How you got into Anime...

Kaiser · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 9:33 am Post subject: How you got into Anime...

I'm just curious on how everyone got into the anime scene.

I had nothing to do with cartoons or anime until I saw my brother and cousin watching a cartoon called "Cybersix". It was beautifully animated, but I can't say the storyline was that good, it was half directed to a younger audience and half directed to youths. But oh god.. the animation!

Joint production by a Canadian company and the Japanese Studio behind "Akira", the animation was stunning and done at something like $1 million per episode. As I searched around for Cybersix info I met others who directed me to more Japanese anime. I watched "Gundam Wing" on TV and thought that was the greatest thing ever until Frundock sent me to "Neon Genesis Evangelion". I downloaded a few episodes (yes illegal fansubs since Eva was licensed by ADV) and watched them all.

By the end of shitty .RM format Evangelion fansubs, I was rabid. I wanted more anime! Again Frundock turned me loose on the world of Hotline... where I met most of the old CAAM and A-S folks.

And from downloading fansubs of various anime... I became a rabid anime fan who has spent countless $$$ buying DVDs, going to an Anime convention in LA, and even running a website.. heh

Who said fansubs don't serve a purpose? If I hadn't downloaded those illegal fansubs of Evangelion 2 years back, I wouldn't be here.

PS. I also went and bought the Evangelion DVDs for like $360-400 CDN from ADV.

atikiN · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 11:27 am Post subject:

Cartoon Network + Dragon Ball Z = AngelKing's gateway to anime.

Egeria · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 12:42 pm Post subject:

Ah the memories. I remember it so clearly. I believe it was Christmas vacation and my brother carried home some anime. I remember he sat us all down and we watched our first anime EVER. It was something of a family event.

That first anime? It was Golden Boy.....

Yep, that was my first. Needless to say, I didn't particularly like that one but I quickly caught on to anime after that. Here I am years later, still loving those familiar wide-eyed characters and the strange and sometimes bizarre stories offered in animes.

SPFiredrake · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 3:08 pm Post subject:

I've seen several animes before the age of 15, but I never really noticed anything about em (perhaps because I was such a little kid that the stories/artwork just didn't keep my attention). Anyway, sophomore year of high school, a friend of mine sets me loose on Saber Marionette J. First 8 episodes on a DVD, and that's all he had. Enough to get me hooked though, and I was craving more soon.

After we finished with the first DVD of SMJ (still need to watch the rest of it), he managed to get a hold of Evangelion. After the first several episodes, I was hooked.

Nomori · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 3:16 pm Post subject:

It goes back to the 80's for me. I remember watching Astroboy on beta tapes when i was around 4 years old. There were some shows on tv that were made in japan, i can't remember all of them but there were a lot. But, i didn't know i was watching anime, and realised it with Dragonball. I started with the mangas, then watched the few episodes aired on TV. Then i heard about an anime club at the youth's center and started watching better shows.

So, i grew up with anime. It was a big part of my childhood Very Happy

^PaNdA · i eat boys n_n Joined: Nov 28, 2002 Posts: 53 Location: LA

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Kaiser · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 5:54 pm Post subject:

DrJackal · Jikan Samurai Joined: Mar 14, 2004 Posts: 979

My situation is the same as Angelking's, cartoon network and dragonball z lead me to download dragonball gt on kazaa with a 56k modem Embarassed

Mikueru-chan · Yari Ashigaru Joined: Nov 27, 2002 Posts: 371

Well with me it's just like Angelking and DrJackal

Egeria · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 8:31 pm Post subject:

ddogt432 · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 10:32 pm Post subject:

bro's pr0n addicted friends and their misconception that all anime was hentai = my discovery of love hina XD
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generic-coolname · Editor Joined: Nov 18, 2002 Posts: 358 Location: Uk

Ah, my first meaningful experience....

Well, I've always had an interest in animated films whether they be works from Disney or some of our own home grown animation here in the UK. I'm sure I must have recognised some cartoons on TV as having a particular style but I never associated them with anime.

I didn't become aware of animé as a niche in its own right until we got satelite TV installed at home. Sci Fi channel used to have a regular animé spot (probably still do) and I was converted through that. Not straight away, mind. The first animés I watched on there usually encouraged me to turn over. It was only by chance that I caught the begining of Wings of Honneamise. I absolutely fell in love with that film. The artwork was sublime and the story was mature and meaningful. It was the best thing I'd ever seen and after that I made a point of seeing more. Then Sci Fi did an anime season to coincide with the theatre release of Final Fantasy: The Spritits Within and introduced me to, first Ghost in the Shell and then Akira. Both films blew me away, particularly Akira which still contains some of the best animation and artwork I've ever seen.

Above all though, it was the mature and sophistocated plots that I really enjoyed. The fact that the films don't treat you like an idiot and aren't necessarily aimed at children is something that I still look for in animés today. For me that's really where japanese animation really stands out from the crowd.

DarkGod · newbie! Joined: 1072106196 Posts: 9

Hmmm, how did I get into anime... that is one hard question. I remember when I was young I watched the DB and Gundam series' dubbed as some of my first animes but it was some movie that I saw afterwards that really got me into it all ...can't remember which it was though. All I remember is that the Kenshin OVAs and X TV series have been my fav animes since I saw them. Oh, and Kaiser I remember Cybersix too. Shame FOX blew it off competely so that it didn't get the proper support for a second series or the DVD release (english one) it deserved. That network can be very cruel at times (Family Guy). Sad

Oh, and I remember trying to watch Akira with a friend when I was 9 or something and it was just so confusing and boring for us that we turned it off a third of the way through, lol. I did however watch it all a year ago and yea that's one of my fav movies aswell. Love that animation.

Jsy3k · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 4:21 pm Post subject:

Well, I started watching anime at the age of 8. My first anime is Doraemon..... Very cute cat with a magic pocket..... After that, I watched some like sailormoon and transformers..... But, those alone are not really dragging me into anime.

I was dragged to it when I watch Flame of Recca and You're Under Arrest ..... Wow, I found them very interesting and started collecting them. Some of the first animes that I collect are Chobits, Eva, Vandread 1st and 2nd Stage, Flame of Recca, and a lot. Now I have around 90 anime titles and still growing. One of them is of course, Maria sama, A-Source fansubs one. I just love it.

idjota · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 8:07 am Post subject:

i always watched cartoons, and i think the first anime that i saw was capitan tsubasa, then after a while maybe 97-98 i started to watch more anime, and probably dbz pushed me to download anime from the net with 56k modem like some other people here