What was your first mature Anime?

[TheNumber1Zero]

Really made me think? I did watch Flcl when I was a wee lad, that made me think "Wha?" a lot.
My first mature anime... that would either be Blue Gender, Gundam, or maybe CowBoy Bebop.

 

[Space Spoons]

I wouldn't call DBZ, even the Toonami edit, completely kid friendly. I distinctly remember having nightmares about Form 2 Freeza after seeing him impale Krillin on his horn.

Still, if we're not counting that, I'll go with Neon Genesis Evangelion. Toonami ran a heavily edited episode of it during "Giant Robot Week". Most of the graphic violence was cut, but the dialogue was left intact enough to let me know this was something different than any anime I'd ever seen before. It was another breed, something darker and more violent.

 

[^=ash=^]

Gantz ... it was my first serious anime, i did see pokemon 1st but i don't really see that as an anime :|

 

[MagnetoHydroDynamics]

I've always been a manga reader, not an animé watcher.

But about a year ago I watched Ergo Proxy. Damn, it rocked.

 

[Plurralbles]

mature... anime... Hmm... I dno, but my first foray into anything like that would be Gundam Wing I guess.

Samurai Champloo and Evangelion can be throw in there I think.

 

[Need MOAR APPLES]

Higurashi. I absolutely LOVE it!

Oh man that was a good anime but, my first was Cowboy Bebop and is my last because I watch it every now and then to realise that anime is still good and not filled with Moe' bs that is nowadayz anime ahem! Suzemiya Haruhi? Wtf? same episode what I lost count at 5

 

[A random person]

I saw Akira when it initially came out in the cinema (showing my age here). I believe it was the first "adult oriented" anime ever given a cinema release in my country.

I thought it was incredibly dissapointing - a good concept and initial premise but with badly-written female characters (something which I was to later learn was the standard for anime in general), a stupid ending and about half an hour too long. In fact if the last 30 minutes of the film was simply removed altogether with no other changes I believe Akira would be a far superior film.

Putting other things aside, just a note about Akira: while it's considered an anime classic, people who've read the original manga generally consider the anime film inferior; supposedly the manga really picked up where the movie ended.

 

[Cosplay Horatio]

Ninja Scroll.

It's also my most favorite anime of all time including the tv series.

 

[Jazz_lover]

easy, Cowboy Bebop!

 

[Callisto49]

Probably 'Black Lagoon'.

The dub is quite good, btw.

 

[evilgrim]

Alice Academy.
[With it's crazy name]

Srs business.

 

[Dark Prophet]

Grave of the Fireflies. and it's also the deepest I have ever seen

 

[ChocoFace]

It's either Full Metal Alchemist or Elfen Lied. Can't remember which i saw first.

 

[historybuff]

The first anime I saw that was never shown on television in the States was...Ranma 1/2. It wasn't necessarily deep or anything but y'know....Ranma. It was crazy. Yeah.

Around the same time, though, I got into Gundam Wing--which was the first time I had ever seen an animated series deal with war, death, betrayal, giant mechs that shot lasers--so I count that one too. (I guess I got into anime kind of late. I saw Gundam when I was 12 or 13.)

Then I saw Lain and Escaflowne. And then Hellsing.

 

[teisjm]

The one with the schoolgirls and the horny tentacles... Oh wait, hentai wasn't what you meant by mature anime?

I guess i'll have to go with "The Boondocks" it's the only anime i've watched since pokemon many years ago.
It's partly censored, but i guess it's still as "mature" as South Park.

 

[Zaksav91]

Akira, cowboy bebop, or one of my fav animes of all time "case closed". I can't remember the first one I saw but all of them were in my early teenage preteen years.

 

[Outamyhead]

Megalocalypse, I think the only episode that didn't involve the rape of a clueless teenager was the last one, I thought it was going to be a good four part series about demons and witchcraft, nope demon and tentacle rape for the most part.

 

[Daffy F]

Umm. I HATE Anime and LOVe manga. So, I will just mention my first olderteen Manga:
It was Petshop of Horrors. And just for interest, has anyone else read any of this?

 

[Rock 'n' Soul]

What about mature themes? Utena had it's moments.