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...

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