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Originally Posted by Chiibi
Maya The Bee was my very first anime at seven years old but I was unaware of it and the world it came from.
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That could have been my first, too. Either that, or
Heidi, Girl of the Alps. (I'm Austrian. Heidi's based on a Swiss children's book. Switzerland is geographically and culuturally a lot closer to me than Japan. When I saw a Swiss movie adaption of the book I was sorely disappointed. This is not Heidi. Heidi has huge eyes, and black smooth stand-up hair!!!
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I just called them "Japanese cartoons" back then. Other shows I watched around that time were
Kimba, the White Lion,
Pinnocchio,
Sindbad and
3000 miles in search of mother (or what the English title is; it was simply called "Marco" in German). Later, there was
Captain Future.
The first time I saw an anime with a Japanese highschool setting was in the nineties:
Atakku no.1, a late-60ies show about a girl volleyball team. After that came the Sailor Moon era, and they also started showing late-night anime (and music-TV stations would later show anime).
My first subbed anime was
Silent Möbius (late night TV). Watching dubbed anime was a revelation; German dubs tend to make the characters sound a lot more naive...