What Was Your Introduction Into Anime?

Berserk was the one that did it for me.

I was staying at a friends house recovering and he asked me if I had ever heard of Berserk.  I said no, he was like ohhh dood!

I binge watched the whole thing it was so damn good!  The subjective nature of this show was fucking off the charts!

Even in its subjective nature I knew what was going on and being said between the two.  I won’t do any spoilers for those who have never seen this GEM!

If we’re talking about the animation style of anime, then that would be about half of the cartoons from the 80s. Thundercats, Silverhawks, The Real Ghostbusters were just some of the cartoons that I loved in the 80s that were done in that anime style. Voltron of course being the first Japan to US anime adaptation that I ever watched. Those shows got me interested but it wasn’t until I watched Gundam Wing in 2000 that I became interesting in actual anime shows.

My first exposure to anime would have to be bits and pieces of Pokemon however, Gundam was really what got me into anime as a whole. Amazing mechanical designs and the fact you got to see giant robots blowing each other up was amazing when I was really young. Now that I’m older, I absolutly love the over-arching narritive of the “anti-war” part of it. Now, what do i mean by “anti-war”, and I can probably hear people smashing away on thier keyboard saying. “it is a big war with giant mechs, how is it even considered an anti-war story”.  When you take a deep dive in the charecter development of the series, you tend to see that, there really isnt a “good side” or a “bad side”, there is just a war that people, with probably relatable views on life, fight for what they think is right. Now that being said, there are very evil charecters that exsist in the Gundam franchise, though I don’t really want spoil bits and parts of each show, so I will make them kinda vage but try to leave a few hints here and there. There are two charecters that come to mind that want to do a mass genocide, some that betray friends more than enough times. I would highly recommend to take a look at Gundam as a whole and see what stories you like. there is one main timeline that exsists called, “Universal Century” which is where the main show has its roots, and there are other alternate universes that take place in thier own timeline. For example, Gundam Wing being in the “After Colony” timeline.

Oh this old times( Joking) My first Anime was Sailor Moon, then Dragonball, then a few anime movies  i can´t remeber. Princess Momonoke,first Anime Film, I love it even now(2020 best anime). I seen so much, oh yeah he he Akira. Yeah and One Piece ( BS incoming .)

For me…it is these two films. Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland and My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari no Totoro).  As for anime series…it would have to be Voltron and then Ronin Warriors (Samurai Troopers).

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Watched few anime whiteout even understanding difference between anime and cartoons what got me in to anime was game MS Gundam Zeonic front looked fore more info and rest is history.

Although I remember watching Robotech when I was little kid whit my brother so that’s definitely first.

Dragon Ball Z on Toonami. Though I didn’t know it was anime until many years later. Had no idea it was from Japan, I just knew I loved it. I remember the days when all Toonami had were the Ocean dub episodes, so they’d just start over after they got to I think episode 54. I’d watch Sailor Moon occasionally too, but never watched it like DBZ. Wasn’t into Pokemon at the time either, so that didn’t interest me.

As soon as I read the name ” Malachite”, I had to jump right in and respond.

You clearly saw the horrible DiC english dub. Unless someone recently told you about the original Japanese dub, or informed you about Viz Media’s re-dub, or even read the re-released manga or watched Sailor Moon Crystal, you have not seen the actual series the way it was meant to be seen. If I’m wrong, please correct me.

But, I just had to jump in, because it completely blows my mind that in 2020 there are still people who’s seen Sailor Moon, but never, ever, knew that in recent years Viz Media re-dubbed the 1990’s anime to follow MUCH CLOSER to the Japanese dub. Nothing is cut out, Usagi is Usagi, Luna doesn’t sound like an old english woman stereotype, Zoisite was a DUDE, Kunsite was NOT named something else, Sailors Uranus and Neptune are still lesbian lovers, they’re Sailor Guardians and not the PC sounding “scouts”, and we FINALLY, after forever in a day and long overdue, got the “Stars” season in english!

As you can tell, I am extremely passionate about this franchise, and yes I’m a guy, and it’s the reason why me and my wife (who for some reason looks back on the terrible 90’s/2000’s dub with fondness) are together. But as I said, please correct me if you were informed and/or seen/read any of the product as it was intended.