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Patreon Bonus Video: How Tama got into Pokémon, Sailor Moon, and other anime

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Shawn Heatherly

Fascinating 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.

Yuke Weiß

God 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.

TheNitr01

6:20 I love how you had your Pokémon Pikachu on this whole time.