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Antiyonder
09/02/24 9:53:38 PM
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To the best of my recollection:

1. Dragon Warrior (aka Dragon Quest Abel Yuusha)

2. Noozles

3. Samurai Pizza Cat

Maybe an episode of Speed Racer.

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ssb_yunglink2
09/02/24 9:55:00 PM
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by the time i was born anime was already a worldwide presence


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Hayame_Zero
09/02/24 9:55:27 PM
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Speed Racer
Voltron
Robotech
Sailor Moon
DBZ when it was syndicated
Random stuff on Sci-Fi Channel

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HighSeraph
09/02/24 9:56:20 PM
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My dad got the early really shitty Nausicaa version Warriors of the Wind from the library once

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GeminiDeus
09/02/24 9:58:23 PM
#5:


Nice to see someone else remembers Noozles. I used to believe for a long time that it was an Australian-made cartoon simply because of its content until I was able to recognize the signs of it being made in Japan.

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RasterGraphic
09/02/24 9:59:05 PM
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Pretty sure it was a term throughout my entire life, just not a mainstream one.

Uhhh, I've seen some fucked up 80's shit, but not when it was relevant.

I guess early-ish Toonami in general, if that counts. it was always "action cartoons" and never anime.

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09/02/24 9:59:52 PM
#7:


Speed Racer

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BlazinBlue88
09/02/24 10:02:16 PM
#8:


Cartoon Network used to show Speed Racer and G-Force(Science Ninja Team Gatchaman retooling) before Toonami was a thing.

Pokmon, Digimon, DBZ, and Sailor Moon were around right as anime became a known term.

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Antiyonder
09/02/24 10:02:34 PM
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@GeminiDeus
Nice to see someone else remembers Noozles. I used to believe for a long time that it was an Australian-made cartoon simply because of its content until I was able to recognize the signs of it being made in Japan.

Yeah it was on Nick Jr. during near mid-90s over here. Yes for any born later, Nick Jr. wasn't a stranger to anime.

Didn't see it myself, but they also had that series Mysterious Cities of Gold.

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DuneMan
09/02/24 10:05:45 PM
#10:


Robotech and Ronin Warriors, back when they were on a public television channel because corporate America had no idea what anime was.

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Mad-Dogg
09/02/24 10:07:34 PM
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Mysterious cities of gold was my favorite cartoon ever as a kid. In the united states it aired on nickelodeon from 1986 to 1990.

That and speed racer. When I was a little older in the mid 90s I remember calling it japanimation when it'd catch dominion tank police, bubblegum crisis, vampire hunter D, record of lodoss war and others airing on the sci fi channel at all hours of the morning.

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ellis123
09/02/24 10:09:57 PM
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None, I didn't watch anime before the mid 80's.

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TyVulpine
09/02/24 10:10:56 PM
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Voltron back in the 80s

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Homeless_Waifu
09/02/24 10:15:13 PM
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hard to say tbh
I dont think ADV or VIZ media referred to the stuff they localized in the USA as anime? At least not on vhs

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Ratchetrockon
09/02/24 10:17:16 PM
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None

Sailor moon was the first anime i watched. My cousin showed me it

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Umbreon
09/02/24 10:18:11 PM
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Sailor Moon

Probably something else but I was like 7 or something.

Did we say "Anime" when DBZ came over here, or were we still using "Japanimation"?

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Kaldrenthebold
09/02/24 10:18:46 PM
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Fist of the North Star was I think the first anime I ever saw

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Antiyonder
09/02/24 10:21:51 PM
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Umbreon posted...
Sailor Moon

Probably something else but I was like 7 or something.

Did we say "Anime" when DBZ came over here, or were we still using "Japanimation"?

I think so yes.

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ssjevot
09/02/24 10:27:05 PM
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I definitely remember using Japanimation around the time Akira came out.

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Hayame_Zero
09/02/24 10:27:50 PM
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Umbreon posted...
Did we say "Anime" when DBZ came over here, or were we still using "Japanimation"?
When DBZ was localized in syndication, it was still Japanimation or Japanese cartoons. By the time the DBZ reruns came to Toonami, the term "anime" was beginning to be used more often.

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EPR-radar
09/03/24 12:19:50 AM
#21:


Star Blazers

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nocturnal_traveler
09/03/24 12:39:34 AM
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Noozles
Pinocchio
Hello Kitty
Ronin Warriors
Transformers
Dragonball
Eagle Riders
Voltron
Speed Racer
Maya the Bee
The Little Bits
Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics
Jack and the Beanstalk
Record of Lodoss Wars

These were shows I watched on TV or VHS WAY before I even knew what anime was.

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GuerrillaSoldier
09/03/24 12:43:28 AM
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yes, it was japanimation

roujin z
baoh
gal force
sailor moon
samurai pizza cats
voltron
tenchi muyo

and i remember seeing a lot of dragonball in mexico when i went to visit, they had the entire show before we even got dbz i'm pretty sure


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HylianFox
09/03/24 12:55:59 AM
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The Flying House is the oldest anime I recall seeing as a kid

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Tyranthraxus
09/03/24 12:57:22 AM
#25:


Saint Seiya in Italy back in the late 80s.
Also Voltes 5
And also Lupin III

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bigtiggie23
09/03/24 1:05:40 AM
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I remember in the early 90s renting Legend of the Overfiend from the video store when even they didn't know anything about it and had it in the general animation section.

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sfcalimari
09/03/24 1:13:53 AM
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Robotech was absolutely massive in the 80s. At the time nobody knew that it was actually like 3 different unrelated anime series that were chopped up and repackaged for the west.

There was other stuff like Voltron that was pretty huge. I had a weird toy from one of the Voltron series that I don't think ever got repackaged for the West, it wasn't the car one or the lions one but the other one that had giant robots that went all human centipede on one another. I think I had the red one? And was "car voltron" ever a thing in the US?

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BucketCat
09/03/24 1:18:18 AM
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idk. i had watched things like DBZ, yu yu hakusho, ruroni kenshin, gundam, and cowboy bebop years before ever hearing the term "anime"

i knew about manga around that time cus i'd read shonen jump, but tbh i dont think i ever knew there was a word to describe the shows until like 2006-2007, when i got invited to an anime convention and i was like "wtf is anime"

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NoxObscuras
09/03/24 1:19:18 AM
#29:


Pokemon, Digimon and Dragon Ball were on TV before I ever heard the word anime.

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pedro45
09/03/24 1:21:17 AM
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I'm pretty sure i wasn't forming memories before that term, but i do remember hearing japanimation used. I was the youngest of four and my eldest brother was huge into that.

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W_S_C_M
09/03/24 1:35:45 AM
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Hmmm..Voltron maybe
Robotech

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atom27
09/03/24 2:43:41 AM
#32:


Akira

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Foppe
09/03/24 2:45:27 AM
#33:


We used to call it Japanimation.

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sfcalimari
09/03/24 2:56:52 AM
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The proposed third season was to have been based on Lightspeed Electroid Albegas (Ksoku Denjin Albegas).[10] ...

Although Matchbox did produce and market toy versions of the three robots (Black Alpha, Blue Beta, Red Gamma) under the "Voltron II" name,[11] the series never actually aired. Due to the extreme popularity of the Lion Force Voltron and the lack of popularity of the Vehicle Team Voltron series, World Events Productions eventually elected against another alternate Voltron, and plans to adapt Albegas were aborted.[12]

Oh weird never looked into that.

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Crazyman93
09/03/24 2:57:39 AM
#35:


Hayame_Zero posted...
Speed Racer
Voltron
Robotech
Sailor Moon
DBZ when it was syndicated
Random stuff on Sci-Fi Channel
Yeah. Throw in Ronin Warriors and whatever else Toonami was airing in the early 2000s.

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Ricemills
09/03/24 3:00:01 AM
#36:


Starvengers (Getter Robo)
G-Force (Gatchaman)
Speed Racer (Mach GoGoGo)

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ultimate_reaver
09/03/24 3:01:11 AM
#37:


Speed Racer, My Neighbor Tototo, the Street Fighter 2 movie, sailor moon

those are the pre toonami ones I remember

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HannibalBarca3
09/03/24 3:07:26 AM
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Growing up in Mexico during the early to late 90s I don't recall the term "anime" being used. I do recall the term "Japanese cartoons". Anyways there's a few I recall from Canal Cinco:

Dragonball
Dragonball Z
Ramna 1/2
Ghost Sweeper Mikami
Sailor Moon

I'm sure the channel had more but these are the ones I remember watching.

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Airhammy
09/03/24 3:19:31 AM
#39:


Voltron
Samurai Pizza Cats
Ranma 1/2
Dragonball
Sailor Moon
DBZ
in that order. I belive those were my first six before anime really started to take off.

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party_animal07
09/03/24 3:26:40 AM
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Not before it was a thing in the west, but I didnt know "Toma and Friends" was an anime.

Edit: I thought I was having a ln episode for a second. I searched Google and Youtube for toma and friends and kept getting no results. I thought I'd made it up. It's Tama. You'd think at least one result would pop up.

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DUKLegend
09/03/24 4:28:40 AM
#41:


Captain Tsubasa and Dragon Ball is what I watched in Spain.
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GeminiDeus
09/05/24 9:28:47 PM
#42:


HylianFox posted...
The Flying House is the oldest anime I recall seeing as a kid
lol, I never knew the name of it, but I just now looked up "80's christian anime" on youtube and The Flying House was the first result. I remember seeing it on TV when my family went to Florida when I wasn't even 10 yet, and I specifically remember that stupid robot thing.

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Trumpo
09/05/24 9:35:55 PM
#43:


Transformers counts?

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Hayame_Zero
09/05/24 9:38:53 PM
#44:


Crazyman93 posted...
Yeah. Throw in Ronin Warriors and whatever else Toonami was airing in the early 2000s.
This was just slightly before Toonami. DBZ and Sailor Moon were syndicated on the local broadcast channels in the late 90s before CN. That was before the term "anime" was predominantly used.

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LeoRavus
09/05/24 9:39:28 PM
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The closest I got to anime was playing JRPGs.

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vycebrand2
09/05/24 9:40:15 PM
#46:


Mad-Dogg posted...
Mysterious cities of gold was my favorite cartoon ever as a kid. In the united states it aired on nickelodeon from 1986 to 1990.

That and speed racer. When I was a little older in the mid 90s I remember calling it japanimation when it'd catch dominion tank police, bubblegum crisis, vampire hunter D, record of lodoss war and others airing on the sci fi channel at all hours of the morning.
I remember cities of gold. It made me look into the history and lore. I remember going to the Local library to get books on it. You young ones there was a time before the internet that this was how you researched stuff.

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rexcrk
09/05/24 9:41:40 PM
#47:


I wanna say The Little Bits? I remember that from Nick Jr. in the early 90s.

And was David the Gnome anime?

Or maybe neither are anime and my memory is playing tricks on me


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Sariana21
09/05/24 9:42:30 PM
#48:


Voltron (lions)

Robotech (was obsessed)

Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years (another mash-up)

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creativerealms
09/05/24 9:43:14 PM
#49:


Robotech.

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dhampire1
09/05/24 9:47:02 PM
#50:


Robotech
Voltron
Speed Racer
Sailor Moon
Akira
Macross
Lensman
Vampire Hunter D
Project A-KO
Robot Carnival
Fist of the Northstar
Guyver

in the early 90s everyone I knew called it Japanimation. Thats what I referred to it as.
It wasnt till many years later I heard it called anime.
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