Sailor Moon, the anime that opened the floodgates

[Gizmo_Duck]

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.

Grimms Fairy Tales was my shyt growing up. thats where i know most of those old school fairy tales from even more so than Disney. This shyt had no schedule though it just used to come on randomly whenever

Nick actually had a lot of childrens anime cartoons. Grimms Fairy Tales, Little Bits, The Little Koala, Noozles, etc. before nick got their own original programming they use to just license a lot of japanese animated cartoons

 

[⠝⠕⠏⠑]

Grimes Fairy Tales was my shyt growing up. thats where i know most of those old school fairy tales from even more so than Disney. This shyt had no schedule though it just used to come on randomly whenever

Nick actually had a lot of childrens anime cartoons. Grimms Fairy Tales, Little Bits, The Little Koala, Noozles, etc. before nick got their own original programming they use to just license a lot of japanese animated cartoons

You so right. I felt like I was always missing it. And it was back in the day, so there was no on-demand or streaming. If u weren’t there, oh fukking well!

 

[Eternally Jaded]

David the Gnome is a deep cut from my childhood.

With his white fox called Swift.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

You so right. I felt like I was always missing it. And it was back in the day, so there was no on-demand or streaming. If u weren’t there, oh fukking well!

shyt, this was before they even had the tv guide channel. Catching your favorite shows was like roulette growing up

 

[Sterling Archer]

Yoo, really? Fox had dbz?

Really?

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.

 

[Sterling Archer]

David the Gnome is a deep cut from my childhood.

With his white fox called Swift.

Did you ever see the final episode? shyt is fukked up. I watched it on youtube this year.

 

[Batsute]

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

Bruh it literally didn’t, I posted earlier how it was failure when it was first syndicated over here. UPN, Sci-Fi, laid the groundwork for the casual anime audience and Manga Films was bringing in the hardcore audience. Anime in the US was a legit grass roots movement in 90s. If anything opened the floodgates it’s Toonami that block debuted with the perfect mix of shows targeted at multiple demographics at the right time.

No offense but how many of y’all on the cusp of high school were legit watching Sailor Moon? I find it hard to believe 14-15 year old black males were talking about at the lunch table in the middle of dominoes games, “yea, when she said on behalf of the moon I’ll punish you” I lost my shyt.

 

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shyt, this was before they even had the tv guide channel. Catching your favorite shows was like roulette growing up

Man I’d be in shambles missing my favorite shows. My EARLIEST memory was when I was three years old. I was watching Rainbow Bright. My mom was bothering me getting me ready to take those professionally family photos they used to take back in the day at K-mart. (Geez is K-mart even still around). I just remember being so hurt because I didn’t get to see whether they got Murky Dismal out of the way.

Then He-man used to come on during the 6o’clock news. My mom ALWAYS watched the news. Even my dad was like Cartoons were serious business growing up.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

David the Gnome is a deep cut from my childhood.

With his white fox called Swift.

Then you should remember this since they came on about the same time....



And this ....

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[Gizmo_Duck]

Bruh it literally didn’t, I posted earlier how it was failure when it was first syndicated over here. UPN, Sci-Fi, laid the groundwork for the casual anime audience and Manga Films was bringing in the hardcore audience. If anything opened the floodgates it’s Toonami that block debuted with the perfect mix of shows targeted at multiple demographics at the right time.

No offense but how many of y’all on the cusp of high school were legit watching Sailor Moon? I find it hard to believe 14-15 year old black males were talking about at the lunch table in the middle of dominoes games, “yea, when she said on behalf of the moon I’ll punish you” I lost my shyt.

I def wasn’t talking about it at the lunch table, but i did watch it getting ready for school lol, it wasn’t like my favorite show.

That pre-school cartoon always hit, this, mighty max, mummies alive, that one ghostbusters joint

 

[southpawstyle]

This thread is now old ass nerds playing anime gate keeper lmfao

 

[feelosofer]

David the Gnome is a deep cut from my childhood.

With his white fox called Swift.

I remember my youngest brother watching that shyt. It was kinda fire actually. David little azz trying not to get eaten by animals. Ending was kinda

 

[Zostrianos]

I remember my Mom liking Sailor Moon. That was strange for me as she really wasn't into stuff aimed at kids. I also remember the confusion on whether or not it was for "boys or girls".
Sailor Moon felt like a questionable exception because it was Japanese animation. Funny thinking back on how polarized viewing habits could be back then.

I also remember first seeing Dragon Ball Z on Fox Kids back in like 1996. Anime style gained in popularity when Final Fantasy VII came out on the Playstation, quickly followed by Toonami and Pokemon. Gundam was part of that first wave as well.

 

[duck]

It was

Crazy, i remember watching it in sydnication as a kid in the 80s, Me being a kid i thought it was something new ( because the artstyle was so different), then oneday my dad saw me watching it and was like i remember this when i was your age

I was like

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Crazy, i remember watching it in sydnication as a kid in the 80s, Me being a kid i thought it was something new ( because the artstyle was so different), then oneday my dad saw me watching it and was like i remember this when i was your age

I was like

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