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Toonami, Ronin Warriors, Special Delivery:Grimms Fairy Tales, Akira, Sailor Moon, Dbz,
After a while I started looking for any cartoon where the eyes looked different...
Ninja Scroll---
know good and well i shouldn't have been watching that as a kid...
After a while I started looking for any cartoon where the eyes looked different...
Ninja Scroll---
know good and well i shouldn't have been watching that as a kid...
Cowboy Bebop
that jazz
that jazz
NYCDaFuture
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Forgot about Ronin Warriors and Cowboy Bebop.. Cant lie i liked that girl from Inuyashi when I was younger lol
wall of text. Fair warning.
Im not gonna lie. When I was young, it was the fact that there was so much gore and nudity in it.
Then I got older and realized that the japanese were telling these really compelling stories that dealt with real life or mature themes over these long arcs that made you think about more than buying toys.
Meanwhile we were being force fed with cartoons that only served to make you want toys. So much that the FCC complained and they started giving these "Words of Wisdom" or whatever at the end of cartoons so it wasn't mindless violence used to shill toys to the youth.
American cartoons were basically soap operas for kids. Instead of selling cleaning products, makeup and healthcare shyt, it made us want toys.
Not to mention I grew up on Comics and Doctor Who, so the whole "Multiple Episodes for a Story" shyt wasn't new to me.
Anime was a far cry from Heroes meet same old villain and henchmen, heroes beat villain, everybody laughs at the camera, show over.
"Grown" american audiences really didn't latch on to that type of televised serial storytelling til Buffy came out. Look around today. It's an INCREDIBLY effective style of storytelling.
So after DBZ and Sailor Moon came with it, then Toonami and DBZ+Gundam Wing? A whole lot of us were hooked on it.
Despite it being cartoons.
Im not gonna lie. When I was young, it was the fact that there was so much gore and nudity in it.
Then I got older and realized that the japanese were telling these really compelling stories that dealt with real life or mature themes over these long arcs that made you think about more than buying toys.
Meanwhile we were being force fed with cartoons that only served to make you want toys. So much that the FCC complained and they started giving these "Words of Wisdom" or whatever at the end of cartoons so it wasn't mindless violence used to shill toys to the youth.
American cartoons were basically soap operas for kids. Instead of selling cleaning products, makeup and healthcare shyt, it made us want toys.
Not to mention I grew up on Comics and Doctor Who, so the whole "Multiple Episodes for a Story" shyt wasn't new to me.
Anime was a far cry from Heroes meet same old villain and henchmen, heroes beat villain, everybody laughs at the camera, show over.
"Grown" american audiences really didn't latch on to that type of televised serial storytelling til Buffy came out. Look around today. It's an INCREDIBLY effective style of storytelling.
So after DBZ and Sailor Moon came with it, then Toonami and DBZ+Gundam Wing? A whole lot of us were hooked on it.
Despite it being cartoons.
Mr.Big Meat McGee
All Star
Toonami changed my life.
Youhadasparkwhenustarted
Superstar
it was DBZ for me, I ain't never seen no shyt like that before so I had to watch. It seemed like a real life Ku Fung/Street Fighter mash up with fireballs(energy beams) included.
Brandsdale
Big Yella
Among many factors Toonami was a fine point into why I got so into anime. I remember staying home on Friday nights to watch Gundam Wing movie specials
AtlienInTheGoodieMob
Superstar
Toonami
Dbz
Tenchi
G Gundam
Outlaw star
Big O
Cowboy Bebop
Yu Yu Hakusho
Dbz
Tenchi
G Gundam
Outlaw star
Big O
Cowboy Bebop
Yu Yu Hakusho
I was with anime as far as i can remember. I use to live in the bay, and we would always go to china town to buy shyt. I scooped up my first dbz book there. I think, the first time I was exposed to anime, i must have been like 8 or 9... i'm 34 now 
and I still watch and keep up with on the daily. it's one of those things that you love.
and I still watch and keep up with on the daily. it's one of those things that you love.
NYCDaFuture
Pro
Rouni Kenshin was a tough show also
↓R↑LYB
I trained Sheng Long and Shonuff
This in middle school
shyt had the whole hood on smash. Wed be outside playing football or basketball, but when 5pm hit and DBZ came on we all literally ran in the house to see Goku give Frieza that work
shyt had the whole hood on smash. Wed be outside playing football or basketball, but when 5pm hit and DBZ came on we all literally ran in the house to see Goku give Frieza that work
