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Your first anime show/film

What was your first anime show or film?

For me? The first anime related thing I saw as a kid was Spirited Away on VHS, I was awestruck from the animation and quality of the film.

For shows it would’ve been the usual Pokemon and DBZ. As I grew older I suppose my first proper anime show was watching streams of Neon Genesis Evangelion due to people talking about it at school.

So what about you? What did you see first?

Someonelol ,
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I first saw Saint Seiya in Mexico in the early 90s. Being a young kid I didn’t know it was anime at the time but remembered it being special compared to cartoons of the day.

isyasad ,
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I’m surprised only a handful of people have mentioned Ghibli movies. For me it was Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, it’s probably one of the first movies I remember watching in general. Still my favorite Ghibli movie and I must have watched it dozens of times as a kid.
The source material for it is a manga by Miyazaki himself and it’s much longer and deeper (the movie only covers about 1.5 out of 7 volumes, and changes a lot of details). Highly recommended.

SkunkWorkz , (edited )

Probably “Alfred J Kwak”. A Dutch cartoon produced in Japan. youtube.com/playlist?list=PLITzooyl5h5GKwvnwe3zSV…

Or “The Wonderful Adventures of Nils“ en.wikipedia.org/…/The_Wonderful_Adventures_of_Ni…

Back in the 70’s and 80’s it was common to outsource the production of animation to Japan. So many European cartoons were basically anime. It had the typical Japanese animation style of that time. For example the same company that produced “Alfred J Kwak” made the 1990 version of the Moomin TV-series.

kplaceholder ,
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Wagamama Fairy Mirmo De Pon!, an obscure anime that is basically The Fairly Oddparents if it was a shoujo. When I was in elementary school, it was on regional TV right after classes ended, and I loved it. It was the first ever media I could get my hands on that had an intriguing plot that I wanted to follow. I missed the series finale, tho :(

Some time ago I went back and rewatched it, complete with the finale and all. It was nostalgic but also kinda hard to rewatch because it’s so clearly made exclusively for children. It was so obscure that the only full download I could come across online even had the logo of the regional TV channel where I originally watched it as a child.

deranger ,

Show - Robotech, it was on Sunday mornings on sci-fi channel for a while in the mid 90s. Film - Ninja Scroll, dad had a descrambler and saw it on PPV in the early 00s. Good times.

ouRKaoS ,

Robotech was my first as well. I remember the scifi channel having “Saturday Anime” - different movies every week on Saturday mornings that I used to record on VHS.

Daze ,

Outlaw Star was my first, on early Toonami. I got into DBZ because outlaw star came on later in the night and I refused to miss any of it! It was so… different from everything else on TV.

Still one of my absolute favorites to this day, I prefer it over Cowboy Bebop 😘

Lycist ,

Outlaw star was an early watch for me too, was amazing. Really solidified my love of everything space related.

ouRKaoS ,

Outlaw Star wars great. I feel obligated to inform as many people as possible that there is a “sequel” to the series called “Angel Links” that takes place in the same universe but follows different characters.

There you go. That’s all the information you need to know about it.

NEVER WATCH IT

It is entirely forgettable, not worth the time or effort, and definitely not worth what I had to pay to get a box set of DVD’s back in the day from Suncoast in the mall because Anime was still niche and streaming wasn’t a thing yet.

nayminlwin ,

Yu Yu Hakushou. I didn’t even realize the name is Yu Yu Hakushou until years later. I only remember thinking the delinquent guy with a laser sword and a guy shooting energy balls from the finger tip’s pretty cool.

AceFuzzLord ,

If we’re talking about just what you watched before you recognized it was anime, it’s between pokemon, Naruto, and One Piece. Couldn’t tell you which I watched first.

If we’re talking “Oh! I recognize this is anime!” then probably either Deathnote or Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) thanks to mid-2010s Netflix (back when it was still good).

gianni ,

One Punch Man

KingThrillgore ,
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Project A-Ko in 1996

EABOD25 ,

Ninja Scroll

onlooker ,
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It’s kind of fuzzy, but I think my first anime was Excel Saga. It was as bizzarre as it was hilarious.

bjoern_tantau ,
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Probably Bee Maja, Wickie and the strong men or Heidi. Tons of classic German children’s shows are actually animes.

GissaMittJobb ,

Same thing goes for the animated Moomin-series - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomin_(1990_TV_series)

A classic for kids in Sweden.

Hotzilla ,

Silver Fang, and from that you can identify my age and country.

Admetus , (edited )

Neon Genesis Evangelion. I had such high hopes…

Edit: autocorrect put evangelism…of course.

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