Question to /a/, was this the guy who introduced you to most of the anime you watched growing up? Or did you find it somewhere else?
http://strawpoll.me/7269699
Also: are you watching him now that he is back on for nostalgia's sake?
I was the guy that introduced me to anime. I watched Cardcaptor Sakura when I was 6, then Rurouni Kenshin and got hooked.
>>139547950
Yes to growing up on him?
>>139548023
Hrmm. Both of those shows i watched on toonami myself. Dbz and tenchi muyo as well.
Miyazaki.
>>139548037
Yes to the former
No to the latter
Late night sci-fi, actually.
I remember watching Scryed and going out of my way to watch the ending to TTGL because I was curious on what happened next despite not knowing what was going on, though I find the show to be garbage today.
I want to say early Gundum VHSs from my friend and DBZ from my brother got me into anime.
I'm pretty sure Sailor Moon was airing on another channel first, because I remember it being on in the mornings. It was whatever that channel was.
I also remember DBZ airing at like midnight on a different channel before toonami as well.
>>139547899
For me it was Sci-Fi Channel's Anime '97 week that introduced me. I recall watching Casshan: Robot Hunter, Green Legend Ran, Armitage III, and Iria: Zeiram the Animation during that week.
>>139547899
Toonami and MANGA Entertainment.
Yes, but mainly to watch shows dubbed. It'll be nice to watch HxH finally.Then I'll go watch the superior 90s version.
>>139547899
No but growing up, the after school toonami block, my local WB channel playing anime in the morning, and adult swim airing some anime at night, was the only way for me to watch anime for a fairly long period of time.
Also who fucking pays for cable in the CURRENT YEAR?
>>139548404
USA network for Sailor Moon, that's where I got my start
>>139549093
This, although I didn't realize what anime really was until toonami
Yeah, DBZ and Gundam Wing/G Gundam got me hooked, I wish I was more interested in Outlaw Star at the time
>>139547899
i saw pokemon, digimon and yugioh on kid WB first but didnt care, then YES, toonami got me into anime.
i remember watching dragonball, hamtaro, yuyu hukusho, and ZOIDS: new century zero. that giant mechanical liger was the greatest thing i ever saw as a kid
Local Video Warehouse. My Friendly Neighbor Totoro was my first, Bio Booster Armor Guyver was the second because I'd seen the movies and whoever stuck the rating stickers on the films didn't have a 'not for kids' on it. I was less than 10, it was glorious.
>>139547899
I want /co/ to leave.
I know it's you.
Yes. I would come home from school, sit my fat ass in front of the screen to cartoonetwork and watch Toonami.
Close but not quite. I was introduced to anime by Adult Swim, because by the time my family got cable (2001 I think?), the "golden age" of Toonami has mostly passed already and moved into the 7-8PM timeslot, when I was usually doing stuff other than watching TV.
My first few shows were Inuyasha, Cowboy Bebop, FMA 03, Trigun, and FLCL IIRC. It all started one night when I had fallen asleep on the couch and someone had left the TV on and tuned into Cartoon Network... I woke up around 2:30AM or so right as an episode of Bebop was airing. I was intrigued by how different it was from any other animation I'd seen and shortly thereafter I found myself staying up late to catch Adult Swim. After a while I even saved up some cash and bought a TiVo for the express purpose of catching anime that aired too late for me to watch and still be functional at school the next day.
And so began my animu and WoW dominated high school life.
>>139549884 (cont)
I kind of miss it to be honest. It's amazing to have shows simulcasted and at my fingertips whenever I please, but there's a certain magic to stewing in anticipation of the next episode of a show all week and then finally late saturday night, snuggling up in my blankets and getting amped as the OP starts playing. I haven't had that feeling in a long, long time.
Haven't watched toonami since I was a kid, but I'll be checking out the hxh dub premiere.
>>139547899
I went through a number of Toonami hosts, I remember when he was a short white robot way back when.
>>139547899
I remember Yu Yu Hakusho was airing and so was Rurouin Kenshin. The original dragonball was something I still remember when it was airing. The dubs were good but did not follow the script.
>>139547899
Yup, started with Toonami. Watched it from the very first day it started, though I can't remember exactly what was airing back then. It wasn't my first contact with anime, but it was where I watched the most of it growing up.
And yeah, I watch it now too. Not for Nostalgia, but because I want to support it for the sake of anime itself. I think in the future, with the deals western companies are making with japanese studios(Netflix getting ready to make their own stuff, Toonami back to producing original anime, Amazon's deal with Fuji TV that's apparently the biggest in anime history) that there's potential for the entire industry to move in a direction with more money in it. At the least I'd like to see more anime promoted in the west, so it's all important to me.
I remember seeing Toonami a little bit, but my father's obsession with Studio Ghibli is what really got me into anime. (And I still to this day find more entertainment from animated movies than series.)
>>139550129
...you know, Toonami is still running, right?
>>139551645
I know, but I live on my own now and don't have a cable subscription and a single channel isn't worth the absurd price of cable. I've probably seen whatever they're airing anyway.
>>139547899
My first experience with anime were VHS tapes of Rurouni Kenshin subbed. I don't watch anime on TV because dubs are fucking gay. Though I only really started getting hooked on anime when I watched Shinryaku! Ika Musume, for whatever reason. I think it was the allure of squidbutt that lured me in.
>>139551862
Well, here's the lineup
>Dragon Ball Kai
>Dimension W
>Parasyte
>Samurai Champloo
>Naruto Shitpudding
>One Piece
>Kill La Kill
Sailor moon, Yu yu hakusho, and DBZ
It wasn't toonami but it was on the same channel. Those adult swim anime they aired a while back. Durarara and FMA got me into it.
>>139551862
>>>/co/ has a stream set up every Saturday night for you to tune into.
blogshit
>>>/trash/
>>>/co/
>>139547899
My introduction to anime was a dubbed VHS tape of Sailor Moon Super S in a garage sale box, didn't know what it was at first but I liked it, ironically enough it was also my introduction to hentai because there was also a dvd called Beast City, it was confusing to watch.
>>139547899
Fighting evil by moonlight.Winning love by daylight.
>>139554751
Everyone always shits on dubs, but i get a nostalgia boner every time i hear that.
>>139551985
>>139553816
What is this /co/ meme.
Pokemon was the first animu I was fanatically into. Then Digimon.
DBZ/Toonami introduced me to the broader world of anime as opposed to shows I just liked though
>>139547899
Soul Eater was one of the first things I actually recognized as anime. I watched it somewhere on tv in 2008
>>139554751never running from a real fight
>>139555736she is the one named Sailor Moon
>>139555980She will never turn her back on her friends..
>>139556058she is always there to defend
>>139556110I am not the one on whom you can depend.
>>139556357
She is the one named Sailor Moon
She is the one... Sailor Moon!
My older sister was the one who introduced me to most of the anime. Luckily she wasn't into bl.
Along with 4Kids Pokemon, yeah toonami bro.
I re watched Kill la Kill on there, week by week. Brought back memories.
>>139556429
>was looking forward to the canon anime.
>Toei is animating it
>it's not even animated
>QUALITY everywhere.
Going to just watch the subbed anime someday then read the manga.
>>139547899
Dad introduced me to anime. He used to watch Gundam and would show me some of this tapes.
>>139547899
Toonami started me on anime way back when. But now I just find my own anime and read manga cuz anime pacing is garbage.
Yes
No
>>139547899
No and No.
Yeah Toonami was my gateway to anime back in the day.
Can't say I give a shit about new Toonami since Space Dandy ended. I don't have much use for a block that pretty much only airs dubs of shows that came out at least a year ago. Though I hear they're funding a new FLCL and Samurai Jack so I might check those out. I have very low expectations for FLCL but I'm hoping Jack is decent.
For now though, the block is cluttered with utter garbage.
>>139547899
Not really, I already watched any anime I could find in about 3-4 different channels including national, Fox Kids and CN before Toonami
>>139547899
No, it was Moltar.
But in all seriousness, I was actually an anime fan before Toonami.
>>139562245
This. Supposedly FLCL is a passion project for the guys working on it from what I've heard, so I'm a bit more optimistic. Also, fucking Samurai Jack. This was my shit back in the day and these two shows combined give me a reason to actually turn cable TV on again and tune into Toonami. Maybe this is just naive but I'd like for these guys to be successful and potentially produce even more rad cartoons and anime.
>>139562937
>Maybe this is just naive but I'd like for these guys to be successful and potentially produce even more rad cartoons and anime.
That's the ultimate goal here. It's very feasible, I think. Just in general I think anime has a better chance in the west where we have alot more money to throw at it than in japan where the whole thing survives on a small hardcore niche audience with very fickle tastes.
>>139547899
Toonami Tom is single handedly responsible for anime's current western popularity.
>>139564106
And an audience that's declining with the birth rate, may I add.
Just like how Hollywood makes the majority of its money abroad, the future for the Japanese anime industry lies outside of their shores.
Now that does not mean or imply changing one thing about the stories or art, it just means they're going to have to stop being so hardheaded about exports and overseas marketing. The series that have been big hits in recent years also had significant overseas marketing operations.
>>139564299
For some time, anime just aired on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block.
>>139564299
Im inclined to agree with this.
I did but I didn't know it was anime, I just knew it was cool. I was in love with gundam wing during the original run, watched DBZ and Pokemon religiously, and then got into Yugioh when the card game got popular at my school circa 2003-2004. I guess I was too busy watching terrible movies on SciFi channel to get into Adult Swim as I didn't really pick up anime again until ~2012. I remember seeing a few episodes of Naruto, an episode of FLCL and FMA on tv but by that time I already thought that stuff was for the weird kids and didn't check it out much. Kind of wish I did now but it doesn't really matter.
>>139547899
Yep. Dragon Ball Z was my first anime.
>>139547899
Was introduced to anime through DBZ on Toonami. Officially became hooked when I watched Princess Mononoke.
