Gateway Drugs. Or How I Got To Know Anime.

My first exposure to anime was Ronin Warriors back when they were showing it in syndication. I probably would have been watching more then, but I was just a kid (probably not even ten years old), so it's not like I could go to the stores and buy those kinda shows that were being released by companies like ADV and stuff.

Because of that, I had to settle for the stuff on TV, which of course was still good to me at the time. This was before I even had cable, so I had to wake up at like six in the morning to watch shows like Sailor Moon, Dragonball Z, and Samurai Pizza Cats that were in syndication. It sucked to have to do this, but I felt it necessary so I could watch these cool Japanese cartoons.

After this, not only did Pokemon start to come on, but I also got cable as well. This eventually led to me watching a whole bunch of anime. I watched basically any anime that Toonami showed, all the stuff on Fox Kids, and whatever else my local networks were showing in syndication.

It was during this time that I was at the height of my anime fandom. I actually cared more about anime than I did about video games. I started reading about it online and in magazines (I actually had a subscription to Animerica, and before that I used to go to the comic store (which was nowhere near my house) every month just to pick it up), I practically devoured any of it that was on TV (even watching crappy shows like Hello Kitty and Tama and Friends), and I started buying it on tape (this was before DVDs were real popular).

I guess after this, I had an anime overdose, so while I still watched some of it (mainly just the stuff I bought and the good stuff that was on TV, like stuff on Adult Swim), I wasn't so addicted to it like I was before. After this, I had a sort of balancing out to where I am today. I pretty much just watch some stuff on TV, download some of it, and buy some on DVD. I still read about it online, but I don't read magazines or anything like that anymore. Basically I'm just an average fan now.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Spatula

You guys got shitty time slots for those shows. YTV had them in what called "The Zone" from around 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm with some other shows. Of course probably this was before the TV stations thought of this as a "huge viewer market" and put it in crap time slots to add to their repertoire of various cartoons and place American productions during the prime time.

Well, that was when local stations were showing the syndicated version of the shows. The show would only come on once a week on the weekends, and at that crappy timeslot, because that's when th local station chose to carry it (I was just glad they had it at all). Once they got on a national channel like Cartoon Network, they generally had way better times, like the ones you described, and they came on five times a week.

There's nowhere I can't reach.