No.20
First Anime Experience: Retro Edition!
I'll start:
>Late 80's/Early 90's
>Around 7-9 years old
>Older brother works at local video store (starts out as Adventure Land, then changes location twice and becomes 1st Run Video)
>Always brings me home videos from the kid's section (because of this I'm also later exposed to other gems like The Last Unicorn, Puss N Boots, and Metamorphoses/Winds of Change)
>Up to this point, only familiar with animation as Saturday Morning Cartoons, weekday afterschool cartoons, Looney Tunes, etc.
>Brother brings home "Clash of the Bionoids", (a localized and butchered version of Macross: DYRL)
>Even in it's butchered form, proceeds to blow my brain out of my skull
>Dat Cinematography
>Dat Music
>Dem Valkyries
>Dem Zentradi
>Dem Meltrandi
>Dat Max vs Milia fight
>Dat Itano Circus
>Dat surreal and mature vibe (what can I say, I was a kid at the time, and the half hour axed from the movie really made for some awkward edits and storytelling)
>Also didn't hurt that I was too young to realize just how godawful the dub was/is
>Meet lifelong best friend in 2nd grade.
>Has Robotech, Pretty Sammy, Dragon Half, Zenki, and other anime VHS's to fuel my nascent obsession
>Rest is history
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No.61
I wish I was an fucking cool as you. My experience is a bit pleb.
>late 90's
>I live out in the sticks, so my main source of kid entertainment is the Disney Channel, and on Saturday mornings Fox Kids.
>I pretty much took every opportunity I could to not watch the Disney Channel.
>Eventually I discover Digimon.
>Despite the bad dubbing my child self loves it
>eventually watch other Saban dubbed stuff like MOTHERFUCKING MEDABOTS and Flint the Time Detective.
>I beg my folks to get satellite over the years, and finally strangely enough right after 9/11 we get one
>Discover Toonami and Adult Swim
The worst part is I didn't discover watching shit online until maybe 2005.