What was the "VERY FIRST" anime you watched?

[Sylph_Guide]

Well, i dont know if this thread was given out before but if not I'd like to start it...basically, the question is: What was the "VERY FIRST" anime you've ever watched in your life?? Is that show what made you a fan of anime if not then which?? Did you even know if that show was anime back then??

My answers:
The very first anime i've ever watched was the very very old transformers when I was 4 years old...i didn't even know it was anime back then truthfully...i just thought it was another cartoon show that looked like lots of fun. Since I didn't know it was anime back then, that show isn't what made me a fan. The show that made me a fan was SailorMoon back when it was on the WB 11 here in NY...

[DarkKanti]

Hmmmmm... I'm not exactly sure. But, the show that made me a fan of anime was Mobile Suit Gundam, 8 years ago.

[isolatedotaku]

The Very First anime I believe I ever saw was Samurai Pizza Cats. Yes, Samurai Pizza Cats, if any of you even know what that was. I feel old...but I am just a kid so I bet alot of the really old fan's remember it well. Then came SailorMoon, the first one to air on Toonami was cool, and a great intro into anime for any fan, although it seemed to be more directed at girls. Then came Tenchi Muyo, and Gundam Wing....I think I am going to go remenince...thanks for digging up old memories

[heffer]

It could be anyone of these three (was so long ago i'm not exactly sure which I saw first)
transformers, sailor moon, and thunder cats (if that an anime)

[isolatedotaku]

I don't believe Thunder Cats was an anime...I think it was ment to resemble one...Like now aday's Teen Titans

[Sylph_Guide]

Actually...Thundercats is an anime...A very old school anime from the time of Speed Racer. I've seen a few subtitled versions of Thundercats because a few certain eps weren't released in the US ^_^x GO ELIZABETH CENTER CHINATOWN FOR SELLING SUBBED ANIME EARLY!!!! MUAHAHAHA

[isolatedotaku]

O.o Wow, I loved Thunder Cats...but shhh...thats a secret. I read in Anime Insider, that alot of the anime's shown on Toonami were seriously edited, also those of WB like Card Capture Sakura was cut down in its romance areas.

[Sylph_Guide]

yeah they were sadly...anime shows that are put on TV are very much so editited...Digimon in Japan is actually rated 15+....there's lots of stuff they dont show such as the cursing and semi-blood...Sailor Moon also...they Uranus and Neptune went from lovers to cousins...and as for Card Captor Sakura...many episodes weren't shown in the US....a great deal many.....those meanies....-_-...anyways...lmao...back to the topic ^_^x

[Matao]

The first anime I watched I think was the same as isolatedotaku ,Super Samurai Pizza Cats. I was like 5 years old and didn't even know it was Japanese. Then I watched pokemon and then I saw Tenchi Muyo! on Toonami and ever since then I've been a huge anime fan.

[isolatedotaku]

Cool! I forgot about Pokemon...man those where the days...Those were the days....Powerranges accualy didnt have a plot...Pokemon was watchable...Cats served pizza....

[MadTrumpet]

Well according to the last time this thread was done, mine was Ronin Warriors.

[Tremolo]

Wow, here we go again.

Not knowing it was anime when I was a kid:
Robin Hood no Daiboken (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1745)
Moomin (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=2006)

Fully aware it was anime:
Akira. First proper series, Neon Genesis Evangelion.

[Major Tom]

Wow, here we go again.

Yes, my thoughts too. However, in the interests of my post count:

The 'I didn't know it was anime' one, (doesn't change the fact it was anime)
Astroboy. In 1984. Red boots rock.

First time labelled as anime
Patlabour: Mobile Police the Movie. Sometime around '94.

[shadowflamedx]

Let see I have the un remebered days of robotech to speed racer and its theme song to the uber kawaii sailor moon.

[TypicalIdiotFan]

Thundercats was chiefly animated by Japanese artists, but it is no more anime then King of the Hill. Sorry kids.

You can actually make a stronger arguement about Transformers, except that the first few seasons were chiefly made with the idea that it was going to be a primarily American audience show. What ended up happening was a lot different, of course, especially nowadays.

But, of course, saying shit like that will only start ye merry olde "what makes an anime an anime" debates, which I personally dont give a flying fist **** to go into again. So just take my word for it and let's leave it at that.

[PassiveObserver]

I think I think back to the old old days I would say it must have been a show called the "Little Bits" I couldn't have been more than 5 so I can't remember much about it.

[Two-twenty]

Yeah, I'm in the Samurai Pizza Cats boat as well. Even though there where jokes in the English translation about it being a Japanese show, it proabably didn't click, but I was six at the time, so I think I can be forgiven.

*twotwenty's post count is explicably bumped up

[Veraca]

Reboot and the OLD Transformers when it was computer graphics and they were on third earth. still wish i could see them again ^^

[TypicalIdiotFan]

Reboot and the OLD Transformers when it was computer graphics and they were on third earth. still wish i could see them again ^^

OLD Transformers when it was on third Earth?... Good god, that wasn't that long ago. The OLD Tansformers is the 80s cartoon man. Don't make me feel older then I already am.

[Angry John]

I used to look forward to watching Speed Racer after school in the second grade.

After that there was a dry spell until they stared showing StarBlazers (aka Space Cruiser Yamato) and Battle of the Planets in like '79/'80 or so.

I never liked Battle of the Planets very much (the parody in Nurse Witch Komugi really cracked me up, though), but cable was like nine channels back then, so you took what you could get....

[Dennis]

I think it was something to the tune of Speed Racer reruns, I am truly not sure though.

[gdavall2003]

Wow, here we go again.

Not knowing it was anime when I was a kid:
Robin Hood no Daiboken (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1745)
Moomin (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=2006)

Fully aware it was anime:
Akira. First proper series, Neon Genesis Evangelion.

There was an anime on Robin Hood? Now there's a surprise. I think my first anime was Samurai Pizza Cats. Though I can't remember much of it.

[Perrin]

I can't quite remember but I think the first anime I ever watched as a kid was Transformers. But the first anime I watched where I knew I was watching anime was either Record of Lodoss War, or Evangelion.

[Hikaruotaku]

My first Anime was Sailor moon. I was 5, and I would wake up to watched it early in the morning.

[Risen Hell Fire]

my first animes are samurai pizza cats and VOLTRON!!!

[Tremolo]

There was an anime on Robin Hood? Now there's a surprise. I think my first anime was Samurai Pizza Cats. Though I can't remember much of it.

There was, and it was great. Called The Boyhood Adventures of Robin Hood in the UK if I recall. Played around with the story a lot but it was perfect for action-crazed 8 year olds. I have very fond memories of it.

[darylcrowe]

It was probably Transformers.

[Moe]

all i can say is this is a SUPER REPEATED THREAD BY N00BS WHO JUST WANT POST COUNT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...... the end

[Veraca]

all i can say is this is a SUPER REPEATED THREAD BY N00BS WHO JUST WANT POST COUNT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...... the end

i noticed that too... but the older one died in december and was like 5 pages long wasnt it?

now that i think about it. it could have been Voltron or another one on Cartoon Network before Sailor Moon aired.... (DBZ aired after sailor moon on aug 28- i have the commercial recorded to prove it!!! XD)

[philnicau]

it would have been one of Astroboy, Prince Planet, Gigantor, or Kimba, way back in 1964/5 of course i didn't know they where anime then, the first show where i was aware of it Japanese Origins would have been Star Blazers in 1983.

[Elric]

Hmmmm im not so sure, but I really think the very first anime I watched was Demon City Shiguru when my bro recorded it on the sci-fi channel when aired 5 different animes. It's such a blur.

Either that or DBZ when I heard things about it and saw it one early morning when it aired on Sunday mornings in the WB.

[PoX]

Well, i dont know if this thread was given out before but if not I'd like to start it...basically, the question is: What was the "VERY FIRST" anime you've ever watched in your life?? Is that show what made you a fan of anime if not then which?? Did you even know if that show was anime back then??

My answers:
The very first anime i've ever watched was the very very old transformers when I was 4 years old...i didn't even know it was anime back then truthfully...i just thought it was another cartoon show that looked like lots of fun. Since I didn't know it was anime back then, that show isn't what made me a fan. The show that made me a fan was SailorMoon back when it was on the WB 11 here in NY...

I didn’t even know what anime was back in the day. But I think the very first anime that I saw was either Thunder Cats or Sailor Moon.

[serinitie]

probley the 1st anime i watched is yu-gioh:) mostly only 1 i watch

[genki sakura]

all i can say is this is a SUPER REPEATED THREAD BY N00BS WHO JUST WANT POST COUNT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...... the end
all I can say is YOU WERE ONCE A N00B TOO SO SHUT IT!

back on topic: Sailor Moon

[Hedai]

The very first anime i watched was Valtron!! I was like 5 it was great. Then second one was Sailor Moon and that was the one that really got me into anime. That and Dragon Ball Z.

[Mamimi]

My first...? Probably Sailor Moon a while back... It was before I knew it was anime though...

[Otaku B.C.]

The first series I watched was Irresponsible Captain Tylor about two years ago, which was also the anime that got me interested in anime for a while but then I started school at a new college and my interest waned for a few months. Evangelion then got me back into it.

Well, there you go, my first post in over a month (my Internet access at home is limited b/c it's dial-up). Yay! :thewave:

[LazyBear]

The first anime I can remember watching was DBZ.

[gdavall2003]

There was, and it was great. Called The Boyhood Adventures of Robin Hood in the UK if I recall. Played around with the story a lot but it was perfect for action-crazed 8 year olds. I have very fond memories of it.

It was shown in the U.K? When was this?

[Tremolo]

It was shown in the U.K? When was this?

I have no idea - I presume it was, but I watched it on video. Not all 50 episodes obviously, but a good amount. And it kicked serious arse, even the Token Anime Mascot (a flying squirrel of all things) was cool. I'd love to see it again some time.

[loplop]

Space Battleship Yamoto / Star Blazers was the first Anime that I ever saw. But Macross Plus is what turned me into a fan several years later.

[otaku]

sailor moon when i was maybe 6. but my brother and i would watch the old tunami (the one with good shows) we would watch speed racer and G Gundam from time to time.

[Saya-biki]

I think it was either Soccer Hunters or Akira when I was 5 (or was I six, it could've been at the beginning of my sixth year...).
My Brother, Sister, and a couple of their friends watched them. I watched some of them too(obviosly).
Also, Akira scared the sh*t out of me

[sohryu]

That would have to be Cowboy Bebop. I kind of had to see it because my boyfriend made me. As if that weren't bad enough, we saw it in 'marathon mode'. That's what I call it when we watch an entire anime series in one sitting, which we do often. I think that might be why I don't really like Cowboy Bebop. The first anime I saw that I actually liked was Vampire Hunter D. I think that's because I have a thing for vampire animes.

[Griveton]

Mazinger Z (Tranzor Z) without a shade of doubt. The first memories that I still recall contain one of a cousin and me desperately trying to adjust the antenna of the TV because that day's episode was about to air, and we didn't get anything but fog instead of our colorful mecha and boob-missile goodness on Channel 3.

[Blue Audio]

Ah. I know it might be odd, but the first anime I ever saw was Evangelion... When I was eight.

[Dirty Harry]

"Please Save My Earth"/"Bubble Gum Crisis" when I was 10, they were shown back to back on some bankrupt local station constantly holding telethons....

[Blue Audio]

Whoa. I thought that stuff was recent... I guess not...

[off-topic, I know, but... Dirty Harry = so cool...]

[Dirty Harry]

Yeah, I used to Night-Owl and stare at the TV for hours..... they played Key The Metal Idol or something too, I just flipped when that came on and.... watched the Monkees... or Happy Days.... but yeah, I had no idea how old the stuff was either, all I remember other than the shows is the guy begging for money during comercial breaks.... I wanted to give him money.... but I was 10....

[Blue Audio]

Ten year olds never have money...
I used to watch all these weird shows at night since my mom didn't let me watch tv... Seriously weird shows...

[Dirty Harry]

Eh.... put it this way... before Please Save My Earth, I had no idea what a homosexual was..... I came a smarter person, and I guess because of the way I was introduced to the idea, I have held no prejudice against homosexuals to this day... just goes to show how vulnerable your perspective of life is at just 10 years old... an Anime literally changed my life, made me a better person..... and I got to see naked women on Bubblegum Crisis and Key The Metal Idol, so it all balanced out.... sorta...

[Blue Audio]

Well, I'll bet that made you happy. ^^
I'm not sure if my life has ever been changed by an anime... But then again, my life has been kind of ... ... ... Short.

[REB11]

ok the first anime i watched was either pokemon or digimon but the first anime i watched i liked was sailor moon

[Alex]

Gatchaman.

One post closer to teh perdy, twinkling, little stars! Yes! :thumbup:

[TenshiIchiban]

The first anime I ever saw was either Macross or Robotech, and the only thing I remember about the first time I saw it was that they had point source shields. I spent years trying to track this series down once I got interested in anime and I am still not sure which one I saw (probably Robotech since it was on TV).

The series that got me hooked was NGE, although I had actually bought my first series, Record of the Lodoss Wars, a year earlier, and both are still high on my favorites list.

[YaoiBoy]

First Anime I ever saw was Sailor Moon when I was like 3..and then...Gundam X was the first I saw that I knew was anime..it's awesome *drool*

[Seraph]

Battle of the Planets. Total old school.

[Ninja Realist]

Akira when I was 6.

[Kitsune]

I think Voltron or Transformers. I didn't get hooked on anime for a long time afterwards though, when a friend introduced me to Rurouni Kenshin. I still consider the original Kenshin OVA's to be some of the best, if not the best anime I have seen yet.
But I am still pretty new to anime, and have been watching more of the mainstream stuff I think, and sometimes have no clue about some other series that are mentioned. Boogiepop whazzit? I'm sure I'll ask for some recommendations later. :hapbounce

[sakura_blossom]

First one I saw was either pokemon or sailor moon I'm not quite sure I was just flipping through the channels one morning early before school started and came across these two shows. Don't know exactly when either but I know they're the top 2 I first saw.

And isn't there about 3 other threads on this subject already? What happened to them?

[Elsdae]

Speed Racer when I was about 6 in the very early '80's. I didn't know what anime was back then, but I did recognize it as different, and I wanted to watch more like it.

In college I watched some, but nothing so memorable that I recall any titles.

The first anime I sought out as anime was Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen. It is still among my favorite.

[Tsukushi]

I can't really remember. Either Candy Candy or Astro Boy or The Mysterious cities of Gold or The Lost Archives of Arkadia or probably something else....

[ShinobiMasterX]

It was Speed Racer back then I thought it was just a cartoon show and had no idea of the fact that it was a pretty good anime back then. I saw it when I was 5 years old.

[animefreek_CM]

it was transformers
or speed racer
or DBZ

[anime24]

The very first one I watched was pokemon, I loved it, it's still good. But I watch alot more other animes

[Mangai]

Pokemon
But hey, i was 5

[Readordie]

DBZ, but I was five.

[Mad Man Theo]

My first anime was Ronin Warriors, which I absolutely loved but never really considered 'anime' since I had no concept of what that was.

My first real anime and the anime that started me down the path to otakuhood was Iria: Zeiram the Animation.

[Junko]

hehe, I love this story.

I was 4 years old and watching The Midnight Run. And Sailor Moon came on. Back then I had no idea what anime was or even what the word cartoon meant.

For details it was Sailor Moon, English Episode 6, The one where they introduce Ami.

[ropaa_agent]

Let's see....chronologically the first anime I ever saw was G-Force/Battle of the Planets back in the '70s, but I never knew it was anime until the late 1990's. but then there was "Warriors of the Wind" on HBO in the early '80's -that was my introduction to anime as a serious art form (I kept wondering why the aft shots of Nausicaa flying in the beginning kept showing flowing skirts with nothing underneath, and why she didn't freeze to death in the process), because the material was treated so seriously as compared to say, Popeye or Bugs Bunny. (or even Turbo-Teen). I remember thinking "this is a cartoon?" and being shocked at how violent it was (for the 1980's and a sheltered West Virginia boy) -then again, I think back then HBO had given it an "R" rating.

Now, my first conscious exploration of anime was during the heady days of college with Project A-Ko, Gall-Force, original Appleseed, and whatever other obscure stuff was stocked at Blockbuster and Hollywood Video in those days. And the rest, as they say, is history.
:greensplo

edit: oh yeah, how could I forget Transformers (and GI Joe), and the simply absfab Saber Rider and the Star Sherriffs. And of course Mighty Orbots! ah the joys of after-school cartoons in the golden 80's! And I must never forget the other foreign delights: Danger Mouse, Count Ducula, Mysterious Cities of Gold (Spanish), and Sparatcus and the Sun Beneath the Sea (French, I think) Thank you classic Nikelodeon!

[sakurazukamori]

My first anime was Sailor Moon, but that was a loooong time ago. The show that got me started on anime was Chobits, about 3 years ago.

[chibigaltaylor]

sorry.don't remember. either sailor moon or dragonball.

[LadySage]

Unico, Unico, Unico. I rented it about a gajillion times from the local video rental. I've been trying to find a copy that's not insanely expensive.

[NES]

Mostly likely it would be Robotech but I do have early childhood memories of Astroboy.

[ShinoMatrix]

TecnoMan

[Justin Banks]

Hmph, Dragon Ball Z. Not on CN either, remember when it came on 630 am on Saturdays. Yeah, you dont know what true crap is till you've seen that.

[Erebelion]

Technically, it was Transformers, but I was 3 at the time and I didn't think of it as Anime. Then when I was about 7 or 8 there was Samurai Pizza Cats, but again I didn't think of it as anime. Of course there was the whole Pokemon craze(must have been smoking something at the time).

But, the first anime I got hooked on for anime was Inuyasha a few years ago.

[M.Baka]

it was a combo of Sailor Moon, DBZ, and Pokemon. That pretty much defined all the animes i liked from then on. Sorta

[aoi_n_asul]

akazukin chacha with ranma 1/2, dragon ball z and yuyu hakusho. and no i didn't know that they were called anime at that time...

[zeroj]

Dragon ball Z, i used to watch it every sunday :_lol:

[dark fuma]

Heres a hint; Go speed Racer, go Speed Racer go!

I was about 4 or 5 when I saw it.

[Kagura]

Samurai Pizza Cats/Sailor Moon

[JaQuais J.]

I'm not 100% sure, but I think it was DBZ.

[Kagura]

The show that made me a fan was SailorMoon back when it was on the WB 11 here in NY...

Ooo... Sailor Moon was on UPN 13 in Cali...

[Lews Therin]

Astro Boy, although at 5 I didn't know it was anime. I just thought it was a sweet cartoon. In retrospect I guess I've never grown up as I still think it is a fantastic cartoon.

[The Macaque]

Early eighties, Tao Tao. Transformers came right afterwards.

[PirateKing]

VOLTRON!!! and Transformers, thanks to Saturday mornings!

I also remember seeing Akira and Robotech/Macross at a ripe young age...

[Zirilan]

For me it was most likely Dragon Ball or Speed Racer. I'm not exactly sure though, it was a while ago.

[Junichi]

First anime i ever watched was Astroboy was in 1992, i think i still lived in China

But Love Hina made me love anime
And Vision of Escaflowne made me dependant on anime

[Admiral Ackbar]

The very first "anime" that I ever saw was Robotech when I was quite young.

[Kaikyaku]

Technically Sailor Moon in 1993, but I only saw a few episodes.... (long story)

So really it was Ranma 1/2

[tsiki]

Balatac (I think that was it's name), a movie about a giant robot... fighting giant robots. When I was in elementary school ages ago, I saw that movie at least 20 times. After that, I has a looong break from anime, until a friend showed me The Vision of Escaflowne, and after that, I was hooked.

[avoidingthepo]

lodoss for me. i still have the vhs of it. maybe ill watch it again today

[Sagoshi]

;_; The first one I recal vivadly was Sailor Moon. The First one I recall not-very-well was ranma 1/2 (;_; I don't remember so well, because I heard the music.. and I had a piccy of a short-haired girl flying away in a flying ship and then I find out it was from ranma 1/2 the movie). The first one my parents said I watched, but I don't recall is Kiki's Delivery Servie ;_;

[coolbird2004]

The very first anime i saw was Robotech Macross Saga.

[soundchazer]

There was an anime on Robin Hood? Now there's a surprise.

There have been anime versions of many popular stories and books, including:

Peter Pan
huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
Little Women
Perrine
Hans Christian Andersen fairytales
Grimm Brothers fairytales
The Bible
Don Quixote
Swiss Family Robinson
Treasure Island
Anne of Green Gables
Marco (a side story in Cuore)
Cuore (a.k.a. School of Love: Heart's Story)
Daddy Long legs
Lassie
Pollyanna
Heidi
Little Lord Fauntleroy

Just to name some.

As for me, Mako, Gatchaman, Triton of the Sea and Princess Knight (there is a channel in Mexico that airs animation from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. daily and has done so since the late 60's/early 70's, and those 4 were among other giants like Ultraman and the Live version of Comet-san). The first ones to really catch my attention though would be Mahou Shoujo Sally, Ie Naki Ko (Remi), Candy Candy and Heidi which started airing about 2 years afterwards.

[porkyliquid]

My first anime i have ever watched was "Yu yu hakisho"

[HuggyBear]

Oh I'll never forget where I was when I saw my first anime- Project A-ko *sigh* The mecha designs, the slapstick humor and the music were all so I don't know what else to call it but if I hadn't seen Project A-ko I don't think I would've been as hooked on anime as I am today ^_^ That one also started my obsession with red heads ^^

[Soleta]

My earliest memory of any cartoon, would be watching Osamu Tezuka's Unico. Other than that maybe the Blinkins, which is from South Africa.. lol

[Lews Therin]

Astro Boy I used to watch it every morning before I went to school

[Dirty Harry]

Please Save My Earth, good stuff.... or at least I liked it... too young to notice the plot-holes though, I need to pick the series up, it's only like 30 bucks....

[AqueousMessage]

NG: Evangelion. Really pushed me through the door of the anime world.

[soundchazer]

Please Save My Earth, good stuff.... or at least I liked it... too young to notice the plot-holes though, I need to pick the series up, it's only like 30 bucks....

I still find it to be one of the most intriguing plots in Anime. Just like with Ah My Goddess! this one deserves a full TV series.

[amosmoss]

Maybe mine was Robotech. I think they showed it here in 1986 or 1987 (they had to port it here first) when I was 5 or 6 years old. I liked the concept for the Hovertanks at that time. I even got some bamboo rods and pretended I was a 'tank with its weapon systems. Nowadays, I think the cyclones are cooler.

[oompa loompa]

Definetly the origional robotech with its fuzzy animation it was the first and only one I watched until pokemon came out ........ then I thought Japan was the spawn of the devil and waited for my savior to arrive...... it came in the form of the movie Blood: The last vampire

[Lupin the 3rd]

i would have to say Speed Racer and samurai Pizza cats but what really got me into anime was Tenchi muyo! ^^

[DrummerForHire]

i would have to say Speed Racer and samurai Pizza cats but what really got me into anime was Tenchi muyo! ^^

Yeah, tenchi definately solidified my craving for anime. The first anime I saw was Iria, I'm pretty sure...if it wasn't it was one of the first titles I witnessed. Now Iria holds a special place in my heart. Hooray :tup:

[ash_chan]

My Very First was Astro Boy or Speed Racer and Samurai Pizza cats..I likes the Pizza Cats one...but not Astro Boy and Speed Racer......it used to come on in the morning when I was like 2...and my step dad loved it..so he made me watch it..it's the only anime he'll watch..but I'm trying to get him to like Hellsing..<.<..>.>...But it wasn't until I saw Sailor Moon and Cowboy Bebop that I fell head over heels in love with anime... :Bump:

[VeritechX]

As you can probably tell.... Robotech was what got me into the whole Anime thing. It's still one of my favorites...

[AnimeBuddha]

DragonBall Z :D

[Akimichi Choji]

Mostly likely it would be Robotech but I do have early childhood memories of Astroboy.

So do I but I would have to say DBZ

[umi_amano]

The very first anime i watched is the dragonball series and volte v. >_<

[amosmoss]

The very first anime i watched is the dragonball series and volte v. >_<

Did you watch Daimos? Its story is very similar to Voltes V in many ways: aliens invading, aliens look human but have distinguishing feature, bad guys try using robot with invincible armor, bad guys try to use a method to keep the good guys from transforming into robot state, the bad guys are betrayed by their superiors and they try to make up for their misdeeds in the end, etc.

If you did watch it, which do you think is better?

[umi_amano]

Yeah!I watched daimos! Also Mazinger Z!I dunno which one's better but both of them has is own uniqueness in several ways..^_^

[tenchimasaki]

The very first anime that I had ever seen must have been Akira. I remember being amazed of the art work done in the movie. However, the first show that got me into taking a different perspective in watching cartoons was actually DBZ. I was obsessed with that show back in the day when it was on Toonamie at midnight on the cartoon network. However, I must say the one show that got me interested in Japanese anime as a whole was Tenchi Muyo. It was unlike any other cartoon that I had ever seen. There was comedy, romance, drama, and just the overall human condition thrown into a cartoon. These types of shows then evolved into my understanding of anime. I became hooked.

[Mermel]

Dunno if it counts as anime, but the style is similar. Thundercats! HO!

The first REAL anime I saw was My Neighbor Totoro when it was first released on VHS in the US. Then, many years later, my friend and I watched all of DBZ together for the first time, but the first anime I saw when I was mature enough to understand most anime was Evangelion. It was the first anime I ever bought. I first noticed it when I was looking for a music video for "Knocking on Heaven's Door" by Guns N' Roses and accidentally downloaded an AMV. It started me on my quest and I now own 434 anime DVDs.

[Cherika]

thundercats here and also speed racer. lol i feel old.

[JOJO]

I think all of us saw the Transformers back in the day and didnt know it was anime.
The first anime I watched (that I knew was anime) was Slayers the Motion Picture, and what got me hooked was the ending song, I couldnt get enought of it!

[dainichi]

Cardcaptors. Good lord. :yuck:

The first thing I knew to be anime was X the movie, and the first anime that actually had me hooked was Escaflowne.

[Neon]

Dragon Ball Z and Gundam Wing.....Deathscythe rocks!!!!!

That is why I choose this avatar

[Hoshiko]

the first anime I watched had been Sailor Moon. I loved that show so much when I was younger I still kind of do but after getting to see other anime my interest in it is dying down.

[M.Baka]

DBZ....SailorMoon....Pokemon.....Gundam Wing......Cowboy Bebop. All the series, DB, DBZ, SM, SMS, SMR, Etc. i watch too much anime...... :bunny:

[Yuhara]

Hate to say it, but DBZ started everything for me.

[markcdev]

My first anime??? The first Tenchi Muyo OVA. I've been hooked ever since!!

[Rei_Kashino]

Lets see the first anime i eber watched was this old on probably released in the 1970's called Galaxy Express 999 it was a good anime and it sorta made me cry i was 10 or 11 when i saw that anime

[aogin]

Uhm I was a small kid when I first watched Daimos, Mazinger Z, Voltes V (the movie?) and Gforce(is it considered an anime?). But the very first anime I understood and appreciated was Ninja Scroll when I was in grade school.

[Hikari Yume]

When I was three I saw Dragonball Z. Then it was Yu Yu Hakusho and I've been hopelessly obsessed ever since! :hapbounce

[Itachi Uchiha]

Lodoss Wars the original OVA on VHS. I may have watched Sailor Moon or Transformers on TV before that though.

[nirvana beyond stupidity]

Speed Racer when I was little..
DBZ and pokemon but they dont count..
sooo....
Spirited Away was the first Anime I saw, but it was The Cat Returns that got me interested in anime....

[aogin]

Lodoss Wars the original OVA on VHS. I may have watched Sailor Moon or Transformers on TV before that though.

Transformers was not an anime..............I thought Transformers Armada was anime but it turns out to be unintereseting, repetative, boring. Just like with the other western cartoons I have seen. Transformers the Movie was a little bit okay.

Speaking of which, why is that there is a major difference between western animations with anime?(including all disney animation movies produced)
....... For ya'll fellas out there which is better?

And when they do copy anime like art or genre, it turns out awful, ichy, and unimpressionable.

though some are a bit okay I guess... the only advantage they have over anime is CGI

[Lanfei]

I think it was..Sailormoon? I remember myself going crazy over the pretty pictures and graceful poses, so I guess you can say that that's what got me into watching/drawing anime. =3

[Lupin the 3rd]

I think it was..Sailormoon? I remember myself going crazy over the pretty pictures and graceful poses, so I guess you can say that that's what got me into watching/drawing anime. =3

my cousin was drawn into sailor moon for the same damn reason! :blah4:

[Arflanger]

Ronin Warrior. I watched the whole show and missed the last episode. I was, needless to say, pissed off. I still wanna see that episode but forgot the entire series that I just won't go through that again. It.....is....just....too difficult!

[ouatic]

My first anime was Ramma 1/2. I remember watching it in Korean dub when I was about 6 years old at my grandparent's house.

[chaos soldier]

dragon ball z at the time i was so addicted to it (now i just find it corny) i layed off any chores homework and anything else i needed to do just to see the super saiyen transformation but now im into hello kitty bumber stickers!!!!

[aburame shino]

eveyr one should say atleast DRAGONBALL or Z.

The Very First anime I believe I ever saw was Samurai Pizza Cats. Yes, Samurai Pizza Cats, if any of you even know what that was. I feel old...but I am just a kid so I bet alot of the really old fan's remember it well. Then came SailorMoon, the first one to air on Toonami was cool, and a great intro into anime for any fan, although it seemed to be more directed at girls. Then came Tenchi Muyo, and Gundam Wing....I think I am going to go remenince...thanks for digging up old memories

ohyeah!!! i remember those shows!!!
good times back then

[lola]

wow, i haven't thought about this in a long time. lets see... Transformers, (i am not that old so it might be one of the newer ones) Salior Moon, Digimon, Escaflowna, one of them. Escaflowna was what did it for me. it had me hooked. i just had to see more and more until it was cancled. :no:

if you haven't noticed, these shows were all showed on fox saterday morning, i was a "fox-kid" growing up. the anime around me was limited but everyone of them i did not know was anime except for Escaflowna.

[Kaito Fujiwara]

1st time around, AKIRA

2nd time around for me it was (dont slam me for this) Orphen

[Nyghtewynd]

My first anime was Project A-Ko on VHS, and I just thought it was really strange. Probably not the greatest introduction to the genre. :P

[Lupin the 3rd]

2nd time around for me it was (dont slam me for this) Orphen

OMFGWTF1111!! U DIDNT LIKE ORPHEN?? ^^

jk that anime was not that good IMO!

[jhay-r]

Heh, I have always been made fun of for this fact...
The first official anime I have ever watched from start to finish was the very first season of Sailor Moon.
heh, I have the old Toonami to thank for that. And I do not regret watching it, never have despite the mockings of 'Oh... It's a girly show.'

[Demonthenes]

I saw ym first anime with my cousin a few years ago but didnt really get into it at first.

Onegai Teacher by the way...

[Kaito Fujiwara]

I never said I didnt like it. I just felt I might get slammed for it

[aeroshadow]

My first anime was Neon Genesis Evangelion. I thought it was godly after I first watched it. ^^

Now, I think it's just pretty good, and there are lots of things I like better than it.

[Mizuho]

The very first anime I saw was Dragon Ball Z or it was Robotech Macross Saga I can't remember.

[skyhack]

Speed Racer, way back in the 60's... Then Kimba.
I seem to remember Thundercats as being from the 80's, though, as I used to watch it with my kids.

[kyubichan]

"Sarah", that European story thing.
The first 'real' anime I watched was Yaiba.

[Seras]

Unico! I saw it when I was 5 and have been trapt in this surreal world ever since.

[M.Baka]

Thunder Cats. Thats why i am screwed up...heheheheheehheehhehe

[Scar]

Akira (http://www.animeacademy.com/finalrevdisplay.php?id=16) was my very first, and I loved it, even with the original English dub. However, it never got me to seek out and find new anime. Several years passed and I caught a second movie: Princess Monoke (http://www.animeacademy.com/finalrevdisplay.php?id=407). Loved it enough to go buy the DVD, but I still wasn't really conscious of anime as a medium to be considered seperate from American animation. I didn't just grow up on goofy Saturday morning cartoons, but stuff like The Hobbit (http://imdb.com/title/tt0077687/) and The Secret of NIHM (http://imdb.com/title/tt0084649/), so seeing Japan produce animation like that didn't seem like a big deal.

Obviously, I did eventually wake up and smell the anime, quite on accident. I had just installed Winamp 5 and was checking out the streaming radio and streaming tv for the first time. Well, one of the tv channels was streaming an anime series, so I tuned in to check it out. Several hours later I stopped only because I had to grab some sleep before work. That series was the much traduced Love Hina (http://www.animeacademy.com/finalrevdisplay.php?id=293), and the rest, as they say, is history.
</life story>

[Zero00]

I remember watching Dragon Ball (or Z) early on Saturday mornings on, I think it was on NBC, along time ago back when you called it the Nintendo channel. I watched Sailor Moon & Gundam on Toonami, along with a whole bunch of older things that were & weren't on Toonami. The one series that really hooked me, I suppose, was Gundam.

[Gigadi]

My very fisrt was Voltron, about 8 years ago on Midnight Run, it came on on Saturday nights around 11:30 which was way past my bedtime, I wasn't hooked but it was cool. What hooked me was a combination of Pokemon and DBZ around the ago of 10.
-Pop goes the internet.
-What's this anime thing?
-Television barrages me with anime
-Discover DVDs
-Discover fansubs

And that is how I became the person I am today.

[blueshards]

Ronin Warriors,the took it off the air before finishing it >.<
Salior moon,
meh DBZ was good for awhile then I kinda grew out of it lol

those where basicly my first true animes ever

[Cornwiggle]

Hmm...the very first one I watched was Sailormoon.

[Kiba]

My very first was Sailormoon.

[Angelecia_sama]

I'm not actually sure but I think the first anime I saw was.. Pokemon.

[ant]

Akira and Robotech, I was blown away with Akira, Robotech was cool too even though I only saw the series up to episode four.

[jdlibatique]

My Aunt corrected me in the anime we all used to watch along with my Uncle(don't ask why they watch). My first was... Sailor Moon.

[w0lfW00ds_gh0st]

the VERY first anime i watched was the english version on Ninku and Flame of Recca when i was in gr 4 in india ... so like some 10 years ago. the VERY first anime i watched in Japanese would be Trigun and Flame of Recca (i was curious what the difference was between the english and jap versions) and then Speed Racer when Cartoon Network came to India around the same time i started watching Recca and Ninku

[Ghostmaster]

I guess the first ones I saw were things like pokemon and dragonball z and dragonball. I did also watch a few gundam shows and some tenchi muyo. But my first real good anime was probably trigun.

[Pachinko]

I was almost raised by anime, but at that age I had no idea it was actually anime.
Here are some examples.
--The Last Unicorn
--Little Nemo in Slumberland
--The Little Mermaid (anime adaptation)

Sailor Moon hooked me, though.

[Seras]

I was almost raised by anime, but at that age I had no idea it was actually anime.
Here are some examples.
--The Last Unicorn
--Little Nemo in Slumberland
--The Little Mermaid (anime adaptation)

Sailor Moon hooked me, though.
I watched all of these too! My grandma bought them for my cousins and I. She still blames herself for getting us hooked on anime.

[Gimpy]

Robotech for sure, everyday after school :D

[Anime Obsessed]

LOL...I do fondly remember watching Transformers and Thundercats as a kid, but the the anime that made aware of anime was Dragonball. It looked different than the other cartoons that would air. Tekkaman came out shortly on WB after Dragonball, or so I remember.

[MirMir]

The VERY first anime that I have watched ever was Sailor Moon. I'm not really fond of Sailor moon but I remember watching that when I was little. But if you are talking about the new millenium Anime then it would have to be Yu Gi Oh! Which I love and still love to this very day. haha

[Mad Hatter]

The first anime that I watched either had to be Voltron or Speed Racer when it came on Cartoon Network. I didn't know what the heck anime was then. For me at age eight, everything was an American cartoon. (I didn't really care whether it was foreign either.)

The first anime that I watched that I was fully aware of being anime was Rurouni Kenshin. It was sad, being that I was fourteen years old at the time. That was the age when I discovered the greatness of anime.

[Dark Lord]

HAHAHAHAHAHA...
WELL...
THE FIRST ANIME WAS ACTUALLY AKAZUKIN CHA CHA...
iT WAS KINDA FUNNY DURING THE TIME...
HEHE...:dark1:

[Ashuri]

the very first anime that i watched is Read or Die, and to say that i really liked it,

[MidnightDevont]

my first anime...Sailor Moon, i can't remember seeing any before that. when it was on early before school. i loved it from the very beginning. DBZ,Yugioh and Pokemon to follow. now i am the proud lover of FB,Chrono Crusade, Helling, Love Hina, Petshop of horrors and not as many kid titles. though i do like to go back and watch some of the kids stuff. {Yugioh: pharaoh memory saga...not for kids. and the japanese sailor moon{i cant stand the dub anymore}}

[punkusa20_2001]

I consider aeon flux, just because it made me open to watching serious animated stories. It was :( i have to say dbz,. why god why.......:(( i need to get some air *runs out quickly*

[Knives]

it was ronin warriors, when i was like 7 years old... and it was the shitakemushrooms to me back then... revisited it like 5 years ago and was appalled haha

[Kimura-san]

Wow. Really gets blurry before 1986 but I remember being quite into Transformers and Zoids when I was really young. Couldnt really handle Gundam at that age.

When aware, probably started with Samurai Pizza Cats (seems a popular choice - None of my friends remember it) and Pokemon. Followed quite recently by Dragonball, Sailor Moon and Devilman.

Ok. "VERY FIRST" many anime there, but its a bit blurry for me these days. :moron:

[Kamikaze[NOR]]

The very first anime i watched was Cowboy Bebop, its like 2 years ago.

[MetalAlchemist]

the anime that got me hooked first was saliormoon on the WB then it was DBZ
if you would call that anime.
:headbang:

[Baki x]

Akira.

[jeff--]

The first Anime I watched was Samurai Champloo. That was only at the beginning of this year, I haven't been into Anime for a very long time.

[Zelyhon]

Hmm...I think the first one I really watched was Sailor Moon, back when it was on WB or some channel like that. After that, I didn't watch much until I was wandering through Hollywood Video and saw a video my friend had recommended. So I checked it out.

Neon Genesis Evangelion.

...XD Interesting first anime choice, in retrospect. Still love the series, but it's a confusing one to cut your teeth on.

[Flashback]

mine was inuyasha. you know how people are always saying when you start doing drugs you become adicted and move on to diffrent drugs that give you the same high? well Inuyasha IS MY crack.I love that anme. im so mad at myself ive seen every Inuyasha episode and movie created :( i moved too fast ;(

[kLaUS]

it has to be dbz,, or maybe popolokrois,, i dont even sure if thats an anime,, but i really liked .

[Pachinko]

I can't really remember... I saw the anime "Little Mermaid", but that got chunked. Is Little Nemo in Slumberland an anime? I think it was... Oh, and the Last Unicorn. That was a great film/hybrid.

[Flashback]

well who can forget DBZ and SALOR Moon those two were on all the time before i got cable

[Doodee]

Dragonball. It introduced me to everything, now that I think of it...In hindsight, it's not as good as it used to be, but it'll always have a special place in my heart :D

[L-sama]

well who can forget DBZ and SALOR Moon those two were on all the time before i got cable

Exactly. I remember waking up at 6am to watch sailor moon when I was really little (like about 6 years old, before I knew what anime was).

[Ghostmaster]

well who can forget DBZ and SALOR Moon those two were on all the time before i got cable
Everyone can forget about DBZ and they try to.

[Taleweaver]

This one. (http://www.animeacademy.com/finalrevdisplay.php?id=557)
I was, like, seven or eight when I watched it. Need I say more?

[animerules15421]

Speed Racer was my first.

[lady_kiyano]

well my first show was about a gundum. but it was very very old. something before gundam wing. i dont remember the name. well because i was in japan it was just another cartoon that comes on tv. but when i came to america when i was 5 thats when people would call it anime and that gundam show was out in america so it was the one that people would call anime. so thats when i learned what american call it.:nbleed:

[animerules15421]

I have never wached Gundam I heard its good though.

[Tails86]

Speed racer is the first anime I've seen. I only watched a couple of episodes of it and i thought it was terrible. Years later I saw Tenchi Muyo and DBZ on TV and got hooked.

[HolyCrap]

I've heard some talk about Transformers (the reeeaaally old one) being anime and if that's true then thet would have been my first.

What I consider to be my first anime is Evangelion or Trigun. I'm not quite sure qhich I started watching first as I watched them parallelly with a friend who introduced me to anime.

We watched one episode of each series after school...

[Minnie]

This one. (http://www.animeacademy.com/finalrevdisplay.php?id=557)
I was, like, seven or eight when I watched it. Need I say more?


Hey, I watched that as a kid too~! Good times.

My first anime were Masterpiece Theatre anime starting with "Little Prince Cedie", then followed by "Swiss Family Robinson", "Peter Pan", "A Little Princess Sara" and "Bush Baby". :3

[animerules15421]

Orignaly posted by:Tails86
Speed racer is the first anime I've seen.
That was my first Anime also. I first saw it when I was 7. Unlike you I seen most episodes and I thoght it was a great Anime. Later on I bought the Manga of it.

[Neko Kagome]

hmmmm...my first will have to be...Pokemon....or Sailer Moon...one of those two...heh! ^_^

[mistress #9]

my first was sailor moon and i was like this is cool i like it but its was kind of something to be hidden about, back then in my high school, 'cartoon's as the uninformed were calling them...but then i saw the real sailor moon not the stupid dub that dic did, and i was hooked. Ranma was next and that was very very cool...and then i saw EVA and man was i hooked after that i just couldn't get enough.

[Anime15421]

Orignaly posted by:animerules15421
That was my first Anime also. I first saw it when I was 7. Unlike you I seen most episodes and I thoght it was a great Anime. Later on I bought the Manga of it.
My very first Anime was Speed Racer. My story is like Animerules15421, in the way of how we became addicted to it. Hey how ironic he has the same numbers as I do.

[Verty]

wow, umm i kinda feel old now, from some of those replys

I'd have to say Robotech (wish i had seen the ACTUAL macross since i heard it's much better) and Astroboy

:/ see what i mean

[Ghostmaster]

The word anime is short for animation. Animation is moving pictures. Thus an anime is anything watched through moving pictures. We can get deeper with this by introducing genre, a way to classify similar things with in a group. To do this we take a group, anime, and group them by similar things.

We have shows that are funny, and their main purpose is to make the view to laugh. The title that it should be giving would show that it’s funny. Comedy perhaps? That is a perfect title for it, but that can be sub categorized, and the sub categories can then be made into a major category. We’ll start to group it by other things. A major issue is age grouping. For this purpose will look at shows that are intended for children, but appeal to anyone. We then remove everything above PG. We also want our sub-genre to only hold specific shows, and will do this by saying only shows that are stand alone can enter. Now we have a Family Oriented, Stand-Alone, Funny genre. What shows qualify? Any shows that is below PG and is funny. Pok'eMon? A show like that will not fit because you need to know about the series in order to understand it. Flintstones? A basic understanding is needed but anyone can start anywhere in the series and like it. Loony Tunes? Perfect for this seeing as it’s purely stand alone, and is fun for the whole family. As shown, any show that can be enjoyed by the whole family, meaning its not truly limited interest, is funny, and does not require back-story or any form of understanding is allowed in. We do not need to name this since it already exists, it’s the cartoon genre. This sub-genre has matured enough to be a major genre, how ever it’s an overly used term used to describe animated shows.

Genre can have many filters or just one filter. The Disney Genre has only one filter, and that is, it must be an animated show made by Disney. Their are major Genre that are fully matured, such as cartoons; their is basic descriptive genre that just tells of major aspects of a show, such as action or drama; their are minor sub-genre that exist and are commonly used but not fully matures seeing as the term could die quickly, such as Disney or Thinking Anime; and their is the most basic of genre the fan made genre, this is genre by reference which refers an anime by being like other animes, or declared apart of a persons interest.

The point is anime is a beyond basic term that is on a two-layered system. Things are either animated or live-action. With in that it’s then sub-categorized. My first anime would be unknown since all my life I have been watching animated shows on cartoon network and Disney channel. After I first seen Toonami, and started enjoying shows such as Tenchi and Outlaw Star, I then started looking for more things similar. Then seeing X on upper channel I started looking through ever channel for anything I could see. I always liked animated shows over live action; it’s just a matter of what genre I was introduced to and what was available with in my limits at given times. If none of that makes sense I can further explain it based on specific questions asked, and feel free to state opposing view points on this matter.

Earlier shows I seen: Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Original Transformers, Thunder Cats, original Heman (the show with skeletor and the huge guy with the great sword)
Later shows I seen: Tenchi Muyo, Outlaw Star, YuYu Hakushow, Inuyasha
Transitional Shows: X the movie, Akira, Perfect Blue, SE Lain

Thank you Mr. explanation. and I don't really consider Sonic, He-man, or Thundercats really anime.

[Ghostmaster]

What you’re saying is it’s not Japanese Anime. JAP Anime is a very common category in anime. I was trying to explain that anime is anything animated, and showing how to better categorize it. Saying anime could mean any number of things. You ask what a persons first anime was, yet did not specify what type. I listed the first animated things I seen, latter things I seen, and shows that started to get me further into anime, mostly Japanese anime and "thinking anime," though allot of the latter things I seen have changed who I am, hard to explain.
whatever:rolleyes2

[Tremolo]

The word anime is short for animation. Animation is moving pictures. Thus an anime is anything watched through moving pictures.

No, it isn't. "Anime" is the name given to Japanese animation, and is a French word if I recall. That's just the way it is and whether it's right or wrong or not doesn't come into the equation. That's why there's no reviews of He Man on this site, because it isn't Japanese.

JAP Anime is a very common category in anime.

JAP? What? Nonsense.

I was trying to explain that anime is anything animated, and showing how to better categorize it.

That's what you personally may think, but it's not how the most of Western anime fandom works. It's far easier to refer to anime as anime rather than every cartoon ever made as anime - you may not like it, but that's the way it is.

whatever:rolleyes2

Or that.

[Verty]

It can be noted that Anime stems from the word Animation. however when you consider it as a word, it does not actually mean 'Animation', Animation is mearly the word it has basis from/is derived from. American or western animation is usually called Cartoons or Toons, Toons being derived from that, however i think toons also includes flash animations, still frame toons such as comics or online comics where Cartoons is strictly animation, and more over Western animation usually defines as a short (usually 20 - 30 minuet show)

Anime can also be expressed as the shortform of Japanimation, so strictly speaking Anime is just that, Japanese Animation, not encompassing all animation

(lets not even go into 3D animation....)

Also throw in Voltron (both of them) for my earliest 'Anime' Shows

EDIT: further note. Toons can also encompass Claymation (such as the EVIL gumby) and stop motion animation, as Toon Characters whereas Cartoons usually do not include this and 'Anime' definatly dosn't

[DOC]

Well, i dont know if this thread was given out before but if not I'd like to start it...basically, the question is: What was the "VERY FIRST" anime you've ever watched in your life?? Is that show what made you a fan of anime if not then which?? Did you even know if that show was anime back then??

My answers:
The very first anime i've ever watched was the very very old transformers when I was 4 years old...i didn't even know it was anime back then truthfully...i just thought it was another cartoon show that looked like lots of fun. Since I didn't know it was anime back then, that show isn't what made me a fan. The show that made me a fan was SailorMoon back when it was on the WB 11 here in NY...
i think the anime that got me hooked was gun parde march and robotech

[Tremolo]

I have no idea where any of you got that messed up view point. The word anime is French? :D Okay, I'd like to see you prove that.

* Tremolo prooves that

Some theorize the word comes from the French animé ("animated") or "les dessins animés" (animated drawings) and pronounce it as "ah nee MAY", though the Japanese themselves deny this theory, and the fact that it is written in Japanese syllables as アニメ (anime) rather than アニメイ (animei) further lowers its credibility.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime

That wasn't so hard, was it? Obviously it's not the only origin of the word, and it's not the most valid, but I've heard it mentioned a few times before.

As far as what I said. Look up Disney Anime on goggle, and all you'll find is Disney animation, words words words words words words words words words words words words words words words

Do you know what happened when I looked up "Disney Anime" on Google? Results after results of porn websites. "Anime Disney"? Pages about Disney buying Miyazaki and Ghibli movies, and more porn. So don't try and lie to gain credibility on your already flimsy argument.

I have no idea what listing Macross 2 and Tenchi or whatever is trying to say. Answers.com is hardly the pinnacle of Internets Knowledge - them not mentioning Gundam doesn't surprise me at all.

It's not an important enough of an issue to debate.

It clearly is if you come in and post some enormous near-essay post of complete rubbish.

What the word was, and is are two differnt things. I can refer to my dog, who happens to be a girl dog, with out being yelled at now adays. Same goes for this word.

...

No.

[Sardaukar]

Doraemon, Robotech, or Transformers. I can't remember which.

...I feel like an old geezer.

[kira7w7]

the very first one I saw....was chrono crusades.

[Verty]

Doraemon, Robotech, or Transformers. I can't remember which.

...I feel like an old geezer.

that just makes me feel older

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i think Tremolo has some excellent points that shouldn't be refuted outright. as for anime being used for the word Animation, wouldn't it then be shortened to Anima? just cause the word is similar dosn't mean it's the same word, we have too many words like that in the english language that you should never take word association like that for granted.

Anime is indeed a slang word that has now become the actual word we use for this style of animation. in the same way that some people call vaccum cleaners - Hoovers (Hoover being orignally a brand of vaccum cleaners that became so popular people just called them hoovers)

other words have also started out as slang and turned into actual words (if they arn't offensive) it's just the evolution of lanugage.

anyway thats all

[Neo-Hunter]

well i think it was at my time Transformers, then samuri pizza cats then speedracer and then sailor moon. unwittingly enough. sad but true.

[LadySage]

I didn't think anyone would be foolish enough to look anything up on google with the filter turned off. I turn all filters up to full because of the simple truth of the internet. "The internet is for p**n." Line from a funny movie. :cute

Avenue Q is a stage musical. Or is a movie anything that moves? That seems to be how your logic works.

Fact: when a word moves from one language to another, sometime the meaning changes. If you look up kamikaze in the dictionary, you won't find reference to "divine wind" except maybe under the etymology. Hell, you even find the changing of meaning within English, British vs. American. Refer to a lorry on one side of the Atlantic, and people will look at you like you're nuts. If a British man says he's wearing a jumper, it doesn't mean he's cross-dressing,

Yes, in Japan anime means everything animated. But it doesn't here in the West. Or pretty much anywhere outside of Japan. I have never heard of anyone referring to non-Japanese animation as "anime" on this side of the Pacific.

Oh, and Googling "Disney anime" with the filters turned up gets either references to Disney licensing Miyazaki, or Disney stealing from anime (such as Atlantis vs. Nadia).

[Tremolo]

Kuras_Daedron: I'm sorry, man. I tried to post a well-reasoned counter-argument to everything you said, but really I lacked the energy to go on. I have absolutely no idea what the hell you're talking about. It just all seems to me like completely made-up faux-intellectual conjecture that has no real grounding. Your tangets about FMA and Lain are completely and utterly baffling...I just... I don't get it. Maybe I'm too thick for your revolutionary ideas, but I really doubt that. You being totally wrong is a much more comforting and enjoyable thought process.

I replied to clear a few missconceptions and even in the event that thier are more, I will not continue this, seeing as its spam.

But they're NOT misconceptions! They're your own opinions and thoughts! What you said isn't fact! And you provided no evidence either, just answers.com!

And it's not spam, either. Believe it or not, threads are allowed to go off on tangents at AA.

These are the cold, hard facts in today's Western world which this forum and a lot of fandom adhere to: Japanese cartoons are known as anime. Anything else is known as cartoons. No one calls 'em "Japanimation" or "Japanese anime" anymore. This website isn't called Japanese Anime Academy, Anime News Network isn't called Japanese Anime News Network.

You know what? I'll stick with my "anime = Japanese animation" definition. Yeah, I like that. Much easier.

Yes, in Japan anime means everything animated. But it doesn't here in the West. Or pretty much anywhere outside of Japan. I have never heard of anyone referring to non-Japanese animation as "anime" on this side of the Pacific.

Oh, and Googling "Disney anime" with the filters turned up gets either references to Disney licensing Miyazaki, or Disney stealing from anime (such as Atlantis vs. Nadia).

QUOTED FOR TRUTH.

[punkusa20_2001]

See Kuras look what you have done, I have been lurking for awhile now and your ass has to bring me out. I support Trem on this one with all power, but what you might not realize is kuras, is that this arguement has its own topic, your new so no one really cares what arguements you have if you dont bring anything new to this table, and the people on this forum really dont like people who act as though the world of anime revolves around their knowledge. The word anime is so below the importance of the world of anime, how about review a obscure title that is good and shining light on it for all the world to see.....bastard.

[ant]

See Kuras look what you have done, I have been lurking for awhile now and your ass has to bring me out. I support Trem on this one with all power, but what you might not realize is kuras, is that this arguement has its own topic, your new so no one really cares what arguements you have if you dont bring anything new to this table, and the people on this forum really dont like people who act as though the world of anime revolves around their knowledge. The word anime is so below the importance of the world of anime, how about review a obscure title that is good and shining light on it for all the world to see.....bastard.

what are you doing lurking, you post with some thought behind it.

[darylcrowe]

I was also hhoping people would understand the word and be able to better use it. By knowing how to catigorize anime through better terms, it will then eb able to find simular anime easier. FMA is a Action/Comedy with some deepier meaning. This is alot of Action/Comedy, and we can theoretically begin to create sub catigories to better discribe anime with just a simple title. Such as saying FMA is a Action/Commedy/Drama which is shorter than saying a funny yet thought provoking action series. We can not simply list all anime that has meaning like FMA with the same title though simply because the level varies allot. Both SE Lain and FMA are thought provoking, but SE Lain is on a much higher level than FMA, not to say FMA doesn't raise great meaningfull issues. What I'm saying is, it would allow us to make single words that give specific meaning on what the anime has, and the approximate level of the specific contents.

Here I presume you're talking about classfying anime into genres and sub genres. While this system would make it easier to sift through anime (i.e. to find anime which match your favourite genres).

It has problems though, there are differing opinions on how a specific anime is classifyed as. For example, person A thinks anime X is a action/comedy, but person B may think that there's so little comedy in it, that it doesn't deserve its comedy label.

I was hoping that I could state a simple fact and back it with evidence, and end it with something relivant to the thread, but my attempts to do such things always draw the atttention of forum trolls who only wish to dissagree. I replied to clear a few missconceptions and even in the event that thier are more, I will not continue this, seeing as its spam.

Sorry I have to disagree, the people who responded to your argument were not forum trolls. They just feel strongly about anime

So you will all stop whinning, the first anime I saw was Tenchi Muyo and Dragon Ball Z, around teh same time on Toonamie. Zoids I think i seen before that, but just say Tenchi and DBZ so no one will say "thats not 'anime'".

But isn't Zoids an anime?

[kirarathekitty]

well my first anime was my neighbor totoro i didnt know it was an anime at the time i was only like 6 yrs old but i was hooked but sailor moon was the first anime that i auctualy new was an anime

[ant]

^ same here, first time I watched Akira I didn't know the word anime, all I knew was that it was from Japan.

[TheMadPoet]

Sailor Moon, oye, of course. -_-; On crappy UPN who would only show the first season. XD And Pokemon..

[Trunks lover]

It would probably be Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z.

[Morgris]

Tenchi or Dragon Ball Z, can't seem to remember witch one.

[victoria]

its between sailormoon & astro boy but i'd say its sailormoon

[bwing55543]

G-Force and Speed Racer, both when I was about 5 years old.

I got the Speed Racer DVDs recently.

[Zen of Anime]

Speed Racer aswell

[[-=[montney]=-]]

Liar! and I quote: "Kagaku Kyujotai Techno Voyager in other word's thunderbirds 2086" End quote.

[Devotion]

I'm tempted to say Doraemon, but I think that was actually the first manga I read, with the anime coming later. I seem to remember watching Robotech when I was really young, but that might just be because I wrongly placed an early memory.

Well, I'll say Robotech.

[Copyright]

The very first episode of......Pokemon back in '96

[Apolyion]

Maybe it will be good karma to write my first post ever on these forums in a thread about the first anime I ever watched. :)

The first animes I can remember watching any of, were Robotech and Star Blazers on TV when I was young. I didn't watch the whole series at the time and barely rememer anything of watching them. I just remember that I watched them when they were on and thought that the art style was very neat, but I was a little kid and didn't know anime came from Japan or the like. Cartoons were cartoons!

The first animes I watched that I knew were anime, were Bubblegum Crisis OAV 1-3 (the originals, not 2040) and Akira, in that order. I watched them over a weekend at a friend's house in highschool. Bubblegum Crisis was the first subtitled anime I watched, and I've been a sub-snob ever since. Maybe thanks in part to seeing the Akira dub that same weekend...

[Yuhcripto]

The very 1st Anime I watched was.........

I think it's Ghost Fighter or Trigun. Don't Really now

[Kogo]

I remember there were 3 movies. Saw them at pretty much the same time when i was really young and they had a really biug impact on me.

Starzinger, Balatac and Sandybell. I remember these movies with such fondness i had to buy at least starzinger. (And sandybell but dont tell anyone).

Also I have a question. I remember an old anime which i cant remember the name of. All i remember is a symbol. Its a circle and in it is some sort of really cool cat. Maybe a panther. I feel it really important to remember this anime but im clueless.

[Ghostmaster]

I don't really remember, but probably DBZ or Pokemon or something like that. I actually used to watch Tenchi Universe a while ago and a bit of Cardcaptors.

[animanic_critic]

The FIRST ever anime I watched was Transformers. It is AND remains one of the classics of the yesteryears...

[Sariki]

Rurouni Kenshin All the way

[Shinomori]

Fist of the North Star when I was about 8 or 9 years old.Not a very god film by any measure but at that age I was easily impressed by all the blood and violence

[Benwahwah]

I think mine was The Ultimate Teacher, now that really is a terrible anime, if you compare Fist of the North Star with it FOTNS is a deep and meaningful film :P However at the time I thought The Ultimate Teacher was absolutely brilliant with its velvet "kitty" panties.

Mind you at the age of 12 all that fan service was doing strange things to me so that was probably my reason for liking it.

[Mevolution]

Mazinger frickin Z
I was born and spent the next 7 years of my life in a middle-eastern country called Qatar and that was one of the shows that came on the animation hour. freeze breaths, chest beams and most of all, boobie missles were the coolest things imaginable at the time.

there was another shoujo-ish anime that came on with it. it was very depressing but that's all i remember of it.

[Moondoggie]

The first anime I saw was Cowboy Bebop. It was on Adult Swim about 3 or 4 years ago. I would set the VCR to record the shows because they came on at 1:30 in the morning and I had class at 8:00. It got me straight addicted, and there has been no rehab since.

[animanic_critic]

Mazinger frickin Z
I was born and spent the next 7 years of my life in a middle-eastern country called Qatar and that was one of the shows that came on the animation hour. freeze breaths, chest beams and most of all, boobie missles were the coolest things imaginable at the time.

there was another shoujo-ish anime that came on with it. it was very depressing but that's all i remember of it.
Boobie missiles... that's classic...

[Lil Slugger]

My first anime was Sailor Moon :) than DBZ and pokemon, and here i am :)

[Perios]

I think the first anime I saw was Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs together with Heidi.:rolleyes2

[tinnacious]

Either, Sailor Moon or Astro Boy.

Haha, my mom influenced me with her Sailor Moon, and my dad influenced me with his Astro Boy.

Coolness.

[Shogun Bob]

I remember seeing Voltron when I was young, and I hated it. In fact it turned me off from anime for more then a decade. I came around though.

[Kyou sohma]

i wish i could rember..i think it was outlaw star, or was it tenshi mouyo(i cant rember spelling of name)

[iRock]

pokemon or transformers :P, really, i was like 7 or 8?

[SyberiaWinx]

I actually remember this. When I was very young, before I even had the term "anime" in my vocabulary, I watched my very first on tv without even realizing it. The cartoon was then called "Vampire Savior", but the US release on DVD calls it "Darkstalkers". It had the same characters for the most part from the Capcom video game series of the name, and might have been why the Night Warriors series was released. I really liked it, but that was my last anime for a long time.

My first actual venture into anime knowingly, was at Hollywood Video-a video rental store. While browsing, I came across the anime section and ended up intruiged by a VHS of Ranma 1/2. I instantly fell in love and rented just about everything in the anime section.^^;

[Kitsurai]

Straight up, Samurai Pizza Cats. 8 years later I learned what "anime" was.

[Sae]

Oh god! That was Soooo long ago......hmmmm....Okay! It was either DBZ or Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon was my first obsession though. It got me INTO anime.

Sae

[blazinghell]

Oh my time to think back. I have very faint memorys of My Neighbor Totoro on vhs from a local video store, there was also Speed Racer all thoughs years back when it was airing on CN really late at night. As for getting my addicted to it.. I dont really know.. I would have to say it was the Galaxy Express 999 movies on sci-fi that I really feel in love with.. but there was also Pokemon, DBZ, Sailor Moon, and Escaflowne.. hard to remember what order they went in sense its been so long

[animanic_critic]

Okay, I finally confirmed the first ever anime viewed by AC - turned out to be Doraemon. Transformers was just another craze I had way back then, it wasn't the first anime I watched. Crap.

[Sigyn]

well I got into anime recently so I would have to go with Inuyasha, even though I did watch some sailor moon. But I owe my love of anime to Adult Swim :victory:

[animeluver]

i dont remeber that well. but from what i do remember the tenchi series got me hooked on anime when i was young!

[kobi666]

my first anime was something i don't know the name of in english.
it was about a boy named marco and his path to find his lost mom.
i only found out it was anime in around 2003.. that's when i started to take intrest in anime (for actually the first anime i watched would be akira, which is a great promo for beggining anime fans..)

[Major Tom]

my first anime was something i don't know the name of in english.
it was about a boy named marco and his path to find his lost mom.
i only found out it was anime in around 2003.. that's when i started to take intrest in anime (for actually the first anime i watched would be akira, which is a great promo for beggining anime fans..)


That sounds a lot like 3000 leagues in search of Mother (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3000_Leagues_in_Search_of_Mother)

[Kai-Zodd]

As a child, I of course watched Transformers and the like, without the knowledge that what I was seeing was actually anime. So I don't really count that to be my first anime...my first TRUE anime, and the one that got me into anime, was Iria: Zeiram the Animation, way back when I was just 10 years old, and when SciFi Channel was still good and they had their wonderful Saturday Anime block every Saturday morning.

I became interested after seeing advertisments for the "anime club" where they sent you anime VHS tapes monthly. I was a big fan of animation, but I was getting to an age where I wanted to see some more mature stuff; needless to say, seeing previews for anime like Akira on these advertisments got me pretty interested. Then, my friend tipped me off that they showed anime every Saturday on SciFi Channel. Me and both my sisters gave it a watch, and Iria was what was on. We were absolutely enthralled by it, and began watching anime every Saturday on SciFi; which soon lead to the purchasing of videos, etc; and well, here I am now; a bigger fan than ever, and hooked for life!

[I_LIKE_EIKEN]

My first anime was Voltron and Voltron the Vehicle force. I know that they defeated King Zarkon, but what happened to Prince Lotor and Witch Haggar? What happened to the Druel Empire after Zarkon's fall? I also liked Thundercats and Silver Hawks, both of which went off the air premateurely because there wasn't any closure to Mumm Ra(Thundercats) and Mon Starr(SilverHawks). In Thundercats, did the war with the Mutants end, or is it still going? Well never know of the outcomes since they took them off the air! Also, what happened on Transformers Generation One after the origional Optimous Prime was brought back to life to control the space virus that was making people and Transformers alike become uncontrolably violent!