Whats your favorite old school anime?

[TheBladeChild]

Just like the title was, what was your favorite anime growing up? When making this thread i was thinking about setting a timeline like: "the anime must be xx years old" or it must be pre-1990's but after thinking about it this would be biased toward our younger gotwoot members. So I guess any anime would do, just make it old relative to your age and something that you watched a good while ago.

Back on topic:

While thinking about this, thoughts of samurai pizza cats, gundam wing, dragon ballz and even sailor moon popped into my head. I always remembered getting ready to watch some of my favorite animes. The one that stood out as my favorite was macross. I guess watching the new macross brought on feelings of nostalgia which was ultimately the reason why I started this thread.

So lets hear it guys.

[shinta|hikari]

Voltes V definitely.

[Archangel]

Dragon Ball was king in the old days

[David75]

2) KOR
3) Maison Ikkoku
5) Urusei Yatsura
4) Hokuto no Ken
1) Big big fan of Saint Seiya
6) Nadia, the secret of blue water
8) Captain Future
7) Captain Harlock

Captain tsubasa, atakkā yū (responsible for my 15 years of volley-ball)

1 2 and 3 are quite exchangeable.

I had good laughs with ranma, but wasn't pleased with the changing sex main character...

I've seen many more I can't remember very well. and it was 25 years ago and more for some anime... (like Ufo Robot Grendizer or Goldorak for me) but I can't remember them clearly enough to tell I like them. In fact in France we've had quite a lot of anime a long time ago.
Then it stopped drastically due to some censorship, only because some dumb people had a hard time understanding anime has many age categories... and we had kor and hokuto no ken uncensored in the same time slot before they reacted... time slot for children!!!
After that, all anime from japan have been severely censored, regardless of the type.. and many scenes were cut beyond reason. Stories, names, timelines butchered etc...

But I was already caught... then from 15-16 to 27-28 I stopped everything. I wasn't able to stand watching TV... so no anime either.
And then I've been caught again with Initial D streams... started to find some direct downloads for fansubs... and understood what torrents had to offer. And here I am.

[Eurasian]

Doraemon!!!!
I loved it as a child. I used to watch two episodes a day (and sleep for the other 23 hours...).

[Archangel]

Doraemon!!!!
I loved it as a child. I used to watch two episodes a day (and sleep for the other 23 hours...).

I didn't know they had doraemon back in the 30's

[XanBcoo]

Do Pokemon and Digimon count?

If so: Pokemon and Digimon. Seriously, Digimon was a gateway series for me, and Pokemon was great, even though it's gone to shit now.

[Ryllharu]

Wow, this is a tough one. Dragonball, Sailor Moon and Samurai Pizza Cats were all serious Saturday and Sunday morning mainstays for me. I love Slayers, and thoroughly enjoy Hyper Police still. Then there's some of the Miyazaki films, like Mononoke and Castle in the Sky...

But before I saw Slayers, Hyper Police and Eva, Iria: Zeiram the Animation was the first anime I knew distinctively as "anime."

Iria was also the first anime I ever bought (on VHS, and I still have them) and later I bought the special edition dvds.

Kickass bounty hunter action, a plentiful amount of blood, and a truly unique vision of space and other worlds.

[Abdula]

Uh Macross. Was never into anime much as a kid, but I definitely remember Macross because it was the first real anime I ever saw. I remember stumbling across this anime only channel we had that used to show alot of uncensored anime never used to pay any attention to it until one day one of my cousins told me Macross was on and I just had to see it. There were a few other nameless japanese animes but Macross was definitely what got me into anime.

After that I would have to go with Xan and definitely say Digimon, for some reason I didn't really care for Pokemon, but Digimon was awesome then there was ofcourse Samurai X and one of my all time favorite shows Beast Wars.

[Foomanchew24]

Sooo long ago I can barely remember. I think some of the first stuff I watched were Captain Harlock and Macross, beyond that I can't recall. The anime that got me into watching alot of anime was trigun, before that I mostly watched movies Like Lupin the 3rd and Miazaki filma, and stuff like that. Basically whatever looked interesting at the video store, which was mostly anime movies not series.

[fahoumh]

Voltron was the first thing that came to my mind.

[Buffalobiian]

I never really liked Digimon, but Pokemon was GOLD. Series 1 and the Orange Island series/arcs were the best. The one that came afterwards (Johto?) was pretty alright too, but after that, it was a combination of repetitiveness and me growing out of it. Totoro was a good film, along with Castle in the Sky. There were also a whole heap that I used to watch in Chinese as a kid, but I've forgotten their names now. All except Doraemon and Patlabor

[BioAlien]

Hmm... Favorite old school anime?
The ones I remember that I liked were;

Animaniacs,
Digimon,
La Bande à Picsou, (Duck Tales)
Inspecteur Gadget, (Inspector Gadget)
Pokémon,
Les Razmokets, (The Rugrats)
Les Schtroumpfs, (The Smurfs)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,
and X-Men.
There was also something called "Il Etait une Fois... La Vie", it was quite interesting. Wikipedia tells me the english dub was called "Once Upon a Time... Life".

All in French~ Since I didn't learn the english language before the year 2000 or so. After that I started watching Dragon Ball and the newest episode of Pokemon/Digimon in English.

[Idealistic]

Animes I grew up with....

DB/DBZ
Sailor Moon
Fist of the North Star(Hokuto no Ken)
Ronin Warriors

Damn.... Indeed this does bring back memories..... Oh and Totoro.

[Psyke]

Anime:
Genesis Climber Mospeada
Super Dimensional Fortress Macross
Heisei Inu Monogatari BOW
Transformers: Masterforce
Transformers Victory
NinTama RanTarou
Tenku Senki Shurato

Cartoon:
Transformers (Gen 1)
MASK
Centurians
The Real Ghostbusters
Spider-Man The Animated Series

[Terracosmo]

Ranma 1/2
Slayers
& Kenshin if it applies

And of course the swedish dub of Sailor Moon!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7KF2BJKgoM

Featuring the most awesome lyrics ever!

*Translated for your pleasure!*
(Yes, I am bored)

A little girl with very long pigtails
About 14 years old and quite cute
But when she falls on her little butt
You can bet that she would cry

But one day she met the mysteries
In the freezing night of the universe
She becomes a fighter, yes a heroine
And befriends a wonderful cat

A destiny that she can't quite understand
And she doesn't know how it will turn out

A little girl with very long pigtails
About 14 years old and quite cute
Who now must fight the minions of evil
How will it turn out, how will it turn out?
Only the stars know
How it will turn out, how it will turn out

[Kraco]

And of course the swedish dub of Sailor Moon!

They were showing that here in Finland as well, with Finnish subtitles. Maybe they got it cheaper from Sweden than straight from Japan... I wasn't a big fan, though.

[Archangel]

Spider-Man The Animated Series

OMG!! I used to love this I also grew up with this cartoon and i used to be a fanatic lol i still remember playing spiderman with my friends in kindergarten XD

Ohh, and who could forget Mighty Morphin Power rangers !!

[darkshadow]

i can't recall power rangers being an anime >_>

[Yukimura]

Ronin Warriors
Thundercats
Dragon Ball Z (subbed on the International Film Channel)

Honorable mention: Digimon and Yugioh

Even knew what I had no idea that anime was different from any other cartoon I still gravitated toward it more than most animation that turned out not to be of anime origins.