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Your first anime show/film (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by Tekkip20@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] rockman057@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Show: Ronin Warriors

Film: Akira

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

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

[–] EABOD25@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Ninja Scroll

[–] gianni@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

One Punch Man

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Project A-Ko in 1996

[–] TeryVeneno@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

I think it was Bleach on adult swim at night as a kid after all the other stuff like robot chicken and aqua teen hunger force ended. Could also be DBZ though

[–] BurningTurtle@feddit.org 1 points 7 months ago

Probably this one, not that I associated it with anime at the time.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] kplaceholder@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

YuYu Hakusho.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Kiki's Delivery Service. I got it on VHS, probably for Christmas the year the Disney dub came out. I didn't have cable for a decent chunk of my childhood, so I saw that even before Pokemon.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Probably “Alfred J Kwak”. A Dutch cartoon produced in Japan. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLITzooyl5h5GKwvnwe3zSVXjnrDOiO_5P

Or “The Wonderful Adventures of Nils“ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Adventures_of_Nils_(TV_series)

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.

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