| For me it was spring 2016, MHA s1 . I was 9 years old at that time and my cousin was watching this with me. And thus I started watching anime. Now watching different animes for almost 8 years. What about you? (Pls don't include shows like DBZ, Doraemon, pokemon and kids show) :) |
| I need somebody who can love me at my worst No, I'm not perfect, but I hope you see my worth 'Cause it's only you, nobody new, I put you first And for you, girl, I swear I'll do the worst If you stay forever, let me hold your hand I can fill those places in your heart no else can Let me show you love, oh, I don't pretend, yeah I'll be right here, baby, you know I'll sink or swim |
| I watched these on TV decades ago when I was a kid. I can't remember which one was the first. I didn't even know what anime was. For me, these were just some random cartoons. Anime 80-nichikan Sekai Isshuu Chiisana Ahiru no Ooki na Ai no Monogatari: Ahiru no Kwak Ginga Nagareboshi Gin Ginga Patrol PJ Jungle Book Shounen Mowgli Meiken Jolie Mitsubachi Maya no Bouken Nils no Fushigi na Tabi Seimei no Kagaku: Micro Patrol TaoTao Ehonkan Sekai Doubutsu Banashi Tanoshii Muumin Ikka Wanwan Sanjuushi |
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I watched these on TV decades ago when I was a kid. I can't remember which one was the first. I didn't even know what anime was. For me, these were just some random cartoons.
Anime 80-nichikan Sekai Isshuu
Chiisana Ahiru no Ooki na Ai no Monogatari: Ahiru no Kwak
Ginga Nagareboshi Gin
Ginga Patrol PJ
Jungle Book Shounen Mowgli
Meiken Jolie
Mitsubachi Maya no Bouken
Nils no Fushigi na Tabi
Seimei no Kagaku: Micro Patrol
TaoTao Ehonkan Sekai Doubutsu Banashi
Tanoshii Muumin Ikka
Wanwan Sanjuushi
Anime 80-nichikan Sekai Isshuu
Chiisana Ahiru no Ooki na Ai no Monogatari: Ahiru no Kwak
Ginga Nagareboshi Gin
Ginga Patrol PJ
Jungle Book Shounen Mowgli
Meiken Jolie
Mitsubachi Maya no Bouken
Nils no Fushigi na Tabi
Seimei no Kagaku: Micro Patrol
TaoTao Ehonkan Sekai Doubutsu Banashi
Tanoshii Muumin Ikka
Wanwan Sanjuushi
| @Serafos Also tell me the year you had started watching anime. |
| I need somebody who can love me at my worst No, I'm not perfect, but I hope you see my worth 'Cause it's only you, nobody new, I put you first And for you, girl, I swear I'll do the worst If you stay forever, let me hold your hand I can fill those places in your heart no else can Let me show you love, oh, I don't pretend, yeah I'll be right here, baby, you know I'll sink or swim |
| The Moomins when i was like a toddle or something. So i guess i have technically watched anime for 29 years. |
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The Moomins when i was like a toddle or something. So i guess i have technically watched anime for 29 years.
| @Spunkert Moomins are currently airing in my country and also started airing when I was like 6 in my place. ^_^ |
| I need somebody who can love me at my worst No, I'm not perfect, but I hope you see my worth 'Cause it's only you, nobody new, I put you first And for you, girl, I swear I'll do the worst If you stay forever, let me hold your hand I can fill those places in your heart no else can Let me show you love, oh, I don't pretend, yeah I'll be right here, baby, you know I'll sink or swim |
| Probably rorouni kenshin in 2004 or 2005. The only thing i remember are the opening and the mc. |
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| I don't remember my first anime but I remember three of them. 1. Ao no Exorcist 2. Akame ga Kill 3. Attack on Titan I watched it in 2016. |
AdityaRizkiSMar 27, 2:39 AM
| My first anime was FMA, back in 2006-2007 when it was at a television program in my country. I was just a kid,dind't know what anime was back then. I remembered some of the name (the alchemist part) in 2013-2014 and that was when I searched it, saw it, and then FMAB. After that, I started to search for other similar shows and the rest is history :)) |
| It was ether Naruto, Bleach, FNA, Fate/stay night or Gundam Seed as I don't remember exactly which one. This was back in 2003/2004 or later while in high school. |
| dragon ball z sometime during the early 1990s yes im a 90s kid |
| My first was Candy, Candy and it is my favorite also. |
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| Super basic and normie but I believe the first anime I ever watched consciously was Sword Art Online back in 2013. I didn't start watching anime seriously until about 2018-2019. Before SAO though I had seen Pokémon and Digimon shows as a little kid. I just wasn't aware that I was watching anime at that time and I have no idea when I did watch them. PS2 games were more my speed at the time lol |
| If we go a talk about time I didn’t know it was Shaman king in 2007 or something but for but for Anime I watched knowing I watched an anime it gonna be Vampire Knight in 2010 |
| As a child, I recall watching a Zorro anime (the spanish one not the one with green hair), a Sleeping Beauty anime, etc. The only anime of my childhood that I was somewhat into was Sonic X (which I tried to watch again last year but it's pacing was too slow). Oh and Daddy Long Legs. I recall watching a ton of Hentai and Highschool DxD in 2017. And in 2021 I tried watching Kill la Kill, which I dropped on like the 6th or 5th episode, and at the same time I watched Konosuba, Redo of Healer, Goblin Slayer, GuP and Welcome to NHK which are the shows that have lead me to my almost 3 year long obsession with anime. |
| I watched a lot of anime on TV when I was a kid without knowing what it was (I think everyone did), but it was Sailor Moon that was really responsible for getting me "into" anime. That was in 1998, and I was 13. I think it was during the summer, but this was a long time ago, so I don't really remember. Sailor Moon was also my first manga (1999), the first piece of anime merchandise I ever bought (two collectible cards on eBay, in 1999), and even my first subtitled anime (2001). At first, it was just like any other random thing I happened to catch on TV, but I enjoyed it so much. After watching it every day for a few weeks (and recording it so I could rewatch it), I went online to find out more about this new show I'd found, and I learned about "anime," which at the time was something I'd never heard of. I knew I wanted to see more, so I quickly started watching as much anime as I could. I never imagined that I'd still be watching anime so many years later, but I still enjoy it so much that I've never even thought of stopping. |
palm-treeMar 26, 1:05 PM
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| The first Japanese anime I watched in Japanese was the original Dragon Ball series (the one where Goku is a kid). I watched it in both Japanese and English and compared the different scripts since that was the first time I had a DVD of a show that let you switch languages, so it was something I found rather cool as a 13-year-old. |
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| Technically the first anime I ever watched would be Battle of the Planets and Speed Racer back in the early 80's But I'm going to say Akira and 1992 because that's when I actually started watching anime because it was anime. |
| I think I started with Ore Monogatari!! when I started getting into anime in early 2020, but I honestly can't remember. My first anime ever was probably when I went to see Spirited Away at a drive-in theater when it came out. |
Pinoffin said: What is your first anime and when did you start it? Technically I have been exposed to Japanese Anime all my life, even when I was a baby since I have partly grew up living in Japan. Most notably before primary school I remember being exposed to stuff like "The Adventures of the Little Prince" on Asahi TV in the early 70s. Though, I mostly remember watching "The Adventures of the Little Prince" on Western TV in the mid 80s on a station called Nickelodeon Along side series like "The Mysterious Cities of Gold". To be fair, I really didn't start getting interested in Japanese Anime as a medium until my parents took me with them to go see the movie "Project A-Ko" at a local theater in Japan in 1986. Where a short 40 minute Anime called "Departure: Ami, the Last Chapter" played before the main feature. So If you are excluding kids shows then my 1st Anime was a short film that played before watching the "Project A-ko" movie, revolving around the Character Ami Nonomura linked to what today would be coined as a "Hentai" franchise called "Cream Lemon" since there was really no such thing as "Hentai" when it came to Japanese Anime back in the 80s. |
ColourWheelMar 26, 1:27 PM
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| In 2005-2006 I can't tell exactly I've seen Pokemon, Yu gi oh, Naruto and Shaman King on Jetix but I thought back than that it were Polish cartoons cause it was fully dubbed. In around 2007-2008 for the first time knowing that I am watching anime and I was watching it with subs, was Bleach. |
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Pinoffin said:
What is your first anime and when did you start it?
What is your first anime and when did you start it?
Technically I have been exposed to Japanese Anime all my life, even when I was a baby since I have partly grew up living in Japan. Most notably before primary school I remember being exposed to stuff like "The Adventures of the Little Prince" on Asahi TV in the early 70s. Though, I mostly remember watching "The Adventures of the Little Prince" on Western TV in the mid 80s on a station called Nickelodeon Along side series like "The Mysterious Cities of Gold".
To be fair, I really didn't start getting interested in Japanese Anime as a medium until my parents took me with them to go see the movie "Project A-Ko" at a local theater in Japan in 1986. Where a short 40 minute Anime called "Departure: Ami, the Last Chapter" played before the main feature.
So If you are excluding kids shows then my 1st Anime was a short film that played before watching the "Project A-ko" movie, revolving around the Character Ami Nonomura linked to what today would be coined as a "Hentai" franchise called "Cream Lemon" since there was really no such thing as "Hentai" when it came to Japanese Anime back in the 80s.
| @ColourWheel I can't believe someone else actually remembers watching Mysterious Cities of Gold. Made my day |
| My first anime was Naruto, when it comes to the less mainstream one though my first was Sakura-sou no Pet na Kanojo. |
| -Login to mal -Looks at notifications -Three messages deleted "Oh no" |
| Lain, last year. I'm still fairly new to anime. |
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| I watched pokemon and stuff as a kid but i dont really count that. I watched Kill la Kill sometime in 2016-2017, been watching anime ever since. |
AkutsunMay 12, 3:49 PM
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| Besides Pokémon as a kid, I started watching anime seriously in 2021 after witnessing the brilliance of Evangelion. Couldn’t be happier with the journey! |
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| The one that started me to watch anime regularly, especially the seasonals, was Kobato in 2009. |
| Childhood: - Beyblade: Metal Series - Yugioh series, most dominantly ZEXAL Early years: - Kaichou wa Maid-sama! - SAO - Erased - Toradora Very casual years: - AoT - Horimiya - MHA 2023-present: - 86 Eighty-Six - Skip to Loafer (first seasonal) - Sora yori mo Tooi Basho |
 "You fought to the end. You survived. That's why you're here now. I think that's something you should be more proud of." - Vladilena Milizé |
| Growing up, I watched a lot of anime on television, mostly kids shows, but the ones I remember watching the most were Initial D, Gundam Seed, Flame of Recca, Slam dunk and Yuyu Hakusho. I remember watching One Piece as a child, but I didn't enjoy the goofiness of the character, so I always switched the channel to other anime that were airing at the time. |
KushnaMar 26, 3:35 PM
| 1st anime I watched in Japanese was the original Macross. When I bought the dvd when it cam out. |
| I don't really remember specifically but it was when Cartoon Network started airing their Toonami Block of anime in the late 90's. It was probably Sailor Moon when I was 12. This is when I first knew what anime was which was. When i was a child I used to watch Voltron but I was too young to even remember much about it or even know what it was. |
SevenMar 26, 3:51 PM
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What is your first anime and when did you start it? SUPER-DIMENSIONAL FORTRESS MACROSS... by proxy of it's mid-80's US/WORLD Localization, "ROBOTECH" a Nephew got me started by Happenstance when i was a young boy... giving me this transformable model kit of the principal poster boy Mecha from the series;  half a dozen years on, - in my middle-teens - my dad got me this smaller-scale, non-transformable model of the same Mecha, in one of it's three transformation modes;  in 1996, i began to find dual-episode ROBOTECH VHS Cassettes at my local mall's "SUNCOAST VIDEO"  in the same year, i found my very first Anime Magazine at SUNCOAST... which piqued my interest so hard that it was a one-way road to OTAKUdom for me from thence onward;  |
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| Back when Nisekoi was airing, so 2013? My first anime are: -Nisekoi -Sword Art Online -Attack on Titan -K-On |
"Nobody could laugh at someone who's trying their hardest" -Machio- |
| Sword Art Online in 2012. I remember being so hyped to watch it as I didn't know what to expect. So many good animes were being aired at that time as well. |
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| First anime ever? DBZ Kai for sure, when it aired on Nick in the late 2000s - early 2010s (RIP Toriyama, btw) But the first anime I sat down and watched would have to be That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime when it was still airing in late 2018. Still a great anime today, super excited for season 4! |
| Dragon Ball in 2014. And then Death Note. |
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| The earliest anime I remember watching was Attack on Titan in spring 2013 when it came out. I was 9 years old at the time. |
| Would say pokemon but dont want that included so Id say Inuyashiki, watched it like 8/9 years ago didnt even know it was an anime until recently lmao First anime I knew was an anime when I started watching was Cowboy Bebop and that got me into anime |
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| First one I deliberately watched as anime after learning what anime even is, was 「Slayers」in 2003. First ones I remember watching without knowing they were anime are 「Ninja Senshi Tobikage」,「Robin Hood no Daibouken」and「Shirayuki Hime no Densetsu」 |
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