Anime and the 90's Generation

[gotegenks]

and btw, I was born in 89. I consider 90's generation as people born from about 85-early 90's. Anybody born more than halfway into a decade should really consider themselves as a member of the following decade's generation (IMO),

1993?

i wanna be a cool 90's kid too!

Well, if i'm a 90's kid, then to number 4 I say that it's a pretty good relationship. Even people who really fucking hate nerds and anime in general and that style and weeaboos and basically the "cool kids" still get excited about dragonball z and yuyu hakusho and all that toonami stuff. At least around here.

[StarTrinity009]

and btw, I was born in 89. I consider 90's generation as people born from about 85-early 90's. Anybody born more than halfway into a decade should really consider themselves as a member of the following decade's generation (IMO),

1993?

i wanna be a cool 90's kid too!

lol You're cool! There can be people outside of the range. Everyone has different experiences.

[StarTrinity009]

I plan to get to this and answer the questions sometime this weekend. If I haven't said anything by late saturday or early sunday, send me a reminder and pester me until I do it.

Go Shin, Go!!! My final draft's due Dec. 6. xP

[kikai_saigono]

I was born in '92, and I would say that I got in to anime before the early 2000s (although I didn't consider it "anime", to me they were just another cartoon)


I watched Gundam Wing, Sailor Moon, DBZ, Ruroni Kenshin, Tenchi Muyo and the like religiously in the 90s to the early 2000s. (I got up at 6 in the morning on Saturdays just to watch Pokemon.) Then I discovered they were "anime" and that's what piqued my interest in the genre. So I have to disagree with some of the above comments. (My first anime was Kimba the White Lion, in the mid 90s I think? I was really young.)

[ZephyrStar]

Oldfag reporting in, born in 1980. I am jealous of you kids...anime is like, a regular expected thing for you guys. When I was in my teens I was the only person I knew who was into anime at all

[JaddziaDax]

I'm only a year younger than you, and well I knew a couple people who were into it, one of which got me into amvs but very few people i ran into knew what anime was.

[gotegenks]

Oldfag reporting in, born in 1980. I am jealous of you kids...anime is like, a regular expected thing for you guys. When I was in my teens I was the only person I knew who was into anime at all

For paving japan's way into us kids' hearts, I salute thee.

[ngsilver]

Oldfag reporting in, born in 1980. I am jealous of you kids...anime is like, a regular expected thing for you guys. When I was in my teens I was the only person I knew who was into anime at all

Pretty much the same thing for me. I knew a few guys in high school who watched stuff on Cartoon Network, but I was the only one really into it. Heck, the Best Buy and b&n in my parent's area still mainly stocks the shows and manga that I had to special order in their anime/manga sections.

It is kind of interesting, and I wonder how my parents would react to the realization, that the grand majority of the cartoons I grew up on as a kid, especially religious ones, were actually anime. The Flying House.... Super Book.... I remember waking up super early on Sunday/Saturday mornings, rushing downstairs grabbing a rubber gabble and watching these in the family room before my parent's would wake up. Though despite that I still consider Sailor Moon my true gateway as it was the first show I actively seeked out and paid for fansubs for. Ah the days of mailing a money order and then waiting weeks before a box came with a bunch of VHS tapes....

Though by the time I got to college it was pretty easy to find anime and people into it. But I often attribute that to going to college in a major metropolitan area vs rural Kentucky. I never had issues finding new and obscure series when I was in college nor when I visited my grandparent's in Detroit. After all, it was my friends who lived here in Detroit that ultimately dunked me head first into anime fandom.

[StarTrinity009]

Oldfag reporting in, born in 1980. I am jealous of you kids...anime is like, a regular expected thing for you guys. When I was in my teens I was the only person I knew who was into anime at all

Don't call yourself an oldfag. You guys were a force in anime popularity. *hugs* Thank you. You earned a dinosaur -->

[ZephyrStar]

daw thanks guise

It's reactions like these that make me happy to still be into the fandom as hardcore as I am today