What was the first mecha anime you watched?

>>14771778
G gundam.

Wing

Probably Macross Plus on SciFi. Maybe Transformers somethingorother if that counts.

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>>14771778
Gurren Laggan

i'm not proud of myself, but I guess it introduced me to the better entries of the genre later on.

Tranzor Z.

A cooler name than Mazinger Z

>>14771778
First I watched as a kid: Transformers Armada.
my parents wouldn't let me watch Gundam as a kid because it was "Too Violent"

First I watched as an adult after...what? 8 years of no toonami?

Gundam 00. and then it spiraled out of control, ranging from Hotblooded to bullshit. it's been a ride.

>>14771778
Voltron, then Robotech. Robotech was already in the Southern Cross arc when i started and my school bus would show up early a lot so I missed about half of it but watched all of New Generation/Mospeada and fucking LOVED it. That's really what made me a /m/an.

Gundam Wing on Toonami. G Gundam was what got me into it though.

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>>14771778

Vehicle Voltron/Dairugger when I was 5 years old. After that one I watched Lion Voltron/Golion and Transformers Victory, and then Granzort when was 7.

I'm 30 years old right now.

>>14771819
this is me but replace 00 with SEED Destiny

>>14771778
I stumbled across a few episodes of Endless Waltz, G Gundam, and Robotech in my youth (as well as a Patlabor movie), but I think the first series that I actually watched intentionally and all the way through was G Gundam.

>>14771900
you poor bastard.

SD Gundam Force

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>>14771778
Transformers Armada. I'm so glad I got into Mecha at a young age.

>>14771891
>Dairugger XV

Holy shit anon, are you me? It was my first too. And I don't remember any of the GoLion parts so I'm pretty sure I didn't watch Voltron, just original Dairugger.

>>14771789
this or Eskaflowne

Either Nadesico or Macross DYRL. That wasn't until like 2010 or 11 though.

I was a late bloomer

>>14771922
The GoLion bots and characters didn't show up in the vehicle Voltron show. They pretty much played each show separately with the only connection being that one character from Dairugger was supposed to be the cousin of one character from GoLion. I remember him mentioning getting a letter from his cousin Pidge once, and that's pretty much it as far as I can recall.

>>14771778
Wing

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>>14771789
Yarp.

Exosquad if you count American animation. Super Dimension Fortress if you don't.

Battle of the Planets/G-Force for me. I remember totally freaking out when it was revealed that Galactor was a girl.

>>14771867
I was already hooked after Gundam Wing. I liked 8th MS Team a lot too.

8 ball man on sci fi channel in like 1995. i don't know if that counts as /m/, but it made my 10 year old brain go 'holy shit animation can be brutal'. robotech soon after on '97 toonami.

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Really takes me back

>>14772067

well, apparently it was 8-man, not 8 ball man.

I think reruns of Transformers G1? If that doesn't count then the next earliest I remember is watching Zeorymer at my cousin's place. And now I'm here!

>>14771979
Wow that's a considerable nostalgia bomb

That Robotech mishmash that ran on American TV. That shit was confusing as hell, even from an age when cohesion wasn't needed. Then Wing. Had been watching Godzilla and Speed Racer years before either.

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Here in the land of HUE, back in the 90s, there was this short-lived weekly anime block on TV which aired a bunch of OVAs, including the likes of Detonator Orgun, Zeorymer, Genocyber, Gall Force and Iczer-3. I don't remember which one of those I saw first, but Orgun made the strongest impression on me. The others were probably butchered for TV exhibition.

>>14771778
My memory's a bit fuzzy, but I think it was G Gundam. I distinctly remember Domon's stupid lisp.

Either Tetsujin 28 (As Gigantor at like... 3 in the morning for a month) or G Gundam.

>>14771778
Grendizer. Didn't like it at all back then, so until the age of 18 or so thought that robot anime are shit for retarded children (except Eva which is deep and cool)

Years have passed, and I became the retarded manchild.

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Still think it's the coolest shit ever

Transformers RID. The 2001 anime, not the new cartoon.

Probably RahXephon. Nausicaä if it counts.

Valvrave, it's what got me into the subgenre

It was either Wing, G, Medabots, or Zoids.
Whatever came first.

>>14771778

Grendizer

>>14771778
ZZ.

I'm gonna say Gundam Wing on Toonami, I can't think of anything earlier.

Definitely Wing during it's original CN run. I had no idea it was anime at the time. When I got back into anime years later, the first mecha show I watched was probably FLCL.

>>14771778
Transformers Beast Wars

>>14771778
The first TV robot anime I remember watching is Gundam Wing.

I saw the first GITS film when I was nine.

>>14771778
Robotech, but that was like when i was really young. The first one I understood was Gundam Wing.

>>14771778
The first mecha anime I remember technically seeing was a commercial for SD Gundam Force.

The first mecha anime I actually sat down and watched was the first 2 episodes of Gundam 0080 in anime club.

>>14771778
Voltes V.

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Gundam SEED
And I'm glad it was the first one so everything I watched after that just went uphill

>>14771933
>They pretty much played each show separately
False, a shit ton of animation from Dairugger was blended with Golion when making Voltron

>>14771778
Robotech

>>14771778
The first /m/ show I ever saw was Voltron but my stupid baby brain somehow thought that was Saint Seiya and i didn't realize otherwise until recently (I don't know why I thought the lions were piloted by Saint Seiya). But Escaflowne was the first /m/ anime and anime as a whole, like one that I differentiated as something other than a western cartoon, that I ever saw.

Technically another /m/ anime I started with was Digimon which I saw before Escaflowne but Escaflowne was the first thing I saw heavily focused on mechs specifically.

Transformers RiD 2001 was my first, I think.

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>>14773176
>gundam seed

did you watch it on "Bionix" on friday nights?

Cubix Robots for Everyone
or
Medabots

>>14773338
Cubix is Korean, you started off as a /m/edafighter

>>14771778
Wing. In terms of actively searching out a show, Mazinkaiser followed shortly thereafter by Shin Mazinger.

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>>14773338
>>14773344
>medabots
my niggas

fave bot? mine's Cyandog even though he blows medadick

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The French dub of Grendizer.

>>14773359
>Putting a monkey medal in a dog body
Nice going retard

No but seriously I think most medabot designs are great, I'll go with a bit unoriginal and say Metabee is my favorite both in personality and sheer design. Special mention to Blackram, War Bandit, and Samurai.

Astroboy

>>14773398
I guess you could say they really SCREWED the POOCH on that one huehuhehue

but yeah Warbandit's nice. The amount of Dakka on him is pretty much the best
Samurai's dope too but we only ever got to see him so many times and I think he was outshined by the one that turns into a racecar

Blackram's is also ok but I couldn't get down with the goat head, even though it would probably serve more purpose than a regular head

Grendizer as a kid in Lebanon.

Thank god I'm out of that shithole.

>>14771778
G Gundam
I even remember that it was the episode with the tequila gundam.

>>14773410
Shame they mangled all the designs in season 2. Metabee is such a perfect design and those stupid red highlights and rounded edges made him look so bad. But season 2 as a whole is fucking terrible.

>>14773457
that red T is without a doubt the dumbest thing. it's like he's asking to get shot.
they also ruined Arcbeetle imo but that's just me

>>14773464
>they also ruined Arcbeetle
They ruined everything, friend. Season 2 ruined medabots.

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Saber Rider ("Sei Juushi Bismarck" in Japan). Didn't know what anime was back then, tho. First /m/ovie was the Macross movie.

I can't remember.

>>14771778
I watched like 3 episodes of Gurren Lagan but i couldnt get into it and then i started building models so around christmans i got an hg red astry frame flight unit (because my parents pretty much let me do christmas shopping for myself) and I wanted to get into gundam so i started all the way back at 0079

>>14771778
Robotech then wing.

It's amazing i still love /m/ shit to this day honestly

>>14772292
When did you first realise that Go Nagai is the one who traumatised Anno?

The Grendizer manga is pretty brutal (anime is shoujo shit), but it's still nothing compared to Violence Jack.

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One could argue it's on the fine edge of being a mecha series. But hey, it was in featured in SRW.

Perhaps i saw Medarots a bit earlier but i don't recall which i saw first.

>>14771778
Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 Trilogy dubbed on VHS or Mega Man.

my earliest memory of something mecha from japan is baxinger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NZ2zUABmts
and arbergas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5ZS3pqHv5M

i somehow ended up having the red bike from baxinger , and remember some kid in kindergarden having the whole combiner ( the tricyclebike being the chest was the one feature that helped me remember.

The thing that still is a mistery is how the fuck did such toys ended up in latinamerica for the late 80s

>>14773758
Assuming you are American, if you recall seeing it before 2001 then you saw it before Medabots. If you saw it from late 2001-2002 or later you likely started as a /m/edafighter.

>>14773782
Not from burgerland.

But it was in 2002~2003, so i don't remember. And they only screened Tekkeman once as far as i recall and it wasn't the dubbed version.

American here: earliest memory of Japanese anime that I watched was either:

- Tetsujin dubbed (Sci-Fi/SyFy channel?)
- Gundam Wing
- Casshern (OVAs were shown on Sci-Fi channel as well from the early 90s)
- Transformers Armada

The holy trinity: Evangelion, FLCL, Gurren Lagann.

>>14773757
I consciously got into Nagai several years ago when I read Devilman at the first time
Of course I started to realise then (and especially when I saw "bleeding" robots in Mazinger) that he influenced Anno, but I wouldn't call that traumatising.
Still slowly comming to understand that Eva is not a revolutionary progressive masterpiece of robot anime but just is a fanfiction about whatever Anno liked in 70-s pop culture and actually is retro as fuck even for its time was fun

>>14773935
Whops
I mean to reply to:
>>14773831

TTGL in late 2014, though I didn't take a particular interest in mecha until I saw Gunbuster a little later so I'm a newfag when it comes to but I think in that time I've watched/read a decent amount of other /m/ stuff.

>>14771778
Probably transformers, mazinger z or some other go nagai mecha aired in the mid 80s

>>14773874
>but I wouldn't call that traumatising.
Harenchi Gakuen's famous 1st ending traumatised Anno.

>>14774041
I don't know anything about it

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>>14774091
"Harenchi Gakuen was criticized as vulgar because it introduced overt eroticism to children. Male students and teachers were depicted as being preoccupied with catching glimpses of girls' panties or naked bodies. Many parents, women's associations, and PTAs protested.

In particular, the PTA protests over Harenchi Gakuen were notorious. Nagai was bombarded with interview requests from newspapers, magazines and TV. Whenever he flew outside of Tokyo, TV cameras were waiting for him. He was branded a "nuisance" and even an "enemy of society". He, however, had a clear sense of what things he could or could not do with the manga.

At first, Nagai didn't think that the opposition was against him, since he was aware of the standards that applied with movies and similar things for an audience below 18 years old. At that time, he never drew sex scenes, avoided pictures of genitals and made nudes cute rather than sexy. His fans supported him throughout the PTA protests. They sent him letters where they expressed how they were aware that the adults cracking down on them were reading raunchier stuff than what Nagai was producing.

The protests were not only against the manga, but also against the TV series. The PTA managed to prevent the distribution of the magazine in some parts of Japan. As a result of the protests, when the series was about to be cancelled because of the PTA, Nagai changed the theme in Harenchi Gakuen into a more mature and serious matter, from nonsense gags with sexy touches, to a full-scale war where murder was depicted in the bloody way for which many know him. This led to the famous ending of Harenchi Gakuen, symbol of freedom and of rejection of the hypocrisy, where all students and teachers, while defending their freedom of expression, are killed by the PTA and other parental forces. This was the ironic answer that Nagai gave to the PTA."

>>14772955
mah nigga

>>14774121
Oh wow, that's cute
I have read something harenchi gakuen related but not more than a couple of chapters, and I have never heard of the epic ending
Fuck, that's absolutely glorious

>>14773738
This.

>>14774121
what a absolute madman

>>14771778
When I was 8 I saw a late night double billing of Ninja Scroll and Macross Plus.
They were both the first anime, and mecha anime I saw.

>>14771778
Either Voltron or Samurai Pizza Cats.

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>>14771778
Battle of the Planets, Force Five and Star Blazers

>>14771778
Medabots

>>14774536
are you for real

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>>14771778
Oh baby

Either Da Garn or Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru.
I can't remember which.

Escaflowne.

Whatever the Transformers that aired before Armada was. The one where Megatron was a limo/hand/dragon/four other things.

>>14771778
Transformers G1 but G Gundam is what actually got me into the genre

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First time I watched it when I was like 3 or 4 and I instantly fell in love with it and the genre.

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>>14771778
G Gundam

>>14774121
So, this manga is the point where anime/manga became different from their western equivalents? First introduction of the ol' sex and violence?

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>>14775947
>First introduction of the ol' sex and violence?

>>14775485
Same here.

Always gonna hold a special place in my heart because of that. Shit...I should watch it again desu.

>>14775477
What show is that? Is it one of the Eldran shows?

>tfw I can't even remember what it was

My most vivid memory though is that I used to give very few fucks about gendum back when it was on the toonami circuit.

Actually a lot of shit didn't click for me back in the day. If it wasn't some form of Voltron it seemed my childhood ADD just kicked into maximum overdrive.

And I think I only watched Voltron because the idea of 5 lion robots becoming a giant robot was the coolest shit ever to little shitbabby me.

But I honestly don't remember if I started with Voltron or if it was something else.

I was a raging bookfag as a little snot nosed shit.

>>14771778
Beast Wars(Beasties) or Escaflowne i think

maybe wing

>>14775972
>And I think I only watched Voltron because the idea of 5 lion robots becoming a giant robot was the coolest shit ever
I mean, it is

>>14775976
I MEAN, IT IS, YEAH.

BUT BOY WAS IT A PETTY EXCUSE FOR AVOIDING OTHER SHOWS.

ALSO COMBINER FETISH RESULTED IN ME UNIRONICALLY ENJOYING TRANSFORMERS ENERGON WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO BE GARBAGE ACCORDING TO EVERYONE ELSE.

Robotech when I was too young to really remember it, maybe around four our five. Giant Robo was the first I could really remember loving, watched that about ten.

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Star Fleet and Captain Future, back in the eighties. I was about 7, and my grandmother would often get me and my siblings videos from her local store whenever we came over.

Being a fan of Thunderbirds at the time, I was all over Star Fleet. Puppets, spaceships AND giant robots?! Nice.

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This is the very first thing in my memory, not only as one of the first mecha anime but one of the first anime.

>>14771778
Swedish dubbed Do you remember love back in like 92-93

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlFpDaFAI5Y

>>14771778
Gundam Wing if you only count anime. But I already liked giant robots before that thanks to things like Changeman and Juspion.

>>14776712
>>14776878
Go Nagai or Ken Ishikawa were involved inboth of them.

The Transformers: The Movie was the first mecha i saw but that isnt really anime.
I watched the original MSG with my dad. Was some of the best times i've had with him

>>14775947
Yeah, Go Nagai invented sex and violence

Wing, it aired on Toonami while I was growing up.

Fast-forward to the present and ironically enough I can't stand the "boy band" Gundams (Wing and 00) anymore. 4 shitty protagonists doesn't make a good show no matter how many times you attempt it.

Rewatching Wing and Endless Waltz as an adult didn't really help its case, though I still admit it has some fucking dank designs (Tallgeese III is my waifu).

>>14775960
Genki Bakuhatsu Ganbaruger. It's the second Eldoran show and some group is subbing it on youtube.

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Does this count?
If not then Evengelion.

>>14771778
Transformers RID 2001.

>>14772071
This.

As far as people piloting robots, I think it was Zoids. That or Medabots. Can't remember which aired first down here.

Power Rangers also had a big hand in building interest in giant robots fighting things.

Cyborg 009 2001 and Astro Boy

>>14779948
>those versions still don't have good full subs
I hope you're not disappointed with the dubs, considering they're pretty much the only option.

>>14779988
Not him but how far does the 009 dub go and how well has the voice acting aged since that era of adult swim dubs had some alright voice acting? I've been wanting to rewatch it as I only loosely remember it and greatly enjoyed it when I was younger, more than when I attempted to read the original manga.

>>14780035
It's not too shabby, aside from Christian references being swapped out and giving Ivan dialogue while he sleeps for no damn reason besides "every cartoon musn't have silence". It covers just about everything, but it might be tough to get the last few episodes.

>>14780072
Sounds good, sliding it up my backlog. Thanks for the info.

>every cartoon musn't have silence
No dub committed this sin harder than Digimon.

>>14771780
G Gundam

>>14779988
It was a pretty good dub because thank god my country have good dubbers unlike America.

https://youtu.be/Dv_dKxC5-Jo?t=439

>>14780112
Another example of the american butchering:

original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QEeifNyw40

eng dub:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qLl145FqQg

pt-br dub:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Dbom0pypc

more:

original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXR0WrYM8Ao

eng dub:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbbHS-VIoqM

pt-br dub;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJDiCBz3EXQ

>>14771778
I don't remember if was Voltron(Golion), i don't remember the chapters.

But the first i can remember the content was Patlabor.

And for western mecha was Beast Wars.

>>14772176
U.S. MANGA, when our tv was actually good

>>14780162
Ehh, digimon only started having good subs on Frontier because before we either didn't get any or there was that abomination from Angelica Also I think they made a full version of the SK opening along with some other songs and sold it, we did get a bunch of passable translations of openings from a bunch of anime in the past