psiten; to see her post, go here.I doubt I'll be able to keep this up for thirty days, what with everything else going on, but I'll do this first one, at least.
To be honest, I don't remember the very first anime I ever saw; it was probably either Speed Racer or Kimba, which used to be syndicated on DC's Channel 20, an independent station that had a lot of cheesy syndicated stuff. I also didn't really think of Space Cruiser Yamato (a/k/a Star Blazers) as anime, probably because back then I'd never heard the word, much less heard about the genre.
The first time I ever saw anime as anime was thanks to the late
therevdrnye and his friend Charles G., who was an otaku before being otaku was a recognized alternative lifestyle. They insisted on showing me some of Miyazaki's Castle In The Sky, My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service, along with a taste of Dragon Half and Gunsmith Cats. That was pretty much all it took to hook me, and after I showed my kids the copies of Totoro and Kiki, they were hooked too. The rest, as they say, is history.Honorable mention goes to Ranma 1/2 and All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku; I don't know which one of these I dragged home as a rental first, but they both helped set the hook in me.
