Comments on: Nostalgia: what anime did you used to watch on TV when you were little?

By: Jabba The Hut

Jabba The Hut — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:42:04 +0000

I watched tons of anime. On French TV, there was literally hundreds of different anime aired during the late 70′s to the mid 90′s period, the most popular animated series were mostly Japanese back then. Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon had 50 percent viewership shares. These series were very popular too: Mazinger Z, Candy Candy, Space Adventure Cobra, Princess Sarah, Little Women, Captain Harlock, Minky Momo, Tom Sawyer, Cobra, Nobody’s Boy: Remi, the Swiss Robinson’s, Saint Seiya, Urusei Yatsura, High-school Kimengumi, Captain Tsubasa, Maison Ikkoku.

And most of Nippon Animation’s (the studio were Miyazaki and Takhata debuted) World Masterpieces Series (the finest of Japanese children’s anime) were aired in France, including the aforementioned Nobody’s Boy: Remi, Princess Sarah, Little Women, Tom Sawyer, the Swiss Robinson’s.

At some point, most animation aired on French TV was Japanese.

Unfortunately, there was a very violent xenophobic backlash, Japanese animation was accused of being be too violent and of having negative influence over children, so they nearly all vanished from the airwaves. The government put quotas in place which force TV stations to air at least 60% of European made programs…

Nowadays, the animation aired on French TV are mostly European or American. While in neighboring countries like Spain or Italy, they air more anime than European or American cartoons. Shin-chan for example, is huge in Spain.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:34:45 +0000

Hello! Sandybell was one of my first animes. It’s from the 80′s, so a lot of people might not know it. I also remember having a tape of some Japanese “Lion King” ripoff. I don’t really remember much except thinking it was really shitty.

I became a huge fan of Sailor Moon around 11-12 and that stuck with me. I’m almost 20 now. Though I “stopped” and moved on from that phase of my life, it’s still a show I enjoy watching (lol).

Other than that.. I’m going to have to be boring and say Pokémon and Digimon. I guess it’s quite obvious, if you’re a late 80′s/early 90′s kid.

Note that all shows mentioned were watched in Swedish, except for Sailor Moon where I “branched out” and bought a bunch of DVDs with the original version.

By: LordBane999

LordBane999 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:14:00 +0000

Man you and me both a very similar childhood and in the shows you watch, plus everyone thinks the mighty morphin power rangers was bad in english??? lol you should have watched some of the original jap episodes omg so funny. I still remember my dad would wake me up at 4am and watch mario bros show and zelda when i was a kid, then their was other shows like mechwarrior, beetleborgs, and a slew of other shows. lol i still remember when they use to show simpsons episodes in the morning, but then they had to stop because parents found out, that it was more then a kids show :(

By: LWL

LWL — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:29:40 +0000

I was just reminiscing about Beast Wars the other day, actually. Even looked it up to see if it was anime. It was very gripping, along with Sailor Moon, which definitely gave you that mature feel that put it above the rest (even if I was 5 years old).

By: Ashley Hernandez

Ashley Hernandez — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:55:56 +0000

OMG! I remember watching most of these shows (I didn’t know Samurai Pizza Cats was a real show, I mean I’d heard of it but…). My first anime was probably Dragon Ball Z. I remeber watching it one morning and being terrifed of it because I had never seen anything like it. Later with the help of Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh!, Salior Moon, and Cardcaptors, I grew to love anime. I would have to say that Inuyasha was my first real “mature” anime show.

By: Yumeka

Yumeka — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:43:26 +0000

Really? Sailor Moon began airing in the US in 95? I remember that’s when SPC began airing on channel 13 and it had replaced Sailor Moon’s timeslot so SM must have been airing before then. I could’ve sworn I was watching early episodes of SM on channel 13 in 93 at least. Hmm, well whenever it was, SM was still my first anime =)

By: SailorCardKnight

SailorCardKnight — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:28:13 +0000

My first without a doubt was Sailor Moon and I was when it began airing on Cartoonetwork. At that time I loved watching cartoons and would watch anything on TV, but Sailor Moon was one of the few that grabbed my interest the most (at first it was because of the talking cat, at that age I was a sucker for talking animals. then it was because I found Sailor Moon inspirational, seeing a bunch of girls fighting for what they belived in had inspired me)
I had watched SPC and Speed Racer before then, but Sailor Moon is what intoduced me to the world of anime. Tenchi, Cardacaptors/CCS, Mon Colle Knights, Magic Knight Rayearth had helped along the way, expecially when I had discovered manga in 2002. But my anime obession didn’t truly kick off until 2006, by that time I had a faster internet connection and much better acess to anime. (before then I was very limited on what I could watch/read)
I’m still a Moonie today, but not as much as I used to be. I still have my large collection of SM goodies though. I would still love to see a remake of the anime but much more closely based on the manga than the money-making crap that Toei gave us.

btw, Sailor Moon begain airing in Japan in 92, not the US. In the US it was actually around 95-96.

By: Liza

Liza — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:49:39 +0000

My first anime was Card Captor Sakura and I remembered that it scared me when Sakura was getting the mirror card. I think around that same time I watched Pokemon but I wasn’t too into it as I am today.

By: Zeroblade

Zeroblade — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:18:19 +0000

Oh man, Sonic the Hedgehog. How old was I when I watched that stuff? It’s been so long ago that I forget.

By: Yumeka

Yumeka — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:39:12 +0000

Yes, I was a major Pokemon fan (I mentioned it at the end of the post) but I wasn’t really a little kid when I got into it (I was already about 13/14 years old) so I don’t consider it an anime I “used to watch when I was little” =P I still watch it nowadays too. I did watch Cardcaptors and Mon Colle Knights too, but again I was already in my mid-teens by then.