by Schwenkdawg 5/4/2009, 6:25 am
Hmm...thats a difficult one. The first anime i ever saw was one a family friend who was babysitting me and my brothers brought over...it was gundam wing. I had played Mechwarrior before this time, and so, the idea of giant robots beating the ever living crap out of things greatly appealed to me, and i got hooked. Then, when toonami aired gundam: 08th MS team, it was pretty much over. Despite the awkwardly shoe-horned in love plot...thing, it was and is my favorite gundam ever (followed by 0083). It was my favorite because the dudes in it were essentially grunts fighting in a totally insignificant theater of the war, using what were MOSTLY just run of the mill suits. Also, the Zaku II's (my personal favorite mobile suit of all time) in 08th looked like robots instead of the cheesy "dude in psychadelic medieval armor" look they had in the original gundam. The overarching storyline was also compelling (1 year war, zeon, etc etc etc), and I've found a great love of most things Zeon (Sieg Zeon, btw). This love was finally cemeted when i got the gundam PS2 games, and when i went to japan and played the 360 arcade gundam game, which was AWESOME. So that was that, and now animes with mobile suits are pretty high up on my list of "things that are cool"...haha along with those cheesy romcom animes, if only because they reassure me in the same way that disney movies do, with the whole "the guy will get the girl and live happily ever after yadda yadda yadda" stuff