Looking back, it's amazing these anime were allowed to air on US television, much less on Saturday mornings. Even edited, they were still pushed things to the limit. No way this would happen today on network TV.
Without wearing those rose-tinted glasses, this was so awesome. It was a must for me to catch it every week. And even now, while I'm rewatching these promos, I feel excitement.
Man. Saturday Anime on Sci•Fi channel helped shaped me into the massive nerd I am today. I happened upon Vampire Hunter D one random Saturday afternoon in the spring while my parents were out at dinner, nice cool breeze coming in through the screen door, it's a great memory. I remember catching Dominion Tank Police, Iria: Zeiram the Animation, Demon City Shinjuku, and Roujin Z on that program block as well. I watched Roujin Z with a buddy and he absolutely hated it. 😄 I remember anime just back then in the middle to late 90's. Besides growing up on Voltron and Transformers, there was: • Sailor Moon in the morning on USA network that would be going while I was getting ready for school. •DragonBall Z (pre Cartoon Network DBZ20XL) on our UPN affiliate Saturday mornings at 11 or so. •Transformers Headmasters weekday mornings around 6am on Sci•Fi. •And lastly Street Fighter II the animated movie on VHS at a local grocery store that I rented more than a few times. (I had a thing for anime Chun-Li and Cammy in that movie. 😐 I was a growing boy. 😅) I saw that Street Fighter movie on the shelf and was like, "Yo. This looks way better than the show on TV. Why. I must find out." and I've been watching that movie on the regular for 25 years now. Thanks to whomever reads my long lonely ranting. You're the best. ✌✨💯
The nostalgia for Saturday Morning Anime is quite strong, I look back on it quite fondly too. Those were the days when you tried to draw anime style in class people assumed you were into THOSE cartoons. The ones infamously filled with scantily clad girls and gratuitous violent action. Now anime is quite mainstream, but it does lack the feel of fun silly type of 80s/90s anime. There's more variety now, but I do miss some old anime shows.
@@FlameVisit. Oh yeah. I have a *deep* fondness for 80's/90's vintage anime. Even the dubbed stuff. I'm not a huge fan of dubs in general, but it's like "uncharted territory" with the retro stuff. Back in the day they were trying to bring stuff that was very niche to a western audience and I was absolutely enamored with the quality of the art and the stories that Japanese anime provided. I keep telling myself that I want to collect retro anime on VHS and Laserdisc formats, but never gave it a try. Maybe I will this year. I even have a fondness for openings (not just the anime intro) but the "credits"? of the studios involved. Anything from Bandai Visual/Sunrise/EMOTION 🗿and I get, ahem, a little emotional.
Its saturday morning, you crawl out of bed, you go grab your favorite cereal pour it into a bowl and try not to splash any milk on the counter. You walk carefully to the sofa and try not to spill any cereal. You turn on your favorite cartoons. Life is great.
Wasn't there also a promo for Saturday Anime that was intercut with live action footage of Apollo Smile singing what sounded like The Voices of Spring?
Years from now, old heads like us will teach these kids about learning anime from the 90's, without understanding, without struggle. This is our fucking job. Teach them, champions. Educate them on our struggle.
"Robot Carnival" was definitely on Tubi as recently as a year ago. I caught "Akira" and "Bubblegum" crisis on Funimation before they merged with Crunchyroll.
as a kid these anime worlds were all sooo vast... i still cant really imagine being able to sit dow and watch all these movies...... scifi could charge money for a stream on youtube you pay to watch thats just old sci fi archives pieced together WITH the commercials lol oh woah on the right i just saw 6 HOURS of anime sci fi holy fuuuuuukkkk dude we can actually watch it all lol ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XMfkmS5exPA.html
I'm looking for an anime that was about humans, androids and plant people living together in the future. They would be called first, seconds and thirds.
