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Midnight Knight
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How do you remember watching anime? What anime do you think about and go "Damn I haven't seen that in a while, surprised I even remember it."
Me, I remember staying up til 2 A.M. early Sunday morning and watching anime on the Sci-Fi Channel. I remember watching shows like E.Y.E.S. of Mars, Iria:The Zeirem Animation, and Galaxy Express 999. Those's were the good old days. |
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DuelLadyS
 Posts: 1705 Location: WA state |
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My fondest anime viewing memories are of 99 cent Tuesday rentals from the local video store. It started with late-night rentings, coupled with picking up leftover chicken from the now-closed deli case. Once my mom got morning shifts (putting an end to the late night habits), I started walking to the video store, slowing renting my way through everything they had.
Con viewings, DVD sessions with friends, giant boxes from TRSI, streaming... they all have their charm, but I'll always kinda miss those old rental tapes. (Only kind of- when the stores started going out of business, I picked up some old favorite tapes. Still got a few.  )
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Bathos
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I miss having to save up allowance, handwrite an order, exchange cash for a money order, and mail it in - all of the stuff I had to do to get anime before I had internet access.There was a certain charm in it, I suppose. Definitely a lot more work was involved. The wait was also particularly excruciating, but it was an exciting day when that box showed up with a bunch of new shows to watch. Finally sitting down with snacks and soda and watching something you earned is was the best.
I think I've got it way too easy now what with having a fancypants internet connection and whatnot. Pfft. |
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Murasakisuishou
 Posts: 1469 Location: NE Ohio |
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To this day I have very fond memories of being 12 years old and waking up early every Sunday morning to watch Shaman King on TV. I followed that show through all of the random time slot switches and weird season breaks, and five years later it's still my absolute favorite anime of all time. For a while I had the most painfully humiliating pre-teen crush on Yoh, too, but eventually I grew out of it and it just became a standing joke amongst my friends. I was seriously scary - people didn't like to go in my room because I had pictures of him tacked up all over the walls.
What I still haven't managed to figure out is how I started watching it in the first place, since I've never really been into TV, ever. I want to say that my brother had the TV on for some reason while our parents were out, but somehow this happened for two successive weekends, if not more, because I only started to get into the show after the third episode (the addiction, with side effects of me charging down the stairs and hanging around the living room for an hour to make sure no one put a movie in, didn't take hold until the twelfth episode.) I also happened to get in on the series just as it was first airing, which was a real stroke of luck - heck, maybe it was fate. Ahh, good times. Now I kind of want to get my fansubs out and watch the whole thing through again... |
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blind_assassin
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Watching Sailor Moon every day after school and then Gundam Wing and DBZ back to back from 8:30 to 9:00 (rhyming really is the best possible way to get people to remember things). I still remember the time I got up at like 3am or something to catch a repeat of Endless Waltz.
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Ktimene's Lover
 Posts: 2242 Location: Glendale, AZ (Proudly living in the desert) |
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Watching DBZ 8 summers ago during the Midnight Run. Also, seeing shows like Samurai Pizza Cats and Superbook.
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JacobC
ANN Past Staff
 Posts: 3728 Location: SoCal |
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What seems like old days to me? Hm. Well, I guess I could go back to childhood and mention that I ate up Superbook, Gundam SEED (and other spare Toonami that I snuck), Pokemon and Digimon like hotcakes. But that's in a lot of other threads.
Instead, the "good old days" of anime for me were not really "good" old days, but they were kinda exciting. After figuring out that this kind of stuff was called anime and seeing things like Inu Yasha and Samurai Champloo (which I didn't care for,) and Yu Yu Hakusho and Fruits Basket (which I greatly enjoyed), I decided to learn more about it as an art form, since I already LOVED animation. (Naruto wasn't REAL big just yet, and Bleach wasn't even on TV.) I schooled myself in it and found out what I needed to be watching as "classics." I borrowed things like Evangelion, Utena, Case Closed, and various Gundams from friends, everything else on [adultswim.] I even got some random stuff fansubbed from friends, like Utawarerumono and L'Chevalier D'eon. I had to get it from friends because, and this is why these were the "good old days": I had NO internet. None. Zip. Nada. I did all that research when I had a computer nearby and relied solely on friends who were into anime to tell me what was best. (Some of their suggestions were very unreliable...oh well, what's popular is popular!) Add to that my parents hated anime. Hated it. They did not want me watching it. They thought it was weird and unhealthy. So every night (that wasn't a rerun) I snuck downstairs with a blank tape at an ungodly morning hour to tape adultswim's anime lineup. EVERY NIGHT.  I never got caught. I came close a couple times though! It was fun in a weird, sad, way. I watched anime that way, and only that way, for years. I watched everything that aired except for Inu Yasha (still hate it) and the eventual Bleach, which I tried to enjoy and...just couldn't.
For a long time, all I owned was a boxset of Fruits Basket. I ordered it off the internet on a whim and got kind of a serious talking to about it, unfortunately. This goes for ANYTIME I let something about anime slip into my parents' field of vision for a while. But it was my pride and joy, alongside my favorite movies. Now my sister treasures it instead, but we always watch it together. I have EVERY line memorized... -.-' Thems were the good old days. I'm spoiled now. My parents are cool with anime, I buy quite a bit of it, I stream things on the internet and rent a lot...it's nice. But the epicness of discovery and fear of getting in trouble were fun too. |
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Elfen12
 Posts: 479 Location: Bay Area |
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I remember being home every night at like 6:30 or so, to be ready for Dragon Ball Z on Toonami. I looooved it, and i thought it was so cool. But i was kinda secretive about it, for some reason i wasn't able to tell anyone that i watched it, and it wasn't necesarily because i thought it was embarssing or no one thought it was cool, but it was because i spent so much time doing stuff related to dragon ball z. Also, every month, my brother and I would go out and buy the next 3 episodes of DBZ on VHS, and we would go home and immedialy watch them. Bought all of them at Suncoast, and we have every episode of DBZ on VHS still, probably could sell 'em on ebay or something. But yup, those are my fond memories of anime in the past.
-Elfen12- |
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Blackpeppir
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My fondest memory I have from watching anime as a kid would be when our local Rogers Video stocked it's first batch of anime. Being a kid I had to convince them that all anime wasn't "japanese cartoon porn" and once I finally did I proceeded to rent the entire series of Generator Gawl and both of the Armitage movies. I've been searching everywhere for a DVD box set of Generator Gawl, and to this day I still can't find one. Good times, gooooooood times.
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Mushi-Man
 Posts: 1537 Location: KCMO |
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My fondest memories of my early anime fandom are of me staying up late at night to watch Toonami midnight run. I remember me and my friends were really into Gundam Wing, and when we heard that they were airing 08th MS Team on the midnight run we were so excited. To miss one episode was like missing the super bowl or something. It was a big deal for us. The midnight run was the coolest thing ever.
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EireformContinent
 Posts: 977 Location: Łódź/Poland (The Promised Land) |
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1) Asking my classmate who got M&A magazine bought by parents to let me read
2)Running from school to home, and relief when I heard voices from latino serials in home- it meant that I wasn't late for MKR and Dragon Ball. 3) Recording DB GT songs by microphone and cassette recorder 4)TV on phone AKA what to do if parents forbid you yto watch violent cartoons. Every time on the beginning fo DB phone rang and I transformed into journalist "They are fighting... still fighting... she is saying... laughing... big and pink, I'll draw him tomorrow in school... still fighting". 5)Warm, spring evenings when my freinds gathered in my garden and we were discovering cosplay, fanfiction and fandub making our own stories- I was Hikaru form MKR, boys had roles from DB, the last one had to be someone from Saint Seyia. Good old days... when I was a kid and world wasn't as big as it is now:) |
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plastique
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I got into it in the late 90's when my friend showed me Ghost in the Shell and Cowboy Bebop and they blew my mind. I then watched all the classics at the time like Trigun and Nausicaa, one after the other, and I thought "Man, they're all good" lol. Once I saw a few shows and movies that I didn't like, I realized that like regular live-action films I wouldn't like them all, but there is still a good 4-6 shows/films produced a year that I dig.
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Midnight Knight
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Man, most of these people are young. Wow most of their fondest memories of anime only go back to Ghost in the Shell, or Toonami, or Midnight Run. Their interest in anime is like my coffee break.
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PetrifiedJello
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I can't even remember a single series from the good ol' days. Hell, I can't even remember what Akira was about. I know I saw it, I swear!
What I remember most, though, was starting a series and being told I couldn't complete it because either it wasn't released in the U.S. or it was too expensive (for the video store) to buy. Ugh. I'm so glad those days are over. However, this also meant I missed out on many, many titles. Some are creeping their way back, but most are probably lost forever*. I remember watching Voltron way, way back. I loved the show. A few months ago, I tried watching it again and found myself to be annoyed with it. Funny how tastes change with age. Never did see Sailor Moon. I figured it was aimed at girls (and probably was), but if it should return, I'll definitely check it out. The one series I did miss (not by choice, mind you), was Cardcaptor Sakura. I saw a few episodes here and there, and now I want it. If I'm prepared to sell a kidney, liver, heart, and right testicle, I may be able to afford one of the singles sold and hope it's not a bootleg. I'll just wait for the official reboot/re-release box set sure to come in the next 10 years. * Yeah, but I didn't want to open that can of worms in this thread.
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LordRedhand
 Posts: 1472 Location: Middle of Nowhere, Indiana |
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For me it was watching Voltron and the Transformers series when I was young.
I go back to them (and in Voltron's case the original Go Lion) and only found Transfromers to be an okay series, but I couldn't help but laugh at the Voltron series and the orginal Go Lion. Sometimes you have to admit that a series is pretty bad, regardless of dub or sub. Also remember Record of Lodoss War as that was a big thing for my older brother (his start in anime collecting) So I got to watch it with him. (I didn't start collecting until I was in college with .Hack//Sign) |
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