| When I started watching anime, I had no idea that it was even anime.^^;; I can't say that I ever had any thoughts about it before watching. |
| I didn't care either way. I made fun of my brother for watching a few when i didn't -outside of saturdays on Adult Swim or Toonami - many years ago because it made him mad, but that's it. Now the tables have turned, but i don't care about his insults. |
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| Thought the anime I was watching was cartoons; took me long enough to realise. I did originally have a poor opinion of anime thanks to the fillers and some lackluster animation in Bleach but after seeing a few more shows that has clearly changed. |
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| I thought it was like watching cartoon shows on a computer, with subtitles. |
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| "Why do their mouths not match what they say?" I didn't question anything else. I was really little when i began watching Anime, Pokemon and Inuyasha came at the same time, and it seemed like realistic cartoons with plot. Only thing i ever wondered was why in other cartoons the mouths moved to the words but in Anime they just opened and closed. |
| What the title says. What were your views on anime before you started watching it? Did you think it was for kids or that you had to be a loser to watch it, or did you have a positive view of it? As for me I thought that anime was an interesting thing, just not for me, (like sports) that changed of course when my friend introduced it to me. I'm curious to hear what everyone else's story is |
| I can't remember, I started watching it at age 7 so I don't remember much. |
| Didn't even know anime existed until I searched up naruto episodes online :'( |
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| just another type of animation which is aired in my national tv alongside western animation. |
 "If taking responsibility for a mistake that cannot be undone means death, it's not that hard to die. At least, not as hard as to live on." |
| I was pretty young so I just thought "Oh hey, another cartoon's on." |
| I watched a lot of Toonami when I was little and around the same time got to watch my step-dad (at the time)'s Akira and Cowboy Bebop DVDs. But throughout high school I hated anime. I think it was because Death Note was out at the time. I read the manga, thought it was naval-gazing bullshit, but it was so popular. I pretty much shat on anime every chance I got throughout this time. Years after high school though I decided to watch Azumanga Daioh on YouTube for whatever reason. It pretty much made me like anime again. |
I’m just excited to see my Lord and Savior, Baphomet, represented in such glorious Italian stone. I do hope his eyes gaze upon me and that my allegiance is recognized. |
| I wasn't that interested until I've seen HxH long ago |
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| I watched my first anime Pokemon when I was 8, so before that I had no preconception about anime. But right before I actively watch anime, I was 15. At that time I thought animes were shows that only 1 in 100 may suit my taste; others(my impression of anime were lucky stars and a lot of Visual novel adaptation) were not funny and unexciting. Now the the number drops to 50 tho. |
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| I was out of the loop until I caught up with Naruto a few years ago. |
 All credit goes to Sacred. |
AllenNoah said: I was pretty young so I just thought "Oh hey, another cartoon's on." I couldn't differentiate them from Western cartoons all that much myself, other than the fact that there was a whole culture behind them. |
| I thought it was all generic battle shounen and bishie-infested school shoujo. There is a lot of that, but there's also a lot of stuff I enjoy, which I found a pleasant surprise. |
sddsdd said: same. They all played on the same channel too. I was into action and adventure shows so most cartoons were similar,AllenNoah said: I was pretty young so I just thought "Oh hey, another cartoon's on." I couldn't differentiate them from Western cartoons all that much myself, other than the fact that there was a whole culture behind them. |
| I never had one. I was already watching plenty of anime before I even knew what it was. |
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| I was watching anime before I even knew what It was and there isn't a lot of prejuice against it here. |
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| Interesting. It seems like for most people, anime has been a part of their lives for most of their life. I for one didn't start until highschool, curious how many others had the same situation |
| I thought it was for children with plots similar to cartoons on kids' channels. It was partially due to the fact that the battle shounen Big 3 tend to be the most visible representations of anime to an outsider. Truly got into anime via Fate/stay night the visual novel, after which I realised that there is a far greater amount of variety in anime than I previously imagined. It didn't take long for me to get hooked after I started gradually finding shows I like. |
| The first series I watched properly was FMA (2003) sometime around middle school. But thanks to certain anime fans in my school, I thought it was a medium for weirdos and I never dove deeper into it. I thought good anime were few and far inbetween so it wasn't worth hunting for. Not to mention anything on TV was incredibly terribly dubbed stuff and literally unwatchable. Only very recently I sat down and completed steins;gate (like a year ago) and it blew my mind, I got into the medium properly and realized how wrong I was. |
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| I didn't care. |
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| "A nice-looking cartoon" |
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| [b][size=300]GIANT ROBOTS YEAH!! |
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| a medium for austistic faggots. I wonder whether I was wrong and what I have achieved. |
| I have to be honest, I thought it was really lame and full of spikey hair and DBZ type nonsense. Still remember making fun of this kid in highschool who was watching some ecchi anime at lunch on his PSP. I didn't say anything that bad, but I made fun of him.... Actually I still probably would, I'd just have more knowledge as to how to make fun of him :) |
| I essentially thought this for quite awhile in High school "It's what those creepy delinquent kids that hangout with my crazy girlfriend(ex) are into" I put (ex) because I still held this thought for a year or so after dating her. Before then I didn't even know it was a thing. I watched Pokemon and Yugioh as well as knowing of Dragon Ball Z. Did not know they were anime at the time. I was shown it by her and knew her group of friends liked it. Assumed it would be weird because I considered her crazy(Was oddly attracted to this) and held negative opinions of her friends. I especially assumed it would be weird when she would describe the plots to me. (You know they sound strange without watching them.) |
| I was 5 and I thought it was pretty good. |
| Had too much stuff, extracurriculars, going on to notice. That said, it's worth noting the gradients of "watching". |
| It's okay |
| I'm too weird to live but much too rare to die. |
| Ghibli, girly romcoms, shitty Dragon Ball Z ripoffs, shitty Pokemon ripoffs, boring gore filled horror anime for emos, boring robot shows, borderline porn and porn. I knew that anime wasn't 'just for kids'. I just didn't care. The original Hellsing TV series still bores the shit out of me. I grew up watching DBZ but English dubbed K-ON is what got me into anime in the end. |
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| Japanese super hero cartoons. |
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| I was a toddler. I think my only opinion was "pretty colors". |
| Because I grew up watching DBZ, Pokemon, and Yugioh, (dont forget Ghilbli) I never thought of those being anime, simply cartoons. As I grew up, I found other animes were fuckin gay, because the people that associated themselves at my school were weird. And then my friend showed me attack on titan, (yes I was part of that American craze) and I actually enjoyed it, and now here I am today |
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| Chinese cartoons still think so nowadays |
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| I thought it was just about people fighting each other using swords and magic and whatever else. Sword Art Online and Code Geass didn't help me break this mentality. Toradora! was the first anime I saw that showed me how diverse anime really is. |
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| when i was younger i remember seeing clips of dragon ball and I thought it looked really over the top so that was what i thought about anime in general |
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| I never new of the existance of anime until I found out about it so I don't have an opinion on the matter |
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| I said "wtf is this jap shit". |
| Didn't know it existed. Well technically I knew. But I didn't know all the series I was watching were called anime (Pokémon, Digimon, Dragon Ball, Medarot, Beyblade, Yu-Gi-Oh, Crayon Shin-chan) |
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| "Why do they have such... big eyes? Pointy noses? Crazy hair?" |
| I thought anime was for angsty teenagers who want to feel they're better than everyone because Naruto has blood, therefore mature. |
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| Didn't really know about it. So, no opinion. |
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Zoppy said: Didn't know it existed. Well technically I knew. But I didn't know all the series I was watching were called anime (Pokémon, Digimon, Dragon Ball, Medarot, Beyblade, Yu-Gi-Oh, Crayon Shin-chan) |
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| I thought anime was pretty cool but I felt like I'd be made fun of at school too much if i actually showed an interest in it. Soon enough though I decided it was worth it to just enjoy what I enjoy and not really worry about it. If people were gonna give me trouble for it they weren't worth having around anyway. |
| animation of za motherland |
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| i didn't think anything about it tbh. |
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| I made fun of people who watched it and gave really bad reasons why it was bad to watch. I don't think what I was saying was very reasonable. |
| Brace yourself. Soon as LotGH 2017 comes out. The anime community is going to become so cancerous you will need to take cover and hide. |
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