first anime ever seen

[Nine Tailed Demon]

First time I saw an anime, I didn't know, I thought it was just a regular cartoon but dragonball and some other anime about a family with robotic abilities but I only seen it twice and wasn't involved into the story.

First anime I seen was Akira on Scifi channel, at night time I watched it. Freaked me out but it was cool. Then watched some other anime when Sci fi channel used to show anime on saturdays at 10am. First fan sub anime? Cowboy Bebop, two anime shows made me cry.

Cowboy Bebop in one scene when this guy got shot after trying to get this plant to his sister and in One Piece when Fuina died.

[Kumiriko]

if you are thinking a robotic family with a giant robot ape it wasnt anime. it was called bionic 6 i belive. had this cool van that was a lab as well*googles bionic 6 and will update this post if anything found*

[Gryphon]

not to sure if these are animes , but i think it was either speed racer, voltron, robotech, or transformers

as for movie, it was either fist of the north star or vampire hunter d

[Kumiriko]

yep. not so sure about Trasformers even thought it started in japan

[Poiple Weezard]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Kumiriko @ Feb 24 2004, 08:48 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> if you are thinking a robotic family with a giant robot ape it wasnt anime. it was called bionic 6 i belive. had this cool van that was a lab as well*googles bionic 6 and will update this post if anything found* </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Dude&#33; I remember that show. Childhood memories slowly returning...

[joker-kun]

First that I remember was Pokemon, then DBZ, but I was told that when I was younger I watched Samurai Pizza Cats, so I guess that&#39;d be first.

[Hatake Kakashi]

I didn&#39;t know what my first anime was until recently. I always thought it was Robotech, Speedracer, or Voltron, but it turns out that these were:

I included a site with info on them, plus a link to the .wav opening themes. I think you will agree that they are cool. Just wait a few seconds for the wav files to come up. The guy has them as background music, so people don&#39;t take them, but they do play. I wish I could buy both of these on DVD.

1986~ish - Mysterious Cities of Gold (Japanese-French Co-Production)
http://www.johnsrealmonline.com/clas...mcog/main.html
Opening Theme: http://www2.wi.net/~rkurer/toontracker/citygold.html

1988 - Grimms Classic Fairytales on Nickelodeon (originally aired in Japan by Studio Nippon)
http://www.johnsrealmonline.com/clas...imms/main.html
Opening Theme: http://www2.wi.net/~rkurer/toontracker/grimm.html

Later on I caught Speedracer in syndication, as well as Voltron and Robotech on Cartoon Network. Those were pretty much my first anime.

[revel911]

I have been a Voltron lover since around &#39;85. I used have all the toys and when I saw them on ebay sometime last year I had to rebuy them just because.

[Kite]

The first dubbed was Dragonball.
The first fansub was Dragonball Z.
I saw them about 12 yeas ago.


Oh, and Poiple Weezard, I think the first anime you mentioned was Tenchi Muyo&#33;

[Parappa]

Silver Fang for me. Got to love talking dogs. And bears are cool... yea.

[itachi_]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Parappa @ Feb 25 2004, 06:08 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Silver Fang for me. Got to love talking dogs. And bears are cool... yea. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Me too, but Silverfang was the scandinavian title, are you from sweden, norway, denmark, finland?? i like the soundtracks from it..

[kmike]

my first was Samurai Pizza Cats(didnt knew it was anime then)
i grew up on anime all my life without even knowing it
i dont remember all theyr names
here what i can remember :
Samurai Pizza Cats
macron 1
transformers(co-prod&#39;-japanis and american )
some show called -the heart its about this kid called marco that looks for his mother all over italy
and another one idont remember the name too is about aboy with his giant dog
and another of time travles in a car that looks like bugs .......................
thers so meny i cant remember there names
(faded memories from anime)

i started geting into anime when i saw &quot;robotech&quot; for the fist time
then DBZ and pokemon and akira, ghost in the shell red hawk ext&#39;..........
then i got on line and found naruto -the best ther is&#33;

[Parappa]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (itachi_ &#064; Feb 25 2004, 01:23 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Parappa &#064; Feb 25 2004, 06:08 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Silver Fang for me. Got to love talking dogs. And bears are cool... yea. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Me too, but Silverfang was the scandinavian title, are you from sweden, norway, denmark, finland?? i like the soundtracks from it..</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
I&#39;m from Finland. Yea, the music was great and I loved the endfight.

[Slade xTekno]

My first dubbed were Ranma 1/2, Dr. Slump, and Dragonball. This was about 12 years ago and were all dubbed in Korean. I don&#39;t remember which one was first, because I was renting them at the same time.
The first fansub I saw was Love Hina.
Ooo, anime movie... the orginal Vampire Hunter D [I saw Bloodlust right after that].

[rogue_noir]

Noir

[MercuryKnight]

Star Blazers(Dubbed), on in Canada in the late 1970&#39;s also a couple of other shows, but don&#39;t remember the names.

[hiddenpookie]

dubbed:speed racer it was made by an american guy so dont kno if u consider it anime
subbed:inuyasha
manga:gto. felt like threwing that in

[Mut]

i think it was gundam. not sure.

but the one that really got me hooked for eternity was cowboy bebop. it also got me hooked on jazz and blues. it's my favorite.

[Hyuga Koji]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (hiddenpookie @ Feb 29 2004, 10:34 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> dubbed:speed racer it was made by an american guy so dont kno if u consider it anim </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Speed Racer (Mach Go Go) was made by Tatsunoko in 1967 it was one of the first anime along with Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atom), Starblazers (Space Battleship Yamato), Voltron (Go Lion), and Battle of the Planets/G-Force/Eagle Riders (Science Ninja Team Gatchaman) to make it to the U.S.

[chb]

When I was little, I watched samurai pizza cats, speed racer, transformers.

After that, some poorly made vhs fansubs of ranma 1/2 my cousin had.

Mostly movies followed after that, most significantly akira.

Then more ranma 1/2, once it began being released domestically.

All down-hill after that. Iit was not too long after ranma 1/2 started being released that I could hold a job (13 or so) and spent way too much money on anime.

Benefit of being a broke college student now: never feel guilty about frivilous purchases, because, ya know, a guy&#39;s gotta eat.