Last night as I was attempting to fall asleep I suddenly got a couple random images in my head from an anime show I used to watch, at least I thought I had. Attempting to remember more from it didn't bring me any new information and I started obsessing more and more about what this Anime could be, if I really had watched it as a kid or if I had just dreamt it during my experimental lucid dreaming phase. It felt real but at the same time it was weird that I only had so few memories of it, I kept wondering why that was so.
So I decided to start googling, all I could remember what that the main character was a kid who got summoned into another world where monsters existed. I couldn't remember any of the monsters or other characters in the TV Show, all I could remember was that they were a group of people/monsters attempting to go somewhere to stop something from happening, and that something was locked inside of a mountain and was about to be set free unless they did something about it.
With not a lot of info to go with other than that I attempted searching for things like "anime dragons locked inside a mountain", "anime monsters locked/frozen inside a mountain". Nope nothing, I got spammed with articles such as "top 10 dragons in anime", "top 10 monsters in anime by power", etc. Browsing through all just to get a glimpse of something I could remember but it was futile.
After about an hour I started searching for "anime main character changes worlds" and there too I got handed "top anime where main character is summoned into another world". Browsing through some of those for another 10 minutes or so I was about to give up until I continued scrolling on this top 10 list and after #1 there was a "bonus mention" and holy fucking shit there it was. I was not making this anime up, not going crazy just yet, it really existed.
As I was looking at the monsters all memories started coming back to me, the cute penguin type that looked like it had a tire on its back. The big wolf with its cool colors and shine in the hair, the big eye that hopped on one leg and the bunny/kangaroo that used to punch a lot. The big golem I had no memory of so that was odd but I also remembered the main character really well again although I couldn't remember his name, surprisingly I could remember the girl character Holly.
I started thinking why this was, why just a few minutes before I stumbled upon it I had so few memories left of it, how come they decided to get triggered just now randomly, what was it all about. I came to the conclusion that this must've aired around the same time as Pokémon and according to wikipedia this aired 2 years after Pokémon but it could still be that I watched this before it thus Pokémon kinda overshadowed my memories of this as it became much bigger and popular not just as the anime but in many other forms.
I still have no idea how I started thinking about this or why, but I'm glad I did. I watched the first episode today and so many memories came back to me, what a nostalgia trip. I must've watched this in early 2000 so at least 16-18 years ago and with it came a lot of memories of that time as well. What I was doing, where I was living and what my interests were at the time (such as drawing and playing on the gameboy).
Anyway just felt like sharing this random story.
You guys ever get really old memories popping up in your head? Felt like this one was just about to be gone forever until it decided to make a late comeback.
Anyone else that watched this as a kid? :)