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Aug 31, 2014 4:44 AM
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For me, the first anime VHS I ever purchased was Street Fighter II The Animated Movie back in 1995. I was 11 back then and the movie, even to this day, totally blew my mind with all the fights. I remember when we had slumber parties, we could watch Chun Li vs Vega over and over and over and over again.

For DVD, the first anime I ever purchased was the first volume to Gundam Wing with my birthday money back in 2000. For bluray, it was Akira.

The first anime I recall renting was the VHS dub of the Fatal Fury movie at Blockbuster back when I was in sixth grade. It totally blew me away.
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Aug 31, 2014 4:44 AM
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Nope. Pirating is luv, Pirating is lyf.
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Bleach: Memories of Nobdy.
Bought it when we went to Oxford during our classtrip to England. 8 pounds!
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Cowboy Bepop, a japanese Import DVD. I have watched 1 episode and never touched again lol. Must pick it up sometimes again..
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Aug 31, 2014 4:47 AM
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I guess Pokemon when I was younger?
Aug 31, 2014 4:50 AM
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A .hack//Sign DVD volume, which I believe was episodes 16-19 or something around that mark. Bought it because I remembered watching .hack//Udeden when I was younger and saw .hack// on the cover, so bam.
Aug 31, 2014 4:53 AM
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Mikatarukito said:
Nope. Pirating is luv, Pirating is lyf.

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Aug 31, 2014 4:55 AM
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DBZ vcr of when Goku goes SS for the first time, lmao.
Aug 31, 2014 6:38 AM
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Baccano!
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Aug 31, 2014 6:44 AM

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Chinese dubbed Saint Seiya. My mom bought it for me when i was like six, if that counts.

Aug 31, 2014 10:30 AM

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The first DVD I bought with my own money was a Sugar Sugar Rune one.
Aug 31, 2014 11:00 AM

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Havn't bought anything yet, i'm not rich enough.
Aug 31, 2014 11:01 AM

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saiint seiya the movie during childhood, renting VCD so nostalgic xD
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Aug 31, 2014 11:10 AM

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X/1999 and it sucked
Aug 31, 2014 11:26 AM
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code geass and mushishi, amazing animes by the way
Aug 31, 2014 11:37 AM

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Bleach lol the packaging was really nice ^^
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Aug 31, 2014 11:54 AM

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X/1999 and it sucked
Aug 31, 2014 12:26 PM

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Penlane said:
Cowboy Bepop, a japanese Import DVD. I have watched 1 episode and never touched again lol. Must pick it up sometimes again..


Watch it.

Anyway the first anime DVD I bought was the Disappearance of Haruhi film, I had already had watched it for free online, but I enjoyed it so much, that when I saw it in a store town one day I wanted to actually own it legit, so I got it for like £7 I think.
Aug 31, 2014 12:31 PM

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The only anime I've ever purchased where Pokemon and Sailor Moon.
I haven't really bought any anime since then.
Aug 31, 2014 12:55 PM

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Dragon Ball movies when I was a child. My mom used to buy some anime movies for herself some years ago. I think Ghost in the Shell, Chihiro and Totoro.
Aug 31, 2014 12:58 PM

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Fortunately, my Things I Own blog post here on MAL is in order of purchase date (within each category), so yes. Without that I'd probably have guessed at something different.
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Aug 31, 2014 2:14 PM

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A Pokemon VHS tape. Then a couple DBZ VHS tapes and that was when I really began collecting.
Aug 31, 2014 3:25 PM

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Mine is Pokemon 1st movie IIRC...
Aug 31, 2014 3:32 PM

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I've only borrowed and that was whisper of the heart from the library. I've never bought any anime but my sister did buy Peach Girl and Suzuka on dvd if that counts.
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Aug 31, 2014 3:58 PM

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Outlaw Star complete series back in, what, 2006? Sucks that I somehow broke the plastic case.
Aug 31, 2014 4:13 PM

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Back when I was a tasteless pleb I rented Bleach Hell Verse.
Aug 31, 2014 4:16 PM
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First anime ever purchased was Angel Beats :)
Second one Fate/Zero
Aug 31, 2014 4:16 PM
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Gantz.
Aug 31, 2014 4:20 PM

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The first two volumes of Gundam 00 about two months ago and for BD: the new Harlock movi0e, 2 weeks ago.
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Aug 31, 2014 4:43 PM

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I remember renting Trigun in my local library. Best rent when I was younger
Aug 31, 2014 5:04 PM
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A bunch of Pokemon and DBZ VHS tapes back when I was younger :s.
Aug 31, 2014 5:05 PM

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First one that I bought was the Neon Genesis Evangelion DVD boxset. Sooooooooo legendary. Unfortunately, the Platinum version came out like a year after that...
Aug 31, 2014 5:14 PM

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Shiki <3 No idea why, I saw it and had to have it :)
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Aug 31, 2014 5:15 PM

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Aug 31, 2014 5:28 PM

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First season of Naruto, when I was like 12 or smth.
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Aug 31, 2014 6:44 PM

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Digimon adventures when I was 5 or 6
Aug 31, 2014 9:07 PM

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Kaze no Stigma, It was on sale for $5, and I thought it was a decent enough series.
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I think I rented Gundam Wings once when I was 14 or so.
I wanted to hear the french voices XD!
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Aug 31, 2014 9:42 PM

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This is a hard to answer question. I remember we owned the Pokemon movie and Little Nemo when I was very. I didn't personally buy them though(at least Little Nemo, idk about Pokemon). Then in middleschool I rented Initial D and Sugary Baby Princess or whatever on Netflix back when you could only get the discs. Then a year or two ago I bought my first anime which was a used dvd of Redline because I needed something to pad my video game purchase on Amazon.
Aug 31, 2014 10:26 PM
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First manga I remember buying is the first volume first English edition of Ranma which was a red book and was from left to right back in the mid/late 90s
Aug 31, 2014 10:32 PM

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The very first ever anime I bought was Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz, it was a Christmas gift for my brother which happen to be when I got my first job ever many years ago lol

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Sep 1, 2014 12:36 PM

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My first anime purchase was Heidi i think.
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Sep 1, 2014 3:41 PM

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My first anime I bought was Ninja Scroll,Ghost in the shell, and Akira. They were on VHS and dubbed.

For some reason back then the licensing companies charged more for anime that they only had to add subs to.This was way much cheaper than hiring a whole entire cast of voice actors and sound engineers to strip the Japanese voice audio and add the English audio. I guess they knew that they could sell more dubbed than subbed anime.
Sep 2, 2014 6:27 PM

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First anime that I ever bought was an Azumanga Daioh DVD box set.
Sep 2, 2014 6:49 PM

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Nope, never bought a single anime.
Sep 2, 2014 6:50 PM

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the only anime related purchase I've ever made is a subscription to crunchyroll.

oh and a theater ticket to GITS 2.

I'd love to have a collection I own, but that's not affordable right now
Sep 2, 2014 6:54 PM

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Heavens Lost Property, the first season. I remember how much I loved that anime.
Sep 2, 2014 6:56 PM

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Mikatarukito said:
Nope. Pirating is luv, Pirating is lyf.

Sep 2, 2014 7:00 PM

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I don't do comics, and as for anime, internet > dvd.
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Sep 2, 2014 7:18 PM

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I will probably
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