What manga/show/movie [got you into anime?]

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 4:20 pm

Evangelion is what proved to me that Anime didn't have to suck.

LordSesshoumaru · Post by **LordSesshoumaru** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 4:24 pm

I haven't seen that anime but everyone I talk to tells me it's a must see. Have you seen Ghosts In A Shell?

MrScribble · Post by **MrScribble** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 5:09 pm

Akira made me love Anime. Actually, Wings of Honeamise was the first anime I ever saw, but I was too young to really understand anything of the plot, so I didn't really like it.

Org Profile · Post by **LantisEscudo** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 5:20 pm

My "ate my soul" show was Miyazaki's classic Nausicaä, which was both the first subtitled anime I watched and only the second anime I had seen (after Sailor Moon). After seeing that, there was no going back. And I don't regret it one bit. ^_^

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 5:31 pm

I've seen some anime series before like Sailor Moon and Ronin Warriors, but the series that made me become a fan up to this point is (the unfortunate) Cardcaptors. At that time, I didn't know the dub was very bad, but I really enjoyed the animation nonetheless. When I found about how that series got seriously butchered, I started to explore more about Cardcaptor Sakura and how it's SO much better than the one they've shown on KidsWB. This led to me to discover the existance of AMVs, and I started to download them from various websites. I then started downloading AMVs from Mirai MM's site which included Cardcaptor Sakura which in turn led me to discover other series like Slayers and Neon Genesis Evangelion. Well, that's my story.

J-0080 · Post by **J-0080** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 5:33 pm

Tenchi

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 5:34 pm

Care to elaborate?

bazanime · Post by **bazanime** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 5:57 pm

I'm tempted to say Voltron, but i was too young to realise it was anything more than a kids cartoon.
I would say it was when I was in secondary school (high school), my mate loaned me his curious video he was boasting about. I played it and it was Dominion Tank Police, which also began my infatuation with cat girls.

I have to mention though, there was another little gem on that tape, which was actually the main featur that my friend didnt tell me about....maybe thats why he was smiling alot when he gave me the tape. It was Urotsukidoji - Legend of the Overfeind.......all I kept saying was "I never knew they could do that"

Anyways, I never had a chance to thank my mate for plunging me straight into the deep end of this wonderful medium of entertainment.

The Hitokiri Battousai · Post by **The Hitokiri Battousai** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 6:10 pm

DBZ on cartoon network when they first aired it. Also in conjuction with the manga Magic Knights Rayearth my friend borrowed from his friend.

Zagatto · Post by **Zagatto** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 9:00 pm

I can remember watching Speed Racer when I was a little kid on our old black and white TV but I just thought it had cool cars. I guess that set the seeds for me.
Then, when I was a bit older, I can remember rushing home from school to watch Star Blazers and Robotech. I knew they were from Japan but wasn't aware there was a whole world of other anime available out there.

Then the Lone Wolf and Cub manga came out and I was hooked. Dagger of Kamui, Area 88, Pineapple Army, and Golgo 13 are some of the titles I can remember scrounging cash for.

I don't remember if this was before or after the translations of manga came pouring in but I dumped endless quarters into the Cliffhanger arcade game because the animation was so cool. It wasn't until Streamline released Castle of Cagliostro that I found out all that great footage (except for three scenes) ahd been edited from CoC.

I remember renting the first three tapes of Robotech over and over again because that was all my local video store had. Then my friends and I started picking other titles to see if they looked "japanese". The only other tape we were able to find at that time was Warriors of the Wind which was a horribly butchered version of Nausicaa.

It was in the back pages of LW&C that I read an article about Akira being released in theatres in North America and the closest showing to me was going to be in Chicago. I realized that I might be a bit into anime when I was prepared to drive four hours each way to watch Akira on the big screen (unfortunately the car died a horrible death only an hour outside Chicago and I had to wait another year before I would get to see Akira at all).

These days I have a book shelf full of manga and over 50 DVDs and another 50 or so tapes in my video collection.

I don't think I can pick out any one of these incidents as my "turning" point to being a fan of anime but they have all shaped my tastes over the years.