Why "Millennials" Have The STRONGEST NOSTALGIA
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Why is it that Millennials have the strongest nostalgia? In today's video, Qaaman examines the anime boom of the 1990's and the early 2000's and the impact it had on the generation. He also explains how Dragon Ball Z, Yugioh, Pokemon and Sailor Moon had a life long impact on this generation.
90s kids for life 🙏🏾also Digimon while never gettin the mainstream love of Pokemon is still an underrated GOAT!
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Digimon Digital Monsters. Digimon are the Champions!
I agree i loved them both. I still re-watch both digimon adventure and pokemon up until veronica taylor stops voicing ash.
@DJ Sauls Changeee in to digital champions tooo save the digital World
@@ShockToYoSystem who threw up on my hat!
Easy: Strongest childhood = Strongest nostalgia
I was having this conversation with a friend and honestly we were the last generation that went outside and weren't glued to a phone. Anime filled us with a spirit of excitement and magic that we would carry onto our imaginations. We weren't the first generation of anime fans though so we should always show respect to them. Bc the generation of fan before us was hardcore.
80s was first anime in the US
That hurts my feelings man some of us gen z go outside me personally blue lock got me into a dope soccer phase rn
This actually made me laugh, are you aware Gen X said this about y'all? Seeing that the Internet was developing rapidly when you guys were still children(The 90s), and your 20s in the 2000s weren't very much different as Social Media was getting established at that time. I'm 75 and most if not all of my peers HATED the 90s, and it's ironic how you guys are praising it. My advice for you now is to not have an old closed mentality, enjoy what you have today, because 20 years from now, you're also going to appreciate now. Live in the moment because once you're my age you'll regret those moments you were hating and wished you were present.
As someone who’s Gen Z (1999) I have so much nostalgia from so many different channels. Early Cartoon Network pre 2013, early Nick and Disney was so freaking nostalgic. Anime now that I think about it while a big part of my life now and back then was only a small part considering cartoons, live action tv and movies. I wish and hope time travel becomes a thing I’d given anything to go back to those Saturday mornings and late night Toonami
I thought Gz is 2000+
@@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman
Gen Z is post 1996 I believe.
@@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman gen z is 1997 to 2012
Oldest gen Z, you can join us millennials.
The 90's was goat. I was born in 89, so these shows were hitting hard. A real phenomenon. Also Mirai translates to future for those who might not know.
Born in 93, so all these shows came out around the time I was 5-7. My child brain was hyped lol
yeah I think 87 88 and 89 are the peak millennial years all unique for 90s kids' vs the earliest millennials born in the early mid 80s are really borderline Gen Xers might have been too old and the late millennials who were born in the 90s that might have been too young depending on if they were early or late 90s.
Its also the overall culture, that makes 90s/2000s nostalgia so strong.
Facts man…Wrestling during those times(was growing to be bigger than ever), video games(1st PlayStation and next generation, Gameboy color, N64) and the games on these consoles(Crash bandicoot, Mario party, Super Smash Bros, Ready to Rumble etc 😩)…even in our teens in the 00’s(Marvel vs Capcom, NBA Streets, Here Comes the Pain, Def Jam Vendetta, Pokémon Stadium)…damn why’d we have to get older lol
I was there living those good memories from my childhood in the 1990s and early 2000s. I am in my early 30s right now, and I had grew up with those shows that I had watched.
There will NEVER be a time like this ever again...the transition from SD to HD, the move from VHS to DVD/Blu Ray...the anime boom in this video, leading to the Big 3 (Naruto, One Piece, Bleach), social media's early days, the rise of the smart phone to end cap it all off into the 2010s....yes there will be new memories for things as time flies but man....what an era...
Late 90’s/Early 2000’s for not just anime, but all forms of entertainment in general, was at its peak. In terms of DBZ content, I remember there being clips online with Japanese audio of movies that had yet to be released yet in the States like for Bojack, Broly etc. Also, spoilers were still a thing because the DBZ website always had the episode list with summaries and screen grabs from each episode even well before the episodes aired on TV. 😂 As a millennial, I definitely miss those days.
This completely.
Born in 1994, I ride the Nostalgia train everyday!
Same my friend
same bro. 1 year left till we're old AF
@@Casvaleon XD
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1994 reporting here. ^_^ That feeling of getting old and starting to feel disconnected from the younger generation... It's getting more real everyday.
At least, I think I'm in a better place in life than I was a few years ago, so I try to be optimistic about it. I will always love the nostalgia for great shows I grew up with, in a healthy way of course. Haha
Considering how much cartoons and anime was marketed back in the day, having Saturday morning cartoon blocks, Toonami and Kids WB and Fox Kids to look forward to after school, the 90s and early 00s anime and cartoons were a way of daily life for kids growing up then. Of course it sticks with us. That was a freaking golden age of cartoons and anime.
Look what they did to teen titans. They are softing up the new generations.
Don't forget about Fox Family Made in Japan. It used to show anime every Sunday morning like Flint The Time Detective. His father was a rock hammer.
I was born in 86. I grew up into the 90's so I'm very familiar with what was popular and why.
In the early to mid 90's Power Rangers were super popular, along with Super Mario and Sonic with the Snes and Sega genesis.
X Men, Spider man and Batman were popular saturday morning cartoons.
After that came the PS1 and N64 came with new 3D graphics that barely anybody had seen before.
A couple of years later Pokemon came to America, which was also super popular.
Now we're in the late 90's to early 2000s, and there was a surge in popularity for anime, with lots of help from Toonami.
The Ps2, Game cube, and Xbox release.
Going into the mid 2000's most of the older millennials are pretty much grown, but Naruto, Bleach and One Piece were the next huge thing to come.
Also, I remember Yugioh, but i feel like it was late to the party and didnt do anything Pokémon wasn't already doing.
It was really only DBZ and Pokemon for the most popular anime at that time. Pokemon was also the more popular/established card game.
as an older Millenial who remembers more of the 80s...VHS was the primer that set it all going...the generation before me might have remembered things from their younger days, but we had a record of it and could indulge our nostalgia...turning 16 or 17 and going into the attic and finding a treasure trove of things I hadn't watched since I was in single digits fuelled those early internet searches...Thats not to say anime didn't help, from a young age I knew that the more Japanese names on the credits of a cartoon the better it was going to be...by the time Pokemon and dragon ball was doing the rounds on TV I had already collected hundreds of cyber-punk/horror anime from flea markets, god bless those souls who didn't think twice about selling a tentacle nasty to a teenager
Good point, we were among the first who could record all the random nonsense we wanted, I'm on the younger end of the Millennial cohort, but I always remember watching VHS recordings of DBZ and Pokemon episodes for hours after school.
@@KaiserMattTygore927 true, I would use a vhs tape to record certain DBZ episodes Lmao good times
Hey Qaaman , 92' baby here. You hit the nail on the head with this video, you had me laughing. It was a great watch and brought back a bunch of memories. I also have an older sister who was into sailor moon. Times were simpler back then
What was funny though? Lol
@@QaamansLand I think he was laughing because he was looking back at the good and fun memories he had growing up in the 90’s and 2000’s
@@SirAuron777
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Nice Podcast video Qaaman. Dragonball Z, Pokémon, Yu Gi Oh and Sailor Moon especially through Toonami really made anime become mainstream in the United States. Yes the internet really helped anime take root in the United States. The Dragonball, Pokémon and Yu Gi-Oh games and merchandise really made anime popular in the United States. I would like to see you bring back your remember series of old shows from childhood such as Pokémon and Yu Gi Oh and you talk about their impact on people’s childhood. It would also be cool if you also made a discord server for your community I would definitely join!
Man I miss being a kid and collecting Pokémon and yu-gi-oh cards and showing my cousins which ones I had and comparing our cards, and having them in folders haha good times 😢
We also had the best gaming generation... Snes, sega, ps1, n64, dreamcast, ps2
Ah yes Sonic vs Mario and all the other things having COD and so many other things.
Searching "The Hedgehog" And seeing so many OC's.
The sprite animations of Sonic stuff was crazy.
The toxic COD Videos and talks were funny to watch the channels around Cod that generated views in the old YT were interesting.
There was so much.
100% correct.
Don't forget about our era's PC games as well, especially for RTS fans like me.
90s kid master race!
I remember in the late 90s i was 6 years old and I accidentally woke up at 5am in the morning and I turned on the TV and the first anime i was introduced to was Yu Yu hakusho followed by Dragonball. Boy was that an adventure
You found buried treasure that morning
I never got to watch DBZ in the 90's (just somehow slipped past it, I guess I was watching other channels) but the summer of 2000 when Frieza and SSJ Goku were beating the crap out of eachother on a random wwekday at 5 PM in the afternoon, I had no idea what was going on... but I was instantly hooked.
@@KaiserMattTygore927 Its not that you did not watch DB/DBZ in the 90s when it debuted in fall 1996 on fox Channel and 1997 in WB, Those two network messed up their money by not showing those shows in primetime slots but putting them in the graveyard. Fox put the show at 5 am 5:30 Eastern time on weekday school morning!😂😂😂. Not even Breakfast time at 6:30 to 7 am but at 5 am 5:30 am when in still in bed/ maybe getting up taking care of hygiene/getting dressed for school. WB did a little better by fluctuating the show at 5:30 am to 11 am on a Sunday Morning but they still messed up by not putting the show on primetime. The only way you were going to find those shows as a kid was by accident. Thats how I found it in 1997 on WB. Thats why the Ocean dub has a special place in my memories even though overall Funimation is better. Fox and WB messed up with DB/DBZ and Sailor Moon.
Big Three 90s - early 2000s
Non cable = Pokemon, Digimon, and Monster Rancher/Yugioh.
Cable = Dbz, Sailor Moon, and Gundam.
Mid 2000s Big 3
Non Cable = Pokemon, Yugioh, and One Piece
Cable = Dbgt, One Piece/Bleach, and Naruto
This is spot on. My era is the First group.
We are the Toonami era
Ah yes MIRAI Trunks.
Things like Super Saiyan 5 being searched up all that content whether it was fan stuff the speculation the feeling of these things still going and growing is just a feeling that sort of feels like with how far things have advanced will never be replicated again.
Truly a generation and we're the last soldiers of it.
I think you touched on a single aspect of the bigger reason why millennials are so nostalgic. It's because we were the first generation of kids that were mass marketed to and had a considerably huge amount of new IP's licensed for us.
Think about it for a sec. When you think of Generation X's IP's as far as toys and shows you think of generic toys like trucks, dolls, board games, etc and for shows you think of Looney Tunes, Hanna Barbera, and Old Disney movies. But that's really it.
Then look at the Millennials, we have a myriad of shows both Anime & American that we all watched growing up and then we went and bought the toys, cards, videogames, etc for those shows.
The reason why we had WAY more shows to watch and subsequently buy merch for is because we were the generation that got dedicated tv channels for us to watch all day. The kids of previous generations only got to watch cartoons on Saturday for 4-5 hours before the channels would switch to adult programming, i.e Saturday Morning Cartoons
Enter Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, and Nickelodeon in 1992. They go and create original shows to fill out their daily programming were greenlighting so many new shows in such a small span of time. In addition they licensed anime for extremely cheap and bring over to the US so they could really fill out their roster of shows. Hence why we got Toonami as well as Power Rangers in America (it was Super Sentai in Japan)
Basically we were the first generation that grew up with TV channels that was all for us and with it came so many new shows to watch and since it was cable tv it was legal to market/advertise to kids (unlike public broadcasting where it's illegal to market to kids) so we had tons of toy commercials too.
And now that millennials are older and have their own money and are the biggest age demographic in the US, we're seeing remakes and reboots of all the shows we grew up with because they know that's already proven to sell
Perfect comment. Don't forget Kids WB. Learned a lot from reading this.
@@QaamansLand Oh absolutely! And Fox Kids as well as Toon Disney later on. We had so many shows being produced or brought for us because the channels were all so new that corporate leadership wasn't as stressed about being profitable yet. Hence why we had so many experimental shows that the channels took a low risk/high reward approach on. This mentality spanned from 1992-2008 the way I remember it.
Gen X'rs are like the prototype of us, they did have some stuff like the og transformers, GI joe, og He-man and such. but you're mostly correct our generation is when that went NUTS.
You should also add in Transformers Armada and Energon in the list. And for us Millennials we also grew up with the Samurai Jack and The Star Wars prequels along with the originals especially when the Star Wars EU at that time was at its peak especially with the 2003 clone wars series.
Damn. This hit me hard, the nostalgia is real 💯💯💯
Hell yeah. DBZ, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and also Digimon were the main ones I would watch as a kid. That came along with DBZ games, Pokémon games and cards, Yu-Gi-Oh cards and Digimon games and cards, which made all these anime’s even more expansive and immersive. Also would watch beyblade, zoids, and some other ones here and there I can’t remember right now. Also true about sailor moon, my older female cousin would watch it all the time. Good times 😢
@kingdoge69
Have You Ever Watched
Monster Rancher Too
Growing Up?
Overall, the 90's pushed the limit for music and TV. IMO, absolute peak. Early 2000's were fine but there was a start in decline when it came to the things I loved from the 90's. Kids enjoyed weekday afternoon cartoons and Saturday morning cartoons AND still played outside afterwards with their buddies. We could also invite friends and over to play video games. We're the last generation WITH actual social skills! Most of my childhood was all Power Rangers and the big 3 anime that came out. If it wasn't that, it's the big 3 channels in Disney, Nick and CN. I had plenty of friends and if I wasn't with them, I had my video games or shows to watch. I believe we do have the strongest nostalgia. The 90's took what previous decades had and brought it to heights that will never be forgotten. Now we're in the age of reboots and revivals of the 90's because the content of today lacks quality and originality.
Linkin Park?
@@QaamansLand no band could touch those guys back then. Lots of DBZ AMV's on old TH-cam with many of their songs
Totally agree
Nostalgia trip indeed. Born in 1990. Growing up in the 90s was such a great time. I recall DBZ Ocean Dub airing on Saban before Toonami picked it up. And even before that, you had the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers an VR-Troopers. Above them all, Cartoon Network was phenomenal. VHS tapes an the VCR were a kid's best friend. If you missed an episode of say DBZ, Poke'mon, Yu-gi-oh, Sailor Moon, amongst so many others, your friends had your back. Then, once Adult Swim dropped, what a game changer. Shows like Inuyasha, YuYu Hakusho, Rurouni Kenshin, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star amongst others. Setting the VCR timer to start recording at those specific times because most parents wouldn't let their child stay up that late or watch those certain shows due to the vulgar language or violence. Wrote over several tapes I likely otherwise shouldn't of as a kid, but kids do be kids.
Obviously in terms of Poke'mon you had the launch of the games an trading required person to person interaction, as well as the battling. The relic known as the Link-cable, those were the days. Toss in the trading cards an you had a mainstay show, at least until Yu-gi-oh emerged. Playing the actual card game was a staple throughout school an after classes, even outside of school. Maybe the only thing that took place before Poke'mon/Yu-Gi-Oh was the Dragonball Z Figures, I remember everybody was trying to collect certain figures. How much I wish I had any of these relics of old but long since be lost, stolen, broken, or sold. In terms of the internet, most of my generation wasn't that fortunate because we lived in such a rural area that the money wasn't there. Most families simply couldn't afford the computer, let alone internet.
Past that, Saturday morning cartoons/anime were great. You could catch those, then go hangout & play outdoors with your friends. A huge sense of that aspect has been lost today, and really felt it died off in the early 2000s. Kids WB, Disney, and Nickolodian did eventually catch up with Cartoon Network/Toonami which was great, but really Cartoon Network paved the way for everybody else until WB launched Poke'mon an dropped Yu-gi-oh. Nick had some moderately good shows, but I don't view them as nostalgic for the same reason. It's more so that they weren't as popular amongst the crowd. And as per Disney, I just didn't watch it all that much. Maybe it had good shows, though I honestly don't really remember it all that well.
u forget naruto, one piece, gundam as well
Every kid back then's rite of passage was to learn on their own how to mess with the VCR.
I've grown up in my grandma's house almost all my life and as a gen Z on the older side (1998) I've grown up around a lot of VHS tapes and old technology like an snes sega Genesis ps2. Consoles that have already been around for a whole decade. I was exposed to Dragon Ball Z through my cousins who have a lot of the DVDs. I remember when Naruto first came out on toonami around 2005. I may not have grown up in the 90's but in a way, i felt like i have. Or at least the left behinds of said decade.
You’re a Zennial, not a Zoomer. Pre Y2K=Zennial
@@bushwhackedonvhs ye. I usually call 1997-1999 people early Gen z
Oh man, that part about sneaking Gameboys into school, so relatable! My friend and I felt like we were smuggling in drugs or something lol.
I was born in 1995 and I always say this was the best year to be born. We had the best childhood when it came to cartoons and video games. And we got to saw the evolution of a lot of things. I wouldn’t want to be from any other generation
Back then I was a fan of Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh. I wasn’t a fan of Dragon Ball until 2010 when I watch the Kai version on Nicktoons and then I was watching the uncut version and then Dragon Ball, Z and then, etc.
The new generation will never know the feeling of going thru hundreds of different DBZ Geocities pages
It really was an amazing time. 😁❤
I used to watch Pokémon and Dragon Ball Z with my twin brother all the time as a kid. We were mind blown when Goku went Super Saiyan 3 for the first time!
Thanks for the heart Qaaman. You're awesome!
Man...
For me watching the cell saga after school every day was AN EVENT, with Gohan going SSJ2, that was crazy.
80s kids grew up with basic cartoons that were censored heavily. 90s kids grew up with badass anime and cool western cartoons.
Explain more by censorship. I'm not from the 80's.
@@QaamansLand Cartoons from America in the 80s were not allowed to show certain things like death. This is why no one dies in the G1 Transformers cartoon outside of the movie, and why no one dies in the GI Joe cartoon despite all their battles.
Was there a reason why censorship was so strict?
@@QaamansLand Parents would complain if any death was portrayed. They'd complain that it was too violent for kids.
Kinda but not really true. Dragon Ball stands out for having death, but Yu-Gi-Oh gave us the legendary shadow realm, and Pokemon also didn't have death besides the movies.
Man what a time to be alive everything was fresh the air the myths of the world family, freshly new internet and tv pokemon cards digimon devices and battling with them etc
Also is worth to mention the jump into 3D that videogames did in that time
To be fair, the 5th generation is the only era that you had to be there to appreciate it. Generations after can't seem to get pass the graphics. While the 4th and 3rd generations people of all ages can go back and play.
I was born in 2002 but growing up watched nothing but anime from 80s and 90s like my favorite anime will always be fist of the North Star. 🔥
Same I’m 2003 i grew up watching dragon ball z movies and Kai on nicktoons I still have my Dragon Ball z dvds I am fan of dragon ball z and Naruto also
@@JaQaiviusGordon-vm8oh yup same with dragon ball it was nicktoons and movies for me. Then I went back and watched z and dragon ball.
Dbz and GT, yu gi oh, beyblade, pokemon, digimon, sailor moon awwww classics
Transformers Armada and Energon.
@@filmgoblin5016 and transformers cybertron
@@MrBrandonStar yeah that as well but that was sorta later.
As a man growing up in the 90's, Sailor Moon was my first anime.
I can't unsee Goku holding a Yu-Gi-Oh card
as one of the final millennials, I def have the nostalgia of all these shows. If we include cartoons, I would for sure add Powerpuff Girls, Dexters Lab, Hey Arnold, Spongebob and more
Brah first 2 secs had mad goosebumps and thank you for keeping your videos bloat free straight to the point
It's strange because I remember my parents generation beginning to get their own nostalgia boom during my childhood (a lot of classic shows came back like He-Man, 2D animated Transformers, etc. and not realizing that I would have one even stronger than that.
There's just something different about entertainment media in the 90's & 00's from anime, western cartoons and video games imo.
damn bro i roleplayed on Myspace as well, Met my first Girlfriend that way. The tension on the playground playing Beyblade or Yugioh was fucking unreal. it felt like the world was at stake before the bell rang. Then going on to the internet and seeing those Weird early 00s western renditions of manga/anime art styles everywhere was...amazing. I'm glad we grew up when we did
1999 kid here, these shows runned my saturday mornings, sure this generation will get a new show every week but none of them are basic fun adventures. Demonon slayer heavy on drama and action. Yugioh had fun characters and fillers. Pokemon was all fun till the big climax moments. Dragon ball reruns and define our generation
As a gen z (2007) hearing you talk about the Gameboy made me remember my 3ds and how similar those experiences are i was playing pokemon x with my bad ass charizard and greninja when it comes to other things its oddly different i was literally born into dragon ball my dad has the complete gt series and Yu-Gi-Oh i later experienced and i didnt know there were more series except og yugioh with yugi and yami
Anybody familiar with Monster Rancher? Obviously not as big as the big 3/big 4 discussed in the video or even Digimon but its part of my Millennial Childhood memories regarding anime.
As an Elder Millennial, I just want to say 🎵 You're welcome for the gift of the World! 🎵
The honest reason is that the 90's and early 2000's had all the best forms of entertainment.
I'd say up until the mid 2000s actually, 2004-2005 era.
@@dodge1515 For Cartoon Network, late 2000s. Chowder was a hit
I agree with the advent of the internet part. Some of my best memories was finding forums with people who loved these shows and video games as much as I did. I feel some kind of innocence of this era was lost somehow in modern internet. Maybe it's because we're all cynical adults now? Not sure. It's an interesting concept.
That NeoSeeker name drop hit me right in the nostalgia
The first time I watched DBZ and Sailor Moon was on WB11 in the early 90's before it went to cable on Cartoon Network. Albeit who remembers Vanpires? It used to come on WB as well.
It is Qaaman here today! 🤩
I'm from he Netherlands born in the early 90s to me when it comes to anime I have the biggest nostalgia for:
DBZ/ DBGT, pokemon, digimon, yugioh, Shinzo, medabots and beyblade
Yooo I’m literally about to finish a long binge watch of og Yugioh! 12 episodes to go
Naruto, Yu Yu Hakusho, Beyblade, ane Digimon are a few honorable mentions
I played Pokémon Stadium & watched, Bakugan, Beyblade, Yugioh; on a old sharp tv.
I then later found out Pokémon was an anime, and got into dragon ball and naruto.
One day I'll visit the place that made these thing. These important parts of my childhood and adolescence
Beyblade battles digimon devices we had and battled nearby people in grocery stores with parents and in school with pokemon blue cards yugioh cardss internet was new and fresh old youtube with tv screen logo computer screensaversssss using the school computer in library class afterschool to read powerlevels with friends and explore db and its 100 transformations at that time etc i can go on forever⚡️💯
We're the goat generation.
I am genz and I remember watching this stuff when I was a kid I was born in 1999
These franchises never get old.
Other great shows at the time, TMNT 2003, Transformers: Armada, Teen Titans (2003), Justice League/Unlimited, The Batman, Megas XLR, Naruto, Transformers: Cybertron, Static Shock, Code Lyoko, Yu-yuhakusho, Ben 10 (2005), Dexter's Laboratory, and more.... and that's all just from Cartoon Network lol.
I think a main part of why it stuck with us is because we actually got invested into the characters as a kid. We'd wait to see what to face next.
Now, you have everything there, ready to be binged in a week if you so desire, you dont really build a connection this way.
They really were some of the best times to ever be a kid. There was definitely a rift in things after 9/11 though (for us Americans), even us kids knew things weren't right, but soon enough were latching onto our cartoons and such as ever. I personally believe DBZ was delayed finishing for another year due to 9/11, Buu destroying tons of cities right after that was bound to cause outcry.
Best sentence in internet history: We had the ability to just sneak our cards to school,and then have our little duels with friends and stuff like all of that,the accessibility in the merchandise specifically because it wasn'tjust shows,guys, Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh created game elements that made kids feel more a part of the show than any generation could be.
I was born in 2000 but I literally watched all these shows growing up in the 2000s and early 2010s
I feel like us being born in 2000 kind of puts us in this weird spot where we had tons of Millennial influence growing up but got blended into Gen Z's era of shows around the early 2010s.
@@mightymallardz768exactly
@@mightymallardz768 yeah most definitely ‼️
So we just gonna act like he didn’t forget about beyblade?
@@mightymallardz768 Gen Z started in the mid 1990s. Those born between 1993 and 1995 are in a weird spot because they are basically both a Millennial AND a Gen Z ( sometimes called Zillenials).
Same with my pops Speed racer Astro boy ,Giagantor , and later known as the American version Battle of the Planets
Damn the Nostalgia scaling. It's too strong!
Exactly. I mite have to pop out some old Toonami broadcasts from the Early 2000s.
Grew up in the 90s! Millennials had the best childhood ever!
The big three in Canada was YTV, Teletoon, and the Family channel
The 1990s was just that special. Twenty plus years after the Civil Rights movement, integration, immigration, and globalization allowed for better sports, better music, better cartoons, better anime, better movies, better tv shows, better relationships, better friendships, better minds, better ideas, and everybody pushing the envelope ALL before censorship/wokeness began or kicked in.
I think one Other “shows” that feeds our nostalgia is Wrestling, though many eras were Great..the Attitude Era was arguably the best time for Wrestling(WWF) and Ruthless Aggression era. Our Video Games gave us the 1st PlayStation, PS2, N64, Gameboy Color/Advance and so on. What a Time to be a Kid…damn I miss those days 💯
The reason why the Nostalgia is higher with Millennials is because our generation is the last "Weekday Afternoons"/"Saturday Morning" Generation of "Cartoon"/ "Kids Programing". the Core from the Generations after which are Gen Z and Currently Gen Alpha children shows they get it on the internet whether that be a Home PC, Laptop or Smart Phone. Its a very different experience when your waiting for school to end to get home to watch your favorite show as a kid vs I can watch the show literally a second after school ends. Millennials know a world with out computers/internet and with because the transition occurred during our Childhoods, Thats one of the reasons why Millennials as a whole are able to adapt to change/ pivot "better" than the Generations we are sandwich in between with but also relate/ understand both that is Gen X and Gen Z.
I think we all know the truth fellas. DBZ was my favorite for sure but…I used to watch Sailor Moon too. I’m an 80’s baby (88) so maybe it was a lil different for me.
I love this because yes we all grew up around the toonami era well I 35 years old going on 36 this month so I can relate somewhat my life though was a little different wish I could tell you that but all I can say is that my cousin got me into dbz I was into sailor moon as well as Pokémon got out of that because I became a dragon ball fan dropped Pokémon well I was into other shows like the reboot cartoon before dbz after sailor moon then dropped sailor moon just became a full fan of the dragon ball franchise had tapes I used to record some of it to draw that’s how I fell in love with cartoons in general love this video I wanted to share that with you Quaman
Psst Qaaman....Fox Kids with MMPR, VR Troopers, Beetleborgs, Mystic Knights, Kamen Rider, Digimon, Batman TAS, Spider-man TAS, X-Men TAS, and later FoxBox with Shaman King, Cubix, 2003 TMNT, Sonic X and even the terrible One Piece dub are also nostalgic pieces.
More so the Fox Kids era for 90s kids though. Like, yes Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Disney were a big 3. But to break it down even smaller you had Fox Kids, Disney Afternoon and yes, Toonami. Adult Swim came later.
Facts I grew up on on DBZ, YU YU HAKUSHO and Inuyasha.
@Qaaman lol as a Hispanic myself I envy your childhood
Internet was not given to me until I turned 18 and had to work for it hahahah
I did eventually get cable like may during early cell arc
84 BABAS. We had everything. Outside. Little league. VHS taping. Fox cartoons. Internet got me hooked on All anime. Saw tree of night on channel 9 before Ronin warriors. It was something we didn’t have right away. Yu yu hakashu etc list goes on. We grew up without it. For us it was treasure
We had toonami, wrestling (attitude era), Dreamcast, N64, PS1 into PS2, the height of music, Pokémon cards 😅 yea we got lucky that we grew up before everything changed
Our nostalgia is over 9000
I just cant get into new shows like AOT, My Hero, Demon Slayer. I just rewatch Dragonball, Yu Yu Hakusho, Inuyasha, Yu-Gi-Oh, Gundam, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, even original Pokemon. I was born in '93 and with how much the world changed in 30 years, ill never, ever, be able to untie my nostalgia from the content of my childhood. Its not all good, but it was what we had
Why "Millennials" Have The STRONGEST NOSTALGIA
Huh?
Nostalgia so strong goku wants to fight it lol
Im early gen, and my childhood was a good mix of the later end of the millennials childhood but still young enough to experience the newer stuff as well. I got into dragonball when i was 5 and had ZERO internet comprehension til i was like 11, so only times i watched dragonball was when my mom got me the dvds, block buster rentals, and re-runs on CW that would go up until goku beat recoome and restart next week (this was kai tho, i prefered the og cuz of the music) so most of my knowledge from dbz came from the games until i got more knowledge on how to use the internet
Was hella big into speed racer as well have a few dvds as well
And i still ended up experiencing the new stuff like naruto and waiting for all the filler to end and all of that
Good times fr
Edit - also does anyone remember the dragonball z website or the z store
watched all of them!!!!!OMG,literally my childhood!😍😎💯💢👌✌👊🤛💪🙏🙏
Not just anime, but our generation was completely surrounded by Pop culture pretty much 24/7 that it became part of our lives even after we have past the stage of being a kid
My Dad pasted away last year and me and my Dad would watch Dragonball Z he loved seeing me get pumped up at Goku defeating each bad guy and the 1st anime me and my brothers watched was sailor moon. We loved how sailor moon was a weak girl had to fight super human monsters we also watched at the same time batman the animated series
Because the 90s was when we peaked as a species
Also I'll still never get over the fact that if I wore a DBZ or Pokémon shirt to school in the early 2000s I would of gotten stuffed into a locker but now it's mainstream
Good Video
I'm almost 37.
I can't speak for other countries, but here in Arshittina, Saint Seiya was almost as big as Dragon Ball.
I would even say it was as big at first because we got Dragon ball a couple years after Saint Seiya.
I'm surprises you didn't even mentioned it, maybe it wasn't as big over there.
Also internet didn't become popular until around 2003, before that all of us would go to a "cyber cafe", a place where you could go and pay to use a pc for a few hours, we would go there and play the first Counter-Strike hahaha, good days.
arshittina?
@@marvij200 yes my country is a shithole
its because we really need to wait for the episode on live tv or else we lose it until the show rewinds lol
I think my top/strong shows were 2 you mentioned, but I never got into Yugioh (Do have the starter Yugi and Kaiba decks. Only because a friend made me get them and they were on sale.)
But it would be Dragon Ball, Pokémon, Monster Rancher, Gundam *insert any that isn't Seed as I hated Seed*, Bleach until the Bountos... or whatever their English name is, and Sonic X (It WAS called Sonic X outside JPN right? Only saw that one in Japanese.)
Funny enough... Sailor Moon was a guy thing around here. The girls were all over for Inuyasha. I tried getting into both, but I just couldn't get into either of those 2.
I WOULD say maybe FLCL/Furi Kuri as well... but hard to count that one when the anime was like... I think 5 episodes and the manga was only 2 books.
Berserk would be another I would mention, but I've only been exposed by the manga and the video games. I never saw the Berserk anime.
The fact that yugioh escapes you sucks, but the fact you got the starter decks anyways shows how strong it was
BECAUSE IT WENT SO HARD!!!!!
STORY: I liked watching DBZ on the internet back then if I couldn't catch a new episode about to be aired. I watched Pokémon on television from time to time,but then when I got Netflix and Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters was available I loved it more than Pokémon because it has math involved in its duels,which is really clever.
FACT: I am currently still trying to collect more Yu-Gi-Oh cards.
TRUE STATEMENT: Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh made a huge impact among people when selling products and other merchandise.
CONFIRMATION: More people like Pokémon than Yu-Gi-Oh,due to the mass collectibles any person could ever buy.
I'm really nostalgic for these times without having been on the internet up until about 2011.
im glad that i was born in 1992 but the only downside is i didnt get too use a real pc until i was 16 and a smart phone until my late teens so like 19
I'm a guy and I love Sailor Moon too, but I'm also gay so whatever. lol
Bigfacts this‼️ Est 97 here⚡️
Top it off we had the SNES, Genesis, NES, PS1, Monday night wrestling Wars, best episodes of The Simpsons. 80s got better movies and music though hands down.
Me FINALLY receiving an Alakazam from a random person at my school is the reason he is my favorite pokemon till this day.
Also we had....
CROSSFIRE!!!!!
Didn’t even bother watching the video yet but it’s because the first 15 years of the internet will never be replicated in human history
It is almost as if our childhoods were tailor made for us.