The All-New, All-Different Bore Anime & Manga Thread!

[Great Rumbler]

Wait wait wait, every episode past episode 2 of High School of the Dead is for PREMIUM subscribers only? Uh, yeah, die in a fire Anime Network.

[Purple Filth]

Wait wait wait, every episode past episode 2 of High School of the Dead is for PREMIUM subscribers only? Uh, yeah, die in a fire Anime Network.

 

[Himu]

SMH

[Great Rumbler]

You just lost a sale, Anime Network!

[Joe Molotov]

You don't need a premium membership at TokyoTosho.

[Great Rumbler]

Here's some thoughts on the new stuff this season:

Shiki - Gothic-lolita horror anime! But it's actually pretty good, outside of the fact that some of the male characters looked inexplicably ripped straight out of some bishounen series. It's got that creepy rural town feel of Higurashi, but without the mood swings between playful slice-of-life and completely psycho. It looks pretty good and seems to be building up an interesting mystery, centering around a series of bizarre deaths and a European-style castle. Not great so far, but we'll see.

Occult Academy - If Sam Raimi made an anime series, it would probably be something like this. Maya, the daughter of a private school principal, shows up late to her father's funeral, just in time to see his corpse reanimated by a lamia. The school has a reputation for this sort of thing and Maya wants to put a stop to it for good. Unfortunately, there's also a time agent from the future that wants to stop aliens from taking over the world and who believes that the school is at the center of the whole thing. There are also other shady things going on. It's fairly over the top and doesn't take itself too seriously which, for the most part, works in the show's favor.

High School of the Dead - Zombies attack a school and the students fight back. If that excites you, then this is your show. If you're bored of zombies, don't bother. Easy as that.

Asobi ni Iku Yo - I really want to like this show, I really do. Because it really feels like the creators are trying to make this show more than it is. Unfortunately, they aren't entirely successful. The setup is that an airheaded cat girl alien with huge breasts comes to Earth to have fun and ends up living with a bland, personality-free male character that wouldn't stand out in a lineup of one. The male character also has a hot female friend, an emotionless female friend, and a female teacher. Normally I'd have shut this off after the first minute. But, get this, his hot female friend is actually a gun-nut bounty hunter, his teacher works for some shadowy corporation on the side, and his emotionless friend is some kind of living weapon. Yeah. Also, the first few minutes consistent of a cool scifi battle where lots of modern-day pirates get totally jacked up. So...ehh...I really want them to ditch the idiotic harem nonsense and the awful male character, but that probably won't happen.

[Purple Filth]

Here's some thoughts on the new stuff this season:

Shiki - Gothic-lolita horror anime! But it's actually pretty good, outside of the fact that some of the male characters looked inexplicably ripped straight out of some bishounen series. It's got that creepy rural town feel of Higurashi, but without the mood swings between playful slice-of-life and completely psycho. It looks pretty good and seems to be building up an interesting mystery, centering around a series of bizarre deaths and a European-style castle. Not great so far, but we'll see.

Occult Academy - If Sam Raimi made an anime series, it would probably be something like this. Maya, the daughter of a private school principal, shows up late to her father's funeral, just in time to see his corpse reanimated by a lamia. The school has a reputation for this sort of thing and Maya wants to put a stop to it for good. Unfortunately, there's also a time agent from the future that wants to stop aliens from taking over the world and who believes that the school is at the center of the whole thing. There are also other shady things going on. It's fairly over the top and doesn't take itself too seriously which, for the most part, works in the show's favor.

Been hearing about Occult for a while so i may just check it out and maybe shiki also.

[bork]

Asobi ni Iku Yo - I really want to like this show, I really do. Because it really feels like the creators are trying to make this show more than it is. Unfortunately, they aren't entirely successful. The setup is that an airheaded cat girl alien with huge breasts comes to Earth to have fun and ends up living with a bland, personality-free male character that wouldn't stand out in a lineup of one. The male character also has a hot female friend, an emotionless female friend, and a female teacher. Normally I'd have shut this off after the first minute. But, get this, his hot female friend is actually a gun-nut bounty hunter, his teacher works for some shadowy corporation on the side, and his emotionless friend is some kind of living weapon. Yeah. Also, the first few minutes consistent of a cool scifi battle where lots of modern-day pirates get totally jacked up. So...ehh...I really want them to ditch the idiotic harem nonsense and the awful male character, but that probably won't happen.

I posted about this on a previous page.  Really liked the first episode because I was completely unaware (and pleasantly surprised) that this wasn't just some dumb harem show, and liked how things would get shadowy/serious the way they did.

But I don't know if it will be able to hold my attention long-term.  Now that the surprise factor is gone, is this show going to be interesting enough to keep watching?  Have yet to watch episode 2.  I still applaud them for doing SOMETHING different with the beyond-tired harem-fan-service-uguu formula, but would it have hurt to put in like one other main male character besides Mr. cliche typical Japanese generic high school student?

[Great Rumbler]

but would it have hurt to put in like one other main male character besides Mr. cliche typical Japanese generic high school student?

That's become like the buzz words that make my brain instantly shut off.

*picks up manga/anime to read synopsis* "A typical high school student..." *brain shuts off* *manga/anime automatically goes back on the shelf* "Hmm...now what was I looking for again? Oh yeah, Dudebro Mecha."

[bork]

Also while the alien chick had zero depth and seemed to exist solely as fan service, it kind of came off like that's the whole point...that character is completely innocent and everyone else wants to take her out for various reasons.  Uguu-MOEEEE~ haters will love that the teacher's mercenary faction wants to kill(?) her because they don't want the first alien earth encounters to be some big-tittied bimbo.   

but would it have hurt to put in like one other main male character besides Mr. cliche typical Japanese generic high school student?

That's become like the buzz words that make my brain instantly shut off.

*picks up manga/anime to read synopsis* "A typical high school student..." *brain shuts off* *manga/anime automatically goes back on the shelf* "Hmm...now what was I looking for again? Oh yeah, Dudebro Mecha."

I blame Tenchi Muyo! for it.  Before that, even the harem-style shows had interesting leads with personality.  Look at Urusei Yatsura and Ranma 1/2, and then look at the garbage that followed them.   

I did like Keitaro in Love Hina though.  He at least didn't come off as entirely generic.

[Himu]

You blame Tenchi for boring leads? While Tenchi was a student, he wasn't really typical. You could say the same thing about Ranma. "Typical student gains the power to turn into a chick!"

Tenchi is hardly at fault here, though it did help popularize the current harem genre. That along with Love Hina and Ah My Goddess.

[bork]

You blame Tenchi for boring leads? While Tenchi was a student, he wasn't really typical.

He was boring as shit.  Zero personality.  All of the females had varied personalities and traits.  All of the males in the show were just sort of there.  But I have to throw up a disclaimer-- I never saw the original Tenchi Muyo OVA series.  I saw the TV series that retconned some stuff, so if they made him personality-devoid after the OVA series, I wouldn't know.

You could say the same thing about Ranma. "Typical student gains the power to turn into a chick!"

 

Ranma was a typical student?  Have you ever read/watched Ranma 1/2?  SMH Himu, WTF?   

Ranma 1/2 had no normal characters.  NOBODY.  That's what made it great.  Urusei Yatsura was the same way.  Rumiko Takahashi knows how to make zany, memorable characters.

Tenchi is hardly at fault here, though it did help popularize the current harem genre. That along with Love Hina and Ah My Goddess.

I forgot about Ah My Goddess.  That has the same problem, although it did have a couple of fun supporting male characters.  Love Hina came much later than Tenchi and AMG though.  Those two were early-90s...Love Hina was at the end of the decade.  Interesting side-note to that, before he did Love Hina, the author released a manga series about some computer wiz-kid student-type (also pretty much devoid of personality...shock!) that was a total AMG rip-off, except instead of being goddesses, the female characters were computer programs brought to life.  I think it was released here as "A.I. Love You."

[Himu]

I wouldn't say that Tenchi is normal at all. he attends school, but he's also the prince of an alien planet and has crazy sword powers. Tenchi is anything but normal. I don't think you've seen Tenchi in a while. The father is eccentric and batty, the grandfather is the most normal character on the show and he's an alien prince.

When I think of "normal" I think of Keitaro from Love Hina.

I haven't read Ranma in ages. I can't remember anything because Ranma is just that: forgettable.

You haven't seen the ova then that would explain it, because my idea of Tenchi is something different then.

[Great Rumbler]

Ranma and Tenchi has more interesting male leads than what passes for a male lead these days, I'll certainly give them that.

[Himu]

I agree with that. I like that Tenchi is the voice of reason in Tenchi. I don't think everything needs to be Kurogure Orange Road or Urusei Yatsura.

[Himu]

Man, I forgot how BALLS TO THE WALL Tenchi ova is. But the story just ENDS.

[youtube=560,345]kN1YYyR5jD4[/youtube]

[Great Rumbler]

Tenchi was probably where the trend got started though. He still had personality, but he was a much more grounded/normal figure, especially compared to everyone around him. But, today it's gone so far in that direction that male characters have become little more than an ineffectual, inoffensive blank slate to act more as an avatar for the lonely otaku audience than as an actual character with personality traits, hopes and dreams, hobbies, and so on.

Man, I think it's been nearly a decade since I watch anything Tenchi Muyo.

[bork]

I wouldn't say that Tenchi is normal at all. he attends school, but he's also the prince of an alien planet and has crazy sword powers. Tenchi is anything but normal. I don't think you've seen Tenchi in a while. The father is eccentric and batty, the grandfather is the most normal character on the show and he's an alien prince.

And yet they were all pretty subdued and booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooring.  I stand by my statement.

When I think of "normal" I think of Keitaro from Love Hina.

He had some personality and actually grew a bit as a character, but yes, he's definitely generic.

I haven't read Ranma in ages. I can't remember anything because Ranma is just that: forgettable.

LOL HIMU.  You remember TENCHI but not RANMA? 

Ranma is a martial artist (and his "art" is far from typical...remember "anything-goes martial arts?").  He's a huge fucking jerk.  He's a selfish prick.  He has various rivals, mostly from some of the selfish or dumb (or both) shit he did in the past.  He's hardly the generic, quiet, average-student type that plagues so many series today.  Once again, nobody in Ranma 1/2 is.  It was all over the place with zany characters right up until the end.

You haven't seen the ova then that would explain it, because my idea of Tenchi is something different then.

...Or it's been a while since you saw Tenchi.     Did you watch the TV series?  I never read that they changed his personality.  I was just throwing that out there.  I watched the first two (I think) Tenchi seasons (I didn't watch all of Tenchi In Tokyo...got completely tired of it by that point), saw the two movies, and read pretty much all of the manga series, which was published well after the TV stuff had come and gone.  He was boring.  He was an object for Ayeka and Ryoko to fight over, and he would occasionally do something that would make you go "oh yeah, he's still here."  Tenchi Muyo was all about its female characters.  Period.

[bork]

Tenchi was probably where the trend got started though. He still had personality, but he was a much more grounded/normal figure, especially compared to everyone around him. But, today it's gone so far in that direction that male characters have become little more than an ineffectual, inoffensive blank slate to act more as an avatar for the lonely otaku audience than as an actual character with personality traits, hopes and dreams, hobbies, and so on.

Man, I think it's been nearly a decade since I watch anything Tenchi Muyo.

Yeah, its gotten to the point where your average male main character is nothing but an object (worse so than Tenchi ever was) for the female cast to fight over.  They give some reason why the females all want the character, despite him boring as boring as dirt, and your typical, cliche "wackiness" ensues.  HEY LET'S FIGHT OVER HIM ON THE SCHOOL TRIP!  HEY LET'S FIGHT OVER HIM DURING THE GENERIC BEACH/POOL EPISODES LOOK A MY SWIMSUIT IS IT KAWAII?!  HEY IT'S THE XMAS EPISODE I WANNA GIVE HIM PUREZENTO!  HEY IT'S VALENTINES DAY I CAN'T COOK BUT I WILL TRY TO MAKE CHOCO!

Snore.

I miss 80s and 90s anime.   :'(  Even Tenchi.   

[Himu]

I don't remember much about Ranma. It's been a while. =/ All I know is that Takahashi draws her manga out for far too long. By the time I got to the tenth volume of Ranma I was bored out of my skull.

You should watch the ova of Tenchi. In that, I wouldn't say that Tenchi isn't way out there like you want, but he's obviously the center of the story.

Tenchi Universe, not so much.

[Purple Filth]

He had some personality and actually grew a bit as a character, but yes, he's definitely generic.

The only thing that urked me with this was that he became the clone of another character in the end. Other from that he was okay

[Great Rumbler]

I recall the first Tenchi Muyo movie [In Love] being my favorite of the Tenchi franchise.

[Himu]

Tenchi in Love is amazing.

[Great Rumbler]

I first watched it when it came on the Scifi Channel back in the late 90's.

[Himu]

man scifi channel was the SHIT back then.  I want a whole list of the stuff they played because I've forgotten a lot.

ROUJIN-Z

PROJECT A-KO

IRIA

Sci-fi anime Saturdays, Dragonball Z, Rurouni Kenshin, and Gundam Wing are what made me an anime fan.

Ah..the days when I'd get bootleg Rurouni Kenshin vhs tapes...

[Purple Filth]

 Toonami, Rurouni Kenshin Samurai X, and Gundam Wing are what made me an anime fan.

fixed for me.

early Toonami  :'( :'( :'(

[Himu]

Toonami too omg

but DBZ and GW were the standouts for me.

Okay, and Sailor Moon too.

[Purple Filth]

So sad when it was put to rest (although it was garbage and nowhere near the Glory days)  :'(

[Himu]

Voltron omg

Ronin Warriors omg

SAILOR MOON yeah that's right OMG

[Himu]

I remember a big episode of Sailor Moon was gonna air one day.

And my dad took me to see Titan AE, so I missed it.

Titan AE sucked.

All I remember was,"I missed Sailor Moon for this shit?!?!?!"

[Purple Filth]

I remember a big episode of Sailor Moon was gonna air one day.

And my dad took me to see Titan AE, so I missed it.

Titan AE sucked.

All I remember was,"I missed Sailor Moon for this shit?!?!?!"

a big surprise for me was when i heard that Sailor Moon had lesbian characters  

[Himu]

I read that online and I was like,"Wow Japanese cartoons are so much better! They tackle complex issues!!!!"

Ah, 14 year old me go fuck a kite

[magus]

real talk

i loved slayer when i was a little kid but watching it now,it just seems a little too slow paced,like "WE NEED AT LEAST 5 EPISODE TO KILL THIS BAD GUY!"

[bork]

He had some personality and actually grew a bit as a character, but yes, he's definitely generic.

The only thing that urked me with this was that he became the clone of another character in the end. Other from that he was okay

Yeah, but I didn't mind that just because it was at the very end.  A lot of the characters "grew" to replace other ones.  The new girl that came to the Hinata dorm was basically a female Keitaro, and the same wackiness he went through was starting all over again.  It was just a way to show that it was a weird place and this stuff would continue on.  Fun ending.

I recall the first Tenchi Muyo movie [In Love] being my favorite of the Tenchi franchise.

Tenchi in Love is amazing.

Yes, I do remember enjoying it.  Still have the DVD!

I first watched it when it came on the Scifi Channel back in the late 90's.

Bought on DVD as soon as it was released.  No waiting for shit on Sci-Fi...I was a full-on anime nerd back then!

man scifi channel was the SHIT back then.  I want a whole list of the stuff they played because I've forgotten a lot.

ROUJIN-Z

PROJECT A-KO

IRIA

Sci-fi anime Saturdays, Dragonball Z, Rurouni Kenshin, and Gundam Wing are what made me an anime fan.

Ah..the days when I'd get bootleg Rurouni Kenshin vhs tapes...

Ranma is what made me a fan.  Prior to that I'd read some other manga and seen Akira, but in 1992 I found Ranma 1/2 in my brother's comic box and was instantly hooked.  At the end of '92, Viz released the first Ranma 1/2 TV series tape (two episodes FOR ONLY $34.99, what a bargain!   ), Ranma 1/2 OVA (We were like "who the hell are all these characters!?"  Some of them didn't pop up in the English-translated releases until like a decade later.  Crazy shit.), and DTMC released the second Ranma 1/2 SNES fighting game all around the same time.  I went fucking nuclear over this.     Back then just one new tape release was an event.  Comic shops had very few releases and rental shops/stores had even less.  Media Play was the biggest in the mid-90's with its "Japanimation" section.  They used to put the hentai out with the regular stuff.  Nobody paid any attention to it.

My dad had a comic shop from '93-'95, and during that period I got just about every single anime release that came out on VHS.  Everything.  I would go to the comic distributor with my dad or another store employee and literally empty the new release shelves into a shopping cart.  Shit was half off for us so my dad let me go nuts.  I have never been so spoiled like I was back then.  We easily purchased about $400-$500 worth of comics and tapes every month back then.

It's been a long time since I saw Iria.  They had a decent (at least at the time; it's probably aged horribly) beat-em-up on PSOne based on it called "Zeiram Zone."

[bork]

I read that online and I was like,"Wow Japanese cartoons are so much better! They tackle complex issues!!!!"

Ah, 14 year old me go fuck a kite

Eh, compare them to the crappy LET'S SELL TOYS!!! toons we got and it's true.

[Himu]

I can't hate on Slayers. I just can't!

[magus]

this bit about slayers always struck me as the zenith of it and even today it's still like the most funny thing ever
[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

[Himu]

Eh, well it's obvious to me that a lot of mecha anime, specifically Gundam anime, are made to sell toys too.

[Himu]

Ranma is what made me a fan.  Prior to that I'd read some other manga and seen Akira, but in 1992 I found Ranma 1/2 in my brother's comic box and was instantly hooked.  At the end of '92, Viz released the first Ranma 1/2 TV series tape (two episodes FOR ONLY $34.99, what a bargain!   ), Ranma 1/2 OVA (We were like "who the hell are all these characters!?"  Some of them didn't pop up in the English-translated releases until like a decade later.  Crazy shit.), and DTMC released the second Ranma 1/2 SNES fighting game all around the same time.  I went fucking nuclear over this.     Back then just one new tape release was an event.  Comic shops had very few releases and rental shops/stores had even less.  Media Play was the biggest in the mid-90's with its "Japanimation" section.  They used to put the hentai out with the regular stuff.  Nobody paid any attention to it.

My dad had a comic shop from '93-'95, and during that period I got just about every single anime release that came out on VHS.  Everything.  I would go to the comic distributor with my dad or another store employee and literally empty the new release shelves into a shopping cart.  Shit was half off for us so my dad let me go nuts.  I have never been so spoiled like I was back then.  We easily purchased about $400-$500 worth of comics and tapes every month back then.

It's been a long time since I saw Iria.  They had a decent (at least at the time; it's probably aged horribly) beat-em-up on PSOne based on it called "Zeiram Zone."

My father was a fan of DBZ so we'd get tapes whenever they came out. 30 bucks a tape for roughly 3-5 eps a tape for the "uncut" versions, 20 bucks for the cut versions.

But by that point, I was full into anime nerd mode and I needed more. So my friend lemme borrow his bootleg Kenshin tapes and the rest was history.

Then eventually more and more friends started getting into. So we'd buy a few tapes of series and swap, and then the next person would buy the next batch and we'd swap until we all saw the whole thing. Goddamn those were the DAYS.

[bork]

Eh, well it's obvious to me that a lot of mecha anime, specifically Gundam anime, are made to sell toys too.

Certainly, but so much of the anime that came out back then was not.  We didn't even have Gundam until like 1999, so it's irrelevant.  I am talking strictly 80s and 90s anime.

[bork]

I got some bootleg DBZ tapes on a trip to NYC in '95.  I had no idea who the hell anyone was (they all looked the same!), but hey, there was fighting and the subbers added in lots of swear words, so it was awesome.   

Back then, I went nuts for:

-Anything Rumiko (Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku, Ranma 1/2, One Pound Gospel, Mermaid, Rumic World)
-Outlanders and Caravan Kidd (it's sad that Johji Manabe is a hentai artist these days)
-Fist Of The North Star
-Battle Angel Alita
-Riding Bean and later Gunsmith Cats
-Bubblegum Crisis
-The Dirty Pair (it's crazy to think that Adam Warren and Toren Smith did an American comic version in 1989!)
-The Sorcerer Hunters
-Ninja Scroll (It's the real Samurai Shodown movie!)
-Anything Masamune Shirow (Appleseed, Dominion Tank Police, Ghost In The Shell, although with the latter I found the movie version incredibly boring)
-The Street Fighter II anime movie
-And of course, Akira.  Akira was the first time I remember a Japanese cartoon being advertised for being "mature" and not localized for the kiddies/western audiences.  Everyone remembers "Leonardo" as Kaneda.  The Streamline dub is still my favorite version of the movie, just because it was burned into my brain as a wee third grader.

Ranma was easily the biggest thing back then.  It was the most-popular manga and anime by far.  You had the comics, tapes, calenders, posters, and t-shirts.  I had them all.    And yet its popularity pales in comparison to the likes of Sailor Moon and Dragonball, which would come over here later.

[Himu]

This whole discussion has gotten me to re-read Kimagure Orange Road.

I may even start re-reading Love Hina just for the hell of it. It was one of, if not the first manga I got into. The other being Kenshin. And I want to compare my tastes to 16 year old Himu tastes.

[bork]

I only watched the first season of Slayers, part of the second, the OVAs, and the movie.  At one point I downloaded a mega-torrent that had everything, but found it hard to watch the TV series again.  Still have the movie and some of the OVAs on DVD. 

The funny thing about Ranma is that I never did read/watch everything, despite being so fond of it.  I missed maybe the last 3 volumes of the manga (I would patiently wait for the Viz translations; years ago a group of fans got together and translated all the remaining volumes that would take Viz like another 8 years to finish releasing and uploaded them, but I held my ground for whatever reason) and stopped with the anime series a few seasons in.  The anime version gets pretty bad, though.  The animation quality suffered and they would replace certain characters with others or omit them entirely.  The manga is where it's at, which is almost always the case anyway.

[Himu]

Jesus Christ, I couldn't afford that much. I relied on stuff that was on tv, bootleg tapes from friends or at local comic shops, or for my friends and I to do the "buy one volume, you buy the next volume and we trade" shtick.

[Purple Filth]

My father was a fan of DBZ so we'd get tapes whenever they came out. 30 bucks a tape for roughly 3-5 eps a tape for the "uncut" versions, 20 bucks for the cut versions.

But by that point, I was full into anime nerd mode and I needed more. So my friend lemme borrow his bootleg Kenshin tapes and the rest was history.

Then eventually more and more friends started getting into. So we'd buy a few tapes of series and swap, and then the next person would buy the next batch and we'd swap until we all saw the whole thing. Goddamn those were the DAYS.

I remember the days when a few friends of mine told me about uncut DBZ and no one believed them, including myself.

Then one carried the tapes, that day i t was fully confirmed that they edited a lot of crap before showing on TV.


its also funny that my local station actually carried Kenshin unedited way before Toonami came but i could hardly view an episode  

[bork]

Jesus Christ, I couldn't afford that much. I relied on stuff that was on tv, bootleg tapes from friends or at local comic shops, or for my friends and I to do the "buy one volume, you buy the next volume and we trade" shtick.

Again, I was spoiled as hell in the mid-90s from the family comic shop, and then in '96 I got a job.  The store I worked at also stated taking in anime VHS tapes (and later DVDs when they started coming out), so we'd borrow them from work and watch them.  Later on in the early part of the last decade, we'd stock bootleg DB/DBZ/DBGT tapes, so I watched just about everything on crappy fansub low-quality tapes over a summer and was done with Dragonball.

[magus]

my brother bought the whole manga set of videogirl ai

i remember we once bought this thing which was like jump and had several manga stories,one of them was gunsmith cats and i was like ultra-impressed by it,but i could never read the whole thing because we only bought that volume

another stuff we had was ghost whisperer mikami

[Great Rumbler]

man scifi channel was the SHIT back then.  I want a whole list of the stuff they played because I've forgotten a lot.

ROUJIN-Z

PROJECT A-KO

IRIA

I watched Dominion Tank Police, Odin Space Sailor Starlight, Roujin-Z, Venus Wars, Tenchi Muyo In Love, Galaxy Express 999, Adieu Galaxy Express 999, Armitage III, and...uh...that's all I can remember off-hand.

[Himu]

iirc international channel played Kenshin.

I know they played DBZ raw, and Slayers with subs. DBZ raw was so BIZARRE. Why couldn't they air it subbed?

[bork]

My father was a fan of DBZ so we'd get tapes whenever they came out. 30 bucks a tape for roughly 3-5 eps a tape for the "uncut" versions, 20 bucks for the cut versions.

But by that point, I was full into anime nerd mode and I needed more. So my friend lemme borrow his bootleg Kenshin tapes and the rest was history.

Then eventually more and more friends started getting into. So we'd buy a few tapes of series and swap, and then the next person would buy the next batch and we'd swap until we all saw the whole thing. Goddamn those were the DAYS.

I remember the days when a few friends of mine told me about uncut DBZ and no one believed them, including myself.

Then one carried the tapes, that day i t was fully confirmed that they edited a lot of crap before showing on TV.


its also funny that my local station actually carried Kenshin unedited way before Toonami came and i was like "holy shit" 

You could always check out Dragonball Z on Spanish TV stations way before Toonami was around, too.   

Remember how DBZ was when it first started?  Nobody died and instead went to "The Home For Infinite Losers."  I cringed every time they'd replace dialogue with someone being dead with "he's in another dimension!"   

[Himu]

The Ocean dub was so great. "Another dimension!"

[Himu]

DBZ in Spanish was so hilarious. They played it uncut too.


I would get up at 6 am every saturday morning to watch DBZ. It was the pre-Toonami days before it got really popular. I don't even know how I found out about it. I just got up early one day and was like WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS CARTOON?? and the rest is history.

That very year I got a playstation and final fantasy 7. I became a full fledged homojapual.

[magus]

here in italy they did dragonball z on 2000 and now they basicaly do it 24/24
when they run out of DBZ they start doing GT when they run out of GT they start doing the original and when they run out of the original they start with DBZ again,it's an infinite loop!

[bork]

Ph, forgot about Katsuhira's (?) stuff too.  Silent Moebius, Gunhed, and later the sadly-unpopular Steam Detectives.  Pretty cool that the guy was a huge Batman fan and he got to draw a comic for DC.

Dark Horse had some great stuff, too.  The Legend Of Mother-Sarah was about as un-uguu as you could get.

And Yukito Kishiro's other manga after Battle Angel, Aqua Knight, rocked.

my brother bought the whole manga set of videogirl ai

LOL, man...Katsura.  He sure liked his attention to detail...especially girls' asses.     I wasn't much for Video Girl AI (it dragged on and on, and when she got her memory erased I was done with it) and didn't get far into I's, but I LOVED Shadow Girl.  Forgot the name of his other series which had the time-traveler chick going back to the present to stop some nerdy kid with DBZ-hair from becoming the "mega playboy."

i remember we once bought this thing which was like jump and had several manga stories,one of them was gunsmith cats and i was like ultra-impressed by it,but i could never read the whole thing because we only bought that volume

another stuff we had was ghost whisperer mikami

I think Ghost Whisperer Mikami got like one tape/DVD release here.  Gunsmith Cats was great.  I loved how the Bean Bandit was brought back, but I still prefer Riding Bean to that manga series. The 80s rocked.   

[Purple Filth]

My father was a fan of DBZ so we'd get tapes whenever they came out. 30 bucks a tape for roughly 3-5 eps a tape for the "uncut" versions, 20 bucks for the cut versions.

But by that point, I was full into anime nerd mode and I needed more. So my friend lemme borrow his bootleg Kenshin tapes and the rest was history.

Then eventually more and more friends started getting into. So we'd buy a few tapes of series and swap, and then the next person would buy the next batch and we'd swap until we all saw the whole thing. Goddamn those were the DAYS.

I remember the days when a few friends of mine told me about uncut DBZ and no one believed them, including myself.

Then one carried the tapes, that day i t was fully confirmed that they edited a lot of crap before showing on TV.


its also funny that my local station actually carried Kenshin unedited way before Toonami came and i was like "holy shit" 

You could always check out Dragonball Z on Spanish TV stations way before Toonami was around, too.   

Remember how DBZ was when it first started?  Nobody died and instead went to "The Home For Infinite Losers."  I cringed every time they'd replace dialogue with someone being dead with "he's in another dimension!"   

didn't have any Spanish channels.

Before the tapes this is what one on my friends (he didn't believe at first until he got to watch them) used to defend himself about uncut DBZ and i still didn't believe it.

After realizing the uncut thing was true i finally saw a spanish broadcast version 


as for these:

"The Home For Infinite Losers."  "he's in another dimension!" it was the internet that educated me on this (even showing how the "HFIL" on the demon's shirts were actually "HELL"  )

DBZ in Spanish was so hilarious. They played it uncut too.


I would get up at 6 am every saturday morning to watch DBZ. It was the pre-Toonami days before it got really popular. I don't even know how I found out about it. I just got up early one day and was like WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS CARTOON?? and the rest is history.

It was actually on FOX Network at those early times  but Toonami was what made it crazy popular.

[Himu]

I would get online and look at dbz summary sites and SPOIL THE ENTIRE SERIES for myself just so I could know wtf happens next due to the awful delays. Then I could be the biggest dbz fan at school because hey, I have the internet!

Did the same thing with wrestling. I would go online, find that week's wrestling spoils, read them, and tell my friends what was going to happen.

"HOW DID YOU KNOW?"

"Ehhhhhhh I don't tell people my secrets"

[Great Rumbler]

Even back when DBZ first came out I didn't like it very much.  

I was a Sailor Moon fan.

[Himu]

I was a Sailor Moon fan too!

[bork]

I knew about the heavy censoring in DBZ just from the bootlegs I'd seen years earlier.  The original DBZ dubs really put me off and I didn't watch the series until around fall of '99, I think it was.  Whenever Toonami had the Midnight Run, I'd watch DBZ "Uncut" and Gundam Wing. 

That was also when animu-otakus started coming around in full force, and I wouldn't tell anyone that I liked anime.   

Couldn't get into Sailor Moon.  The comic's art style made it really fucking hard to follow.  Same thing with another shoujo series called "Vampire Princess Miyu." 

[Great Rumbler]

I was a Sailor Moon fan too!

Tuxedo Mask!

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He's so DREAMY! *swoon*

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