| Well, I'd like to know how you got into anime. Whether it's by your friends or your own accord ^^ I got into anime by Pokemon :p I don't know if that counts but it was like a stepping stone. After that, it was YuGiOh, Digimon, Tokyo Mew Mew, .hack, Inuyasha, Gokusen and then the list goes on and on. What about you guys? |
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| My first anime was Pokemon, but that didn't really get me into it because I didn't know it was anime... I guess it's because of Lucky Star. I heard it was a good show, so I started watching it and from there I just got into a bunch of different anime. |
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| Sailor Moon for me and that was by myself, back in the eighth grade. |
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| Saturday morning cartoons WAY back in the day when they showed Escaflowne on fox kids at like 9 in the morning. and also Toonami as a whole helped cement it in. |
| Started with Pokemon, as well as Digimon, and then Dragon Ball Z. And then I really got into Toonami, and from there as I got older it just continued. |
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| I've always been into anime since I remember, because it was on tv and I loved it. I started to watch English subbed anime after a friend let me borrow her Fruits Basket dvd. I started downloaded after I made a friend in college with whom I agreed to download together (each would download one letter of the alphabet. We stopped at E) |
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| My first anime was Pokemon, Digimon, etc, but my childhood anime series I especially remember is Shaman King. The anime that really boosted me is Death Note. Also, this is a duplicate. I think the original topic got buried... |
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| "If you feed me, Seymour, I can grow up big and strong!" |
| grew up watching some anime obviously stuff like dragonball z and yu gi oh etc but obviously started growing up and stopped for a while because oh school etc. but then my friend linked me to death note and got into it etc. |
| My friend kept going on and on about Bleach, so I thought I'd give it a go. Actually I thought Ichigo was the sexiest ginger I'd ever seen, so.... |
| it all began with sailor moon here Oo i was like 10 when it was on TV. then after stuff like dragonball, pokemon i got to the internet and watched Cardcaptor Sakura. and here i am oo |
| Naruto got me into anime. (Laugh all you want) Omamori Himari got me into Ecchi stuff. |
| Sailor Moon, Pokemon and DBZ (though I can't remember which one came first for me). Oh and Mon Colle Knights too. |
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| My friend. She showed me episodes 46-49 of Bleach. |
| I got into anime when a friend of me recommended me to watch Death Note, which I really enjoyed, so after DN I watched Initial D, and when I finished it, I was hooked on anime and I always wanted to know more (just like right now). |
| My first anime was Pokemon but at the time I didn't recognize it as anime, just a cartoon. Yu-Gi-Oh! was probably what got me into reading anime and manga. |
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| Also watched all that stuff like pokemon or yugioh. But what really got my into anime was my friend who recommended me Elfenlied. Since then i'm watching it and loving it. |
| I've always liked anime, seeing how I grew up with Pokémon, Sailor Moon, and DBZ, but I wasn't into anime as a whole. I just liked those series. I didn't really get into anime until I joined my middle and high school anime clubs. The members' love for their favorite series made me want to watch more anime, discovering some of my favorite shows in the process. |
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| I was born and raised in Asia, so I grew up with both cartoons and anime on the TV. My first anime was probably Akage no Anne. |
| Yea i grew up with pokemon, yu-gi-oh, DBZ, and Inuyasha. Friends also get me into it. Now i love anime! |
| Pokemon After that, Dragon Ball Z Then, Inuyasha, Full Metal Alchemist, FLCL, Rurouni Kenshin, or any anime they showed on Toonami and Adult Swim. After that, I got over anime for a long time. Then I watched Death Note out of curiosity, and thanks to that I'm back into watching them, and started watching even more. Although, I'm still trying to remember all the anime's I watched whey I was younger. And also, the only manga I ever read was Ranma 1/2 back in 5th grade, but I stopped reading them after a shopkeeper refused to sell them to me since I was too young. |
| I started watching years ago, but officially started a few years back through watching anime with a buddy. |
| Naruto, I joined a fansite for a J-pop band, checked the forums and there was an anime board. With 1 topic, Naruto, so I checked it out and here I am. |
| No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you. |
| I'd always been interested in Adult Swim, and one night I stayed up late Saturday night and saw Inuyasha. That's pretty much how it happened. I never really knew what anime was when I was into Pokemon, so I don't think that really counts. But my whole family definitely loved Pokemon and got me into it at about 5 or 6. |
| hmm I watched Pokemon and recorded over 100 episodes of DBZ when I was smaller but at the time I had no idea what anime was, prolly my first realization that anime wasn't made in U.S. was Rurouni Kenshin when they aired it on Toonami, but when I actually got into watching shows that didn't air in U.S. was when I was looking up Bleach cause all they had was re-runs on TV. |
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| I got Elfen Lied from a friend and was instantly hooked on anime. Started watching popular stuff like Naruto, Bleach, Higurashi etc, and kept going from there. First manga I read, (except for some volumes I read as a kid), was Naruto and Bleach. I began reading those because I wanted to know the story and didn't feel like waiting for the anime. This made me like manga a lot and I kept on reading others. |
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| I think what got me seriously into anime was Sailor Moon back on Toonami. It was a fun series and I liked it a lot. We recently got the internet in my house at the time too and I wound up talking to a whole lot of anime fans online and I learned about some different series by doing a lot of web surfing. Sailor Moon was the first anime I learned was anime, after all. Then there was stuff like Speed Racer, Pokemon, and Cardcaptors that I would also learn were anime by doing even more web surfing... And after trying Saint Tail, I started picking up CCS subtitled to see the episodes I was missing out on... and I liked reading subtitles because I'm a nerd. And just my luck - Tokyopop only dubbed part of the Saint Tail series and the rest I actually had to watch subtitled. And then I was collecting the Sailor Moon manga, the CCS manga, the Saint Tail manga... and then I would try other series that were mostly from CLAMP and then I'd find out about even more series as manga and anime started populating bookshelves... and from there, it just kind of spiraled into my wonderful anime and manga collection. :D I also had a lot of IRL friends who would exchange manga and anime with me so I was exposed to a lot of different series in high school. But most of those friends I don't see as often anymore because they've either decided anime was childish and crap, or they've moved away, or they don't keep up with the series they're collecting as half as well as they used to. I'd say I'm pretty consistent with keeping up on the latest series and such - I may not watch them immediately, but I know what's been playing in Japan or what's popular among fans today. |
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| I was helping a friend check up on anime updates online since her internet was out. She had tried to introduce me to anime with really, really BAD magical girl shows (no, I really mean the bad ones. If it had been Princess Tutu or CCS I would have loved it immediately). After she finally figured out my tastes didn't run that was, she recommended a darker one.... I downloaded Baccano! instead, and the rest is history. Baccano! was awesome, and totally changed my views on what anime was. |
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| ive always watched anime sparingly but then saw school rumble and it turned me into an anime watching freak |
| Nothing specific got me into anime. It was just always there. Be it Pokemon and Sailor Moon, or reruns of Voltron. |
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| The first time I streamed anime was DBZ, they stopped showing it in my country it got me interested so I decided to watch something else and by some chance I got to elfen lied first but I frgot about that (was too young I guess) after( some time I waches gokudou kun manyuuki it wasn't known very much but I enjoyed it, afterwards I watched ranma 1/2 and that launched me actually in the anime world |
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| I'd say friends and boredom xD although i actually watched anime before but not that much~ |
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| used to watch Pokemon on tv. Watched every single episode :) Have also seen beyblade(not all) all Digimon and some Naruto(only 10 min sometimes) But i lost the interest til i found it again in the 9th grade thanks to one of my classmates who is now my best friend. He showed me Bleach and after a few episodes i was hooked. I watched almost every day for the last 2 months and got really attached to anime at that point. When i finished bleach(meaning to see 1 episode a week) i was insecure of what to see next. So my best friend showed me naruto and again i was hooked :D Now i watch a lot of different animes and me and my best friend often watch weekly animes together(Mitsudomoe, HSOTD, Ookami-san etc) So in basic i have my best friend to thank for showing me anime :) |
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| Well, I've seen quite a few manga and anime when I was little, but never really into it. I'm anime free for a while, then I saw Yuki Nagato vs Asakura on Youtube. Which got me interested in Haruhi series, so... I tried, and enjoyed it. Then, I found Lucky Star clip on related video of Haruhi on youtube, how they parody the show and stuff, so I gave Lucky Star a go, enjoyed it. Then, I start reading manga online and saw Shakugan no Shana episode one, and I happen to find the anime on youtube, so I watch 1 episode. Enjoyed iy. Though Haruhi is the anime that open my eyes to other anime, it is Shakugan no Shana that got me addicted. so... I'd say Shana. |
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| I first saw anime on toonami, but recently it was because of a friend |
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| A close friend of mine did. She was saying how awesome "Bleach" was and I should check it out (I'd seen the majority of Death Note but Anime at that time wasn't a big thing or something I'd watch at the time) so I agreed. Ever since then I've been watching anime and reading manga. :) |
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| I watched Digimon/Pokemon/DBZ back in the day like any other kid, but what really got me hooked on it was Akira. |
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| Friends. When I was younger, a friend showed me Naruto, that introduced me to anime really. However I did not really start watching much Manga until many years later when a different friend insisted that I watch Death Note. |
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| My very first anime was Astro-boy, but back then as a 4yr old kid, I didn't even know it was anime... ....but what really paved the way was hentai...as a teenage boy going through puberty, I was introduced to OVA's like this....totally loved anime since....that was like early 90's |
| I was actually looking for 'animated porn' at first lol. Then I ended up watching Golden Boy, which used to air on the Russian MTV. After that I watched Haruhi and Death Note, which pretty much sealed the deal for me. |
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