What was the first anime you watched?

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Ghoober and the ghost-chasers (Cheapo version of "Scooby Doo")
The new Adventures of Batman and Robin
The Superfriends

I started with all of the toonami shows. Robotech, then Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon at the same time, back when I was 8.

I've never been the same since...

Robotech. Watching it with my older brother at 12 Midnight when I was 7.

I remember seeing G-Force and Speed Racer when I was very young, but they weren't what got me into anime. It wasn't until the release of the legendary Toonami block when I got into it.

Speed Racer as a child, and back then I joked about the anime style.

But then I watched Sailor Moon.

The first Anime I ever watched was robotech. I didnt know what anime was back then. I just wondered why a cartoon was on at a strange time.

It wasnt until I watch Wicked City past midnight that I end up learning I am watching a completely different type of cartoon and thats when I learn of Anime.

I watched Sailor Moon & Pokemon when I was younger.
It wasn't until FLCL came along that I actually got into anime.

FLCL is awesome! It's one of the most random and funniest animes I have ever seen!

Seconded

Probably Maya the Bee or one of the two that featured koala bears. XD;;
But maybe those don't really count, they were just "cartoons".
Sooo.. I saw Totoro in the theater when I was like 6. Or whenever.

FLCL, huh? That is definitely an awesome place to start. Those guys are my heroes. Gainax or whoever. Except not just Gainax, but specifically the FLCL team. Sh*t, I don't even know my heroes names. But yeah, I recently picked up this book, that's like.. the making of FLCL. And ALL IT IS is page after page of keyframes. It's just about the coolest artbook I own.

PS Kaiju damn I want a wall scroll of that.

The first anime that I watched was the Pokemon anime.

ON TV:
partial - Sailor Moon (NA dubs)
full - Digimon (NA dubs)

addiction - Escaflowne (yet again NA dubs)

On DVD:
.HACK//SIGN

Just google FLCL, and search for it in the images. That's what I did.

oh and dot hack was also viewed in english nad I recently saw first hand just how deprived we are here in north america whether it's cartoon network, foxkids or who ever in the states or ytv, teletoon, etc here in Canada gets the licensing rights for airing so it will be airing friendly as per or censorship guidelines... if your going to cut out the sexual themes and language at least leave in the gratuitous violence and give it a 14A rating,,, I mean c'mon anyone who's a sailor moon anime fan and possible manga as well(as I'm not sure what I'm about to say is true for the manga) the underlying messages and themes are directed at an audience of middleschool-highschool aged females not bloody goddamned seven year-olds

Well technically it IS a Western world story (that is, USA and Europe), but what you probably don't know is that waay back in the 70's, there was a whole SLEW of anime series based off of Western Literature!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Masterpiece_Theater
They were the masterminds behind these cartoons.

But what still blows me away is that they even did 'Anne of Green Gables'!

In elementary Speed racer.Middle school Ronin Warriors,and in high school the Dragonball series.