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| CrazyMax 401th Post
 
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|  "Re(1):Question for anime fans 30 yrs and up" , posted Fri 28 Jan 17:46
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What was your favorite anime or manga that you liked in high school or just before high school?
My favorite one that was fan subtitled after Robotech came out was Project A-Ko (yuji moriyama with key animation), then BGC (Artmic, Studio Gainax), then I read the Appleseed Manga, the Area 88 Manga, Mai the Psychic Girl, and that's about it so far until I was heavily into it when I was a junior in High School.
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At the time Battle of the Planets & Star Blazers. But earlier when I grew up in HI, I got to watch reruns of Speed Racer, Astro Boy, & Gigantor, but as their original names since it was actually from a Japanese station that our second tv picked up. I also watched some Samurai or ninja anime that I never learned the name of but loved. My all time favorite though was Cyborg 009 that I saw from that Japanese station, then caught every now & then through the years translated on US tv.
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| IkariDC 272th Post
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| "Re(3):What was your favorite anime in High Sc" , posted Sat 29 Jan 06:22
Well, if we are talking about Highschool days, it was DBZ (Buu saga), Rurouni Kenshin, Escaflowne, Evangelion, ... plus many films. Too many to remember, really.
Hey TimeMage, Saint Seiya & Ranma 1/2 came before our Highschool days, those and Captain Tsubasa, Lupin the 3rd, City Hunter, etc. Ah, those were the good days man.
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| Time Mage 2044th Post
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| "Re(4):What was your favorite anime in High Sc" , posted Sat 29 Jan 09:19
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Hey TimeMage, Saint Seiya & Ranma 1/2 came before our Highschool days, those and Captain Tsubasa, Lupin the 3rd, City Hunter, etc. Ah, those were the good days man.
Well, since during our highschool days there was some sort of anime starvation in TV (Stupid parent associations, y'know), I've brought the closer (and better) anime from that time.
Strictly in highschool, I didn't saw many anime, really. Some DBZ, which I was starting to hate (I was reading the manga by then, and I couldn't stand the sloooooooooow rithm of the anime anymore), some anime films like Akira, Gost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll, etc... But I didn't started to watch anime again until 4 or 5 years ago.
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| DarkZero 1064th Post
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| "Re(3):What was your favorite anime in High Sc" , posted Sat 29 Jan 09:57
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Ranma 1/2, Lodoss War, Fatal Fury, AMG! etc.
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I was a big fan of Record of Lodoss War. I don't think I got into Kenshin until college, but I WAS aware of it.
I watched Evangelion, Slayers, Bubblegum Crisis 2040, Gundam, etc., but the one I remember most fondly was Record of Lodoss War. I caught it on cable a little while ago (even though I have the DVDs) and it's still such a great-looking show. It's unfortunate that not many shows afterward have had that detailed, painted look that Lodoss had, even though it was cheaply done.
I still have to watch my Chronicles of the Heroic Knight DVDs some day. They've been around for quite awhile...
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| Undead Fred 2061th Post
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| "Re(6):What was your favorite anime in High Sc" , posted Sat 29 Jan 10:52:
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DBZ manga and the movies = awesome.
I remember I used to draw DBZ characters in elementary school and kids were like what the hell is that? Who's Goku? To like DBZ back when it wasn't so freakin popular. Then again, anime used to be not popular and people used to call anime fans wierd back in the old days. Now that anime is "cool" the same people are watching Inuyasha and saying how cool anime is. Heh lolz. Now that I think of it, I was exposed to Ranma and DBZ in Korean.
Yeah, I had gotten into anime mid-way through high school, back when the only people who were familiar with it in the US called it "Japanimation." Well, I know there were people who watched imported subs and all that, but I'm talking about on average. I had a friend that had shown me Akira and Ninja Scroll, and the first anime I really bought was the Street Fighter movie (bought at Wal-Mart because I didn't know any better). Then I started picking up stuff like Gunsmith Cats, Cutie Honey and the Fatal Fury movie (second one, I think?).
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| Hungrywolf 2992th Post
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| "Re(6):What was your favorite anime in High Sc" , posted Sat 29 Jan 12:01
I should mention the show that got me into anime in the first place when I was in high school, Sailor Moon. Eventually I learned how horrid it had been cut up for American TV and now it's the only anime I must watch subtitled, but it did get me interested in anime. Also, I recorded some anime shown on Sci fi in High School that I watched a lot and liked. Iria: Zeiram the animation (I think I spelled that right; I've seen the live action too), Casshan: Robot Hunter (I loved it, I really want to see the live action movie), Vampire Hunter D (of course, I haven't seen the new one though), and Robot Carnival (which I thought was great, I wish I had it on DVD).
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| Sano 1415th Post
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| "Re(7):What was your favorite anime in High Sc" , posted Sat 29 Jan 12:03:
Robotech I watched when I was in Junior High and loved Anime ever since. Mospeda/New Generation is still my favorite. Voltron I watched when I was younger, but Voltron was like a fad everyone forgot about quickly.
By the time I got into High School, we all had Anime Movies we would lend to each other and tape since I went to an Art High School and all. This was before people started subtitling stuff on the whole, so most of the time we watched stuff in straight up Japanese. That was around the time I saw Akira in English and was blown away. I also watched Dragon Warrior on TV and finished watching the series in Japanese under Dragon Quest. I saw the Fist of the North Star Movie first in Japanese and later in English. And then I discovered Dragon Ball Z, and got a few of their movies in straight up Japanese. An Asian friend took me to my first Japanese bookstore and I would buy lots of Dragon Ball Mangas there even though I couldn't read them because I was wowed by Toriyama's Artwork. Since I'm Latino, every time I went in there the store owner seemed like he'd never seen a non Japanese in the store, back then it wasn't as common as it is today. He would say. "Hey, are you okay? This is Japanese bookstore!" But eventually he got used to me since I frequented the store lots until it closed down.
When I got into College, that's when I discovered... Fan Subs! I was surprised at every single thing I guessed wrong in my Dragon Ball Movies! I began renting Ranma 1/2 and became such a huge fan I started buying the series in English once I had money, buying the US comic, and buying more Ranma Japanese Mangas so I could see how everything would turn out! And eventually, I grew to prefer subtitles over dubs, but I used to like dubs more, now I can't stand them for the most part.
Anyway, those were really good times. I was a Capcom fanboy in High School because of Megaman, early in college I got more into Street Fighter because of the SF2 Animated Movie and SF2V, and then became more of a fan of the games, the artwork, and so on. Rurouni Kenshin I didn't discover until late in my second college.
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| Lupin 2887th Post
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| "Re(6):What was your favorite anime in High Sc" , posted Sat 29 Jan 17:24:
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Well, early high school it was Evangelion, Escaflowne, Rurouni Kenshin and Slayers (what was wrong with me?).
I think it's good that you can ask that now (No, really; that your tastes have changed to where you can now ask that.) ;)
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Late highschool...I kinda got burned out.I was mostly into manga (as I am now).
Seems quite a lot of people started with the animation then lost interest in the animation and moved into comics.
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Goldorak, AKA Grendizer.
Red wins the thread cup
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What was your favorite anime or manga that you liked in high school or just before high school?
Around that time I rented Akira, Urotsukidouji, Bubblegum Crisis, & etc. from Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avery, and some other people who are less famous. I rented every Japanese animation in that store, some many many times. That was like the first place ever with a Japanese specific animation section. Also they had hard to find Fritz the Cat which you had to put like a $150 deposit on to rent.
Later in high school time I discovered that I could send video tapes and or gifts to fan subbers in exchange for subbed tapes. On a good day you could send them a tape they hadn't subbed & they'd send you a sub... sometimes a year or two later.
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What was your favorite
Oh my favorite... At different times they were probably Akira, Urusei Yatsura, Vampire Hunter D, Vampire Princess Miyu... For a while in high school I would come home and watch Arslan almost every day, with bizare describable results.
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| Mokona
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| "Re(10):What was your favorite anime in High S" , posted Sun 30 Jan 23:23
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Ulysse 31.
Yeah, I was watching that when I was 6 years old or so.
Along with the other incredibly great europe/japan anime cooperations of that time, like The Mysterious Cities of Gold (still considered one of the best anime series ever, if not the best, in my book)
I also loved Sherlock Hound, Saint Seiya, of course Grendizer (aka goldorak in France, but I was more like 2 or 3, since it started airing in France 1 year before I was born, I had to watch reruns, lol), both Harlock series (78 and 84), Hector Malo's "Rémi sans famille" was a great depressing story, of course, more western stuff like Transformers and M.A.S.K. Later on, in High School, it was more City Hunter, Ranma½, Fushigi no Umi no Nadia... When I got to college, I had forgotten a bit about anime and rediscovered it with Eva, Lodoss, Slayers, great stuff. This is where I discovered Miyazaki's movies, and it was love at first sight! Then, it escalated with more series, the dicovery of Jrock and Jpop, and visual kei.
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| HAYATO 253th Post
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| "Re(5):Re(10):What was your favorite anime in" , posted Tue 1 Feb 01:12
The series that really got me into all these manga/anime thing was "Fist of the North Star". It represented everything I always wanted to see in a comic, and came to me in a time where I was tired of american comic books, and was unimpressed by its endless superhero stories. Of course I have always been interested in anime and such, because my country's child TV shows were mainly based on japanes series, but Hokuto no Ken was the first one that I really cared about. It came to Spain only in comic form, but it impressed me in such a way I collected all the volumes that were released here (14 and a half, just till Rao's death), and even the remaining ones in japanese!!! For the ones that know me, they know how much this means coming from me...
So many years have passed since I finished High School, and although I discovered my true passion was Araki's JoJo series, Hokuto no Ken will remain in my heart forever, as "the first one", and also as the one who led me to JoJo (when I saw some pics from JoJo 2 and Capcom's PSX game, I thought it was a game based on a Tetsuo Hara series). HnK will have a undying fan in me for the rest of my days...
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"Re(1):Question for anime fans 30 yrs and up" , posted Fri 28 Jan 16:37
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