Your first anime

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Noticed this popped up and wonder how many kids watched a "FHE" tape in the 80's, seeing these weirdly-dubbed Japanese cartoons and simply have no idea what else was there.
 
Probably Dragonball. Or some other cartoon that came on TV as a kid I didn't realize was from Japan. I also watched a akira when I was like 9 or 10 or something probably on teletoon. Canada's cartoon channel basically gave zero fucks and aired shit that was probably terrible for children at hours when children were still awake.
 
One of the Dragonball animes or maybe it was some show with Samurais, I think it was Ronin Warriors.
 
VHSes of titles like Robotech, early releases still in rental stores like the early U.S. Renditions releases of titles like The Guyver and Gunbuster, Streamline titles like Golgo 13: The Professional, AnimEigo titles like BGC and Lupin III: The Fuma Conspiracy.
 
Pokemon, Sailor Moon, Gundam Wing and DBZ all fall into the "I was so young and they're just different cartoons" era for me... as far as intentionally seeking out anime? I'm not sure. Probably Evangelion.
I'm from the transitional generation where EVERY nerd was watching anime by the time I left college.
 
Almost certainly Pokemon. I don't know if Transformers was an anime or not, but I watched that as a really young kid, so probably that if it is.
 
@SSj_Ness The original Transformers cartoon, like a lot of other "American" television animation from the 1980s, was animated in Japan (by Toei in the case of Transformers and other Marvel/Hasbro Sunbow cartoons like G.I. Joe and My Little Pony), but it's generally not considered "anime" since it was written by Americans for an American audience.
 
sasazuka said:
@SSj_Ness The original Transformers cartoon, like a lot of other "American" television animation from the 1980s, was animated in Japan (by Toei in the case of Transformers and other Marvel/Hasbro Sunbow cartoons like G.I. Joe and My Little Pony), but it's generally not considered "anime" since it was written by Americans for an American audience.
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So ponies are waifus.
 
Dragon Ball Z. As a kid in the 90's my older brother was huge of Bruce Lee, Howard Stern and Heavy Metal 2000. Which translates to he was the average young adult in the 90's. One day I discovered him and his friends watching one of the DBZ movies Tree of Might or Dead Zone. Compared to the cartoons at the time this was high action and dark. It blew my mind how Gohan got high eating a apple and hallucinated dinosaurs in a bad ass action themed anime. I feel in love that instant.
 
Astro Boy, but I had no idea it was Japanese at the time, it was just a cartoon.
Then Battle of the Planets
Then Robotech
Then Porco Rosso
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Aside from a few scattered episodes of Transformers anime throughout the years, my first anime is The Secret World of Arrietty. My mom saw the DVD at the store one day and we got it because it was based on The Borrowers. I remember feeling pretty sad when Arrietty's mother was kidnapped.

The first anime I sought out because I wanted to watch an anime, though, was Sailor Moon.
 
There was pokemon, The Transformers unicron trilogy growing up, but the first true "wow this is something different " moment happened with Yugioh. I watched the whole fucking show, on 4kids, youtube, piracy sites, wherever I could. I could never watch it again, not without watching it with a kid. But the amount of memories, talking about the show at recess, playing and trading the cards, and of course, Kaiba's VA snorting ALL the crack cocaine to deliver every line with absolute rich asshole energy only he could. Loved that show man. Rip the author.
 
I still think of this, my first anime!

Going off a bit, I wonder how many may think/say this was their first?

I find this show pretty charming and wish it was something I saw back in the 80's alongside DiC's Dennis The Menace cartoon.
 
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