| Watching Dragon Ball on TV as a kid. |
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Weeping_Shinobu said: In my childhood, shows like Pokemon, Doraemon, and DBZ always air in the tv so i think it's the first time i know the medium called anime.. I think the first ever anime i've watched is Pokemon back when i'm still in 1st grade of elementary school..I was looking at the Corpse Party Wikipedia page, and I saw it had an anime, so I thought, "Fuck yeah!" and watched it. No regrets. |
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| Well I watched pokemon and yugioh as a kid but didn't know they were anime, just thought they were cartoons. But one of my friends made all of these DBZ references that I didn't get so I decided to binge watch it and I freaking loved it and wanted to watch more and then I found out about the world of anime. |
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| It was Detective Conan. Still one of the best for me ~ |
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| If you're talking about 1st anime it's gundam, pokemon and mirumu since I was still a kid. But I only ever got interested in watching anime recently and was recommended Hyouka by a friend and I consider it to be my 1st true anime. |
| I've watched Pokemon, but I really got into anime after my sister showed me Lovely Complex and Fruits Basket. |
| By borrowing my friend's VCD, Pokemon. |
| I'm too weird to live but much too rare to die. |
| From a friend. DBZ was 1st. |
| I mean technically the first anime I saw was Pokemon, but I will go with Naruto if that's what you mean. I found out about anime when I was looking up why Naruto was going off Cartoon Network (It was over anyway) and I found Naruto Shippuden. Naruto Shippuden started my anime journey |
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| well this involves a rather confusing and complicated story. PART 1 anime was always in my life, whether it was family, friends, or outside of them (the world) and i'd always had a very lukewarm interest in it. so i can't really literally nail down my "first" anime. the first time i heard of this "anime" was by the prince of tennis that aired on TV. my older brother was the only one allowed to look at it (he was what, 13-14?) so he'd go into my mom's room and they'd watch it together every friday or whatever day it was. i excepted that and paid no mind to it. then he came into the naruto disease that all boys had caught from each other at the time, but to my memory it wasn't that long. if naruto happened to be on TV at a friend's house i'd watch it, but that's all i know. i don't even remember the episodes i watched. i do remember reading some early manga volumes, though. then there was the SMBZ explosion on the internet but even with the obvious influence of anime, it still didn't stick to me, even though i still have memories of loving the crap out that show. for some reason, anime had always been like dirty tape on the sticky part, it stuck, but pathetically so, and quickly fell off. PART 2 everyone in my family was bored to tears with TV by 2010-11 and my dad canceled it and it's stayed that way to this day. we had a buttload of cartoon DVDs no-one had really seen, so that was basically the only "TV" anyone got, and no-one complained. but after watching re-runs for literal years, i had gotten tired of cartoons and wanted something new. (i won't be talking about this for a while, but it'll get around.) i had started watching FMA with my brothers like 2-3yrs back and it's thanks to them that i had a bigger interest in anime, but not by much until last year. after touching a little on FMA, i started and finished DBZ and fell (REALLY) hard for it, but that was the end of me and my brothers' dive into anime. last year i was thinking about how much i had delcared i had such a great interest and respect for anime when i realized that i hardly looked at any. after thinking how bored i was with cartoons, i decided to give this "anime" - something that had always had appearances in my life - a try. a huge burden of guilt over years of time for not finishing FMA had built inside me (more like it was ON me) for some reason, so i decided to not start any new anime until i finished it. so technically, since FMA and myself had a history, it's not like it was a 100% new anime for me, so, after thinking really hard about the time in between i'd seen them, the "first" anime i had seen was last exile and kuroshitsuji. last exile planted my interest, but the one that got me into it is the latter. PART 3 while watching last exile, there was one moment in one of the episodes - it was so small, but it's those things that get my attention in anime. the scene was this: a crew of men were teasing a couple of kids, and one them defended theirselves. while the child was talking, one of the crew member did a small smirk and made a small laugh. this just blew me away. i literally thought, "Wow, he actually laughed! He's not a character, he's a person with real reactions!" he wasn't doing the "har har har" laugh that i'd seen so many people do in cartoons, but a small "heh" - snicker, if you please. maybe you don't understand, and i hardly understand myself, but that's what got my interest. characters are actual people in anime, and there was just that value the characters were given that i hadn't seen at all in cartoons. PART 4 as for kuroshitsuji, i came to it by the manga but had no time to see what it was about other than the title and front cover of the first volume, because i had to leave barnes and noble JUST when i picked it up. back home the name still stuck to me, so i - not knowing you could read manga online - figured i had no chance to know any more about it unless there was an anime about it, since i HAD known most anime are based off of manga. i took that guess and that's my story to it. kuroshitsuji taught me about the realism of the pain and darkness of humans, and that's what really made me love it and get a thirst for more anime. FINAL PART i have my brothers to thank for everything to do with myself in the animeverse, but the irony is that when they fell off the anime track and i picked it back up, now they're motivated to start their own anime tastes as well. now, i've learned there is much more to anime than the pretty art and even great plot, and that is why i continue watching. |
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| My cousin used to watch Inuyasha and Pokemon, and I watched it with him when I was little. Then a couple of years back, I was like "I should watch Pokemon bc childhood" and I watched a bunch of that. Then I found a top 100 anime list online somewhere and the rest is history |
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| I pity those that were recommended their first anime from some outspoken anime fan. |
| Kaleido star and cardcaptor sakura when it aired |
| Inu Yasha on TV, Spirited Away on TV, and rented Kiki's Delivery Service from the library when I was in elementary school. |
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| I know it's not very original of me but I think it was DBZ on toonami. I was 5 or 6 I think... |
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| As a child, I played some stupid dating sim on newgrounds like 12 years ago, and I ended up watching Love Hina. Here I am all these years later.... HM: Naruto was being advertised on cartoon network, that also had a huge hand in it. |
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| I was watching Death Note at 1st on TV and then got to Code geass after |
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| Pokemon Original, then Dragon Ball, then DBZ... Then YU-Gi-Oh!... Then Naruto. My Mom was an anime fan for a long time so when I was a baby, I saw the Original Dragon Ball with her. |
| "Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost." |
| When I was younger it was Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z on Cartoon Network. But I was reintroduced to anime when my friend persuaded me to catch back up to Naruto and watch Spirited Away and some other Miyazaki moves back during high school. |
| Big Order (TV):great anime or greatest anime? |
Senpai_Stef said: My parents were huge pokemon fans when I was born so.. I guess Pokemon and Always XD Started watching properly about 4 years ago when I watched Death Note you must be fairly young, then. :o |
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| Ok, so i watched pokemon first. But i stopped watching because I got bored of it. 6 years later, however, my cousin introduced me to anime. He was watchin Ouran highschool host club. After that, the first anime I saw would be, well...ouran highschool. BUT the first anime I finished would be Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun. |
| TV as a kid, I don't know which one came first though, but I either started with Ranma 1/2 or Ghost Sweeper Mikami. I think I started watching seriously about 6, maybe 5 years ago when I was bored and decided to watch Burst Angel (Not the best re-introduction really). And the first season I followed was when Occult Academy was airing. |
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| Technically the first thing I saw was Dragon Ball , but i never watched that or DBZ all the way through. I didn't really start getting into it until I saw the first Fullmetal Alchemist anime |
| I used to be skeptical about anime but then I switched Highschools and my new friends started saying shit like "Dude wtf you haven't seen Death Note!!" and "Who the fuck hasn't seen Steins;Gate!!" so I said fuck it.. |
| Well I was watching anime like dragonball, one piece, flame of recca, slamdunk, fullmetal alchemist, and naruto already by 10 years old on tv but I didn't know that it was anime. But what really piqued my interest is when I saw a glimpse of Sword Art Online on tv(yeah yeah I know many hate this anime) and that was my starting point. |
| sailor moon, my best friend showed me like 15 years ago. fuck I feel old... we went to a lot of cons. I stayed away from anime for some time but... here I am now |
| Well, my earliest trysts with anime were technically pathetic dubs of Doraemon and Chibi Maruko. |
| Well, as a child, I used to watch DBZ on cartoon network, and one day my parents told me it it was a "Japanese cartoon." After which, I used the internetz and discovered anime, and a bunch of shows my friends liked were also anime. |
| Be thankful for the wisdom granted to you. |
| An online friend told me about this awesome cartoon where this one guy was really cool and good at fighting and I had to check it out. So I checked it out, and it was Cowboy Bebop, one of the best anime I've seen to this day. |
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| Watching stuff as a kid and teen when it aired on TV. Then I got more into it and started watching all kinds of genres once it was easily accessible to stream anime online. First few series that I watched when I was really young were some shows called The Bush Baby and The Jungle Book..but I didn't know they were anime at the time. The first ones I watched knowing they were anime were Sailor Moon, Pokemon, Cardcaptors, Dragon Ball/DBZ/DBGT, Digimon, and Yu-Gi-Oh. |
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| Didn't know it was called anime when there's Tagalized dubs in our afternoon TV when I was a kid..... then I went into the "Japan is weird" phase for a while, and the the thing that kickstarted me in watching anime is A Certain Magical Index which I watched November of 2014. |
| The first anime I saw was on a VHS that I borrowed from my cousin, but I don't recall what I watched first. It's was either Ginga Nagareboshi Gin, Starzinger or Arrow Emblem. I actively started watching anime way later. I watched DBZ(I had only seen random eps of it before) and NGE and then it was too late to turn back. |
| I had watched a few animes when I had no internet or still didn't know they were animes. One day I decided to start watching one piece again cause I didn't have the program they used to show it on and bang I found out about dbz being anime and found fairy tail and soul eater and so it began |
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| I have no idea how I found out my memory sucks, but I remember that my first anime was Maburaho ~ |
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| sixth grade, remember seeing my friend watching full metal panic, which was the first anime that i saw. |
| My first was Sailor Moon I think. Well it was on TV. |
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