Though i wasn't Formally Aware of exactly what Anime was until around 1996... i was, in fact, basically edging right into Weebdom since at least around 1991-ish... when i caught reruns of VOLTRON ("Beast King GOLION") on TV in the morning, and was WAY into the SEGA MEGA DRIVE/GENESIS video game ASSAULT SUIT LEYNOS/TARGET EARTH;     |
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| I think around eight years. I have had periods where I dont watch it as much though |
| have you ever tried eating a clock? It's very time consuming. |
| 5 - 6 years, with a 2 year break in-between, so 3 - 4 years if you add those numbers up it feels like way longer to me, but looking at it on paper, it isn't that much |
| I've been watching anime since I was a kid but the age that probably gotten me into anime is around when I was like 9 or 10 years old, so probably 15 years now. |
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| Used to watch anime without knowing it was anime back when I was kid in 2006 or 2007. Stopped watching around 2015 or 16 because toonami was over. Then got back again in 2018 and here I am. No burnout and my passion for anime still going strong. In fact it increases sometimes. |
If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then its not a waste of time.  |
| Roughly 20 years now give or take. From a young age, I grew up on that Toonami wave of shows that were a huge catalyst for the surge of popularity for anime in the states. |
| Don't let others ruin things for you. Even if a toxic fan pisses in your cereal, you could just get another bowl of cereal. My Anime List - My Manga List |
| Since 2003 with Card Captor Sakura, started prefering anime when watching TV - so 20 years now. In 2005 I got into manga, and discovered ways to watch anime online in 2009 when I started watching seasonal shows. I think my interest with anime peaked in 2009-2012 and then slowing down until I stopped watching and had a break around 2018-2019. Got back into it in 2020 during covid, and have been enjoying it a lot again at the moment. |
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| Since preschool back in 98' with Pokemon, DBZ and Digimon. Pretty much watched most of the animes that popped up on [adult swim] and Toonami. I didn't start watching anime uber seriously until like 2010 I believe. |
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| I started in 2019 but didn't really take it seriously until i created my MAL account. |
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| More than 15 years already, since high school. |
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| Since 2014. Sigh, take me back to 2014 so I can do it over again lol. Holy shit next year is 10 years. o.o |
| a few months, I was completely out of shit to watch in september and decided to start watching anime. only anime i seen prior to this septemeber were opm, your name, and koe no katachi |
| I first sat down and watched a full anime in late 2019 (Sonic X) but I first fully got into anime with Ghibli movies in 2020. |
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| started in 2010 with fullmetal alchemist brotherhood |
| Ouch, probably over 25 years. In my case I only got two phases, unknowingly watching since the early 90's. and then I watched it fully consciously from 2001 onwards. During this time, of course... I shifted into a slower gear, but mainly because I simply didn't have time. I can't become a hikikomori in my location. |
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| I've been a fan since 2013 so 10 years. I'm proud of it. |
"Nobody could laugh at someone who's trying their hardest" -Machio- |
| Since I was like eight years old or something I guess. |
| Actually started getting into anime around late 2013, so it's been exactly 10 years for me. Can't say I'm at my anime watching peak right now with the likes of University life and JDrama recently joining the fray, but there's still a decent amount going, if you ask me. If we go by my track record thus far, it shouldn't be long until I'm fully back again, lol. |
#Anime4Life be my Life Motto! #PrayForKyoAni  |
| 24 years. If going by when I knew what anime was, then 20 years. Even though I watched most of the lineup from early Toonami and Adult Swim such as DBZ, Sailor Moon, Gundam Wing and Cowboy Bebop, I was still too young to grasp the concept of anime. I just thought they were cartoons having not registered them as foreign works. A part of me could tell they were different from standard American cartoons, but the true distinction was beyond my child mind. It wasn't until a few years later with Yu Yu Hakusho, Rurouni Kenshin, Trigun, Inuyasha and FLCL that the realization finally dawned on me. My grandmother showing me Spirited Away on VHS was also a key moment of enlightenment. |
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| Since 2015. 2015-2018 was my best time. |
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| Late 2019 so like 4 years is how long ive been watching anime |
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| Since 2005. Mostly uninterrupted until 2018 and 2019 when, for various reasons, I burned-out and didn't watch much until 2020 when I came back into it in full force. |
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| I grew up watching Toonami, and watching new episodes of Dragon Ball Z (1998?)...so...I'm gonna guess 25 years. I probably watched anime before that too, but since my memory is fuzzy I won't count that. |
| I will say early 90's when DBZ and Yu Yu Hakusho came out. So almost 30 years now. |
| Since I am like 4 or 5 years old. So it's about 25 years. There were up and down in my interests in anime though. |
"The Slave is the have-not, the oppressed one with nothing to spare. But because the Slave is in that despairing situation, having nothing, it can kill the Emperor !" |
| I started in 2014, but when I was a child I watching some on TV, although I don't count those |
| Since that fateful summer day. An ice cream cone in the passenger seat of the car. Melting, melting, melting. The heat was getting to us. I'd say 2015. |
| I started anime in 2019, so it's been 4 years. |
| It's been about 5 or 6 years since I've been into anime and manga :) |
| I started anime with My Neighbor Totoro, Nausiccaä, Laputa and Kiki's Delivery Service. I was aware of anime like DBZ, Lupin and Anpanman but was never a "fan" of these series. As the years went on I ended up watching every single Studio Ghibli film up to "When Marnie Was There" in 2014. Even during 2014 I wouldn't really consider myself a true anime fan because all I had watched up to that point was whatever disc. I could get hold of at the anime section at the movie store (under 50 titles). I feel kinda bad, because the anime I started out with were so spectacular that by the time I really started getting into anime (2015 onward) my standards were pretty much Miyazaki, Hosada and Shinkai level which explains my Mean Score. So I would say 2015 was when I went from a general film watcher to anime fan. |
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| Not counting anime I watched as a kid, 11 years now, if you do count childhood anime, 20 some years now |
    Dreaming 'bout long gone things;Days, on end, repeating infinitely. Like the inside of a never-ending dream, Whilst looking for the endless morn... Only to return to the dream again |
| A little more than 3.5 years. Nearly burnt out a couple times but somehow i managed to consistently watch anime since. And i used to watch live action movies and follow european football regularly but very little today. Not so much due to anime tho. |
| Since around Your Name was released in theatres, somewhere in 2017-18 |
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| I've been into anime since 2005, so 18 years now. While I never gave up on anime completely, I did have a longer period from around 2014 to 2019 when I did not have the time to watch anime as much as I used to since I was working full time and getting a second degree. Like it would take me months just to finish one series. There is plethora of titles that came out during this gap, that I still didn't get to catch on (Kaguya-sama, My Hero Academia, Demon Slayer etc.). I hope I'll get to them one of these days. |
Don't talk to me about character development if Kaizuka Inaho or Slaine Troyard are in your favorites. |
| Well started watching Doraemon since I was like 7 or 8. Not counting Doraemon and Shinchan. My first anime knowing it's an anime was when I was in 6th grade. So when I was around 11 years old. I should probably have a lot more anime in my list since I'm an anime fan for 7 years. |
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| My first anime I was watching was Pokemon when I was a child and I really enjoyed it. I also noticed that I preferred the artstyle of pokemon over cartoons, so it stucked to me a little that I like the visuals of an anime. Since 2015 with series like FMA Brotherhood, Elfenlied, To-Love Ru, Samurai Girls and 11eyes, I'm watching anime on a regular basis. Back then, I used to play video games way much than nowadays, so I´m spending more time watching anime than in the past. |
| Around 2015 is when I got into anime, I think my first manga was One Piece; for anime, it's Ore Twintail ni Narimasu! and then I stopped watching any animes or reading any manga around 2020-2022 and then JOJO Part 8 brought me back into reading mangas and watching animes again. I also never had a proper conversation with another anime fan. |
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| since 2016 around spring if i remember correctly |
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| I think there was a few anime I saw as a kid but didn't realize that it was actually anime. Started actually watching in 2015 I believe. I think my first was Naruto but it took me a long time to fully finish it as I was watching the filler too (didn't know filler was a thing at the time). Death Note and SAO were also some of the first I watched. Throughout the entire time watching I've gone through binges and breaks. Sometimes watch a ton for several months and then watch absolutely nothing at all for 6 months. Recently had that happen. Didn't watch anything for like 3-4months and then starting about 3 and a half weeks ago I've been back watching a lot. It always comes down to me juggling other interests. |
| Closing in on 22 years since I became a full-blown fan following my viewing of anime off Toonami, Adult Swim, and Showtime Beyond in the early 2000s. |
| Around 25 years. Not counting random anime I watched on TV as a kid without knowing what anime was, I became an "actual fan of anime itself as a medium" in 1998. I've never experienced burnout or taken a break. The longest I've gone without watching anime in the last 25 years has been maybe a week or so, and that would have been for a specific reason, like if I was on vacation or something. I think it really helps that I don't actually watch that much in an average day (usually 5 episodes or less), I'm open to watching pretty much any decent anime (not picky about genres, demographics, etc...) so I always have variety in what I'm watching, and I have lots of other hobbies and interests, so my free time has never been just anime. The closest I came to obsession was the first handful of years, roughly through the mid 2000s. I didn't actually watch much more anime than I did at any other time, but pretty much every extra dollar I had went toward anime merch. My bedroom was just floor to ceiling anime stuff at one point. Now, I haven't purchased a single piece of anime merch in many years, and the majority of what I bought back then has been sold. I still have some animation cels and a little box of favorite things that I've held on to, but everything else is long gone. In general, I tend to stick with my hobbies for a long time. I can't really think of any major hobby or interest that I started in my teens or later that I lost interest in (so not counting random little childhood stuff), even if the exact way I engage with my hobbies might change over time. |
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| started 2008'ish. Still watch, sometimes I binge lot of anime in a row. Sometimes I slow down and watch TV shows/movies inbetween and sometimes play more games. But overall Anime is still my favorite and most enjoyable free time hobby. |
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