I guess I can 'blame' the new guy for this one, but I feel it's a good couple of questions to put forth.
#1. What is the name of the First japanese anime show you have seen? (English redubs are acceptable.)
#2. What is the name of the First fansubbed japanese anime you have seen?
...and to be fair, my answers.
The first anime show I has exposed to was 'Star Blazers' (Space Battleship Yamato English redub)
The first fansub anime for me was Video Girl Ai
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First Japanese anime I saw was probably Pokemon.
First *fansubs* I downloaded was Nanoha.
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waste."
First anime was probably Gatchaman, as Battle of the Planets, back in the late 70's. (Star Blazers came later and cemented my love of anime, but I've
told that story before.) I have earlier dim memories of watching an animated adaptation of Journey to the West, but I don't know if that was Chinese or
Japanese or what.
Fansubbed... the Macross '84 movie, I do believe.
--Sam
"Just an ordinary... love song..."
First anime... proooobably Speed Racer, rerun, I think. But what really registered was Robotech, via (originally) one of the McKinney novels - the third in the
Macross sequence, I think, the one where they land on Earth and Roy catches it.
I promptly went looking online for more info, and found the Third Invid War site, along with EPU's Robotech subsection.
First Fansub was, I think, Legend of the Galactic Heroes episodes 1-32... On VHS borrowed from a guy in the anime club my freshman year at college.
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"Yes, and it was glorious."
Back when I was in first grade or so, we had on UHF channel 14 a cartoon channel. Every weekday evening (I think it was either 7:00 or 7:30), they had
Robotech. I watched it religiously; going through the entire run, and some repeats.
As for first fansub, it would have been early in high school, one of the Slayers OAV
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The Twisted One
"If you
wish to converse with me, define your
terms."
--Voltaire
First Anime was "Battle of the Planets" - but I had no idea what Anime was then.
First Fansub was either Record of Lodoss War, Marmalade Boy or Secret of Blue Water. I can't remember the showing order of the university Anime club.
Battle of the Planets was my first anime, complete with US animation bastardization 7 Zark 7.
MY first "fansub" was a hentai sci-fi romp that the older brother of a friend had. I can't remember much more than that, though, given the poor
quality of fansubs at the time.
The poor innocent that I was... "But they're both girls...." and "@.@ What does 'Futanari' mean, Ronald?"
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
First anime I saw was Voltron, but the first anime I knew was anime was Robot Carnival on Sci-Fi
First Fansub... hrm... I'd say the first Eva movie... I not too long ago dumped the VHS I had it on heh
There is no coincidence, only necessity....
- Clow Reed
First anime I saw : Mazinger Z (in spanish)
First dub : Bubblegum Crisis
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First anime was probably Gatchaman, as Battle of the Planets, back in the late 70's. (Star Blazers came later and cemented my love of anime, but I've
told that story before.)
Battle of the Planets was airing at the same time as Star Blazers, just later in the day. (At least in the area where I grew up.) But waking up @ 0600 to watch
an ep. of S.B., then going back to bed must have had an absurd effect on me...
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I can't actually recall the first anime I ever saw, since it was likely on TV and simply blended in with every other cartoon, but the first one that I
recall watching was a subtitled Gunbuster video at a library movie showing.
I don't think I've ever actually seen any fansubbed anime.
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"Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV
First anime I saw was ... Robotech? I have dim memories of catching isolated eps of Battle of the Planets and Astroboy, but Robotech was the first I actually watched a lot of. Though Voltron was also around that time... Damn, it's been 20+ years, how am I supposed to remember? 8P
First anime that I knew was anime? Akira.
Like Shepherd, I don't think I have seen any fansubs.
edit to correct a memory fault. 8P
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The first anime I saw was Thunderbirds 2086 (Kagaku Kyujotai Techno Voyager), although I didn't know it was anime. (Edit: I wish somebody would release that on DVD. Hey, if Mysterious Cities of Gold can get a DVD release, anything's possible...)
The first anime that I knew was anime that I saw, and the first fansubbed anime I saw (some time before it was licenced), was Ranma 1/2.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Like many other here, the first anime I watched (instead of just saw bits and pieces of) was Robotech.
First fansubed anime I saw: Akira, I think.
-Terry
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Either Speed Racer or Kimba the White Lion, they both aired on a UHF station in LA in the 70's.
After that, not until college, when I rented a few sub'd hentai, didnt really get into the fansub/dub scene till a few years ago, with the live action
Sailor Moon.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by
Echo's Children
Quote: The first anime I saw was Thunderbirds 2086 (Kagaku Kyujotai Techno Voyager), although I didn't know it was anime. (Edit: I wish
somebody would release that on DVD. Hey, if Mysterious Cities of Gold can get a DVD release, anything's possible...)
Wow. That's one of the most unique "vectors" for entering anime fandom I've ever heard of! Where do you live? And man, I agree, I wish
they'd release Thunderbirds 2086/Technoboyger to DVD as well. Sad that such a thing has been all but forgotten.
It's not that unique. I too have my first anime being Thunderbirds 2086, although I didn't know it at the time. 85-ish IIRC, and I can remember seeing
it in Germany on the BFBC (no, that's NOT a typo). Oh, and dito on releasing it.
The first anime I knew was anime was the original release of Project A-Ko. First Fansub is a bit trickier, but I think it was Lost Universe, on CD from a
friend.
*grin* I see several people around here got started the same way that I did: Battle of the Planets, and yes, it was the one with 7-Zark-7.
Now, my first fansub came a LOT later, and is one that's a bit more unusual. Didn't start watching fansubs until the last few years, and the first one
I picked up was Cooking Master Boy.
In my case, I first saw Speed Racer in the early 70s. Then Battle of the Planets. (even back then I think I wanted 7-Zark-7 to die... "Stop TALKING and let's
get back to the good stuff!")
Ironically, Star Blazers took over the broadcast slot of Battle
of the Planets in the Dallas area! But the station was actually cool about it - they actually had promos for the new show and said when it would start
broadcasting. At first I was dissapointed to be losing BOTP. But THEN I saw the promos and WOW... I wanted to see what this new Star Blazers was all about. Star Blazers first broadcast in 1979, first Monday in
September, Labor Day in the states. A holiday. So not even school had the possibility of interfering.
I've waxed poetical about how this changed my life before, so... moving on.
It wasn't until Star Blazers came along that I started figuring out that these shows had a common source in Japan.
I was watching the end credits of Star Blazers one afternoon and noticed "Originally titled "Space Cruiser Yamato" in the credits. Along with all the Japanese names.
As I was into plastic model kits of things like WWII Battleships at the time, and the show even acknowledged in the story that the ship was originally a WWII
Battleship, I was intrigued. Not having heard of the Yamato before then, I did a little research (pre-internet - I had to look it up in the library!) and found
reference and pics of the original Battleship Yamato.
Anyway - moving along again, because I think I've mentioned how this all got me into Anime Fandom by 1983 before.
So - first fansub? Hmm...
That would have to be possibly the earliest fansub of all time. The subtitled Lupin III - Castle
Cagliostro that made the rounds of anime clubs and early "Japanimation" rooms at conventions in the early 80s. I don't know of any
subtitled anime that came before that one.
"Castle C" wasn't the best by far. The subtitles were a mono-colored white and even if the tape was an early-gen copy, the white lettering would
sometimes get lost in some of the backgrounds. Still! Better than nothing! And at most showings, early on, if you lost something, sometimes there was a
knowledgable fan who had seen the thing before in the room to explain what just happened.
The only other major fansubs during that period was the one they made for My Youth In Arcadia and
the 1984 Macross Do You Remember Love movie.
I can't exactly answer the first one -- I remember watching "Gigantor", "Astroboy", "Eighth Man" and "Speed Racer" all during the sixties; I think "Eighth Man" might have been the earliest, based on the fragments of memory, but I can't be sure.
Likewise, I can't rightly recall what the first fansub I saw would have been. Helen dosed us with lots of anime starting around 1992, and I can't remember which was first. Might have been Flame of Recca, might have been Fushigi Yuugi -- at least those are two of the oldest memories I have. Dragon Half is probably a contender, too.
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Well. For me, I can probably say the first I saw was either DBZ (on cartoon network, long long ago) or Pokemon, but even then only in short glimpses/fragments.
The first Fansub would be Nanoha, at Spud and Ops' urging (about a month ago, to date).
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Mmm.
First Anime: Robotech, like most people my age.
First sub: BGC, which a friend in college had and shared with me.
First fanfic: Dirty Pair, "The Ballad of Lord Robin".
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Hmm. First anime I saw was probably Astro Boy in the early 80s (also saw Robotech a couple years later). First anime I saw that I knew was anime was Project
A-ko, or maybe Guyver, in 1994 (or 1995?).
First fansub, huh?
(spit)
In seriousness, I don't know. I don't think I saw any until after 2000 and I can't recall what the first might have been. I watch very few of them,
to the surprise of noone who knows my opinion of them.
First fanfic - Oooh, good question. I know I saw some Ranma fanfics in high school that had been gotten off of RAAC or the equivalent at the time
(rec.arts.anime.stories, I think?). I remember March of the Pigs was pretty early on, but it wasn't the first. I'm pretty sure the first was one where
Ranma and friends were set in some sort of dystopian future. It wasn't Ranma 2099, and I can't recall the title off the top of my head, but I do
remember that it stuck with me at the time due to the novelty of the notion (to me) of taking the characters and putting them into a completely different
setting.
The first anime I saw was either Voltron or Robotech, but the first anime I saw and knew it was anime was Sailor Moon.
The first fansub I saw was Nausicaa, and that was the movie that got me truly interested in anime.
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Honou Productions.
Like several others here, I recall seeing bits and pieces of Speed Racer, Star Blazers, and Battle of the Planets (I also saw the
opening or closing credits of Kimba once while flipping through channels). I have to admit, I wasn't enormously impressed with what I saw of any
of them -- I was negatively impressed with Speed Racer. There were a few others the names of which I didn't catch. I don't
believe I realized at the time that any of them were Japanese products. I didn't start to have a favorable impression of anime until I saw some of
Robotech, which caught my attention enough to make me look for more. Imagine my surprise when I learned how widely the Macek "translation"
is reviled.
First fansub? Ummm, well, actually, I'm pretty sure the first fansub I ever saw was the 3rd season 12th episode of Zero no Tsukaima, earlier this
month. And I only saw that because somebody linked an entry on TVTropes Wiki to it.
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