I’ll stick with my trusty Emacs (and Zile)

Best beans

The doctor put one per jar.

sigh

gets the jars down from the mantle

Yes.

Woo, fellow Slackware user!

Ooooo purple and black! 🖤

Grey Goo and Satisfactory.

Vampire Hunter D is beautiful! I need to get around to reading the books someday.

Hi, I’m Remilia on SDF, a geeky middle-aged goth lady. I think my earliest memories of watching anime (and actually realizing it was anime) were when I saw Project A-Ko in the late 90s during either middle or high school. It’s something I had seen at Blockbuster, but had never rented until then. I distinctly remember my mom renting it for me one evening while she was going to be out, and me laying on her bed (she had the VCR, I didn’t) watching it. I was instantly hooked.

Around the same time I was introduced to the original Bubblegum Crisis series. I think the way it went was that I had seen the VHS tape at Blockbuster, but it was one I had also passed up time after time (I think it was in the “Adult Animation” section at mine, so it was off limits to me). But Sci-Fi Channel had an episode one night that I managed to watch. I soon went to Suncoast video afterward and found me a boxed set after that ^_

Once I was old enough (or found some other way of watching) went and watched some of the other anime that Blockbuster had, all of which I had seen on the shelf, but had never been able to rent because it was for “adults”. Things like The Guyver: Bio-Booster Armor, Genocyber, and I forget what else.

So yeah, Project A-Ko and Bubblegum Crisis were my first real introductions into the world of anime. Technically I had already watched some earlier series (the US-ified Robotech and Voltron series, Gaiking), but I had never realized they were Japanese anime until I was much older. So, I don’t really count any of those as my “first anime”. Even now, when I think “anime”, I imagine a cyberpunk world with a BGC art style first and foremost. Well, that and Otaku no Video, which a friend of mine showed me a few years later in college :-P

I don’t watch as much anime as I used to. Part of it is that I’m not that interested in most of the modern shonen stuff. But I do rewatch my favorites from time to time.