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If you watch anime - or used to watch anime... (www.youtube.com)

submitted 18 hours ago by emotional_soup_88@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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The attached video inspired me to make this post.

What was your first series or movie?
What were your first impressions?
Best series or movie? Why?
Worst experience with anime? Why?

I heard one of my siblings watching something in a language I didn't understand. It turned out to me Love Hina. It made me fall in love with the language and culture. My interest in the medium itself, I discovered later, perhaps with Pokémon and Dragon Ball. I don't remember my initial impressions, but it was warm and fun, I do remember. The immense sexualization of females was definitely encouraging to my adolescent cisman self, to the detriment of the female demographic, of course. Rose of Versailles is probably one of my favorite anime. Other than being an amazing story - considering that it was written by a TWENTY year young girl - the way that it conveys emotions visually and through the soundtrack is, to me, unparalleled. I don't really have any bad experience with anime. I guess I was shocked when

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The first I'd ever seen at all?

considers

Probably some extremely-poorly-dubbed TV release long prior to anime gaining mainstream popularity in the US, as there were a couple series that people brought in on shoestring budgets. Speed Racer, maybe. That was in the US on TV reruns ages ago.

Speed Racer, also known as Mach GoGoGo (Japanese: マッハGoGoGo, Hepburn: Mahha GōGōGō), is a Japanese anime television series produced by Tatsunoko Production, that aired on Fuji Television from April 1967 to March 1968. In the United States, the show aired in syndication at approximately the same time.

For American consumption, major editing and dubbing efforts were undertaken by producer Peter Fernandez, who likewise not only wrote and directed the English-language dialogue but also provided the voices of many of the characters, most notably Racer X and Speed Racer himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHn6KCvRsdI

[–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 2 points 15 hours ago

This is GOLD. Thank you for sharing! I'm never going to watch it, but it tells of an era when this was ALL we needed for entertainment, which I really appreciate.