Your first anime

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sasazuka said:
Oh, geez, I didn't think English-translated manga was worth much of anything on the secondary market but bundles of the 4 Gunsmith Cats omnibus volumes go for triple digits on eBay (and, yes, as a Hot Wheels collector, I know to check the "Sold" listings for value).
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Yeah, the omnibus volumes went out of print fast, I started reading them in 2010, then just like a year or two later they shot way up in price, they were only maybe around 4 or 5 years old by that point.

Why Dark Horse didn't keep them in print for a little longer and why they don't release it again I don't know.

It isn't the only manga where that happened for me, it also happened with MPD Psycho which I think was also Dark Horse and in the case of MPD Psycho I can't even find scans of it, it also happened with Dark Horse's original release of Gantz, but that's getting omnibus re-releases thankfully, but why not Gunsmith Cats as well?

Moral of the story when it comes to Dark Horse manga, don't procrastinate.
 
My first experiences watching anime were watching whatever my sister was watching in the mornings before school. So I was watching bits of stuff like Inyuasha, Yu Yu Hakasho, Ouran Host Club, and Hetalia. Though I never really got into anime on my own until way later.
 
Vapewizard said:
I'm just another basic late 90s-early 2000s bitch who grew up with dubbed Pokemon, Sailor moon, Dragonball Z andfirst. Sometimes I considered going back to watch CCS in its non-butchered form but then I remembered it has more episodes than I usually commit to these day
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I watched Cardcaptor Sakura over the summer and really enjoyed it. Might be in my top 10. I don't think I watched Cardcaptors that much. I'm sure I saw a few episodes here and there but I didn't get into it. I don't remember any boys being fans of it, only girls. Funny considering they tried to make it a boys anime by making it look like Syaoran was the main character and turning Sakura into a tomboy. I knew more boys who liked Sailor Moon.

I'm sure Pokemon was mine back in 1998. If I saw any before I don't remember. I sometimes watched DBZ with my younger brother and Sailor Moon with my friend.
 
Robotech. At the time I was so young and info about animu was almost nonexistent. So I had no idea it was a butchered frankenanime. But that's the only way it was gonna air on TV in America and we were lucky to get what we got. It was also really ahead of its time with diversity without screaming all day long about how black or brown or vagina a character was.

I still remember watching it in the morning when I was only four years old. ❤️
 
My first anime was something called Kekkashi. It was a boy and a girl with their wolf spirits, I don’t remember too much about it. It was on Toonami, and I remember watching it in high school one night after I came home from a party I wasn’t supposed to be at. It was totally kind blowing! I had never experienced a TV show like it before. I’ve thought about going back and watching it but I’m worried it won’t live up to my expectations (especially considering I never hear anyone talk about it) so I think I’ll just leave it in my memories...
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Mooger Meng said:
It very well may have been, yeah, and I'm not going to ask why or how you know.
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I think I rented Dragon Knight circa 1994, and, no, it wasn't from the back room. This particular video store didn't seem to differentiate between hentai and non-hentai anime and would just put them on the same wall, including titles much more graphic and disturbing than Dragon Knight such as the legendary Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend.
 
sasazuka said:
I think I rented Dragon Knight circa 1994, and, no, it wasn't from the back room. This particular video store didn't seem to differentiate between hentai and non-hentai anime and would just put them on the same wall, including titles much more graphic and disturbing than Dragon Knight such as the legendary Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend.
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Ah, yes, the good(???) old days.
 
Stupid Fan said:
My first anime was something called Kekkashi. It was a boy and a girl with their wolf spirits, I don’t remember too much about it. It was on Toonami, and I remember watching it in high school one night after I came home from a party I wasn’t supposed to be at. It was totally kind blowing! I had never experienced a TV show like it before. I’ve thought about going back and watching it but I’m worried it won’t live up to my expectations (especially considering I never hear anyone talk about it) so I think I’ll just leave it in my memories...
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Kekkashi was great, an underrated classic imo. The author went on to write Birdmen which ended not so long ago, though iirc the endings for both lagged a bit... It still holds a place in my heart.
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Due to some questionable parenting, the very first anime that I ever consciously watched was this obscure mid-90's masterpiece:
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Quite possibly the most underrated OAV, imo. Shame it was never completed.

Other than that, I was raised on what you could call THE weeb diet of the late 80's and early 90's. Brought up on all the magical girls, the mechs, tiny monsters, the harems, the mindfuckery...
The good times.
 
The first anime I've seen that I knew was an anime was Naruto. I don't recall the actual first anime I've watched, however.

The earliest anime that I know of was the original Shaman King and the 2000s Yu-Gi-Oh!, but I know I've watched stuff before them, I just don't know what they're called.

I remember an anime about a woman or girl riding a horse. She had a weapon, I think it was a sword. I don't remember anything after, I think I might have been 4 years-old. The animation of the wind moving the grass was amazing. I think that's what I remember.
 
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I'm not a 100% sure which might have been the first. I get the feeling I'm in the same boat as a number you probably because we're around the same age and/or probably from the states. It would have probably been around the early 90s (maybe 1992 or 1993) and I think some of the only shows running at the time were things like DBZ, Speed Racer, Voltron, and a few others (maybe Robotech/Macross, Astro Boy, etc.). This was well before anime in general really got mainstream in the US thanks largely to Toonami which I think launched in 96 or 97. It's hard to remember which one of these I definitely saw first especially since I know I've only seen a few episodes of Speed Racer and Voltron.
 
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