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My first one was Sailor Moon when I was in... second grade, I believe. It was on UPN 13! Then a few years later, USA. Then, Cartoon Network. Then they got really bad voice actors for S and I stopped watching. That was twelve-ish years ago. My first full series was Revolutionary Girl Utena. I started watching it in sixth grade, and it wasn't until much much later that the rest was released here in the states.

I couldnt agree with you more about Dragonball Z. In middle scool every kid watched it and would record it in case they had someplace to go I mean talk about a major fever. How could I forget about Outlaw Star that was a great one as well. Good stuff.

I don't remember the year, but it was late 70s, maybe even 1980 or so, and I LOVED to sit down and watch Battle Of The Planets. I even vaguely remember a few episodes of Speed Racer. I had to have been 6 or 7. After that came the rampage of Robotech, Voltron, and Transformers.

I got back into Japanese animation in the mid 90s when some friends insisted that I watch Ranma 1/2. It was a downhill slide after that.

Robotech, no doubt. Granted, I was born at the end of the original run, but some of my earliest memories of animated shows are of Thundercats, Sillverhawks, and Robotech. As the last was a little more... 'mature' shall we say for a child, I rarely got to watch it, but I certainly knew a good thing when I saw it. Time went on, and I caught what bits and pieces I could. I didn't really get to appreciate it fully until they started to air it weekday afternoons some thirteen years later.

I grew up in kind of a 'dead time', at least for my region. Aside from Robotech, most of what we got on television was American animation, not that there's a problem with that, heh, Saturday mornings were good to Kin.

My first full series was... hell, I don't... no wait, it was Digimon Adventure, back in the day when I was ten or so. Still one of my favorite shows, it just had an originality that I hadn't seen before. So I guess that's kind of what brought me back, along with Pokemon a few months later, then eventually everythign that came on Toonami, and later Adult Swim (though I do admit, sometimes staying up for Sealab, Harvey Birdman, and Aqua Teen made it worth it on a 'lets advance the plot' night).

I've started and stopped more series than I care to count, in truth I've only truly finished three series by buying all of the DVD's, though my ten favorites are probably mixed into here somewhere:

Robotech, BECK, School Rumble, Martion Successor Nadiesco, Magical Lyrical Nanoha A's (probably soon to be replaced by StrikerS), Hungry Heart: Wild Striker, Outlaw Star, Air Gear, Digimon, and El Hazard: The Magnificent World. rofl

Wow impressive list everyone. All of those shows you've named are great. Keep on sending those anectdotes per say and share your experience with others.

Wow, The Gator is nine years older than me. whee

I don't think that's possible given I already know about you and Grendel. Not that either of you were shocking per say. I always had you and Hitokage pegged somewhere around there, although I figured Grendel was alot closer to my age for whatever reason.

As for my first anime, well I would say Sailor Moon since it was the first one that I saw and was consiously aware that it was from the other side of the Pacific. Don't be surprised if some day I mule Sailor Mars. I tended to look back at Sailor Moon as being one of those "I watched it because it was there" sort of things, but when ADV released the "uncensored" or whatever it was boxed sets of the first couple seasons I borrowed one from a friend and I really connected with it far more than I expected. For all it's faults it's a classy little show with the same appeal as alot of silver age comics.

I didn't actually get into anime until my last year of high school when we got together and rented Ghost in the Shell. Following that we watched Ninja Scroll and the original Vampire Hunter D which left us rolling on the floor laughing or aghast in terror and never for the right reasons. Then when I started working at a movie theatre, irony incoming, I met a couple big time anime fans that sucked me into Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, X, Hellsing, and so very much more. I've drifted in and out of the fandom since then, but that's the story in a nutshell.