Which anime left the strongest impact on you?
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For me, hands down it was Cowboy Beebop. The combination of the story, animation and sound just blew me away at the time.
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I'll put in a good word for the sublime, but sometimes underappreciated, Haibane Renmei. That unassuming series about angel-girls literally made me think about life, death, and life after death in ways I never had before. (I prefer not to say exactly how or why, though, as no small amount of the joy of this series comes from the discovery.) Fifteen years after it came out in the US, I still watch it periodically, and still find new things to admire and appreciate about it.
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Scryed, there is something inspiring about a character who always runs towards his problems and punches them.
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when I was (much) younger - I loved Speed Racer, Space Battleship Yomato (AKA Star Blazers) G-Force (AKA Battle of the Planets) and I stopped watching anime somewhere in my early teens...and came back w/ Cowboy Bebop, (and later Samuarai Champloo)
anime that 'wierded' me out to most: School Days
I read banned books
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Nobody has mentioned Eureka Seven?
Eureka Seven is the last great four-cour mecha anime we'll ever have. With the current state of the anime industry, four-cour mecha anime is very unlikely to be produced.
Can't really explain how great Eureka Seven is. It's hard to describe too.
To put it in words, it really fixed my views on life.
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For me it has to be TENCHI MUYO! This anime got me started on my journey through Anime, Manga and eventually Light Novels and web Novels. If I hadn't stumbled upon TENCHI MUYO and laughed until I cried, literally, I would have missed out on all of this great literature and entertainment from the wonderful country of Japan!😀
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@shrike_al Yes, but... The movie re-interpreted the Eureka universe. My review for Netflix (when they allowed them) was that liking Eureka Seven: Good Night Sleep Tight Young Lovers depended on whether you'd watched the series or not. If you hadn't, it was a good story. If you had, you'd be screaming at the screen for all the character changes.
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Robotech was a major formative influence. As was early Voltron. The presentation that a character could die in a 'kids' show was a great "finally" to me after watching all the ordinance in G.I. Joe flying around to no effect.
I got back in in collage with Sailor Moon. Tenchi Muyo made me an eternal follower of harem series.
My wife was a huge Sailor Moon fan which brought her to the Anime club in collage. We will celebrate 18 years this year. :D
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@steelblaidd Congrats on 18 years! TENCHI MUYO completely sold me on anime which led to everything else Japanese cultural wise I'm into from Japan. Loved Robotech and Voltron. But if I had a second favorite it would ultimately have to be OUTLAW STAR. It's just a classic that I can sit and watch any time. My only wish is that they would have continued the series. It had such great potential.
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@lighthawk96 Thank you. Sadly I never saw enough of Outlaw Star to get much of an impression.
Right now my little girl and I are watching Bookworm and HeroAca together.
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@steelblaidd Two solid choices. I hope you both enjoy them.
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My first "this is anime" anime was Ranma 1/2, so I suppose that was the most formative series which got me into anime (and anime-adjacent media).
Of course, after I learned that "anime" was an actual thing, I also learned that my actual first anime was Doraemon; I just didn't think of it as anime. Which means I always get slightly confused when translations try to localize Doraemon references to something more US-centric, because to me of course I understood the Doraemon references, while I don't always understand the localized references.
My first anime purchase was Love Hina. My first "this is amazing" reaction to anime was Card Captor Sakura.
So overall, my current tastes are in sweet and happy slice-of-life with a touch of magic, and either a female main character or a harem, or both if possible.
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@eternal-wanderer Higurashi is terrifying. I watched it fairly early on as a new anime fan, and I still can't forget it.
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Angel Beats probably had the strongest impact on me. It got me looking up more shows and also got me thinking to sign myself up as a Organ Donor when I got old enough to do it.
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@someoldguy Err... that movie doesn't exist.
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If we're talking impact, for me it would probably be Digimon and Gundam Wing since those are the two series that really brought me into anime and then into the shows oriented towards older kids.
@shrike_al That's the english title for Eureka Seven: Pocketful of Rainbows
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@jon-mitchell said in Which anime left the strongest impact on you?:
anime that 'wierded' me out to most: School Days
Oh yeah... that totally freaked me out by the end... And I do not even mean how the budget ran out at the end, similar with NGE... the only other anime I can think came close to that which I have seen was Happy Sugar Life...
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@jan-suzukawa Let's hope the new season is good then.
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@jon-mitchell School Days... Yeah. Ok. Quite the ending there. Still haven’t been able to bring myself to play the game on which the anime is based.
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@paul-nebeling I think I've heard the anime's ending is worse than any of the games ending.
