Patreon Bonus Video: How Tama got into Pokémon, Sailor Moon, and other anime
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Hi Tama! Long time viewer, first time commenting here as I just joined your Patreon. Really enjoyed this video, as someone who also had limited access to anime this really resonated with me lol. Growing up on a small island, anime wasn’t very popular, the only way to watch it was on cable tv on either Italian tv channels or if you had access to Toonami (which I did not have at first). I mostly got into Sailor Moon, Hamtaro, Pokemon and Dragon Ball because we had VHS tape recordings of some of the episodes and also because my eldest sister was really into anime as well. However, once we got a home computer and access to internet is when I was able to fully delve into the anime I enjoyed.
Gordon M
2024-06-24 13:17:56 +0000 UTC6:20 I love how you had your Pokémon Pikachu on this whole time.
TheNitr01
2024-06-18 11:50:30 +0000 UTCGod we continue to have such similar taste. My anime pathway was obviously Pokemon, DBZ, Sailor Moon Yu-Gi-Oh on our Toonami equivalent called Cheez-TV in Australia, but my gateway was a video game. I got Orphen: Scion of Sorcery on PS2 and found out through the internet that there was anime that cost 30AUD a volume in 2003. I got it all, but the trailers for ADV Films (the dubber) led me to a bunch of stuff, including Angelic Layer which I also adored (and got the manga like, 17 years later). I also adored Cardcaptors and the Master of the Clow arc was my first manga I ever got. I was an anime fiend in grade/middle school but I kind of grew out of it after Death Note/Code Geass era. Gives me a big fuzzy feeling thinking about it because anime is so welded to both my childhood, but also when I first made money as a uni student I got to see all the series I had missed out on (like Azumanga Daioh, Evangelion, Gasaraki). Loved this little insight.
Yuke Weiß
2024-06-17 12:22:12 +0000 UTCFascinating to get another perspective of how someone would be exposed to anime and its culture. Kind of funny that you don't really care about it anymore now that it's mainstream, but to each their own. For my own experience, you'd think I knew more than I actually did because in hindsight nearly every show I got into as a kid was anime and I just didn't know the difference between it and Western cartoons. Before I even knew what anime was, I was watching reruns of Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon, Yugioh and Pokemon thanks to 4Kids, stumbling into Naruto and Bleach once we got more channels. Unlike you, I basically never stopped. I still try to watch at least one or two new series as they premiere, and I've got a huge backlog of anime I want to try that I missed out on.
Shawn Heatherly
2024-06-17 04:21:28 +0000 UTCFantastic video! Loved hearing your experiences, I’m only a little younger than you so we shared so much of the same experiences. My first was Pokémon and then I got into everything else with DBZ being my biggest love. Sailor Moon was always so awesome too. It was kind of fun having to hunt down anime/manga in those days but it’s probably better that it’s more accessible now. Similar to how your first volume of Sailor Moon was one of the later books, my first Dragon Ball volume was from the second to last arc LOL I had to hunt those volumes like dragon balls! I loved reading Magical Pokémon Journey and Pokémon Adventures and drawing them. Your drawings you showed were adorable btw lmao It’s crazy how even in the 00’s stores like Newbury Comics had maybe a few random anime DVDs and no manga but now Newbury Comics has a MASSIVE manga section and tons of anime. We’ve certainly come a long way. I also still prefer the aesthetic of 80’s-90’s anime over what we have nowadays even though lots of modern series look great. The biggest thing is the colors. Digital animation just can’t have the same color look that cel animation does even with filters in such it’s due to the image coming from light rather than being a physical surface with light bouncing off of it. I’ll have to check out some of the shows you mentioned that I didn’t see. I similarly always wanted to go to a convention but never could because my parents and older siblings didn’t want to. I’m glad the stigma about anime has mostly diminished nowadays too. It was a unique experience I’m so glad you kept your OG localized Sailor Moon manga volumes, they’re a relic of a very specific time. Thanks again!!!
Arben
2024-06-16 12:59:02 +0000 UTCI remember my first exposure to anime being Pokémon very sporadically during the back end of the 00s, and only really got into it when I got into the games starting with black and white, but it was a weird case because as far as I can remember, UK cartoon network lost the license to Pokémon after the diamond and pearl series, and it only VERY rarely reran so I barely ever saw it. It was only ever consistently on the weird rinky dink kids channels like "POP" or maybe JETIX when that was still around. But starting with gen 5, the anime started to be shown on Disney XD which is kinda insane to think about Pokémon being on a Disney platform. We also got the episodes way later here in Europe than in the US, and it's still true today which is a bit strange. Never got into any other anime until the adaptation of Dungeon Meshi though, I fear it's something about the typical "it releases in Japan almost a year before you get to experience it in english so the spoilers are inevitable" issue that turns me off to most things and has done since I first learned about anime as a kid.
Leon Garnet [Skullboss]
2024-06-16 10:26:57 +0000 UTCHi Tama!!! I've been watching forever and am so excited to see how you got into pokemon. Btw, you've indoctrinated me into playing Pokemon Crystal and Stadium 2 and I'm so glad for it.
Owen Barrett
2024-06-16 08:07:34 +0000 UTC
