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Apr 29, 2009 6:32 PM
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If you were first hooked by the anime what happened when you caught up to the new episodes? Did you start reading the manga because you needed to know what happened next? If that was the case, what happened after you caught up the new releases of the manga? Did you wish the producers would hurry up and animate? I did. it was a vicious cycle for me and now the fillers are testing my patience (see other post: "has anyone else..."
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Apr 30, 2009 4:45 AM
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First it was Anime..
It started airing on Cable Channel I have.. And first I didn't really watch it... But after seeing few episodes... I became kinda interested.. And I started watching it daily.. So I became more and more obsessed.. :D
And it was Dubbed.. >.<

So, you can imagine how it was when I saw original Subbed version.. :D Like a heaven.. :D
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Apr 30, 2009 5:29 AM
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It was Anime. I definitely went berserk after seeing a couple of episodes. I saw them all,and just a week ago,i got tired of fillers and i have heard more than enough about slip-ups from anime according to manga,and I started reading it. Now I don't care about anime much,since I saw how they messed the whole thing up.
May 15, 2009 9:53 PM
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Anime. I caught a few episodes on Cartoon Network and have been hooked ever since. I've read a little of the manga but I prefer waiting for the anime. Maybe after the anime is done I'll go back to the manga but not now. I'm patient. I can wait. ^_^
May 16, 2009 9:20 AM
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Got hooked on the anime. A french guy at work told me Naruto was the real deal, so I downloaded some subbed episodes on the web (thank God I never saw the dubbed versions, that would have put me off). I then started buying the boxsets as they become available, currently rewatching with my girlfriend and got her hooked to it aswell :D We just ended a maraton of 13 episodes. Haha.
Never got my hand on the manga, since they dont sell it where I live and I don't like reading manga online. As soon as I finish my education and have full time work I'll start all over again reading the manga.
May 16, 2009 12:40 PM
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Anime I started reading manga only cuz I couldn't wait for the eps XD but now I'm reading manga and watching anime ^~
May 16, 2009 6:22 PM
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I got hooked on to the anime first. I remember they showed the dubbed version over here and stopped just before the chunnin finals. That's when I got impatient and started watching the subbed online. And man! What a difference it made. After a while I started reading the manga and have been hooked on to the both ever since.

May 16, 2009 9:58 PM
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I got hooked to the manga first.
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Naruto seemed to have too many episodes, so I just decided to read it. It didn't take me very long to get to the latest updated chapters, so that's when I decided I should start the anime. ^^
I skipped a lot of the fillers, though............
They bug me.
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May 17, 2009 7:46 AM
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Anime ^^

Always liked the style since i saw pokemon / digimon as a kid but i didnt know it was anime :P
Later came beyblade and i read that it was an anime so i started to look up more animes and i decied to see hellsing and it was fantastic. At that time i was 14.
Now i am 17 and will be 18 in december and i still like anime.

I started to read manga so i could see what happend next in naruto. When i finished the anime they were at episode 215 and i didnt want to wait untill shippuuden so i read the manga. And after that i read more series.
These day i read more manga then i watch anime.
May 18, 2009 12:32 PM
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Anime. I first watched it when it cartoon network began airing it. Got hooked since the first episode. Then a friend brought dvd's of it in japanese, and she gave me them so I could burn them into a dvd for my self. And since then I have been watching the anime in japanese, and now I download the episodes.

But thanks to the fillers in, I started to read the manga. So yeah, I watch the anime and read the manga at the moment.
Jun 9, 2009 3:18 PM

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it was anime for me, a friend brought round a copy of akira an i was spell bound for the whole movie :)
Jun 9, 2009 4:43 PM

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Definitely anime for me. I first started watching it when it came out on Cartoon Network. I've always loved ninjas in general so when I saw a new anime about ninjas I was all like, "OOOOOOOOO!!!". Lol
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Jun 13, 2009 4:19 PM

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hmm anime but i prefer manga alot now
Jun 13, 2009 8:15 PM

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I read the manga first then watched the Anime. Now I stopped watching the anime because it's too long and there's too many fillers. The manga is long too but it's way better.
Jun 29, 2009 12:33 PM

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The anime got me hooked and i watch it all the way up to the (The current) episode of the sasuke-naruto waterfall fight in ione week so I was loving the show, but then came all of the fillers and then shippuuden and that was when I had to switch over to the manga and haven't really watched the anime in a long time.With no plans on finishing it either.
Jun 29, 2009 1:00 PM

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First it was the anime.I watched it at tv..after that online. But now i prefer the manga...it's more interesting...
Jun 29, 2009 1:34 PM
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i have to admit it was the anime that first got me hooked on the series, but when i got to the end of all the episodes that were out at the time, of course i had to switch to the manga as i was desperate to find out wot happened next. Now ive given up on the anime (way more fillers than i can cope with) and i much prefer the manga :)
Jul 13, 2009 8:44 PM

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Anime, but now it's manga all the way.
Jul 14, 2009 6:40 AM

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Anime i happened to watch an episode of the chunnin exam arc and thought it looks good so i started watching but now the anime is so boring so manga ftw.
Jul 14, 2009 9:30 AM

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Manga. one of me friends suscribed to Shounen Jump, I barrowed it and got hooked on naruto, bleach, and one peice.
Jul 14, 2009 10:51 AM

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Anime got me first. I had a lot of stuff going on in my life at the time & I wasn't able to keep up with my anime & manga news. I just happened to come across the anime one day while channel surfing. I got into the fight scenes & the plot intertwined in the storyline. After life became less hectic did I start reading the manga. I don't watch Shippunden as of now because I am watching others that are new but I subscribe to Shounen Jump so I keep up with the manga ^.^
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Jul 14, 2009 11:11 AM

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Manga..it was the first thing I saw of Naruto..in came out in English and I had to watch it :)
Aug 16, 2009 12:02 PM

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i havent read the manga yet but i will when they start the stupid fillers again
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Aug 17, 2009 1:52 AM

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At first anime then manga. I think I was still too little to completely understand naruto manga when I started to watch anime. After half year I started to read manga to continue the story and now I think that manga is far better than the anime. Naruto anime was my little begining with all this art called ANIIME & MANGA. My best regards goes to Kishimonto Masashi. *bow*
Aug 17, 2009 3:27 AM

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It was the Anime-version of Naruto that did the trick on me. The series was recommended to me by a friend so I thought ok, let me see how awesome it is then... And it turns out that it's completely brilliant. I was hooked right away. I haven’t kept up with a anime-series since I was 10 so I’m happy to be back (^v^) At first I watch it with Eng dub but luckily I changed it into Japanese after the third episode and I'm so glad for that decision and every episode have been amazing and exciteing. I can’t wait for the next Shippūden episode. I have thought of reading the manga but I’m not sure if I have time to do that…

But Naruto anime rocks!!!(^v^)
Aug 18, 2009 10:43 PM

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Anime... like bleach i started watching the first like 50 eps in english on cartoon network... then the interwebz came and obsession has been building for a while...
Aug 19, 2009 6:06 AM

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It was the anime since I don't read mangas that much. I got totally in Naruto immersed after I started watching the anime.


Aug 19, 2009 5:40 PM

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It was the anime....then after watching the first half of the show, I got hooked to the manga
Sep 2, 2009 10:04 PM

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Anime..its was on TV





Sep 10, 2009 9:29 PM

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Anime. It's fighting scenes totally hooked me up. I kept watching it until the fillers began. After that I needed to know what happened next so I started reading the manga.


Did you wish the producers would hurry up and animate? I did. it was a vicious cycle for me and now the fillers are testing my patience

I have the same feelings. The manga is so ahead from the anime and those now and then fillers are frustrating.
Sep 11, 2009 4:06 AM
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defffinetely anime to me!!
it seem long time for me to read it.since i had watched it around 200eps, it started interests me as well.a lot of characters and lot of actions.and it gives me strong to watch it over and over!!!btw,anime seems lack of quality these days.no wonder the productions want to earn more money on it.but, in my opinion,i guess they need to focus on anime,since i love anime than manga.manga somethin dat kinda need to read.fthrmore,i hate to read and obviously i hate books.
btw, these days i prefer manga than anime.waiting makes me sick!!!!
Sep 23, 2009 2:00 PM

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For me it was the anime.It wasn't the first episode though. It was when Team Kakashi was VS Zabuza on the bridge. I found sasuke to be...HAWWWWTTT at that time and he was my favorite character, even though i wasnt really into the series. + it was dubbed xD All hail YTV!
Then a while later i decided to look it up, and thats how i really got into it o_O And I started reading the manga right about the time when Shippuden started airing.
Sep 28, 2009 6:21 AM

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The anime. I wanted to watch it to see what all the fuss was about, and then I got addicted. >w<"
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i first got into anime then fillers of naruto shows up then decided to take a look at the manga
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The Ultimate Ninja Storm videogames got me into it.
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I got hooked on the anime and really enjoy the series as a whole although the fillers can get a bit annoying. I originally saw the dubbed episodes on Cartoon Network / Toonami but now I watch the subtitled version of Naruto Shippuden. I admittedly have not read the manga series yet although I do own the first volume of the series. I know I should read the manga and I plan on it, I just haven't gotten to it.

The music in the anime series is really great as well. I have several soundtracks from the series.
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