1st Anime You've Ever Watch

[ZanTV]

Now for the otakus, I dont mean when you bcame an anime freak but the 1st anime you've watch even when you didnt know WTH is an anime..

eg. my 1st anime was Dash Yonkuro (not sure what they call it in the States though..), I was 5 so it was the same level with Power Rangers..and Barney..

[Swish]

I don't know, uh... Pokemon I guess? Back when I still fell within the show's target demographic.

I didn't really watch much at all (aside from the obvious Manga Entertainment releases at my local Blockbuster - Ghost in the Shell, Akira, etc.) until I went to University and joined LOVEFiLM.

Then again I'm still not really a hardcore anime nerd - I've just seen more than most people.

[Had0ken]

I remember mine, it was Barefoot Gen! I read the Manga before watching it. But was such a powerful thing to read & watch at my age, think I was about 12.

[RetroVortex]

I think it was Dragonball Z.
It could also have been Tenchi Muyo, as I watched that as a kid as well. (no wonder I'm so messed up! XD)
But I think it could also have been pokemon, (both were out at around the same time!).
Digimon was also an anime I watched as a kid, (but I think that came later on...).

[don]

Although I had a phase quite a few years ago, I consider myself very far from being an otaku. It's very rare the anime that catches my interest. The latest anime that I saw were The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (which I enjoyed a lot) and 5 Centimeters per Second (a friend made me watched it or I would taste her wrath...)

About the first one I watched, I'm not sure, but it was one of the following: Heidi, Girl of the Alps or 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother. I think it was Heidi, but I remember best Marco's plot.

[DancingFlameDragon]

I used to watch Sailor Moon when it was on TV in the morning. I don't think I ever really understood what was going on, but I liked watching it.
Then I got into Pokemon of course; after the initial phase of "Oh, Animaniacs is over... oh no that stupid "Pokemon" thing is on, change the channel!" (little did I know...)
Other than that I'm not a huge anime fan, the most anime-related stuff I've gotten into is related to video games.

[ZanTV]

OMG!

you guys kept talking bout Pokemon and Digimon I've just had a nostalgia moment!:D

also made me remember playing Pokemon on the Gameboy/Gameboy Colour and Digimon World on the PS1!

speaking of Digimon, did anyone remember those square Digivice toys that they sell, kinda like Tamagochi (b4 the anime came out..)?

[zippy]

Fullmetal Alchemist=BEST ANIME EVER!!!! :D

[Had0ken]

Fullmetal Alchemist=BEST ANIME EVER!!!! :D

Love Fullmetal Alchemist!

Ain't had a chance to watch Brotherhood yet. Any good?

[zippy]

Brotherhood is alot better than the 1st anime. :D (the other one wasn't bad though!)

[SukottoDono]

The first anime I watched were Speed Racer, Voltron, and G-Force (the English Gatchaman, not that stupid hamster movie). I don't remember which one I saw first.

Edit: I also saw Robotech around the time I saw the other three (about 15 years ago) and I'm still not sure which one I saw first.

[efrenista]

The First Anime i Saw. is Time Quest. im kinda anime geek. it becomes my hobby,

and for now im watching One Piece, Naruto and Bleach.
and still downloading and collecting anime.

[Songbird]

speaking of Digimon, did anyone remember those square Digivice toys that they sell, kinda like Tamagochi (b4 the anime came out..)?

When Pokemon was fairly new I got that Pikachu Tamagochi thing; That's probably where the idea of having to walk and such for the new Pokemon games came from.

Really, I can't pinpoint exactly the first one I saw, but I'm sure it was from a channel like Cartoon Network.... you know.... when it was about cartoons.

[don]

I had both those toy devices. I never liked Tamagochis, but people kept offering me, lol.

[wareagle884]

The first I remember laying eyes on was Voltron when I was a kid and I've been a fan of anime since then. I loved Dragonball Z back in the day and as of late my favorite has become Cowboy Bebop.

[Themo]

I believe the first anime that I remember watching was Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

I don't think I fully got into anime until they started showing Toonami on Cartoon Network some years back. Since then, I've purchased almost all but about 3 or 4 Studio Ghibli films (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle, etc).

My favorite series':

Sgt. Frog
Trigun
Cowboy Bebop
Azumanga Daioh
Pandora Hearts
Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Dragon Ball
Hayate The Combat Butler (or, Hayate no Gotoku)

Can't say I'm an "otaku," but I definitely enjoy me some anime every so often :)

[Swish]

Since we're resurrecting this thread to talk favourites...

TV:
Texhnloyze
Serial Experiments Lain
Suzumiya Haruhi
Kino's Journey
Death Note
Paranoia Agent
Mushi-Shi
Haibane Renmei
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Azumanga Daioh
Cromartie High School
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (both series, for different reasons)
RahXephon

Film:
Ghost in the Shell (and Innocence)
Metropolis
Perfect Blue (and everything else Kon Satoshi ever did - the man's a genius)
Grave of the Fireflies (and the other Ghibli movies to varying degrees)
Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu

In no particular order. That's a long list, but screw it; I struggle to put any one of those above another in terms of how much I enjoyed it.

I think I already answered the stated thread topic... ... yes, I did.

[Sano]

Robotech when I was a kid. The New Generation arc made me the fan of anime that I am today. It was on at like 5:30 in the morning so I got up really early to watch it every day. Characters were getting killed left and right! At the time I wasn't sure that I was watching anime and I didn't know that they took 3 different anime shows and made into Robotech but that was definitely the gateway series for me.

When I went to High School I met a lot of anime fans and we wound up trading vids and stuff. A lot of things we watched in straight up Japanese since this was before fan subs. Lots of Dragon Ball Z and Fist of the North Star, all in straight up Japanese. We lent each other the English version of Akira though. There was more adult stuff that I never got into like Legend of the Overfiend, but hey it was cool to see for free I guess! And to figure out I'm not that much of a pervert I guess.... :p

When I was in college and beyond I got into fan subs and started picking those up along with buying licensed anime. Most of the anime at the time only came in English on VHS so I watched a little of both. I still prefer to see anime in Japanese if I have a choice. Around this time I was big into the Street Fighter II Animated movie and the TV Anime (fan subbed), Ranma 1/2 (in English only) and HOORAY I was able to watch Dragon Ball Z and Fist of the North Star with fan subs! I watched the entirety of Dragon Ball WAAAY before a a single episode of Z aired on TV heh! I also really liked the Fatal Fury anime and was big on Sailor Moon for a bit.

Which brings us to the DVD age LOL and this was when I really started to get into Gundam. I'm a HUGE fan of Rurouni Kenshin. The anime, manga, OVA man I like it all. My net name Sano comes from Sagara Sanosuke. Most def one of my favorite anime characters of all time. I also dig some of the bigger shows that everyone likes such as Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop, stuff like that.


Well now I watch some shows online, the legal stuff that sites host like Naruto, Full Metal Alchemist and Sengoku Basara. I still pick up DVDs here and there. Watching Fate / Stay Night, Busou Renkin and History's Strongest Disciple on DVD. About to pick up Casshern Sins too. Some shows I watch on Playstation Network here and there like Claymore.

[ZanTV]

Yep, 佐野 (Sano) is an otaku..:D

Finished an (mostly) unknown anime series called Queen's Blade..
So, is anybody watching/reading any seinen (mature, target age 18~30+) genre anime/manga?

Examples would be Gantz, 20th Century Boy, Sekirei (my personal fav, although its more towards ecchi than seinen)

Since we're resurrecting this thread to talk favourites...

TV:
Texhnloyze
Serial Experiments Lain
Suzumiya Haruhi
Kino's Journey
Death Note
Paranoia Agent
Mushi-Shi
Haibane Renmei
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Azumanga Daioh
Cromartie High School
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (both series, for different reasons)
RahXephon

Film:
Ghost in the Shell (and Innocence)
Metropolis
Perfect Blue (and everything else Kon Satoshi ever did - the man's a genius)
Grave of the Fireflies (and the other Ghibli movies to varying degrees)
Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu

In no particular order. That's a long list, but screw it; I struggle to put any one of those above another in terms of how much I enjoyed it.

I think I already answered the stated thread topic... ... yes, I did.

With this reply, its hard to believe this: Then again I'm still not really a hardcore anime nerd - I've just seen more than most people.

:p

[Swish]

Well, to be fair, the shows I've seen that aren't in that list are probably outnumbered by those that are. By Internet standards I'm a newbie. That said, we've already established elsewhere that I hate Internet standards; so fair cop.

I tend to watch things based on recommendations from people I respect and/or on following particular creators' work, rather than just watching anything and everything to dig up the gems myself. I'm entirely uninterested in digging through the remaining 99% of shows.

[Dafreakzo]

The first Anime I had ever watched was Sailor Moon. Well, it was kind of a combo. I used to wake up in the morning around 6am before school and turn on the television. It was a great combo that went from Sailor Moon first then Samurai Pizza Cats followed by DragonBall Z!!

[Sano]

Yep, 佐野 (Sano) is an otaku..:D

:p

Oh yeah BIG TIME. :p Even went to Japan back in 2002. I really want to go back next year for the big anime convention that usually goes down early in the year. The trickiest part is usually coming up with the money and going with someone who will pay their own way.

Still I went by myself last time and didn't have any problems. A lot of people in Tokyo either speak English or know of it as a second language. Was able to get by, make new friends, go on a bunch of tours and totally geek out!


Tokyo is a really fun place to visit! Not cheap. It's probably the equivalent of staying at a five star hotel in New York city. There are deals and packages that you can look into though.

Some days it was really cool staying in the hotel and watching stuff like Inu Yasha and Samurai Deeper Kyo on TV at 7:00 PM or so, even in straight up Japanese. I mean nowadays we have stuff like the anime channel and online when you can watch that stuff whenever but I don't know, it's just cool to experience watching brand new eps! I saw Ultimate M.U.S.C.L.E. for the first time over there and had no idea what the heck that was. :p

[Dafreakzo]

Oh yeah BIG TIME. :p Even went to Japan back in 2002. I really want to go back next year for the big anime convention that usually goes down early in the year. The trickiest part is usually coming up with the money and going with someone who will pay their own way.

Still I went by myself last time and didn't have any problems. A lot of people in Tokyo either speak English or know of it as a second language. Was able to get by, make new friends, go on a bunch of tours and totally geek out!


Tokyo is a really fun place to visit! Not cheap. It's probably the equivalent of staying at a five star hotel in New York city. There are deals and packages that you can look into though.

Some days it was really cool staying in the hotel and watching stuff like Inu Yasha and Samurai Deeper Kyo on TV at 7:00 PM or so, even in straight up Japanese. I mean nowadays we have stuff like the anime channel and online when you can watch that stuff whenever but I don't know, it's just cool to experience watching brand new eps! I saw Ultimate M.U.S.C.L.E. for the first time over there and had no idea what the heck that was. :p


I am so incredibly jealous and wish I could afford to go to Japan!

[rickedyou]

Yes it was Pokemon for me..

After that i haven't seen a single animated movie till date!

[DancingFlameDragon]

Yes it was Pokemon for me..

After that i haven't seen a single animated movie till date!

Yeah, although I've seen quite a few animated movies, I have very rarely gotten into any animated shows since Pokemon. Well, until more recently when I really got into Avatar: The Last Airbender, which I don't think really counts as an anime in the strictest sense. Other than that I don't really watch much anime.

[ZanTV]

Oh yeah BIG TIME. :p Even went to Japan back in 2002. I really want to go back next year for the big anime convention that usually goes down early in the year. The trickiest part is usually coming up with the money and going with someone who will pay their own way.

Still I went by myself last time and didn't have any problems. A lot of people in Tokyo either speak English or know of it as a second language. Was able to get by, make new friends, go on a bunch of tours and totally geek out!


Tokyo is a really fun place to visit! Not cheap. It's probably the equivalent of staying at a five star hotel in New York city. There are deals and packages that you can look into though.

Some days it was really cool staying in the hotel and watching stuff like Inu Yasha and Samurai Deeper Kyo on TV at 7:00 PM or so, even in straight up Japanese. I mean nowadays we have stuff like the anime channel and online when you can watch that stuff whenever but I don't know, it's just cool to experience watching brand new eps! I saw Ultimate M.U.S.C.L.E. for the first time over there and had no idea what the heck that was. :p

Thanks, you've made me wanna sulk in a corner, anime style..
Argh! You just wait when I finish college in 2 1/2 years time and I'll go live in Japan!!!
Hah! Take that!

[Seluhir]

Samurai Pizza Cats!! <-- best first anime ever.

[Forar]

SPC was indeed an excellent series.

I believe my first series was probably Robotech, a good two and a half decades ago.

[Lurna]

I'm not funny 100% sure but it was either sailor moon or inuyasha.

[Macacão Sapão]

Zillion.
Though I was too young to actually remember what it was about.

[general_mee]

ahahaha there's that microsoft download again... PAPA MYRPH!!! HEAAALP!

But since this topic has been resurrected (again)

First show I ever saw was Sailor Moon, but only when I was very sneaky... my parents were pretty stickler about avoiding shows that talked about magic and demons and monsters and stuff. I liked the theme song :D

First one I got into seriously was Dragonball Z when I was a teenager. I'm still not really a major anime fan, but I di enjoy that one! There were other vintage ones that came along too, like Voltron (way better than power rangers<which coincidentally I wasn't allowed to watch either>), and Thundercats (is that really an anime?) and Transformers(again, not sure if that is an anime).

In college I had a boyfriend that was nuts for anime... Insisted on watching entire seasons of it in Japanese for date night. :/ Sometimes he would put on the subtitles for me at least. The one he was always watching... I can't remember the title, but I think the main character guy was called Kenshin or something... it was all about samurai and there was plenty of blood and gore hah!

[Macacão Sapão]

First one I got into seriously was Dragonball Z when I was a teenager.

The good thing about DBZ is that it was the most simple thing: There is good, there's bad, and they need to kick each other's butts. ;)

I can't remember the title, but I think the main character guy was called Kenshin or something... it was all about samurai and there was plenty of blood and gore hah!

Samurai X ^^ I have never seen the anime, but the manga is still on my top 5 favorites.

[DancingFlameDragon]

The good thing about DBZ is that it was the most simple thing: There is good, there's bad, and they need to kick each other's butts. ;)
Repeatedly. It seemed as though nobody ever stayed dead on that show :p. I don't really know a whole lot about it, but one of my friends always watched it when it was on TV and I remember some stuff about Frieza (I still call him a she; it took me the longest time to realize otherwise) and Cell. And really long fights that spanned over multiple episodes.

[Macacão Sapão]

Repeatedly. It seemed as though nobody ever stayed dead on that show :p. I don't really know a whole lot about it, but one of my friends always watched it when it was on TV and I remember some stuff about Frieza (I still call him a she; it took me the longest time to realize otherwise) and Cell. And really long fights that spanned over multiple episodes.

Cell was a really cool season, my favorite, actually.

But DBZ DID make things last forevet. Sometimes it wasn't even fights, it was meaningless things (ask fans how long it took for Goku to run the snake path. Man, talk about neverending!).

Still, I loved it. There were memorable fight sequences.

[general_mee]

Yeah, DBZ had what they call "soap opera pacing". But then, there's a reason that soap operas are popular... as annoyingly slow and vapid as they are, they know how to leave you aching for the next episode!!!

[DancingFlameDragon]

I remember reading this (http://anime.ign.com/articles/865/865869p1.html) article on IGN that points out the things that are "wrong" with DBZ. It's a pretty entertaining and interesting read (and although I know I have limited knowledge of the series, I still had quite a few "that's SO right!" moments). However, I also guess that a lot of these imperfections are what make a lot of people love DBZ for what it is.

Also, this is coming from a Pokemon fan, so I guess I really don't have much of an argument if I said that recycled plots are a bad thing (I mean, do they really need to have Team Rocket in EVERY SINGLE EPISODE besides one (has that changed at all in more recent seasons)? I love Team Rocket but there are times when they just unnecessarily break up a perfectly good story just for the sake of appearing in every episode :rolleyes:

[Macacão Sapão]

(I mean, do they really need to have Team Rocket in EVERY SINGLE EPISODE besides one (has that changed at all in more recent seasons)? I love Team Rocket but there are times when they just unnecessarily break up a perfectly good story just for the sake of appearing in every episode :rolleyes:

Though you do have a point, I gotta admit... I love Team Rocket.

[DancingFlameDragon]

Though you do have a point, I gotta admit... I love Team Rocket.
Same here :D I also really enjoy the episodes that focus mainly on them.
I just think that they should leave Team Rocket's appearances to when it would make more sense with the actual storyline instead of just interrupting it (of course, with an occasional "randomly appearing from nowhere to capture Pikachu or whatever other Pokemon" episode thrown in because you have to have at least some of those). I love it when they're treated as sort of "alternate main characters".
They're like the Wile E. Coyote of the Pokemon series (and I bet they buy most of their stuff from ACME too :rolleyes:).

[Macacão Sapão]

They're like the Wile E. Coyote of the Pokemon series (and I bet they buy most of their stuff from ACME too :rolleyes:).

SO true! :D

[Raving Dragon]

Sailor Moon was my first...that was many many years ago. Now i'm all about Clannad, Lucky Star and PSG.

[Songbird]

Okay, I know this isn't exactly related to the topic, but I can't help but share this because it's too cute and funny.

Anime Guy On A Date (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66hSiRgbgX0) - Rated T for sexual themes (Don't worry it's not bad.)