My reaction

[flemmings]

1. Carl Macek was younger than me?

2. Robotech was only released in 1985? Then pray tell, what anime was my sister watching on what TV station to get into anime in 1983 or '84? Yes yes I know-- go ask her. But everyone else?

Comments

The Flow, eh

[petronia.livejournal.com]

...I had never heard of this guy until I randomly found myself reading the TV Tropes page named after him today. o_o

Re: The Flow, eh

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

...will not go look at TV Tropes page, will not...

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Star Blazers was 1978 and is usually considered the pre-Robotech North American anime gateway drug. (My television watching was highly restricted, so I didn't get to Robotech until I was in college, *after* I had discovered anime but had no other way to get a fix. Missed Star Blazers altogether.)

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Ah-hah! Star Blazers aka Battleship Yamato! and equally, of course, Battle of the Planets aka Gatchaman.

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

Ahhh .. I knew it as Something Macross Something sumthing ... or uhmm wiki tells me that it actually is The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Super_Dimension_Fortress_Macross)

Other than that the first Mobile Suit Gundam series came out I think in the early eighties.

I think the first anime that I was hooked on (before I knew it was anime) was something called Marine Boy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Boy) ^_^ it aired on LRD channels about the mid 70's I think.

(I didn't know who Carl Macek was till today)

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

LOL! Marine Boy, in English in the early 70s for me too! Oh, I had such the crush. But even before that it was Speed Racer and that marionette show in Chinese back in 1968.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Yes well, nice to be somewhere that airs programs unedited and not 'adapted for American audiences.'

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

Yup--Star Blazers, Battle of the Planets, Marine Boy, Speed Racer. Star Blazers was my gateway drug (and we get to see 2 episodes of Space Cruiser Yamato--death and occasional near-nudity intact--every Monday evening on Family Gekijo, bless their hearts).

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Oh *Yamato*. The natuskashiest of the natsukashii. Err, make that 'natsukashiest'.

[mauvecloud.livejournal.com]

the earliest animu i can recall was the one where there's this long-haired blond guy (with wings) who has this sister-con thing and therefore is the jealous bad guy because the sister (also with wings) is somewhat involved with the protagonist.

i discussed it with Q and all she said was: "Hey, this is sounds like a generic description of any anime."

i remember it's dubbed in thai, because we could get thai channel in northern peninsula.

dont ask me how i figured all that out in thai, a language i dont understand anymore (except the greeting and 1-2-3). it was definitely before 1985, because thats the year we moved =P

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Q is right in that it sounds like any description of any shoujo anime. The wing thing doesn't *sound* giant robo somehow, but then early anime did some truly weird stuff.