your first anime

Postby **Bobtheduck** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 7:33 pm

it wasn't called "superbook" in Japan, though... It was called Anime Oyako Gekijou... And "Superbook II" was called PAASUKON Travel Tanteidan

(information garnered from this site though he was still wrong on the middle one, because that was "Flying House" and not part of the Superbook show in the US... That site is nice because it gives a very comprehensive list of anime in Japan...

Postby **Mr. Rogers** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 7:52 pm

the first anime i watched was Trigun

Postby **c-girl** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 9:01 pm

My first one was Sailor Moon. Then Ranma1/2 when my chinese sister came along.

Postby **Michael** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 9:10 pm

Robotech.

AMV.org Profile · Postby **Orange Kitten** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 12:16 am

Ninja Scroll

Postby **Icarus** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 8:11 pm

Flying house was anime? Wow. In that case, it was Flying House and Superbook. Of the two, I prefer the first. After that, the first anime I watched knowing it as such is either .hack//Sign, or Princess Mononoke. I watched DBZ awhile before that, but thought it was just a strange Japenese cartoon.

Postby **Danyasaur** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 6:48 am

the first anime I ever saw was sailor moon but my mom didn't want me to watch it back then cuzz' I was to young, so that would make my first anime Poke'mon it was a hit back then but it died off prety soon.

Postby **PinkCow** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 10:43 am

First anime for me was Sailor Moon...and I knew it was Japanese animation. In fact, for a year my best friend tried to get me to watch it and I wouldn't because "there was love in it". (Hey, I was all of eight years old. o.o) Finally I gave in, watched an episode, and fell in love.

And just for good measure, my first manga was the Zelda: A Link To The Past comic by Ishinomori.

...And my first video game was Pitfall for the Atari. *lol!*

Postby **andyroo** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 6:08 pm

I haven't the slightest clue as what the first anime I saw was or even one I concidered anime. I guess it would be around during the Speed Racer, Voltron, and G-Force times on Cartoon Network.

Postby **brantelg** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 5:34 pm

MasterDias wrote:My first anime? Hmmmmmmm.

Technically it was Pokemon several years back, although Digimon was what got me really interested in it.

Wow. Thats exactly how I got into anime as well!

Pokemon then Digimon. I look back, and I remember that it was friends that got me hooked and eventually i sprouted my own anime roots!

Postby **Mithrandir** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 5:55 pm

PinkCow wrote:...And my first video game was Pitfall for the Atari. *lol!*

You are talking to a patch-carrying official honorary Pitfall Harry nerd!

Postby **Nu-En-Jin** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 6:11 pm

Wow. I feel old now...
I remember watching Star Blazers when it originally aired... and Voltron, Robotech, Transformers, etc...

Postby **That Dude** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 1:13 pm

My first anime was probably The Flying House, Superbook, Transformers... And "Scamper The Penguin." I don't know if this is considered an anime but almost all the people and artists who made were Japanese. That movie rocks!!!

Postby **redkorn** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 6:31 pm

megaman when i was a kid

Postby **animenewstoday** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 6:57 pm

mine was cardcaptor sakura

Postby **Azier the Swordsman** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 8:13 pm

As a kid, I used to watch 'Superbook', even though I didn't know it was an anime. Officially, the first anime I watched that I knew was anime, (though I didn't know the term for it yet) was Dragonball Z. However, it was Gundam Wing that actually got me into anime.

Postby **Straylight** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 8:23 pm

Evangelion

Postby **postbagboy** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 8:31 pm

The first one I saw was Pokemon when I was seven.

Postby **Knives** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 10:04 am

Tet-chan wrote:What was your first anime that u have watch?

Mine was Doraemon,it was quite a big hit in japan in the early 90s

My first anime was dbz

Postby **Kias_chan** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 10:10 am

The first animei paid attention to was Digimon. But i would watch Salior Moon and RoboTech occasionally before Digimon came around.

Postby **HondaTooru** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 10:41 am

Well Fushigi Yugi turned me on to anime when I saw it about 2 and a half years ago. My best friend and roommate at the time borrowed a couple tapes from her little sister. And just from watching a couple episodes from the middle of the series, I was hooked. So I had to rent the rest of it from the only anime store I could find that rented out, Planet Neo. Blockbuster is starting to carry a lot of anime, but there's usually a few DVD's from a select few series'.

After I had rented all 2 seasons of FY, I realized that I should have just bought it on e-bay to begin with. :sweat:

(I've seen the whole thing including OVA's probably 4 times now.)

To tell you the truth though, the more I got into anime, the more I started remembering other anime that I saw when I was super young and didn't know what it was a the time. Has anyone heard of UNICO? There's only 3 episodes in existance that I know of. It came out in the early eighties and i must have seen it when I was 4 or 5 years old.
IT'S WEIRD. It's about a baby unicorn that gets exiled to the hill of oblivion because the Gods were jealous of his power to make people happy. The West Wind is told to take him there, and she hasn't the heart to do it. So she takes him from place to place trying to hide him from the Gods. The Gods sent out Night Wind to find them and she's always close behind. But I haven't come to the weird part yet.

If memory serves correctly, Unico meets a cat named Katie that wants to be a human girl more than anything because she really wants to be a witch. She's a spoiled brat and Unico can only grant wishes to people he likes. But when the cat jumps in a river to try and save an old woman, Unico is able to turn her into a human so that she can save her. A little after that, Katie is playing around in a meadow when out of nowhere appears a dashing older man. She is enchanted by him and is invited to his castle that night. To make the long story short, she eats some crazy psychotropic berries that hypnotize her into going to his castle late at night. The forest that she has to go through is all creeps and all the animals have also eaten the weird berries (put there by the man). And the dashing older man turns out to be some sort of vampire/demon thing that tries to seduce and kill her. Unico comes to the rescue finally and just when you think that the bad guy is dead, he morphs into this uber-scary grim reaper lookin guy of monstrous proportions. Then Unico morphs from chibi baby unicorn (the form he's always in) into a very beautiful, magestic, full grown unicorn/pegasus and it gets a little gory. Good of course, triumphs over evil...

And I saw all this, as I said, when I was like 4 or 5! It's supposed to be a children's show! It scarred me for years and then I eventually forgot about it. Only when I got into anime again did I start having flashbacks of Unico. And now it turns out to be a pretty detailed memory, huh? Crazy, isn't it?

So moral of the story is, for pie's sake (mmmm pie), make sure you know what your children are watching! (Especially if its anime!)

Postby **JonathanJ** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 12:51 pm

Dragonball Z i used to think anime was stupid but dbz started me

Postby **senjutsu** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 11:23 pm

hah ha! awesome. my first anime was "the flying house". of course i didn't know i was watching anime. when you're 3 years old,you really don't care. i actually found the old vhs tapes today and i'm going to watch it all over again after work tommorrow. i'm so excited XD

Postby **EliasEmmanuel** » Sat Nov 29, 2003 12:00 am

wow, I totally forgot about Superbook, Flying House and Unico.... LOL

My first were the above, along with G-Force (before Cartoon Network existed), Voltron and Robotech.

I didn't get seriously back into Anime til high school, but no doubt the seeds were planted.....

-Elias

Postby **HondaTooru** » Sat Nov 29, 2003 12:20 am

Whoa, you know about Unico! I've never known anyone else who saw it! People think I dreamed it up!

Postby **EliasEmmanuel** » Sat Nov 29, 2003 12:39 am

HondaTooru wrote:Whoa, you know about Unico! I've never known anyone else who saw it! People think I dreamed it up!

I vaguely remember it.... think I only saw it once.... but the unbearably cute chibi SD Unicorn and cat duo apparently etched themselves into my young brain ;-)

Postby **Kisa** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 8:22 am

Well . . .my first one would be Sailor Moon when it was shown on the WB at 6 am weekdays. *sigh* glad thats over with . . . :bang:

I mean it was good to get you started, but it got a bit old and weird after a while. :eyebrow:

Now I am totally into Tokyo Mew Mew, Ah My Goddess, Trigun, Fruits Basket, Rurouni Kenshin, .Hack/Sign, and Angelic Layer!!!!!
:jump:

Postby **Namu** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 12:58 pm

My first anime...I watched Speed Racer when I was younger. I wasn't an obsessive fan of it....but I liked it and watched it from time to time.

The first anime that I really gotten into was "Salior Moon" back in the 3rd grade. I still didn't know what anime was, and I assumed that this cartoon came from China from some reason. O_o Well, now I know it didnt.

Postby **Yoda47** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 1:21 pm

Bobtheduck wrote:it wasn't called "superbook" in Japan, though... It was called Anime Oyako Gekijou... And "Superbook II" was called PAASUKON Travel Tanteidan

(information garnered from this site though he was still wrong on the middle one, because that was "Flying House" and not part of the Superbook show in the US... That site is nice because it gives a very comprehensive list of anime in Japan...

Wow, that is so cool. I did not know that.

OK, that's the 1st one I've seen then. And here I thought it was either Voltron or Transformers, but we only got to watch those when I went to my aunt's house, but we watched Superbook and such at home all the time.

Wow. The stuff you learn....

Postby **That Dude** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 6:33 pm

I already posted the first anime's I saw but I figured I should also post the ones that got me hooked...

Well DBZ (even though I do not like that show)
Cowboy Bebop and Outlaw Star were the shows that got me hooked mostly.

your first anime

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