Bretagne, who died June 6, was the last of the 9/11 rescue dogs and also was part of the response to hurricane's Katrina, Ivan, and Rita (among other disasters) and became a reading assistance dog in her retirement.
I went looking for the Sukeban Deka manga at Mangafox.com and found Sukeban Keiji which is (according to it's description) Sukeban Deka. The search function also threw up Sukeban Arashi but it doesn't have a desricption.
If you include anime that was edited and/or altered for american/canadian tvthen it was probably Astroboy, Kimaba the White Lion, or Fables of the Green Forest in 1977-1978. My first unmodified anime (aside from being dubbed or subbed) would be Ranma 1/2: Nihao my Concubine in 1996 (I think. Wheneve...