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 Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 2:56 pm
 
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 4:51 pm
I was actually hooked on anime before I had ever heard the term. I just though of it as detailed cartoons. XD That's because when I was little I would always flip to Cartoon Network and watch Toonami after school. About the same time I also discovered the Pokemon series.
So I guess the series that got me hooked were Pokemon, Sailor Moon, and DBZ. XD
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 6:03 pm
Yeah, without knowing it i'd pretty much grown up on anime, because a lot of my fave cartoons in the 80's such as Battle of the Planets, Jayce and The Wheeled Warriors, Seven Cities of Gold, Ulysses 31 and even the Real Ghostbusters turned out to be either japanese made or joint US-Japan productions. I was like O_O when I saw an ep of the Real Ghostbusters for the first time in years a little while back whilst I was flicking around on Youtube and saw a whole host of Japanese names flood by on the credits. xD
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:42 pm
well, i spose it had to have been pokemon that sparked that teeny bit of interest and the digimon totally rawked my world, but it wasnt untill later that i realised i had been watching anime a lot of my life. I watched a huge amount of cardcaptors and got re-hooked on it a while ago!
so i suppose that it was really cardcaptors that did it for me!
(note: i called them "Japanese cartoons" untill only about 4 years ago sweatdrop )
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:52 am
Oooh... do I have to?
All right. It was Gundam Wing and Dragonball Z.
My brother had tons of VHS tapes of anime, like Dominion and Ghost in the Shell. We watched Street Fighter, Tekken and Akira but it wasn't until Toonami started showing anime that I really got sucked in.
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:00 am
well what a young age i got hooked on anime by wacthing sailor moon tapes there where pretty fun then years later it was pokemon then digimon and card captors and ever sicne i saw toonami for the first time i knew i would be hooked on anime for life no matter how hard you try to change me
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:44 am
actually, the animes that hooked me are still in my life in some way or other, i just realised! surprised
i watch Tsubasa, which has the same characters as cardcapters and is also by CLAMP, i watch digimon savers (four seasons later than the original) and i do catch the odd pokemon every now and again (though it's not as good anymore...)
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 7:58 am
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:49 am
i gotta try some of those classics out!
ive heard great things about fruit basket, i think i'll try that first!
i forgot to mention that the Yu-gi-oh! anime was another major one when i was younger! 3nodding
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Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:56 pm
I think Pokemon would be the very first, but, we kinda just ventured on the internet for some stuff, didn't we? And just kinda just discovered more from there. That's where Froggy Mix came from afterall, that bizarre French band.
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Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:17 pm
Do I have too? Because my list could go on forever!!!!!!
I was hooked on Naruto, Pitchi Pitchi Pitch(season 1&2), Kamichama Karin(season 1&2), Kirarin Revolution, Tokyo mew mew(season 1&2), Sugar sugar rune, Full moon o sagashite, chibi vampire, Fushigi hoshi no futago hime(season1&2), Digi charat, Pita ten, Vampire Knight, Shugo Chara, Onegai My Melody, Pretty Cure(all seasons), and Fruits basket. Maybe there is more.. blaugh
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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 2:20 pm
Card Queen Oooh... do I have to? All right. It was Gundam Wing and Dragonball Z. My brother had tons of VHS tapes of anime, like Dominion and Ghost in the Shell. We watched Street Fighter, Tekken and Akira but it wasn't until Toonami started showing anime that I really got sucked in. Ahhhhh, Akira! I need to watch that again. For me it was Sailor Moon but I forgot about anime after Toonami was pulled until I saw Spirited Away and FELL IN LOVE and wanted to know everything I possibly could about Miyazaki and others. To this day I still love Sailor Moon. Subs of course. biggrin
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 1:20 pm
Sailor moon is a bit odd in my opinion...
an gundam was too complicated for me back when...
and i cought 'Mew Mew Power' the other day on Pop and by golly it scared me! eek
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:51 pm
Chobits. sweatdrop I loved the manga and the anime was so beautifully drawn/animated/music'd that I couldn't help but fall in love a bit, lol.
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:37 pm
mattzere and i cought 'Mew Mew Power' the other day on Pop and by golly it scared me! eek
It's so bad... the voices are like ... ... cubes of evil.
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