| When i was young i love watching cartoons and when i first saw Sailor Moon, i'm like 'omg, that's so cool!'. I was a big fan of Sailor Moon at that period of time. Now, all i can say is, ANIME FTW! >3< |
| My brother would always watch anime on CN. I didn't think much of it before, just kind of "meh whatever". I'd call him a nerd about sometimes. He doesn't watch anime much anymore, and now I do. Lol. |
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| I didn't think of it at all. I wasn't aware of it but I was always attracted to the less "cartoony" Disney offerings and stuff like Johnny Quest, Superman, Spider Man, X-Men, etc., also things like Heavy Metal. When I discovered anime, I was absolutely smitten. BTW, I was an adult when I discovered it. |
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| I didn't know what anime was...i thought it was just a cartoon and i liked cartoons since my childhood :') |
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| I actually saw pretty mature rated anime when I was still in grade school (Wicked City, Crying Freeman, Ninja scroll, and many more I cannot remember titles too). I always found myself more attached to watching anime or shows similar to anime than the generic everyday cartoons. Though sadly, I didn't have cable tv as a child (nor do I have it now), so I didn't have any Toonami or Adult Swim as I grew up. Though I had other channels... that aired more mature series.. again... (Uncensored version of Dragonball Z and GT <- omigawd so mach blud, Descendants of Darkness <- Shounen Ai , Fushigi Yugi, Record of Lodoss War, Slayers, etc.). tl;dr: I was aware of anime but didn't take it as serious as I do now. |
| First saw Ranma 1/2 at the age of 7, and I thought, "WTF IS THIS SH*T?" and proceeded to think that anime was cartoon porn. I thought that for 6 years straight, until I saw Reborn. Then I got addicted. :D |
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| My friend told me about her friend who knew about anime. I actually thought it was pretty cool and made an anime picture slideshow (I just googled "sad anime girls") to the song White Horse by Taylor Swift in the 6th grade, and had a pretty fun time. I never really thought much of it, but I was interested. When I eventually found the anime "Elfen Lied", I was ecstatic and discovered something wonderful and have loved it ever since. I guess I was interested in it for a while, before that I never thought much of it. |
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| I like anime scine I was little and I think it was awesome. But an after and a before I get into it doesn't exist. |
| In the 1990s, I saw commercials for the usual suspects, then sometimes the toys and whatever merchandise there was. Aside from the art styles that I didn't like, my usual reaction was "these shows look cheesy". It took an awful lot of separate instances of tangential exposure to Japanese media to get over that. |
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| I thought people who watched it were weird but I didn't think anime was odd because well I didn't even know how much of it there actually was until I came here and all I knew about was Toonami and Adult Swim. |
| Didn't know until i started randomly watching some sometime and found a bunch of cool shows then this site! Then i realized most people think its weird or stupid and was like lol but i watch anime in class anyways |
| The coolest stuff ever, no joke. Though I could care less where it was made (in Chinese cartoon essentially mean animated pictures). Before I got cable everybody was talking about pokemon and dragon ball. When I finally got cable it was like "eff yea IT'S DRAGONBALL AND DRAGONBALL Z!" And oh boy, yugioh was THE shit. So much fun watching that. Used to wait in anticipation for the next weekend so I can get my yugioh/digimon/pokemon fix. |
| I was watching tv most of the time with my parents and since my dad liked to watch cartoons, I stayed with him (I was little). I found it really interesting (fun, maybe there were a lot of things that I didin't understand but damn, it was some cartoon moving and doing amazing things, that really can catch your attention). Soon I found myself searching for series on the tv and watching them at the same hour, every day lol |
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| I kinda felt that it was something slightly more mature than cartoons then after watching some i got instantly addicted |
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| Besides DBZ, most of the stuff I saw as a kid on TV was redone by 4kids... which probably gave me negative preconceptions before I started actually getting into anime seriously a year or so ago. I guess late is better than never. |
| i never knew all my fav shows were anime till Rurouni Kenshin came around and toonami stated pretty good that it was anime |
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| That's hard to say, because I started with Pokemon and Sailor Moon before I was really aware of what anime was. I knew that my dad called it 'Japo-crapo', but then again this was back in the late 90's. I watched things like Totoro and Kiki's Devlivery Service early in childhood. I remember thinking Sailor Moon was weird when it first came out, but I guess I didn't pay it much mind. I wasn't fully aware of the medium until I got into it when I was about 11, so like.. 1998, 1999 ish. That was back when the masses thought anime meant Sailor Moon- Not even DBZ or Pokemon, because Akira Toriyama's art is so unique and Pokemon was just Pokemon. But if someone saw you drawing anime, according to them you were drawing Sailor Moon. I FEEL SO OLD. STOP MAKING ME FEEL LIKE AN OLD HIPSTER. |
| anime kind of just got introduced (yeah pokemon) naturally and then I started watching more in high school |
| Nothing. I just wasn't interested. |
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| 3-4years ago i use to hate on people who watched anime and said it was for .."insult here" then 1 night i was at my friends house with my computer and we had nothing 2 do.. so we watched elfen lied... i watched half the series there... then when i got home.... i immediatly finished it.. he had also given me chobits and shuffle at the time so i downed chobits in a phew days. then the following week i watched Shuffle.. holy shit that ending was so amazing for me for some reason... couldnt stop watching till 6am when i had to wake up at 8am for school xD and there on out i watched all naruto and downloaded other animes and watched them. Abuse my grammer i dont care >.> |
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| I didn't really care for anime or had any thoughts about it until I got into it. |
| Before I watched anime I thought it was pretty weird but I loved how the characters looked and used to draw them all the time. Some of the simpler looking characters I really hated though, I only liked the ones really detailed like Bleach and Death Note. Now I appreciate all of the characters and the plots they're in too :) |
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| Well, what kind of opinions do little kids have on fun shows on television? I didn't LOL. |
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| I got into anime even before I stopped wetting my bed... Hell I even fantasized marrying all 5 girls in Sailor Moon at the same time before I knew what a penis was. So, anime is pretty much my childhood and part of my life. When I moved to USA, I was pretty disgusted with the quality of western cartoons. I can tolerate some classic ones because I grew up with them, but there's really no comparison between Japanese cartoons vs. US cartoons. Notice I didn't call it anime because I was very offended with that word when it became popular in the US in 2000. In my eyes, Japanese animation is the definition of what cartoon is. US and all other animation = shit drawings that move. |
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| Didn't know what it was but i wanted to try it so I did and now I'm here! ^^ |
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| I have been watching anime since i was about 6, and i didn't know it was called anime then (They were just my favorite cartoons, along with ninja turtles and street sharks). All i know is that it will continue to be a part of my life and several of nujabes' songs will be played at my funeral. |
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| I was watched anime before I even knew what it was. I don't know what intrigued me so about anime; maybe it was the style of the art, or the plot lines that seemed more mature and elaborate than just plain cartoons. When I discovered what it was I became immediately hooked - and, to this day, I've never turned back. :) |
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| I didn't know there was a difference between anime and cartoons honestly lol.....until a half Japanese friend of mine introduced me to Death Note and Bleach. And from there on...it was the point of no return :P. I watched Pokemon throughout my entire childhood thinking that it was a cartoon embarrassingly enough. |
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| I for some reason considered all anime taboo and hentai.... I didn't consider things like Naruto anime because I considered them more as cartoons. No clue why. |
| I thought it was cool, but didn't think much more of it than that. |
| I have been watching anime since childhood. Never really considered it more than a cartoon at the time, but I came to become more familiar with the term around five years later. Not sure how TV anime is doing nowadays since I have not had cable in around 3 years, but I know back then there was always an anime airing that had my interest and has kept me going until now. |
| I remember Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z being one of the first, along with Inuyasha, Sailor Moon, and a couple more. I was around 10 years old and I loved it, my best friend and I watch DBZ so much we were pretty hyper all the time and loved being outdoors because of it. Eventually as Gundam, and Yu Yu Hakusho came on I knew I needed to find more and the adventure hasn't stopped since. It was nice having friends who shared the interest, at the same time we just saw it as cartoons. Most boys around that time watched it in my school, even my cousin did. All this led to associating Anime with fun, and happy memories. Leading me to watching new shows that bring back part of my youth with them. |
| I thought anime was pretty lame, and for the longest time, I thought that all it had to offer was stuff like naruto and bleach. Two shows that I did not like back then. I thought that anime could never be as good as it was when DBZ and Ranma were airing so I just ignored it for the most part. After a while though, I decided to watch some anime. I stuck to the classics, and eventually, I started watching some newer series. And now here I am. |
| I was aware of anime, and when I was younger I watched stuff like Pokemon and Yugioh religiously, but I didn't really think much of it. To me it was just...there, you know? Maybe I'm not making much sense. |
quukiiMay 8, 2012 6:44 PM
| "These are just some: Chinese Girl Cartoons or Cartoons for Pedophiles. " ... come to think of it, my way of thinking about Anime hasn't changed that much. |
| Never knew what the word was until middle school. I always thought they were regular American-made cartoons with a different style. |
| I thought it was gay and everyone who watched it were FAGGOTS! So now I'm a faggot. Just kidding, well jokes aside. Basically thought anime was just a cartoon since I was in Elementary school watching it on cartoon network. I didn't know it was anime until later but at that point I was already watching several animes on Toonami/Adult Swim. So I guess I thought of it nothing more of as a cartoon? Until later when I began using the internet to watch the shows and discovered what it actually was. |
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maladox said: *this topic might be floating around somewhere... forum needs a search function >.>* - What Did You Think Of Anime *As A Genre* Before You Got Into It? For Me, I Thought It Was Sick, Perverted, A Sign Of Weakness And "Low-Life-Ism", Super-Duper Cheesy, And Only For Super-Nerds... There Were Exceptions Though, I Had Always Liked Movies Like Princess Mononoke Or Kiki's Delivery Service. The Above Is What I Thought Of The Hard-Core Anime Nerds... *I Also Told Myself That I Would Never Ever Become An Anime Nerd* ... Of Course I DID Become An Anime Nerd =/ And See That I've Been Very Naive About The Whole Thing... *Though I Guess I Wasn't Completely Wrong :P It Can Be Very Pervy Sometimes* ... -Yeah, I Know I Was Alittle Harsh T'wards It, But For Some Reason It Was A Large Point I Made That I Only Liked "Very Realistic" Things... Also I Have A Childhood Friend Who Is An Anime Nerd And I Might Not Have Liked It Because He Did... "Friendly Childhood Rivalry" Sort Of Thing... I never had any prejudices or preconceived notions about anime or cartoons in general. I watched shows like Speed Racer,Robotech, Voltron, Technoman, and sailormoon off and on while in the 80s and early 90s. I started buying anime when I wanted to find something as awesome as Heavy Metal and I think Pink Floyds The Wall and I came across Ninja Scroll,Ghost in the Shell, Akira in the mid to late 90s. |
| i am anime. i grew up liking it. |
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| Pretty much grew up on pokemon, yugioh, and dbz just like my friends. Did not really know the difference between those and the other cartoons I watched. So I guess I had no opinion because I got into anime so young. |
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| Didn't know it existed. I considered it like any other cartoon. |
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| being into pokemon, howles moving castle and ponyo as a child i never had any bad or good opinions on anime. these days I'm into a heap more anime |
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| Well I used to watch Pokemon and DBZ as a child, but I thought those were just cartoons so yeah. Then when Naruto started airing I thought everyone who was watching it was childish and retarded, so I judged the whole community on that. I actually got into anime thinking it was only aimed at children. Felt nostalgic, so I watched Shaman King and while it was really shit, I can't deny enjoying it. Then my friend recommended me Death Note and I was just kind of like 'This isn't for children ... what's going on?' and then I pretty much got hooked. |
| Honestly my opinion was about the same as now. Most of my focus was on gaming before. |
HazMacMay 11, 2012 5:46 AM
| Inuyasha first introduced me to anime as a 12 year old back in 2002, I did not even know what anime was, son to me anime was just a cartoon and I loved cartoons. ...So long story short, I liked anime? |
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