The Most Influential Anime of Your Childhood

Macross/Robotech,Voltron ,Gundam ,Tenchi Muyo and anything by Leiji Matsumoto.

Dragonball series never fails to amuse me.They are simply amazing during those times. G Gundam is one of my favs too.No matter how you see it its still shining finger

Pokemon forever. It was the first ever anime I watched.

Guess I'm still young considering, Dragon Ball Z for me.

Mazinger for me

Mine would be `Peter Pan no Bouken` and `Gundam Wing`.

There were still a lot from my childhood that carved my imagination and who I am...

Some of it:

Yaiba
Princess Sara
Saber Marionette
Bt'x
Zenki
Dragon Ball
Akazukin Cha Cha
Ninja Robots
Maya the Bee
Yuyu Hakusho
You're under arrest
Samurai X
Cyberteam in Akihabara
Mojako
Evangelion

Most influential would be Pokemon and Dragonball Z for me in the mid/late 90's.

Macross, Voltes V, and Daimos were the most influential animes in my childhood ^_^

What ever happend to samurai pizza cats?

Doraemon for me!

Detective Conan...Even now I still want to be a detective

Gundam and Candy Candy are the shit.

My largest influences for my aspirations would be cartoons first, then my dad (who has always been in the entertainment industry; having your dad be one of the higher-ups of Nickelodeon sure helped), and then my mom (who is also quite artistic).

Don't know if any of these influenced me or not but,
Speed Racer, Sailor Moon, DB/DBZ, Digimon, Pokemon, Medabots, and possibly a few other ones. Of course these were all the english releases.
Actually I guess they probably did at the time but I don't think any of it lasted.

Trigun for me, idk what year is it from, all i know is it got remastered and is gonna get a movie :3

astroboy, spaceace, gigantor. I would have thought they would have put the 60's stuff.

sadly, there weren't many anime in my country at the time, and back then they were best...

first one that i remember was Bosco Daiboken, and it was dubbed in Serbian like a masterpiece :)
the others were Robotech, GallForce: Eternal Story, and Mado King Granzort.

Why didn't any people who where childrens in the 80's liked manga from 90's and 00's when they where kids!!!!

I blame Lum.
Urusei Yatsura set me down this terrible path...

Looks like Toriyama did pretty well in the eighties with DB and Dr. Slump. Not that I didn't know that already :P

Pokemon for me. It gave me the initial drive to learn Japanese.
Then Cardcaptor Sakura - that pushed me over the edge to learn Japanese.

Mirai wa shounen conan/Future Boy conan reruns definitly... laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanaaa~

Mine was Captain Tsubasa. :D

Detective Conan and Slam Dunk shaped my childhood

Digimon.. and Ghost at school lol.. I love horror..

mine was Dragonball,Doreamon & Cardcapter sakura

Mine was Skip Beat.

YOU WA SHARK!!!

I think that I had several early milestones.
Macross and the Original BubbleGum Crisis,
but looking back upon things now, I think that the most influential anime for me was...the original "GunBuster". Laugh and mock if you will, of which
I have no doubt SanCom will, but that is my choice.

Dragon ball?

the gundam is the shit old fucking school

Where is Slam Dunk?

Must be an older crowd...

japanese Video games like The Legend of Zelda and pokemon (watched anime too)

Nausicaa

The greatest anime/manga influence happens during our tweenage years for most of us. Problem is for people living outside Japan, they have no choice but to watch whatever that's being aired on TV at that time. Unfortunately, that leads to fans growing up with the false pretense that the anime that gains the most airtime being the most "influential" of them all when there're greater anime out there.

"No license to air 'Fist of the North Star'? Lets air 'Dragonball' instead.
"No license for 'Evangelion'? Lets give them 'Sailormoon' instead.
"No license for 'Hajime no Ippo'? Nevermind. Give them 'Naruto' then."

OK. Maybe some that were aired were great, but you get my point. Other reasons could be due to questionable content such as political/religious ideology, sexuality, violence, etc.

It's only when we grow older into the age of the Internet that we realize how much we'd missed. Sure, there're reruns, DVDs, etc., but I doubt they can still influence our fully-matured minds now than when we were "innocent" back then.

Don't even get me started on manga. Translations and subbers were virtually non-existent back then.

how can Sailor moon not be in the top of the list?
It was the main subject of discussions for my schoolmates at the first 1-3 years in elementary school

Me --> KAMENRIDE: KAMEN RIDER!!!!!!!!! XD Can't help it, you know.

Why has nobody mentioned Rapeman? I'm sure that inspired most of the people here.

mine was gakuen alice, it changed my life alot :3

Heidi, Sailor Moon, Maja the Bee, Kimba, that futanari Prince/ss, Calimero, a kid with his fat blue cat named Juliano, Dragon Ball. A bit later Nadja and the Blue water, Powerstone, Ranma 1/2, and Pokemon. out of all, I'd say Dragon Ball followed by Sailormoon.

Macron 1 -> Guyver -> Akira -> SailorMoon -> Evangelion

lol a lot of different anime = different ages

mine are sailormoon and gundam wing.

Ashita No Joe, Lupin III, Tsurikichi Sanpei, Hokuto no Ken totally!

Bugs Bunny taught me how to be a smartass and Fred Flintstone taught me how to be (or not) a dumbass. Yeah, I 'm considerably older than most of you here. There was Speed Racer, but it really didn't compare well with the full-motion animation coming from California. Later on, Bebop and Furi Kuri caught my attention. Sorry, but NO Pokemon please. Guess I'm kind of an outsider around here...

Queen's Blade. It's the epic tale of friendship and love!

VOLTRON! VOLTRON! VOLTRON!

hmm probably:
yu yu hakusho
dragonball
doraemon
chibi maruko chan
ah, do i miss them(yes i do)

Guyver and Devil man they were the most bloody things i ever watched back when i was a kid, i got them by mistake from someone, and the first thing i ever tried to do after watching guyver is trying to split my own chest apart.....

Cheyya North Star ftw

Hell yeah, Fist of the North Star. It's the panacea to male girlishness.

If i was grown up in Japan, being as old as i am now in reality, i would say URUSEI YATSURA. I believe it was THE MOST INFLUENTIAL anime ever. Ask from the most experienced kantoku in anime production, and you will hear that.
It´s original creator is Takahashi Rumiko, if younger ppl doesn`t know. She has created many important titles in her manga, most of them are genuine classics. Her Inu Yasha is currently running as anime, and Rinne is her new manga.

For me it was Dragon Ball and Pokemon. A little bit of Gundam Wing every now and then as well/ There may be more, I just forget.

Shin-chan!!

captain tsubasa!!!!

I like how they state being influenced by Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star), but grew up to be adult sissy virgins :)

voltus V , mazinger, getter robo for me.. ahh those sweet memory..

btw.. if women in japan influenced by candy2.. how come they become so money craving? ..ahh forget.. the man she loved is a prince( correct me here?)

Hmmm, most certainly Evangelion!

Whatever was on Toonami

Vouching for Gundam here, though unfortunately I've since lost taste for giant robots.

.. not much anime as a kid, but the cartoons of Thundercats, and ducktales, and tailspin ring a bell, mostly my morals came from Star Trek.. :)

that and Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck!

anime.. earliest was voltron, then dragonball and Gundam.

gundam still has some good morals, with american cartoons just being worthless

I was riding on a bus in Sapporo reading Dr. Slump and some girls saw me reading it and started commenting and kind of laughing. We struck up a conversation for a good half hour or so.

They were both really cute and I wish I'd gotten a number. :/

Reading these comics, good way to catch the attention of the opposite sex in Japan.

Gundam and Sailor Moon.
:)

Voltes V anyone?

Dragonball Z!!!

Sadly I am too old, anime wasn't an option when I was a kid.

I entered the hobby in my mid to late 30s with Ranma.

Grendizer, yo.

Macross Plus for me.

Still My favorite . . .

Definitely Doraemon for No 1, then Dragon Ball, I never got into Gundam for some reason. Macross/Robotech is a close following too.

For me.... It is hard to say but most likely the most influensial thing in may life was the computer. Family comes second and achool comes third for me.
Family, unknowingly, introduced me to anime. After that, school advanced my interest towards anime and manga. And lastly, computer provided the most information regarding anime, manga and games. X3

Most influencial? hm...well Voltron inspired me to spend days shoveling snow to make enough money to buy the toy (I seriously wanted all five lions without waiting for another Christmas) >_>

Macross is what got me into engineering. Can't get me enough jet fighters and giant robots.

The *animes* that most shaped my youth were Macross (which I first watched in its butchered form as Robotech's first arc) and El-Hazard (the original OVA's, not the watered down TV series, nor the senseless sequels). What can I say? I'm a sucker for "alien girl" anime love stories. Max & Millia and Makoto & Ifurita are my two all-time favorite anime couples, and have to a great extent shaped my own romantic aspirations (I mean, in the kind of bond they share. I'm not actually looking for an alien girl - an attractive female human will do nicely, thank you).

However, I have to say that the *animation* that had the most enduring impact on me was the original Transformers series. Though as I matured and learned more about robotics the cybertronians became somewhat childish to my eyes, the vision of a completely artificial planet, inhabited by a race of intelligent machines, has pretty much defined my professional carrier - I can very well trace my early interest in computing, which led to my current position as software engineer, to the dreams of becoming a "robot scientist" sparkled by first seeing that show.

What about those from the 90s? :/

The BattleTech animation rocked. It also went along with the old 8-bit style game with mostly over head view. Gundam G Mobile I think it was and H-Man masters of the universe original (i have the POWER!).

I dont know as to how influenced my life is but thanks to sailor moon and the character tuxedo mask iv always loved suits and cane style weapons. And Robotech(macross) ever since i saw that iv been a huge mecha fan to the point that i was for 3 years participating in small scale robot construction and programing.

Gonna have to be Gurren Lagann.

I now believe in the kamina that believes in myself.

Toonami's anime lineup influenced my childhood. Dragonball Z, Tenchi, and the Big O. Cowboy Bebop too. And of course the early-morning cartoon while waiting for the schoolbus: Sailor Moon

Dragon Ball, Rurouni no Kenshin and many others...