Cool stories?
I mean, I didn't know anime was classified different from American stuff when I was a kid, I thought they were all cartoons. So the first thing I watched as an ANIME, was Naruto. I watched Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon as a kid, but those were overshadowed by things like JL and JLA and etc. Plus, like I said, I didn't really know there was a difference so I didn't care.
I really hate when people try to compare American and Japanese stuff, at the end of the day, they're both fucking epic.