The Anime section. Are you a fan? What do you have?

[pac.attack76]

Who all here is into japanese anime? Especially VHS and Laserdisc.

[Electronic M]

Most of what I watch is anime. I've got maybe a dozen prerecorded tapes (no LD's despite owning a machine and some classic films on LD), but that is mostly stuff found by luck since I started buying videos well after LD and VHS were obsolete formats. I've got hundreds of home recorded VHS tapes of Anime recorded off of cable.

Most of what I watch now is stuff downloaded off the net.

If I listed the series I've watched it would take me a quite a while just to compile a fairly complete list.

[Captainclock]

I've got a few animes on VHS, but not as many as I would like, I was given a few years back an old Sharp VCR from the mid 1980s that was having some issues (the person gave it to me because they knew I liked tinkering with old electronics) and inside the VCR was a recorded video (off of cable I'm assuming) of Sailor Moon, and I used it as a test tape for quite a few years whenever I got a VCR to work on, but then it finally got eaten up so I had to pitch it. I also have a pre-recorded copy of the classic Anime Movie "Akira" from the early 1990s (the movie came out in the late 1980s), I also have most of the Project A-Ko series on VHS as well as the complete Bubblegum Crisis Series on VHS that a friend of mine gave me, and a few others as well. I also have a few Studio Ghibli Films on DVD, which I would like to find the VHS versions of them someday.

[pac.attack76]

Project A-ko is how i got started. Then theres Tenchi Muyo a Ranma 1/2. picked up 3 dvds of a series called "Please Twins" today.

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by pac.attack76

Project A-ko is how i got started. Then theres Tenchi Muyo a Ranma 1/2. picked up 3 dvds of a series called "Please Twins" today.

Love Ranma 1/2 and also Please Twins and Please Teacher (both shows are related to each other they're from the same series). Anyways enjoy Please Twins, I highly recommend it and also its sequel Please Teacher.

[Electronic M]

What got me started was Toonami back when they were airing Ruroni Kenshin and Yu Yu Hakusho....IIRC the latter is what got me hooked for a good while.

Ranma was a good series....Many of the episodes have such good use of color that they can really bring out the best in a roundy!

I've been meaning to track down the original Tenchi Muyo....The GXP version was decent, and I've seen a piece of the original so I gotta look for it. Love Hina seems to be another decent harem-ecchi series from that time.

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

What got me started was Toonami back when they were airing Ruroni Kenshin and Yu Yu Hakusho....IIRC the latter is what got me hooked for a good while.

Ranma was a good series....Many of the episodes have such good use of color that they can really bring out the best in a roundy!

I've been meaning to track down the original Tenchi Muyo....The GXP version was decent, and I've seen a piece of the original so I gotta look for it. Love Hina seems to be another decent harem-ecchi series from that time.

I'm sure you were crying your eyes out when you read that I used a recorded tape of Sailor Moon episodes as a test tape for repairing VCRs with.

[pac.attack76]

Originally Posted by Captainclock

I'm sure you were crying your eyes out when you read that I used a recorded tape of Sailor Moon episodes as a test tape for repairing VCRs with.

Not me!
Always seemed like it was aimed more at girls so i never bothered. My daughter watches it tho. I'll definitely check out that Please Teacher. Thanks for the heads up!

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Captainclock

I'm sure you were crying your eyes out when you read that I used a recorded tape of Sailor Moon episodes as a test tape for repairing VCRs with.

I never got into that series....I think I watched maybe 3 episodes, and barely remember it. I probably would have dubbed it to another tape before using it as a test tape though.

Sailor Moon seemed off the rails in the opposite direction of DBZ, which would explain why I never liked either as a kid.

I really strongly disliked DBZ....All that ever seemed to happen was a bunch of over-built guys would scream at each other, beat the crap outa each other, babble a bit, and shoot goofy energy beams somehow....Not much plot dialog or character interaction/situation building....Just WWE as an anime. Back then if a whole episode was a beat down it better have had a damn good build up to hold my interest....I can watch DBZ now (longer attention span), but I still don't get why so many of my peers had been so into it.....

Maybe I should track down Sailor Moon and see if it can hold my attention now....

Perhaps one the better series I can recall in the last few years was Code Geass. Every episode had interesting stuff happen, and usually ended with a WTF kind of plot twist or hint of one that left me dying to see next weeks episode.

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by pac.attack76

Not me!
Always seemed like it was aimed more at girls so i never bothered. My daughter watches it tho. I'll definitely check out that Please Teacher. Thanks for the heads up!

No problem, and I'm glad that you're not the only one on here that didn't get the point of Sailor Moon, and that weren't upset with me using a Sailor Moon tape for a test tape for repairing VCRs.

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

I never got into that series....I think I watched maybe 3 episodes, and barely remember it. I probably would have dubbed it to another tape before using it as a test tape though.

Sailor Moon seemed off the rails in the opposite direction of DBZ, which would explain why I never liked either as a kid.

I really strongly disliked DBZ....All that ever seemed to happen was a bunch of over-built guys would scream at each other, beat the crap outa each other, babble a bit, and shoot goofy energy beams somehow....Not much plot dialog or character interaction/situation building....Just WWE as an anime. Back then if a whole episode was a beat down it better have had a damn good build up to hold my interest....I can watch DBZ now (longer attention span), but I still don't get why so many of my peers had been so into it.....

Maybe I should track down Sailor Moon and see if it can hold my attention now....

Perhaps one the better series I can recall in the last few years was Code Geass. Every episode had interesting stuff happen, and usually ended with a WTF kind of plot twist or hint of one that left me dying to see next weeks episode.

Yeah I had some friends when I was in School (back around 2005, I graduated high School in 2007) that were into Dragonball and I really didn't understand why because of what few episodes of it I did see it seemed like it was nothing but people yelling at each other and putting the smack-down on each other (I liked your description of it WWE Anime Style).
And yes I have been fixing TVs and VCRs since I was in Jr. High (around 2001 or so.)