How Were You Introduced To Anime?

@TheAnimeLogician Yeah, fillers are the worst! It's such a common thing in long shounen anime. It was so disappointing waiting all week for a new episode only to find out it was filler, haha. I couldn't wait five years for Bleach—I was getting spoiled left and right—so I ended up reading the manga. It's funny how much less filler there is in the manga.

Robotech back in the 1980s piqued my interest in exploring more of the genre as it slowly became more accessible in the late 1980s & early 1990s.

I've seen a little on tv when I was a kid (like sailor moon and pokemon) but didn't recognize it as an anime. First real encounter happened years later when I watched a clip on youtube and it good me interested enough to watch my first whole series.

I watched Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon on cable television back during the 1990s. Is that a sufficient answer for you?

@TheAnimeLogician you definitely do because then you need to watch bloodlust and that's even better. Has maybe the best ending for anything anime at least

@DesuMaiden Indeed it is. Honestly, you can never go wrong with the classics, which that gives me an idea for a new video.

@TheAnimeLogician a new video on what topic exactly?

@DesuMaiden Top 10 anime that defined the 2000's!

@TheAnimeLogician a new video on what topic exactly?

@TheAnimeLogician where are you going to upload that video?

@DesuMaiden My YouTube channel, hold on... https://www.youtube.com/@theanimelogician3588/featured

@TheAnimeLogician well how many anime shows do you watch??? Per year?

I got into it by watching cartoons as a kid. The earliest anime that I really enjoyed was Dragon Ball Z. I didn't know what anime was at the time. It was only as I got older that I could tell the difference between anime and the cartoons I was watching.

i was looking for music videos for the song sexy naughty bitchy by tata young and found an amv from the show omamori himari and decided to just watch the show on youtube each episode in three parts

@MKSTEEL Nice! So you got into anime due to the Mecha genre, honestly I find that respectable. As a Gundam fan I've loved mechs since I was 10 years old, and even though for some people the story can be a bit too complexed I don't mind it at all.

I was introduced to anime in the late 90s, early 2000s. Thanks to Cartoon Network. The very first anime I recall was Dragon Ball Z which my father put on for me. But very likely he was able to due to Cartoon Network especially with them rolling out Pokemon on American television and my Pokemon craze kicked in soon after that. I can faintly recall Sailor Moon at one point. Later Cartoon Network's Toonami block would expose me to anime like Naruto, Bleach, FLCL, Escaflowne, etc. It was various little anime appearances over the years that would continue to pique my interest that by 2005 when I saw Spirited Away I was convinced it was a piece of Entertainment worthy of my attention. I took it serious after Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away.

I like that some of you bring up that bad times can draw us in to anime. I agree, I find over the years anime has been there for me in a way no one has been there for me. Even my favorite Japanese rockstar has let me down but I can still count on anime.

Yay, a Code Geass mention!

@TheAnimeLogician that was the start point, but I branched out into all kinds of anime sub-genres after, these days Slice of Life would likely be the genre I have the most interest in. But I've always been fairly eclectic selecting anime, and with the myriad choices these days thanks to streaming access I vector into all kinds of stuff these days, older and newer.

Watched doraemon,Pokémon and similar animes as a kid without knowing that they are called anime. Then my fav YouTuber introduced me to death note and Aot.

@DisposableHeroB Wait, is Bloodlust the 2nd season or 2nd part of the series after Vampire Hunter?

@TheAnimeLogician as far as anime, bloodlust is a movie unto itself just as the first vampire hunter D is the same . As far as.
The order of the two in relation to the original material, im not sure. You would have to look that up.

seeing my brother watching the asuna torture scene when I was like 10

When I saw and purchased Bible Black Gaiden on DVD back in the early 2000s, I guess.

@Desqera that... that is vile.
wishing for a quick recovery...

@DesuMaiden Top 10 anime that defined the 2000's! I also have other videos such as Tier List, news on Crunchyroll and their terrible business practices, and other stuff. My goal is to get 100 subscribers this year, and that's when I want to do a favor for my community. I have 57 subs right now, so yeah just a small stepping stone to reach 100 is all.

This doesn't mean I'll drop my computer science studies or electronic music production. I also have a new music project on the way: a new metal album. For EDM, I produce Progressive House, Dubstep, and Trance music (I also have ideas of doing Techno), but for Metal, I want to do Deathcore, Death Metal, Anime covers, and lots of other stuff.

I also need to do Let's Play of videos games on my channel or just stream those games on Twitch.

Scrolling through TV channels back in 2006 and came across a channel named "Funimation". Shows like School Rumble, Ouran Highschool Host Club and Gurren Lagann had me hooked.

well, basically by my dad. like the general idea of anime ( it was called cartoon ) like tsubasa. dragon ball and grandizer etc... ( dvd's and cd's era )

later, i got introduced to Naruto and one piece by Spacetoon and SpacePower... and then i got deeper by by making a MAL account back '07... and a whole new world opened to me...

then after AOT dropped and made everything super mainstream, i dipped for a whole ass period in my life... and then came back for it lol.
basically only 5 years of my life i haven't watched anime in... the left of it... is consumed in it.

well, basically by my dad. like the general idea of anime ( it was called cartoon ) like tsubasa. dragon ball and grandizer etc... ( dvd's and cd's era )

later, i got introduced to Naruto and one piece by Spacetoon and SpacePower... and then i got deeper by by making a MAL account back '07... and a whole new world opened to me...

then after AOT dropped and made everything super mainstream, i dipped for a whole ass period in my life... and then came back for it lol.
basically only 5 years of my life i haven't watched anime in... the left of it... is consumed in it.

My first anime was Doraemon on TV. Later I started to watch Shinchan and Pokemon. But when I got my own smartphone I started to watch more animes.

I have an older sister (our age gap is about 8 years) so I started watching anime on TV with her (but we didn't now that are japanese): Pokèmon, Bayblade, Digimon and so on. When I was 15/16 years old I watched Death Note for the first time and i felt in love with it. But I became a real anime lovers in my university years.

We had a TV channel here that aired a lot of stuff. Vandread, Zenki, Tokyo Mew Mew, Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch, Spider Riders, FMA (2003 version), among many others. At some point in 2009 they picked up Bleach, and around either late 2009 or early 2010 I decided to see if I could find a way to watch it online (naturally for free). Don't remember the exact reason, think it was some cliffhanger ending leading into rebroadcast. But either way, after searching for it via extensive googling I found a site that had Bleach and a lot of other similar looking animated shows on it, and looking into it even further I discovered that stuff is called "anime". For better or for worse, I've been watching it ever since.

around the late 90's with hunter x hunter and DBZ.

Aside from the stray pokemon episode on tv my first "real" anime experiences came from Dragon Ball and Naruto which were basically unavoidable online. I thought the fight scenes were awesome so I ended up watching both entirely on Youtube one 1/4 part at a time. My first introduction to non battle shonen anime was when I was 10 and I saw a meme about madoka magica on 9gag of all places and something about it really drew me in despite being completely removed from everything else I'd seen, best decision of my life