2004-02-14, 23:17 | Link #61 |
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My first anime would have to be either Robotech or Vampire Hunter D. I'm thinking it's D b/c I'm older than Cartoon Network if memory serves me right. Any hoo...D was actually aired on TBS, Turner Broadcasting Station, one Saturday afternoon. I watched it with my brothers b/c they knew what it was. After that, I was pretty much hooked to anime, even if I did start off watching english dubs first. The first series ever complete was Evangelion (dubbed except for vol 2) and the first series I ever watch subbed was Tenchi Muyo OVAs.
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2004-02-16, 22:19 | Link #62 |
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My first anime was Robotech as well (at least the one I really remember and attribute my fondness for anime to). And the Valkyrie will always be my favorite mecha ever created. But there were other shows I remember enjoying that I haven't seen mentioned yet. Hopefully, I'm not the only person who's seen these.
Thunderbirds 2086 (Kagaku Kyújo-Tai TechnoVoyager in japanese) http://www.absoluteanime.com/thunder...2086/index.htm "Mankind is ever-expanding the frontiers of technical superiority into areas unknown and uncharted.. -Each quest promises marvellous discoveries, but each also brings potential danger. -In direct response to the dangers of our advanced technology, we need an organisation that is ready to mobilise dramatic survival resources at a moment's notice. -Conceptions in rescue that can challenge the impossible. -The Thunderbirds - five of the finest cadets in the world dedicated to the service of mankind wherever he may be in distress. -Combined with a dazzling array of vehicles and equipment designed to specifications in the space-age technology of the 21st Century. -A special rescue squad ready to answer a last-chance distress call, a call that could arrive at any time at any disaster scene on or off this planet. -These are the Thunderbirds 2086!" That's from the monologue at the beginning of each episode, and basically explains the premise of the whole series. When disaster struck, and people were in trouble, whether it was on land, underwater, or in space, the Thunderbirds would come to the rescue. Perhaps the most notable aspect of the show was that no one was armed. Not a big deal when fighting a raging forest fire, but makes things difficult when the blond above a shuttle of escaped convicts to turn themselves in. I loved the animation and all the nifty mecha and gadgets in the show (skyboards rock). I even had a lot of the episodes on VHS that I recorded, but sadly, I accidently recorded over it. I also remember a movie I also had on VHS (and also accidently taped over ) called "Starbirds" (I think). Our hero returns from a space expedition and gets conscripted to pilot a "super truck" that transforms into a giant robot so he can fight off other giant robots of unknown origin. He falls for a girl who he saves from falling off a cliff. This girl has angel-like wings and is part of a race of beings who are mostly in suspended animation on a rock orbiting Jupiter (I think it was Jupiter). I think those who were awake wanted to take over Earth so their people had a place to settle. Unfortunately, I recorded over the climatic end battle, so I can't remember how it ended. Anyone know where I can find more info on this one, I've had absolutely no luck myself. |
2004-02-16, 22:48 | Link #64 | |
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babbito2k, here's a little something for you that I just found myself. Seems Gerry and Sylvia Anderson are writing a new Thunderbirds (live action?) movie to be directed by Jonathan Frakes. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167456/ |
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2004-02-17, 17:02 | Link #65 |
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Well, I'm getting very emotional and nostalgic lately because Saint Seiya is coming back to live after 15 years! A movie of Saint Seiya came out 3 days ago and the ovas are going to continue in november. Plus, there is a new manga coming out about the gold Saints that will be present on tv later on So it means that we will have Saint Seiya for a while ONCE AGAIN!
PS: I wish the creators of Berserk continued with the story in the tv series, but who knows... Sniff...
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2004-02-28, 13:22 | Link #66 |
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Guys There is a new torrent for space adventure cobra! This torrent has the first 16 episodes, I highly recomend to download this older series because you won't be disspointed http://caset.dyndns.dk:6969/stats.ht...dd76689f41bef2
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2004-02-28, 19:40 | Link #68 | |
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Of course, back then I had absolutely no idea about its origin and what it was... And no, I don't have any nostalgic feelings there. I wouldn't watch it nowadays as I'm simply not interested at all in such old series. |
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2004-02-28, 23:48 | Link #69 |
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OMG!!!
That was my first anime too, it was fairly popular in my province. I found a copy in my anime video store and rented it last year (it was while she entered the private school and met that brat (can't remember the names and they are not the same in the different languages anyway). It was the guy who teased her because of her freekles. I've found a couple of clips in french too, got my hands on the original intro song as well. Live-evil did a sub of a OAV and I think it's listed here on animesuki |
2004-02-29, 02:06 | Link #70 |
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Ahoy! This seems like a good a thread as any to introduce myself. Seeing as how I'm 36 years old, and have been watching anime quite steadily since about 1979, a thread about old anime series seems to be the best place to start.
The first anime series I saw was definitely the dub of Space Cruiser Yamato, (known as Star Blazers). At that point I had no clue it was of Japanese origin, nor did I care. I had always loved sci-fi and cartoons, so when the Japanese put the two of them together... whoaaa! The second series I saw was "Science Ninja Team Gatchaman"... or that horrendous Sandy Frank dub, "Battle of the Planets", but y'know... I loved that show as a child! This was when I put two and two together and realized there must be more shows like this from Japan. One show (i.e Star Blazers) may have been just a fluke... but two shows.... now that's a trend! After that comes a long line-up of shows I'd catch on various trips with my parents in motel rooms, or from scouring video stores for old VHS tapes of shows I'd never have heard of otherwise! Some shows I caught in those early days include all the ZIV International video releases such as Captain Harlock, Captain Future, Force Five, Candy, and even Angel. As well as many of Jim Terry's godawful dubs... Ninja the Wonder Boy, Young King Arthur, and recently a friend of mine located a bootleg of the old Jim Terry dub of the original Crusher Joe movie... It even had a theme song added to it! "We are the Crushers! We are the Crushers! Crusherrrr Joe!" Some of the shows I caught on TV in those days (Star Blazers and Battle of the Planets were the only shows I caught in full) were Voltron, Albator (Captain Harlock on french TV up here in Canada), Goldorak, Candy Candy, and Cat'sEyes. And there's probably so much more I forgot. Thunderbirds 2086 would be the next series I'd manage to catch in full when it aired on ITV Edmonton up here in 1983. And that would shortly be followed in 1985 when I imported my first Japanese VHS tape! Macross : Do You Remember Love? for the low-low price of $104 from Books Nippan. Anyways... you want to talk about high prices? I remember the first black and white xeroxed newsletter I got from Books Nippan in the early '80s, when they offered to import anime. The prices were all from about $150 to about $220 for Crusher Joe! So when the prices dropped in the mid '80s to the high $90s low $100s range... I quickly picked up Macross the Movie, and then Wings of Honneamise when they were released. Anyways, thx for reading, looking forward to posting some more. btw, I only download about once or twice a week from Bit Torrent as I don't seem to have much free time to watch anyways recently. Anyways, some recent shows I've enjoyed are Get Backers, Bobobo bo bobo, Cromartie High, and Inu Yasha, now that YTV is finally getting more anime. Cheers! DX |
2004-02-29, 02:09 | Link #71 | |
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2004-02-29, 04:39 | Link #72 |
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I grew up on Superbook and Flying House. (christian-based animes) And there was another but I can't remember. It had something to do with a Kaola and hotair balloons. Later on I watched Samurai Pizza Cats when it was aired on some channel. During my early teens I started learning about anime though and now it's a hobby.
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2004-02-29, 12:27 | Link #73 | |
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2004-02-29, 20:38 | Link #74 |
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Looks like my own history isn't far off from Dx2000's. I 'm 34 and I also started with Battle of the Planets (first) and then Star Blazers. However, I was a bit luckier in that the program airing Star Blazers in the San Francisco area (along with shows like Ultraman and such) was hosted by a Sci-Fi fan and he had a guest on explain about Space Cruiser Yamato and its origins. I was hooked on anime at the tender age of 9 in 1979 as a result. It would be another couple years before I started tracking down Yamato goods and videos of the movies in Japanese, and then I got into Macross about a year before Robotech came out and by 1985 I was into Urusei Yatsura, Orguss, and others, and hooked up with the local anime community in 1986.
Candy Candy never was broadcast in the US (at least not on US television) and neither was many other classics of the time. I caught some of Future Boy Conan off the local spanish-language channel and some Princess Knight, but anime shows in the US were pretty few and far between and always really hacked up and edited (Star Blazers the least so, and Robotech somewhere in between, messing with the story some, but keeping lots of the original intent). Cable had a few additional shows like Mysterious Cities of Gold on Nickelodeon, Thunderbirds 2086 (TechnoVoyager in Japan due to copyright issues), Daimos and others on Showtime. On the regular broadcast, there was Votron (GoLion and Dairugger 15--I think the name was something like that for the original), Tranzor Z (Mazinger Z reedit), Voltes 5, Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs (Bismark reedit), Macron 1 (Goshogun and another show reedited), Captain Harlock & the Queen of 1000 Years, and a few others. Most of them were badly reedited, rewritten with new music and not much left of the original story, sadly, following the Battle of the Planets model. Star Blazers left almost everything but the names alone. After the mid-late 80's there wasn't much more broadcast anime (but lots of increasing direct-to-video releases) other than reruns of these shows until Sailor Moon and Dragonball in the late 90's. Then Pokemon came out and the floodgates were opened a bit, helped along shortly by Gundam Wing and others. Before then, though, Europe definitely got the better pickings for broadcast tv anime. |
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As I wrote in my earlier post here in this thread, your story is very similar to mine, except for me Star Blazers was first. 1979 was quite the momentous year, neh? You're lucky to have had a person on TV explain more of the background of the show... like most other fans of the time I had to work that out on my own. If you care to read my adventures attempting to do so, you can read my essay Life in the Before Time, written for a zine that was to be published for the 20th anniversary of the the first broadcast of Star Blazers in 1999. Hard to believe this year is the 25th anniversary, huh? Sigh. |
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2004-04-04, 13:10 | Link #76 |
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my first anime was doraemon, that was a wicked anime, saint seiya was my second, that anime just kicks ass, and even 12 yrs later, it still inspires me in terms of stories in create and also is certainly a benchmark for me in the fantasy and superpower genres. the third was huckleberry finn (i discovered the name of this recently) any seen it? it was really cool.
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2004-04-04, 14:15 | Link #77 | |
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It basically means: "So nostalgic (Blows-up), I saw this when I was a kid" Note the reference to (爆) or Explodes, Blows-up is a usage like our (this side of the internet culture) "dies from too much (insert too much stuff)" I remember Candy-Candy... to my surprise--I never got into it because I was a stupid kid when I was broadcast in Taiwan(In Chinese, dub and all) circa late 1980s because it was the "Girly cartoon." Around the same time the choices were pretty much either "Candy-Candy" or "Mazinger-Z"--guess which one a 4 year old "boy" would choose? Still these images bring me back. I'd like to keep these memories--and this thread--alive. So more discussion please? |
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2004-04-04, 18:49 | Link #78 |
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my first anime was battle angel alita. I was amazes by the violence and more realistic approach than the american cartoons i saw. I saw a commercial for devil hunter yohko on the tape. That was my second anime. After that i was hooked. I rented every anime at every blockbuster in my town over the years!
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