anime from my childhood

[Yeshua-Knight]

hey there folks in cyber-land, or whatever land you may be dwelling in, i just thought i'd start this thread to discuss the anime that we viewed when we were growing up (and for those of you still growing up, pay attention, you just might learn something) i remember watching a movie that was called the last unicorn, it's about, well, the last unicorn, and the animation style really reminded me of the lord of the rings cartoon movies that were put out by rankin bass back in the 70's, it's been over a decade and half since the last time i saw it, so i was wondering if anyone else remembered it, there was also an other one that was also about a unicorn, it was actual normal anime though, and it was also about a little unicorn, but this one had a little devil in it as well, and it was about how the gods were trying to send all the unicorns to oblivion 'cus they were too powerful or something like that,
in any case there was of course superbook (who doesn't remember that one) and there were also a couple that i watched on nickelodeon, one was called bell & sebastian, it was about an orphan and a great pyrenese dog, and the two traveled around through the pyrenese mountains in europe, then there was also an other one, argh! can't remember the name of it or even what it was about come on, i know your in there somewhere, i do remember that it also came on nickelodeon, that about it though,
oh man, i'm 22 and i'm starting to forget things, yikes, oh well, once i remember i'll edit this and post it in here, if any one can guess the name out of the blue, i'll make a banner for them with a pic of their choosing and a verse of their choosing (just so long as it's not too long to fit), later folks

[Arnobius]

I remember "The Last Unicorn." You don't forget that kind of thing without extensive therapy

Unless you want to count the "Speed Racer" reruns, I was getting past the cartoon age when things like Robotech came out. I vaguely recall being impressed by Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000 Years, since it was much better than the typical "good guys always win effortlessly" cartoons of my youth.

After that, it was only a couple of years before Gunbuster came out and I got into the uncut subbed stuff and turned my back on TV.

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Um I grew up with Sailor Moon, Samurai Pizza Cats, Astro Boy and Transformers. I think that's it.

[shooraijin]

Robotech and Voltron, though I didn't ID them as anime at the time, and I do remember Samurai Pizza Cats which had come out while I was in high school (though I watched little of it). There was a little bit of Transformers mixed in there somewhere -- has anyone played the Commodore 64 game?

My folks didn't care much for letting us rot in front of afternoon cartoons, though (which obviously totally backfired because now I rot in front of DVDs! ... love ya, mum ), so our exposure was limited to what we saw at friends' houses and such.

[skynes]

I'm not sure if these are anime, they're so old I can barely remember them.

Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
The Formators


Teknoman is something I know IS anime.

They were stuff I watched when younger, and of course the usual He-Man, Thundercats, Samurai Pizza cats, Transformers etc. But I think anyone that lived the 80s watched them!

[Rev. Doc]

I grew up in Southern California so when Astro Boy came over in the mid 60s it was one I liked to watch. Then came Gigantor and The Amazing Three and Kimba the White Lion was also very popular later on. Those are my earliest memories of what I would later learn was anime.

[Nate]

I'd like to point out that, although Transformers are Japanese toys, the cartoon by Hasbro is American. The animation was indeed done overseas, but by that argument, GI Joe and Simpsons are anime. The true Transformers anime did not begin until after the American Transformers run.

The last episode of Transformers in America, the one where the Headmasters and Powermasters were created, is where the anime picks up.

So unless you saw Transformers: Headmasters, Transformers V, or the like, sorry, but it wasn't anime.

*Puts away soapbox*

On that note, the only anime I really saw as a kid (though I didn't know it was anime at the time) was Voltron and Robotech, both of which I greatly enjoyed. The first anime I saw knowing it was anime was Sailor Moon, but that is when I was in tenth grade, and I hardly consider that my childhood.

[Saint Kevin]

Yeah, I didn't really get into anime until about high school, although I think I do remember watching a few eps of Sailor Moon in middle school. I was into american cartoons, with all their craziness (Ren & Stimpy and the older Nicktoons, as well as the Spider-man/X-men cartoons and stuff like that).

As for that random show on Nickelodeon...I don't even have a guess...which is kinda sad really, since I watched a ton of Nick. I just don't remember anything on it that resembled anime. Perhaps you could think of a detail or two you remember about it...?

Anyway, check this link. Perhaps it's one of those...although, most of the names are in Japanese so I wouldn't know what they were in English. Hope you remember Yeshua.

[Rogie]

I remember watching Superbook a couple of times. I also remember a weird Jack and the Beanstalk movie that I watched when I was little and my memory of it makes me think it might have been an anime. Anyone else know?

Otherwise, I also remember starting out with Voltron and Speed Racer, followed by Sailor Moon, which actually got me hooked on anime itself.

[Spiritsword]

Voltron was pretty much it, I loved the style even though I didn't know what anime was at the time.

[Jeikobu]

Pokemon. First anime I ever saw and the only one I really knew about until 2002, besides maybe Digimon and Zoids Zero which I didn't see much of for either.

[sonichiro]

im only fourteen, so technically i think im still a child(hey ill be 15 in a few months!!)but when i was really little my aunt and uncle used to babysit me and i would watch haoa mizaki's(dont think thats spelled right) 'movie my neighbor totoro' everyday. best movie ever!!!!! and i would watch 'hello kitty'(remeber, i was just a little kid) 'keropi' and something with this lion in it i think it could have been 'kimba the white lion' but i have no idea. when i got older(like maybe six) it was 'sailor moon' then 'pokemon' then 'digimon' and then in either grade four or grade five im not sure which i started watching 'card captor sakura'(im never going to call it 'cardcaptors'). there was also something called 'cyber six', it seemed kinda anime-ish but im not sure if it was japanese or from a european country(everything was sett in france or italy somewhere like that).
EDIT: I REMEBER THE LAST UNICORN!

[Yeshua-Knight]

well, sorry to put all of you through that with all of the brain searching, i finally remembered the title of the anime that i couldn't remember, it was the Lost cities of Gold where there was this spanish kid traveling in south america and he ended up traveling with two other guys and he was searching for his father, while the other two were searching for the city of gold, the main thing i remember was that at the end they finally made it to a city of gold, and the man in charge wore a native mask, so you couldn't see his face, but it was kind of implied that he was the kid's father, and it ended up at the very end that the city was somehow destroyed, and it was implied that the father died while trying to stop the city's destruction, and i, like most of you, had no idea that there was even a difference between the regular cartoons that i watched and the ones that fall under the definition of anime

[Joshua Christopher]

Goodness gracious, so many...O_O

Lessee, the first one that I ever saw was, I believe, Iria on Sci-Fi.
I think that was the first unedited, more adult oriented anime though.

I was really loving Gigantor/Tetsujin 28. Astroboy was good stuff.

Robot Carnival was out of this world cool.

I remember this one, I think it was called Dark City or something like that. This guy (with a stick) went to this city and fought a bunch of demons.

Casshan: Robot Hunter was fun. I now own the DVD.

Samurai Pizza Cats! OH YEAH!

Go Speed Racer!

And, a bunch of other ones, like Fatal Fury, on Sci-Fi.

[TrigunX89]

Well, I'm only 16, but...

When I was pretty little, I watched some Christian anime on CBN:

Flying House
Super Book
The Little-bits or The Littles (I can't remember which one was anime)

Then I started watching some on Fox Kids and PBS:

DragonBall Z
Robotech
Tenchi in Tokyo
Digimon

etc.

Then my cable company picked up Cartoon Network. Yay! After several years, I grew out of my DBZ fetish, and started watching all kinds of anime. I mainly watch whatever is on Cartoon Network or G4 Tech TV, and I try to buy DVD's when I can. Umm that's it I guess.

[Yeshua-Knight]

wow, i hadn't heard of speed racer in a while, my uncle actually watched it way back when he was a kid, i remember seeing some of the really old (as in black and white) episodes of gigantor on cartoon network when they had that week long tribute to big robots where they also showed a bunch of different anime containing...yup, you guessed it, big robots

[Knuckles]

I started out with Robotech, after reading some of my brother's old comics (yeah, I raided his closet :p) Then it went to Voltron! I loved that show so much! I used to steal my bro's Lions and play with them, mwahahaha
I also watched Rainbow Brite, Thundercats, Bionic Six, Jem, He-man/She-ra, Transformers, Gi-Joe, etc...etc...etc... even though they wouldn't really count as anime :p Those were the good old days.
There was sort of a lull in the early 90s and I didn't start watching anime again until about 94 or so, when Sailor Moon came on Cartoon Network. Then, after that it went to Pokemon, and pretty much went from there :p

[Godly Paladin]

I remember Speed Racer. *shudder* That's making a bit of a comeback recently, right?

[Little Momo]

I watched so much stuff when I was a kid but I don't know if any of it was anime.
I think Astro Boy was and G-force was too. I watched a litle Salor Moon too when my little sister or the kids I was babysitting had it on.

The Last Unicorn I love that movie. I bought it this year actually.

[Knuckles]

Anyone remember David the Gnome? :p