Sometime in the early to mid 90s, I woke up in the middle of the night, turned the TV on, and like you, I was mesmerized by what I was seeing. It was Robot Carnival. Been a fan of anime ever since.
Thanks to Adult Swim and Toonami it feels like I’ve been watching anime for as long as I can remember. I spent many Saturday nights staying up until 1:00AM watching Inuyasha and Samurai Champloo. However, my most memorable encounter with anime was this one night when I was just flipping through channels and found one that I’d never come across before. Within seconds I recognized that what I was watching was undoubtedly anime but it was way more graphic than anything I’d seen prior. That night I ended up watching the last hour or so of Akira followed by the Baki the Grappler OVA from the 90s. Seeing that mutation scene as like an 8 year old was MIND BLOWING…
In my country, Argentina, anime was around all the time, even when no one called it "anime": Astroboy, Heidi, Speed Racer, Captain Tsubasa and several more were always on TV on the 80's. There were also some uncensored really cruel and violent animes airing during the 80's: Minashigo Hatchi (Honeybee Hutch) and Kerokko Demetan (Demetan the Frog), where in every episode someone died or was tortured, that maybe escaped censorship by the fact that they were insects and pond animals and the lack of blood, but mothers at that time were really worried about their children crying in front of TV's, haha.
Tell me about the first time you stumbled across anime!
Sometime in the early to mid 90s, I woke up in the middle of the night, turned the TV on, and like you, I was mesmerized by what I was seeing. It was Robot Carnival. Been a fan of anime ever since.
I don't know how I never heard about Robot Carnival until I made this video. It looks so good. It's definitely on my list.
@@tymforhistory In latin America I think it aired on cartoon Network, not sure in USA.
Thanks to Adult Swim and Toonami it feels like I’ve been watching anime for as long as I can remember. I spent many Saturday nights staying up until 1:00AM watching Inuyasha and Samurai Champloo. However, my most memorable encounter with anime was this one night when I was just flipping through channels and found one that I’d never come across before. Within seconds I recognized that what I was watching was undoubtedly anime but it was way more graphic than anything I’d seen prior. That night I ended up watching the last hour or so of Akira followed by the Baki the Grappler OVA from the 90s. Seeing that mutation scene as like an 8 year old was MIND BLOWING…
In my country, Argentina, anime was around all the time, even when no one called it "anime": Astroboy, Heidi, Speed Racer, Captain Tsubasa and several more were always on TV on the 80's. There were also some uncensored really cruel and violent animes airing during the 80's: Minashigo Hatchi (Honeybee Hutch) and Kerokko Demetan (Demetan the Frog), where in every episode someone died or was tortured, that maybe escaped censorship by the fact that they were insects and pond animals and the lack of blood, but mothers at that time were really worried about their children crying in front of TV's, haha.