Sailor Moon, the anime that opened the floodgates

[duck]

All the cartoons we watched growing up was old as fukk. All them Tex Avery loony toon cartoons from the 60’s that still had the racist shyt in it

Yeah i knew looney toons, merry melodies, hanna barbara were old af when watchin them

I just thought speed racer was newer because the animation was different. Until my a$$hole dad and his spoiler droppin ass was like "does he know racer X is his brother yet?

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Yeah i knew looney toons, merry melodies, hanna barbara were old af when watchin them

I just thought speed racer was newer because the animation was different. Until my a$$hole dad and his spoiler droppin ass was like "does he know racer X is his brother yet?

Damn, I remember that whole storyline lol


Racer X was that dude

 

[duck]

Damn, I remember that whole storyline lol


Racer X was that dude

The word spoiler didnt even exist then.

Instead of referring to someone as a spoiler dropper back then, youd just refer to them as an a$$hole. It was simpler time.

And my dad was an a$$hole. Like " why would u say that"

 

[bigde09]

Yeah and it flopped. Which is to say that anime wasnt popping on a scale yet to say it was what "opened the floodgates" at the time. It wasnt until Toonami that the gates were opened. Everything else was fringe. Ninja Scroll and Akira is what broke the genre into America but it was still fringe until Toonami gave anime a serialized time block that included Ronin, Gundam, Sailor Moon, DBZ, Tenchi then expanded to Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star and Inuyasha during the night block.

I wouldn't say flopped. It did well enough in the ratings and created a cult following that allowed the show to have a strong audience when it moved to Cartoon Network. Problem was it only aired once a week on FOX and with DBZ's pacing...that was no good

 

[85 East]

I wouldn't say flopped. It did well enough in the ratings and created a cult following that allowed the show to have a strong audience when it moved to Cartoon Network. Problem was it only aired once a week on FOX and with DBZ's pacing...that was no good

They had zero respect for DB and DBZ at first. They dropped DB on Fox with zero advertising at like 6:30 am on Saturdays. No season 2 right away. Then all of a sudden DBZ is on WB with zero back story. Then at one point both were running at the same time. Also when DBZ did drop here, GT was already up and running in Japan. I had a Chinese friend who gave me tapes of DBZ and Guyver when we were 12.

 

[Balla]

They had zero respect for DB and DBZ at first. They dropped DB on Fox with zero advertising at like 6:30 am on Saturdays. No season 2 right away. Then all of a sudden DBZ is on WB with zero back story. Then at one point both were running at the same time. Also when DBZ did drop here, GT was already up and running in Japan. I had a Chinese friend who gave me tapes of DBZ and Guyver when we were 12.

I remember first seeing DBZ on WB during the Namek Saga, and knew right away it was a masterpiece.

 

[Ripp]

Toonami on Cartoon Network

No it was way before toonami existed. And it definitely wasn't cartoon network. They used to still show the golden oldies early in the morning which is precisely why me and my sisters watched different channels. We used to watch it before we went to school dare I say on a channel that was even cable television. I know it wasn't CN thats for sure

 

[Wink Beaufield]

No it was way before toonami existed. And it definitely wasn't cartoon network. They used to still show the golden oldies early in the morning which is precisely why me and my sisters watched different channels. We used to watch it before we went to school dare I say on a channel that was even cable television. I know it wasn't CN thats for sure

That sounds like the anime block on Sci-Fi channel back in the mid 90s.

 

[Hitman's Shades]

That sounds like the anime block on Sci-Fi channel back in the mid 90s.

Yep, I remember watching this as it had Bionic Six and Gigantor on it.