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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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[–] FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Netflix dub of Neon Genesis Evangelion

[–] pip@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mermaid melody Pitchi Pitchi Pitch! It played early in the morning every day in one of my country's public networks

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Has to be Pokemon for me, I used to like it for a year or two then got bored. Then I got hooked on Dragon Ball Z, which I still love.

I think I saw the Pokemon movie before Spirited Away though

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

TV: Battle of the Planets, way back in the late 70’s

Film I’m really unsure. Would’ve been late 80’s or early 90’s. Could’ve been any of: Warriors of the Wind (localized title of Nausicaä), Castle of Cagliostro, Akira, Project A-Ko, or Vampire Hunter D

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Pokemon or Sailor Moon. Movie, probably the first Pokemon one.

[–] BurningTurtle@feddit.org 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] kplaceholder@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] TeryVeneno@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year 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

[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

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.

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

Show: Ronin Warriors

Film: Akira

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