Mon 2008/08/25 14:15
Isn't anime such a cool subject to talk about? My first anime was when I was a wee little lad back in the UK - watched dubbed versions of Gatchaman known as "G-Force" in the UK. The first anime I watched in my late teenage years was the original Macross film dubbed in Cantonese - completely fell in lurve with Minmay and realized that I had a thing for 2D characters ^^; Gatchaman below. Minmay singing Tenshi no E no Gu below. Feel free to paste youtube urls of your first anime > http://jp.youtube.com/ To Karasu-kun and all - can we not forget to quote the source of any image posted - if you forgot then please mention so. Want to make sure we credit the source. Original text from Karasu-kun below.I finally got off my lazy butt and started cataloging all of my anime this weekend. As I was going through all of my stuff I started thinking about all of the series/movies/OAV I've watched over time, and how long I've been watching anime. I distinctly remember watching Sailor Moon before school during junior high, Akira with friends (the dub *shudder*), Ghost in the Shell, Tenchi Muyo, all the mid to late 90's standbys. The first real series to suck me in though, was Fushigi Yuugi. I'm not terribly fond of other Watase Yuu series, but FY instantly what drew me in, if it wasn't a little formulaic. Do you remember what your first series was, and do you regard it fondly looking back now, or would you be embarrassed to say you watched it/liked it now?
Posted on Mon 2008/08/25 14:15 by
wow...my first anime...that was a while back...but i think it was Dragon Ball Z (dubbed version...), but i think the first anime that completely captured my attention was Gundam Wing...back when Toonami was a decent programming block...
(ID #277648) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:12
Sadly that's same as me. DBZ is technically my first anime. After that I didn't see anything again until about junior year in high school. When a friend showed me Bleach. Eventually I progressed where I am today.
(ID #277683) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:30
same here.
(ID #277857) Posted on 2008/08/25 15:59
Student & Part time worker in a Day Care
same with me, dubbed dragonballz from cartoon network
(ID #277859) Posted on 2008/08/25 16:00
first anime for me was DBZ too. lol.. then it went on to Kindaichi (still nice), Slam Dunk (RAWR!!) and ...and.... that's all i think
(ID #278003) Posted on 2008/08/25 19:06
DBZ for me too hurhur i used to remember watching it every saturday on channel 8, that is until i realised the manga was far ahead of the anime... ^^
(ID #278275) Posted on 2008/08/25 23:57
Otaku, High School Student
DBZ was my first as well. After that Bleach and Naruto began to hold my attention. Once I found Genshiken, to-Love-ru, Ichigo 100% and Code Geass I was otaku before I knew it.
(ID #278571) Posted on 2008/08/26 05:48
Add my name to the list of DBZ was my first anime. I had watched anime before then "Battle of the Planets" and "Speed Racer", but I didn't recognize them as anime. It was only until I watched DBZ on Toonami that I realized what I was watching was anime. Then it was all down hill from there (or up, depending). ^__^
(ID #278577) Posted on 2008/08/26 05:55
Vampire
I think the record of lodoss war along with Dragon ball, then DBZ are my earliest memories of anime. well of course I've seen cartoons n stuff when i was a kid too but those don't count :P oh and uh .. I'll admit it: sailor moon (and im a dude) then I kinda stopped watching anime on a regular basis till Naruto came along, then bleach .. then I started to pick up on any anime I could get my hands on!
(ID #279208) Posted on 2008/08/26 17:01
Blogger+Student
same here.
(ID #279911) Posted on 2008/08/27 07:13
My fisr anime was Doraemon when I was about three :3
(ID #277652) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:16
Student; wants a job T_T
Doraemon! I almost forgot about that one. Back when I was a wee child I'd watch the Chinese version with my cousins.
(ID #277664) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:22
Doraemon too!
(ID #277901) Posted on 2008/08/25 16:51
But the one that made the first big impression was SDF Macross dubbed in Chinese ...
(ID #277906) Posted on 2008/08/25 16:57
Student, Freelance Figure Review Writer
Doraemon for me as well! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ykZUhypBLA
(ID #277941) Posted on 2008/08/25 17:33
TK-8316 / 宅男 Otaku / 工程师 Engineer
Doraemon for me as will too. dubbed in chinese. ^^;
(ID #277982) Posted on 2008/08/25 18:33
doreamon when i was still in hongkong, proberly when i was like 4? and along with saliormoon. i usually watched wadever my sister watched.
(ID #278107) Posted on 2008/08/25 21:37
Mine is doraemon as well but the first one that I've been consciously trying to watch would be Fate/Stay Night. I watch doraemon because.... I was still a kid at that time LOL. Still, doraemon is kinda entertaining but you'll start wondering what will happen if some bad guys get some machines that can stop time. Even polices can't do anything right? xD
(ID #278346) Posted on 2008/08/26 01:12
Dubbed in Malay here. They sound like x_x
(ID #279402) Posted on 2008/08/26 20:27
If I remember correctly, its my first too ^^
(ID #279399) Posted on 2008/08/26 20:26
Ohoh i saw the Chinese version once! Doraemon = Ding Dong? :O
(ID #278654) Posted on 2008/08/26 08:07
TK-8316 / 宅男 Otaku / 工程师 Engineer
小叮当 xiao ding dang. years back it was standardised to Doraemon.
(ID #279673) Posted on 2008/08/27 02:51
Student, Forum Mod, Newbie GFXer
Same here I think (unless I unconsciously watched something else), it was an English dub though.
(ID #278248) Posted on 2008/08/25 23:34
Part human, part student, 100% loser
Doraemon is probably my first anime...
(ID #278382) Posted on 2008/08/26 01:49
I watched in japanese when I was still little an lived in tokyo...I even finish entire series of sailor moon when I was 4. good dayS back then until now...lol then there pokemon got huge popular.
(ID #279194) Posted on 2008/08/26 16:37
Same here~, Actually i saw doraemon in chinese my whole life!
(ID #284580) Posted on 2008/08/30 17:37
I will say Gantz so yeah recent otaku although I'm not counting captain tsubasa and dragon ball wich I watched as a kid.
(ID #277655) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:17
Student; wants a job T_T
Probably Sailor Moon when I was 3 or 4 years old. It was dubbed TV version with gender changes and all. :P
(ID #277658) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:18
Hahaha, sailor moon was my first anime also XD, dubs way back when were not to bad.
(ID #277685) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:31
teach how to be a gangsta, thug, or hoodrat
Grave of the Fireflys was my first as a kid i didnt know what the whole movie was about till i saw it a second when i grew up and it made me sad this was also when Sailor Moon was shown on TV Tuxedo Mask was so fn cool!!!
(ID #278865) Posted on 2008/08/26 12:41
lover of games, artist
same here. that or pokemon or DBZ
(ID #278628) Posted on 2008/08/26 07:09
Our's didn't have the gender changes but Sailormoon was my first anime
(ID #279757) Posted on 2008/08/27 04:05
DOREAMON! I read that when I was like 6. I remember going to the UCSD Library to borrow more DOREAMON ! >:] Although I couldn't understand any of it because it was in Japanese and I didn't know it.
(ID #277669) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:23
Ghost in the Shell the movie and then Akira. When it comes to a series it was probably GITS & Blue Submarine. Then I dove straight in to fansubs and have consumed all Anime worth watching! Literally almost a terabyte of video! I had seen Macross "Robotech" years before but it hadn't piqued my interest, it was too dated at the time.
(ID #277671) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:24
Student
Same here. At some point, I realized I liked the anime art style/everything else and decided to start watching stuff. Didn't really know what was good, so I watched the original GITS movie(not a mistake; excellent film). Akira followed, then....naruto *GASP*. I liked it, but the vastness of anime on the internet introduced me to other stuff and saved me from naruto fandom. I almost became a narutard o.O
(ID #277893) Posted on 2008/08/25 16:33
Receptionist/ Accountant/ Junior Designer/ Illustrator
Ghost in THe Shell and then Neon Genesis Evangelion ^-^ I started with the 'heavier' stuff first... XD
(ID #278320) Posted on 2008/08/26 00:45
Robotech (Macross, Southern Cross, Mospeada) is what got me into anime HARDCORE. I'd literally rush home to watch it every afternoon, regardless if it were summer break or not. I guess you could call it my 'kiddie soap opera". What I vividly recall is that the animation and story line were SO much better than the horrid crap that Hasbro and Mattel spewing out so they could pimp their toy lines. (e.g.: GI Joe, He Man, etc.) BTW, you can keep Minmay; I was always a Lisa Hayes fan.
(ID #279168) Posted on 2008/08/26 15:56
GO SPEED RACER GO!!! ^_^
(ID #277674) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:25
Me too. That was the first anime series i watched. after that ghost sweeper and dbz and so on...
(ID #277992) Posted on 2008/08/25 18:53
Doraemon FTW! :3
(ID #277676) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:25
FTW! Doraemon was probably my first.
(ID #277688) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:33
My first anime.... that was the dubbed version of Magic Knights Rayearth I think. Since then I've collected the mangas, the OVAs, and the art books.
(ID #277680) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:28
the first gundam and Evangelion XD since then all i care about in life is anime girls and GUNDAM
(ID #277682) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:29
Danny, great panchira shot! I've been itching for the next 2D panchira shot weekly, which you said you were gonna do...apparently the idea fell of the face of the planet. ^^;
(ID #277684) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:31
Me likes it too
(ID #277704) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:44
I should of probably worded my post better. It should be as follow > "Karasu-kun, great panchira shot" and then the rest is fine. ^^;
(ID #277832) Posted on 2008/08/25 15:44
Director/代表取締役
Maybe somebody can take up the job for me ^^;
(ID #278138) Posted on 2008/08/25 22:04
The first anime I ever saw was part of a single episode of Robotech (Macross) which I really liked but was never able to identify until years later, but the first series I ever actively watched (and fell in love with) was Sailor Moon. The next were fansubbed copies of Saber Marionette J. Ah,Memories ;)
(ID #277686) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:31
My first Anime was Voltron back in 1983. Soon it was followed by Transformers and well the rest is history.
(ID #277690) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:36
I want to say the same thing, but can those be counted as anime? The first was a radical re-editing of a Japanese cartoon, the latter was designed for American audiences, airing in the US first and later dubbed into Japanese. Artistically speaking, the "look" of both shows is certainly Japanese, although I was far too young to know the difference. Discounting these examples, I would say my first this-is-a-japanese-cartoon anime was Ranma 1/2, followed closely by the Fist of the North Star movie.
(ID #277775) Posted on 2008/08/25 15:14
I always was under the impression that Transformers came from Japan. Voltron is from Japan though and shares the same art style as everything else from that time period. If you say that Voltron isn't Anime, then the US imports of DBZ aren't Anime either. Those were extremely edited as well.
(ID #277828) Posted on 2008/08/25 15:41
My first anime was Voltes V. then followed by Voltron. the rest is now a blur.
(ID #277692) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:38
My first anime was Robotech. Now that I think of it, I kind of feel old...
(ID #277693) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:42
Shhh, we are not old.
(ID #277709) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:46
You may not be old but look at my post further down. I'm old (Weeps)
(ID #277935) Posted on 2008/08/25 17:28
Zen in Zjhentohlauedy Home Planet. aka. somewhere in the Philippines (Registered on 2008/06/10 23:11)
Student of LIFE!
well i have watched a lot before i reached macross. im a teen too! :P
(ID #277757) Posted on 2008/08/25 15:08
I'm not sure if its was Transformers, Gobots or Samurai Troopers.
(ID #277696) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:43
LOL'd I feel like old watching voltes v AHAHA~
(ID #278361) Posted on 2008/08/26 01:21
Blogger, Figure collector, Baby Photographer?
my first anime was sailor moon dub that aired in the morning before school. i remember getting up extra early just to be able to watch each episode. But at the time sailor moon was just a cartoon to me. But after that my brother introduced me to NGE and while i liked it it didn't hock me into anime as much as Outlaw Star did. I saw those two and loved them and just wanted more.
(ID #277697) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:43
Blogger, Figure collector, Baby Photographer?
oh and Minmay is awesome but i always liked this song more... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP2hzhnhyvk
(ID #277703) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:44
doraemon in chinese? Digimon in Chinese? LOL. Digimon was shown on Sunday, so I wake up early just to watch xD
(ID #277706) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:45
I watched Gatchaman (the G-Force version) as a kid, and I absolutely loved it. I watched a few others also growing up. But, the series that got me really into it was Love Hina. I look back on that anime with nostalgic eyes.
(ID #277710) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:46
the first ever anime i watched was most likely megaman, but i only saw one episode since it was on at like 5 am on a saturday morning.. and that was back when i was like 5 or 6 years old lol if that doesn't count then i guess it's pokemon hahahaha i became an anime junky in like 2004, when i upgraded to DSL and was able to download so much more anime hahaha
(ID #277712) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:47
Zen in Zjhentohlauedy Home Planet. aka. somewhere in the Philippines (Registered on 2008/06/10 23:11)
Student of LIFE!
megaman? hopefully not the fighting robot one.... I don't think that was anime........
(ID #277752) Posted on 2008/08/25 15:07
naw there was definitely a megaman anime i think... i bought one vhs of it back when i was a kid. but other than that, i can't really back that up lol btw, where part of the philippines do you live in? i'm a pinoy too :3
(ID #277977) Posted on 2008/08/25 18:27
Student & Authorized Chicken Slapper
My first anime would have to be either one of these two (cannot remember which one i saw first). Saint Seiya or Totoro, definitely one of those.
(ID #277720) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:53
my first anime was TRANZOR Z.... i think i was just five years old.. oh man... that was a while ago... I'm glad anime turned to be great today..
(ID #277726) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:56
Same with me...^_^;
(ID #277864) Posted on 2008/08/25 16:04
Same with me as well (at least as far as I can remember) and I'm older than you. ^^
(ID #278889) Posted on 2008/08/26 12:53
can someone tell me where the cutie character from the post is from...please >_< oh and the first anime that i watched was Rahxephon, and i absolutely loved it. Now that i think about it i came to experience anime quite late in my childhood.
(ID #277730) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:58
Pseudo-Graphic Designer
I remember mispronouncing the title of the first anime I've seen. I mispronounced it as "wortel" when it's actually called Voltes V. A classic. I spent almost $200 just to get the Chogokin version sometime last year. Watched it when I was a wee kid back in Jakarta :)
(ID #277732) Posted on 2008/08/25 14:59
Pseudo-Graphic Designer
Oops forgot to post the youtube link: http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt8cHqmhWv4
(ID #277779) Posted on 2008/08/25 15:15
My first anime was "Warriors of the Wind" A dubbed version of "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind", and kind of the first dubbed version of "Guyver" I was like 5 or 6 and I loved all the blood in that series, sure a few episodes freaked me out, but it was awesome!
(ID #277737) Posted on 2008/08/25 15:01
The first anime that I watched that turned me into a hardcore anime freak was Evangelion. My god I loved that show. But not including that, I used to watch other stuff like Dragon Ball (not Dragon Ball Z) and Pokemon on TV.
(ID #277748) Posted on 2008/08/25 15:04
Zen in Zjhentohlauedy Home Planet. aka. somewhere in the Philippines (Registered on 2008/06/10 23:11)
Student of LIFE!
Kimba maybe?
(ID #277749) Posted on 2008/08/25 15:05
The oldest anime remember watching is Robotech and Saint Seiya both in their Latin America releases.
(ID #277760) Posted on 2008/08/25 15:09
I would've quoted it Danny, but it was in my generic images folder and I have no idea where I got it from. It might've been Sankaku Complex, though I'm not completely sure. (Though I'm sure SC took it from somewhere else, too)
(ID #277761) Posted on 2008/08/25 15:10
Director/代表取締役
ok then please mention that you forgot the source.
(ID #278141) Posted on 2008/08/25 22:05
Robotech with cheesy English dub.
(ID #277762) Posted on 2008/08/25 15:10
university film student
...Wow, seems like there's actually a lot of people who remember getting started with Doraemon and Sailor Moon. I'm the same - used to watch both right before going to school in the afternoon. I was living in Hong Kong at the time, and completely left anime once I moved to Canada. Love Hina was the one that got me back in, though.
(ID #277767) Posted on 2008/08/25 15:12