What was your first anime? When did you started to watch it? How did you become aware of its existence?
Was it the anime that made you an anime fan? (If you consider yourself as such)
How does it rank for you? Would you say you still like it? Would you consider it one of you favourite anime series?
Robotech Macross as a kid, but I wasn’t really aware of it the first time I saw it.
But then 10-year-old me discovered DBZ when it aired in the UK for the first time and after that I was hooked.
Macross holds up, imo, even if it gets a little weird to watch in certain places as an adult. I honestly outgrew DBZ in my adulthood, the power fantasy was cool when I was a kid but as a person grown and a parent now I find most of the characters insufferable.
Also watched Robotech as a kid and also didn’t know it was anime at the time. I think the first real full series I watched “subbed” was Flame of Recca (1997-98 version) followed closely by Record of Lodoss War (1990 version) and Rurouni Kenshin (1996-98 version).
I didn’t discover Rouroni Kenshin until much later, as it never officially aired in the UK (and if it did, I missed it completely).
It was probably late 00s when I first got to the States that I saw it for the first time based on recommendation.
That being said, after DBZ I went into all the 90s / early 00s classics: Elfen Lied, GitS, Trigun, Bebop, Outlaw Star, Akira, etc.
They honestly don’t make anime like they used to. I can’t point to anything modern that even comes close except maybe the Blame OVA from a few years ago. Maybe Chainsaw Man but the tropes are so modern it’s hard for me to compare it to anything from back then.