I didn't find out that they were anime until years later, of course.
I don't exactly remember when I first heard the term "anime". As a kid, I just called them Japanese cartoons (the German equivalent of course). Austrian children's TV was dominated by American and Japanese series. There were also some co-productions (German/Austrian/Japanese), such as
Wickie, who had some of the characterstics of Japanese productions, and I didn't always know they were produced in Japan. (
Captain Future had an entirely new soundtrack in German TV. I didn't find out until much later. The German soundtrack is excellent and fits the show very well. I actually prefer the opening.)
I think the first time I saw an anime that was set in Japan was in the early 90ies (Attack #1; a late 60ies show about girl volley ball). Sailor Moon followed, and that was, I think, the TV anime boom with all the shounen fighters (Naruto, Inuyasha...).
I quite literally grew up with anime, though for the first two decades of my life it was mostly stuff targeted at children, with the occasional film (I still remember wanting to see
Akira, but it never came to a cinema near me).
Many of the shows I watched back then hold up surprisingly well, especially the
World Masterpiece Theatre shows, but also stuff like
Sindbad, for example.
The main case for buying up a PS3 now, or in the near future, is that the games will start to become difficult to acquire if I wait too long. I can still get many PS2 games factory-sealed at reasonable prices if I take the time to poke around looking, but PS1 games are becoming more and more expensive and difficult to find--if I'm lucky, I can find used copies on ebay for what amounts to (after shipping from the States) the same amount as they cost new, and there are one or two that I would love to get my hands on that can't be obtained except at an inflated price. Suikoden 2 is the worst of those, with the translated version typically going for around three times the original retail price.
Sounds like you're pretty much in the same situation as I was when I bought mine. (The PS3 was already available when I bought my PS2. I still like the PS2 better, all in all.)
My motion-sickness limit with regard to 3D games is about 15-20 minutes of Minecraft--after that, I become so nauseous I have to stop.
It's rare these days that games give me trouble. Dragon Age Origins is an extreme offender; reminds me of the early DOS days, when everything went first person perspective, but the graphic engines didn't always keep up. Here it's a matter of programming.
Ni no Kuni had one dungeon where I didn't look for chests; interesting design, but not good for me. I rushed through it as fast as I could.
The last time I got motion sick in anime was the first scene of the first episode of
Girls und Panzer. I thought I wouldn't be able to watch the show (and I also thought it wouldn't matter; I almost quit - the show gave me no troubles later on, and turned out to be quite fun).
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