sara_tanaquil | 30 Days of Anime: Day 1

I usually hate memes, but this one is too much fun to resist! Also, it is almost summer, I have only a few more papers to grade, and this journal has been far too full of bitterness and grousing of late.

Day 1 - Very first anime
Day 2 - Favorite anime You’ve watched so far
Day 3 - Your first anime crush
Day 4 - Anime you’re ashamed you enjoyed
Day 5 - Anime character you feel you are most like (or wish you were)
Day 6 - Most annoying anime character
Day 7 - Favorite anime couple
Day 8 - Most epic scene ever
Day 9 - Saddest anime scene
Day 10 - Favorite slice of life anime
Day 11 - Favorite mecha series
Day 12 - An ecchi picture from your favorite series
Day 13 - Cosplay of your ‘waifu’ or Husbando’
Day 14 - current (or most recent) anime wallpaper
Day 15 - Post a cute Neko-girl
Day 16 - post a kigurumi cosplay of your favorite anime character
Day 17 - Favorite tsundere
Day 18 - Something moe
Day 19 - Mandatory swimsuit post
Day 20 - Favorite shoujo anime
Day 21 - Best yandere character
Day 22 - Favorite BL/yuri couple
Day 23 - Anime you think had the best, or most intriguing art
Day 24 - Favorite anime hero or heroine
Day 25 - Best anime villian
Day 26 - Your favorite harem anime
Day 27 - Favorite anime opening theme song
Day 28 - Favorite pokemon
Day 29 - Favorite school uniform
Day 30 - Favorite anime ending theme

Day 1: Very first anime

Star Blazers!

Sue me, I was like twelve, ok?? I find it unwatchable now, but I used to get up at 6:30 in the morning for it then. The eyes! The unrealistic body proportions! The melodrama!

Properly speaking, I suppose I should call it the first anime I recognized as anime, since I was hooked on Speed Racer at age 6, but had no idea that wasn't American. This I knew was something different from the usual Saturday morning cartoons.

ETA Note to self: alternate list:
http://000.hidamarisou.net/blog/30-days-of-anime-terribad-meme/

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YAY! 30 days of stuff I can comment on. Well, okay, I can't comment on Star Blazers. 29 days of stuff I can comment on!

You could do your own meme! Or at least comment with it. What was your first?

Probably Speed Racer, but per the "you need to know it was anime and not a silly cartoon with a monkey" rule, [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohryuden:_Legend_of_the_Dragon_Kings]Sohryuden[/URL].

oops. My Sims forum addiction caused horrible bad uneditable markup.

Wow, I've never actually seen that anime! I thought it was only a novel series. Another one for me to add to my summer watch list. Where did you encounter it? (I encountered Star Blazers on network kids TV, of all places.)

I've never actually seen that anime! I thought it was only a novel series.

The Souryuuden anime was what inspired me to learn Japanese, because I wanted to find out what happened in the novels after the anime ended. You should have seen me with a pile of dictionaries, spending hours on each page.

Haha, yep, that's me and Koori. I should definitely check out Souryuuden, as a tribute to sensei, if nothing else.

The person who introduced me to anime and manga started me off with Sohryuden. (Hajime, the eldest brother, will be my answer for day #3.)

After watching and enjoying Sohryuden, I rented whatever was available from the local video stores. I lived in a good area for that: even though it was mostly Appleseed and Vampire Hunter D, they also had Kizuna. Then it was fansubs (also introduced by the person in the first sentence), then raws rented from the Japanese grocery store in SJ.

This was very useful, thanks. Saturday, I was wondering what I used to do to fill my time before Simming. I had forgotten how active anime and manga required you to be before commercial translations. Not only did I have to participate in fannish communities online, I had to leave the house to get tapes. (OMG! videotape!)

<3 fun!!!

Yay, I love 30 days memes! I don't know how I would answer like half of those questions, but it'll be fun to read your responses, even if I can't really play along much.

Today is a day that I can answer, though, so: Ranma 1/2! I usually say my first anime was Sailor Moon (and that was the first anime I really loved), but I'm pretty sure I saw Ranma first, because I borrowed some of the manga that my brother owned, and then rented some of it from a local comic shop.

(I found a 30 days of BL manga, maybe I should do that...)

(I found a 30 days of BL manga, maybe I should do that...)

Ooh, ooh, you should! (How did I not see that line before?)

To be honest, I've already been thinking about my responses for that one, so I will probably do it. But I did just get a shipment from Amazon, so I might not start right away.

Properly speaking, I suppose I should call it the first anime I recognized as anime, since I was hooked on Speed Racer at age 6, but had no idea that wasn't American.

Does Robotech count? (It wasn't until years after I first saw it that I learned it was originally Japanese.)

If not, then I'd have to list Gordian Warrior, which I watched dubbed in Spanish when I was 13 and lived in Costa Rica. I figured out it was Japanese because of the credit sequence. I copied down the characters in my diary in the hope that one day I'd figure out how to decipher them. I also memorized the sounds of the Japanese opening and ending theme songs, even though I didn't know what they meant, and I used those sounds as fantasy place names in the novel I was writing. (Somewhere in my parents' basement is a file folder with all my notes and maps with things like "Mount Takumashiku" scribbled on them...)

I would count Robotech, but by the time I saw it (on San Jose public TV, of all places, when I lived in CA), I knew Robotech was Japanese.

I'm so glad you linked to your 13-year-old exposure show. I've never heard of that. How many of those robot shows were there in the 80s?? (I love the idea of the file folder with Mount Takumashiku in it, never let them throw that out!)

Ooh, Speed Racer! I have vague memories of that! Might have to start doing this meme too. At least that would force me to post! XD

Yay! The Leiji-verse is full of win; though I do prefer Captain Harlock and Galaxy Express 999 =)

It quite funny to go back and realize how many of my early favorite cartoons were originally from Japan - Speed Racer, Voltron, Robotech - but my actual first anime I watched ended up being Battle Angel (and some black market hentai that I've never managed to track down the name of:p)

But yay for memes - I look forward to seeing the rest of this =)

May somehow always injects some infection of anime back into my heart, no doubt helped by Animazement, but your posting this meme is totally going to kill me. XD (I think I mean that in a good way?)

At current, I am torn between my weirdly sudden desire to re-watch YGO (mostly I think I want to relive the fandom I had though?), or starting up any of the gabillions of series in my backlog I was once dying to watch.

I'm tempted to do this meme, even if only because it will give me something to talk about, but I don't think I can commit to 30 days straight.. at least not until after AZ. ;)

My first actual, honest to goodness, this is something called "anime" was Bubblegum Crisis back in the early 90's, which my ~~gay boyfriend~~ friend showed me. Like most people past a certain age in the fandom, there were years of childhood cartoons (G-Force/Battle of the Planets, Voltron, etc) before that, but we didn't know they were "anime" then.

PS: I forgot to mention about a million times that the picture above is incredibly phallic and it's cracking me up every time I see it. I KNOW it's a ship but my eye catches it at all sorts of wrong angles. Yet, somehow, it's incredibly fitting for the audience here.... ;)

(Oh, great, now I'll have 3 comments in a row and it'll look like I'm lame.)

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