What's the first anime you ever watched?

[Good Ol' Batmanuel!]

*sorry if this sort of thread has been done before, but I couldn't find anything in a search*

Growing up in Canada (which carried less anime series than the States did until recent years) without cable, I missed a lot of the great old animes, but I did watch Astro Boy (80's version), both in English and French. I still like it to this day. Lots of great designs and fun stories.

Oh, and here's a bit of trivia for you: in Canada, Uran was known as Sarah. Why? I don't know. :p In fact, I didn't even know she was called Uran until maybe a year ago.

[Catlover]

First anime I watched, not knowing it was anime (or Japanese): That Nick Jr. anime Karl Olsen had on his website back when he first became mod. The Nozzels I think?

First anime I watched knowing it was Japanese: Sailor Moon

First uncut anime I watched: Gundam Wing

First uncut anime I bought: Gunsmith Cats

[Chrono1995]

The one I watched without knowing it was anime was Speed Racer. The first anime series I completely got into was Robotech and (fansubbed, thanks to my next-door neighbor) DBZ. But, it wasn't until Green Legend Ran, Record of Lodoss War and Robot Carnival (odd choices, I know) on the Sci-fi Channel that I was a fan.

[Gatomon41]

The first anime I ever watch was about 15 years ago. I still remember it today. Alas, I never even heard of what show it was. From what I remember it was a Combining Mecha anime, and was dubbed into english.

Until Toonami's advent and Sailor Moon, the few Japanese cartoons were the one's dubbed by Saban.

[Conekiller]

I honestly don't remember what the first Anime I watched unknowlingly, but the first time someone sat me down and said "this is JAPANESE cartoons" was Robotech, and I'm eternally thankful!

Followed shortly by Ninja Scroll, A Wind Named Amnesia, and Madox, and pretty much the rest of my local Blockbuster's "animation" section. This was around 15 years ago, give or take a year or 2.

[ToonKid]

Sailor Moon

[chris3116]

Astro Boy from the 80s was pratically my first anime ever that I saw too.

But Dragonball was the first anime that I saw that I knew it was Japanese. I have always thought that Astro Boy was American.

There's always those anime on Canal Famille in the early 90s that I always like like Les Aventuriers de l'Espace or Spaceship Sagittarius (friendship is the value that appears the most in this anime. Example: At the last arc, Toby was so depressed when he lost everything including his memory he wanted to commit suicide but his friends Rana and Giraffe helps him. I want to see that series one more time on DVD)

And there was Alfred J. Kwak. That anime touched me at any points. It was a duck (Alfred J. Kwak) who lost his parents in his early age. He was adopted by a mole. The first part of the anime was about his childhood. The second part began when his arch-ennemy Dolph (a crow) enters in politics and began to be an Aldolf Hitler wannabe with a Napoleon Bonaparte disguise. He even had the mustache. In this second part, Alfred also a girlfriend a black duck called Windy or Winny I don't remember. The anime finished with the death of Thierry the mole who adopted Alfred. Also an anime, that I'll buy on DVD if it comes. Many subjects like racism (This arc is when Winny was introduced) and religion have been mentionned on this anime. It may be kiddy with duck and mole talking but it was a masterpiece.

[MR.MXYZPTLK]

the first anime i ever saw was astro boy the second was big o

[Artimus Gigan]

Hell I don't remember
US television had alot of it on during the 80's and 90's, especialy Cartoon Express...as did Nick Jr.

[Umino]

My first anime was Anderson Douwa: Ningyo Hime or The Little Mermaid. I still have my old VHS, I love this movie so much.

[GWOtaku]

I think I saw Saban Dragonball on syndication somewhere when I was very young, before I knew about anime and long before Toonami started up on Cartoon Network.

[Kaiser0120]

Dragonball here. My beloved first anime, even with all of it's many inherent flaws. Guilty pleasure. ^_^;

[Lord Dalek]

Technically the first anime I watched (AFAIR): Sherlock Hound (Little Prince and Serendipity The Dragon were also around this time).

First anime I watched that I knew was anime: Demon City Shinjuku

[Youko Recca]

First one was Ninja Scroll back in Cali. My eyes were GLUED to that TV.

[FlyByNite77]

first, although didn't know it to be anime as a young kid (Speed Racer)

first I did know to be anime (Vampire Hunter D)

[Demonic Raven]

Hmm...lemme think.

Without my knowing, Speed Racer on the earlier days of CN comes to mind. Next up was Pokemon and DBZ.

WITH my knowing....uh.....toughie. So tough...I'm just going to end my post. :sweat:

[trunkschan90]

The first anime I saw was Voltron, my second I think was Robotech and the other anime I saw as a little girl were all the ones in Nickelodeon like Mysterious Cities of Gold, Noozles, Adventures of the Little Koala, Belle and Sebastian, Maya the Bee, Littl' Bits, Grimms Fairy Tales, and Little Prince

[Ferquin]

STAR BLAZERS

Didn't realize it was Japanese animation at the time. I was only a kid, after all, like around five or six when it was on TV in my area. I was genuinely scared that the Argo's crew wouldn't make it to Iscandar and back to save the Earth. You know, how at the end of each show, it'd say that they had X amount of days left before the Earth would die? That freaked me out.

The first show I watched knowing it was actual anime or "Japanimation" as my friend said was Ranma½, back in the mid 90s when it was still just beginning to come out on VHS. Back in the old days when the only anime you could watch was at a college anime club or pay exhorbitant prices just for dub-only videos at Suncoast. And when manga only came out monthly in comic book format, trickling out little by little so that at the rate it was going it'd take a decade at least to finish a single manga title.

I'M OLD, DAMNIT! :eek: :eek: :yawn: I need to take a nap... ZZZZZZ...

[Kida]

Probably Speed Racer waaaaay way back, though I'd say Sailor Moon. I think it was the one where Rei's grandpa turns into a monster. I knew it was Japanese, somehow.

[Classic Speedy]

First anime I ever watched: Dragon Ball

First anime DVD I bought: Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture

And yes, we've had this kind of thread many times, Batmanuel. ;)

[ToonKid]

My first anime was Anderson Douwa: Ningyo Hime or The Little Mermaid. I still have my old VHS, I love this movie so much.mermaid aint anime

[Figaro]

The first anime I ever watched on TV--not knowing they were anime--were the shows on Nickelodeon. BELLE AND SEBASTIAN was, hands down, my favorite show at that time.

As a kid back in the early 80's, around the same time I was enjoying BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, the summer day care group I was in would go to the movie theater every Wednesday for their summer kids' movies. They showed a lot of MGM family-oriented movies back then. I remember seeing the original FLIPPER (with Chuck Connors) and ZEBRA IN THE KITCHEN (with Jay "Dennis the Menace" North). But the other film I vividly recall seeing--and again, not knowing it was anime--was an MGM-distributed Toei production called MAGIC BOY, about a young boy who learns magic so he can defeat an evil witch. I happened to catch it again on Turner Classic Movies a couple of years ago, and it was EXACTLY as I remembered it.

By thy side,

Figaro

[Gary L Thompson]

I believe it was "Astroboy", though it's just barely possible that I might have seen "Eight Man" first (this is about 40 years ago, remember, so my memory is not exact on many things).

Of course I didn't realize they (and several others from that time) were cartoons from Japan until quite a few years later. It was around the mid '80s that I really started becoming aware of anime as such, and frankly I remember Canada having much more anime than America at that time (I saw both of the aforementioned series--as well as a glimpse of "Marine Boy" on a Canadian station--and I caught series like "Candy Candy", the 1980s "Astroboy", "Little Prince", "Sherlock Hound", "Mysterious Cities of Gold", "Alice in Wonderland", "Catseyes", "Nil's Journey", Monkey Punch's "Three Musketeers", "Anne of Green Gables", "Time Bokan", "Les Aventuriers de l'Espace" and "Jungle Book"). These days, it doesn't seem like Canadian stations air any anime at all, it seems limited to cable.

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The first anime I ever watch was about 15 years ago. I still remember it today. Alas, I never even heard of what show it was. From what I remember it was a Combining Mecha anime, and was dubbed into english

Until Toonami's advent and Sailor Moon, the few Japanese cartoons were the one's dubbed by Saban.If you're from America, I recall only five series out on the air 20 years ago that featured combining robots: "Voltron", "Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs", "Robotech", "Macron I" and "Mighty Orbots". I believe "Voltron" was the only one of them that lasted for any length of time, it's possible some TV stations might have been running the show still around 1990. That would be my guess, unless you happened to catch an odd episode from a fan showing or one of those quickie video releases from that time.

[Sandoz]

The first anime series I remember watching was Sailor Moon, back when it was airing in syndication at 6 in the morning. My first anime movie was Demon City Shinjuku, thanks to the much-missed Saturday Anime block on the Sci-Fi Channel.

[Lord Dalek]

mermaid aint animeSure it is! Just not THAT Little Mermaid.

[Good Ol' Batmanuel!]

These days, it doesn't seem like Canadian stations air any anime at all, it seems limited to cable.
If you're talking Teletoon, then yeah, that's quite true. :p But YTV (http://www.ytv.com/programming/shows/) has quite a few in their lineup. And I'm talking real anime, not American toy-based cartoons that just look like anime. Heh.

[purplehairedwonder]

DBZ for me. I picked it up during the Other World Tournament eps a little over 3 years ago when we moved and finally got CN.

[Pupmon 4.0]

The first anime I ever watched was probably Superbook.
I have an episode of Superbook on VHS, it's the Christmas episode.

[Mr.E]

Pokemon

[LucheLibre]

Crest of the Stars on Anime Unleashed.

[GregX]

Cowboy Bebop

[Casity]

Evangelion! With Shinji Ikari, ha-ha ... I don't know why, but he's the one name in all my years that I can remember. It was an awful ending. :sweat:

-Cas

[Tenku]

Gigantor was, but this was back when Sci-Fi had the weekday morning stuff. My first movie was Eight Man After.


All in the age of 6. :)

[Captain Harlock]

Sailor Moon aired on local television on weekday mornings. However, I picked up an even bigger love for anime upon watching Sci-Fi channel when they would have anime movies on late night weekends, and then early Saturday mornings. Also, they'd run anime weeks - each night being a different movie. That's what increased my exposure. So as I got older I started to buy more and rent more and eventually here I am at this point.

[Lynxara]

Watching Go Lion poorly dubbed as Voltron when I was five.

The first anime I saw that I knew was anime was Project A-Ko.

[Ragsolith]

First anime: Superbook
First anime knowing it was anime: Speed Racer, then Robotech

[Good Ol' Batmanuel!]

Gigantor
That's one show I've always heard about but never actually seen. I imagine byt he look of it that I would have loved it when I was younger. So far, I've only heard a version of the theme song by the band Helmet.

[Umino]

mermaid aint anime
Uh, yes it is. It was made in the 70s, YEARS before Disney's adaption.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=3604

[Mr. Pedro]

Probably Maya The Bee and The Nozzles.

[Tenku]

Wait...

I had a couple of tapes that had fairy tales and fables. The opening was always either a girl or a couple of kids chasing a red balloon. And then when the tale/fable came up, a woman announces it like "The Swan Princess" from --.

There was some about the Golden Goose, Little Red Riding Hood, The Big Dipper, Aladdin, The Swan Princess...that's all I can think of right now. They were (probably dubbed) by UA.

Does anyone knows about these?

[Gatomon41]

Wait...

I had a couple of tapes that had fairy tales and fables. The opening was always either a girl or a couple of kids chasing a red balloon. And then when the tale/fable came up, a woman announces it like "The Swan Princess" from --.

There was some about the Golden Goose, Little Red Riding Hood, The Big Dipper, Aladdin, The Swan Princess...that's all I can think of right now. They were (probably dubbed) by UA.

Does anyone knows about these?
I think I remember watching such shows when I was little, or on reruns on tv. But I can't remember the title.

[IanC]

The anime i watched was Pokémon. I hate Pokémon for what it has done to me.... :( (kid, i kid)

First anime i brought was Akira i think.

[Kagetsu]

Robot Carnival, probaly the first anime I ever came into contact with, didn't understand a bit of it.

Somewhere along I saw at least some of Akira, That was the first time I realised there were cuts, the bad guys had a hold of this girl, then she was standing off with a group wearing a jacket :sad: took a while for that to sink in as to what just happened.

I saw a severly chopped up version of,,, what was her name, goes to check saved pics Armitage.

Tenchi was the first series I'd ever seen,,, learned about digital bikinis and that anime had good music.

While searching Tenchi info I kept finding people refering to something called Cowboy Bebop that was supposed to be good,,, the tv paper had Cowboy listed late at night,,, took a while to put it all together because I'm really dense :ack: and decided to tape it just to check what it was. Discovered AdultSwim and was completely hooked.

[Punisher]

First anime I watched was Pokemon, I wanted to see it after playing the games. Didn't know what anime was until around the Frieza Saga in DBZ.

[djthomp]

Probably Ranma½, or maybe Akira or some other movie whose details I don't really remember enough to say what it was. It had a cat, some chick and a guy as main characters, some big nasty thing with tentacles that eventually ate all the other characters and the cat...and I think it was set on some sort of interstellar spaceship. :confused:

[ToonKid]

Uh, yes it is. It was made in the 70s, YEARS before Disney's adaption.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=3604oh...and they dont have clam braws......:D

[Gary L Thompson]

If you're talking Teletoon, then yeah, that's quite true. :p But YTV (http://www.ytv.com/programming/shows/) has quite a few in their lineup. And I'm talking real anime, not American toy-based cartoons that just look like anime. Heh. Actually, everything I've heard indicates that Teletoon and YTV are both the same, cable stations (unless there is some over-the-air stations carrying YTV that I know nothing about, which happens occasionally with U.S. cable networks). I saw my 1960s anime on our local CBC station, and I saw my 1980s anime on the French CBC (now SRC), CanWest Global, TV Ontario and (since extinct) Baton networks.


Uh, yes it is. It was made in the 70s, YEARS before Disney's adaption.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=360 I remember renting that video from Blockbusters back in the 1980s (I've long suspected that the theatrical movie release of an animated "Little Mermaid" movie advertised on TV some years before was the Toei creation). However, I'd like to expand on that. I know an anime TV series on the "Little Mermaid" was released into weekend syndication by Saban. It happened the year Disney released its movie, but a year prior to the spin-off series going on Saturday morning.


Wait...

I had a couple of tapes that had fairy tales and fables. The opening was always either a girl or a couple of kids chasing a red balloon. And then when the tale/fable came up, a woman announces it like "The Swan Princess" from --.

There was some about the Golden Goose, Little Red Riding Hood, The Big Dipper, Aladdin, The Swan Princess...that's all I can think of right now. They were (probably dubbed) by UA.

Does anyone knows about these?

I think I remember watching such shows when I was little, or on reruns on tv. But I can't remember the title.
I've heard read about those old AIP theatrical releases like "Alakazam the Great" in some anime magaizne or two (just where I can't quite recall now), though I've never actually watched one.

Come to think of it, I believe Saban also syndicated one year a weekly anime anthology series adapting classic fantasy and folk tales (I remember at the end of the episode adapting "The Nutcracker" ballet, after the heroine woke up from her dream, she actually encountered the prince and talked about their adventure as both walked down the street).

[Freedom Fighter]

First anime I ever watched: Voltron. I have no recollection of whether I actually watched the show, but I do know I had at least one BETA tape release.

First anime I watched that I knew it was an anime: Probably Pokémon. I didn't have a home computer until Summer of '98... that's when I found out Sailor Moon, DBZ, and Samurai Pizza Cats were all anime, but Pokémon's the first new one I watched after the fact.

[Tenku]

Robot Carnival, probaly the first anime I ever came into contact with, didn't understand a bit of it.


I still have it on tape. For some unknown reason, I keep crying on Presence. Maybe its the music. :crying:


And to clarify where my tapes came from, they were from Germany. And to top that off, The Swan Princess had a Leiji Matsumoto-esque style. Only thing was that it was all in shadow... or something.

Little Red Riding Hood looked like a Doraemon piece, or something similar...

[Good Ol' Batmanuel!]

Actually, everything I've heard indicates that Teletoon and YTV are both the same, cable stations
Well, yeah, they're both cable stations (I was talking about Canadian TV in general, by the way, cable or non-cable), and their program lineups and overall philosophies are drastically different.

Teletoon features so much Canadian content that it causes people like fellow TZ member Pepperidge to have fits of rage (I'm not to keen about it either, I admit). :p I looked through their program lineup and I couldn't find one single anime. I looked at YTV's lineup, however, and found at least a dozen animes pretty quickly.

I still think it's neat to hear Michiganianites (not sure about the official designation ;)) talking about watching Canadian channels. I know people in the Romulus area and they told me about watching The Raccoons and stuff like that, because they always had CBC and such.

[Obi]

Voltron, but that was back before I knew what anime was.

The first anime I watched, knowing it was anime, was either Sailor Moon or Pokemon.

[Assembler]

i believe the first anime was monster ranchers i never really liked anime before but i love it now:anime: .the second was digimon,medabot,sailor moon,dbz,outlawstar.

[Keldran]

Well I grew up in the 80's and I distinctly remember watching something involving robots that wasn't transformers, probably Robotech. I don't think I actually took an interest in anime until much later when I saw Samurai Pizza Cats on TV, then came Digimon, Tenchi Muyo and all that CN stuff.

[Rurouni Kenshin]

Pokemon or DBZ, not totally sure cause its been a while.

[MahouShoujo13]

The first anime I've ever watched is....Sailor Moon.

[Karl Olson]

1st Movie: Galaxy Express 999
1st TV Series: The Noozles
1st Show Where I Knew It Was Anime And I Liked It: Tenchi Muyo! OVA.

[True Noir]

Vision of Escaflowne: The Movie, realizing it was anime, was my first.

[gerasimos]

I watched Astro Boy, Speed Racer, Transformers, Voltron and all those shows unknowingly that it was anime.

My first anime knowing it was "japanimation" was The Guyver... then I saw Akira, then Macross: The Movie. So that got me into watching Robotech and the old Toonami line-up.

[PeppeRaskell1]

The first anime I remember watching was AstroBoy (the b&w version) way back in the 60's, then Gigantor. I never realized that they were originally Japanese anime until I saw a picture of them on separate pages in Maurice Horn's World Encyclopedia of Comics. Gigantor was "Tetsujin 28go," while AstroBoy was "Tetsuwan-Atom" or "Atom-Taishi."

First anime I watched knowing it was Japanese: Battle of the Plan...(clears throat) S'cuse me...Gatchaman!

First anime I ever watched on video: Flare: Legend of Lyon
(Hentai with a capital "H!")
First anime I ever bought: Go Nagai's New Cutey Honey.

[Bubblegum Girl]

Salior moon, Samurai Pizza Cats, and the anime the used to air on the Sci-fi channel. And during that time I didn't knew that they were anime. i just considered them as cartoons which they are but they aren't called cartoons. :sweat:

[Steiner]

Well, lets see. The first anime I probably ever watched was Voltron back in 1st grade or so. But since that was something like 15 years ago or so, I didn't have a clue what anime was. The first show I watched that I actually knew was Japanese was Ronin Warriors, which was on the WB something like 11-12 years ago or so (I was in 5th grade I think). This was long before it was on Toonami mind you. I might have watched Robotech as well, but frankly I can't remember. I only say this because I remember having a Robotech action figure (probably Rick Hunter) when I was little.

[Golgo13]

First series: Samurai Pizza Cats when I was 8. Still waiting for that DVD set.

First movie: AKIRA when I was about 12.

[Good Ol' Batmanuel!]

I might have watched Robotech as well, but frankly I can't remember. I only say this because I remember having a Robotech action figure (probably Rick Hunter) when I was little.
My experience with Robotech is kinda/sorta like yours in that, though I know I never watched the show during its original run, I'm pretty sure that one of my favorite toys ever was a small red knock-off version of the SDF-1. I loved it, but I kept losing small parts off it. :p Once I started looking into the show when I got older (and I have the series on DVD now), I found pictures of the SDF-1 and thought "that looks exactly like that old toy I had!" Of all the toys I had over the years, that's probably the one I most wish I had now, even if I still knew nothing about Robotech.

[Golgo13]

My experience with Robotech is kinda/sorta like yours in that, though I know I never watched the show during its original run, I'm pretty sure that one of my favorite toys ever was a small red knock-off version of the SDF-1. I loved it, but I kept losing small parts off it. :p Once I started looking into the show when I got older (and I have the series on DVD now), I found pictures of the SDF-1 and thought "that looks exactly like that old toy I had!" Of all the toys I had over the years, that's probably the one I most wish I had now, even if I still knew nothing about Robotech.
Actually, some Robotech toys were on the market before the show even aired. I, too, never saw the show until they ran quick episodes on Toonami in the early 90's, but I did have a toy of Kyron's battlepod for years. It's around somewhere in my basement, but I'm sure it's missing lots of parts.

[Happy]

Old eps of Speed Racer, then I it was I think Tenchi followed by whichever show came on after it.

[Fatneck]

I think the first one I watched was the Guyver when I was ten. The words "corpse of an ogre" and the fact that you can make a monster vomit blood by bending his arms back have been burned in my mind since then.

[Good Ol' Batmanuel!]

Actually, some Robotech toys were on the market before the show even aired.
And knock-offs too, apparently, judging by my little old red plastic thing. :p

The first real Robotech-inspired toy I saw was the old Transformer called Jetfire (http://members.wri.com/jeffb/transformers/Jetfire.jpg). A kid brought it to school one day, and though I didn't know quite what it was, it was pretty much the coolest thing I'd ever seen!

[Jave]

Not sure... most probably Robotech.

[Gary L Thompson]

The first anime I remember watching was AstroBoy (the b&w version) way back in the 60's, then Gigantor. I never realized that they were originally Japanese anime until I saw a picture of them on separate pages in Maurice Horn's World Encyclopedia of Comics. Gigantor was "Tetsujin 28go," while AstroBoy was "Tetsuwan-Atom" or "Atom-Taishi."

First anime I watched knowing it was Japanese: Battle of the Plan...(clears throat) S'cuse me...Gatchaman!

First anime I ever watched on video: Flare: Legend of Lyon
(Hentai with a capital "H!")
First anime I ever bought: Go Nagai's New Cutey Honey.
I totally forgot about "Gigantor", I also watched that on the CBC station during the 1960s. I definitely know it had to be "Astroboy", "Gigantor" or "Eight Man" that was my first look at an anime.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

And knock-offs too, apparently, judging by my little old red plastic thing. :p

The first real Robotech-inspired toy I saw was the old Transformer called Jetfire (http://members.wri.com/jeffb/transformers/Jetfire.jpg). A kid brought it to school one day, and though I didn't know quite what it was, it was pretty much the coolest thing I'd ever seen!
Yeah, you could tell they cheaped out on the Jetfire toy since it didn't look anything like Jetfire in robot form. It was obviously a Veritech fighter painted over.

[AllisterH]

First anime I ever saw: In Toronto, CFMT in the early to mid 80s used to show Robotech, Voltron and Battle of the planets. Global used to show Astroboy and Captain Harlock (am I the only one on this thread that remembers seeing Harlock on Canadian television?).

First anime I knew was anime: No doubt about it, I still remember it clearly. A double dose of Akira & Fist of the North Star. My cousin said "watch these show and see if it doesn't blow your mind". My mind was blown.

First anime I rented: It was definitely A-ko, which I think I followed up with Bubble Gum Crisis/AD Police Files/Crash as I thinke very Blockbuster back then carried those titles. That and Dominion Tank Police.

First anime I bought: Either was Ranma or the Project A-ko complete collection (A-ko 1-3 and the side stories).

First subbed anime I bought: Dangaio. "sidekick Wave":D

[mikestorm]

When I was a wee one: G-Force
Followed by Star Blazers and Force 5.

[AllisterH]

Teletoon features so much Canadian content that it causes people like fellow TZ member Pepperidge to have fits of rage (I'm not to keen about it either, I admit). :p I looked through their program lineup and I couldn't find one single anime. I looked at YTV's lineup, however, and found at least a dozen animes pretty quickly.


That's the weird thing about Teletoon. When it first started (and it has only been several years) , the first couple of months, it had an anime movie night every Friday (or was it Saturday?) at around midnight.

They showed the Galaxy Express series
"One night on the Galactic Railroad"
ninja Scroll

and a couple of other things. At the time, Sailor Moon was taking off in Canada (in Canada, it was SM, not DB that caused the recent anime explosion. Sailor Moon in Canada was F!cking HUGE!!, It was bigger than DB has been in the states.) and you literally could not go longer than 12 hours without Sailor Moon since both YTV and Global used to have SM in their rotation.

Unfortunately, the above lineup of movies never changed and someone at Teletoon actually dislikes anime because their official response is that "the anime movies do not have that high a market share". Of course, this is months after the rotation of 5 or 6 movies have played and everyone was sick of it.

After that, Teletoon has never shown anime except for Megaman.

[Good Ol' Batmanuel!]

Yeah, you could tell they cheaped out on the Jetfire toy since it didn't look anything like Jetfire in robot form. It was obviously a Veritech fighter painted over.
I see what you mean (http://www.thetransformers.net/images/transscreenshots/123ss1.jpg). I wonder what the percentage of kids liking the Veritech even more was to kids being disappointed that it wasn't quite the Jetfire they knew? :p

[Good Ol' Batmanuel!]

That's the weird thing about Teletoon. When it first started (and it has only been several years) , the first couple of months, it had an anime movie night every Friday (or was it Saturday?) at around midnight.
I remember that. I believe I watched a couple of Patlabor movies on Teletoon.

As you said, though, they went about it the wrong way. If they'd have cooled off on the anime a bit and made people long to see it, it could've been a big part of their rotation now. They're not stupid. They have to know that anime is incredibly hot in North America and definitely not some sort of fad. I could see them trying again someday, but hopefully they'll go about it a little smarter than before. Until that time, they'll always be the farm team to YTV's big leagues, so to speak.

[A.J]

First anime I watched without knowing: GALAXY EXPRESS, late 80´s
First anime I knew what It was: SAINT SEIYA (Knights of the Zodiac), early 90´s

[Sr.Infierno]

First Series: Speed Racer

First Movie: Pokemon: The First Movie

[HellCat]

First was The New Adventures of Gigantor on the long since defunct TCC. Though I saw the Transformers movie once or twice as a kid, the first 'proper' anime movie I can remember seeing was Akira.

[ROBOTRON]

Probably Speed Racer or Kimba the white lion.

[Elven Moon]

Among the first anime I watched, without knowing it was anime: The Little Prince, Maple Town, The Lil' Bits, Maya the Bee, The Noozles, The Adventures of the Little Koala

First "official" anime I watched: Sailor Moon

[Tak Mazé]

I'm sure at one point I owned a video which had an anime version of The Frog Prince and The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs. And I think it was presented by Alan Titchmarsh O_o That's what I remember anyway.

[silvanoir]

first anime I ever watched: Unico. I didn't know it was anime,. I was very little... all I remember was a cute little uncorn, a "devil" with long hair, and a wind spirit?

first anime I watched knowing it was from Japan: Sailormoon (when it was on mornings on the local station in elementry school, before it was on Toonami).

first anime I watched knowing it was called anime: Vampire Hunter D on the Sci-fi channel. I only knew this stuff was called anime because the block was called Saturday Anime... I've been hooked since.

[phoenix]

Voltron.
awsome show!
:D

[Chad Bonin]

The Freakin' Noozles, which I just found the intro for.

[KRnut82]

It was back in the '70s, we were one of the first houses in town to get cable and the first Anime shows I remember watching are Astroboy (vaguely), Battle of the planets/G-Force (saw both), Gigantor and Speed Racer.

[ryuuseipro]

The first anime I ever saw was Brave Raideen. Still one of my favorite shows ever!

[solarflere]

My first anime was DragonBall Z. It was about 1996 and it was on sundays on WB 11 at 8 am. Yea I can ramamber waking up so early just to see it. Back then I had no Idea it was Japanese nor the consept of anime.:anime:

[Kat Pryde]

As far as I can remember it was Speed Racer, baby. Then Crayon Shin-chan, Sailor Moon, and the 8th MS Team.

[Animegoddess]

The first anime ever watch was Dragonball, it was before it was on Toonami, when it was on basic channels.
The first anime i watch knowing it was japanese was Sailor Moon at 2:00pm after elementary school.
The first anime that I knew it was one was Gundam Wing.

[Conan-san]

First anime: Samurai Pizza Cats (Or Dogtainian, it's a close call)

First aware anime watching: Digimon

[Zach]

Sailor Moon. It was in the early 90's on some random network that ran cartoons in the morning and during summer vacation, me and my brother watched it. Later, we watched Gundam Wing on Toonami and then watched Sailor Moon again when it also came to Toonami. And everything else on Toonami.. but most of that back then was non-anime...