Gateway Drugs. Or How I Got To Know Anime.

When I got the internet, I found something called 'anime' which was often connected to games in the search engines. So I dug around and got more information on it. As luck would have it, Sailor Moon was just starting on Toonami, so I started watching it. It started out I watched it just for the sake of watching 'anime', but I was surprised how enjoyable it become on its' own (read: it didn't look like something I would've watched without an initial purpose) It's like, "Great, cartoons...but the characters are actually telling a story and stuff actually happens. Gee, kinda like Gargoyles." Plus, it was a nice looking show compared to what Cartoon Network was running at the time (mostly the older Hanna Barbera cartoons, which I was already more than familiar with) I started watching right at the start of the Nephlite series of episodes and didn't miss one until the show repeated.

Also around that time, I bought the domestic Best of Anime CD, which was my introduction to Japanese vocals and I also got curious about a couple of series' from the descriptions in the liner notes. Especially Urusei Yatsura and Devil Hunter Yohko, which I looked into shortly after.

Then Dragonball Z started and I nearly lost interest in it because of all the filler before Nappa/Vejita came to Earth, but it picked up. I was a fan of DBZ through the Cell Games. During that time, Toonami also ran Tenchi, Outlaw Star and Gundam Wing, which were all pretty cool.

Also, I got hooked on both Ranma 1/2 and Slayers. Thankfully, I found a store in my area that rented anime and they just happened to have both of them in their entirely (or at least what was out at the time...Viz took their sweet time with Ranma, so they only had the ones up through Random Rhapsody) and I just happened to have a second VCR, so...

That looks about right.

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