08-02-2004, 11:32 PM
Well if you look at the Asian market look what spawned alot the story lines Godzilla and Voltron type shows in the 60s and 70s which started the whole Giant Robot stuff ie Transformers and early Gundam. But as far as us Americans go we were really a late bloomer to the whole anime craze. As late as 1988 - 1990 their really wasent any anime on US TV outside of cable TV. Bit then in the early 90s their was a flood of Campy Anime cartoons hitting the US market. Monster Rancher, Pokemon, Digimon, Dragon Ball. I think that all of us started with them types except for some of the older fans and as we grew up we graduated to real anime, not the force fed Disney type