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I think I vaguely remember that one.  Or at least the name anyway.

Came on after Cowboy Bebop on Toonami at the time, I believe. I caught both shows much later.

I remember watching that Cowboy Do-Wop show on Toonami.  I didn't watch it for long, though.  Didn't really appeal to me.

I share some of you favorites. I grew up on Speed Racer and Star Blazers. Then in the 90s Aeon Flux, 2000s Animatrix. After that I went back and watched the original Dragon Ball, Astro Boy, Mighty Orbots and a lot of the Studio Ghibli films. I should check out others. 

I remember watching Aeon Flux when I was in high school and college.  Is that really an anime, though?  I mean, it's anime-like, but I didn't think it was an anime.  But maybe it is.  Really the only thing I remember about it is that it was weird.  Later they made a live action movie about it and that was also weird.

Yeah, I think I wasn't hugely into it, just it was different. 

My favorite anime TV shows are Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma 1/2 and Kosuke Fujishima's (the artist behind many of the Tales games and Sakura Wars) Oh My Goddess! I also watched Magic Knight Rayearth (and played the Saturn game), Black Jack (from Osamu Tezuka), Galaxy Express 999, and the Samurai Pizza Cats, who are getting a new video game with the crazy English dub. I've also dabbled in Demon Slayer.

On the movie side, my favorites are Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, the Project A-Ko series, Akira, Ninja Scroll, and Perfect Blue. Last year, I went to see The Boy and the Heron in theaters.

I mostly associate anime/manga with gaming, since the first exposures to anime art that I knew of were The Legend of Zelda and Kid Icarus. I also got into Dragon Quest (Warrior) early on and even watched the few episodes of the Dragon Quest anime that were localized by Saban and came on at weird hours. Sega CD RPGs like Lunar and Vay only further solidified the anime-video games connection for me. When Dragon Ball Z came out a few years later, I thought it looked a lot like Dragon Quest. Most people who saw DBZ first were more surprised the first time they saw Dragon Quest VIII and realized that it looked like Dragon Ball. But a lot of the cartoons that aired in the US had subtly Japanese styling thanks to the fact that many of them were contracted out to Tokyo Movie Shinsha and other Japanese studios. Even a couple of the Rankin-Bass Christmas specials were very animesque because most of those were produced in Japan. I probably also saw a couple of episodes of those Christian animes that Tatsunoko produced for CBN.

The only reason why I didn't watch the Dragon Warrior and Samurai Pizza Cats anime cartoons is because they came on at WEIRD times in my area.  As a teenager and college student, I wasn't about to get up at 4 in the morning for those.

I dunno, I didn't like The Boy and the Heron.  The first half of the movie was too slow, and the second half made no sense.

When I first played it, I was like, "Man these Chrono Trigger characters sure do look like Dragon Ball."  But then I learned soon after who the character designer was and it made sense.

Ha, I remember those anime interpretations of the Bible.  Stuff like Flying House, Superbook, etc.