Anime mainstream

Mroni · Post by **Mroni** » Wed Feb 26, 2003 8:12 pm

Slayers got me hooked on anime too when I was a wee lad of 27. As a true nut otaku I only buy anime or download it I can't Imagine the horror of watching it on tv.

Mr Oni

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Wed Feb 26, 2003 8:28 pm

Yaia wrote:hmmm after reading this i must say you are lucky...
i live in israel where the best anime was pokemon, digimon, yo-gi-yu and dbz (no i don't like it) and it was dubbed to hebrew and it made it even worse.

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Dat's crazy.

He Thor01 · Post by **He Thor01** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 2:47 pm

I think I'll chime in now. My experience with Anime started about three years ago while at a Youth Conference, I ended up in a conversation about my like of theological study and the "not so good anime" Gundam Wing that was appearing on Cartoon Network with some friends, they said that they had something I might like. Six hours later I was in a small dark room watching Evangelion "I was scarred for life

" , and I still havent come down. Next, slowly I found the underground Anime world, and it has been great but I know it cannot last, every happy little subculture throughout history has stopped being a subculture as soon as some large company has found some way to instantly get you in by selling you things "e.x. Hippies, Punks, Goths, etc...". With Anime mostly being a collection of consumer products already, The only thing Anime companies have to do is make Anime something that is in style and our subculture will be over

.
If you havent figured it out yet, Yes: I appreciate the anime underground very much and I will be very unhappy when it's gone, but while it is here I will most definately see Anime as a very beautiful collection of intelligent, open, freeminded individuals "a.k.a. Progressive Subculture"

El Banana · Post by **El Banana** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 3:18 pm

I got hooked into anime by "Captain Tsubasa", but Saint seiya is THE SHIT. Still one of my favorites.

Back on topic, I think that there are just the right people to watch anime, some just are not born for it. I Introduced a few of my friends to anime, sadly enough with DBZ, and to my horror, 6 years later THEY STILL LOVE IT! I pester them constantly about watching other stuff, but they mostly don't care to try, even after we saw evangelion (and we loved it). One of 'em, the one who is starting to look into other, better shows, is still so FUCKEN close-minded that he refuses to watch an anime because the main character is a girl (Battle Angel Alita), and did not want to watch "Cowboy Bebop" because he thought the name was stupid (even if he has no clue what its about). He'll finally watch it this weekend, I hope I'll get to yell "I TOLD YOU SOOOO!!"

/Repressed anger-venting.

Wykith · Post by **Wykith** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 3:28 pm

El Banana wrote:I got hooked into anime by "Captain Tsubasa", but Saint seiya is THE SHIT. Still one of my favorites.

Now I KNOW you weren't lying about where you were from. That show was damn popular back home until DBZ showed up.

El Banana · Post by **El Banana** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 3:52 pm

It (saint seiya)was insanely popular throughout latin america.
Too bad almost no one watched it at my school (8 people TOPS, out of 300...)

Meksikanfude · Post by **Meksikanfude** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 6:14 pm

Ha! When I told my firned to watch Cowboy Bebop, he refused. he thought these "cartoons" were gay and all that (this was a couple of years ago). He said that name was like some gay porn.
Funny.
Well, he loved it, and now he is more a fan of anime than me.

MegaMouth · Post by **MegaMouth** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 8:41 pm

I wish I had a firned.

Meksikanfude · Post by **Meksikanfude** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 11:05 pm

You'll get one eventually
Just keep your hopes up

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 11:11 pm

El Banana wrote:One of 'em, the one who is starting to look into other, better shows, is still so FUCKEN close-minded that he refuses to watch an anime because the main character is a girl (Battle Angel Alita)

*cough* FAG *cough cough cough*