Urusei Yatsura
Zodiac Knights.
for accuracy it would be astroboy i saw that in the 80s, the first one i recall getting into would have been DBZ.
Probably Robotech, but if the first anime I watched wasn’t Robotech then it was Nausicaä.
Nausicaä has, in my not so humble opinion, the absolute most beautiful music ever created by mankind.
Speed Racer.
Pickings could be kind of slim in the late 1970s, but we also had Battle of the Planets (Gatchaman) and Starblazers.
Hard to say, since everything made in Japan is considered anime. It has to be some random kid show I watched as a preschooler.
Honestly? Sailor Moon, but I was really small at that time. Inuyasha would be the first one I saw after actually knowing it was called anime.
Yeah, my earliest would have to be between Speed Racer, G-Force: Battle of the Planets, Voltron, or Shogun Warriors.
While I was in Okinawa in '91, we rented a lot of Anime, which included Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Doomed Megalopolis, Battle Angel Alita, etc. This was around the same time that MTV started showing Ninja Scroll on Liquid Television. That led into Neon Genesis Evangelion, RahXephon, Devil Hunter Yohko, Cutey Honey, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun…
Sit boy! I always felt so bad for inuyasha
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I love sailor mars in her scout uniform.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093871/
Seen it back in the 90s when I was a teen. Couldn’t sleep one night and I found it randomly while channel surfing.
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The answer to that question depends on if it’s technical first (seeing it without any knowledge that it was anime) or first in a series (knew it was anime and pursued more shows after).
My technical first was back when I was a kid, and was probably a random episode of Sailor Moon that happened to be on TV when I was at another kid’s house back in the early-mid 90s. I had no idea that it was anime, but because it was so strikingly different looking than all the cartoons I was used to, it created a memory that’s stuck with me all these years, even though I only saw 5-10m of that episode at most.
My “real” first was when I woke up in the middle of the night after falling asleep on the living room couch and chancing upon a random Cowboy Bebop rerun on Adult Swim after one of my younger siblings had left the TV on and tuned to Cartoon Network.
The latter was in the early 2000s, right in the midst of one of the first big anime booms in the US, and by chance happened shortly after I got a cable box and hand-me-down TV for my bedroom. That episode of Bebop hooked me and I spent many late nights the following years watching almost any anime Adult Swim picked up. At some point I got tired of staying up late and even earned some dough on my own to buy a TiVo (remember those?) so I could watch late night anime whenever I wanted, as well as catch the occasional anime that’d show up randomly on other channels.