What was the first anime you watched?

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I remember watching Star Blazers when I was a little kid.

"Battle of the Planets." It was the only thing that would get me out of bed when I was in elementary school.

Pokemon and Digimon.

I vaguely remember watching Samurai Pizza Cats when I was a kid. I didn't know it was a anime until now.

Star Blazers is the first thing I remember, late teens.

Aside from that, something I don't know the name of; but it was steam punk; some kid with a steam rocket backpack, huge hovering steam-powered ships, and Patrick Stewart as the voice of the Grandfather (last 5 years or so, I think), over Victorian London....

Would it be Steamboy.

Pokemon!

Yeah, that's the one....

When I was 8 I saw Sailor Moon and I got addicted to that anime.

Yup. Was hooked on it. Went over to my friend's place and we watched it together. It's good stuff.

Oh, that takes me back... I think, if you count movies, the very old Jack and the Beanstalk with the giant and his evil mother and the bewitched princess, where Jack was a kid, would be it. That, and Galaxy Express 999, also disturbing. In fact, the main thing I got from each of those was their utter freakiness, and yet my own fascination with them. I had no way to watch them more than once, though, and didn't even know what to look for on tv.

Let me see if I can find some clips of the weirdness:

Hoo boy... Jack and the Beanstalk, 1974. well into the movie, the bewitched princess is about to marry a creep right out of Scooby Doo because she thinks he's a handsome prince (thanks to some bad witchy mojo). Skip to 0:33 for the full freakiness. You can watch the whole thing on Youtube, and it is truly haunting.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceqQ4yMJMXc&feature=related[/youtube]

I only saw one movie of this, I think it's a series, but was I haunted by it! If I can reckon it out right, it's a futuristic dealie where people have robot bodies, some of them, and humans are sometimes hunted for sport. That's how the kid in this loses his mom, and it's also why he wants a robot body. Now the tall, slim chick you keep seeing here is the real source of weirdness... when I was about ten, the best I could work out was that she resembled his dead mom, may have even had her body somehow, and yet at the end she gives him this big ol' kiss on the mouth! It's a bit much for a ten-year-old. Anyway, this AMV I found sums it all up nicely. I think it's the theme song of the show, and I want a copy. Anyway. I think Queen must have been a hit in Japan... and you think modern anime is flamboyant! Just look at these characters! How is it that these blob-headed, snub-nosed kid characters grow up to be tall, chiseled, uncomfortably attractive androgynous figures (androgynous, hence uncomfortably attractive)?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIZGN6qVQ0w[/youtube]

The first anime i watched on TV was Dragonball Z.

The first one i bought on DVD was Azumanga Daioh.

Isnt jack and the beanstalk at least in movie terms and american creation and not classified as anime?

Given the very few things remotely of the kind that were available to me back then, I count it. Here's a link to it on IMDB: the writer appears to be non-Japanese, but everyone else is. Anyway, it has the anime look, the odd flamboyant imagery. I don't think of it as being in the same realm as what we consider anime, of course, but it's pretty old, too. Anime movies are always kinda in question anyway, I've noticed.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0074705/

But yeah, Galaxy Express 999 would fit the definition better.

Astro Boy (80's vers), Voltron, Robotech.

First anime in English: Pokemon (still watch it)

First anime in Japanese: Tokyo Mew Mew

First anime in French: Lady Lady (known in France as Gwendoline)

Technically, Transformers. My first conscious brush with anime was Akira, though.