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Apr 22, 2020 2:49 AM
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I became interested in anime mainly because of curiosity.

Before I knew the term 'anime',I used to watch kids' shows such as Doraemon,Pokémon,Shin-chan,Beyblade etc. during my childhood.

After I grew older,I developed a keen interest towards anime.As a result,I was introduced to the beautiful and fascinating world of anime.

How did you become acquainted with the anime world?
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Apr 22, 2020 2:54 AM
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go to school come back home open TV go to cartoon channel wait for anime

the cycle of my childhood

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Apr 22, 2020 2:55 AM
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90s kid here so local TV aired dragonball z and the rest is history
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I watched a lot the kids shows anime when I was really young. Then in middle school I actually stumbled upon anime by accident on YouTube and got easily hooked.
Apr 22, 2020 2:57 AM
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A combination of watching stuff on TV, my dad introducing me to his favorite shows from his childhood and a kid I knew from school watching pirated avatar the last airbender because it didn't come out on greek TV yet and me finding it interesting.
EDIT: avatar isn't even an anime but my fourth grader self thought it was the same
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Apr 22, 2020 3:01 AM
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I'll just copy+pasted my journey to anime from my blog lol.


Started out as a kid watching some "cartoon" on local TV. I remembered them being One Piece, Naruto, Tokyo Mew Mew, Detective Conan, Digimon, Sailor Moon, Inuyasha, etc

During middle school I was more into manga and continue to watch what was available on local TV (Air Gear, Gundam SEED, etc)

I didn't really have preferences at the time, I liked anime because I liked the art.

(2009) In high school I started to get more serious. I discovered internet. Anime streaming and download sites and such. Then I started to watch a lot of anime from various genre. At around this time I joined MAL and got more information about anime.

Slowly, I found out I enjoyed longer series than shorter ones and I enjoyed friendship themed battle shounen more than others. But I still watched many anime from various genre.

(2012) I think I changed from a casual fan to an avid fan at the last year of my high school.
I loved most mainstream battle shounen anime (Gintama, SnK, One Piece, FT, KHR, etc) and they were the ones that turned me into an avid anime fan.

But then everything changed again when I met Trafalgar Law and Eustass Kid in One Piece. For some unknown reason I started to ship them and fell into the darker side of the anime fandom. To this day I failed to understand how Law and Kid can turn me into a completely different kind of anime fan. The Fujoshi. I was an anti-yaoi. They annoyed the hell out of me because so many yaoi ships in battle shounen! I especially got enraged in the KHR fandom bcs this fandom was the first time I was made aware of how dominating the yaoi fans in this genre. Never in my life I imagined myself to be one of them in the future.

I think during my first year in University, I started to obsess more and more in my first OTP, Kid x Law.
I started to read fanfictions every. single. night.
Since I was majoring in Japanese Literature, as I slowly understand Japanese, I started to go to pixiv and read doujinshis on top of fanfictions. My obsession last for almost two years. Nothing but Kid x Law. Until I ran out of fanmade stuff to read. I read all and every fanfictions and doujinshis available. Kid x Law was not that popular in the first place, there was not much to dig. So I started to get frustrated. At the end of (2015), I visited Japan and bought my first haul of doujinshis (in which all of them were Kid x Law).

Then I started to fell out of anime and switched to Western Movies and TV Series. I discovered my second and third and so on OTP. (It's Hannigram, Destiel, Stucky)
I was obsessed with Steve x Bucky but not on the same level of Kid x Law. It lasted for one year I think (and it's a hella popular ship and there was still so much to consume)
During this time, I still watched one or two series every few months. Like Haikyuu, Kurobas. And found a new OTP. (Kuroken, Aokuro, Makoharu, Sanayuki)

(2017) around May (or I remembered as it was exactly just when Boku no Hero Academia S2 just started airing) I made my return to anime and to this site. More active than ever.
I binge watched BnHA and found my newest and biggest OTP yet, Katsuki x Izuku. BnHA was the anime that made me invested in the community again.

Nowadays, my preferences had shrinked greatly. I only watched anime that fit my preferences (which is really just bromance lol)


Source: https://myanimelist.net/blog.php?eid=806533
Apr 22, 2020 3:48 AM
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Beyblade Beyblade Let it Rip !

I loved watching that in my Childhood, 2016 I did a rewatch, then I continued with Naruto, Tokyo Ghoul ...
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I was isekai'd into the anime world.
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Apr 22, 2020 3:55 AM
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Friend introduced me to Dragon ball Z abridged. I loved that and he told me I should watch the actual thing. I did and then after that, I started taking other recommendations from him.
Apr 22, 2020 4:05 AM

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I had several waves/entries. First entry was when my mother bought me Tokyo Mew Mew. I was like 5 then. Just another cartoon for me

Then followed the series Yu-gi-oh, Digimon Advanture and Pokemon on TV, I still thought they were a bit cartoons.

Third was when our TV channel stopped airing Naruto in dub, so I started watching anime online for the first time (first english dub). Saw other anime titles near it.

Fourth would be when I started Japanese dub, at the same time I understood anime much better and started searching on my own much freely (got into manga about the same time)
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I used to be your average kid who watched things like Pokémon and shit. Outside of that I was first introduced to anime when I saw a rerun of Fruits Basket on tv around about 2011.
Apr 22, 2020 4:24 AM

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90s videogames, especially Jrpgs.

I particularly remember the cutscenes in the Sega Genesis game Valis III as being one of my earliest exposures to japanese anime-style art. Even though the game wasn't anything special, the Valis girls had a certain something that 13 year old me found very appealing haha. I started trying to draw in that style long before I knew it had anything to do with Japan. It was only a matter of time until I learned the truth.

Apr 22, 2020 4:25 AM

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My friend told me that watching a particular anime could maybe help me with some of my personal problems.
Apr 22, 2020 5:28 AM

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I don't count watching as a young child, because back then all I watched were cartoons on TV and family films in theaters. As opposed to watching a Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney, Chuck Jones or Hanna-Barbera cartoon, etc. the very few anime I saw on TV were just thought to be another style of cartoon. When Pokemon began airing dubbed on American TV I vaguely knew because it looked different that it was a cartoon from Japan, but neither knew anything beyond that about Japanese animation or a single thing about Japan itself other than that it was a country in Asia. When it was said that this particular cartoon was animated in Japan, I just took that to mean that the labor for producing it was outsourced there sort of like a lot of clothing or electronic devices said "Made in China", "Made in Korea", or "Made in Taiwan" (yes, even for native-borne products; I didn't differentiate then). I didn't understand anything about its difference from a standard American product beyond that and never even heard or saw the word anime spoken or written. There was nowhere I would as it wasn't said on TV, no family members or friends mentioned or knew anything about it, and I was in elementary school before I even started using the internet. All we had at home was a basic PC for the time on which I played a few educational CD-rom games.

So I was 8 years-old when I first saw Pokemon (Indigo League portion of the series) and as it became a huge fad at the time I did get obsessed with it in always watching the reruns on TV after school or on early Saturday mornings on WB, had the trading cards (not to play, but just to collect), and some associated merchandise like GameBoy Color cartridge video games, T-shirts, plushie stuffed animals and other toys. Yet again, not as anime, but just as another cartoon.

I used to see advertisements for shows like Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh on the same channel when watching Pokemon, but was never interested in watching them. And I literally saw about 5 episodes of Dragonball Z when I was 12 (watched it for two days at my grandparent's house when they picked me up from school but then my schedule changed and I never saw it from the beginning or made any effort to find and watch it again).

By this time in middle school I had heard of anime a little bit more by some word of mouth from one friend who was heavily into Dragonball Z, from the internet, and for the commercials on Cartoon Network - Looking back on it now I remember commercials specifically for Bleach, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Inuyasha (little did I know this would years later go on to become my favorite series in existence, but I'm actually glad in retrospect I didn't watch it dubbed in reruns out of order as a middle schooler as it would have been a radically and fundamentally different experience).

I was never much into the superhero subgenre even in American entertainment and that's all I thought anime was at this point - superheroes, martial arts from all the battle shounen-related ads (didn't know the term battle shounen of course, but just thought of them as all the series with the guys with huge hair and giant swords or energy blasts always screaming), and mecha. None of it appealed to me at all, and I decided to myself from the little (almost nothing) I knew about anime that it definitely wasn't something for me, but seemed to be really for the guys who loved superheroes and muscled fighting guys series and comic nerds. I used to actually turn away in disinterest and even mild disgust at seeing more of it on TV taking time slots away from the cartoons I grew up with.

That impression didn't change for years. I didn't watch it or even think about it much. The only cartoons I watched by this point were the few Nickelodeon series I started very young for which they were now playing fewer and fewer reruns on TV, a few CN shows, classic Disney films from before my time through the 90s, and some adult animated sitcoms like South Park, Futurama, and The Simpsons. I was also very into horror films though and by high school 90% of content I'd say I watched was live - I was starting to watch copious amounts of not just horror, but classic detective and noir films, crime dramas, war epics, etc. and discovering and exploring more of older American and European cinema, so cartoons of any sort bar a few exceptions were mostly distant from my mind and daily experience.

During this time in high school I had Netflix, not as people have come to know and refer to it now as this mega behemoth online streaming service globally, but as a mail-based DVD rental service. I used to rent three films at a time, burn them on to blank DVDs with a software program on my desktop computer, and send them back. My whole time in high school I watched a single anime - Spirited Away when I was 16, which I rented. By now I "knew" anime could be either battle shounen and mecha...or studio Ghibli. So it was my first Ghibli and first anime film, but again, like with Pokemon, it didn't introduce me to anime as a medium yet or encourage me to explore further. It was quasi-nostalgic because I remembered the trailers and even toys in 2001 - 2002 when Spirited Away was dubbed and released in theaters after being licensed via Disney, so watching it then at 16 was like watching a cartoon I was aware of but felt I had missed out on "as a kid" (being 16 versus being 10 years-old feels like a lifetime apart then). I absolutely loved it and it's still my only 10/10 anime film and one of my favorite films overall of all time even today, but even seeing its greatness I just saw it as an amazing film that randomly by some bizarre stroke of fate happened to be an anime, and didn't check out any more anime at the time or even more of Ghibli's catalogue. I saw it as an incredible film, but not an "incredible anime" or anime itself as incredible.

And that was it. Aside from watching Spirited Away a few more times as I now had it on DVD, I didn't watch anime again in any form until I was 25. I still didn't know any more about it, wasn't exerting any effort to avoid it, but wasn't seeking it either. Never imagined that there were thousands of crazy inventive, thrilling, and beautiful shows out there encompassing every conceivable genre under the sun.

Then because I really adore transgressive romance, incest, and age gap-related content I stumbled somehow online about reading about Koi Kaze. I don't remember the initial website which led me to it, but I remember seeing the picture for the manga cover first. I actually didn't understand that it was a TV series and thought it was a film as I still thought the only anime TV series could really be the long battle shounen, fighting, and mecha series and didn't imagine for whatever reason there could be a 13 episode romance drama. The U.S. equivalent of such series anyway in terms of length are classified as "miniseries" of which I've only seen a handful over the years and they aren't that common.

So that's what happened. I found out it was a TV series, was even more intrigued, watched Koi Kaze over a period of a few days, and had the most mind-shattering and transformative experience in media exposure ever up to that point. It not only awoke me to anime but really changed how I viewed all TV and film and what it could do and enable me to think and feel. It's like a fire was lit inside me for the first time. The music, the colors, the thoughts and feelings and dramatic crescendo.

After Koi Kaze, I watched over the next several months: Usagi Drop, Mushishi, Inuyasha, Rurouni Kenshin, and Aishiteruze Baby. Fo0r of those are still in my Top 20 and Inuyasha and Koi Kaze still my #1 and #2, respectively. Now I knew what anime could be and could do, but I'm an extremely slow-paced person and procrastinator so I kind of thought I had seen most of the series that would amaze me for some time and didn't really keep up it with regularly after that, choosing to rewatch some and watching new anime very slowly with hardly anything new in 2017 and most of 2018. By the end of 2018 I had watched Hanasaku Iroha, Angel Cop, Kenpuu Denki Berserk, Haibane Renmei, and Kaiba. I was still heavily pre-selecting for what I watched.

It wasn't until March of last year, 2019, that I began more regularly/frequently watching anime in the sense of watching new series basically back to back, and that has continued for over a year now.

With all that's out there, I don't see any end in sight to this. Just as we have B.C. as a mark of delineating time from the epochs of antiquity on the calendar, I feel like I need to refer to the pre-2016 period for me as B.A. or Before Anime.
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Truck-kun showed me a perfect way to get there if you know what I mean...
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Got really bored and watched some crappy 360p anime on YouTube. Pretty interesting story, I know

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my dad. hes more of a manga lover, and has a whole bunch of them at home. i loved reafing them, and one day when i searched it up i found out about the anime world. ive watched shows like doraemon and beyblade before that though. i am forever grateful to my dad foe indirectly leading me to anime.
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Found Hellsing and Hellsing Ultimate somehow on Youtube when I was training Magic Level in Tibia.

I watched both shows simultaneously without understanding that it was 2 different shows. And that one of them were not finish yet.

That was how I was invited to this hell.

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Got introduced when my cousin showed me the Madara vs The Shinobi Alliance fight. After that, I binge Naruto and most of Naruto Shipudden eps (couldn’t finish it because I was watching it dubbed.)
So thankful to my cousin tbh. I use to think anime was weird even tho I was hella into other nerdy things like watching movies all the time or read comics from time to time, but because of Naruto, it made me see how good anime can truly be. Believe it!
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I once found a dbs episode on the trending tab on youtube and the rest is history :p
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I probably would have grown into anime since it was something I watched back when I was as old as 7. But I probably would have grown to be one of that anime fans that only like shounen anime, and I probably would have strayed away from other genres. At this point in time I was about 12 and I was watching the usual popular stuff like Yu-Gi-Oh, DBZ, Bleach, One Piece, og Hunter x Hunter, Naruto I think.

Then I met this kid who basically everyone on this site now, the kind of guy who watched everything. He said go watch Death Note, Code Geass, Fullmetal Alchemist. All the good story anime. From there, I went on to Soul Eater, then to No Game No Life, then to Angel Beats, and now here I am.
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TV! I believe between 1999 - 2002
Started with Sailor Moon and Doraemon :)
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When I was in elementary school, I would wake up early each morning to watch shows like Detective Conan and School Rumble, before I knew what anime was.

Then in middle school, this girl I liked was really into anime, and so were her friends, so I asked them for a show to watch. They had me watch Death Note, which I absolutely loved, and that became my gateway into anime. Also got the girl!
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go to school come back home open TV go to cartoon channel rtl2 wait for anime

the cycle of my childhood

pretty much

I watched anime before knowing what I'm watching is anime.. I saw nearly everything rtl2 (german tv channel) had to offer, my favorites being detective conan, doremi, kamikaze kaitou jeanne, digimon.. sometimes yu gi oh and monster rancher
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Used to blatantly hate it because “anime is weird” and/or “anime is for children”. Yes, I was THAT guy. But for a reason I still don’t understand, as I normally don’t watch their content, a Watchmojo top 10 gory anime video was on my YouTube feed, and for some reason it intrigued me. Next thing I knew I was enthralled by the number one pick, Elfen Lied. The rest was history.
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Used to blatantly hate it because “anime is weird” and/or “anime is for children”. Yes, I was THAT guy. But for a reason I still don’t understand, as I normally don’t watch their content, a Watchmojo top 10 gory anime video was on my YouTube feed, and for some reason it intrigued me. Next thing I knew I was enthralled by the number one pick, Elfen Lied. The rest was history.


I was the same way before watching my first anime, though I'm not proud to admit it was SAO. To be fair, I still don't think the first 12 episodes were THAT bad (I hope Aincrad gets its own full story sometime) but everything following is pretty debatable.

Found other anime from Crunchyroll ads! I remember Yamada and the 7 Witches and Akame Ga Kill being 2 I found and watched through those. Good times. Wish I could get the feeling of watching my first few anime back
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My addiction started way back in the early 90s with Ronin Warriors, Sailor Moon, and Speed Racer and then just grew from there. Before i knew it i was rushing home to watch all the anime on toonami after school and watching Pokemon, Digimon and Yugioh on Saturdays then moved to adult swim anime before just getting a vrv subscription which is where i am now.
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I originally started watching anime when it was on Cartoon Network and they played Naruto at night, but I didn't know what it was, and eventually stopped watching.

I picked it back up in college when I found a few friends who had also watched Naruto and it sparked my interest again. But I wasn't introduced to the wide world of anime beyond the classic shonen series (Naruto, DBZ, Bleach, etc.) until I saw a clip of MHA on instagram. Loved the clip and I binged that series. After that I found myself hooked on anime and have been watching ever since.
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The first volume of One Piece was bundled with a magazine my dad bought once. And my elementary school library had dragon ball volumes. After that i gradually got interested in the adaptations starting with Naruto.
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While I played a lot of Naruto and Dragon Ball games on consoles and watched anime like Pokemon and Blue Dragon on Cartoon Network, I didn't realize that those shows are called anime until I started watching anime for real when I came across Animax while watching TV looking for something else to watch roughly over half a decade ago~








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My elementary school library had a whole section for manga, and the art style was really interesting to me as a kid. For several years, I didn't know manga and anime were related at all until I saw Bleach airing on Bionix. After my realization, it was like a natural transfer to watch anime.
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Got really bored and watched some crappy 360p anime on YouTube. Pretty interesting story, I know


Exactly the same happened to me..:p
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I used to watch Pokemon, Yugioh, Digimon etc from TV when i was a kid and i loved all of those shows, and when i was 12-13 i found randomly Naruto on gogoanime and after watching the first episode i remembered the old days and fell in love with it, after i finished Naruto i started Bleach then One Piece and then the story goes on.
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Well, first I started watching a bit of full metal (original), all I knew was that I was watching a cartoon with people who had big eyes, eventually, after it continued without manga, I dropped it. Then I watched Naruto, at this point I found out that this thing is called an anime. I watched it and then I realized, DAMN this is so fun to watch. This one day I was browsing Netflix and I realized, WHAT there's more too!!! About a few months later, I started Fairy Tail. It was pretty decent, but I still liked Naruto better. then I finished the part that was on Netflix and thought it was done. Later on, I started other things. I watched your lie in April, and after I was like OHHH! This one is different, this one makes you depressed while others, like Naruto and fairy tail, weren't that depressing. After I watched like 15 to 20 anime, Baruto started. The beginning was pretty good (not that good anymore), I told my older brother to play the next episode, He said: "Ummm...I can't, you have to wait until next Sunday." Then I found out that anime aired. That wasn't all, about a year later I also found out the whole system of how they come out in seasons and the whole system. it's been a long 5-6 years since I started watching anime, and it's been my #1 source of entertainment. I mean like, now I know what those weird kids in the hall are doing with their hands, I can join them too.
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Like a lot of people, by watching the popular shows that got imported to the west (DBZ, Pokemon, Yugioh, etc) as a kid. As I got a bit older, my brother showed me some more popular titles at the time like the original FMA, Naruto, Code Geass and we would watch those together. But it wasn't until my senior year of high school that I really got into anime as a whole though, and that was mainly out of curiosity for what the rest of the medium had to offer. Before that, I would usually just remain fixated on one show. I remember being deeply obsessed with DBZ throughout middle school.
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I found Attack on Titan on Netflix, thought it looked pretty cool, and watched it. After that it was pretty much a downwards spiral. I watched Pokemon as a child, but I never really realised it was anime, just sat and thought about how cute fennekin was.
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I was a military brat living in Korea in the early 70's. My favorite show that i bonded with the local kids in Kunsan was a series with 5 characters in bird like outfits and flew in a plane that turned into a Flaming Phoenix. Of course now I know it was Gotchaman, but as a child it was completely awesome. I have loved it ever since but it took me leaving the US to find it.

Thank you Anime and Otaku culture from one of your much much older fans.
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I saw the big-o on cartoon network years back before i even got a pc.

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I actually stumbled across the first episode of Re:Zero on P*rnhub. I had heard of anime before, but I hadn't had any intentions to watch it. I really enjoyed the episode and decided to start looking for more anime. And here we are now, a year and 41 anime later.
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The first anime I ever watched was Digimon Adventure when I was 4. Kids channels were all about anime back in the day here so I grew up with Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Rurouni Kenshin, Ojamajo Doremi, Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go, etc...

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i was a dan and phil fan and dan had made a video called anime reccomendations #2 on his side channel and that's when I decided to start Fullmetal Alchemist.


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When I was in school in the early 2000s, UK TV was airing shows like DBZ, Beyblade, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Digimon. That was my first taste of anime, but being a child I had no idea what anime was let alone the fact that I was watching it! Flash forward several years to 2009 I met this girl I fancied and she was forever going on about this show called Death Note and after a while I decided to watch it to impress her and I loved every moment of it, after a few years in 2011 my old friend from school told me about Naruto and on New year's Eve 2011 I decided to watch it then the rest is history!
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Watched One Piece during Bionex on YTV
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It's kinda weird. See, there's this game that's like a school simulator called School Days by a dev known as McDickie. I downloaded the game only to never make it to the end. So, I went to search on YouTube and I saw a thumbnail of a cartoonish(honestly, that was the first time I saw an anime art style, officially) man and woman just standing. Due to the art style, I decided to come back to the vid later. A few days in and alot of failed attempts to beat School Days made me give up on the game. So, I decided to visit the video of the new-to-me art style. I ended up watching this let's player take me through 3 episodes of School Days(VN) in 3 parts(each about 30 or so mins.) and since I was a noob in the internet world, I ended up switching vids without knowing that I switched from the VN to the anime from ep.4 onwards. Once I reached ep.7, I noticed that there are no CHOICES unlike the first 3 parts which made me look up the game on wiki. That's when I figured out the difference between a VN, anime, and a manga and that I accidentally switched from the VN to the anime in the 4th part(ngl, the art style looked really similar for both, the VN and the anime). So, I watched the first 3 episodes of the anime and continued from 7 till the final ep.( can't remember if it was 11 or 12) where the 'Nice boat' meme was born! Plus, that ending traumatized the shit outta me for a WEEK! Turns out, I've got guts of steel as I came back a week later and saw Prison School🤣
Apr 22, 2020 12:47 PM

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I met a girl online and we became pretty good friends. We were on some sort of screen sharing site just chatting and she pulled up some anime in the background (I remember it was Yona of the Dawn.) I ended up enjoying whichever episode we watched and decided to find a show to watch myself, and that's how it all started. I technically didn't REALLY get into anime until a couple years later though, but she started it all and I'm still quite grateful (she's actually a user on MAL too and we still talk from time to time over text so that's cool.)

Side note: I still haven't started Yona of the Dawn myself which is pretty ironic...one day I'll get to it.
Apr 22, 2020 1:02 PM

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Its 50/50

My very good friend was an anime watcher and always reccomended me to start watching it.

However I was very interested in some anime titles myself but never bothered myself to start watching them.
Apr 22, 2020 1:04 PM
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I did not watch anime when I was a kid, I only started when I was 19 years old
one day Youtube randomly recommend me, Mirai Nikki, I watched it and the rest is history.

Apr 22, 2020 1:09 PM
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When I was a kid, I watched a flash series called "The Legend of Zelda: Unknown Origins". It was western, but heavily anime influenced. It was unlike anything I had seen before, and it paved the way for my interest in anime. Shortly after, I watched Bleach, which was my first real foray into the anime world.

This ground is soiled by those before me and their lies. I dare not look up for on me I feel their eyes
Apr 22, 2020 1:35 PM
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I personally thought anime was for kids with the likes of DBZ and Pokemon, but when my friend introduced me to Attack on Titan my mind was blown and have since transformed into an otaku.
Apr 22, 2020 1:54 PM

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By being half Japanese, I suppose. My experience watching anime as a kid was hardly any different than other Americans around my age range. I just knew early on that Japanese cartoons were referred to as anime.
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