What anime made you want to really get into it?

Chrno · Post by **Chrno** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:21 pm

DBZ was the first anime i watched, then 2 years ago I found out about this thing called Carracho. People on message boards said that you could download anime from it, so I did. I downloaded The Vision of Escaflowne series and thats what really got me hooked.

Rorschach · Post by **Rorschach** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 9:39 pm

My first anime? Well, I think I saw some dubbed animes when I was a kid, but I didn't know any of them were anime, so I don't think they count.

My first anime was, I guess, Sailor Moon, but not the (gag!) one on TV. I had just gotten this really cool internet connection in my early days in college, and was looking around for some stuff to try watching on my screen. Since I'd been a comic book and animation fan for some time, I decided to see if I could find some cartoons.

Then I ran across the early RealPlayer Sailor Moon Fansubs. My computer was an old Pentium 133 and the episodes stuttered terribly. I didn't care! I'd never seen anything like these before. (Besides, their encoding was top-of-the-line for the time!) The really fun thing was knowing from what I read on various sites about the cartoon that I was seeing stuff that had been cut out of the North American version; it was kind of the experience you'd have if you found out G.I. Joe was actually made for adults and had deleted scenes and a more punchy dialogue track.

My roommate and I had our fun laughing at some of the rather cheesy stuff in the series, but the next thing I came across was Hana Yori Dango. We'd never seen such a tastefully well-done soap opera in our lives (because we were guys and didn't think we would ever want to watch any soap operas). From then on, we watched anything we could get our hands on.

Jonny Bebop · Post by **Jonny Bebop** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 4:57 am

Knù¢klés wrote:heres an important question? is .hack// only in japanese, coz we dont have it in the shops in the UK as of yet and ne were i look on the net i can only find Japanese dub volumes and copys...?

Its coming out in the UK near the end of this month, you can pre-order it from http://www.play.com for £14.99 including delivery

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MetalWolf · Post by **MetalWolf** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 5:05 am

Vampire Hunter D, I liked it because it was so different from anything I seen before when I learned it was anime I needed to see more, 10 years from that day I still have that same passion.

Knù¢klés · Post by **Knù¢klés** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 7:35 am

Jonny Bebop wrote:
Knù¢klés wrote:heres an important question? is .hack// only in japanese, coz we dont have it in the shops in the UK as of yet and ne were i look on the net i can only find Japanese dub volumes and copys...?
Its coming out in the UK near the end of this month, you can pre-order it from http://www.play.com for £14.99 including delivery .

Hu|2rY!!! its about time, ive been trying to get dot Hack for ages (1 more for luck

) all i can ever come across is bootlegs

or japanese dub copys. its like number 1 on my wish list
1) dot Hack
2) Naruto
3) Escaflowne
4) Rahxephon
5) Inu Yasha

Kaimi-chan · Post by **Kaimi-chan** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 8:44 am

Hellsing, Cowboy bebop, Candidate for Godness, Evangelion (I could die,, but I would be happy if I Asuka and Shinji were in my classroom, and I met Ritsuko, she is aweasome!), Rurouni Kenshin, Sailor Moon

And Inuyasha (sesshoumaru-sama!!!!!!)

Excalibur00 · Post by **Excalibur00** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 8:48 am

I remember the first anime i liked and it was Escaflowne, but i think i saw Gundam F91 when i was little, and it took me so long to figured it was called that!