Poll of the Day > I spent over $1000 on anime in 2000. How many have you heard of or watched?

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I was looking up something and, while doing so, got a little curious, and then said to myself, "Wow, that was a lot." Here's what added up to just under $1100 (over $1100 with shipping) in 2000 (all being DVDs). This is only my online purchases, so there's probably more that I bought at b&m stores.

Amazing Nurse Nanako Vol 1-2
Bubblegum Crisis Collector's Edition
Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 Vol 1-2
Burn Up W
Cardcaptor Sakura Vol 1
Cowboy Bebop Vol 1-6
Cutey Honey Vol 1-2
Dominion Tank Police
Grave of the Fireflies
Key the Metal Idol Vol 1-3
Magic Knight Rayearth Collection 1
Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol 2
Outlaw Star Vol 1
Perfect Blue
Princess Mononoke
Revolutionary Girl Utena Vol 2
Sakura Diaries Vol 1-2
Samurai X Vol 1-2 (the first Rurouni Kenshin OVA)
The Slayers DVD Collection
Slayers: The Motion Picture
Sol Bianca: The Legacy Vol 1-2
Tenchi Universe Vol 1-4
Trigun Vol 1-5
Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer
Vampire Hunter D
Venus 5
The Vision of Escaflowne Vol 1-2
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Blaqthourne posted...

I was looking up something and, while doing so, got a little curious, and then said to myself, "Wow, that was a lot." Here's what added up to just under $1100 (over $1100 with shipping) in 2000 (all being DVDs). This is only my online purchases, so there's probably more that I bought at b&m stores.

Amazing Nurse Nanako Vol 1-2
Bubblegum Crisis Collector's Edition
Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 Vol 1-2
Burn Up W
Cardcaptor Sakura Vol 1
Cowboy Bebop Vol 1-6
Cutey Honey Vol 1-2
Dominion Tank Police
Grave of the Fireflies
Key the Metal Idol Vol 1-3
Magic Knight Rayearth Collection 1
Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol 2
Outlaw Star Vol 1
Perfect Blue
Princess Mononoke
Revolutionary Girl Utena Vol 2
Sakura Diaries Vol 1-2
Samurai X Vol 1-2 (the first Rurouni Kenshin OVA)
The Slayers DVD Collection
Slayers: The Motion Picture
Sol Bianca: The Legacy Vol 1-2
Tenchi Universe Vol 1-4
Trigun Vol 1-5
Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer
Vampire Hunter D
Venus 5
The Vision of Escaflowne Vol 1-2

Bolded what I've seen, going off the top of my head. Heard of some of the others.

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I bought the hellsing ultimate collection earlier this year
thanks for reminding me to pick up space dandy and maybe trigun

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I only own old stuff myself :(

Watched the full anime series of Cowboy Bebop, but IIRC, there was a movie? I never saw that.
Loved Trigun, watched the original series, but I think that one had another later that I haven't seen.
Own both Vampire Hunter D movies, but unwatched.
Seen the original NGE series.

This is my currently owned anime.
https://anilist.co/user/DeltaBladeX/animelist
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Samurai X Vol 1-2 (the first Rurouni Kenshin OVA)
Princess Mononoke
Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol 2
Outlaw Star Vol 1
Cowboy Bebop Vol 1-6
Revolutionary Girl Utena Vol 2
Trigun Vol 1-5
Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer
Vampire Hunter D
The Vision of Escaflowne Vol 1-2

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DeltaBladeX posted...

Watched the full anime series of Cowboy Bebop, but IIRC, there was a movie? I never saw that.
Loved Trigun, watched the original series, but I think that one had another later that I haven't seen.
Own both Vampire Hunter D movies, but unwatched.

Yes, there was a CB movie. It was pretty neat that they released an artbox that fit the 6 vols of the show and the movie. I bought that and one for Escaflowne.

I think I heard of the later Trigun, but it was after I lost virtually all interest in anime, so I've never looked into it.

I actually watched the second VHD movie in theater. It was at a local "art house" theater (also saw X: The Movie there, but you need to watch the show beforehand, which I hadn't, so I was completely lost).
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In the year 2000 itself? Oo

Watched: (maybe not the full run, but at least some of it)
Cardcaptor Sakura Vol 1
Cowboy Bebop Vol 1-6
Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol 2
Outlaw Star Vol 1 - Fun series
Perfect Blue - Overrated
Princess Mononoke - Haven't seen in ages, but loved it
Samurai X Vol 1-2 (the first Rurouni Kenshin OVA) - Saw a little bit, didn't care to finish
Trigun Vol 1-5 - Enjoyed it the first time, was kinda meh the second
The Vision of Escaflowne Vol 1-2

Tenchi Universe Vol 1-4 - Was this the first Tenchi Muyo series? Can't really tell. I watched Tenchi Muyo ages ago and then a bunch of the follow-ups.

Heard of:
Bubblegum Crisis Collector's Edition
Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 Vol 1-2
Cutey Honey Vol 1-2
Dominion Tank Police
Grave of the Fireflies
Magic Knight Rayearth Collection 1
Revolutionary Girl Utena Vol 2
The Slayers DVD Collection
Slayers: The Motion Picture
Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer
Vampire Hunter D

Unsure or haven't:
Amazing Nurse Nanako Vol 1-2
Burn Up W
Key the Metal Idol Vol 1-3
Sakura Diaries Vol 1-2
Sol Bianca: The Legacy Vol 1-2
Venus 5

DeltaBladeX posted... Watched the full anime series of Cowboy Bebop, but IIRC, there was a movie? I never saw that.

The movie was pretty lousy, so you didn't miss anything.

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Zeus posted...

In the year 2000 itself? Oo

Yes, just in that one year.

Zeus posted...

Tenchi Universe Vol 1-4 - Was this the first Tenchi Muyo series? Can't really tell. I watched Tenchi Muyo ages ago and then a bunch of the follow-ups.

I had to look it up, since I can't remember. It appears to be the TV series based on the original OVA series. I watched pretty much everything up until GXP was released (I think my boxset of GXP is still in the shrinkwrap).

Zeus posted...

The movie was pretty lousy, so you didn't miss anything.

I liked the movie.
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That's absurdly expensive if that's all you got for $1000.
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I have watched:
Cardcaptor Sakura Vol 1
Cowboy Bebop Vol 1-6
Dominion Tank Police
Magic Knight Rayearth Collection 1
Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol 2
Perfect Blue
Princess Mononoke
Samurai X Vol 1-2 (the first Rurouni Kenshin OVA)
The Slayers DVD Collection
Slayers: The Motion Picture
Tenchi Universe Vol 1-4
Trigun Vol 1-5
The Vision of Escaflowne Vol 1-2

I know of but have not watched:
Bubblegum Crisis Collector's Edition
Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 Vol 1-2
Cutey Honey Vol 1-2
Grave of the Fireflies
Key the Metal Idol Vol 1-3
Outlaw Star Vol 1
Revolutionary Girl Utena Vol 2

No clue:
Amazing Nurse Nanako Vol 1-2
Burn Up W
Sakura Diaries Vol 1-2
Sol Bianca: The Legacy Vol 1-2
Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer
Vampire Hunter D
Venus 5

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Revelation34 posted...

That's absurdly expensive if that's all you got for $1000.

It was about $20/DVD, which was about normal back then. There's a reason there are/were bumper stickers and other stuff that said something along the lines of "Anime: more expensive than drugs".
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Ive seen Outlaw Star, Perfect Blue, and Vampire Hunter D from that list

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Blaqthourne posted...

I was looking up something and, while doing so, got a little curious, and then said to myself, "Wow, that was a lot." Here's what added up to just under $1100 (over $1100 with shipping) in 2000 (all being DVDs). This is only my online purchases, so there's probably more that I bought at b&m stores.

Amazing Nurse Nanako Vol 1-2
Bubblegum Crisis Collector's Edition
Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 Vol 1-2
Burn Up W
Cardcaptor Sakura Vol 1
Cowboy Bebop Vol 1-6
Cutey Honey Vol 1-2
Dominion Tank Police
Grave of the Fireflies
Key the Metal Idol Vol 1-3
Magic Knight Rayearth Collection 1
Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol 2
Outlaw Star Vol 1
Perfect Blue
Princess Mononoke
Revolutionary Girl Utena Vol 2
Sakura Diaries Vol 1-2
Samurai X Vol 1-2 (the first Rurouni Kenshin OVA)
The Slayers DVD Collection
Slayers: The Motion Picture
Sol Bianca: The Legacy Vol 1-2
Tenchi Universe Vol 1-4
Trigun Vol 1-5
Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer
Vampire Hunter D
Venus 5
The Vision of Escaflowne Vol 1-2

Ive seen all the non crap ones from that list.

And if you have to ask youll never agree.

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I've heard of 17 of those.

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bulbinking posted...

Ive seen all the non crap ones from that list.

And if you have to ask youll never agree.

how vaguely pretentious

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Was about to say had not seen beautiful dreamer but was not aware that it was just a weird way of labeling some of the seasons.

Anyways I have seen everything on your list.

Heard of almost everything on that list. Watched nothing on that list

None.

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Amazing Nurse Nanako Vol 1-2 Not heard of
Bubblegum Crisis Collector's Edition Seen
Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 Vol 1-2 Heard of
Burn Up W Heard of (saw the original Burn Up OVA, and own the DVD)
Cardcaptor Sakura Vol 1 Heard of
Cowboy Bebop Vol 1-6 Heard of
Cutey Honey Vol 1-2 Heard of
Dominion Tank Police Seen
Grave of the Fireflies Seen
Key the Metal Idol Vol 1-3 Heard the name
Magic Knight Rayearth Collection 1 Heard of
Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol 2 Seen
Outlaw Star Vol 1 Heard of
Perfect Blue Heard of
Princess Mononoke Heard of
Revolutionary Girl Utena Vol 2 Heard of
Sakura Diaries Vol 1-2 Heard of
Samurai X Vol 1-2 (the first Rurouni Kenshin OVA) Not heard of
The Slayers DVD Collection Seen Season 1
Slayers: The Motion Picture Heard of
Sol Bianca: The Legacy Vol 1-2 Not heard of
Tenchi Universe Vol 1-4 Heard of
Trigun Vol 1-5 Heard of
Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer Seen
Vampire Hunter D Heard of
Venus 5 Heard of
The Vision of Escaflowne Vol 1-2 Heard of

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Ive seen Cardcaptor Sakura

Ive watched a little of Cowboy Bebop with my cousin.

Grave of the Fireflies sounds familiar...

I may have seen Princess Mononoke, but like forever ago...

Not sure about the rest...
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I've seen most of these, heard of the ones I haven't

Blaqthourne posted...

Bubblegum Crisis Collector's Edition
Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 Vol 1-2
Cowboy Bebop Vol 1-6
Cutey Honey Vol 1-2
Dominion Tank Police
Grave of the Fireflies
Magic Knight Rayearth Collection 1
Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol 2
Perfect Blue
Princess Mononoke
Revolutionary Girl Utena Vol 2
Sakura Diaries Vol 1-2
Samurai X Vol 1-2 (the first Rurouni Kenshin OVA)
The Slayers DVD Collection
Slayers: The Motion Picture
Tenchi Universe Vol 1-4
Trigun Vol 1-5
Vampire Hunter D
The Vision of Escaflowne Vol 1-2

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I have only heard of:

Bubblegum Crisis Collector's Edition
Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 Vol 1-2
Grave of the Fireflies
Magic Knight Rayearth Collection 1

I have seen:

Cardcaptor Sakura Vol 1
Cowboy Bebop Vol 1-6
Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol 2
Outlaw Star Vol 1
Princess Mononoke
Samurai X Vol 1-2 (the first Rurouni Kenshin OVA)
Tenchi Universe Vol 1-4
Trigun Vol 1-5


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Heard of all but Sol Bianca and Venus 5. Seen ~10. (More if I ever actually watched what I've bought.)

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I've watched these:

Bubblegum Crisis Collector's Edition
Cutey Honey Vol 1-2
Dominion Tank Police
Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol 2
Perfect Blue
Princess Mononoke
Sakura Diaries Vol 1-2

Perfect Blue is seriously messed up. But I love movies & TV shows where it keeps switching between realities and you can't tell what's real and what's not.


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Perfect Blue is a great movie, even if someone wasnt into anime Id still recommend it

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heard of all of them except the nurse nanako. Venus 5 is hentai. You can find it for free on porn sites.

Watched
Cardcaptor Sakura (first few episodes only)
Cowboy Bebop
Grave of the Fireflies
Magic Knight Rayearth
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Outlaw Star
Perfect Blue
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Samurai X
The Slayers
Tenchi Universe: seen on CN back in the day, its not onmy MAL page because I don't know how much of it i've actually seen)
Trigun
The Vision of Escaflowne

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Cowboy Bebop, Mononoke, and Vampire Hunter D are the only ones that are not terrible.

Edit: missed Grave of the fireflies
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Anime is bad. Its a cartoon that isnt funny and yet the action is really cheesy and tacky. I dont get why people like it.

BeerOnTap posted...

Anime is bad. Its a cartoon that isnt funny and yet the action is really cheesy and tacky. I dont get why people like it.

Because people like different stuff... And feel differently about different things. Some people probably do think some are funny, like the comedy ones. Or like the action is some, like in the ones with good action...
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Mead posted...

Perfect Blue is a great movie, even if someone wasnt into anime Id still recommend it

Cowboy Bebop and Escaflowne are also liked by non Anime fans as well.

LightningFlash posted...

Was about to say had not seen beautiful dreamer but was not aware that it was just a weird way of labeling some of the seasons.

Beautiful Dreamer is the 2nd movie.

ultra magnus13 posted...

Cowboy Bebop, Mononoke, and Vampire Hunter D are the only ones that are not terrible.

Edit: missed Grave of the fireflies

The only one I'd call terrible is Venus 5. Sakura Diaries isn't good, but it does have a really good soundtrack.

Mead posted...

Perfect Blue is a great movie, even if someone wasnt into anime Id still recommend it

It got a limited theatrical run in the US back then, so I got to see it in one.
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LightningFlash posted...

Cowboy Bebop and Escaflowne are also liked by non Anime fans as well.

havent seen Escaflowne but yeah Cowboy Bebop is great

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Revelation34 posted...

That's absurdly expensive if that's all you got for $1000.

I spent a little more than that on a full set of nine Idolm@ster BDs imported from Japan and this was late 2011-2012.
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Escaflowne is the one with mecha or something like that right? I never saw it.
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Hop103 posted...

I spent a little more than that on a full set of nine Idolm@ster BDs imported from Japan and this was late 2011-2012.

You got ripped off then.
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I remember hearing that people in the '80s and early '90s would spend upwards of $10k to import the entire Urusei Yatsura series, which is just under 200 episodes.
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I have DVDs for Bubblegum Crisis and Magic Knight Rayearth (among other things). I've seen Cowboy Bebop, Dominion Tank Police, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Urusei Yatsura, and Vampire Hunter D (I went through a phase in college where I was renting like two VHS tapes from movies/series every week or so, so I watched a lot of anime I never bought).

If memory serves, the first "real" anime (as opposed to localized stuff like Voltron) I ever watched was Fist of the North Star. I think the first one I ever bought on VHS was Record of Lodoss War. I've got a bunch of other stuff as well.



Blaqthourne posted...

Venus 5

Hang on a minute...

-_-
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Blaqthourne posted...

Cowboy Bebop Vol 1-6
Grave of the Fireflies
Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol 2
Perfect Blue
Princess Mononoke
Samurai X Vol 1-2 (the first Rurouni Kenshin OVA)

What I've seen, heard of a lot of the others. Rurouni Kenshin is my favorite.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I have DVDs for Bubblegum Crisis and Magic Knight Rayearth (among other things). I've seen Cowboy Bebop, Dominion Tank Police, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Urusei Yatsura, and Vampire Hunter D (I went through a phase in college where I was renting like two VHS tapes from movies/series every week or so, so I watched a lot of anime I never bought).

If memory serves, the first "real" anime (as opposed to localized stuff like Voltron) I ever watched was Fist of the North Star. I think the first one I ever bought on VHS was Record of Lodoss War. I've got a bunch of other stuff as well.

There wasn't much anime to rent where I was. I do remember some friends and I finding Golgo 13 in the kids section at Blockbuster, because, you know, if it's animated, it must be for kids.

The first anime I watched that I knew was anime was Vampire Hunter D at a friend's place. I'd seen Speed Racer and Astro Boy on TV, but didn't know they were from Japan.

Hang on a minute...

-_-

What? I was 20 years younger and it's not like high-speed internet was really available at the time.

PKMNsony posted...

Rurouni Kenshin is my favorite.

I really like that OVA (haven't seen the second one), but what I saw of the TV series didn't appeal to me. IIRC, the TV series is much more lighthearted and possibly comedy-oriented.
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Revelation34 posted...

You got ripped off then.

That's exactly how much they cost in Japan at that time, they rarely do boxsets over there.
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ultra magnus13 posted...

Cowboy Bebop, Mononoke, and Vampire Hunter D are the only ones that are not terrible.

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I saw Princess Mononoke. It was weird.

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Blaqthourne posted...

There wasn't much anime to rent where I was. I do remember some friends and I finding Golgo 13 in the kids section at Blockbuster, because, you know, if it's animated, it must be for kids.

Blockbuster is where I rented all my anime from. All of my local Blockbusters when I was in college had fairly significant anime sections. I honestly can't remember much of what it was now (that was like 20 years ago). The only one I'm vaguely remembering is Ninja Scroll. Oh, and Demon City Shinjuku. Maybe The Castle of Cagliostro (Lupin III)?

For 90s stuff, I kind of have a hard time remembering what I rented, what I watched because friends had it, and what I picked up as a bootleg sub from a local shop.
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There wasn't a Blockbuster where I went to college, or at least not one within walking distance. But we did have a small anime club on campus, so I got to watch a little bit there.
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Ive only seen Bebop but Ive heard of Neon Genesis Evangelion

I wasn't into anime when I went to Blockbuster often. But I haven't watched any in years anyway since I prefer manga.
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