>>718012492
>I had literally not watched a single complete episode of the anime in the 90s
I got that, I just find it unusual for someone to go down this route to experience the series, the anime had always been far more present and available for me and is how a huge number of people encountered it by default. Almost exclusively knowing the manga, just seems so strange a way to go through something like this where the anime specifically is so iconic and so defines the actual characters as people see them.