30 Days of Anime: Day 1

[sara_tanaquil]

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/

Comments

[mangaroo.livejournal.com]

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!

[photoash.livejournal.com]

<3 fun!!!

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

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...)

[spacealien-vamp.livejournal.com]

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...)

[cienna.livejournal.com]

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

[manga-crow.livejournal.com]

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 =)

[collarnojutsu.livejournal.com]

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. ;)

[collarnojutsu.livejournal.com]

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.

[collarnojutsu.livejournal.com]

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.)