Sailor Moon, the anime that opened the floodgates

[The Dust King]

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

its amazing

sailor moon does get credit for taking it mainstream

and then here comes the followers and echoes

 

[Paper Boi]

first anime i watched was pokemon

then dbz

never watched this girl shyt

 

[gho3st]

Dragonball, Ninja scroll, Akira, sailor moon, gundam were all fringe...

What really set off Anime in the US is Cartoon Network and Late Night TOONAMI.

 

[xCivicx]

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 had Ronin Warriors action figures

 

[Grifter]

Never knew about sailor Moon until toonami I think. Used to watch DBZ before school on wb.

 

[OneDeep]

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

Toonami on Cartoon Network

 

[bigde09]

Sailor Moon was actually more popular than DBZ in the beginning. It took a while for DBZ to really catch on in the USA.

DBZ 1st premiered in the US on Sept 13th 1996 on FOX Kids and got decent ratings but Fox cut all its Saban programing in 1998 and that's the same company that distributed DBZ in the 90s (That's also why Power Rangers moved from FOX to ABC)

DBZ moved to syndication and Cartoon Network picked up the rights to air it on Toonami in 98.

Both Sailor Moon and DBZ premiered on Cartoon Network in Aug 1998 and Sailor Moon actually did better than DBZ in the ratings at first. That's how popular it was.

It wasn't until 1999 when DBZ exploded in popularity.

Once Cartoon Network finally got new episodes for DBZ it was a wrap and the rest is history

 

[MajesticLion]

G-Force

 

[The Dust King]

thread starter jus wana make viral videos

sailormoon used to come on @5am BEFORE mega man

mega man had action figures and all that and was WAY bigger then

plenty of anime/japanimation was hot wit merch before sailor moon in the 90s

if we talkin not jus 90s this aint a hot take its jus straight up b.s.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

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.

My experience was different. I was a teenager in '85 and going to Comic Book conventions to pick up animé video tapes. That's where I got Vampire Hunter D. We called Speed Racer, Battle of the Planets, Force 5, Voltron, & Star Blazers 'japanimation' in '80-'84. Blew my mind when I watched the O.G. Japanese, unedited versions of those same shows as I got older.

So.......much.......editing.​

 

[Jaguar93]

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.

 

[Doin2Much Williams]

You on baff salts taking salty baffs if you think this was the catalyst

Seriously.




I done growed up on Voltron and Gundamns.




Who the fukk is a Masked Tuxedo and wearing that not going to a formal event?




.

 

[broller]

the first one was astroboy and we called it japanimation. sailor moon does get credit for taking it mainstream, but it was already here

Astroboy . That shyt used to come on hella early at like 6am.

 

[StarClout]

Sailor Moon and DBZ singlehandedly saved Toonami from cancellation in 1998



CN was running this promo before they got SM and DBZ asking the audience should they just wash their hands of it cause the ratings were bad

SM and DBZ debuted on Toonami in Summer 1998 and nothing was the same after that

 

[Dr. Acula]

While Sailor Moon was on before, Anime imo really took off after Syfy channel started playing anime on Saturday mornings. Also, the anime blockbuster used to stick got a lot of kids hooked imo.