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Message: [QUOTE="Parasite_Steve, post: 15078, member: 5378"] I'm showing my age but: [ATTACH type="full" size="183x275"]4388[/ATTACH] So, there were [I]many[/I] anime shows on TV that I adored when I was a child, like Saber Rider, Robin Hood, Treasure Island and Lady Oscar. Pokemon came a few years later but I never got into it. At the time though I had no clue that those were "anime", they were just cartoons to me. It wasn't until the year 2000ish when Japanese pop culture enjoyed a massive boom that I became aware of the term and actively sought it out. The first anime I watched where I knew it was anime was then Spriggan, closely followed by Akira. Much too young to understand the movie but it blew me away just the same. I benefitted from that boom massively because now there were shows like Angel Sanctuary, Cowboy Bebop and Agent Aika on tv all the time. Ranma 1/2, Sailor Moon, Yugioh, Detective Conan and the likes during the afternoon when I came back home from school. Anime fans slightly older than me had it really bad. You could basically only buy single episodes of a show on vhs for ridiculously inflated prices and if you were lucky enough to have internet at all the connection was too slow and expensive to download more than maybe one episode of Cool Devices at a time. Btw that series was my introduction to a certain [I]subgenre[/I] of anime. If you know you know ? [/QUOTE]

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