Anime [the definitive anime show]

Bulghod · Post by **Bulghod** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 5:15 pm

Kingofmercury wrote: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!

But you can say the same thing about Akira. the only thing Sailor Moon really contributed was how it could be for girls as well.

and while we're at it, Speed Racer, Astro Boy were also huge anime hits in America. especially Speed Racer with the famous bad dub job.

I see what you're saying, that Sailor Moon did push anime further into the mainstream, but it wasn't the BIG one to do it but it was, in a way, the last one to.

Cyanna · Post by **Cyanna** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 5:43 pm

I guess maybe anything by Ghibli...Princess Mononoke was the first anime I ever saw where I was aware that I was watching something made in another country (probably because it was my first time watching anything subbed for entertainment). Then there was Spirited Away which was released in American theaters without a prior show on TV to generate a fanbase (as opposed to the Pokemon and the more recent YuGiOh films)

After seeing Princess Mononoke, I guess I started to make the connections between that and what I used to watch when I was younger....like Sailor Moon for one.

Sentient Satire · Post by **Sentient Satire** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 8:33 am

Mach GoGoGo
Thundercats
Akira
Grave of the Fireflies
Not really Macross... other mecha anime had preceded this title.

This just constitutes a fraction of the influential works in the pre-90s "foundation era" of anime (although arguably by 1985 the groundwork for today had already been laid)

Now the emphasis in anime I'd say would be the strive toward seamlessness of largescale CG interspersed with the hand drawn, which my aforementioned titles really didn't help prepare the industry for.

D-solve · Post by **D-solve** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 10:55 am

I would like to add:
EVANGELION
Love Hina
Star sherif
Akira I don't belive i forgot about that one

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:16 am

Bulghod wrote:
Kingofmercury wrote: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!
But you can say the same thing about Akira. the only thing Sailor Moon really contributed was how it could be for girls as well.

and while we're at it, Speed Racer, Astro Boy were also huge anime hits in America. especially Speed Racer with the famous bad dub job.

I see what you're saying, that Sailor Moon did push anime further into the mainstream, but it wasn't the BIG one to do it but it was, in a way, the last one to.

Yeah I think that honor belongs to speed racer...thats the earliest one people recall, though many didn't realize it was "anime"...I mean my dad and everyone around his age knows Speed Racer, and you see spoofs and refferences to it quite a bit...Family Guy even did a rather humerous little play off of it.

I think Sailor Moon just helped the modern anime EXPLOSION along some, as did DBZ. Sailor Moon definitely got alot of people into it...for me it was a mix of it and DBZ, but I saw them both back in like 1992 because I had a cousin who'd get them...somehow...of course, they were raw Japanese so I had no idea what was going on quite a bit of the time...only thing I understood was "MOON PRISIM POWER MAKE UP!". But I remember really liking it, but then later truly falling in love with it when I saw what was actually happening with the addition of subtitles.

Anyway, when I hear "anime", I just think of umm...everything I like from anime...i don't think of anything in particular...except Japanese...yeah Japanese always comes to mind.

Merm wrote:Anime is. . .

Spikey hair:twisted:
Big eyes:shock:
Small Mouths
and lots of random explosions!

But you forgot....

ACTION!
COMEDY!
STRAIGHT FROM JAPAN!
NOT KIDS STUFF!
ANIME IS....ON RIGHT NOW!
24 HOURS A DAY!
LOG ON NOW AND DEMAND YOUR ANIME!

Bulghod · Post by **Bulghod** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:48 pm

another thing that i forgot to mention, when i hear "anime" i keep on thinking of this guy who went on a carpool with us to Baltimore's wife. when i told her me and my friends were going to an anime convention, she said "Annie may, Who's she?" the moment we stepped out of the room we were fuckin cryin and laughin.

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 3:26 pm

Bulghod wrote:another thing that i forgot to mention, when i hear "anime" i keep on thinking of this guy who went on a carpool with us to Baltimore's wife. when i told her me and my friends were going to an anime convention, she said "Annie may, Who's she?" the moment we stepped out of the room we were fuckin cryin and laughin.

That sounds like something out of a movie....lmao.

Angel18 · Post by **Angel18** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 1:33 pm

i heard Perfect Blue was the first manga.

Bulghod · Post by **Bulghod** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 1:50 pm

I would have imagined Astro Boy or Metropolis to have been the first. you know since it's like from Osamu Tezuka, the guy who created manga more or less

Zaxafel · Post by **Zaxafel** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 5:01 pm

anime means....

big heads
really skinny people
big eyes
colored hair
stupid swordwielders
berserk robots
lots and lots of overexplaining

ACTION!
COMEDY!
STRAIGHT FROM JAPAN!
NOT KIDS STUFF!
ANIME IS....ON RIGHT NOW!
24 HOURS A DAY!
LOG ON NOW AND DEMAND YOUR ANIME!

always hated that advertizment