Anime [the definitive anime show]

Saitou_Aku_Soku_Zan · Post by **Saitou_Aku_Soku_Zan** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 7:37 pm

Just a question what movie or series is a staple of anime meaning when you hear the word anime what movie or series comes to mind as the first that made anime what it is today?

Kajino Rei · Post by **Kajino Rei** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 9:42 pm

This almost seems like a trick/stupid question...

Anything by Tezuka Osamu he is the Manga no Kamisama after all.
His manga where the one's that first touched the core of present day anime.
And all this was years upon years ago.
Think Utena...

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Zero Beat · Post by **Zero Beat** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 5:44 pm

when i hear that word i think of dragonball z.

Bulghod · Post by **Bulghod** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 10:10 pm

two words...

Pointy chins

(please remember i started off on DBZ, then Tenchi Muyo)

D-solve · Post by **D-solve** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 8:47 am

Robotech:Macross saga

Coaxel Ethereal · Post by **Coaxel Ethereal** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:35 pm

thunder cats
voltron
speed racer
robotech : macross
astroboy

GITS: <--- awesome

just about everthing i use to watch as a little kid, man that stuff was great!!, then i came to the states and saw the flint stones and i was like "que porqueria es esto, donde esta mi thunder cats"

Merm · Post by **Merm** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:45 pm

Anime is. . .

Spikey hair:twisted:
Big eyes:shock:
Small Mouths

and lots of random explosions!

Bulghod · Post by **Bulghod** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 2:42 pm

Duke MadThain wrote: GITS: <--- awesome

GRITS: <---- taste REALLY good with honey

Coaxel Ethereal · Post by **Coaxel Ethereal** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 3:04 pm

GRITS: <---- taste REALLY good with honey

never liked it, just me tho

Kingofmercury · Post by **Kingofmercury** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 5:05 pm

Two words: Sailor Moon.

Say what you want about Sailor Moon, but the show was the first Anime to hit it bigtime in the public eye in North America and it opened a lot of people's eyes, including mine to Japanese Animation. Just look at the facts:

BEFORE Sailor Moon, Anime was an underground cult hit in the U.S. at best. (A lot of kids didn't even know Voltron or Thundercats were Japanese shows).

AFTER Sailor Moon came..... The DBZ phenomenon, Gundam, Evangelion, the insidious Pokemon epidemic. And everything else in rapid succession in a massive tide of Anime that continues unabated to this day and giving rise to a nationwide, some would even say WORLDwide fan base!

In short, Sailor Moon opened the doors for its predecessors, contemporaries, and future prospects to come into North America on a widely available and accepted basis. Case closed!