Me, GUNDAM WING was the first anime I REALLY got in to. I bought the models, figures, even some of the manga! What about you my fellow ANIME/MANGA fans?
What was the first ANIME you got hooked on?
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Sailor Moon, Ronin Warriors, Speed Racer, Dragon Ball Z were all my first introductions to anime, but it wasn't utill G-WING that I REALLY got hooked and wanted MORE!
^Is that a REAL series ''or'' do you mean just in general?
Oh! okay I was just wondering because I really wouldn't put it past the Japanese to have a show called Anime Babes!
I swear that entire country is Nucking Futs!
I was just over at www.amazon.com looking for some of the old titles I was talking about and I was SHOCKED! to come across these titles! Anyone you can do, I can do better.
Night shift nurses, and this one just made me laughe, Sailor and the 7 Ballz!
Night shift nurses, and this one just made me laughe, Sailor and the 7 Ballz!I used to watch Battle of the Planets in the 80s, but I'd say I really got hooked on Sailor Moon in '96.
Back in high school, during lunch time, my hardcore anime fan friends would bring in videos for us to watch on the VCR in one of the classrooms. The one that I was absolutely hooked onto from that experience was Ranma 1/2. I tend to hate anime when it takes itself too seriously (like some of the Gundum stuff they brought in later) but I just loved the rediculous characters in Ranma 1/2.
After that, the only thing they brought in that I liked was Saber Marionette J. Mostly, I just thought the main character's gay neighbor was funny. (And since graduating high school, the only other shows that I've been able to get into have been Cowboy Bebop, Excel Saga, Ghost Stories, & Puni Puni Poemi.)
After that, the only thing they brought in that I liked was Saber Marionette J. Mostly, I just thought the main character's gay neighbor was funny. (And since graduating high school, the only other shows that I've been able to get into have been Cowboy Bebop, Excel Saga, Ghost Stories, & Puni Puni Poemi.)
I liked a lot of stuff growing up that was sort of Westernized anime, like Voltron, Transformers, and the Star Wars trilogy. 
My friends got me to watch Akira, which I hated, and Armitage III, which was alright but nothing to rave about. But the first anime I remember watching and really enjoying was Kiki's Delivery Service.
My whole family loves that movie. And really all of Hayao Miyazaki's work is pretty much genius. Good family fare, and something new almost every time I watch any of it.
My friends got me to watch Akira, which I hated, and Armitage III, which was alright but nothing to rave about. But the first anime I remember watching and really enjoying was Kiki's Delivery Service.My whole family loves that movie. And really all of Hayao Miyazaki's work is pretty much genius. Good family fare, and something new almost every time I watch any of it.
Gundam Wing or Blue Submarine No. 6 (or both). I recall that Toonami had them on in the same block for a while, but I never got to see them all the way through. I had seen Teknoman Blade when I was younger, but back then I didn't know the difference between anime and western animation.
Mysterious Cities of Gold and Teknoman/Tekkaman Blade were the first but that was when I didn't know what anime was. When I knew what anime actually was my firsts then were Dragonball Z, Gundam Wing, and Outlaw Star on Toonami. I don't hold the view that what I saw first is the best or anything I always thought that attitude was moronic.
For me - 1978 - KTLA Family Film Festival - Movie: Space Cruiser Yamato compilation film (one year later, the series was released in the U.S. as Starblazers).
From there I learned there was OTHER anime I had in fact enjoyed as a younger child, including Speed Racer (aka Mach Go Go); Gigantor (aka Iron Man 28); The Amazing Three (same name in Japan). And while Starblazers got my interest up to the point I was spending most of my time at any Science Fiction cons I went to in the Anime Video Rooms - when Robotech mania hit, a lot of local Anime Clubs sprung up (that showed anime on weekends fromvarious sources); and my anime collecting phase began....
From there I learned there was OTHER anime I had in fact enjoyed as a younger child, including Speed Racer (aka Mach Go Go); Gigantor (aka Iron Man 28); The Amazing Three (same name in Japan). And while Starblazers got my interest up to the point I was spending most of my time at any Science Fiction cons I went to in the Anime Video Rooms - when Robotech mania hit, a lot of local Anime Clubs sprung up (that showed anime on weekends fromvarious sources); and my anime collecting phase began....
