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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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[โ€“] Lycist 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think my first late night tv adventure was seeing Akira and having absolutely no idea what was going on.

[โ€“] Lycist 5 points 5 months ago

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.