Did TOONAMI get you in to Anime

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hcl118

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I ask this because it got me in to anime with sows like YuYu Hakusho, Rurouni Kenshin, an Dragon Ball Z

{so what about u an what shows thanks.}

{If not what did get you in to anime.}
 
Yes, TOONAMI is responsable for my love of anime because my 1st 3 anime were on Toonami,That being Dragonball Z , Sailor moon & Ronin Warriors of course, in fact pretty much every anime series that I still like to this day aired on Either TOONAMI or AS at somepoint.

So I can Gladly say that TOONAMI got me into anime!
 
Actually, it almost turned me off of anime, because Dragonball Z kept preempting Batman and Superman until it eventually just booted them off altogther, and I thought the dub was so horrendous at first (and I came in on the Cell arc.) Nothing against Funi, but the plot, voices, and script came off as so juvenile to me.

But I did enjoy Dragonball years earlier when it was syndicated on basic cable (way before Toonami was born), also watched syndicated Ronin Warriors in its entirety and was pleased. As for Toonami, I came to like Big O after the DC shows dwindled away, then I caught the Jine (sp?) battle in a random episode of Kenshin and it was awesome sauce at first sight.
 
That one kinda turned me off too. I somehow kept getting only the random, stupid OAVs that made no sense at all and couldn't find a show that hooked me. I'm sure Rave Master's doing the same thing to someone somewhere out there right now.
 
Technically, Yu Yu Hakusho aired on [adult swim] before it came to Toonami.

And no, Toonami didn't get me into anime, as I had already had previous exposure to Japanese animation, having grown up during an era when shows like Speed Racer, Kiraba the White Lion, Battle of the Planets and Voltron could be seen in daily syndication. I saw Robot Carnival, Lensman and Vampire Hunter D on Sci-Fi Channel long before they aired on Cartoon Network. There were some shows which I didn't follow ritually before Toonami, like Dargon Ball/Z and Sailor Moon, and others which I wasn't familiar with or had possessed only scant knowledge of before Toonami, like Outlaw Star, Tenchi Muyo! and Ruroni Kenshin, but as with any block, there were some shows which I was into and others which I wasn't. I'm not "into anime", per se, but there are some anime that I enjoy. It depenRAB on the show.
 
Roujin Z was pretty awesome and gave me a "WTF" moment. I was waiting for DBZ Garlic Jr saga to come on and i was flipping and i caught the last part of Roujin Z (at the time, i didnt know what it was), i thought it was pretty cool. I think the next week they showed Tekken or it was some weird Sci Fi movie set in a Mega City, i didnt catch the name though.

Well, toonami got me into Gundam, and im not the only one either. I liked alot of what they put on before they switched to Saturdays, and by then, i really wasnt into what was avalible then. I really liked Tenchi, to me that was genuine Harem anime that was really cool. Kenshin was awesome and i was interested in the series a year before it ever aired on Toonami. .Hack was boring and didnt catch my interest after ep 12 (but i heard it got way better at the end), I liked Yu Yu Hakusho when it was on AS because of the swearing and hardly no censership. Sailor Moon was a filer before DBZ came on, but i watched it and that got pretty good with everything they showed (no, im not a fan, but I did enjoy the newer episodes that were shown in the states). I never could get into Ronin Warriors and i missed out on Big O/ Outlaw Star at the time.

I guess thats my basic rundown on Toonami and my interest in anime...
 
Even when the stuff that Sci-Fi showed didn't interest me or was just plain bad, I was fascinated by an art form from another country and kept tuning in. And it's where I first saw Akira, so it deserves major props for that.
 
Not really, though it did increase it. I think I got into anime by my local WKBD affiliate, which used to be UPN, but now it's CW. They aired a little power hour of Dragonball Z and Sailor Moon on the weekdays, and I would watch it when I stayed over my grandma's house when I was around 4 or 5. Then came Toonami, then Pokemon, and the rest is history.
 
For the most part, yes. The only anime I was into before Toonami was Speed Racer and Sailor Moon, which aired in syndication on weekday mornings. Toonami opened me up to a whole lot of anime.
 
Yep, Toonami Midnight Run. I started watching Outlaw Star, then started paying attention to the afternoon block. Whatchd some Gundam 0080 (and had no idea what was going on but was fascinated by the style). The big one was ZoiRAB Chaotic Century/Guardian Force. X) Uh, sometime around that time Inuyasha started airing and that was pretty much that.
 
In all honesty, yeah, if it weren't for Toonami, the only anime that I would have ever seen would be the Ocean Dub of DBZ (before DBZ started airing on Toonami) and the original Speed Racer (which I saw at least 1 episode of when I was 5). And even then, I wouldn't have even known that they were anime, since back then, I just considered them to be American cartoons, not knowing that there was an entire plethora of foreign cartoons out there, being as naive as I used to be.

So, I have to give Toonami my respect for getting me into some of my favorite action anime, even though they aired some of them with heavy amounts of edits in their footage and dialogue.
 
Oh, why not. It's been awhile since I told the story of my newbie days, when I basically didn't know a thing about any of this.

I'd seen anime before Toonami. In the early days I knew what Dragon Ball was, I knew what Sailor Moon was, and I had vague memories of stuff from the 80's and I saw the occasional cartoon on scifi saturday mornings by chance that was quite a shock at the time. I specifically recall Lodoss War and what I think was the Casshan: Robot Hunter OVA, and project A-Ko.

But at that age, while it was drastically different to me I didn't know what any of it was. Seriously, I thought "anime" was some word that the channel had made up. Before you laugh too much, you have to understand that at the time I'm talking about, I didn't have the internet. If anime magazines of any sort were carried locally I didn't notice--in any event, I wasn't looking for them and didn't even know they were something to look FOR.

But then Toonami came along, and roughly around that time was when dial-up was gettable. So between that programming and the internet, I slowly caught on to what was going on...1998 was important since Robotech resurrected vague memories (I'm convinced I saw it in syndication in the 80's), and much searching was done about Sailor Moon and DBZ since--gasp!--they were back on TV and it turned out that the syndicated runs from before hadn't even gotten close to finishing. And what's this, they got it wrong about what a Super Saiyn is?!?!?!

Then 2000 turned me into a serious fan with Gundam Wing...everything I was doing to learn more about anime stuff increased drastically at that point. My search for Toonami stuff eventually led me to CNX, and then I discovered my University's anime club in fall 2002, and then I found the forum in early 2003...and history marches onward from there.
 
No. I'd already been into anime a few years before Toonami was even created. However, it did boost my love for anime, giving me a chance to view more shows and see what's out there.
 
Nope. I'd seen voltron of course, but the first anime I actually appreciated as siginficantly different to american cartoons was Guyver : Bio Boosted Armour, which came out on video in england in the early nineties. From there it was whatever else MANGA deigned to release on video, which wasn't much.
 
Nah. I blame Voltron, Robotech, and Tranzor Z back in the 80s for that addiction and Sci Fi Channel's annual movie marathons and later their weekly Saturday morning movies as well as a friend in high school for letting me borrow some tapes like Ranma 1/2 for reigniting my interest in Japanese animation. Toonami came much later.
 
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