Sailor Moon, the anime that opened the floodgates

[Mr. Negative]

Nah, Ninja Scroll opened the "floodgates"

and yeah, there were "cartoons made in japan" on TV since the 80s, but they weren't pushed or even recognized as "anime" or evem "japanese cartoons".

they was just "cartoons"

 

[tuckgod]

Don’t think I ever watched an episode

The animation always irritated me, probably stops me from watching Dragon Ball.

You’re probably around my age

The change in animation style was jarring and forced a lot of us off cartoons early

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

You’re probably around my age

The change in animation style was jarring and forced a lot of us off cartoons early

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[85 East]

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.

In the video I clearly said by the mid 90s anime was all but gone. Sailor Moon started the wave that led to where we are today. There were a few older that I mentioned, Astro Boy, Speed Racer, Gundam, but immediately before DBZ hit the airwaves in North America, SM was the biggest.

 

[JayStarwind]

I better not find out you anime boys were out here watching this shyt back in the day

I was
what you gon do about it pleighboi?

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Nah, Ninja Scroll opened the "floodgates"

and yeah, there were "cartoons made in japan" on TV since the 80s, but they weren't pushed or even recognized as "anime" or evem "japanese cartoons".

they was just "cartoons"

Nah. We referred to them specifically as 'japanimation' since the art styles and plots were completely different than any Saturday Morning cartoon we'd known before. They were pushed as 'animé' in the mid-80's at comic book conventions.

Fist of the North Star, Patlabor, & Bubblegum Crisis 'opened the floodgates'.​

 

[Piffiztheanswer]

Fist of the north star for me

 

[ThatTruth777]

I didn't know one breh watching no fukking Sailor Moon

 

[OneDeep]

Pokémon
Yu-Gi-Oh
DBZ

 

[DripSzn]

I better not find out you anime boys were out here watching this shyt back in the day

Or else what?

 

[Deltron]

For me it was Robotech on my local PBS station on sundays

 

[DreadBrown]

I was
what you gon do about it pleighboi?

You did it to yourself kid

 

[rabbid]

I didn't know one breh watching no fukking Sailor Moon

Thats cause they turned it on whenever you werent around. DBZ around the homies and Sailer Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura for me time

 

[MMS]

this the show that originally got me hooked on toonami before i knew about Gundam

 

[Black Mamba]

Fighting evil by moonlight