| So I want specifics. LIKE, down to the miniscule detail about it. Me personally, I had a sister who would always bug me about watching an anime called Clannad. I ignored her for awhile until on random chance, a full upload Clannad episode appeared in my Youtube recommended when I was 12 years old. I pressed on that episode by chance and it was over for me since. I know this thread has existed a billion times before, but I would love the input for my own research. EDIT: I forgot to mention that I watched and loved Bakugan as a kid (not the new stuff)! I don't know if that counts, but might've been have been my earliest encounter with the animation type. |
NuggeyAug 25, 2024 2:45 AM
| Meow meow meow meow and meow shogi, meow meow meow meow and meow shogi. Taking one step a time, I work and try my best. Though I'm the weakest of the bunch, Expect from me a good paw punch! Meow meow pawn, meow shogi. |
| I can't remember which one was the first, but I saw these on TV when I was a kid. Anime 80-nichikan Sekai Isshuu Chiisana Ahiru no Ooki na Ai no Monogatari: Ahiru no Kwak Ginga Nagareboshi Gin Ginga Patrol PJ Jungle Book Shounen Mowgli Meiken Jolie Mitsubachi Maya no Bouken Nils no Fushigi na Tabi Seimei no Kagaku: Micro Patrol TaoTao Ehonkan Sekai Doubutsu Banashi Tanoshii Muumin Ikka Wanwan Sanjuushi |
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| To be honest my first anime was accidental,was browsing a torrent site and stumbled onto Hellsing Ultimate back in 2013,loved it but due to most ppl around me who watched anime (those being Naruto,Bleach and w/e was popular at the time) I never expressed much of an interest.Over the next few years on occasion I had watched a couple,those being the other Hellsing,Claymore,Black Lagoon & DMC.Fast-forward to 2022 and my best friend kept bugging me to watch Code Geass and that I would love it...and I did,got into anime after that,considering that my experiences so far had been superb I was very excited to get into a whole medium I had never explored...and now I am desperately trying to find something to really enjoy |
| Can I Still Go To Heaven If I Kill Myself? |
| Ain't much to it, honestly. The funny gross-out story channel, Whang!, made a video about "The Most Mysterious Anime Theme". I watched it. The thought of watching the anime Urusei Yatsura (As-is) stuck with me, and I caved and watched it. Then... that's kinda it. I felt very comfortable watching sub-only anime once I was a good way through it, and I just started watching whatever looked fun after that. |
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| oh can you just read the Anime History section in my profile please? would appreciate if you did lol. That has exactly what you want, but its not entirely complete yet. |
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| I Watched casually random Animes in my childhood on TV. (Captain Tsubasa was my absolute favorite) About 2 Years ago and almost 20 years later my real intro was a co-worker who consistently talked about a show called One Piece and at one day I decided to give it a shot at my 2nd PC setup in my workout room. Since then I am watching One Piece during workouts and I am somewhere within Season 16 by now. About 1 Year ago when there was a real Bottleneck of enjoyable Games for me, I decided to take a deeper dive into Anime. I looked up all the different Sites, Terms, Genres and so on and from there on I stuck with it and that's only because I do/did enjoy One Piece (although the older drawing of the Anime had way more charm and some characters did become really "ugly" by now, hope there will be another change in the following seasons.) |
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| Dragon Ball Z on TV every time I came back from school early on Wednesday. Obviously Pokemon / Shin-chan / Beyblade / Yugioh etc. But genuinely starting anime on my own it was Death Note and a movie called Bungaku Shoujo which I still love to this day. Death Note to this day is still one of my favourites and I've rewatched it several times. Bungaku Shoujo I don't think would hold up as strong as it did back then for me, It's just that it was one of the first anime I'd seen and it left a big impact on me at the time. |
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| When I was a little kid I stumbeled upon Dinosaur King dvd |
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| It was actually watching some of my favourite gamers on a stream. They were playing custom games of Epic Mafia, and one of those was a Danganronpa game. I think I mainly thought that the name itself sounded cool, and when I searched it up, it sounded similar to Battle Royale - which was my favourite movie. A member of the streamers also was into Anime, and he'd play Anime games by himself for the channel, that I'd watch. When I was out browsing shops in my hometown, I found Needless on DVD, and thought it looked amazing, and have been watching Anime ever since (this was maybe 2015 or 16? don't remember.) Before that though as a kid, I watched some Anime that I didn't know was actually Anime - Ox Tales, Thunderbirds 2086, and later on as a teen I watched Pokémon & Digimon when the craze hit, and also one of the Sailor Moon Anime. |
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| I think for me it was probably dragonball. There were some anime on TV when I grew up, including dragonball , but it was impossible to know when they aired and be there to watch them. Then one day one of my friends got some dragonball DvD's from a relative, he told me I should watch them cause they were really good, unfortunately they were all polish dubbed XD (I don't speak polish). Nevertheless I watched them and I was hooked, DBZ was so much more intense than any other cartoon or show on TV, I had to know more. So I searched around the internet and I found out DBZ was actually a sequel, and there was a whole other similar anime. So I watched DB, it wasn't as good as DBZ but I liked it, and then I watched DBZ for real, from the start, and in english (unfortunately at the time I also did not know how to speak english so it wasn't much better lol, but I think the grade before or thereabouts I had started learning english in school so I quickly started to understand what was happening at least on a basic level). But yeah, it was great, the videos my friend gave me were all over the story, mostly from the Buu and the Cell saga, so it was hard to appreciate the story fully, but now, knowing what was happening and experiencing the story in order, I loved it even more. Most importantly of all, the thing that made the biggest impression on me was the fact that the story was serialized. Almost all cartoons are one and done episodic stories with loose continuity. Most of DB is also episodic, with some bigger arcs thrown in, but watching DBZ made it dawn on me that there was a type of show out there that told massive 100+ hour stories, really entertaining and exciting stories, and with that realization, if I wasn't hooked before I was now. So at this point I still don't know what anime is, I just know dragonball exists. I think after I finished Dragonball I started watching one piece, naruto, yugioh and pokemon, the only other series that interested me from TV (it was actually kind of a lucky coincidence that I even found one piece, because you don't really learn the name of the show from watching it on TV, for a while the only other lead I had was pokemon and yugioh. Also Naruto was on like a special cable channel I didn't even have at home, but my friend with the DBZ videos had it and he told me about it). Tbh, I think at this point in time my interest was sort of starting to wane a little bit, I liked the pokemon anime until the indigo plateau but I started to get bored of it after a while (too much episodic content), Yugioh I finished but I didn't know about its sequels, naruto I was not feeling very much, I think I might have even dropped it for a period, and one piece was something of a rollercoaster where the start really hooked me but the increasingly slow pacing/filler was starting to tire me. One day I caught up to the one piece anime (the dubbed anime, because I didn't know about subs yet, I didn't even know what anime was still, or that it was originally Japanese) and once again I didn't know what to watch. I tried searching for more stuff like this but I didn't know how. In desperation I decided to google this weird word that often showed up in the sites that hosted the shows... anime. I had no idea what this alien word meant, I think I even looked it up in the dictionary one time but it wasn't there XD But I hadn't paid much attention to it because there's a lot of random stuff on these sites. So I don't exactly remember what happened after that but needless to say things started to unravel a little bit. I found the original Japanese version of one piece, at the time I had a really hard time believing that was the original cause it felt so foreign and different (also it made me aware of the sins of the 4kids dub, for example replacing sanji's cigs with lollipops), but I forced myself to watch the subbed version (mostly because the subbed anime went way past where the dub ended) and I got used to it eventually. I learned that, just as I had hoped, there was a massive catalogue of shows like DBZ and one piece out there for me to enjoy, they weren't just outliers. And after that I was basically off to the races, I watched death note, code geass, tenjou tenge, toraburu, air gear, got back into naruto too and a great time was had by all :) |
AnjuroAug 25, 2024 3:58 AM
| Probably pokemon or dbz i think when i was a kid |
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| Well, anime was the most common type of show on TV to be watched by kids in my surroundings when I was still a kid - both by friends at school and especiallu my cousins, so I just naturally gravitated to them. I also got into manga at one point when I was in grade school, especially shoujo manga, and I learned that a lot of anime was adapted from manga so I looked more into it. One of my favorite anime was Cardcaptor Sakura and learned that it was created by a group called CLAMP, so when I found out they have another series - Kobato - being adapted into anime, I looked into it more and found that I could watch it online and from there I learned about seasonal anime and started watching anime regularly. |
| I grew up on those Japan/European collab anime when I was very young: Ulysses 31, Willy Fog, Dogtanian, Transformers G1, Battle of the Planets (Gatchaman), Belle and Sebastian Then there was the anime block on afternoon tv after school that had the likes of: Azumangah Daoih, Sailor Moon, Dragonball Z, Cardcaptor Sakura, dub version of Samurai Pizza Cats, Mobile suit Gundam Wing And my brother could get vhs copies of the darker/niche anime; Ninja Scroll, Wicked City, Patlabor, Dominion Tank Police, Genocyper, Guyver |
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| My brother was watching death note and i decided to join in |
| 1. 5 cms per second 2. Your Name 3. Garden of words |
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| I would say what got me into "modern" anime was Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo and the fact that some of my friends who were in a local comedy troupe were working at Funimation as voice talent. My actual first anime series was Speed Racer, and then Voltron years later, but at that time I just regarded those as cartoons that happened to come from Japan. |
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| My intro to anime was watching Star Blazers on a staticky black & white tv while getting ready for school back in the late 70s / early 80s. Some might feel that it doesn’t count since I was unfamiliar with the word anime & all the names were Americanized. I think it does though since I instantly realized it was totally different from other cartoons on tv at the time (Loony Tunes, Popeye, Tom & Jerry, Bullwinkle and predominantly stuff from Hanah Barberra). This had a progressing story line about war where characters actually matured & in some cases died. I was so obsessed with it & I would set my alarm to wake up early over summer break to watch it & then go back to bed afterwards. Over the following years I would encounter some other series with similar art styles / story elements, but the next one to really catch my interest was Robotech in the mid 80s. Another controversial example since it is actually 3 unconnected anime (Macross, Southern Cross & Mospeda) that were combined for American broadcast tv. I didn’t start watching what many would consider actual anime until the mid 90s when I started buying VHS tapes of series like Ranma 1/2, Tenchi Muyo, Slayers, Project A-ko, Bubblegum Crisis & Magic Knight Rayearth. And now with streaming, I’m watching more anime than ever before. Imagine I will till the day I die. |
OhayotakuAug 25, 2024 6:55 PM
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| When Cartoon Network still existed, I randomly watched Naruto (DUB) and ended up enjoying it a lot. No recordings or streams, just popping in every weekend night or so to watch the premiere. This developed more across my teenage years, I spent time on Crunchy roll with various sites. I used to be a huge Anime fan watching several shows every season? Now as a working adult with a superb job and all, I choose to only watch a few shows if I feel it's worth my time. When you watch dozens and dozens of shows with hundreds of episodes, eventually you realize it's okay to "not" watch numerous Anime shows Though I am more passionate about Manga paired with Manhwa/Manhua, my interest is there but in a casual low profile |
Casual Manga/Manhwa/Manhua Reader |
| I got into anime when I was 25 back in 2016 with Girls und Panzer. |
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| Like a lot people I watched pokemon as a kid, but around 7th grade I found Kill la Kill and that was that. |
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| Like most kids in the US in the early to mid 2000s, Toonami was our gateway into the world of Japanese cartoons. |
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| 1. Came across a Korean Manhwa 2. Discovered rent a girlfriend on the same site 3. Saw a YT comment saying Mai from BGS is hotter than Chizuru 4. Watch BGS (first ever proper anime) The binge started from there. |
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| So, for reference I was born in 2002 and learned to read at a much earlier age than most other kids and was able to somewhat understand things to a basic extent at age 3. My parents would let me read through the old Toys R Us catalogue as a kid which was one of the main ways I learned to read. I was flipping through the big Holiday Catalogues they used to put out every year before they went under, and it had to have been 2005 as I very distinctively remember this. I had very little idea of what the concept of a video game was and ended up in the Game Boy Advance section and saw the box art for Pokémon Emerald, which was at the time the newest Pokémon game. So imagine a 3-year-old child seeing a giant ass green dragon with 0 context as to what a video game or Pokémon was. That thing fucking terrified me and I thought Pokémon was supposed to be a scary game and actively tried to avoid it. Then, in 2009, a 7-year-old me was hanging out with a friend of mine and he brought over his Nintendo DS and was playing a game I didn't recognize that looked rather fun. I asked him what it was, and he told me it was Pokémon Diamond and was extremely confused as I thought Pokémon were supposed to be scary. He let me watch him play and I immediately became interested and had to try it out for myself. My mom ended up buying me the at the time current game which was Pokémon Platinum. After that it became my obsession as I would play the game every day and I also learned about a Pokémon TV show on Cartoon Network existing and I immediately started watching it. I believe at the time the dub was on Pokémon: DP Galactic Battles and I remember the episode was one of the ones where Jessie was participating in a Pokémon contest while in disguise. I stuck with Pokémon throughout elementary school, and I remember in 2013 is when I started to get more into looking things up on my computer instead of just hanging out on the now defunct LEGO message boards like I did for the majority of my childhood online. I had seen that recently in the Pokémon anime they had started to introduce Pokémon from X and Y early and wanted to look up more information on the game, only to find out that there were more episodes of the show out in Japan than in the US. After that I got a bit interested in shows from Japan and video game news from Japan, and eventually found out about Crunchyroll and FUNimation. I ended up watching the few free episodes of Dragon Ball available on the FUNimation website, loved it, and then my parents bought me the DVD sets for both Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z and it was the first show that I watched in Japanese (I watched it in both Japanese and English as a teenager). After finishing Dragon Ball Z, I remembered Crunchyroll and just started watching stuff that was on there with the now defunct Wii U app. I started watching so much stuff that by 2017 I started a MyAnimeList account to track what I was watching easier, so I guess that's my origin story when it comes to not only Japanese anime, but Japanese media as a whole. |
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| I started reading manga in either 2015 or 2016 I believe, and from there I gradually got into anime because I wanted to watch adaptations of my favorite mangas. |
| I saw Dragon Ball Z air on local TV station when I was in elementary school and I loved it. Mom didn't allow me to watch it, so only saw a few episodes when she was away from home. I started pirating and watching anime around 2004 when I was in middle school. My memories from that era are very vague. I don't remember why or how I got hooked on anime. I downloaded and watched the entire DB/DBZ/GT along with some movies (always thought GT and the movies sucked, and the original DB is vastly inferior to DBZ). Around 2005 nyaatorrents launched, and it was my go-to way of getting anime. I don't really remember what anime I watched right after DBZ. I watched a lot of random shit. Downloading was tough on dial-up internet. On a good day I got 50-70KB/s, and the video codecs back then had horrible compression (one 150MB episode would take up to an hour to download). |
| Not my first anime, but the one which hooked me - Kagaku Kyuujo-tai TechnoVoyager (aka Thunderbirds 2086). As kid I really liked sci-fi, adventure and mechanical porn (still do) and there were very few such titles on TV (still there aren't enough). So when it aired in Bulgaria in its english version (which mean all the episodes, not only 18), my mind was blown (not necessary by the quality, but by the idea that you can have as much fun) and I became addicted to anime. |
alshuAug 26, 2024 12:47 AM
| The 1st anime I ever watched? I dropped it as I realized from an early age that military and politics driven plot isnt for me, even though I like giants robots.. |
| I think Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball were my intros to anime. I hope that answers your question. |
| Here is my Pixiv account of my hentai drawings..... https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/104739065 Here is my blog.... https://theendofindustrialcivilization.blogspot.com/?m=1 |
| Basically it is either watching DBZ, especially in Cartoon Network when I was a kid. But if we are counting what truly made me start watching anime as a teenager it was my cousin 8 years older than me that made me watch AOT and Food Wars, both which I loved. Afterwards I watched Death Note on my own and here we are. |
| "Those words are meant for those that dare defy god's final warning... An epigraph of their stubbornness" - Maho Hiyajo (Steins;Gate 0)    |
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The 1st anime I ever watched? I dropped it as I realized from an early age that military and politics driven plot isnt for me, even though I like giants robots..
| @RainyEvenings Was it Love Live! School Idol Project? |
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It was actually watching some of my favourite gamers on a stream. They were playing custom games of Epic Mafia, and one of those was a Danganronpa game.
I think I mainly thought that the name itself sounded cool, and when I searched it up, it sounded similar to Battle Royale - which was my favourite movie.
A member of the streamers also was into Anime, and he'd play Anime games by himself for the channel, that I'd watch.
When I was out browsing shops in my hometown, I found Needless on DVD, and thought it looked amazing, and have been watching Anime ever since (this was maybe 2015 or 16? don't remember.)
Before that though as a kid, I watched some Anime that I didn't know was actually Anime - Ox Tales, Thunderbirds 2086, and later on as a teen I watched Pokémon & Digimon when the craze hit, and also one of the Sailor Moon Anime.
I think I mainly thought that the name itself sounded cool, and when I searched it up, it sounded similar to Battle Royale - which was my favourite movie.
A member of the streamers also was into Anime, and he'd play Anime games by himself for the channel, that I'd watch.
When I was out browsing shops in my hometown, I found Needless on DVD, and thought it looked amazing, and have been watching Anime ever since (this was maybe 2015 or 16? don't remember.)
Before that though as a kid, I watched some Anime that I didn't know was actually Anime - Ox Tales, Thunderbirds 2086, and later on as a teen I watched Pokémon & Digimon when the craze hit, and also one of the Sailor Moon Anime.
| @Loyal_Sheepling modern strange cowboy is such a good op. |
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@RainyEvenings Was it Love Live! School Idol Project?
| @TheDarkLordOtaku no it was ideon.. I didn't like it and turned it off.. |
| the very first time i watched an anime was when dbz kai was airing on cartoon network at night in 2012. then when i really wanted to get into it, a lot of my friends in school were already watching anime. so i asked them, 1 said to watch dragon ball super and the other said attack on titan, and i did exactly that. |
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