| For me personally, the weirdest way I found a series would be how I ended up getting into the "Index/Railgun" saga. During my days grinding away working on prototyping a video game, I look at screencaps of city scenery to get inspired. One day I was browsing and I happened across a very beautiful panorama shot. TO be exact, I believe it was this exact image- At the time, I paid it very little mind and simply saved the image with the rest of the ones I use whenever I struggled to try to come up with ideas. After a while, I crashed into the wall pretty hard after about six straight hours of Monster-fueled map grinding, when I decided I'd go look for more images. I found one in particular (though as I look back, I can no longer find the original image on Google) that contained a little more than just aesthetic city scenery. There was.....a girl in the image. Once again, I thought really nothing of it at the time and just got back to work. Fast-forward a few months (to a time about a week ago) and I'm roaming around my usual haunts in the vicinity of Phoenix, Arizona. I stop in a store that sells a plethora of pop culture ephemera, and as I'm wandering around, I see a figurine that piques my interest. It looked familiar, but I couldn't immediately place where. The thought nagged at me constantly as I stroll down each aisle. As I'm about to leave, it finally strikes me. "That one image I stored in my inspirations folder, that's the same character!" About $80 later, I embarked on an odyssey to discover more about where this came from. The deeper I dig down the rabbit hole that is the wiki, the more things I find out that bring this into my direct trajectory. Then I caught an episode or two one night, and ya know something? I actually really started to like it. And to think, this all started because I suffered a massive case of artblock. tl;dr: It all started with a city picture. |
| Love Live!. I stumbled upon the game first. I found it was cute. Then i sumbled upon the live concert in YouTube. And found out it actually has an anime too. It's weird because the steps of knowing the franchise is kind of messed up.. XD |
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| Once I saw a cat.. my mind went blank and I shot ‚is that the work of an enemy stando?!‘‘ From that time I knew, I fucked up will love Jojo‘s bizarre adventure |
| I found out about Death Note because of some YouTube abridged parody of it |
| "Of what worth is a king who fails to protect the powerless?" —Saber, Fate/Zero |
| I was reading wikipedia article about kabaddi. I found out that there were some anime that mentioned this sport. chio chan no tsuugakuro was one of them, so I decided to give it a go. |
 "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost." |
| Not much of a weird story, but... Basically, my introduction to anime as a whole was indirectly kick-started by a high school friend lending me a PS Magazine PS2 Demo CD way back in the day. It featured demos for various games and i was randomly trying them out when a particular title caught my attention; it was a demo for Fullmetal Alchemist: Curse of the Crimson Elixir. I didn't watch anime at the time, and i didn't even know the game was based on an anime; i thought it was just the aesthetic. The gameplay was very simplistic, but i was drawn in by the high-quality voice-acting and the interesting characters and premise. I played through the demo several times but, as much as i wanted to know the full story, i never got to buy the full game. Flash-forward about 5-6 years. I'm browsing through Netflix and i happen to catch the thumbnail for the FMA (2003) anime series. I'm like "Whoa, this is that game demo i used to like so much!" I watch the first couple episodes out of curiosity, "Oh, it has the same storyline from the game!" I get hooked immediately, decide to watch the whole thing and, well, here i am now...So, thank you, old high school friend! :) |
| I watched Cenceroll because of the movie poster they got in Durarara. |
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| I learned about the Neon Genesis Evangelion sequel films from a guy who I frequently saw at a DVD store who had a face full of industrial piercings. Even though I was in middle school at the time, he neglected to mention that End of Evangelion is an amalgum of disturbing, mind-bending, & (as I would discover later) life-changing; insteadーhe sold me on the fact that there was a “really cool fight scene with Asuka in Unit 02.” |
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| I saw a pic with a pink haired girl on that CR amp forum saying that the anime is called dragonaut and it was supposed to be the best thing ever. Then I went on mal, read the synopsis and don't know how but ended up watchin it, I liked it a lot. |
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| Playing with Mudae in discord, yeah... This was weird and funny, I like Mudae as game. xD |
| I guess the most roundabout way for me was watching speedruns on GDQ of old Nes games, and hearing they were based on anime (that I looked up and watched afterwards). |
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| I watched Glass no Kamen because Takabayashi Tomo compared Conrad Weller (my most favorite character) to Kitajima Maya in an interview. I really wanted to know who this Kitajima Maya was, that's the only reason I watched it. |
| I watched Nausicaa because they parodied it in Gintama :D |
| i discovered Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume from a Hentai sharing group in a certain social media |
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| Probably Zero no Tsukaima, found out about it because of Steins;Gate. That or Sora no Otoshimono: Forte, found out about it because of the DS Game based on it. |
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| One time a guy in a trench coat stepped out of a dark alleyway and threw a VHS copy of Ninja Scroll at my head. |
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| I originally got into Love Live because of Silvagunner's Snow Halation memes. That was the first anime I ever completed. I basically got into anime as a medium because of a youtube in-joke. I feel like that's pretty sad but I'm oddly proud of it. |
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| The first time I watched highschool of the dead was on pornhub. |
Profaneprayer said: The first time I watched highschool of the dead was on pornhub. Every other weird way pales in comparison to this. |
| I was just browsing through videos on Youtube and I found Neon Genesis Evangelion op and kept listening to it, because I thought it was a banger. Then I decided to watch the anime, even though I'm not a huge fan of mecha. Anime was good, the opening is still one of the best. |
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| I found out there's an artist that posted some yume nikki and yume 2kki fanart on twitter: who published their own manga that was adapted recently - Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou, and it's post-apocalyptic. The most beautiful yume 2kki parts are dreams of a post-apocalyptic world with the protagonist girl wandering around it, so I got curious if it's similar... it wasn't at all but it was worth a read/watch. |
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| Ok so here's my story: I was in high-school at had just gotten into anime. I had only finished about 4 series and they were all pretty normal shounen-type stuff. I knew that the Cartoon Network channel's Adult Swim block had anime on it, but I never really cared because it was slow and unreliable compared to streaming sites online. [AS] only had a few episodes of any one series and they were usually in sub (in the beginning I was a dub-only, though now I don't really care). I would still browse it from time to time if only to watch an episode or two from something I had already watched. One time I was watching it cut to a commercial? trailer? or something from another anime and I was like...what the heck is this? It was a trailer to Parasyte, and me not having been introduced to Seinen/horror-type stuff before I was very confused and sort of weirded out. But it still looked very interesting and different from what I had seen before so I gave it a shot. And then for some reason I got so hooked on it I would be watching it when I was doing my homework or on the way to school or sometimes trying to sneak in an episode during class once or twice. It was so strange and I loved it. td;dr, discovered Parasyte: The Maxim from a commercial on Adult Swim. |
| Letting YouTube autoplay in the background has led to watching Kings Avatar (Quanzhi Gaoshou) which I did not regret. Also AMVs have led to me discovering several good series EF: A Tale of Memories. |
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| My Father accidently gave Shingeki no Kyojin to me a few years ago |
| I discovered the Corpse Party game (PSP) last 2014. I think I discovered it from the gameplay in Youtube. When I searched Corpse Party, I found out about the OVA. I decided to play the game first before watching the OVA. When I became addicted to the game, I wondered how brutal the anime was. While watching it, I was trying my best to close my face whenever the brutal scenes came out. I was traumatized for a bit. I know there are a lot more anime shows which have gore themes. Some of them are more brutal. But yeah, Corpse Party: Tortured Souls (OVA) really traumatized me. |
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| Mostly through doujins Sword Art Online comes to mind |
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| A lot of anime I watch are because of memes. The danker the better. Hasn't really let me down. |
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| While I was in Japan, one of the stores was showing this Opening video on the TV, and I really liked it, but I couldn't tell the name of the anime as I couldn't read Japanese, so when I got back to the hotel, I jumped onto a PC they had there. I then when browsing MAL for several hours looking if I could find an image with "A girl with short brown hair, and another girl with pigtails". I eventually found it. It turned out to be Railgun. It had just finished airing in Japan at the time apparently. |
| A skit from an anime con at 2012 that I forgot happened and only remembered a couple years ago, which made me spend about an hour googling "anime vampire mask girl" until I found Vampire Princess Miyu. |
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| my story came from a long time ago I thought, and this is probably the one that affect me so hard to enjoy splatter and gore anime. in my teenagers days i was a hardline metalhead fan,one day my youtube recommendation show me a video about AMV featured anime called "elfen lied". i never thought before an anime can get this brutal so i started watching and get hooked into it. this is the video btw its a goregrind band, a very sub sub sub sub genre of extreme metal this kind of music is not for everyone to hear |
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| I think the weirdest for me is through memes like for example: JoJo |
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