Gateway Anime

[Mitch]

What anime opened the Anime World for you? It can be more than one.

My was Mojacko and Doraemon

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[Rave]

Mine was probably Speed Racer or G-Force (Battle of the Planets/Gatchaman).

Those were the days.

 

[Board]

Pokemon and Digimon.

 

[GuitarHero]

Dragonball, Gundam, Macross and Pokemon were among the first shows I watched that got me into it.

 

[Near]

Pokemon and Speed Racer.

 

[Satoshi-chan]

What anime opened the Anime World for you? It can be more than one.

My was Mojacko and Doraemon

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Oh cool, I love Fujiko F. Fujio's works.

Anyways, for me it was in college in the 90's when I was starting to be introduced to adult animation by a guy down the hall from me. Akira was my gateway drug into the world of anime.

 

[Silverwynde]

For me it was either Warriors of the Wind (the horribly managled dub of Nausicaa which I saw when I was a kid) or Project A-Ko, which I watched at a friends house. It was the first time I had ever seen anything on Laserdisc. Sad, I know.

And I've never seen Akira in its entirety. In that respect as a fan, I totally fail.

 

[Mappy]

Probably Robotech. I really liked the art so I looked into it which is when I found out it was Japanese and it went from there.

 

[bell02+]

Mine was probably Speed Racer or G-Force (Battle of the Planets/Gatchaman).

Those were the days.

Same here, plus Voltron, Astroboy (80s), and Robotech... but I didn't know that they were, or thought about them as "Anime" or japanese made until much later. To me, those were just another group of Cartoons that my dad watched that I also liked(like looney tunes, popeye, and the rest). It's funny though, I remember being upset at the idea of a cliffhanger because I didn't quite get it at the time with other cartoons like looney tunes and stuff(I was really young), I felt the same with Bullwinkle.

The first series I watched that I thought of as "Anime" was Dragonball Z and Salior Moon in the 90s (to which I thought of as DBZ for girls). (I saw dragonball before that, but again I never thought about it even though it wasn't in english)