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My first anime wasn't Dragonball Z or Saliormoon. It was actually Rurouni Kenshin in subpar subs. Me, my brother, and sister were watching it on VHS.
Like most people my age my first anime was Sailor Moon and Pokemon but the first anime I ever watched knowing full well that it was anime was Inuyasha
I can't remember since back then, we only had mainstream TV.
I think it was Pokemon during 5th grade (11 years ago) when I first watched it on channel 13, UPN. Then, Pokemon started airing on channel 5, Kids WB, on Saturdays.
Once we had cable, Toonami was my gateway to anime even though I didn't know what hell was an anime.
I think we had a similar Thread with this question in the forum not so long ago, anyway my first anime was Future Boy Conan, when it was broadcasted on TV during the early 90's.
I guess if I recollect back far enough I would say Pokemon, though my first impulse would be to say Dragonball Z
Dragon Ball... when I was in 1st grade.... then Dragon Ball Z, and Pokemon...
Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon, and Digimon were all my firsts
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Oh, I remember Iria Zeiram. I first watched it after salvaging a run down video store that was abandoned by foreclosure. Yeah, I'm that poor, but there was VHS tapes I haven't seen and more to sell for Swap Meet.
Anyways, that anime was scary back in middle school. It was bloody, scary because of Zeiram who just slaughters everyone. I think I saw my first anime nudity scene with Iria in the shower scene or was that Tenchi Muyo Forever where he had sex with Haruna.
Gundam Wing. I grew up loving Beast Wars, so once I saw that Wing Gundam could transform into a jet, I had to know more. And now I'm a weeaboo. I guess commercials do work.
My very first anime "about 30 years ago" as I recall was UFO Robo Grendizer, translated into Arabic as I use to live in Lebanon at that the time.
Of course now I watch it and all other anime in its original form, Japanese with English subs. If I understood Japanese, I would watch it without subs.
Edit - Thanks to Sonata, I remembered Maya the Bee was also one I watched all those years ago, also in Arabic, although I didn't know it at the time.
This may explain some things about me don't know but my first one I saw was half of vampire hunter D at 3:00 am when I didn't know what it was (lord was it confusing but awesome at the same time). After that I saw Akira and was like man this is awesome but I wish it made more sense...then I saw the ghost in the shell movie (first one) and fell in love. My first flirtation with the sci-fi idea that a computer could gain intelligence and sentience. After that I was introduced to eva and I was set.
My first anime...? either Devilman or Street Fighter II The Movie. i was about younger or as young as 7 when I watched them.Ecentually everything else fell into place
First anime was Danguard Ace followed by the rest of the stuff in the Force Five block including Star Blazers (which I saw on SyFy a bit ago and... yeah, doesn't hold up well.) As much as I wanted to watch the New Getter Robo I couldn't bring myself to potentially crush childhood memories.
inuyahsa was my first anime but never finished it, it just went on and on
Pokemon, dragonaball z, cowboy bebop. oh and for me cowboy bebop was my first experience with different thinking. I was all americanized and the end of bebop i was young and i thought wait can stories end like this?! i thought they were always happy endings. made me love the randomness or unpredictable content that anime offered. When any tv material is enough to get you emotional or thinking alot at the end of it i automatically think it was worthy of watching. Oh i also watched evangelion when i was probably just getting into my teens.