American teens have been quizzed on their knowledge of 90’s anime courtesy of the highly notorious Fine Bros, with the young upstarts seemingly doing rather well and apparently recognizing the more profitable franchises most amongst all the others.
The anime-centric video:
Hey, Evangelion now collaborating with Kai-ri-Sei Million Arthur.
From the video, seems that most of them only know/heard the ones that had English dubbed opening theme songs.
That idiot called evangelion gundam… wtf?
I wanted to punch so many people in the face….
god i feel old i knew all of theses
No yugihoe ? That crack start run in 1996, along with Meitantei Conan, and One piece
Yugioh had an anime in 1998, but that never aired outside Japan. The Yugio series western audiences might be familiar with didn’t start airing in Japan until 2000.
One Piece didn’t air in Japan until the tail end of 1999, and the series is still ongoing to this day, so it might be a stretch to call it a “90s anime”. Plus it didn’t air in North America until late 2004.
Conan started in 1996, but again, didn’t air in North America until 2004 and is still ongoing. If an anime is still actively putting out new episodes, it kind of defeats the purpose of seeing if teens recognize 90s-era anime, since these are still current anime, and most of their run wasn’t even in the 90s. The same could be said about Pokemon, although that actually started airing in North America in the late 90s.
But Pokemon, Dragonball, Sailor Moon, and gundam still airing and putting out episodes though o_o