| Bleach/One Piece started it all for me haha |
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| Cowboy Bebop ...just kidding. I soo wish it was though. Mine would be Cardcaptor Sakura lol. Aired over here when I was about seven. |
| Ummm chobits I guess... Really though it was reading the manga tsubasa (from the library of all places) that got me into watching and reading both anime and manga. |
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| I watched Pokemon and Digimon when I was younger, but didn't know it was "anime." Thought it was just normal cartoons. My first anime was InuYasha on adult swim. I watched the episode where Hakudoshi was riding on the back of Entei. As soon as that episode was over, I made it a routine to watch anime on adult swim every saturday night. I knew immediately that I had found something special. I knew I would be watching anime hardcore from then on. I ended up finding anime sites online and watching the entire InuYasha series in a few days. I also picked up several other anime on Adult Swim during those nights. |
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| When you are fully aware of the distinction between anime and cartoons and seek out anime to obtain on your own rather than watch the shows on TV, then you have such a show. For me, the first was The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, which will always remain to be a fun SoL for me. That was right after it came out, in 2006. Shortly after I started watched a bunch of other shows, including Death Note, /hack Sign, Hellsing, Gundam Seed and stuff like that. Of course, I've watched anime before that, but that was on TV and without me knowing it was anime. DBZ, pokemon and a bunch of shows on dutch telly should count as that. |
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| ^ Exactly, nice said. For me it was Rurouni Kenshin : Tsuiokuhen |
| Pokemon xD...Later I watched Bleach/Naruto/Dragonball. Now I'm into smaller series (like those in my profile). |
| Like 3 or 4 years ago, Every time I walked into my sisters room their were always watching this anime called Card Captor Sakura then after awhile they were watching Spirited Away I was like "What is this?" Afterwards they told me and I got into anime that quick. Started watching Naruto, Bleach, Dragon Drive and much more. Now I'm into Japanese culture and anime. |
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| I think almost 20 years ago....I grow up watching Hokuto no Ken or Tsuri Kichi Sanpei, I've always been tied to the culture of Japan. |
| Since I was like 4 or 5. Anime was pretty prominent back where I come from (as far as I remembered anyway, don't know how it is now), and we saw plenty of both anime and American cartoons that we didn't really care. Let's see...lots of Dragon Ball, Gundam Wing, G Gundam, Yu Yu Hakusho, Evangelion, Rurouni Kenshin, Sakura Wars, Sailor Moon, Alps no Shoujo Heidi, Doraemon, Anime Sanjushi, Blue Blink, Lupin III, Slayers, list goes on and on and on and on. I stopped watching for a while when my family moved to the US. Managed to revisit the shows I saw back then courtesy of Toonami, and put it off again. Naruto was really the one that resparked my interest back up; haven't lost interest since. Japan was and still a country filled with a culture I'm pretty hooked on. Actually though, I'd eat up anything Asian-related. Samurai? Great! Bruce Lee? Jackie Chan? Sonny Chiba? Awesome. |
dietmangoApr 26, 2012 9:36 AM
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| I don't remember ;_; |
| Watching a lot of cartoons as I grew up probably had a lot of influence to me enjoying anime as much as I do now. I can definitely say I started out as one of the generic long going shounen viewers. |
| I think my brother rented Spirted Away. Within a few days I watched Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky, and a few other Ghibli films in quick succession. Oddly enough that was about 8 years ago, and I only got really into anime last year. I had too many other interests in late elementary and high school for me to bother with it, I think. |
LoneWolf said: @Josh makes me sad to call myself Canadian. |
| I've been watching anime since I can remember, but I didn't know it was anime until I was in my latter years of high school. Even as such though, I wouldn't say I was an actual anime "fan" until after I graduated. I went to a convention back in 08 across the country from me to see a band, picked up a couple anime figures because they were characters I had liked from shows... and then it all went downhill from there. =) |
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| I guess it all started with pokemon when I was going to elementary school. My mom was flipping channels to see what me and my brother wanted to watch during breakfast and pokemon showed up and thats how my addiction began! Thanks MOM! |
| I've always been a passive fan because of Pokemon and Yu Yu Hakusho from my childhood and my exposure to Studio Ghibli over the years. But I've only had the time recently to become a full enthusiast, in this period between the end of college and the start of graduate school. |
| I watched anime off and on from the 80s and 90s with shows like robotech, voltron, sailormoon, speed racer, and technoman. I have always been a fan of animation.The first anime I bought was either Ghost in the SHell, Akira or Ninja Scroll.I actually got the movies by accident because I was in a SunCoast video store look for animation similar to Heavy Metal and came across those movies on VHS.Back then I mostly stuck to only movies.It wasn't until I was stationed in Korea where I started buying actual series and one of the channels there played Ah My Goddess, Eden's Bowey, Your Under arrest and Gensou Maden Saiyuuki. |
| When I was like around 5-8 I think I was watched Sailor Moon Cartoon network then It stopped for like I think 3 years later and watched Naruto(loved that anime ^_^) and then like way like I was around 13-14 I watched Clannad and lived it so I started watching anime again. ^_^ |
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| I have my "childhood anime", which include Shaman King, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Sonic X, and Ultimate Muscle. And despite them not being anime, special mentions go to Avatar TLA, Samurai Jack, and TMNT 2003. A few years back I saw Death Note. Loved it, didn't think too much of it. Then about a year and a half ago I saw Gurren Lagann with some friends. It was like, amazing, so I watched Brotherhood. And Dragon Ball Z/Kai. And Evangelion. And before I knew it, I was marathoning through anime like there was no tomorrow. |
| When I was young, of course, when TV stations still show anime. Some of my childhood anime is Cardcaptor Sakura, Yugioh, Pokemon and Transformers Armada. When I got older I always watched the anime block of local TV stations, shows that include Special A, D-Gray man, and Gundam 00. When we got a faster internet connection, I discovered that I can watch anime on the internet, and my interest in anime got stronger. Sady, nowadays TV stations don't show anime much so I have to rely on the internet for more finds. |
"Fortress Maximus has come himself. Okay! Then I shall get Fortress Maximus to fight me, huh huh huh!" |
| I watched anime and kept watching. |
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| Sort of relevant aside: my brothers and I were watching Pokemon while my sister was being born upstairs. |
LoneWolf said: @Josh makes me sad to call myself Canadian. |
| I first discovered Pokemon, Digimon, Ultimate Muscle, and Shaman King back in my elementary and middle school years. I didn't become an actual anime fan until my sophomore year in high school. |
"What has two arms, two legs, and is alive? Not your favorite character lol! xD" |
| I was a big fan of animes when I was a kid, like Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, DBZ, Beyblade, etc. But I didn't even know they were called "animes", for me it was just cartoons xD But then when I was 14 a friend of mine told me to watch Fullmetal Alchemist. It was so good that I looked for others animes to watch. |
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| This AMV - Watching this video during the summer of 6th grade/transition to 7th in 2010, when I was already depressed and alone, was the smartest thing I've done in my whole life. |
| Dont touch me I'm in despair. |
| When I was little, I watched DBZ, Sailor Moon, Shaman King and Rurouni Kenshin on TV, not even realising what anime is and I more or less loved all of them. Years later, when I was in middle school, my classmate which I have never been very close with before, suddenly came up to me and started talking about this fan-made manga. I decided to check it out and quickly got obsessed. Not much later she told me those characters were actually from this thing called Naruto, which had me hooked from the very first episode. Then I watched Death Note and "officially" became a fan of anime. That girl became one of my best friends and now we spend everyday blabbering about anime and annoying the crap out of everyone else xD |
| In bello, parvis momentis magni casus intercedunt - Julius Caesar. |
| I think the first anime I ever saw was vampire hunter D on of all places TNT, this back way in the early 90’s, the first thing that struck me about it was how damn violent it was and this was the TV edit. Needless to say I was hooked, also at the time I was a huge fan of street fighter 2 now at the time the live action versions was out and as you would suspect I despised it. I was at the mall one day hanging at the arcade *remember those?* and my friends were talking about the movie and one of them chimed in, “you know an animated movie for it just came out” to ware I respond ’what, like the cartoon on Saturdays?’ “No, no this is different. We went the local suncost and sure enough, there it was. Thankful I had some money from doing work around the neighborhood and promptly picked it up. To this day still, the best video game based anime ever! After that I got into the usually stuff, sailormoon, DBZ, gundam wing, my collection really grew when I got a job and I am still going strong today. |
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| Long story short, after a tumultuous relationship with it, Baccano! welcomed me back in 2010 |
| First thing I saw was pokemon/dbz/kenshin, but at the time I had no idea it was "anime". I just looked at it as a cartoon. About 6 years ago was the first time I watched an anime fully knowing what anime was at that point and that would have been: "Death Note". A friend of mine had already started watching "Bleach" and "Naruto" so I dediced to try them out too, thus beginning my long journey into the world of anime. |
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| I watched animes on tv like Doraemon, Pokemon, Digimon and others(e.g Sailor Moon). That was how it started out then followed by Yu-Gi-Oh..Zoids..Beyblade... |
| my ex friend, i still curse him to this day, because anime is like a drug to me now, it's practically taken over my whole life, i just can't imagine myself living without it. CURSE HIM!!! |
MaceTheDonApr 28, 2012 7:09 AM
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| Because of sailor moon & mirumo de pon. owo |
| ctrl c + ctrl v on what I posted in the other topic xD I was a big fan of animes when I was a kid, like Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, DBZ, Beyblade, etc. But I didn't even know they were called "animes", for me it was just cartoons xD But then when I was 14 a friend of mine told me to watch Fullmetal Alchemist. It was so good that I looked for others animes to watch. |
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| long2 time ago when Dash Yonkuro was so famous ^^ |
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| One piece ^^ |
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| Because of TV. I get hooked of anime already the first time i watch one and it's DBZ. |
| Most likely TV when they aired pokemon haha, otherwise it'd be buying one piece (randomly bought at that time) |
| i think it was from the time i used to watch Sailor Moon on tv and then i was thinking on the lines of "OMG THIS IS REALLY COOL" and years later i rewatched it, thought it was still alright and then along came kuroshitsuji/Naruto Shippuden and BAM....became an anime lover :P |
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| Like everyone, also from TV. Pokemon, Voltes V, Flame of Recca, Slam Dunk, Shaman King blablabla. =D |
| I used to watch pokemon, yugioh when I was a kid but that wasnt the reason I got into anime but it was Digimon Xros wars which started and soo on I Expanded my genre/types |
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| I remembered watching atom boy or something on tv and loving how everything looked, and one day I was looking on google at images to draw and i googled death note. I then thought that I would try watchin an episode and I loved it and watched the whole series in 2 days |
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| I watched Pokemon/Yugioh when I was younger, but I don't think this counts; I wasn't into anime back then like I am now. My interest in anime really started when I loaned a manga seres from a friend (Full Moon, if you're curious); I read it all and liked it. I searched it online and found out that there was an anime series of it so I watched that, and I loved it. Then I realized that there was a bunch more anime series out there, so I started watching a lot of other series too. |
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