dbz was probably my first real exposure to anime as well
i till remember it coming on toonami when moltar was the host

(07-12-2010, 10:19 PM)ThePoopPupu Wrote: My first anime was Dragonball Z, and I was about 5-6 at the time. My dad had me stop watching it when he dropped in on me watching the one episode that happened to have gun violence.

humans literally getting body parts blown off and beams shot through their bodies? A-OK.

GUN VIOLENCE?? HOLY SHIT GET THE FUCKING CENSORBARS

My dad used to watch speed racer with me. It was good barly rememberable times

(07-12-2010, 10:33 PM)Alpha Six Wrote:

(07-12-2010, 10:19 PM)ThePoopPupu Wrote: My first anime was Dragonball Z, and I was about 5-6 at the time. My dad had me stop watching it when he dropped in on me watching the one episode that happened to have gun violence.

humans literally getting body parts blown off and beams shot through their bodies? A-OK.

GUN VIOLENCE?? HOLY SHIT GET THE FUCKING CENSORBARS

I never did understand the reasoning behind that.

We were allowed to watch muscular men with spikey hair beat each other to death with their fists and lasers, but not allowed to watch them be killed less painlessly by a gun.

i think it has to do with the fact lazer beams out of your hand are easily recognizable as a fantasy whilist guns are not.

(07-12-2010, 09:57 PM)Kat Wrote: My first anime was Speed Racer. I was 4 years old when i watched it.

ownde at all of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Uguu~

~wiggles~

same here

pokemon

My first Anime was the 80's Astroboy.

My first aniem was Sailer Moon U__U"
Back in kindergarten I used to go over to my best friends place after school and every single day he rushed home to watch sailer moon and south park.

my first anime was heavy metal
or ghost in the shell first movie
idk i never liked anime

TTGL was actually the first anime I watched in its entirety.

Dragonball was my first anime.

Badass shit.

(07-11-2010, 07:06 PM)Rökkan Wrote: i think the term "anime" is p. dumb tbqh, if you wanna say "japanese animation" then just say that. special terms are dumb and are made so that it can sound superior to other, like it's an entirely different thing (ps no it's not). that's why fatass weeaboos started referring japanese animation to anime and japanese comic books as mangas twenty or fifteen years ago

"anime" and "manga" are terms that describe what you mean just fine.
referring to them every time as "japanese comics" or "japanese animation" out loud in public makes you sound like you have aspergers; when you use words like "anime" and "manga", they already know what you mean (the media aforementioned that is created in Japan)
it's not to make it sound more pretentious or elite over comics from elsewhere, it just means it's such an accomplished genre of cartoons/comics that it gets its own name. im sure if Brazilian comics became awesome overnight it would be referred to worldwide as comiçao or something (though i think you just use the cognate word "comic" or something)

oh and just to sugar up the discussion J-pop is referred to as "domestic pops" in music stores. we refer to the music as J-pop just to distinguish it from OUR domestic pop (whether that be in the US, England or Brazil)

(07-12-2010, 05:32 AM)The KKM Wrote:

(07-11-2010, 09:43 PM)Vipershark Wrote: "anime" and "manga" are the actual names, straight out of japan
that wasn't made up by americans or whatever

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Viper, I have something new I want to show you today. It's called "translating". You see, when there's a word that corresponds to what it's meant in other language, one uses said word.

For an example. Japanese people grab Marvel's Spiderman Comics, and don't call them SPIDAAMAN KOMIKUSU. They call it manga, because manga is japanese for comic books. Be it from Japan, America or Europe, it's all manga for the Japanese.

Anime is a contraption of Animeshon, Animation. For a japanese, the PowerPuff Girls are as much anime as Dragon Ball Z as Ren & Stimpy.

To sum it all up, what you said was plain idiotic and relates to what Rokkan was saying- weeaboo americans refusing to use perfectly fine english because japanese sounds cooler and superior.

are you 12 or something that's not translation that's a loan word

and not to shit in your dinner but all comics by their lonesome are called コミックス "comics". A Japanese comic book enthusiast refers to his American Spiderman comics as コミックスアメリカ人- American comics.
Comics as a collective though - Japanese, American, and European are referred to as "manga". A certain subgenre is called whatever it may be that you're looking for. But in Japanese bookstores, you'll find it posted on the tabs above the section コミックス


also a contraption is a machine someone builds, "anime" is an abbreviated pronunciation of animation.

ignorance vs ignorance who will win.....

Yep.

First one was Dragon Ball Z

hell, my parents also got into that show when I used to watch it








I now have the FUNimation channel and its shows aren't that great :/

oh my first anime was pokemon


oh how did i live without television all those years to know of how lovely of a cartoon dragon ball z was, i was truly sheltered not by my parents but my super nintendo ):