Comment on [Discussion] What anime became the blueprint for future works?
jaygray91@piefed.zip 17 hours agoI had to think a bit hard to identify and guesstimate what was some of my first “impactful” anime personally, and after dragon ball and doraemon that aired on national TV as our saturday morning cartoon (I wasn’t considering it “anime” yet as a child), it has to be ranma 1/2 and gensomaden saiyuki when I was a teenager and it was airing on axn when our family gotten satellite TV. And then it was gundam wing and seed after that, since those too got aired on national TV.
There’s actually another anime I’d like to include, but over the years scouring what AXN and toonami has shown back in the 90s and 00s, that was then imported a second time through my country’s first satellite TV network, I just couldn’t find it. And it even involved a small buckler sized shields and have time magic or something, and a woman chosen one or something. I just could not find it. Whenever I remember my crusade for this anime I am a bit upset>
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Hm… Homura uses a small shield sometimes, she has time magic, and Madoka is about as chosen as it gets… are you thinking of Puella Magi Madoka Magica?
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jaygray91@piefed.zip 16 hours ago
Nope, I was in my 20s back then. this is older. the same period as first ranma 1/2 anime. around that. and yes, as I was watching PMMM weekly back then, That Episode blew my head.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
No idea then, sorry.
Google suggests Magic Knight Rayearth or Phantom Thief Jeanne, neither of which I’m familiar with, but they don’t look like they fit.
Saint Seiya could fit the dates, Athena could pass as a chosen one, and Cygnus had a buckler of sorts, but that’s probably not it either…
jaygray91@piefed.zip 14 hours ago
It’s okay. It’s been my white whale for a long time and what led me to meticulously detail what I watch and read if I remember to do it.
I’ll check out your suggestions to see if it can get me closer or like magically spark some core memory.