Yeah, I grew up watching Ultraman, Godzilla, Space Giants, etc on TV. Then later was Star Blazers, G-force, and Robotech. I was obsessed with Macross. When I started going to conventions... Dragon Con, Dixie Trek, AFF, etc I met a bunch of hard core Anime fans and put together a pretty serious VHS collection.
The very first tape someone loaned me was Project A-ko, Leda: The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko, and Vampire Hunter D. No subtitles etc. It was strait from Japanese laser disc to VHS. I was hooked. That was 1987, I think(I was 17). I sort of miss the bad dubs. The AU made dub of the Macross Do You Remember Love movie was hilarious. I even saw Akira in the theater.
Never got into North Star for some weird reason. I had to look up Superbook. Not religious so never even heard of it. I'm a scifi person, Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr Who, etc... So I lean more towards the scifi Anime and Mecha stuff. Although lately I've been watching a lot of daily life stuff because it has dubs.
But yeah I was into Anime before it was "cool". :)
Nice. A few months back, I picked up Leda on laserdisc. I was surprised that it has the English trailer for the film at the beginning, since it's a JP LD. I've always been an SF fan ever since I saw Empire Strikes back in the theater in 1980 (or perhaps 81), so anime in the '80s really appealed to me. I was the only anime fan in high school in the early '90s. Some of the skaters knew of Akira and such, but I was the only full-blown anime fan at the time. Then when I was in college, the whole Sailor Moon/Dragonball Z fandom exploded among high schoolers.
Yeah, I grew up watching Ultraman, Godzilla, Space Giants, etc on TV. Then later was Star Blazers, G-force, and Robotech. I was obsessed with Macross. When I started going to conventions... Dragon Con, Dixie Trek, AFF, etc I met a bunch of hard core Anime fans and put together a pretty serious VHS collection.
The very first tape someone loaned me was Project A-ko, Leda: The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko, and Vampire Hunter D. No subtitles etc. It was strait from Japanese laser disc to VHS. I was hooked. That was 1987, I think(I was 17). I sort of miss the bad dubs. The AU made dub of the Macross Do You Remember Love movie was hilarious. I even saw Akira in the theater.
Never got into North Star for some weird reason. I had to look up Superbook. Not religious so never even heard of it. I'm a scifi person, Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr Who, etc... So I lean more towards the scifi Anime and Mecha stuff. Although lately I've been watching a lot of daily life stuff because it has dubs.
But yeah I was into Anime before it was "cool". :)
Look up Flying House. That was another Christian 80s anime.
I collect laserdiscs of bad dubs from my childhood. I have no shame! 🤣🤣🤣
I feel it, you've got seniority over me, but I was still into it in the late 80s. Nice to find an older otaku. I learned a lot from you guys.
Ok now thats taking me back.
The other mod u/Brent75 is into mecha. I'm a closet tokusatsu/kaiju fan too, but mainly the old low budget ones that are MST3k worthy.
True! I have a glass case of Popy, Bullmark, and Godaikin diecast robots. Have some vintage Toho Godzilla stuff too. :)
Heh. I must have watched Godzilla vs. Megalon 50 times when I was a kid. What I miss most is space giants.
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Nice. A few months back, I picked up Leda on laserdisc. I was surprised that it has the English trailer for the film at the beginning, since it's a JP LD. I've always been an SF fan ever since I saw Empire Strikes back in the theater in 1980 (or perhaps 81), so anime in the '80s really appealed to me. I was the only anime fan in high school in the early '90s. Some of the skaters knew of Akira and such, but I was the only full-blown anime fan at the time. Then when I was in college, the whole Sailor Moon/Dragonball Z fandom exploded among high schoolers.