Probably Bee Maja, Wickie and the strong men or Heidi. Tons of classic German children's shows are actually animes.
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Same thing goes for the animated Moomin-series - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomin_%281990_TV_series%29
A classic for kids in Sweden.
Chobits
Oh man, I haven't heard that word in awhile. Chobits was a fun one.
Outlaw Star was my first, on early Toonami. I got into DBZ because outlaw star came on later in the night and I refused to miss any of it! It was so⦠different from everything else on TV.
Still one of my absolute favorites to this day, I prefer it over Cowboy Bebop π
Outlaw star was an early watch for me too, was amazing. Really solidified my love of everything space related.
Outlaw Star wars great. I feel obligated to inform as many people as possible that there is a "sequel" to the series called "Angel Links" that takes place in the same universe but follows different characters.
There you go. That's all the information you need to know about it.
NEVER WATCH IT
It is entirely forgettable, not worth the time or effort, and definitely not worth what I had to pay to get a box set of DVD's back in the day from Suncoast in the mall because Anime was still niche and streaming wasn't a thing yet.
dbz and pokemon as well but only when id catch it between other activities. Didnβt actually sit through an entire anime until high school where my friend borrowed me Cromartie High.
First film was probably the first PokΓ©mon film in theaters.
It was either Cowboy Bebop or Princess Mononoke - I was first introduced in an after-school anime club.
It was the year of our lord 1990, I was 5 years old, and the time was somewhere after midnight. I had snuck out of my room and into my grandparents basement to sneak some late night tv.
The original Vampire Hunter D was playing and I had no idea what it was, but it was amazing. The guy had a hand that ATE things!!!
I didn't realize what it was until around 8th grade when I started getting into the standards of DBZ and Sailor Moon... I expanded drastically from there once I realized I could, spent around $4000 on manga throughout highschool and found a little hole in the wall DVD rental shop on the local college campus with a wall of anime DVDs and VHS tapes.
I think my first late night tv adventure was seeing Akira and having absolutely no idea what was going on.
Dude, you could relive that, watch it TODAY, and still have no idea what was going on.
Almost like watching it for the first time again.
Show - Robotech, it was on Sunday mornings on sci-fi channel for a while in the mid 90s. Film - Ninja Scroll, dad had a descrambler and saw it on PPV in the early 00s. Good times.
If we're talking about just what you watched before you recognized it was anime, it's between pokemon, Naruto, and One Piece. Couldn't tell you which I watched first.
If we're talking "Oh! I recognize this is anime!" then probably either Deathnote or Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) thanks to mid-2010s Netflix (back when it was still good).
Yu Yu Hakushou. I didn't even realize the name is Yu Yu Hakushou until years later. I only remember thinking the delinquent guy with a laser sword and a guy shooting energy balls from the finger tip's pretty cool.
First show was probably Voltron. First film was probably Vampire Hunter D.
Toonami became a big part of my life, and there was a small theater downtown that did showings of Miyazaki and such. I remember seeing Metropolis there, too.
I owe a lot to those scrappy little enterprises, taking a gamble that there would be an audience for this stuff.
I also watched Pokemon and DBZ when I was young, not even knowing about anime.
In highschool I thought "What is anime? Let's give it a shot". I opened up Hulu and somehow picked out Non Non Biyori. Looking back, it was a banger choice.
It was the late 80βs, I saw Robotech which used to play after school on a local UHF channel, and also Speed Racer. Probably the first more typical Anime was renting the Super Space Force Macross movie on VHS
Pokemon for TV, movie would probably be Laputa.
Akira. I saw it playing on a TV behind a table at a pop culture market and got my own copy (on VHS. Yes, I'm so old that bits are starting to drop off) to find out how it ended.
Edit: Now I come to think about it, I used to watch Science Ninja Team Gatchaman on TV as a preteen. Can't remember the english title.
CBN licensed the 1966 Kimba sequel in the mid 80s. My family was super religious around that time and I remember watching it then.
Pat Fucking Robertson was responsible for my introduction to anime.
Heidi and Maya the Bee when I was about 4
I remember watching Totoro as a child not knowing it was an anime. Later I watched The Guyver (1989 OVA) on VHS at my cousin's. Evangelion and Lodoss War were the first fansubs I watched knowing they were Japanese.
Evangelion was pretty early on my list too, stuck with me though to this day as my all-time favorite anime.
My parents bought me My Neighbor Totoro when I was a kid. I absolutely loved every second of it. Then I came across Ranma 1/2. Next came Kiki's Delivery Service. It kind of snowballed after that.
Akira
I watched sword art online because I read a little about the plot and it sounded interesting to me. Second was High School DxD I believe I picked because there wasn't much else dubbed (I don't watch anything dubbed really now).
I went through a big binge of practically everything after that but only really watch the odd airing one now.
Death Note, sometime in 2009 or 2010.
I remember when it came out, people on forums kept talking about it nonstop. I had no idea what it was, so I just blindly torrented something called Death Note... it was the live action Japanese adaptation lol. I didn't even know it was an anime until years later. Just for years I thought everyone on the internet was obsessed with that live action movie.
First show: Pokemon
First movie: Pokemon (the Mewtwo one)
Death note
Princess Mononoke. I randomly picked it up at Blockbuster and it was so different than anything else I'd ever watched. I instantly fell in love with it.
Cowboy Bebop
Neon Genesis Evangelion. I had such high hopes...
Edit: autocorrect put evangelism...of course.
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.
Show would have been Starblazers or Robotech (Americanized Space Battleship Yamato and Macross/Southern Cross/Mospaeda, respectively.) For movies probably Akira.
Big fan of Star Blazers. I did eventually watch that years later, but my first anime exposure was via a VHS bought from a charity shop of a series called ThunderSub.
Very similar to Star Blazers, don't know if they were related in any way.
I'm surprised only a handful of people have mentioned Ghibli movies. For me it was Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, it's probably one of the first movies I remember watching in general. Still my favorite Ghibli movie and I must have watched it dozens of times as a kid.
The source material for it is a manga by Miyazaki himself and it's much longer and deeper (the movie only covers about 1.5 out of 7 volumes, and changes a lot of details). Highly recommended.
Not sure if everyone would consider it "anime" as it's more a hybrid of US and Japanese, but "Flight of Dragons." It felt very stylistic and deep to a young me, and showed me animation could be serious.
As to specifically watching anime as a known thing, Toonami shows pulled me in. I caught DBZ flipping through the channels and I started watching that and Outlaw Star.
Met a friend that was into it and he lent me Iria: The Zeiram, Armitage 3, Ghost in the Shell, Vampire Hunter D, and eventually a few others.
Akira, as was common at the time. Not counting stuff like Robotech or Speed Racer that I wouldn't have known was anime.
Sailor Moon. It was on early in the morning and Iβd get ready for school really fast so I could sit and watch it before running to catch the bus.
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.
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
Show: Ronin Warriors
Film: Akira
I think it was RoboCop, the 1987 one and Child's Play 2 maybe?
Animation is hard to remember either Candy Candy or Kimba the White Lion. Maybe Saint Seiya?
Γdit, oh you mean animatimed movies, nvm
Yu Gi Oh!
Pokemon or Sailor Moon. Movie, probably the first Pokemon one.
TV: Battle of the Planets, way back in the late 70βs
Film Iβm really unsure. Wouldβve been late 80βs or early 90βs. Couldβve been any of: Warriors of the Wind (localized title of NausicaΓ€), Castle of Cagliostro, Akira, Project A-Ko, or Vampire Hunter D
Kiki's Delivery Service. I got it on VHS, probably for Christmas the year the Disney dub came out. I didn't have cable for a decent chunk of my childhood, so I saw that even before Pokemon.
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