The Journey Begins
Here’s a quick reminder of the schedule and what we’ll be talking about today. For day one it seems fitting that I am to discuss the first anime I ever watched. Now like a lot of folks, the first anime I watched would have been as a child before I knew what anime was. That would make it either DBZ or Sailor Moon but I don’t really count those ones. Instead I’ll be talking about the first anime I recognized as anime. Can you guess what it was (well probably since the picture I used for the featured image gives it away)?
I’m not 100% sure when it was, but the first anime I watched and knew was anime was around the end of high school or the very start of college for me. The title may just surprise you because it isn’t one that most people would pick as their starting show: Vampire Hunter D (or as it is known in the US at least, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust).
Why did I start with that? Well truth be told, I didn’t actually seek this out. A few friends of mine were just sure that I had to watch it and so I gave it a shot. In the end I enjoyed the film but I can’t really remember that much about it. There are vampires, a guy with a talking hand, something about space I think, and…?
Still, this showed me that there was more to anime than gratuitous fanservice, porn, and kids stuff. It was a more serious kind of story that I was looking for in my media and with this I became intrigued. I moved on swiftly to the likes of Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, and Neon Genesis. I’ve stuck with it ever since.
I hope you enjoyed this little blurb about my first anime and how that sparked my interest in seeking out more stuff. Tomorrow is going to be about my favorite anime (at least so far any way) so I hope you’ll look forward to it! If you would like to help me out some, then feel free to check out my Ko-fi but don’t feel obligated to donate anything. As always, thanks for reading and I hope to see you back here soon!
Jon Spencer Reviews 
It’s interesting you bring this up because Rossiroad (of My Brain is Completely Empty) mentioned this one fairly recently. I’ve only seen Bloodlust out of the 2 Vampire Hunter D movies (watched it last year around this time), but I have read 15 of the English novel releases (to my memory). I did read them in order so I can’t remember how faithful the book was to the movie (Bloodlust is an adaption of book 3), but I think fairly highly of this movie nonetheless.
If you don’t count anything where I wasn’t aware of its being an anime, you’ll have to blame Detective Conan for why I’m here.
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Pinpointing exactly whet anime was my first took some doing. Surprised myself a bit even. That’s the only one in the series I’ve seen though.
Detective Conan is a fun show, not a bad one for your first at all.
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I must say, have rewatched both not so long ago, VHD Bloodlust holds up a lot better than the original VHD adaption. The original was one of my first though, so I still have a soft spot for it.
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Ah, I’ve just seen Bloodlust but it is named so confusing over here I don’t know why. Good to know it still holds up though, but like I said, I can’t really remember much about it.
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It’s probably worth a rewatch if the opportunity arises. I reneger at the time that I see it that it wasn’t available in the UK and no reggae date was forthcoming, so I had to pay through the nose to import from the USA. I’m just glad my DVD player back then was region free.
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That was an interesting choice. Mine was Teknoman which was the edited version of Tekkaman Blade.
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That’s equally interesting if you ask me. Thanks for sharing yours as well 🙂
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Thanks! Vampire Hunter D is a good choice. I hope the rest of the 30 day challenge goes swimmingly.
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I’m pretty sure it will since I scheduled the whole month in advance 😉
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Nice! I do that a lot with my reviews, too. I have April and most of May covered.
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Oh nice! Usually I’m not as proactive since I like to have the flexibility to be a bit reactive to news/current events. That makes this an experiment. I’m going to try and keep up the one month ahead thing subbing in content that might be more hot when appropriate.
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Gotcha. That will be a fun experiment. I do mine out of necessity with how busy my schedule is.
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Makes sense. I’m largely a homebody so I have tons of time…
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I see. I’m glad you’re able to do this challenge nonetheless. I get super busy with my work and creative projects, so it’s tough for me to do challenges like that. However, I did write Hollandus Landing for 6 months straight last year.
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Very impressive, a six month streak is incredible!
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Definitely. It was my first time serializing a cell phone novel live online. It ended up being 810 chapters long.
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Woah! That’s a lot!
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Yup. Granted, cell phone novel chapters are 70-200 words long, but it added up to over 94k words total.
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Still, very impressive.
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Thanks. That was a huge undertaking of mine.
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Anytime 🙂
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No problem. I do have more plans with that cell phone novel after I serialized it.
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O.o
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Stay tuned. 🙂
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I still don’t remember when I watched Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. I watched it fairly early on in my list of anime I found as an adult, but still not sure how I found it or why. I know I really enjoyed it.
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It’s weirdly forgettable for how nor forgettable I know it should be. At least it left a favorable impression!
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