Anime Which anime started your anime collection?

Back in 1980's, while I was watching anime like Daimos and Voltes V, anime usually aren't found in VHS and VCR (Betamax) tapes. I almost never buy or own an anime videotape. As much as I love Daimos, the idea of buying a video without closed captions does not interest me.

I watched Dragon Ball Z on TV in the 1990's but I don't know where I can find videotape copies of DBZ. Besides imported videotapes are fairly expensive.


When I watched Grander Musashi RV, Sakura Wars, Cooking Master Boy and Vandread 1st Stage which had aired on AXN-Asia four years ago, I liked them all. But when I learned there is a Vandread Second Stage but AXN-ASIA didn't have the plans of broadcasting it until several months later, I couldn't wait to see the 2nd Stage so I decided to go in a comic book store and found subtitled VCDs of Vandread 2nd Stage. Then I bought them and it started my anime collection.

 

This topic seems familiar, but oh well.

As should be quite obvious, my first anime DVD was Saber Marionette J. The Ultimate Collection I've bragged about before. (Which I now have two copies of ) I bought it off of E-bay, after saving money for it from the job I had back then, where I got paid $50 a week. Took me awhile, but I was very happy to get it.

After that I got Arjuna Vol. 1, which I never even finished watching and can't get rid of, and the numerous other series that now comprise my collection.

It was about a year and a half ago that I got the collection, though I'd been introduced to anime a couple years before, when I was just starting High School.

 

If 10 pokemon and 20 dbz VHS count, its those. >_>; And it ended my anime collection as well.

 

It was Hellsing and .Hack//:sign that started me off...I also guess I watched a little fruits basket and DN Angel but at the time I had little intrest in either

 

It all started when I was a little boy in China, viewing animes like Knights of the old Zodiac, Doraemon, Dragonball, Slam dunk. That was I first discovered anime, but when it really "began" was when I bought some old VCD's of those animes back when I was 10 or so that really kicked off. Nowadays, it's always DVDs for me, and I own somewhat 30 anime DVDs.

- Teddz

 

Gundam Wing and Ghost in the shell.

- Shen

 

Wow, I have to think while back..

Well, it was a LONG time ago, and I forgot some of the names of the anime, but I think it was Vampire hunter D, Akira, Ronin Warriors series.. lol....but I think the only anime that made me to buy more was my favortie called "Saiyuki" and "trigun" but now I have to save up more money so I can get more bad ass anime!

 

back into the early 90's i started watching Guyver..... thats what started me off and got me completely into Anime and Manga... it wasa good 1 to start with

 

My first anime DVD was Trigun Volume 3 i belive it was. When Vash meets Wolfwood. Since then I only bought Trigun, but a while after, i started buying stuff like Detective Conan and such. Usually the good anime is the anime that I download, and since the DVD's are from 20 to 30 USD, it's kinda hard to afford them at times. In good quantities at least....

-Seishin

 

Dragonball Z started my collection.

 

Its embarrasing, but Pokemon did..I was like obsessing with it..*barfo*

 

That would be Dragon Ball Z and Yu-Gi-Oh! Those two animes started my DVD collection. And then comes FMA...

 

I gotta say this one!

well, in my oponion, that is so very sad that "pokemon" "Yu-Gi-Oh", and some other dumb ones. I mean DBZ was "all right" but it just keep repeating itself and it took FOREVER just to beat a weak boss, I mean man! just get it over with it and stop talking and say "I will destroy you,blah,blah," and it also took forever for goku or someone else to the maximum so many eposodes to begin with and all for something so dumb..and you say those were the ones that got you into anime...man, that is so overaided. I can't evey understand why they put those stupid shows in t.v in the first place, I mean its kiddish stuff like for toddlers and kids that are still in elementry. I pity for those who watch their first anime I dont even think its worth called "anime" its just so Americanish. just try not to take this in the *offence* way although a lot of you might or will take this in a offensive way. I can also understand that you probably didn't have that much channels to begin with..or you are probably still too very young. I dont know but man, but in the future try to get your kids into BEYOND better anime then the ones that started you off with, then when they get older they can say "Thanks mommy and daddy for showing me kick ass anime!" ...I'm not trying to be a "B.I" about it I promise.... just keep it cool! oh yeah I forgot something else, Mine was also oh my goddess, and SAIYUKI that got me SO very into anime.

 

What got me into it? Probably Cowboy Bebop. I saw it first a few years and back and that basically got me into Japanese animation.

 

hmm
the Eva movie <death and rebirth isn't a movie, it's a condest version of the serie>
Ninja scroll
Blood that last vampire
Street fighter alpha
and
ghost sweeper Mikami
those were the start of my collection, it's only expanded to get the first volume of texnolize<sp> and kai doh maru so far, but paying for school is a ***** ya know

 

Dragonball Z was the first even though its not my favorite. I first saw it about 5 years ago, heh.

 

Proboly the rerelease of Harlock Saga. I had been watching anime for a long time and my father has his own collection that I watch.

 

Well for me, it was watching Yu-Gi-Oh on T.V., then I picked up the graphic novel. So yeah, that started me off.


-Ian

 

for me it's doraemon... oh man oh man that show is addictive... no matter how many time i read the manga i lmao...... it's one of those shows u will remeber forever... wt started my anime collection is probley inuyasha.. after watching it i decided wth it's about time for me to chase after anime