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Offline Cheez

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What got you started into Anime?
« on: May 27, 2006, 10:03:26 pm »
Hello!

I grew up in Latin America, so we get a lot of anime in the free channels (read: not cable) I used to watch Knights of the Zodiacs, Robotech (I don't know the English name), and a whole lot of others.  They all spoke with a Mexican accent (I think most of them go through Mexico for the voiceover, but I could be wrong...)

My family moved to North America and of course those shows were no longer available... Boo-hoo  :'(!  And funsubbing... I didn't even knew it existed until last year! To think that breaking my leg and boredom made me surf more.... Wow! I'm way behind!

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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2006, 12:58:20 am »
Well, I moved to Japan when i was in Grade 2.  Then in Grade 4, we got cable and I came across this channel known as Kids Station..anime channel.  I goto soo hooked into it that before I knew...anime was my life.  Thats how I started learning Japanese.  I came back to BD after Grade 7 semester exams...no anime for 4 years.  Then stupid English dubs on Animax..and sixth months ago, I discovered the fansubbing world!
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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2006, 02:23:32 am »
Well, my first anime would have been Kimba, mixed with some Speed Racer, followed by Voltron, and then the first broadcast of Robotech in '85. After that I was more into comics/manga for a few years, until anime started appearing in Diamond Previews. Diamond required long lead times, so when Right Stuf offered anime by mail order, I bought from them -- and AnimEigo, since they were happy to sell direct in an age when most companies thought their market was retailers. I eventually got a Pentium 1 for use as internet (dial-up) access (which it still does),
and started getting VHS fansubs from various people who were offering them back then. The MPEG 1 Digisubs were too large for the speeds of the day, and the Real digisubs were too poor, so digisubbing didn't really take off until the Divx codec appeared. And then the explosive growth with BT followed a few years later.
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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2006, 06:01:43 am »
My first Anime experience...geez, it was so long ago... ^^; Most of the cartoons I've remembered watching were in the U.S. starting with Robotech, Voltron, Technoman, Speed Racer, Thundercats, etc.

Before my family moved here, the things I mostly remembered were the Famicom (and Disk System), the 3-D goggles, and the revolver guncon. XD

However, I do remember watching Doraemon and a few Miyazaki films, like My Neighbor Totoro.

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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2006, 08:16:36 am »
It must have been in the early to mid 90's, I saw a 'ranma 1/2' comic book published by Viz comics.  It was #3 (1st serie) and I bought it b'cos I thought the cover was cute.  I read the story and it made no sense (since I  had not read #1 and #2) but I still liked the art so I eventually hunted down the rest of it and followed the serie for about a year.  But eventually I grew bored with it, until I saw Matt Thorn's book (another one published by Viz 'four shoujo stories').  Online, which was different back then, mostly mailing lists run by Hitoshi Doi; Matt was one of the experts on Shoujo manga.  Still, on the local scene there wasn't very much I was interested in, there wasn't much to begin with and nearly all of it was all popularized shounen or sometimes porn.  Still, one day Robert DeLoura posted a translation of Hime-chan no Ribon manga to one of the mailing lists I was on (mid 90's).  I got the original manga and read it, I started following Ribon (the magazine that Hime-chan was running in), then a little after that Nakayoshi (which ran things like Sailor Moon), and other similar things.  As for anime, I wasn't that interested, until later when DVDs were beginning to catch on and websites like 'dvdexpress.com' started appearing.  These sites were practically giving away DVDs, many ran free promotionals or deals like 'give us your e-mail address / sign up a friend / get a free DVD'.  With e-mail sites like geocities out there, which offered free e-mail accounts (paid for with advertising) this basically became a limitless supply of free DVDs.  After about a year those sites started to disappear, but by then I was interested enough to keep up with the local scene.  Late 90's I was rather active in a club that made and showed fansubs, then in 2000 I was in an active digisub group (even though I didn't actually do anything), since then I've been really into it.

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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2006, 02:24:44 pm »
for me it was the great Miyazaki's Kaze no Tani no Naushika or Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind and Tonari no Totoro.

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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2006, 06:38:19 pm »
...Late 90's I was rather active in a club that made and showed fansubs, then in 2000 I was in an active digisub group (even though I didn't actually do anything), since then I've been really into it.
Just out of curiousity, are you beginning to learn some tools of the trade now or are you still just "supervising" them?


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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2006, 01:10:14 am »
Just out of curiousity, are you beginning to learn some tools of the trade now or are you still just "supervising" them?


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I don't mean this group, the very first digisub group I was technically 'in' and by that I only mean that I was a member of the private channel.  One day the 'riskey and safety' incedent happened, and that combined with other things made me leave the channel.  They wanted nothing to do with shoujo, so it was pointless for me, other than that seeing a first digisub group from the inside made me aware of the conflict between groups of the time (the 'dirty war') and the problems with how a group was run (a top-down leadership style where the leader made all decisions for the group).  The 'riskey and safety' incedent was where a member had subbed and wanted to release an episode of a shoujo show by that name but the group leadership refused and the release was delayed indefinately and hence only ever avaliable to a selected few online.  A while later it was released by a VHS sub group 'Sachi's Distribution' and a few years later it was licensed in the US. 

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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #8 on: June 01, 2006, 08:38:58 am »
I had always liked comics and cartoons, prefering the European stories in Heavy Metal as opposed to the produce of Marvel and DC.  I was at universtity at the time (well Wolverhampton Polytechnic as it was) when a friend got hold of me and told me of this Japanese cartoon that was like a movie and on a theatrical release in Europe.  We had a state of the art arts cinema (Wolves Poly not me and my friend) which I was a regular at (also liking contientnal and art house cinema).  I saw the anime and fell for the genre.

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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #9 on: June 02, 2006, 11:17:51 pm »
I had always liked comics and cartoons, prefering the European stories in Heavy Metal as opposed to the produce of Marvel and DC. I was at universtity at the time (well Wolverhampton Polytechnic as it was) when a friend got hold of me and told me of this Japanese cartoon that was like a movie and on a theatrical release in Europe. We had a state of the art arts cinema (Wolves Poly not me and my friend) which I was a regular at (also liking contientnal and art house cinema). I saw the anime and fell for the genre.

Is interesting you mentioning an interest in the visual arts, specially cinema.  I've always been drawn to anything visual, but my real conversion to anime (like in I squandered everything I made in DVD's and the like!) was definitely by watching  Ghost in the Machine. Talk about aesthetic pleasure!




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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #10 on: June 03, 2006, 09:20:17 am »
Is interesting you mentioning an interest in the visual arts, specially cinema.  I've always been drawn to anything visual, but my real conversion to anime (like in I squandered everything I made in DVD's and the like!) was definitely by watching  Ghost in the Machine. Talk about aesthetic pleasure!

After everything, it all comes down to one thing...aesthetic beauty.
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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #11 on: June 04, 2006, 06:23:55 pm »
Well, my first anime would have been Kimba, mixed with some Speed Racer, followed by Voltron, and then the first broadcast of Robotech in '85. After that I was more into comics/manga for a few years, until anime started appearing in Diamond Previews. Diamond required long lead times, so when Right Stuf offered anime by mail order, I bought from them -- and AnimEigo, since they were happy to sell direct in an age when most companies thought their market was retailers. I eventually got a Pentium 1 for use as internet (dial-up) access (which it still does),
and started getting VHS fansubs from various people who were offering them back then. The MPEG 1 Digisubs were too large for the speeds of the day, and the Real digisubs were too poor, so digisubbing didn't really take off until the Divx codec appeared. And then the explosive growth with BT followed a few years later.
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Wow! When I compare what's available now to what was there say even six or seven years ago, it just boggles the mind!!!!  I live in Toronto, and the stuff you can get here at relatively low costs is astounding... Just yesterday I picked up a VHS tape of Robotech for just a buck!  8)  The local basic cable channel YTV broadcasts a series of animes (Naruto, Inuyasha, One Piece, Fullmetal Alchemist and the like....) However, I wonder how much cutting they'd had to undergo in order to be "shown" on basic cable???  Sometimes with most of these anime, it's like going from the hands of a top-notch couturier into the hands of anyone who knows how to operate scissors....
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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #12 on: June 05, 2006, 08:39:08 am »
I was born in Korea, and since it's so close to Japan, we always got a lot of anime since...I don't know...I think in 70s or something. (I myself was born in 88) So a lot of you might not be familiar with the ones I enjoyed in my childhood. I remember being really fascinated by

-Kaiketzu Zorro(快傑ゾロ)
-Rose of Versailles(ベルサイユのばら)
-Junisenshi Eto Rangers(十二戰支 爆裂 エトレンジャ-)
-Time Travelers(たいむとらぶる トンデケマン)
-魔道王グランゾト  (I don't know its english title)
-Saint Tail(怪盜セイント★テ-ル)
-Slayers (original, NEXT, TRY)
-Crayon Shin-chan(クレヨンしんちゃん)

The Hero series
- The Brave of Sun Fighbird(太陽の勇者 ファイバ-ド)
- The Legendary Braves DaGarn(傳說の勇者 ダ·ガ-ン)
-The Brave Police JDeckar(勇者警察 ジェイ·デッカ-)

so...if you want a good, old anime, these are the ones I really enjoyed when I was young (and I still do!)

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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #13 on: June 08, 2006, 05:22:06 pm »
Wow!

-Kaiketzu Zorro(快傑ゾロ)
-Rose of Versailles(ベルサイユのばら)
-Junisenshi Eto Rangers(十二戰支 爆裂 エトレンジャ-)
-Time Travelers(たいむとらぶる トンデケマン)
-魔道王グランゾト (I don't know its english title)
-Saint Tail(怪盜セイント★テ-ル)
-Slayers (original, NEXT, TRY)
-Crayon Shin-chan(クレヨンしんちゃん)

The Hero series
- The Brave of Sun Fighbird(太陽の勇者 ファイバ-ド)
- The Legendary Braves DaGarn(傳說の勇者 ダ·ガ-ン)
-The Brave Police JDeckar(勇者警察 ジェイ·デッカ-)

This is quite an impressive list!  Except for Rose of Versailles, I've never heard about any of them!  What's the Hero series about?
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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #14 on: June 22, 2006, 01:21:35 am »
It was Robotech that got me started back in 1985.
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