| Nahh, 4kids lol. Shaman King and One Piece m8. Not sure if you count YugiOh or Pokemon but mainly kidswb and 4kidstv. Didn't have cable.... *cries in corner* |
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| Yeah somehow I started anime with Digimon that aired in a local spanish channel then I got cartoon network and I think at 9:00 pm Toonami started and they aired shaman king and dragón Ball and detective conan on there that of course I watched. Toonami got cancelled on Spain on 2009 so no way I can watch it :/ |
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| I started watching anime through Toonami and my first anime ever was DBZ. I don't watch Toonami as often as I used to but, now that they're airing Gurren Lagann, I'll be sure to check it out again. |
| Heard something called Naruto back when was first being dubbed saw it on Toonami and got hooked never missed a new episode. That was the first and last time I watched and kept up with a series on television. I thought it was amazing then I did some research and found more like Naruto called anime and thus it began the long years of anime before I came on MAL. Naruto was my first. |
 ♪All his life has been, a roller coaster ride of dream No time for looking back, forgetting who or what His song is all that he leaves behind, On silent nights I hear him still, whistling a tune I know so well Gun in hand, rose in another, He's Lupin the 3rd♪ |
| Toonami and ...Fox Kids, I think the channel was called? Edit - yeah, Fox Kids which was then replaced by Jetix. |
 It's an entirely different kind of flying, altogether! It's an entirely different kind of flying. |
Yes and No. I did watch anime through toonami but that's not how I started it, it was definitely another channel but can't...remember (and nope! it wasn't 4kids either). -Mastergold |
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| I did watch a few things on Toonami when I was younger. But it wasn't really what got me into anime. A friend of mine introduced me to a few shows (shows that weren't featured on Toonami) and that's how I started my journey. |
| As a french representative, I started like every people of my age in the country: a very dumb show called "Club Dorothée" who mainly aired japanese animation simply because it was CHEAP (they could buy anything for nothing, the bands were literally sold for a price based on the lengths). While the previous generation had discovered Grandizer (a Nagai series set after Mazinger), Candy Candy, Gigi, Cpt Flam (not sure of the name), Cpt.Harlock (two series) and Space Adventure Cobra along french/japanese productions wich I also saw (The mysterious Golden cities, Ulysses31), my period was full of JUMP adaptations. My first anime (I was 3 years old) were: - Dragon Ball (Z later), - Saint Seiya, - Kimagure Orange Road, - Wingman, - Cpt. Tsubasa -_-, - Cat's Eyes, - Hokuto no Ken, - Magical Angel Creamy Mami, and later: Sherlock Holmes, the Nippon Animations productions based on litteratur classics, City Hunter, Fushigi no Umi no NadiaNadia, Sailor Moon, Ranma 1/2 up until I leaved the primary school. Of course, each of those titles was censored in a way or another ;) |
Rei_IIIJan 26, 2016 5:00 PM
| started when Pokemon was on Foxkids although I'd seen the odd episode of DBZ or Sailormoon at our cousins house, cause before pokemon we didn't have satellite TV |
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bork1996 said: badwolf45f said: Yeah somehow I started anime with Digimon that aired in a local spanish channel then I got cartoon network and I think at 9:00 pm Toonami started and they aired shaman king and dragón Ball and detective conan on there that of course I watched. Toonami got cancelled on Spain on 2009 so no way I can watch it :/ They brought back Toonami around 2012 I believe. It is a segment as part of Adult Swim. Im talking about toonami spain they never brought it back, we dont have any anime channel in Spain anymore :') |
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| Not me, I used to watch DBZ, saint seiya, pokémon and some other things on channel 5(Canal 5, México) |
  "Here's our chance! Let's go!" |
| I started on toonami. My favorite anime were mecha for the most part. But what kept me coming back and eventually every week. Was the host tom and the promotions |
| I started watching anime by borrowing dvds from different people. There was a chick in middle school who introduced me to anime, and another dude in high school who lent me a few movies and feature films to watch alongside some series. Everything else I either bought or streamed online. I didn't even really get into watching anime and reading manga until I was out of university. The extent of shows on television that I watched were shows like Pokemon, Digimon, CCS, DBZ, etc. |
I'm also filled with pure-hearted ulterior motives. |
| Digimon and Pokémon on cartoon network and foxkids then DBZ and Naruto on toonami which i fell in love with. My friend showed me Fma brotherhood and then I found Kekkaishi and that's when I started looking for more anime to watch. |
| Nop, I started watching Pokemon on Cartoon Network, it aired at 1:30 pm, so it was right on time after I finished school. Although I don't even knew that it was an anime, I thought that it was just a regular cartoon. |
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| Of course, Dragonball Z was the gateway anime for me, after that I moved on to other Toonami shows, Gundam, Cowboy Bebop, Fullmetal Alchemist, Samurai Champloo... and things went from there. |
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| Watched Pokemon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Cardcaptor Sakura when I was a young child in the late 90's/early 2000's, although I didn't know they were anime at the time and just thought they were cartoons. Think all of them were on CITV. Then in my 1st year of college I watched an abridged version of Naruto with friends (made by masakox and vegeta3986). Enjoyed it enough to watch the english dub of Naruto before switching to subs when I caught up on all of the dubbed episodes at the time, then branched out into others anime from there. |
| Nah, Toonami had nothing to do with me getting into anime. |
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| Yes, Dragonball Z on Toonami got me interested in checking out the medium. It was around the right time too, because there was a lot of it available for me to try just on TV stations. After highschool I got a job and became a DVD/BD collector which opened up a lot more titles to view as well. |
KruszerJan 26, 2016 5:43 PM
| "The name's Gambit. Remember it." -Gambit "X-Men '97"  |
| I'd say I have. Me and my brothers would watch DBZ for the most part. And I remember when they played Hamtaro in the after-school hours, which I loved the hell out of back then. I still watch Toonami pretty much ever Saturday night. It's fun to watch shows that I wouldn't try on my own accord on a weekly basis. |
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| my first anime was probably pokemon but i think i saw naruto on toonami |
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| nah. I was watching before it. Not actively or anything |
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| I actually discovered it through Youtube when I was like 10. I have no idea what Toonami is |
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| Yes, I did. Tenchi and Outlaw Star (as part of CNX) aired, I was too young to understand the harem concept and I didn't get half the story in either of the two but I kept coming back 'cos there was something...unique about them two shows...then came DBZ and then with the internet boom, I realised this was all anime and for better or for worse, I was hooked. |
| Me! My first anime was Inuyasha on Toonami. |
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| I got into anime by watching DBZ on toonami back in 2000. This was followed by watching other shows, also on toonami, such as Gundam wing, Cowboy Bebop and GitS:SAC. Fox kids also had decent enough anime such as Shaman king. Good times. |
| Defeating a sandwich, only makes it tastier |
| I started watching anime about when shows like Digimon, Monster Rancher, Escaflowne, etc. were on Fox Kids (which if I'm remembering right, was around 1999-2000 or so). |
| Toonami got me into this anime joint. All about that Sailor Moon action. |
| The only anime we ever had air on television were pathetic dubs of Doraemon and Perman. :3 |
| No, I got into anime by watching it on illegal streaming sites I'm such a horrible person I know |
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| our toonami only had american cartoons lol but we had a local anime block called Aplus, which was eventually bought by animax, and died recently though i started watching anime on our national channel TVR, with childhood shows like Pokemon and Digimon.. |
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| Not only just Toonami when they showed DBZ, Hamtaro, Sailot Moon and Zoids. Also from Adult Swim with Kenshin and Inuyasha and random Saturday mourning cartoons w/Digimon, Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh, and Cardcaptors. Miss those days |
| I got on when they started showing Michiko to Hatchin, SAO 2 and the re-runs for Ghost in the Shell as well as Parasyte. |
| We don't have toonami in our place, but I still watch pokemon, naruto, one piece, etc in my country channel, but I got into anime seriously because of Fate/Stay Night. |
| Toasted TV back in the day was what got me hooked. Aired dubbed shows like Pokemon, Naruto and that Bakugan battle brawlers sh*t . |
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| I was introduced to anime cause of toonami uk...i remember the days i used to watch Tenchi Muyo, Blue Sub 6, DBZ, Gundam Wing, etc...good times :) |
| Nah, Pokemon was on WB and Digimon on Fox Kids. I only started watching Toonami in 2000 after seeing those two . |
| I guess you have to be from the States for this thread to work, hmm . I mainly watched anime as a kid in a Catalan TV channel lol. Fairly varied stuff-. For instance watched both Planetes and Utena there. http://myanimelist.net/anime/2222/Dr_Slump__Arale-chan This might be my gateway anime :Z |
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| Yup I remember watching toonami a long time ago then forgot about it. Then later again last year( 2015) I found it again on Saturday nights, thats about 1/2 the reason that I got into anime. |
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| 4kids for me. My sister and I loved Sonic X and Kirby: Right Back at Ya!. |
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badwolf45f said: bork1996 said: They brought back Toonami around 2012 I believe. It is a segment as part of Adult Swim. Im talking about toonami spain they never brought it back, we dont have any anime channel in Spain anymore :') They play a fair bit of anime on, I believe the station is Super3. A lot of Ghibli flims, Lupin, One Piece DBZ and a few others. It is the Catalán station though. As for the OP: I got my start watching anime through my older cousins. They would lend me the series they had already seen. |
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