What was the reason you got in to anime?

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Postby Jace Tsunami » Thu Dec 12, 2002 3:35 pm

yes, i knew people were getting hooked and becoming big fans through CN, but I had no idea how many were part of this community. By just the small handfull of people listed here I'd say it's a lot.
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Postby Timelessblurr » Thu Dec 12, 2002 3:39 pm

I agree that most people out there only know the stuff that is on cartoon network. It really ticks me off when they think they know everything about anime there is. Come on I know more than those people and dont know very much about anime yet. I have not figure out wither I been bless by not have cable because I could not be coruputed by cartoon networks crap and getting in my mind that I know everything about anime. I remeber when I was 5th grade they show some good anime on on regurlar TV (the TV the free) in the morning (rodin warriors, and some anime that I been trying to firgure out for years what it was called).
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Postby Wykith » Thu Dec 12, 2002 3:42 pm

I was watching this movie when.....
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and the rest is history.
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Postby Zarxrax » Thu Dec 12, 2002 3:53 pm

Back in the day when I was a kid, I was hardcore into videogames, and I would get GamePro magazine. Ocasionally through the magazine, I would hear of something called anime, or japanimation, or what have you, and I would see anime-style art sometimes in their mail art section. So one day in junior high, I came in after school, was flipping through the channels, and came across Sailor Moon. I recognized it from one of the drawings someone had sent into Gamepro, so I decided to see what it was. At first I was sort of laughing at it, thinking how stupid it was... I'm not quite sure what happened, but I kept watching it. I would watch it every day. This must have continued for something like 2 months, until I came in and flipped it on, and saw a lame cartoon of THE MASK in its place. I was like "WTF!!! WHERES SAILOR MOON" and I went into like 3 days of depression and even wrote a letter to the tv station begging them to put it back on :roll:
Around this time I was getting my first experience on the internet, and soon spent most of my time browsing Sailor Moon sites, came across the SOS page... learned about the Pop-tart procott thingy, and went out and bought some pop tarts (GOD, what a loser I was! :lol: ) Then when the show moved to USA I was incredibly happy. It came on in the morning while I was at school, so I had to tape it... I had EVERY DAMN EPISODE released at this point archived on EP mode vhs!
Little while later, it got took off USA, but I had all the episodes up to where they stopped dubbing it, so I was somewhat content. Then I saw DBZ one saturday morning, started taping it every weekend...
Then Sailor moon moved to cartoon network, so I went and got my parents to get some more costly cable package so I could have the channel, and I was happy. I also acquired fansubs of the 3 Sailor moon movies.
Then DBZ moved to cartoon network, and I archived like every episode of that (that was dubbed at this point) on VHS.

Now sometime around this point, I started ordering some anime on VHS from Right Stuff. I got Wings of Honneamise, Grave of the Fireflies, Gunsmith cats, and the first half of Evangelion.

Next, I had heard of pokemon through game magazines, and so I started taping it when it aired, got every episode from its first run...

Now sometime, I finally got around to getting the 2nd half of Evangelion, and I think it was at this point where I was truely hooked on anime. It became my favorite series of all time.

Then they started showing tenchi on CN, of course I taped all of that one too. Right after that though I went away to college.

Soon after arriving, I downloaded and watched a 80mb vivo of the first half of End Of Evangelion, in RAW JAPANESE. After veiwing it I literally thought I was going insane, and I decided I absolutely could not watch the rest untill it came out subtitled.
Very soon after, I stumbled across digisubs on irc (they were JUST starting to be made at this point). I remember watching 30mb episodes of Love Hina and thinking how awesome the video quality was ^_^
Anyways I became totally addicted to downloading anime off IRC, I now have over 500 CD-Rs of anime, I started fansubbing myself, and it led me to AMVs ^_^
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Postby Jace Tsunami » Thu Dec 12, 2002 4:23 pm

wow, you got hooked off t.v. too! But truly, mags are the way to go. the harder it is to find information, the more rewarding it was. The only anime on t.v. I really remember from when I was young was sppedracer and transformers. I think there was some... no that's all I've got right now.
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Postby Timelessblurr » Thu Dec 12, 2002 4:25 pm

Transfomers rule. I buying the dvd of each season has the come out (I have season one right now and I have the Movie)
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Postby Jace Tsunami » Thu Dec 12, 2002 4:32 pm

of the good old stuff? or this new stuff? I remember watching he-man too, but that wasn't japonoese was it?
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Postby Wykith » Thu Dec 12, 2002 4:34 pm

Autobots transform! Ack! I hate transformers.
I do admit to watching it back in the day. Even liked Beast Wars! But now.......It seems kind of silly to me. Except for Beast Wars, I loved how what's his face decepticon bad guy dragon thing won in the end.
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Postby Timelessblurr » Thu Dec 12, 2002 4:41 pm

Has to be the old stuff the new stuff suck ass
Beast wars was good but beast machins suck
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Postby Alucard_FoN » Thu Dec 12, 2002 4:42 pm

The reason I got into it was because my brother forced me to watch Trigun ^^. Note that I don't count my earlier DBZ watching days as getting into it, as at that time I had no interest whatsoever in any other anime. After I watched Trigun, though, the addiction grew on me like a welcome fungus.
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Postby Jace Tsunami » Thu Dec 12, 2002 4:54 pm

you know I do remember liking transformers, but all the other stuff we watched when we were young is no where enar as bad or corney as the enw transformers, what the hell did they do to it? It seems like such a childrens show now, like rescue heros, made just for them. And He-Man, what did he say when he transformed, it was either IIIIIIIII AAAAAAMMMMM HHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-MMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNN, or it was IIIIIIIIII HHAAAAVVE THE POOWWEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRR!!!!

am I right?

Now he says something like I am the power or I have the he man, some wird shit, they mixed it up.
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Postby Timelessblurr » Thu Dec 12, 2002 4:55 pm

yeah the new transformers is an insult to a great work of art

I beleive that Heman said "I HAVE THE POWER"
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Postby kilik^ » Sat Dec 14, 2002 8:00 pm

well i've been watching anime since i have 4 or 5 years . i started off watching Candy, then tranformers, Saint sieya, and of course DB And DBZ, the sailor moon and the list goes on.

by that time i watched anime, but not with too much interest(u know when u are kid u tend to spend all the time wathcing cartoons and playing games) what i really got me into anime was Rurouni kenshin. That series is just AWSOME!. after that i started looking for more new anime series and movies and im still looking :D .
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Postby Mroni » Sat Dec 14, 2002 11:22 pm

I buy all my anime or downlaod fansubs. The thought of watching anything on tv is disturbing .


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Postby Timelessblurr » Sat Dec 14, 2002 11:34 pm

I agree the tv crap sucks but it sometime the best stuff we got. The only thing I have agaist fan subs is the quilty normal sucks and it illiegal. I say it a good idea to see if you like something but you should buy it when it does come one and you can get it so they will make more anime for us
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