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The TV series is a bit better, but craptastic "animation" if you can call it that. It gives more back ground detail to Giglief's summon of the barrier to block out the Lucifer Folk, but it ultimately fails. The ending is pretty inconclusive as well. Very catchy OP theme though. Kinda no Pansee, if I remember correctly. Did you see the Patlabor movies/OVA/TV series, what? I'm more interested in you seeing that.

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I only saw Patlabor The Movie. I haven't really caught up on too many of those recently.

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I used to watch the Patlabor movies on the Action channel years ago. They were actually kind of boring, but I sat through them almost every other day I had off from school (or cut).

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Originally Posted by Gechmir

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But I think the very first time I saw anime might've either bee the latter Unico movie

yay. So that's what the movie was. I had to google it after reading that to see if it was the same thing I was thinking of, and it was.
I remember seeing that when I was probably about 3 years old. I didn't know that it was anime though. I also watched transformers.

I guess what really pulled me into the anime was Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh.

Then I watched Pat Labor(recently. re runs on the AZN channel) ,Record of Lodoss war and Descendants of darkness. I also watched Detective Conan.

I was speaking idiomatically.

The Patlabor movies are generally aimed at a more mature audience and focuses on quite a bit of detail to yield the full enjoyment of the movie. Still, the TV series is not to be missed, at all. Shit, I just wish DDD had them instock since they're selling pretty cheap.

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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.

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I blame two series. Gatchaman (back when it was G-Force on Cartoon Network when they were first experimenting with anime as a whole), and Tales of Eternia. One day I was fucking around doing a search with game titles on Kazaa, and found that there were movie files up to 13 with Tales of Eternia as the title. Stumped, I downloaded one to see what I would end up with, and low and behold it was an anime series. Did a little more research, and found out what the wonderful world of anime had in store for me.

Only then did I learn how far back it had spread going as far back as the games I had played, notably the Lunar Sega CD series and the anime scenes that it had. Henceforth, I've gone on to download hundreds and hundreds of GBs of the stuff (yes, I've bought what I REALLY liked too) and love watching it when I feel like I want to watch something really interesting. Beats otherwise watching Spongebob Squarepants, that's for damn sure.

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wake up at like six in the morning to watch shows like Sailor Moon, Dragonball Z, and Samurai Pizza Cats

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.

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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.

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Such an arcane topic for me, I'd have to say Slayers Next, since I saw it for rent at a Jumbo Video in the single anime shelf they had while I was 9 or 10. I liked the idea of magic and the colourful cover art so I wanted to check it out. I really liked the story and then started downloading episodes off of Kazaa somehow until I finished the series. Then I downgraded to the original Slayers and then upgraded to Try after that, as well as picking up Naruto. Somewhere after that I found torrents somehow and randomly decided to get Full Metal Alchemist without knowing what it was, then spiraled off from there.

You could count Sailor Moon since for some reason :$ I loved watching that when I was 6, and only moderately liked Dragonball Z (too slow for me in comparison to wacky villains each episode).

Sidebar: La Blue Girl was also on that shelf, but I didn't so much as touch it due to the 18+ stickers all over it.

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Sailor Moon was probably my first experience with anime. I saw a few episodes at a friend's house years before another friend began lending me VHS tapes with Japanese audio and English subtitles. That was an interesting experience at the time since I wasn't used to reading subtitles while watching anything.

I had also recently received my own computer and managed to learn a little more about anime that way. It wasn't until a few years ago that I really began expanding my anime library though. I think I have about twenty or so titles now that I still haven't seen. They're either collecting dust on my shelf or on disc somewhere.

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I first started watching anime, back in 1992, when I was still in grade school and we has a penpal exchange program. One of our assignments was to exchange different things from each culture. I was quite ond of cartoons, so I desided that it would be the best subject matter for the occasion. I sent her some of my Disney tapes, and in return she sent some of her Sailormoon items. At first I wasn't all to amazed and wonderd what the obession was with the huge eyes and super powers. But after awhile, the story grew on me.The only problem was I had no idea what they were saying, so it was kind of hard to follow in certain areas.Plus I only had one volume of the series, and it was very hard to for me to continue to enjoy something that was half finished.

So, I eventually forgot Sailormoon and went back to my other hobbies. Later on, I went back to liking anime when I had encounterd Scifi channels eairly morning line up, hosted by Apollo Smile. They featured the Tenchi Muyo movie, Armatage the 3rd, and Akira. There was also some major influences from the various video games my brother would play on his NES & SNES. The one that impacted me the most was Megaman. And times when I had picked up a few things from Block Buster, mostly video game animes.

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Originally Posted by zerosconcubine

Darkstalkers and Fatal Fury anyone?

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Originally Posted by Encephalon

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Will do. But we all have different tastes. Those are just things I grew up on. I guess I am just into anime based off video games. Though, I will admit, most adaptions are anything but accurate. So, I can kind of see why many people dislike them.

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I suppose my love of anime spurred from such great classics as Ninja Scroll, Vampire Hunter D, Akira, and so on. Essentially I grew up on these ultra-violent masterpieces. I never really got into watching series untill quite a few years later. I'm still rather picky about what I watch, choosing only one or two series to check out every new season.

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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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I watched DragonballZ when I was, like, seven. Years later at the age of thirteen, I discovered that this stuff was called "anime", and pursued it. Having 56k and limited access to a computer pretty much put me out of the picture as far as watching any went, but a year later I torrented an ep of Evangelion whilst at a friend's house and LOVED IT TO DEATH. I got the boxset for christmas and things pretty much escalated from there.

I still only watch anime if the series is shorter than 30 episodes, though. I can't stand longrunning syndicated crap that's left open-ended and unfinished as long as possible.

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Originally Posted by aku

XD back when i was in 3rd grade, like 8 years old...damn that was forever ago...
I used to get up early every morning to watch XD SAILOR MOON! and when i say early, i mean like 4am early to watch it, i was that addicted XD...yeah i know, most people would probly say DBZ or somthing like that, but nope...my first anime love was Sailor Moon!
But what brought me back into anime after is stopped airing at 4am-5am week day mornings on channel 4 XD
was Escaflowne on Fox at 9:30 satureday mornings, which that airing contract recently expired! and they are trying to resell it! meaning Escaflowne might be coming to a CN near you :P this was also bout the time tonami started, back when it was decent. and it pulled me into alot too

ME TOO!!!!! OMG, i didn't think anybody else got hooked into anime by sailor moon too! Well that and gundam but ya w/e.

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Originally Posted by Encephalon

What anime/series/manga got you into this cel-shaded / pen-sketched culture of awesome?

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That's quite an insightful answer but perhaps it's too in-depth for me to understand it.

I was speaking idiomatically.