Sailor Moon, the anime that opened the floodgates

[SNYC]

Speed Racer was big, hell look at one of Will Smiths shirts in summertime

The funny thing is, Will saw the future with that one. The show wasn't in syndication & the Cartoon Network didn't exist yet.

But ironically, a couple of years after...the theme song became a dance hit & a new version of the show was released

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

One summer when I was a little kid, the USA network showed the first season in the every morning M-F and I thought it was good enough to where I made sure to watch every episode

Back then anime had this "edge" that western cartoons were lacking. I remember seeing the Saiyan Saga of Dragonball Z for the first time on Fox

 

[Mr. Negative]

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'.​

Japanimation and japanime was a term for a long while before anime

I'm not saying it wasn't called "Anime" or Japanimation,

I'm saying in 1985 when you were 5 years old watching Voltron or whatever else, you wasn't sitting down to watch an "Anime/Japanimation" show

Hell, the term "Japanimation" didn't catch on till the late 80s/early 90s when folks start selling anime on VHS tapes. And even before then, folks were confusing it with "main-ga" cause MangaCorps was putting out tapes.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Ronin warriors, tekkaman blade, samurai pizza cats, dragonball, etc.

All those deep cut anime shows that came on dumb early in the mornings on weeekends you were lucky to catch. Then Sci Fi channel Saturday morning had the little movie block in the afternoon

We had anime in the 80’s but it was watered down stuff, the west didn’t start getting really good dubbed anime until Toonami. Stuff like Trigun, Outlaw Star, Gundam, etc. used to be shyt you could only get in speciality shops, subbed.

Even Ghibli movies didn’t start coming here until disney acquired distribution rights which was the late 90’s

I remember all that. Anime in the 90s was

 

[Roger king]

I like animes but i am yet to see this particular one

 

[CopiousX]

One summer when I was a little kid, the USA network showed the first season in the every morning M-F and I thought it was good enough to where I made sure to watch every episode

Back then anime had this "edge" that western cartoons were lacking. I remember seeing the Saiyan Saga of Dragonball Z for the first time on Fox

Yoo, really? Fox had dbz?

Really?

 

[Hitman's Shades]

The 80's had Voltron and Robotech. And if you had parents that made you watch Christian TV, then you know about Superbook and Flying House too.

The 90's had Toonami, which started off playing reruns of shows like Voltron and G-Force, among others. I followed Ronin Warriors because the characters looked like Voltron's main characters, and loved what the show was.

Speaking on "Japanimation", anyone from Chicago area in the mid 90s remember channel 62 on the weekends having "Japananimation Station" or whatever it was called? It was there on live TV that I watched Akira, Vampire Hunter D, Barefoot Gen, 8 Man After, Crying Freeman (with the unblurred nudity), and a lot of other shows all on that show/channel.

 

[Eternally Jaded]

The 80's had Voltron and Robotech. And if you had parents that made you watch Christian TV, then you know about Superbook and Flying House too.

The 90's had Toonami, which started off playing reruns of shows like Voltron and G-Force, among others. I followed Ronin Warriors because the characters looked like Voltron's main characters, and loved what the show was.

Speaking on "Japanimation", anyone from Chicago area in the mid 90s remember channel 62 on the weekends having "Japananimation Station" or whatever it was called? It was there on live TV that I watched Akira, Vampire Hunter D, Barefoot Gen, 8 Man After, Crying Freeman (with the unblurred nudity), and a lot of other shows all on that show/channel.

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

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

I like animes but i am yet to see this particular one

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[UpThruDere]

Ronin Warriors>>>>>>>

 

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[Ripp]

I remember as a kid dragonball z and sailor moon used to come on back to back... I forgot the channel but they was on at the same time.... and isn't gundam wing considered an anime? That shyt might've been in the states before both of them

 

[Ripp]

Speed Racer was big, hell look at one of Will Smiths shirts in summertime

nikkas naming all this other obscure shyt.... speed racer got it though

 

[DOSDUMUNI]

Voltron?

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

All these either replies or obscure ass cartoons