Day One wants to know what is the very first anime you watched. To the best of my knowledge, that would be none other than the ultra-cheeseball classic, Speed Racer!
Here he comes..
It was so great and terrible and wonderful and parody-able and had one of the greatest theme songs ever made… Buuuut, I also didn’t know that was anime at the time. The first anime I really recall knowing was anime would be G-Force. Apparently it was pretty terrible, and not so much in the good Speed Racer way, but I was super into it when I was 9-10 years old.
These freakin’ guys..
Both have seen multiple revivals in various mediums over the years (G-Force was sort of one itself), some better than others, but for good or for ill, these incarnations of two venerable classics are where my anime roots lie.
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