Sailor Moon, the anime that opened the floodgates

[Cakebatter]

I looked on wiki and they said. That the 1990s was the period in which anime. Reached mainstream popularity in the U.S. Sailor Moon, DBZ, Pokémon, and Ranma ½ was some of the main reasons.

If you classify shows like Voltron, Battle of the Planets, and Robotech, as "Anime" then, it went mainstream by the mid 80s. If not, then the mid to late 90s was when Anime when mainstream with Toonami. I was in College in the early 90s and struggled to find anyone who was familiar with Japanese Anime until about 1995.

 

[JayStarwind]

I liked it more than cowboy bebop,

The cowboy bebop movie is the real deal though

I prefer Outlaw Star as well moreso because of nostalgia. Bebop is great but I didn't catch it when it initially aired like I did OS.

Gene was so mf cool to me as a kid. He's where I got my name from

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

I prefer Outlaw Star as well moreso because of nostalgia. Bebop is great but I didn't catch it when it initially aired like I did OS.

Gene was so mf cool to me as a kid. He's where I got my name from

Outlaw Star was like the first Guardians of The Galaxy

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Yoo, really? Fox had dbz?

Really?

Yup. A couple of years before Cartoon Network

 

[duck]

Wouldnt speed racer be considered anime? That was popular in th u.s. in the 60s

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Wouldnt speed racer be considered anime? That was popular in th u.s. in the 60s

It was

BLAIR: "Speed Racer" was originally created in Japan by Tatsuo Yoshida, with help from his two brothers, in the 1960s. A distribution company in the U.S. bought the show and hired Peter Fernandez to adapt it for American audiences

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

power rangers was “anime” also, no one had a clue we were just watching a japanese tv show american actors spliced in

 

[It is a mystery]

Most of the anime people are bringing up in here are completely unknown to the average person. Hell there's anime heads who probably haven't heard of or watched some of these. If you go down the street and ask people about sailor moon, they are going to know who she is.

Sailor moon put on an entire genre of anime. While there was a couple others as well, OP is right in terms of saying sailor moon opened the floodgates

 

[Jaguar93]

Most of the anime people are bringing up in here are completely unknown to the average person. Hell there's anime heads who probably haven't heard of or watched some of these. If you go down the street and ask people about sailor moon, they are going to know who she is.

Sailor moon put on an entire genre of anime. While there was a couple others as well, OP is right in terms of saying sailor moon opened the floodgates

Yep the 90s is where anime became mainstream in America. And Sailor Moon was one of the contributors.

 

[El Bombi]

Speed racer

Then Voltron and Robotech in the 80's.

Get this goofy nikka out of here.

 

[Hitman's Shades]

Sounds like the Sci-Fi channel Saturday anime block to me.

It was a lot like that but came out before that on regular TV. I watched Sci Fi Saturday anime too.

 

[Hitman's Shades]

I left out Tranzor Z being big to 80's kids too. Along with the 70's-80's live action/Tokusatsu shows like Johnny Socko and his Flying Robot, Ultraman, and Spectreman. It all created an 80's japanese/anime scene before it was really even called anime. In the 90s, Sailor Moon was big with women and the LGBT (If I remember they had a gay couple that they edited around but it was still there) and had a huge internet presence with fan pages and web rings but IMO DBZ was the follow up that "made it cool" for boys and men in a way Sailor Moon never could. And don't forget in the 90's, MTV re-aired Speed Racer as well as Ghost making the Daytona 500 video. So anime was huge, but just not defined under that name.

 

[Lord Bison]

Retarded take, god the internet breeds pseudo intellectual factual retards.

80s had Voltron, Robotech, G-force. Let’s not forget the majority of 80s cartoons were done by Japanese companies especially those openings.

Hell in some markets Sailor Moon was only on the USA network so you couldn’t watch it unless you had cable. UPN and WB did more for anime exposure than Sailor Moon ever did.

EDIT: Forgot about Ronin Warriors which dropped before Sailor Moon on network tv, that show was the epitome of anime held the torch until Goku went super Saiyan.

I came in here to say this. Unless you a nerdy breh, you won't really know wsup.

G-force was the first anime I really really watched on Cartoon Network before I knew what it anime really was. Voltron was a close second. Anime really didn't start getting American exposure like that until around 88-93.

 

[⠝⠕⠏⠑]

My EARLIEST memories of cartoons were Rainbow Bright, He-man and stuff like that.
My earliest memories of anime came from Nickelodeon.

Many might not remember but there was an anime segment on Nickelodeon called Special Delivery. It came on after David the Gnome. Special Delivery was an anime version of Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
“Hey come along and join the fun! It’s a time for fairy tales!”

After that, my entrance into anime came from shows like Voltron and the Sci-fi channel when they had anime on late at night. My dad and I used to watch it. It was the first time I saw Akira.
Then there used to be a show called Ronin Warriors that I used to watch before school. That’s around the same time I finally saw a few episodes of Sailor Moon.

But I never really watched it like that. I think around the time of Sailor Moon, I was obsessed with another show called Pirates of Dark Water. That shyt was good. First time I saw black or brown characters in cartoons. My dad and I were tuned in every Saturday.

Then they bought Dragonball and DBZ and toonami on Cartoon Network took off.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Most of the anime people are bringing up in here are completely unknown to the average person. Hell there's anime heads who probably haven't heard of or watched some of these. If you go down the street and ask people about sailor moon, they are going to know who she is.

Sailor moon put on an entire genre of anime. While there was a couple others as well, OP is right in terms of saying sailor moon opened the floodgates

Yeah, im not really offended by the premise of this thread or even disagree with it. Sailor Moon was big in the 90’s and it only had one season syndicated in america.