| i got into anime when i got really bored one day and looked up some random crappy anime on youtube. was probably the worst decision of my life |
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| My classmate in high school was reading a light novel, I asked him what that is, searched up, and started watching it. |
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| I was bored in my home during lockdown. So I started watching anime and somehow I got addict. It is the worst thing I have done in my life. |
| I saw an anime girl and liked her, then I changed my profile picture on Facebook. People started to ask me about that anime girl, but I didn't know anything about her, so I watched her anime, that's how I started. |
| If you're a fanboy, please don't waste my time. Watch more movies, please. Perhaps, this is hell. |
| "how?" watched some random shakugan no shana clips on youtube years ago "why?" because of cute anime girls |
| I got into it through my sister. She's always been really reserved and hard to talk to, so I tried to take an interest in anime because that's all she would really want to talk about to members of my family. I started to connect with her through anime. She would lecture me about what anime she watched and we would watch some series together, and I began to really get into it! She got into anime through her friends at school, who are all huge My Hero Academia fans. |
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| I got into anime when I watched Digimon Adventure a long time ago. |
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Phosphophyllita said: I saw an anime girl and liked her, then I changed my profile picture on Facebook. People started to ask me about that anime girl, but I didn't know anything about her, so I watched her anime, that's how I started. Who was she?? Was she Zenitsu or Tanjiro?? |
| Haven't found a good anime dialogue to copy yet!! |
if_jerry said: Phosphophyllita said: I saw an anime girl and liked her, then I changed my profile picture on Facebook. People started to ask me about that anime girl, but I didn't know anything about her, so I watched her anime, that's how I started. Who was she?? Was she Zenitsu or Tanjiro?? Pig head crossdressing in the current arc. It was Asuka |
| If you're a fanboy, please don't waste my time. Watch more movies, please. Perhaps, this is hell. |
| Technically the English localization of Cardcaptors lured me in as a kid and I got early exposure to parts of Evangelion. My best friend in primary school also exposed me to Mushishi and xxxHolic. Around the same time we both found Tsubasa:Reservoir Chronicle at a book fair at our school and were immediately hooked. I neither finished the Tsubasa manga (which was still serializing) nor any of the anime at this time, though. It surprises me how many of my favorites now were introduced from that one friendship. Years after they moved away and we fell out of regular contact I started questioning whether the relationships I had with other people were genuine and worthwhile, which was probably a catalyst for rewatching and rereading the media I shared with that special friend. I don't consider my anime adventure really started until 2012 when I rewatched xxxHolic and actually finished it, and afterwards consistently watched and read new titles up to the present. |
| I mostly got into anime through watching kids anime as a kid, and I also got into it via dbz and naruto videogames interesting me to try the anime. |
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| I started by watching FMA 2003 on a whim 'cause I saw the thumbnail on Netflix and I remembered having played a PS2 Demo of an FMA game many years before and really liking it; and now here I am, lol. SaiteiDaOrette said: I got into it through my sister. She's always been really reserved and hard to talk to, so I tried to take an interest in anime because that's all she would really want to talk about to members of my family. I started to connect with her through anime. She would lecture me about what anime she watched and we would watch some series together, and I began to really get into it! That's a really wholesome relationship. I'm happy for you and your sister :) |
OrororurandoFeb 9, 2022 6:26 AM
| Seeing anime art in various places. |
| "All truth is meaningless. In the end, 'meaning' comes from the mind of each individual human. Even when there is a single truth, it can mean different things to different individuals. The truth has no meaning in itself!" - Erika Furudo |
| Started with VNs first before getting into anime. |
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| not really sure what started, but I started with pokemon and dragonball when it aired on tv. it was probably a little bit after Highschool when I started watching more anime (mainly popular and old/completed animes) about 5 maybe 6 years ago I started watching airing animes and I havn't stopped since. |
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| I was raised on Cartoon Network, i watched it almost all day every weekend. One night, i fell asleep watching it and woke up to a cartoon called "Inuyasha". I thought it looked weird. That night, i also watched the Ghost in the Shell series. That was my first time seeing anime, but i didn't get really into it until my cousin showed me these really cool looking cards. They were from a series called Yugioh. I got really curious and wanted to see where these cards came from, so i watched the show and genuinely fell in love with it. Every week i'd watch it, i collected the toys, i bought cards, i got posters, i got whatever i could. I even got a birthday cake one year with Yugioh. It was genuinely the greatest thing i'd seen. 20 years later and i'm still obsessed :). Without Yugioh, i'd never care about anime. I loved Yugioh and wanted to see more of this style of show. It got me to branch out into Pokemon, Dragon Ball, Naruto, and all the other big Shounen. But none of them replaced my Yugioh. |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. We're freaking out that we're running out of time, but to do what? Should i stop and think of that? Is there something i could do to slow it down? Live in a day for once, instead of watch it sprinting by |
Stygian_Prisoner said: SaiteiDaOrette said: I got into it through my sister. She's always been really reserved and hard to talk to, so I tried to take an interest in anime because that's all she would really want to talk about to members of my family. I started to connect with her through anime. She would lecture me about what anime she watched and we would watch some series together, and I began to really get into it! That's a really wholesome relationship. I'm happy for you and your sister :) Awwwww thank you so much :) I feel like my life is richer now that my sister and I have this bond. |
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| Watching anime has always been a part of my life ever since childhood. I used watch a ton of anime without knowing it’s anime. To me it’s always been like any other cartoon. I some of the notable anime I’ve watched on TV growing up were: Detective Conan baby and me Naruto One piece Dragon Ball fist of the North Star Pokémon Yugioh and many more. I’ve also watched Some old anime by Nippon Animation Such as: Arabian Night: Adventures of Sindbad HunterxHunter (I know it’s not that old but it’s part of the same studio so..) Romeo’s Blue Skies Homeless Child Remy Little Princess Sarah Captain Tsubasa The Trapp Family Story Jungle book The Swiss Family Robinson The New Adventures of Honeybee Maya, etc. I’ve also watched Ghibli Movies in my childhood which include: Spirited away My neighbor Totoro Caste in the sky Princess Mononoke Ponyo But I don’t consider these my pathway to anime in a way. Cuz I officially got into anime in 2014 and my first official anime was Tokyo Ghoul. I started watching anime because it’s popular in my Country. It’s so popular that even my parents watched some of these growing up. So it’s cool to watch anime where I live as it’s rare to find someone who doesn’t want anime. |
-Kugeki-Feb 9, 2022 9:14 AM
| Got bored of Hollywood crappy movies and the MCU. Netflix and other TV shows were not cutting it. And friends all watched anime. |
| I watched Shingeki no Kyojin and the rest is history |
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| my friend told me about anime after he asked me if I knew what Dragonball was |
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| At very young age I saw DBZ on TV. Only by coincidence and just bit of it. I was a fan of the violence, but didn't know it was anime, thought it was some other cartoon. Years later in school, as a kid that used to like gore movies I asked a friend if he knew about any bloody movies to recommend me, he then pointed at gore anime shows and told me to watch Higurashi and Elfen Lied. At first I didn't want to get into anime because I had a negative perception of it. At some point he convinced me to watch and it was then that I really discovered this media and started watching first by his recommendations, afterwards I just explored stuff by myself and kept watching anything that caught my attention. |
| My parents made me watch doraemon when I was a baby and that was my very first lol. Later down the line, I started watching more non- battle shounen/kids anime and assassination classroom was the one that fully got me hooked |
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| When the Blend S memes were popular, PewDiePie mentioned how it was a good show. Cringed through a few episodes, but I soon began enjoying it. It was very strange. I nervously laughed throughout the show, but I liked it. And that was the beginning of the spiral. |
| Oct 1991 I was a pissed off 13 year old and was on my way to get rolled into a street gang when a friend of mine (Daniel) detoured me. I wasn't 100% on joining a gang per se' but I was bored and pissed off and wanted to get back at my father for his cheating ruined the family (the ripple effect) and I had to be there for my mom. ANYHOW... Daniel and a mutual friend Chris told me about some violent and bad ass cartoons in a style called Japanimation or Anime and that this one hour show on a community access channel (Channel 20) called Anime Review was coming on and if I'd check it out. I was like... "Yeah, why not?" Saw the first 45 minutes of Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star) and was blown away. The old fan sub done by "The Clown Gang" version. They also had recorded other shows onto VHS tapes in the past, and so I got to see Episode 2 of Bubblegum Crisis "Born to Kill" and was like "Hot Chicks... Rock Music... Action!" Then they pulled out Supernatural Beast City a fan subbed / titled version of WICKED CITY and my jaw hit the floor with how detailed the anime was... and toons were having porno sexXx??? Like what o_0 Thus I never did end up going to the stupid gang initiation I was headed to that night. I got ragged on and peer pressured into joining but I was more interested in Japanese Animation. *LOL* ---That's REALLY how I got into it. I had seen anime before in 1980 from my namesake of UFO Robo Grendizer horribly chopped up into 26 eps from 74 [Just now watching it the proper way in 2022]... and of course had seen SDF MACROSS as well as Genesis Climber MOSPEADA as ROBOTECH... and had seen STARBLAZERS, but had no idea that it was from Japan. 1991 was when I realized it was from Japan and was different and cool. I became obsessed from 1991 till about 1999/2000. After that I still watched and collected but it was sporadic. Then in 2018 I started getting back into it, but it would be during Covid that my son now the same age as I was in 1991 got interested in Sailor Moon and a few other shows and we bonded over that. Same friends Daniel and Chris was like you need to see "Golden Kamuy" and a few others, and been back in the saddle ever since 2020 all over again. |
| Was looking up profile picture ideas, and found a character I liked. Looked into where she came from and got started that way. |
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ManWild said: My parents made me watch doraemon when I was a baby and that was my very first lol. Later down the line, I started watching more non- battle shounen/kids anime and assassination classroom was the one that fully got me hooked lmao same, I also grew up on Doraemon, though they were the Cantonese bootleg releases lol. Also watched Captain Tsubasa, as well as the usual Beyblade, Pokemon, Metabots, etc as a kid. |
| I used to think my story was unique but it’s actually quite common. I grew up watching cartoons after school and some of those cartoons were actually anime such as pokemon, Digimon and yu-gi-oh. Mantron said: I was bored in my home during lockdown. So I started watching anime and somehow I got addict. It is the worst thing I have done in my life. How did you manage to watch 229 days of anime since lockdown started? SaiteiDaOrette said: I got into it through my sister. She's always been really reserved and hard to talk to, so I tried to take an interest in anime because that's all she would really want to talk about to members of my family. I started to connect with her through anime. She would lecture me about what anime she watched and we would watch some series together, and I began to really get into it! She got into anime through her friends at school, who are all huge My Hero Academia fans. That’s nice and all but It sounds like the start of a hentai plot. |
GenshinRosariaFeb 9, 2022 11:12 PM
| In 1998/99 I stumbled upon a channel on TV, which aired anime. The anime in question are currently in my "On Hold" list, if you're interested. I was 7/8 years old at the time and those anime left a big impression on me. |
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GenshinRosaria said: Mantron said: I was bored in my home during lockdown. So I started watching anime and somehow I got addict. It is the worst thing I have done in my life. How did you manage to watch 229 days of anime since lockdown started? I have watched a lot of anime (Ghost Stories, Monster Rancher, Dragon Ball Z etc) before but wasn't that much interested. I used to give equal importance to both movies and anime. Movies weren't much addictive and I got a bit bored of them. In 2020 I started rewatching Wolf's Rain. Then I searched for more anime. I got to know about Death Note in 2020 from a friend. I have watched Dragon Ball Z 5 times but I had already watched it 3 times before lockdown and most of my other rewatches are the Doraemon movies. I have added Doraemon as completed in my list. I'm sure I have watched more than 2000 episodes if I include rewatches. I don't really care much about it but I have watched all the 42 movies+short movies |
| Friends like most others. And I used to scorn at anime for no reason. |
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| I remember my first being doraemon around 2010-2011, since then i have been watching anime like doraemon and pokemon and finally got to know that the stuff i am watching is anime around the end of 2015, when I watched the other regions of pokemon in 2015 it was then that i got hooked to Anime and my first completed was tottemo luckyman! In 2017 |
takamono said: My classmate in high school was reading a light novel, I asked him what that is, searched up, and started watching it. I am curious as to which light novel it was |
| Got into it through another anime like series. I discovered Sailor Moon and Precure through it so here we are. I only stayed here bc it offered many different stories than cartoons did and it filled my lonely void. |
| Even though I watched anime before only once I've seen Death Note did I seriously started to get into a medium. |
  β€ Incessant Rain β€ “Can you let me have some fun this time?”  |
Rndmguypassingby said: takamono said: My classmate in high school was reading a light novel, I asked him what that is, searched up, and started watching it. I am curious as to which light novel it was Sword art online, but I forgot which volume it was. |
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| Stumbled upon Rozen Maiden by accident lol. Got hooked to it and ta-da new hobby was born. |
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oh i see,now that i recall i have seen u mention that sao was ur first anime |
| Death note live action then death note then a 150 anime in 13 months |
| https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ [WATCH THIS^^^] |
| League -> Nightblue3 -> Rem in the intro -> Re: Zero -> Rabbithole Although I'm amazed by the fact that I was able to find out it was Rem there. She's only in the intro for a split second, and I don't recall ever seeing her name in the comments, either. I vaguely remember searching 'Blue hair (anime?) girl' and going from there. My genius is sometimes frightening, even to me. |
| One of my friends was just obsessed with OPM and Death Note. So I gave it a shot and boy did I get hooked. I have seen way more shows than him now lol. Tbh I was pretty sceptical and thought anime and hentai are the same but well here I am. I don't regret my decision of starting animanga at all. |
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| My dad showed me like Saint Seiya or Rurouni Kenshin on his computer sometime in 2008, and around that time I also watched Pucca. It wasn't until 2015 when my cousins showed me Dragon Ball Z that I started to get into it, and then in 2018 I officially became a weeb and started watching more and hentai as well lol. Also anime offered a lot more than western cartoons for me personally, so I gravitated to it naturally. |
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| A lot of my friends in class were talking about Attack on Titan back when there was only 2 seasons I think. I decided to check it out so I could understand what they were talking about and join the conversations. After that, I started to watch more really mainstream ones. |
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