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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?

EmoDuck ,

Heidi and Maya the Bee when I was about 4

jecht360 , (edited )
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My parents bought me My Neighbor Totoro when I was a kid. I absolutely loved every second of it. Then I came across Ranma 1/2. Next came Kiki’s Delivery Service. It kind of snowballed after that.

Ensign_Crab ,

CBN licensed the 1966 Kimba sequel in the mid 80s. My family was super religious around that time and I remember watching it then.

Pat Fucking Robertson was responsible for my introduction to anime.

pr06lefs ,

Akira

Teknikal ,

I watched sword art online because I read a little about the plot and it sounded interesting to me. Second was High School DxD I believe I picked because there wasn’t much else dubbed (I don’t watch anything dubbed really now).

I went through a big binge of practically everything after that but only really watch the odd airing one now.

krdo ,

I remember watching Totoro as a child not knowing it was an anime. Later I watched The Guyver (1989 OVA) on VHS at my cousin’s. Evangelion and Lodoss War were the first fansubs I watched knowing they were Japanese.

Lycist ,

Evangelion was pretty early on my list too, stuck with me though to this day as my all-time favorite anime.

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.

Admetus , (edited )

Neon Genesis Evangelion. I had such high hopes…

Edit: autocorrect put evangelism…of course.

TheBlue22 ,

Cowboy Bebop

shasta ,

Princess Mononoke. I randomly picked it up at Blockbuster and it was so different than anything else I’d ever watched. I instantly fell in love with it.

Bluu ,

Sailor Moon. It was on early in the morning and I’d get ready for school really fast so I could sit and watch it before running to catch the bus.

johannesvanderwhales ,

Akira, as was common at the time. Not counting stuff like Robotech or Speed Racer that I wouldn’t have known was anime.

anon6789 ,
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Not sure if everyone would consider it “anime” as it’s more a hybrid of US and Japanese, but “Flight of Dragons.” It felt very stylistic and deep to a young me, and showed me animation could be serious.

As to specifically watching anime as a known thing, Toonami shows pulled me in. I caught DBZ flipping through the channels and I started watching that and Outlaw Star.

Met a friend that was into it and he lent me Iria: The Zeiram, Armitage 3, Ghost in the Shell, Vampire Hunter D, and eventually a few others.

dylanmorgan ,

Show would have been Starblazers or Robotech (Americanized Space Battleship Yamato and Macross/Southern Cross/Mospaeda, respectively.) For movies probably Akira.

2000mph ,

Big fan of Star Blazers. I did eventually watch that years later, but my first anime exposure was via a VHS bought from a charity shop of a series called ThunderSub.

Very similar to Star Blazers, don’t know if they were related in any way.

A7thStone ,

Both are the same for me. Well except I know Robotech was the first show I saw.

retrieval4558 ,

Very first was probably Inuyasha, Dragonball Z, or some Gundam way back on adult swim as a kid. My first real one that I engaged with as a semi-adult was probably Death Note.

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