| Why are you here today? What made you pick up that first episode of anime that lead you down this rabbit hole? What is your story? For me, I was 14 years old, I was talking daily with my best friend of that time, but nothing much really happened in our lives that was worth talking about so my friend brought up anime, more precisely she mentioned that I could be interested in watching Fairy Tail. I was very hesitant, because I didn't know what anime was (she had to explain it to me and basically she just introduced them as Japanese cartoons). Of course that made me even more hesitant because as uncultured I was all cartoon I knew was for kids. Then I was spending a week at a holiday resort but it was still a bit off season so there wasn't much interesting to do so I decided to check out Fairy Tail, immediately basically spent all my awake hours watching it and the rest is history. |
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| my friend a few years back told me about anime, and I mean it’s a simple as that since right after I watched my first show I was addicted |
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| A sister who watched a little bit of anime. I got curious and tried it |
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| My sister introduced it to me, we watched anime together. Now, I'm a bigger weeb than her. |
| A friend of mine who was a long time anime watcher,always used to talk about this and showed me a few clips,I got convinced and then just started watching them myself |
| watched avatar on tv, wanted to watch it whole and searched on youtube, proceeded to get hxh recommended... and now here we are |
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| It’s very simple. My mom made me watch anime and I ended up getting addicted. |
| I was bored as hell one day during the summer of 2019 and at that time period I hated anime without giving it a chance but on August of 2019 I decided to face my enemy and give anime a shot and after that I regret not watching anime sooner. |
| I was like 10 playing on the creative plots on a Minecraft server, and I had a friend who watched anime on there and she asked me if I knew what it was or if I had watched it. When I said no she told me to go watch Fairy Tail so I searched it up on YouTube and ended up watching majority of the series on there cause I didn't know about anime sites |
| everyone was talking about it when i was 11 and also i saw a funny souleater clip on a compilation video on yt |
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| When I was 4 my dad/mom would rent/buy anime DVDs and I loved most of them. I always hated mecha even as a kid, I would always ignore the anime with robots and shit like that. I would also watch "la febbre degli anni ottanta" on boing (fever of the 80s) which would have anime from the 70-80s. They would announce it every year like 2 weeks before it would start. The anime would start airing after 8 pm so if I knew I couldn't watch it I would ask my dad to record the episodes so I could watch them later. |
| "he has it big as a cactus but he won't let go of my head and I puke on his cock bitch" - Boy by Fishball |
| Grew up staying up all night watching adult swim, saw a few shows I liked. Then I managed to buy a laptop around the time anime was really easy to access online. Right around when death note came out fully. |
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| I'll be brutally honest It was Tiddies. I remember watching this exact scene in a youtube compilation and that's when I fell into the rabbit hole |
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| I grew up with it since most cartoons on TV were anime, but I guess I started to really get into it and prefer anime compared to other type of shows because I read manga. My cousins influenced me to read manga because they always read or talked aboit it when we hang out. |
| Excluding Ghibli films like Totoro and Ponyo, which I didn't know were anime when I watched them with my family as a young child, I was pulled down the rabbit hole by a friend in sixth grade. He mentioned one day that he watched Fairy Tail, so I wanted to try it out. Since it was rated TV-14 and I wasn't 14 yet, my parents didn't let me watch it at first (they strictly followed MPA guidelines). But I convinced my dad to watch the first episode and reconsider. He did, and judged that it was kid-friendly enough for me to watch it. |
| as a kid watched inazuma eleven and dbz but never got into anime itself. then, i got recommended some anime and tbh stayed for the cute girls. |
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| Someone gave me a Crunchyroll account, and it started from here I think |
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| I used to go on Gaia Online and my friends on there would tell me about anime. I got interested from them and also from the AMVs I'd find on Youtube and I loved the drama and animation of anime that I couldn't find in traditional cartoons. One of the people on Gaia actually recommended me to start a MAL acc so I created one too. |
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| I've watched some from various way, since local tv to internet. So... I have grown with the anime. |
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| My friend would ramble on about how good Death Note or Black Butler was for years until I just got annoyed and decided to watch it and here I am. |
| Dunno, it was on TV. DB, Saint Seiya, Sailor Moon, etc... not a hard choice over telenovelas lol |
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| i just got addicted after enjoying my first anime |
| I was watching childhood shows like doraemon from a young age and it grew into stuff like dragon ball/one piece until I found assassination classroom and from there, I watched anime like many |
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| The fact that it’s traditional animation aimed towards adults. |
| When I was in schooll, a saw a disable kid watching naruto on a laptop computer. I got intrigued by the action so I gave the show a try, and the rest is history xd |
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| I wanted context to some of the clips I saw in the AMV Hell videos. |
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| I always had an admiration of Japanese music, so I figured anime was the next step. |
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| I've always liked animation so I think getting into anime was bound to happen sooner or later. Then I somehow found the entirety of Soul Eater on YouTube, and after watching that I started watching a lot of anime openings on youtube. That's how my first year or so of anime watching went, seeing a cool opening on youtube and then checking out the anime for it lol |
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| This is kind of a weird one, and I'm probably going to date myself with this, but when I was around 13, I watched a Newgrounds animated series called "The Legend of Zelda: Unknown Origins". It was a rather crude, especially in it's early years, but it had so many memorable moments and fight scenes, that I ended up loving the shit out of it. I didn't have much experience with anime prior to this, nor did I have any interest in seeking it out, but something about this show made me interested in anime as a whole. The first real anime I watched was Bleach, and from there, my interest quickly became an obsession.. |
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| I guess I sort of grew with it, since I watched shows that aired on TV and vhs we had. Some of the anime we had on vhs were Space Cobra with Swedish dub and Kimba the white lion, which I think had spanish dub for some reason. Shows that really made me dig around the internet for fan and official content were Sailor moon and Ginga nagareboshi Gin. I remember being on some roleplaying forum inspired by GNG/GDW when I was 13 or so. All the rest was just stuff my sister was watching at the time, since I didn't even know english so she needed to translait subtitles from time to time. Some of the shows we watched were Girls Bravo, Rurouni Kenshin, Ai yori aoshi, Saishuu Heiki Kanojo, Yu-Gi-Oh zero. And I was 10 when Inuyasha manga got published here, so I started to buy manga and watch tv shows of them. Though I have always been into animations so I think it was natural. |
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| A Friend of mine recommended me some and I really enjoyed them and started watching more and more and now I'm here. |
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| all of the boredom that I got from watching tv |
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