I don’t watch anime now but I remember watching neon genesis evangelion as a kid and loving it
Kind of a toss up. I saw Mobile Suit Gundam wings (I think that was it; it was on Toonami) Pokemon, Digimon, and Dragonball Z.
.hack//sign… unless you count avatar: last airbender, but that is more cartoon than anime
I watched something back in early 2000 called “Hajime no Ippo” first and last anime I ever saw. It was pretty good if I recall but lost interest in anime as I got older. Not even sure if that was anime or just a cartoon, maybe someone can explain the difference.
Let’s see… I woke up in the mornings to before-school Toonami… Soo…
Yu-Gi-Oh’s original starting series…
Beyblade
Gundam Wing/ G Gundam
Cubix
Metabots
Digimon
Pokemon
And at night,
Yu Yu Hakusho
Rurouni Kenshin
Trigun
Chobits
Stand Alone Complex
And I forget the rest…
The 90s Scy fi channel saturday anime. I believe it was IRIA or Demon City Shinjuku, maybe even Dominion Tank Police.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W76-yIbb6JQ
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Cartoons are typically more light-hearted these days, most don’t really hold any relevant, long-term plot more than a few episodes in a chain.
Anime are generally more plot-focused, artistically-enhanced, most use CGI at times these days, and generally contain more teen/ adult-level language (Not meaning anything specific like cuss-words, but that a teen/adult can easily follow the language and what is being said.)
Akira. Was quite the introduction.
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I still have the whole manga series for Chobits somewhere.
Still annoyed Fake and Petshop of Horrors didn’t get actual series. Just little ovas
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Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend - First Anime series I saw. Neighbor Friend had Foreign Exchange students, we got thrusted into the darkest parts of Anime rather fast and early in life.
In short, there is nothing subtle about it. it is three movies, very naughty movies. Solid plot though. Dub is trash and very beyond cringe. Sub less cringe and brutal.
Then we sought out, Wicked City, Neo Tokyo, Akira, Macross/Robotech, Patlabor,
The Slayers, etc as the years went by.
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O_O That’s um. That’s a heck of a starter for anime lol
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DBZ
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Vampire Hunter D is the one I saw that I knew was anime, maybe others before on Saturday morning cartoons, but can’t be sure.
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I would have to say Speed Racer. When I was a kid AFN was notorious for having relic cartoons on Saturday Mornings. Anybody else heard of Deputy Dawg?
Very much. It holds a special place in my heart as a level of shock and awe. Over the decades. I’ve learned to actually like it, if it was greatly (GREATLY) calmed down. It could take on the big five in plot alone in means of action, story and character development.
But yeah my 12year old mind at the time was… in the middle of utter fascinated and traumatized at once.
Plus Amano Jacku = Naruto first draft lol.
Yeah some violent anime is like watching a car crash. You’re just “yeah this is messed up but a lot of effort went into this so I can’t stop watching”
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Some of the anime I first ever started off was like Pokemon and Digimon. I already played video games, so animated violence wasn’t a problem for me personally–that was probably my “mold breaker”.
I can see how some people would be off-put by a punch with fifty-kilotons of explosive force behind it these days though, if that’s the first thing they see, lol.
Love hina !
Eh, maybe Dragonball? If we’re talking about movies, I think the first one was either Vampire Hunter D, or Galaxy Express 999.
Absolutely. But as well, it had opened up many other doors. cause if I recall after being, you know, thrown in the middle of the ocean, they did bring it back and the two F.E. Students did introduce us to Ramna 1/2, Lupin the 3rd and Project A-ko series which was a nice change in pace from… the Overfiend.