your first anime movie that impressed u?

magick

What was your first anime movie that really caught ur interest/impressed u?

Mine was dominion tank police, i loved the stories and the music and style of the whoe thing, though its a little dated by today I still love it...........that and the legand of the overfiend!

CuLT

Laputa Castle in the Sky. Still my favourite .

CyberGhost

Ghost in the shell!

what a piece of art!

pingoo

Mononoke Hime on a big screen in the cinema ... wooof

The first anime that I saw and I can really remember was Akira.

moridin

Doomed Megapolis and 3x3 eyes on Channel 4

TCamen

Doomed Megapolis and 3x3 eyes

Love those series

First anime I ever saw was 'Akira', but a local video store used to rent all the Manga Entertainment movies/series so there was always lots to choose from -- 'Fist of The North Star'...oooh it's 18s, let's rent that

rainbow kirby

Akira or Spirited Away.

Retr0gamer

Was 3x3 eyes when Channel 4 showed it. Was into anything gorey at the time and tht film more than satisfied.

TCamen

Was 3x3 eyes when Channel 4 showed it. Was into anything gorey at the time and tht film more than satisfied.

The gore was definitely a lot of the initial appeal of anime. 'Fist of the North Star' with its exploding heads was brilliant back in the day when cartoons on TV just couldn't satisfy with regards gore.

Dave

Macross + impressed me no end when I first saw it.

Bass.exe

First anime movie I remember is Akira... damn that's a good movie. GitS is a good movie too. I haven't seen the 2nd one, is it any good?

Karl Hungus

Back in the good old 80's when I loved watching films like Legend, The Dark Crystal and the like, there was also some great animated films that I absolutely loved, like The Last Unicorn, The Flight Of Dragons, and there was also Miyazaki's Castle In The Sky, which was probably the first anime I saw that I remember.

po0k

Like alot of other people, it was GITS, though I remember seeing "ads" for Akira and GITS in Synicate Wars on the PC.

Ruu_Old

has to be Evangelion for me also

CuLT

I certainly hope nobody saw the Eva movies before the series 0_o .
Sure, it wouldn't make any sense at all; the only stuff you'd get would be the explosions :P .

The thread title does say movies after all .

Ivan

Sadly enough I have to say my first was Ghost in the Shell, too.
Looking back now, however, I'd have to say its pretty **** by comparison to some of the lesser mainstream movies.

Oh and whats the obsession with Akira?
Ok, I get it. The bike scenes are pretty cool. The animation is great...
But wtf is with the story?

Raphael

My first anime movie.....Ninja Scroll I think. First actual Anime I ever watched was one of the Dragonball ones, thats what got me hooked

Zakalwe

CuLT wrote:

I certainly hope nobody saw the Eva movies before the series 0_o .
Sure, it wouldn't make any sense at all; the only stuff you'd get would be the explosions :P .

It doesn't make much sense with the series as it is. Even with the Red Cross book to fill in osme of the details. That being said I do own the DVD boxset and the EoE movie.

Dave

Ivan wrote:

Oh and whats the obsession with Akira?
Ok, I get it. The bike scenes are pretty cool. The animation is great...
But wtf is with the story?

If you read the Manga's it explains it alot better.

ghostchant

yeah akira was the first anime i saw and it impressed the hell out of me

Makaveli

Akira is the first one I remember.
I used to stay up late to watch anime on Channel 4 when I was younger but I can't recall any of the films really.

Kazujo

Dominion Tank Police was my first Manga, I love the first animated Street Fighter and Ghost in the Shell.

Devil Man, Cyber City OEDO and Doomed Megalopolis in Ch4 were gret too

munkeehaven

akira was the first for me.....the animation was fantastic..i was in awe. ..and the music aswell..i still listen to the soundtrack...

SantaHoe

I saw Akira some time in the early 90's, it blew me away, I'd never seen anything like it.
Actually I'm pretty sure it was the first time I'd seen blood, guts, tits and cursing in an animated feature :eek:
I actually bought Akira on DVD last year, but to my dissapointment - it was using some 'new and improved' voice acting and cleaned up the swear-words... which really took the edge off the piece as a whole, made it seem less serious somehow.
I mean you can have guts squirting out all over the place, but you can't say f*ck?!

FuzzyWuzzyWazza

3X3 eyes, was the first manga that really impressed me, like retr0gamer the first (and last) time I seen it was when Channel 4 was showing manga at some obscure hour on saturday nights, had to stay up for either 3 or 4 saturday nights in a row to see it all!! Next to that my all time favorite is Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex, can't wait for the sequil to be released over here!!

Lydesia

Ghost in the shell. I read the brilliant manga first.
They evangelion

Senbotsu

The first one I seen and started my love of Anime and my all time fave, was Akira, I seen it at 2am on Channel 4 and it's been my all time fave anime flick since.

Stark

Spirited Away.

LanceStorm

Toss up between either 'Street Fighter The Animated Movie' or 'Spriggan', cant be sure which?!

But spriggan really blew me away!!

Megatron

CuLT wrote:

Laputa Castle in the Sky. Still my favourite .

aye either that or Gatcheman ( better know as Battle of the Planets).

but laputa i saw when i was really ill during crimbo one year .. only thing i can remember from that year

Nevyn

Akira

Looks like there was a whole heap of us sitting watching channel 4 that night.

Kain

First one i watched was Akira, that was when they were showing anime on BBC 1 every few nights. Since i was only about 11 i found the story really hard to follow, but i still liked it, probably because of how different it was to what i usually watched at that hour.

Nukem

Akira - what a smack in the mouth as a kid,excellent movie

Infini

First one I ever saw was the macross saga but the one that really got my interest into anime was Akira. Probably one of the best animes I ever saw. Ghost in the shell was also a great anime.

Engo

yes of course

pablo321

Arika for me too:)

I'm looking for the orginal Japanese version on DVD with Eng subtitles.. ANyone know where I coul d get it?

saado

I cant remember what the first anime I saw was, I was quite young.
The first one i remember seeing was Ninja Scroll, still one of the best movies I've ever seen.

Rasputin

When I started watch anime the ones that amazed and awed me were the usual suspects:
Akira Truely awesome and intense

GitS I wanna live in that universe and I am trying to collect
the manga, still (computer parts come first,
Masamune Shirow would understand)

Neon Genesis Evangelion Beautiful, bordering on anime perfection

and the not so usual suspect:

Wings of Honneamise Beautiful and inspiring

CuLT

Now that I think of it, the very first anime I saw was either Perfect Blue or Akira... but they didn't register with me as anime until much later.

Hecate

Project A-KO back in 1993 or 94. So funny, so insane. Still one of my favourites

Tar.Aldarion

akira

monkeyfudge

Akira was the first one I saw too. My local Xtravision had a whole Manga Video section back in the mid 90's.

It was the double pack too... with the subtitled version on one tape and the production report on the other.

It was great when Channel 4 showed lots of stuff late night though. What was that one with the physic detective who looked like boy george? In one of them he was on the trail of serial killer and the other one had a ghost dog in it... they were pretty good.

JMArr

For me it would probably be Fist of The North Star ..the fight scenes were class ...and Akira too altho the story is a bit all over the place.

But before that (and I dunno if this would be classed as anime as it was a french-japanese collaboration)it was the mighty Ulysses 31 !!!

"Ulysses...ulysse-es ,floating thru all the galaxi-es "
Deadly soundtrack !