What Was Your Introduction Into Anime?

My introduction to Anime was Dragonball, Sailor Moon, G Gundam, Cowboy Bebop, Tri-Gun, Yu-Gi-Oh Outlaw Star, YuYu Hakusho, Beyblade, Medabots, Rurouni Kenshin, Inuyasha, Medabots, SD Gundam Force, Cyborg 009, Astroboy when I was a kid. Even though I wasn’t an Anime fan during my childhood until I reached my teens.

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It has been entirely too many moons ago, since I first started watching Anime, to be able to remember what my first was.

This was back around 1987, before most of us had internet, when I was renting movies at Blockbuster and almost all anime was still massive destruction, lots of explosions, tons of TnA, and none of the stereotypical story lines that almost EVERY show has in it now.

Some of them that I remember renting tho.  The old Original Fist of the North Star.  Geist/Most Dangerous Geist, Devilman, Tank Police, Guyver, etc.   I think my all time fave is kind of a toss up between Guyver, and Bastard!  Tho that one is kinda cheesy now a days.

I had a girlfriend who was very much into Ranma 1/2.   I was a lot more into action type stuff at the time, so I kinda thought it was kinda tame.  But it’s actually pretty good.  Definitely funny.  I’ll still catch episodes of it here and there.  I don’t remember how many seasons it ran for, but I know I haven’t watched more than season 2.

Good show tho :)

Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamato) for me.  I wasn’t even familiar with the term anime back then but I loved that show!  The opening theme, haunting music, sound effects, cool battle scenes and all those great lines from Desslok (Superbly delivered by Eddie Allen) still resonate after all these years.

For me was probably Saint Seiya in the early 90’s

I started watching Speed Racer when my parents were renting VHS tapes from Blockbuster to keep my brother and I entertained. We loved it so much, that my dad saw that MTV was playing episodes past our bedtime, so he would record episodes for us to watch. I didn’t know it was anime at the time, but it was a rather enjoyable part of my childhood.

I got into Sailor Moon when I was in middle school. It was the anime that turned me into a fan. I then started watching SciFi Channel when they had Apollo Smile VJ anime aired during the summer. I was introduced to non-shoujo-y stuff. I started watching Robotech during the Toonami run and that got me into giant robots and mecha. I was really into getting to know different genres. I was more on the shoujo and giant robot side. I wasn’t really into harem-centric anime save for a few (ie: Tenchi).