In Canada it was a little different than the US. We had some early animes that were actually dubbed up here you guys didn't have. We also had a totally differen

In Canada it was a little different than the US. We had some early animes that were actually dubbed up here you guys didn't have. We also had a totally different version of Dragonball up here originally. I noticed back then too, watching different dubbed versions of different animes, the censoring would be different depending on whether it was American or not. We also didn't really get much funimation stuff until later on, which as far as i know, whatever you think about their early work, was pretty fundamental in popularizing anime in the west. Honestly, back then most of the anime I watched were fan translations of varying qualities I found on file sharing programs i watched because I found them recommended on websites. Once I found out the anime we got here was often heavily altered compared to its original form, I kinda just focused on what was recommended online. My friends weren't really into anime or anything so it wasn't really something I could get peer recommendations on or anything. I never really got into a lot of those popular ones of the time. I just kept searching out the weird obscure stuff that never made it here. These days though, there's so much, I honestly wouldn't even know where to begin. I guess the last 'anime' I watched was Castlevania, but I'm not even sure if I would have classed that as anime back in the day.