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Yes!!!! I didn't have cable, only the free channels, so I could only tune in on Saturdays for 4kids. In 2006-2009 i discovered that channel 64(?) on my tv was the Funimation Channel and that opened up a new portal for my childhood 😫 Fruits Basket, Kodocha, Eureka 7, His & Her Circumstances, Spiral, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and so much more, i was GLUED to that channel every chance i got after school
Wait you didn’t have cable but you had FUNimation?! What the fuck! I had cable (when we could afford it) but DIDNT have FUNimation! That’s like being poor, but you have a pet goose that makes golden eggs!
I wasn't around to follow and be nostalgic, but looking back the year 2006 is just amazing, a banger after another in anime. And ADV was releasing good dubs of older shows like Shadow Skill. Another great year was 2011. Hataraki Man was a big voice with me opening up to various ways of life and representation, much better than the cancel culture goons crying about there not being enough gender inclusion. Now it carries over to me watching stuff like Welcome to the Ballroom and Youkai Apartment.
My experience was very similar to yours. I grew up watching 4kids with Mew Mew Power (Tokyo Mew Mew) Sailor Moon etc. then graduated on to Toonami with Naruto and InuYasha. Those were great times. Plus watching AMVs during the early days of RUclips as well as searching for full episodes. Thanks for this trip down memory lane 🩵
Watching anime back in the early 2000s really was something else. I grew up in Canada so we didn't have Toonami but we had YTV which had its own anime programing time. inuyasha, Naruto around 7-8 and after 9pm there was witch hunter Robin and ergo proxy and of course wolfs Rain! Man, so many memories.
When I was a kid I wasn't allowed to watch anime or read manga or any of it, so every day at daycare or school I was 10000% trying to practically memorize the panels of my friends' Shounen Jumps-- especially Bleach. My local library recently started to grow its manga section before the big shift online, but I'm glad it's there for kids like me who might have parents that don't quite get what them there Japanese animes is The library's almost always got kids' backs, I love them for that
The bleach panels always will be STUNNING! I appreciate library’s so much for allowing nerdy little kids to find and read manga. Shout to whoever set that in motion
I absolutely loved Eureka Seven's aesthetic, probably my favourite in all Mecha anime, tho i've only watched the series once, compared to my current favourite mecha anime right now which is Gundam The Witch from Mercury. A 2000's anime that I love is Planetes, a really underrated hard-scifi anime about space garbage collecters, has a big diverse cast, and was by the mangaka of Vinland Saga
Yes a fellow Eureka 7 fan! It’s worth a rewatch, though I will say some characters may get on your nerves 😂 Witch from Mercury is also my current mecha favorite. And definitely adding Planetes to my watch list thanks for the Rec!
@@TheAnimeTea It's funny cuz I do remember watching a movie about Eureka Seven, but I can't remember if it was like one of those movies that's basically a feature length version of the entire series that some anime get, like Madoka, Berserk or Gurren Lagann, or if it was a sequel that sorta showed what happened right after the finale. I've actually rewatched Gundam Witch a couple times already just from how good it was on that 1st viewing. Definitely need to do the same with Eureka
@@TheAnimeTeano doubt, the characters bugged me to no end….but the music had me, and I couldn’t look away. Especially that Opening and Ending combo of “Shounen Heart” and ”Fly Away” when I heard it on adult swim (even though they were only short versions for broadcast). Dug the vibe so much I turned my tv up so my mom would hear Fly Away from my room, and even she dug it.
to this day, Paranoia Agent and Eureka Seven are two of my top 4 anime. Will never forget "anime saturdays." Being like 9 years old, popping some popcorn, and sitting glued to the TV in the living room for hours and watching every show that came in, regardless of what anime it was. I grew up in a town of 400, so not many anime fans there, but we sure banded together in middle school.
Or was it enabling precarious, colonial immoral selfish and/or anti-social paraphillia, underneath the emotional stimulation overload of multicolored chaos?
I looooved Toonami growing up.. I remember rushing to turn on the TV Saturday nights so I wouldn’t miss the big hits. Toonami and 4kids was so influential, and I was in the same boat turning some of the shows down so my parents wouldn’t hear the occasional bad words or see the early ecchi scenes 😭 Also, I felt like I was the only passionate bobobo-bobo-bobo fan back then. That show was too wacky and funny and an underrated gem lol
My official introduction to anime was Mobile Suit Gundam Wing in 1997, but Cowboy Bebop debuted during my senior year of high school and it changed my life. I went off to college a few months later and didn't keep up with anim, but I'd come home for holidays or the summer and watch Cartoon Network with my youngest sister - she was a huge Inuyasha fan. I started watching Fooly Cooly, but OHSHC made me a permanent anime fan. Thank you for this trip down memory lane.
Anime led me to true friends I've now had for 20+yrs! I don't think it's something you need to "grow out of" if it's fun and not interfering with work/life needs. Also, I remember going to conference panels with librarians back in those days - they often don't know what series to buy, so they will likely welcome any suggestions you give!
This video took me on a massive nostalgia trip. Anime in the 2000's was such a magical time. The ease of accessibility of anime through the internet today kinda lost said magic it had, but at the same time, it helps expose WAY more people to the not only great anime of the past, but some new gems that I've currently been enjoying like Spy X Family, My Dress-Up Darling, Hi-Score Girl and Chainsaw Man. And Toonami, despite being cancelled for a moment in time, is now back stronger than ever because of how huge anime has become today. Thank you for sharing your anime experience with us!
While we’re living in a golden age of streaming by being able to watch whatever anime we want both when and wherever, there was still something magical about only being able to watch anime on whatever tv channels you had available, or buying $30 dvds from FYE without really knowing what you were getting into. My choices for tv stations back then were KidsWB!, Cartoon Network, 4kids TV, and Jetix.
Started with Sailor Moon and Pokemon and it turned into a lifelong fan. Ended up meeting my husband at an anime convention 7 years ago and we are currently watching through One Piece for the first time together. We still attend anime cons and cosplay throughout the year with a large group of friends ^_^
Great video! When you said you had to lower the volume to 6 just to watch the late night anime it brought back a lot of ptsd trying to watch bleach lol.
I have had extreme fondness for this era since it made me an anime and manga fan as a kid. Although, In Canada, it was a little bit different. We had our own late-night programming block called Bionix (sadly, it has yet to be revived) from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. 🤣I remember watching Naruto, Bleach and Ghost in the Shell and turning down the volume when the Viewer Discretion Advised warning came on so I wouldn't have to turn it off. Reading The American version of Shonen Jump at the store, begging my mom to buy every issue and watching AMVS on RUclips also come to mind when I think of the 2000s.'
Listen! Every single OP and EP on inuyasha was magical. I remover having to wake up at 5am to watch the 2 episodes of inuyasha, sleep for another hour then go to school
I regularly rented Sailor moon and the Digimon movie from my library, something about them felt so comforting and magical. Looking back I’m lucky to have had such specific but iconic media shaping my taste in anime
A channel I used to watch anime on was the Syfy channel, specifically on their animonday block. I watched a lot of shows that I was probably way to young to fully grasp like Monster and Descendants of Darkness which flew way over my head, but I had a blast. Something I think back on was how my siblings would search for youtube on our Wii and in an hour or so we could watch part 1/16 of some anime. If we were lucky, we could watch the second part with minimal buffering.
My first exposure to manga was at my local libraries where I found Pokemon Manga (I was really into Pokemon at the time) and I was introduced to a new world of anime and manga from then on. I later was introduced to Shoujo manga with ChocoMimi, a certified classic in my eyes as another side to manga that is much girlier and even prettier. I enjoyed it a lot, and its history. This video was really relatable to me as well!! ^ - ^
YES!! My anime experience was kind of similar to yours, except I grew up in the church and being involved in dang near every church activity stopped me from watching a lot of anime. BUT from 7:00pm to 2:00am, I got away with watching Toonami and Adult Swim uninterrupted on Saturdays. Also does anyone else remember Encore Wam? They used to have an anime block on weekdays. Wherever I could, I used to sneak into my foster parent's room and watch an hour or two of anime 😂
FMA brotherhood was the first anime I came across by accident after staying up all night as a child. I miss that nostalgia watching that along with Maid Sama, Ouran high school, and Inuyasha
Yooo, watching this as a 25 year old man has really touched my heart. My first anime was inuyasha back in like 04/05, and I've been in love ever since. I thank inuysha for my love of shojo lol. I know it's labeled a Shonen, but in my op, it's more shojo than Shonen. Danm I remember watching FLCL the first time and learning about traits of toxic masculinity. Watching bleach for the first time and just really relating to ichigo and his goals to protect wat he loves. Growing up, anime has taught me so many self values and I just really appreciate it. Idk where I'd be without it. AWSOME VIDEO!❤
This was a delight. There's an earnest charm in your straight forward, unadorned editing and writing which never had me thinking that you needed to reach to make the account of your experience more interesting.
The week before I started 1st grade my dad made me sing the sailor moon theme song while walking to and from school to memorize the route because he couldn’t afford to pick me up/drop me off. I always had a snack and sailor moon time when I got home so you best believe my toddler self was ALWAYS making it home safe 😆
Love this! I have so many good memories of staying up late to watch shows with my younger brother. Early 2000s we would also record the shows on our DVR just so we could re-watch them again and again until the next new episode came on. You mentioned Shonen Jump but did you ever have a Shojo Beat subscription? So sad they eventually discontinued it but it was so much fun while it lasted ^_^ Ahhhh, and Eureka 7! Yesssss I'm overdue for a re-watch on that one.
This video took me back to the year 2 (2nd grade), my first introductions to anime were from Jetix. I'm from the UK and Jetix was a channel where they would air anime/cartoons together. Shaman king was the first anime I watched where I followed the storyline to the tee. I would rewatch it over again to see what I missed out on. It was such a fun time. The channel would also air shows like Sonic X and Oban Star racers. Cartoon network had a toomani block too where I would watch the original Digimon, Yugioh, Dragon Ball Z, but I fell off of watching it in order. Also there was a channel named Popgirl which aired shoujo/magical animes like Mew Mew power and Pretty Cure. After as a teen I started finding animes to watch on my own. Thank you for this lovely video.
I loved bo bobo bobobobo when I was younger haha! The intro slapped. I was introduced to anime from an older brother and cousins who loved DBZ, and I picked up on the shows and games. But when I saw the manga for Naruto in a Walmart I begged my mom to buy it and bam, I was hooked. And it was so cool to have an anime I could watch the new dub to every week on toonami. I also have a similar “George Lopez” type of wake ups in the middle of the night but instead of George Lopez it was either the intro or outro to Inuyasha and I enjoyed watching that one even though I never knew the plot. Loved your video! Very nostalgic :)
My first anime besides Yu-gi-yoh and pokemon (but that was more my brother), was this obscure little anime called SF Saiyuki Starzinger that my aunt had on VHS. It was only 8 episodes but it was like nothing else I had ever seen, then a few years later my dad got them on CD for me with even more episodes. 70's anime that got cheaply dubbed to Swedish in the 80's and remained in stores for another few decades. Weird I tell you. Then the first anime/manga that I knew was anime/manga was Inuyasha. I some beef with that show but I still hold a nostalgic love for it.
THIS hit me hard! Haha I Still remember in 2006 when I found a channel called Funimation on TV and I instantly got addicted. I was only 7 at the time but I remember waking up at like 4am on weekends to watch School Rumble, Ouran High-school Host club, Fruits basket and I believe Pucca. The characters and art style just felt so unique and refreshing from American cartoons. Finally figuring out its called Anime I was in the youtube rabbit hole lol from Evangelion, FLCL, Suzumiya Haruhi, Azumanga omg what a childhood. I leaned heavily towards the romance genre above all the other shows which made it hard as a boy especially during these times (Thank god my parents never walked in on any Beach Episodes!) but now thankfully genres feel more open to anyone these days. Great video though loved the trip down nostalgia lane!
Firstly, such a comfy video RUclips reced me today, good stuff. But secondly, man I feel I had two starts with anime. One of them being that childhood period of watching on tv, mainly through Toonami/Adult Swim for me too but occasionally FoxBox as well. However the other time was during highschool, where after a bit of a hiatus, specifically during the hype train of S1 of Attack on Titan, well let's just say I never looked back after that. I'm deffo thankful for being in a pretty cool environment though. From 5th grade when a teacher got me volumes of Naruto as an academic for classes to hanging at family friend's places enjoying anime games, it was just a good time. I'm also just thankful that I was thankfully in a pretty welcoming community when it came to animation alongside video games too. It's something that shocks whenever I hear stories of folks who had environments where someone couldn't really be an anime fan without being made fun of. In my case though, would just be watching some episodes of FMA, Arpeggio of Blue Steel, Angel Beats, alongside others while chilling at lunch, gym class, practice, etc. I only hope for people growing up enjoying anime that they're in more inclusive environments when it comes to their interests. It can suck to not be able to open about that.
Watching anime on Latin American television on the 2000s was a fascinating experience, there were still plenty of old shows from the 90s that were getting dubs like Yu Yu Hakusho and Gundam Wing, which were recorded in Cuernavaca, Mexico and were shown on Cartoon Network. The cult TV channel Locomotion got bought by Sony as was rebranded as Animax Latin America and almost all of the new anime shown there were dubbed in Venezuela For some reason dubs made in Mexico City, despite being the place with the most well known voice actors live, were getting very few new anime. Don't know if it was because licenses were getting more expensive, but aside from some shows like Death Note, Naruto and Bleach, lots of famous anime from the 2000s like Haruhi Suzumiya, Code Geass and Gurren Lagann were never dubbed into Neutral Spanish. It was only recently that shows like Black Butler, Soul Eater, Full Moon wo Sagashite, Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, Natsume Book of Friends, Eiken, Casshern Sins and some others titles from many years ago got dubbed thanks to streaming services like Anime Onegai and Funimation
Speaking as a Pole, I still remember randomly catching Shaman King when tuning on Jetix and being absolutely blown away every time. It was THE big anime for the 2000s kids here and I remember tuning in on every possible rerun and later marathoning it on third-party sites to see where the story goes. And of course also having my own Pokémon and Naruto phases and marathoning those too. A bit after that, I also fondly remember the weekends when my sister and I would visit my dad's apartment and she would pick some anime series that we would both watch on a projector and freak out about. She's mainly why I primarily associate that time period with series like Soul Eater, D.Gray-man, Black Butler or my beloved Pandora Hearts, the latter which stuck out in my mind for so many years that I decided to fully read the manga one day and it became one of my favourite stories ever. Not to mention the Ghibli films. I fondly remember the three of us watching Spirited Away and then my having nightmares about it because it was so weird but so pretty and exciting in its weirdness, and I think it may have been the one thing that really kicstarted my interest in animanga. 2000s-early 10s anime were such a different vibe and I miss it dearly.
*cries in watching anime in the 90s OLD* i was a preteen and teen for 2000s anime. 90s anime was Tenchi Muyo (yay harem anime), the original run of Sailor Moon, plus offshoots of 80s animes and western animation: think Mobile Suit Gundam and Thundercats.
I was a big you gi oh kid, and then one random night I decided to stay up ad watch adult swim before going to bed, which also happened to be the first episode of Naruto to premier in the US, and i was hooked ever since.
Only at the begining, but watching the intro also blasted me back to the past of early mid 2000s RUclips. Watching Naruto subbed in 10 part episides, and the struggle of making sure the next part you watched was A) the same episode and B) the same creator so you didn't miss or rewatch scenes. 😂😂😂
You have opened the Pandora's box that is my memories of anime. Even though my experiences were different from yours due to being younger, I can relate so much to this discovery of anime (Naruto was my first as well) and then the discovery that something even more amazing exists out there specifically formulated for me (shoujo) and immediately falling in love with it
I've been told I was a huge fan of sailor moon. But that was so early I don't even really remember it. As a Canadian I watched YTV. I didn't have some of the other channels at the time and they played Cardcapter, Inuyasha, Shaman King. And then I had a friend tell me to watch Naruto. And they played Bleach and FMA too.
I was actually scouring the comments hoping someone would mention it! I was so upset when Toonami was an afternoon block cuz I’d get home from school and always just catch the credits for Dragon Ball, so this became my go to when I stumbled upon it. This is where I caught Fruits Basket, Kodocha, Spiral, Dragon Ball S1 and Yu Yu Hakusho S1uncut, Blue Gender, and others. Really appreciated this block a ton.
That Pikachu toy from Burger King was so fun! And it worked YEARS after I got it. Plus, another Pikachu toy was a coin purse. I went around to my school teachers saying, "He's hungry." And I got a decent amount of money for those times😅 Good memories.
The manga came after the anime in that case. So it's one of those where the shojo-ish anime-original spawned a shonen manga. There are quite a few of these oddballs! Like Escaflowne, which was TV anime, then they made *both* a shonen & shojo manga.
@WaluigiFan1600Princess Tutu is a mindscrew, but a really amazing show. Plays around with a lot of magical girl tropes, yrs before Madoka Magica explored similar ground. Plus so much classical music & ballet "fanservice" 😍. Has one of my all-time favorite canon couples, that on-paper sounds like a crackfic, but they make it work 💜
@WaluigiFan1600not the person who you asked but if you don’t mind me butting in (if you do mind I guess just ignore me 😂) I’d say Rayearth (an isekai with a great plot twist season one), Utena (bonkers, dark and psychological) or Lyrical nanoha (it’s fascinating to see how much it crosses genres over time). It depends on your taste in magical girls
@WaluigiFan1600 What are your tastes in magical girl series? There's fantasy & sci-fi, dark & cute, more kid-friendly and more grown-up oriented, etc. Can +1 Rayearth, as it's fantasy & by the same folks (CLAMP) as CCSakura. Mai-HiME is a dark sci-fi mecha one, good if you liked Madoka Magica. Is this a Zombie? is a gender-bent zany horror-ish comedy, bit on the grown-up/fanservice side. There are also series like Yona of the Dawn and Noragami, or isekai like Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent, that have elements in common with magical-girl series, but are more focused on the world and serious action-drama - good if you liked that aspect of say, Sailor Moon.
I first encountered anime watching DBZ with my older brother, but Magical Doremi was the first anime I was actively into. I remember watching subbed episodes on YT in those good ol’ 10-minute chunks! As an adult, it’s admittedly kinda hard to like anime outside of online spaces. Going to an anime store is weird since it’s mostly teenagers and 90% of the merch is Demon Slayer and Attack on Titan while the rest is Sailor Moon and DBZ. Not to say those shows aren’t great, it just makes it hard when you don’t enjoy those properties and you leave the store empty handed.
This is making me nostalgic 🥰 I was lucky enough to have a group of friends so we would all buy dvds and manga and swap them around the group. I would also go to the local dvd store and library and rent out all of their tiny anime selection. I miss the sheer excitement I used to feel because anime was so rare back then. Finding merch or a small manga section in a bookstore felt like Christmas 🥹❤️
I didn't get into Toonami much, because I would KO by 10pm when Peter Griffin or Hank Hill came on. Aside from 4Kids, I did end up discovering more anime through Anime Network and Funimation on Demand. There were shows I definitely *should not* have watched at the wee age of 9 💀, but I did end up finding some memorable anime that still have a place in my heart. Maid-sama, Angel Beats, Wedding Peach, Mahoromatic, Azumanga Daioh, Gakuen Alice, HelI Girl, and Popotan, just to name a few. Half of these I don't even remember the plot, I just remember crying so they must've been good. 😭 4:26 I feel like I had an unreasonable amount of excitement seeing Sonic Advance 3 on a Game Boy Advance SP
Like many young boys who were born around the same time as me or older, I was watching Dragon Ball Z on Toonami and things like Naruto, Saturday morning cartoons and stuff like you said I didn't discover manga till later tho. I remember being a teen wanting to watch Naruto once again like you said, I would watch them in parts on RUclips then I couldn't find the rest and sailed the high seas to find the rest of the series and then on i found many anime from Death Note, Soul Eater and eventually coming to find out things like Prince of Tennis, Inuyasha, Bleach and more were actually anime. Lastly similar to other people it was hard to find my place within friends but I eventually found some and was able to find my true self as today I like to collect manga, Figures, and Blu ray anime and movies.
OMG lowering the volume to barely audible is such a vibe. I probably missed so much on auditory storytelling as a child/teen because I just relied on the subs to tell me whatever was going on 😂
Anime and Manga has been around my whole life, definitely because im from SE Asia so its just a part of life. Depending on the generation the most popular animes are utraman, voltes 5, slamdunk, one piece and code geass. Shows were not limited to shonen, though still more popular I willl say. Though I am also a shoujo girly I love magical girls anime like azumanga dioh and mermaid melody. The most popular shoujo is sailor moon. Honestly it's sort of a culture shock to learn the american weebs stereotype of anime fans as nerdy outcasts. Even more surprising to learn that somewhere out there, there used to be a place where anime and manga is considered niche.
Anime is rarely seen on TV where I live, but I did watch a lot of it on DVD back in the 00s, either buying it myself or borrowing from people at college. Weirdly most of my favourite 00s titles I didn't discover until years later.
love hearing your experience what i've always loved about anime, video games, music, art, and other culture was its ability to unite different poeple through shared interest, I'm embarrassed for how short sighted i was as a young man ide like to think a large part of my growth came from being exposed to eastern philosphy, leftist principles, and even romance through these pieces of media.
I got started several years before Adult Swim when there was almost nothing on TV and I ended up mostly having to buy VHS tapes once I quickly burned through the handful of titles available at the library and at Blockbuster. Once the Adult Swim Saturday night block started, I would actually tape it every week because I couldn't believe they were just giving so much anime away that could normally go for thirty bucks for a few episodes. I still have a few of those tapes and they're fun to revisit for the bumps and commercials from the era.
Man. I wish when discovering things was exciting. I guess it occasionally happens, but it's so much rarer now, and feels completely different. Nostalgia's a monster.
Seeing those Jump Magazines, especially the Ultimo one, was a whole trip for my brain. I was definitely in all that during the same time frame as you. It's wild to see you talk about it.
Also, I ended up doing the youtube hunt in the old days for all of Hellsing because my parents wouldn't let me buy it once they saw the manga was in plastic packaging with a big M on the front. hahhahah
I love learning about somebody else's anime journey. Especially someone younger with a different less drawn from exposure to different shows/movies than I grew up with It's fascinating and heartwarming. Great video! I was a late 80s/early 90s kid Paul spent their childhood travelling the world being inadvertently exposed to anime that was often already twenty or so years older. It out a spark in my imagination that can never be extinguished.
Yes Sailor Moon literally got me through middle school spending weekends on my computer watching the 90s anime sub was definitely my comfort show and I could relate to all the characters even the villains when I couldn’t relate to anyone else at the time I’ll never forget discovering the series the day I graduated elementary in like 2010
I was too young to grow up on anything adult swim and too locked into Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network to watch anime. Mostly just pokemon on cn. But it all changed when I caught dbz Kai on the 4kids toonzai block. Like other young Mexicans, I have successfully checked it off the list of things I need to grow up on. Since then I remember the tail end of anime internet of the late 2000s. Facebook amv reposts, 3 part split cropped anime on RUclips, channels like the anime man and mother basement. An interesting time for the anime industry that earned its nostalgia. It was something special
My earliest experience with anime was in kindergarten or preschool. I caught Dragon Ball Z on Toomami one day and it was the start of Goku vs Kid Buu on the Sacred World of the Kai. The moment the mantle of the planet starts breaking apart and Kid Buu laughs as the destruction raises him and Goku into the sky captured me, and I've been an anime fan ever since. Outside of that it helped that my dad would watch Speed Racer with me when it ran on the Speed Channel back in the day
I have such a weird history with anime haha. But I did get my start with Sailor Moon on Cartoon Network! And I also watched Yugioh occasionally to be more of a tomboy and know what my guy friends were talking about. DBZ was also on in the background at times cause my guy cousins watched it, and I also did watch Pokémon. But after they stopped showing Sailor Moon or Disney Channel really started popping off (can’t remember which happened first), I stopped watching anime for two reasons: I didn’t know where to find it online & I knew the stereotype of otaku/weebs & didn’t wanna be associated with that so I suppressed wanting to watch anime from high school until a few years ago. My husband got me to watch Your Name & I fell in love & decided to embrace watching anime full-on. I watched the older shoujo like Maid-Sama and Ouran HSHC, but I was also able to catch Fruba as it was being rereleased in 2019. Nowadays I try to find at least one show to watch every season, but I usually end up with a cycle of having a lot to watch one season, not watching any at all the next, then finding one show I love the next & repeating. I’m currently in that one-show season with Apothecary Diaries.
I remember how as a middle schooler my school's library had a subscription to Shonen Jump so every month they got 2 or 3 of the latest issues. I had to be fast in order to check them out, but most of the time someone always beat me to it. I also remember really loving Tegami Bachi/Letter Bee. It wasn't til recently that I found out it got an anime adaptation so that made me feel giddy like when I was a middle schooler again
This was such a great video! I remember when I’d come home to watch Toonami or the Saturday morning “cartoons” which were really anime haha those were the days…
I used to wake up early to watch Sailor Moon at 5am, I still remember it used to come on after Bananas in Pajamas 😂 I would watch it then go back to sleep for elementary school.
Great video as always keep it up you do a great job explaining the world of Anime. I remember watching these Anime's on watching Adult Swim. Like you I had to sneak around trying to watch some of these shows. 😁
I started out with sailor moon when I was a kid and then digimon as I got older. I was in anime club for a bit 😂 I loved drawing those kinds of characters. I discovered Ouran highschool host club on Netflix back when you could still get DVDs, it was a reawakening and I identified with her a lot. I had gotten into kdramas in high school and I think its format reminded me of that. I think as an adult I've more so enjoyed Ghibli movies for my anime consumption but it's been interesting to see the growth in anime fandom when growing up people would literally make fun of people in anime club 😅
Most of what you said were things i also thought about, exactly what was in my head. Some differences though like Animax was an important channel in my introduction to the world of anime.
I didn't understand how tv worked as a kid (didn't know what a remote did cuz my older brother never gave it to me) so i skipped that era and joined thru the youtube episode parts. :)
i love the animes from the 80´s but for me the peak was the end of the 90´s and the early years of the 20´s, by then the creators were boiling with good ideas like FMA, Elfen Lied, Lain etc etc etc
Naruto had a such a different vibe when it was new. Once the anime got an English dub is when it started to get weird and slowly turned into a bait and switch. By the late 2000s, I found myself wondering, "what am I even reading anymore?" Other trending shows around that time I like that come to mind include .hack//SIGN, Zoids, Wolf's Rain, and Initial D. The early 2000s were cozy times for anime, manga, and video games. I have a sister, so she got me familiar with series like Sailor Moon, Love Hina, and Azumanga Daioh. Even though I'm too busy these days to watch anime, I still try to catch up with the 80s, 90s, and 00s shows that I missed before moving on to modern shows. The newest anime I ever watched was Little Witch Academia.
So true anime was so inacessible. I had to wait every friday in Canada to watch Inuyasha and Gundam seed. And they didnt even order the episodes of inuyasha in order sometimes!
Watching anime back then was SUCH a process you had to be intentional about! Nowadays you can think up anything and find it available to watch in streaming. Which I love ofc. Back I remember walking to the video store with my friends even just one decade ago, and we would go back and forth about which anime to rent for that weekend. I remember bringing home ones I had never seen before only to pop them in and hear the most god awful recorded in a shower english dubs. Ah those were the days lol. And coming from Japan to America felt like it took so long! I would read about a new series in the works in something like OtakuUSA and I’d be waiting for crumbs for up to a year! And I was content with that! How lol? Things used to be so intentional like I said and so physical, I think that is what really holds charm to those old memories for me
Not only did my family not have cable TV growing up, I was very much not allowed to watch anime or read manga. My little nerdy heart still found a way, however! Thankfully I had some friends with access to manga, and they very kindly lent me volumes of Fruits Basket, Red River, Wallflower, W Juliet, and more! When I went away to college, I finally had unfettered access to the internet, which meant I spent most of my free time on extremely sus fan-dub and scan-lation sites, watching and reading everything I could. I've no idea how my poor computer escaped unscathed ^_^'
Guys I have a question. I'm not from the US so I don't know of this. But is Saint Seiya popular in the US? Here in Brasil it is REALLY popular, but I don't remember EVER hearing americans talking about it. I think Saint Seiya was the original mahou shounen in some ways. Pretty boys, transformations, flowy long hair. You know?
They did bring it to the States, branded as Knights of the Zodiac, and cut up to hell & back. Not quite as badly as Cardcaptor Sakura, but a similar deal where they wanted to make it more "boy-friendly". There are US fans of both the original and recut versions, but it never got anywhere near as popular as it is in Latin America.
This is the most wholesome comment section i’ve ever seen. Also the creator of Eureka Seven is a nut. “Oh, so you found meaning in my work? Fuck you and fuck that. My art is pointless muahahaha” 😂
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Yes!!!! I didn't have cable, only the free channels, so I could only tune in on Saturdays for 4kids. In 2006-2009 i discovered that channel 64(?) on my tv was the Funimation Channel and that opened up a new portal for my childhood 😫 Fruits Basket, Kodocha, Eureka 7, His & Her Circumstances, Spiral, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and so much more, i was GLUED to that channel every chance i got after school
Wait you didn’t have cable but you had FUNimation?! What the fuck! I had cable (when we could afford it) but DIDNT have FUNimation! That’s like being poor, but you have a pet goose that makes golden eggs!
SPIRAL
I used to role play on MySpace and I had a group of friends and we’d all get on group call and sing the op “SEARCHING FOR NEW WOOOORRRLLLDDD”
I wasn't around to follow and be nostalgic, but looking back the year 2006 is just amazing, a banger after another in anime. And ADV was releasing good dubs of older shows like Shadow Skill. Another great year was 2011.
Hataraki Man was a big voice with me opening up to various ways of life and representation, much better than the cancel culture goons crying about there not being enough gender inclusion. Now it carries over to me watching stuff like Welcome to the Ballroom and Youkai Apartment.
Early RUclips was where I finally got to watch sailor moon all the way through back in the day. I think each episode was clipped into 3 videos.
My experience was very similar to yours. I grew up watching 4kids with Mew Mew Power (Tokyo Mew Mew) Sailor Moon etc. then graduated on to Toonami with Naruto and InuYasha. Those were great times. Plus watching AMVs during the early days of RUclips as well as searching for full episodes. Thanks for this trip down memory lane 🩵
Love this! I rambled way too much for this video but AMV RUclips deserves its own deep dive
Oh my god, those golden days of the Naruto AMVs.. that was my chidhood
Watching anime back in the early 2000s really was something else. I grew up in Canada so we didn't have Toonami but we had YTV which had its own anime programing time. inuyasha, Naruto around 7-8 and after 9pm there was witch hunter Robin and ergo proxy and of course wolfs Rain! Man, so many memories.
Nice to meet a fellow Canadian from that era!😊
Wolf's rain! That took me Back!
@@MrAfriCTube ❤
This was me! I got into anime through this block to watch Gundam Seed, Inuyasha and Witch Hunter Robin.
When I was a kid I wasn't allowed to watch anime or read manga or any of it, so every day at daycare or school I was 10000% trying to practically memorize the panels of my friends' Shounen Jumps-- especially Bleach.
My local library recently started to grow its manga section before the big shift online, but I'm glad it's there for kids like me who might have parents that don't quite get what them there Japanese animes is
The library's almost always got kids' backs, I love them for that
The bleach panels always will be STUNNING! I appreciate library’s so much for allowing nerdy little kids to find and read manga. Shout to whoever set that in motion
As a kid, I also wasn't allowed to watch anime because some of it had weird inappropriate scenes so I would sneak in a closet and watch it pirated
You unlocked a core memory when you said bobobo Bo bobobo 😭😂😂😂
I absolutely loved Eureka Seven's aesthetic, probably my favourite in all Mecha anime, tho i've only watched the series once, compared to my current favourite mecha anime right now which is Gundam The Witch from Mercury.
A 2000's anime that I love is Planetes, a really underrated hard-scifi anime about space garbage collecters, has a big diverse cast, and was by the mangaka of Vinland Saga
Yes a fellow Eureka 7 fan! It’s worth a rewatch, though I will say some characters may get on your nerves 😂 Witch from Mercury is also my current mecha favorite. And definitely adding Planetes to my watch list thanks for the Rec!
@@TheAnimeTea It's funny cuz I do remember watching a movie about Eureka Seven, but I can't remember if it was like one of those movies that's basically a feature length version of the entire series that some anime get, like Madoka, Berserk or Gurren Lagann, or if it was a sequel that sorta showed what happened right after the finale.
I've actually rewatched Gundam Witch a couple times already just from how good it was on that 1st viewing. Definitely need to do the same with Eureka
@@TheAnimeTeano doubt, the characters bugged me to no end….but the music had me, and I couldn’t look away. Especially that Opening and Ending combo of “Shounen Heart” and ”Fly Away” when I heard it on adult swim (even though they were only short versions for broadcast). Dug the vibe so much I turned my tv up so my mom would hear Fly Away from my room, and even she dug it.
to this day, Paranoia Agent and Eureka Seven are two of my top 4 anime. Will never forget "anime saturdays." Being like 9 years old, popping some popcorn, and sitting glued to the TV in the living room for hours and watching every show that came in, regardless of what anime it was. I grew up in a town of 400, so not many anime fans there, but we sure banded together in middle school.
I miss the old anime culture. Sure it was gatekept hard but there was something special about how awkward almost all of us were.
Or was it enabling precarious, colonial immoral selfish and/or anti-social paraphillia, underneath the emotional stimulation overload of multicolored chaos?
The zombiebeats2000 channel is peak old anime culture.
I looooved Toonami growing up.. I remember rushing to turn on the TV Saturday nights so I wouldn’t miss the big hits. Toonami and 4kids was so influential, and I was in the same boat turning some of the shows down so my parents wouldn’t hear the occasional bad words or see the early ecchi scenes 😭
Also, I felt like I was the only passionate bobobo-bobo-bobo fan back then. That show was too wacky and funny and an underrated gem lol
My official introduction to anime was Mobile Suit Gundam Wing in 1997, but Cowboy Bebop debuted during my senior year of high school and it changed my life. I went off to college a few months later and didn't keep up with anim, but I'd come home for holidays or the summer and watch Cartoon Network with my youngest sister - she was a huge Inuyasha fan. I started watching Fooly Cooly, but OHSHC made me a permanent anime fan. Thank you for this trip down memory lane.
Anime led me to true friends I've now had for 20+yrs! I don't think it's something you need to "grow out of" if it's fun and not interfering with work/life needs. Also, I remember going to conference panels with librarians back in those days - they often don't know what series to buy, so they will likely welcome any suggestions you give!
This video took me on a massive nostalgia trip. Anime in the 2000's was such a magical time. The ease of accessibility of anime through the internet today kinda lost said magic it had, but at the same time, it helps expose WAY more people to the not only great anime of the past, but some new gems that I've currently been enjoying like Spy X Family, My Dress-Up Darling, Hi-Score Girl and Chainsaw Man. And Toonami, despite being cancelled for a moment in time, is now back stronger than ever because of how huge anime has become today.
Thank you for sharing your anime experience with us!
2000s anime still had the 90s anime feel for a good while, then it went mostly digital soon after.
While we’re living in a golden age of streaming by being able to watch whatever anime we want both when and wherever, there was still something magical about only being able to watch anime on whatever tv channels you had available, or buying $30 dvds from FYE without really knowing what you were getting into. My choices for tv stations back then were KidsWB!, Cartoon Network, 4kids TV, and Jetix.
Started with Sailor Moon and Pokemon and it turned into a lifelong fan. Ended up meeting my husband at an anime convention 7 years ago and we are currently watching through One Piece for the first time together. We still attend anime cons and cosplay throughout the year with a large group of friends ^_^
Great video! When you said you had to lower the volume to 6 just to watch the late night anime it brought back a lot of ptsd trying to watch bleach lol.
I have had extreme fondness for this era since it made me an anime and manga fan as a kid. Although, In Canada, it was a little bit different. We had our own late-night programming block called Bionix (sadly, it has yet to be revived) from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. 🤣I remember watching Naruto, Bleach and Ghost in the Shell and turning down the volume when the Viewer Discretion Advised warning came on so I wouldn't have to turn it off. Reading The American version of Shonen Jump at the store, begging my mom to buy every issue and watching AMVS on RUclips also come to mind when I think of the 2000s.'
Nostalgia is such a powerful emotion...
FMA Brotherhood and the OG anime along with the manga will 1000% be one of my most favorite first anime I have seen.
I can't explain what I felt the first time I watched InuYasha on TV, I was on a trance, couldn't take my eyes off of the screen.
Listen! Every single OP and EP on inuyasha was magical. I remover having to wake up at 5am to watch the 2 episodes of inuyasha, sleep for another hour then go to school
@@ayshagayleagreed I still listen to them and sing along ❤
I regularly rented Sailor moon and the Digimon movie from my library, something about them felt so comforting and magical. Looking back I’m lucky to have had such specific but iconic media shaping my taste in anime
Renting anime dvds from the library as a kid would have been amazing. It’s awesome to hear that there were places that did that
A channel I used to watch anime on was the Syfy channel, specifically on their animonday block. I watched a lot of shows that I was probably way to young to fully grasp like Monster and Descendants of Darkness which flew way over my head, but I had a blast. Something I think back on was how my siblings would search for youtube on our Wii and in an hour or so we could watch part 1/16 of some anime. If we were lucky, we could watch the second part with minimal buffering.
My first exposure to manga was at my local libraries where I found Pokemon Manga (I was really into Pokemon at the time) and I was introduced to a new world of anime and manga from then on. I later was introduced to Shoujo manga with ChocoMimi, a certified classic in my eyes as another side to manga that is much girlier and even prettier. I enjoyed it a lot, and its history. This video was really relatable to me as well!! ^ - ^
YES!! My anime experience was kind of similar to yours, except I grew up in the church and being involved in dang near every church activity stopped me from watching a lot of anime. BUT from 7:00pm to 2:00am, I got away with watching Toonami and Adult Swim uninterrupted on Saturdays. Also does anyone else remember Encore Wam? They used to have an anime block on weekdays. Wherever I could, I used to sneak into my foster parent's room and watch an hour or two of anime 😂
Bobobo bo bo bo bo was the most unhinged thing to ever exist I don't care. You really pulled that from the recesses of my brain😅
FMA brotherhood was the first anime I came across by accident after staying up all night as a child. I miss that nostalgia watching that along with Maid Sama, Ouran high school, and Inuyasha
Eureka Seven is goated even today as an adult.
This gave me such good memories of reading my friend’s Shojo Beat magazine before they discontinued it
Yooo, watching this as a 25 year old man has really touched my heart. My first anime was inuyasha back in like 04/05, and I've been in love ever since. I thank inuysha for my love of shojo lol. I know it's labeled a Shonen, but in my op, it's more shojo than Shonen. Danm I remember watching FLCL the first time and learning about traits of toxic masculinity. Watching bleach for the first time and just really relating to ichigo and his goals to protect wat he loves. Growing up, anime has taught me so many self values and I just really appreciate it. Idk where I'd be without it. AWSOME VIDEO!❤
This was a delight. There's an earnest charm in your straight forward, unadorned editing and writing which never had me thinking that you needed to reach to make the account of your experience more interesting.
The week before I started 1st grade my dad made me sing the sailor moon theme song while walking to and from school to memorize the route because he couldn’t afford to pick me up/drop me off. I always had a snack and sailor moon time when I got home so you best believe my toddler self was ALWAYS making it home safe 😆
Love this! I have so many good memories of staying up late to watch shows with my younger brother. Early 2000s we would also record the shows on our DVR just so we could re-watch them again and again until the next new episode came on. You mentioned Shonen Jump but did you ever have a Shojo Beat subscription? So sad they eventually discontinued it but it was so much fun while it lasted ^_^ Ahhhh, and Eureka 7! Yesssss I'm overdue for a re-watch on that one.
3:55 I remember thinking that Orange Sun Dude and Ristar were the same person
This video took me back to the year 2 (2nd grade), my first introductions to anime were from Jetix. I'm from the UK and Jetix was a channel where they would air anime/cartoons together. Shaman king was the first anime I watched where I followed the storyline to the tee. I would rewatch it over again to see what I missed out on. It was such a fun time. The channel would also air shows like Sonic X and Oban Star racers. Cartoon network had a toomani block too where I would watch the original Digimon, Yugioh, Dragon Ball Z, but I fell off of watching it in order. Also there was a channel named Popgirl which aired shoujo/magical animes like Mew Mew power and Pretty Cure. After as a teen I started finding animes to watch on my own. Thank you for this lovely video.
I loved bo bobo bobobobo when I was younger haha! The intro slapped. I was introduced to anime from an older brother and cousins who loved DBZ, and I picked up on the shows and games. But when I saw the manga for Naruto in a Walmart I begged my mom to buy it and bam, I was hooked. And it was so cool to have an anime I could watch the new dub to every week on toonami. I also have a similar “George Lopez” type of wake ups in the middle of the night but instead of George Lopez it was either the intro or outro to Inuyasha and I enjoyed watching that one even though I never knew the plot.
Loved your video! Very nostalgic :)
My first anime besides Yu-gi-yoh and pokemon (but that was more my brother), was this obscure little anime called SF Saiyuki Starzinger that my aunt had on VHS. It was only 8 episodes but it was like nothing else I had ever seen, then a few years later my dad got them on CD for me with even more episodes. 70's anime that got cheaply dubbed to Swedish in the 80's and remained in stores for another few decades. Weird I tell you.
Then the first anime/manga that I knew was anime/manga was Inuyasha. I some beef with that show but I still hold a nostalgic love for it.
THIS hit me hard! Haha I Still remember in 2006 when I found a channel called Funimation on TV and I instantly got addicted. I was only 7 at the time but I remember waking up at like 4am on weekends to watch School Rumble, Ouran High-school Host club, Fruits basket and I believe Pucca. The characters and art style just felt so unique and refreshing from American cartoons. Finally figuring out its called Anime I was in the youtube rabbit hole lol from Evangelion, FLCL, Suzumiya Haruhi, Azumanga omg what a childhood. I leaned heavily towards the romance genre above all the other shows which made it hard as a boy especially during these times (Thank god my parents never walked in on any Beach Episodes!) but now thankfully genres feel more open to anyone these days. Great video though loved the trip down nostalgia lane!
Firstly, such a comfy video RUclips reced me today, good stuff. But secondly, man I feel I had two starts with anime. One of them being that childhood period of watching on tv, mainly through Toonami/Adult Swim for me too but occasionally FoxBox as well. However the other time was during highschool, where after a bit of a hiatus, specifically during the hype train of S1 of Attack on Titan, well let's just say I never looked back after that.
I'm deffo thankful for being in a pretty cool environment though. From 5th grade when a teacher got me volumes of Naruto as an academic for classes to hanging at family friend's places enjoying anime games, it was just a good time. I'm also just thankful that I was thankfully in a pretty welcoming community when it came to animation alongside video games too. It's something that shocks whenever I hear stories of folks who had environments where someone couldn't really be an anime fan without being made fun of. In my case though, would just be watching some episodes of FMA, Arpeggio of Blue Steel, Angel Beats, alongside others while chilling at lunch, gym class, practice, etc.
I only hope for people growing up enjoying anime that they're in more inclusive environments when it comes to their interests. It can suck to not be able to open about that.
This was a nice trip down memory lane. Eureka Seven is actually my favorite anime of all time. Let's just not talk about those movies. lol
The sadness when Eureka Seven ended
The music ...the angst
What a wonderful video! I loved hearing about your experiences and made me want to do a video about my experiences/what it was like in latinamerica.
Watching anime on Latin American television on the 2000s was a fascinating experience, there were still plenty of old shows from the 90s that were getting dubs like Yu Yu Hakusho and Gundam Wing, which were recorded in Cuernavaca, Mexico and were shown on Cartoon Network.
The cult TV channel Locomotion got bought by Sony as was rebranded as Animax Latin America and almost all of the new anime shown there were dubbed in Venezuela
For some reason dubs made in Mexico City, despite being the place with the most well known voice actors live, were getting very few new anime. Don't know if it was because licenses were getting more expensive, but aside from some shows like Death Note, Naruto and Bleach, lots of famous anime from the 2000s like Haruhi Suzumiya, Code Geass and Gurren Lagann were never dubbed into Neutral Spanish. It was only recently that shows like Black Butler, Soul Eater, Full Moon wo Sagashite, Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, Natsume Book of Friends, Eiken, Casshern Sins and some others titles from many years ago got dubbed thanks to streaming services like Anime Onegai and Funimation
Oh and thank you for mentioning Eureka Seven
Speaking as a Pole, I still remember randomly catching Shaman King when tuning on Jetix and being absolutely blown away every time. It was THE big anime for the 2000s kids here and I remember tuning in on every possible rerun and later marathoning it on third-party sites to see where the story goes. And of course also having my own Pokémon and Naruto phases and marathoning those too.
A bit after that, I also fondly remember the weekends when my sister and I would visit my dad's apartment and she would pick some anime series that we would both watch on a projector and freak out about. She's mainly why I primarily associate that time period with series like Soul Eater, D.Gray-man, Black Butler or my beloved Pandora Hearts, the latter which stuck out in my mind for so many years that I decided to fully read the manga one day and it became one of my favourite stories ever. Not to mention the Ghibli films. I fondly remember the three of us watching Spirited Away and then my having nightmares about it because it was so weird but so pretty and exciting in its weirdness, and I think it may have been the one thing that really kicstarted my interest in animanga.
2000s-early 10s anime were such a different vibe and I miss it dearly.
*cries in watching anime in the 90s OLD* i was a preteen and teen for 2000s anime. 90s anime was Tenchi Muyo (yay harem anime), the original run of Sailor Moon, plus offshoots of 80s animes and western animation: think Mobile Suit Gundam and Thundercats.
I was a big you gi oh kid, and then one random night I decided to stay up ad watch adult swim before going to bed, which also happened to be the first episode of Naruto to premier in the US, and i was hooked ever since.
Only at the begining, but watching the intro also blasted me back to the past of early mid 2000s RUclips. Watching Naruto subbed in 10 part episides, and the struggle of making sure the next part you watched was A) the same episode and B) the same creator so you didn't miss or rewatch scenes. 😂😂😂
You have opened the Pandora's box that is my memories of anime. Even though my experiences were different from yours due to being younger, I can relate so much to this discovery of anime (Naruto was my first as well) and then the discovery that something even more amazing exists out there specifically formulated for me (shoujo) and immediately falling in love with it
I've been told I was a huge fan of sailor moon. But that was so early I don't even really remember it. As a Canadian I watched YTV. I didn't have some of the other channels at the time and they played Cardcapter, Inuyasha, Shaman King. And then I had a friend tell me to watch Naruto. And they played Bleach and FMA too.
This is so nostalgia, thank you for the video, and keep up the great work, love your content @TheAnimeTea
Thanks for watching!
Am I the only one who remembers watching Colours TV with the Funimation block? I remember watching Dragon Ball and Yu Yu Hakusho there.
I was actually scouring the comments hoping someone would mention it! I was so upset when Toonami was an afternoon block cuz I’d get home from school and always just catch the credits for Dragon Ball, so this became my go to when I stumbled upon it.
This is where I caught Fruits Basket, Kodocha, Spiral, Dragon Ball S1 and Yu Yu Hakusho S1uncut, Blue Gender, and others. Really appreciated this block a ton.
@@Manuel_SJrJr Yeah, it brings so much memories watching that back then. Especially that they aired anime on weekdays and Saturdays.
That Pikachu toy from Burger King was so fun! And it worked YEARS after I got it. Plus, another Pikachu toy was a coin purse. I went around to my school teachers saying, "He's hungry." And I got a decent amount of money for those times😅 Good memories.
Fun fact:Princess tutu is a shounen.
my mind has been blown, thanks for clarification!
The manga came after the anime in that case. So it's one of those where the shojo-ish anime-original spawned a shonen manga. There are quite a few of these oddballs! Like Escaflowne, which was TV anime, then they made *both* a shonen & shojo manga.
@WaluigiFan1600Princess Tutu is a mindscrew, but a really amazing show. Plays around with a lot of magical girl tropes, yrs before Madoka Magica explored similar ground. Plus so much classical music & ballet "fanservice" 😍.
Has one of my all-time favorite canon couples, that on-paper sounds like a crackfic, but they make it work 💜
@WaluigiFan1600not the person who you asked but if you don’t mind me butting in (if you do mind I guess just ignore me 😂) I’d say Rayearth (an isekai with a great plot twist season one), Utena (bonkers, dark and psychological) or Lyrical nanoha (it’s fascinating to see how much it crosses genres over time). It depends on your taste in magical girls
@WaluigiFan1600 What are your tastes in magical girl series? There's fantasy & sci-fi, dark & cute, more kid-friendly and more grown-up oriented, etc. Can +1 Rayearth, as it's fantasy & by the same folks (CLAMP) as CCSakura.
Mai-HiME is a dark sci-fi mecha one, good if you liked Madoka Magica.
Is this a Zombie? is a gender-bent zany horror-ish comedy, bit on the grown-up/fanservice side.
There are also series like Yona of the Dawn and Noragami, or isekai like Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent, that have elements in common with magical-girl series, but are more focused on the world and serious action-drama - good if you liked that aspect of say, Sailor Moon.
I’ve been waiting a minute for someone to make a video about growing up with anime in the 2000’s , this was so great 🔥🔥🙌❤️
I first encountered anime watching DBZ with my older brother, but Magical Doremi was the first anime I was actively into. I remember watching subbed episodes on YT in those good ol’ 10-minute chunks!
As an adult, it’s admittedly kinda hard to like anime outside of online spaces. Going to an anime store is weird since it’s mostly teenagers and 90% of the merch is Demon Slayer and Attack on Titan while the rest is Sailor Moon and DBZ. Not to say those shows aren’t great, it just makes it hard when you don’t enjoy those properties and you leave the store empty handed.
This is making me nostalgic 🥰
I was lucky enough to have a group of friends so we would all buy dvds and manga and swap them around the group. I would also go to the local dvd store and library and rent out all of their tiny anime selection. I miss the sheer excitement I used to feel because anime was so rare back then. Finding merch or a small manga section in a bookstore felt like Christmas 🥹❤️
I didn't get into Toonami much, because I would KO by 10pm when Peter Griffin or Hank Hill came on. Aside from 4Kids, I did end up discovering more anime through Anime Network and Funimation on Demand. There were shows I definitely *should not* have watched at the wee age of 9 💀, but I did end up finding some memorable anime that still have a place in my heart. Maid-sama, Angel Beats, Wedding Peach, Mahoromatic, Azumanga Daioh, Gakuen Alice, HelI Girl, and Popotan, just to name a few. Half of these I don't even remember the plot, I just remember crying so they must've been good. 😭
4:26 I feel like I had an unreasonable amount of excitement seeing Sonic Advance 3 on a Game Boy Advance SP
Like many young boys who were born around the same time as me or older, I was watching Dragon Ball Z on Toonami and things like Naruto, Saturday morning cartoons and stuff like you said I didn't discover manga till later tho. I remember being a teen wanting to watch Naruto once again like you said, I would watch them in parts on RUclips then I couldn't find the rest and sailed the high seas to find the rest of the series and then on i found many anime from Death Note, Soul Eater and eventually coming to find out things like Prince of Tennis, Inuyasha, Bleach and more were actually anime. Lastly similar to other people it was hard to find my place within friends but I eventually found some and was able to find my true self as today I like to collect manga, Figures, and Blu ray anime and movies.
Bobobobobobobo, wow. Thank you for reminding me that this exists.
OMG lowering the volume to barely audible is such a vibe. I probably missed so much on auditory storytelling as a child/teen because I just relied on the subs to tell me whatever was going on 😂
Anime and Manga has been around my whole life, definitely because im from SE Asia so its just a part of life. Depending on the generation the most popular animes are utraman, voltes 5, slamdunk, one piece and code geass. Shows were not limited to shonen, though still more popular I willl say. Though I am also a shoujo girly I love magical girls anime like azumanga dioh and mermaid melody. The most popular shoujo is sailor moon. Honestly it's sort of a culture shock to learn the american weebs stereotype of anime fans as nerdy outcasts.
Even more surprising to learn that somewhere out there, there used to be a place where anime and manga is considered niche.
Anime is rarely seen on TV where I live, but I did watch a lot of it on DVD back in the 00s, either buying it myself or borrowing from people at college. Weirdly most of my favourite 00s titles I didn't discover until years later.
To my African brothers and sisters who watched the channel ANIMAX RISE UP!
love hearing your experience what i've always loved about anime, video games, music, art, and other culture was its ability to unite different poeple through shared interest, I'm embarrassed for how short sighted i was as a young man ide like to think a large part of my growth came from being exposed to eastern philosphy, leftist principles, and even romance through these pieces of media.
I got started several years before Adult Swim when there was almost nothing on TV and I ended up mostly having to buy VHS tapes once I quickly burned through the handful of titles available at the library and at Blockbuster. Once the Adult Swim Saturday night block started, I would actually tape it every week because I couldn't believe they were just giving so much anime away that could normally go for thirty bucks for a few episodes. I still have a few of those tapes and they're fun to revisit for the bumps and commercials from the era.
Bobobo is goated, I was obsessed with both it and Naruto around that era of Toonami.
Man. I wish when discovering things was exciting. I guess it occasionally happens, but it's so much rarer now, and feels completely different. Nostalgia's a monster.
Seeing those Jump Magazines, especially the Ultimo one, was a whole trip for my brain. I was definitely in all that during the same time frame as you. It's wild to see you talk about it.
Also, I ended up doing the youtube hunt in the old days for all of Hellsing because my parents wouldn't let me buy it once they saw the manga was in plastic packaging with a big M on the front. hahhahah
I love learning about somebody else's anime journey. Especially someone younger with a different less drawn from exposure to different shows/movies than I grew up with It's fascinating and heartwarming. Great video! I was a late 80s/early 90s kid Paul spent their childhood travelling the world being inadvertently exposed to anime that was often already twenty or so years older. It out a spark in my imagination that can never be extinguished.
Yes Sailor Moon literally got me through middle school spending weekends on my computer watching the 90s anime sub was definitely my comfort show and I could relate to all the characters even the villains when I couldn’t relate to anyone else at the time I’ll never forget discovering the series the day I graduated elementary in like 2010
I was too young to grow up on anything adult swim and too locked into Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network to watch anime. Mostly just pokemon on cn. But it all changed when I caught dbz Kai on the 4kids toonzai block. Like other young Mexicans, I have successfully checked it off the list of things I need to grow up on. Since then I remember the tail end of anime internet of the late 2000s. Facebook amv reposts, 3 part split cropped anime on RUclips, channels like the anime man and mother basement. An interesting time for the anime industry that earned its nostalgia. It was something special
My earliest experience with anime was in kindergarten or preschool. I caught Dragon Ball Z on Toomami one day and it was the start of Goku vs Kid Buu on the Sacred World of the Kai. The moment the mantle of the planet starts breaking apart and Kid Buu laughs as the destruction raises him and Goku into the sky captured me, and I've been an anime fan ever since. Outside of that it helped that my dad would watch Speed Racer with me when it ran on the Speed Channel back in the day
Excellent video recap review video
I have such a weird history with anime haha. But I did get my start with Sailor Moon on Cartoon Network! And I also watched Yugioh occasionally to be more of a tomboy and know what my guy friends were talking about. DBZ was also on in the background at times cause my guy cousins watched it, and I also did watch Pokémon.
But after they stopped showing Sailor Moon or Disney Channel really started popping off (can’t remember which happened first), I stopped watching anime for two reasons: I didn’t know where to find it online & I knew the stereotype of otaku/weebs & didn’t wanna be associated with that so I suppressed wanting to watch anime from high school until a few years ago. My husband got me to watch Your Name & I fell in love & decided to embrace watching anime full-on. I watched the older shoujo like Maid-Sama and Ouran HSHC, but I was also able to catch Fruba as it was being rereleased in 2019.
Nowadays I try to find at least one show to watch every season, but I usually end up with a cycle of having a lot to watch one season, not watching any at all the next, then finding one show I love the next & repeating. I’m currently in that one-show season with Apothecary Diaries.
I remember how as a middle schooler my school's library had a subscription to Shonen Jump so every month they got 2 or 3 of the latest issues. I had to be fast in order to check them out, but most of the time someone always beat me to it.
I also remember really loving Tegami Bachi/Letter Bee. It wasn't til recently that I found out it got an anime adaptation so that made me feel giddy like when I was a middle schooler again
I love meeting black people who relate to this passion. Anime and manga hit so different from live action and cartoons to me.
One of my first introduction to anime was watching detective conan in yt :')
Sadly got erased by copyright
I watch both Welcome to the NHK and Berserk on RUclips, good times.
This was such a great video! I remember when I’d come home to watch Toonami or the Saturday morning “cartoons” which were really anime haha those were the days…
I used to wake up early to watch Sailor Moon at 5am, I still remember it used to come on after Bananas in Pajamas 😂 I would watch it then go back to sleep for elementary school.
Great video as always keep it up you do a great job explaining the world of Anime. I remember watching these Anime's on watching Adult Swim. Like you I had to sneak around trying to watch some of these shows. 😁
I started out with sailor moon when I was a kid and then digimon as I got older. I was in anime club for a bit 😂 I loved drawing those kinds of characters. I discovered Ouran highschool host club on Netflix back when you could still get DVDs, it was a reawakening and I identified with her a lot. I had gotten into kdramas in high school and I think its format reminded me of that. I think as an adult I've more so enjoyed Ghibli movies for my anime consumption but it's been interesting to see the growth in anime fandom when growing up people would literally make fun of people in anime club 😅
It was like an experience to watch anime in several parts, I remember watching the rest of Tokyo mew mew on RUclips
Most of what you said were things i also thought about, exactly what was in my head. Some differences though like Animax was an important channel in my introduction to the world of anime.
Cartoon network was my cocaine, i remember gundam wing and all the drama and then Eureka seven is to this day my favorite anime, also my first manga
On the topic of Inuyasha - Koga was my childhood crush. :)
I didn't understand how tv worked as a kid (didn't know what a remote did cuz my older brother never gave it to me) so i skipped that era and joined thru the youtube episode parts. :)
i love the animes from the 80´s but for me the peak was the end of the 90´s and the early years of the 20´s, by then the creators were boiling with good ideas like FMA, Elfen Lied, Lain etc etc etc
This! The way I ran home from school to watch Sailor Moon, DBZ and Tenchi Muyo on Toonami… These kids will never understand lol
Great video essay!
Naruto had a such a different vibe when it was new. Once the anime got an English dub is when it started to get weird and slowly turned into a bait and switch. By the late 2000s, I found myself wondering, "what am I even reading anymore?" Other trending shows around that time I like that come to mind include .hack//SIGN, Zoids, Wolf's Rain, and Initial D. The early 2000s were cozy times for anime, manga, and video games. I have a sister, so she got me familiar with series like Sailor Moon, Love Hina, and Azumanga Daioh. Even though I'm too busy these days to watch anime, I still try to catch up with the 80s, 90s, and 00s shows that I missed before moving on to modern shows. The newest anime I ever watched was Little Witch Academia.
So true anime was so inacessible. I had to wait every friday in Canada to watch Inuyasha and Gundam seed. And they didnt even order the episodes of inuyasha in order sometimes!
Watching anime back then was SUCH a process you had to be intentional about! Nowadays you can think up anything and find it available to watch in streaming. Which I love ofc. Back I remember walking to the video store with my friends even just one decade ago, and we would go back and forth about which anime to rent for that weekend. I remember bringing home ones I had never seen before only to pop them in and hear the most god awful recorded in a shower english dubs. Ah those were the days lol. And coming from Japan to America felt like it took so long! I would read about a new series in the works in something like OtakuUSA and I’d be waiting for crumbs for up to a year! And I was content with that! How lol? Things used to be so intentional like I said and so physical, I think that is what really holds charm to those old memories for me
Not only did my family not have cable TV growing up, I was very much not allowed to watch anime or read manga. My little nerdy heart still found a way, however! Thankfully I had some friends with access to manga, and they very kindly lent me volumes of Fruits Basket, Red River, Wallflower, W Juliet, and more! When I went away to college, I finally had unfettered access to the internet, which meant I spent most of my free time on extremely sus fan-dub and scan-lation sites, watching and reading everything I could. I've no idea how my poor computer escaped unscathed ^_^'
Wow...this made me feel old as hell lmao
Guys I have a question. I'm not from the US so I don't know of this. But is Saint Seiya popular in the US? Here in Brasil it is REALLY popular, but I don't remember EVER hearing americans talking about it. I think Saint Seiya was the original mahou shounen in some ways. Pretty boys, transformations, flowy long hair. You know?
They did bring it to the States, branded as Knights of the Zodiac, and cut up to hell & back. Not quite as badly as Cardcaptor Sakura, but a similar deal where they wanted to make it more "boy-friendly".
There are US fans of both the original and recut versions, but it never got anywhere near as popular as it is in Latin America.
I never got into Saint Seiya myself, but it's the same author as B'T X, which I do like 😍
this video it relatable back in the day tv play anime sci fi channel and jetix
Definitely subscribed
Early RUclips, I watched zero no tsukaima and ichigo 100%, chobits, Kimi ga nozomu eien, and made Amvs 😭
This is the most wholesome comment section i’ve ever seen. Also the creator of Eureka Seven is a nut. “Oh, so you found meaning in my work? Fuck you and fuck that. My art is pointless muahahaha” 😂