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What got you started into Anime?
Tsubasa:
--- Quote from: Cheez on June 02, 2006, 11:17:51 pm ---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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After everything, it all comes down to one thing...aesthetic beauty.
Cheez:
--- Quote from: Galen 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.
-Galen
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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....
parudy88:
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!)
Cheez:
Wow!
--- Quote from: parudy88 on June 05, 2006, 08:39:08 am ----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-)
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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?
mamochan:
It was Robotech that got me started back in 1985.
Now I own the SDF Macross Mini Boxsets from AnimEigo :)
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