First exposure to anime was technically Voltron (in the single-digit years down in Tucson, Arizona), I suppose, though I certainly didn't think of it as
such at the time -- it was just an awesomely cool cartoon that ran during the 3pm timeslot. If I hurried, I could make it home from school every day in time
to catch it, barely. (And it was hopelessly out-of-sequence, as I recall.)
First exposure to anime that I knew was anime: Akira, in my teens. I then proceeded to devour every tape I could from the local video store. Since I lived in
a small town (2800 people), there wasn't much, and it was... eccentric, at best. Project A-Ko was good, I recall; Fist of the North Star probably would
have been, if it hadn't been dubbed in Spanish with Japanese subtitles. I quite liked Mighty Space Miners and Odin: Photon Space Sailor Starlight, but not
only have few heard of those, the ones that have seem to universally revile them.
Oh, and, Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies. That was the extent of the stores anime collection.
First exposure to fansubs: Nanoha, late last year, before the US release came out.
First exposure to fanfiction: Yahoo!, back when they had people combing lists of submissions and manually organizing the URLs. There was an entry titled
"Web-Published Fiction", in which I stumbled across a link to a list of stuff, one of which was some really crappy Star Trek story about this ensign
who could do anything without messing up her hair...
... and another was to Undocumented Features. This would have been in '97.
(And, for the record: I *still* have not seen Robotech, though it appears I saw part of Macross at some point without realizing what it was -- some clips from
AMVs strike a very resonant chord)
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
such at the time -- it was just an awesomely cool cartoon that ran during the 3pm timeslot. If I hurried, I could make it home from school every day in time
to catch it, barely. (And it was hopelessly out-of-sequence, as I recall.)
First exposure to anime that I knew was anime: Akira, in my teens. I then proceeded to devour every tape I could from the local video store. Since I lived in
a small town (2800 people), there wasn't much, and it was... eccentric, at best. Project A-Ko was good, I recall; Fist of the North Star probably would
have been, if it hadn't been dubbed in Spanish with Japanese subtitles. I quite liked Mighty Space Miners and Odin: Photon Space Sailor Starlight, but not
only have few heard of those, the ones that have seem to universally revile them.
Oh, and, Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies. That was the extent of the stores anime collection.
First exposure to fansubs: Nanoha, late last year, before the US release came out.
First exposure to fanfiction: Yahoo!, back when they had people combing lists of submissions and manually organizing the URLs. There was an entry titled
"Web-Published Fiction", in which I stumbled across a link to a list of stuff, one of which was some really crappy Star Trek story about this ensign
who could do anything without messing up her hair...
... and another was to Undocumented Features. This would have been in '97.
(And, for the record: I *still* have not seen Robotech, though it appears I saw part of Macross at some point without realizing what it was -- some clips from
AMVs strike a very resonant chord)
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs