| Started with stuff like pokemon and digimon as a kid and eventually moved on to other genres |
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| Because in my country, Sunday morning was when they show all kinds of kids' animes and that was when I started watching anime for the first time. I should've grew out of it like almost every other child did, but after the first time I marathoned a series (which feels indescribably great, by the way), I decided to stay watching anime. I didn't care about what society said about 'cartoons are for kids' while the fact is: 1). It's called anime not cartoon and 2). not all animes are for kids. |
 ~ IA- Aria on the Planetes ~ Vocaloid V3 voiced by LiA (Clannad Afterstory, Angel Beats! theme song singer) |
| I went to watch avatar: the last air bender finale online because i didn't want to wait 2 week's for it to air on nickelodeon(i think), then seen naruto in the related section of whatever site i was using. Watched it out of curiosity, then death note/elfen lied and discovered what anime is actually pretty good and felt like a dick for bagging my mate out for it over the years haha. |
| My first anime was Pokemon, but I really got into it by DBZ. I did not realize that this was an anime, but I watched it every day on RTL 2 . Nowadays I cannot even imagine to be without the japanese culture (Anime, J-POP, J-Rock,Manga). I am really an otaku or anime-freak xP Greetings Cyan |
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| Watched Pokemon and DBZ and a few others as a kid, but wasn't actually into anime then. I started watching about five months ago after starting to read manga, which I did because I had just gotten a tablet and I thought I'd give manga a try. I spent about a month or two just reading a shitload of manga, and then I realized that I might want to try an anime or two. I did, I loved it, and that's how I started. |
 "In both love and octopus-hunting, you have to take the initiative!" - Gintoki Sakata |
| Don't remember if I posted already, sorry. -- I can't remember precisely how I got into anime, but it was influenced by something. It was when my friend asked me if I had seen a certain anime series, and I looked it up online. I don't remember it being interesting much at all, but it was a while ago, so it may have been so interesting (probably with the language and the different art style than cartoons here in America). I feel horrible and it bothers me greatly that I don't remember exactly how I got into it.. |
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| hmmm when I was little I collected (well I didn't have much :L ) Pokemon and Yu-gi-oh cards. Plus I watched Mew Mew Power (Tokyo Mew Mew) on TV sometimes. But really it started with this app-thingie on the dsi called Flipnote Hatena. I remember finding an popular user on there who drew anime, and that made me want to draw anime too ... and drawing anime got me to watching anime :3 (now I don't draw as much but my drawing skills improved greatly and it got me to take Art as one of my GCSE subjects) EDIT: TYPO |
| Like many others, I watched Pokemon, Dragonball Z, and the like as a kid. By middle school I'd lost interest in them. A friend I met in my senior year of high school is an anime fan, and he told me to check some out, so I started watching Trinity Blood, but couldn't get into the whole anime style. Later on, I watched Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann at the insistence of said friend and some facebook pages. I loved it, and since then I've been slowly exploring more. It's not really a primary interest of mine, but I've been getting into it more. |
| My mother got me into it (she's Japanese and wanted me to start learning the language, or something along those lines) and she convinced me to watch some Death Note. Anime weirded me out at first and I found it genuinely odd, but after a few months I watched the whole thing from the start, and so began my interest for anime. |
| My sister brought home some Naruto DVDs a few years ago and my interest in anime escalated quite rapidly from then on. |
| Watched shows like DBZ, Yu Yu Hakusho, Ruroni Kenshin, and Zoids on Toonami as a kid. One day a friend of mine recommended Neon Genesis Evangelion to me, so I checked it out and got mindfucked and since then have been watching anime. |
| A match made in heaven set the fires in hell |
| Pokemon, One Piece, Zatch Bell, and the like when I was young... but, to understand it for the first time (besides my casual Pokemon life), it was earlier-mid 2009. I made (suckish) avatars on a kid's site, and one person asked me to find pictures of Ouran High School Host Club, and I asked them what that was. I had to look up the pictures, and coupled with their explanations, I was welcomed into the anime world. Been three years sense! |
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| My best friend got me into it in 4th grade and since then, it just "stuck" :) now, it's basically all we do together o.o (sad, right? lol) |
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| My best friend was obssesed with Naruto than got me obsessed too and than we got obsessed with anime I remember an anime channel so i watched all the ones on TV like Naruto, Card Captor Sakura, Sailor Moon, Zatch Bell, Tokyo Mew Mew etc We kinda stoped watching it for a few years and i dont remember why but than i got back into anime around last year And i forgot to mention POKEMON loved it forever and i will never stop loving it~ |
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| I like how i made a similar thread ~3 days ago and it got locked and attached to this one and thats whys thread has re liven up Thread: http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=496949 |
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| @Asianboy30354 : Your Topic was about completely the same xD RTL 2 ( DBZ) was my first anime and the reason why I started to watch even more of them xP Greetings Cyan |
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Cyanwasserstoff said: @Asianboy30354 : Your Topic was about completely the same xD RTL 2 ( DBZ) was my first anime and the reason why I started to watch even more of them xP Greetings Cyan Me too...i started watching animes on rtl 2 in the year 2000 and DBZ was my favourite anime back then... |
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| I was bored, nothing to do so i started searching the internet for interesting things to do, i came across naruto and started watching it, after i finished naruto i go along with the flow and started other animes, and so i became an anime fan. |
| The art style of anime was different from other cartoons and Ghost in the Shell. |
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| I have been watching anime through my whole life without knowing it, I just watched whatever was on tv like DBZ and bleach. But I really got into watching anime 2 years ago after watching bleach and one piece on an anime site for the first time. After that I stared watching all kinds of anime like harem, supernatural, action etc. I'm guessing I am not the only one ^_^ |
| my first real exposure to anime watching episodes of DBZ on a tiny tv vcr combo in the back of a kay bee toys when i worked there for a couple summers unloading stock. let on to my manager it was super boring in the stock room (even though i should had been working..the mall was dying and we both were like "meh"). so he goes to his car, floored ive never heard of or seen dragon ball z. cued up Cooler's Revenge.. was floored. then kinda fell off the whole anime thing for a while (girls/cars/drugs ect) then got a job where i pretty much sat for eight hours in the middle of the night. nothing else on but adult swim. lol back when they had the swimming pool bumps. how i ended up here (MAL), crossed paths with someone on a anime channel on a file sharing client. she suggested i pop in to cure my vast ignorance of anime lol. |
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| In germany the most of us started with Dragonball or Sailor Moon, I think :) |
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| Was watching Saturday Japanese cartoon like usual, then I had a sudden realization of how much 2D boobies turned me on. I was about 6 years old at the time.... though my first fap was actually ~11 years old when I stumbled upon my parent's secret softcore porn VHS tapes. |
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| I remembered from my childhood that i used to watch yu yu hakusho, dbz, and rave master, so i decided to look them up to watch the full series of each. My anime watching life took off from there. |
| Believe in yourself. |
Cyanwasserstoff said: In germany the most of us started with Dragonball or Sailor Moon, I think :) yeah, pretty much this |
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| It all started with Naruto but if we're being technical the first anime I remember is Sailor Moon and DBZ, but back to the point I started watching Naruto back in 05-06 on Toonami and I was obsessed my friends and I would look up Naruto amvs on Youtube of Rock Lee and Gaara and through Naurto I discovered what anime was and where it came from. |
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| It all began when i stayed up late as a kid and adult swim came on cartoon network. Ended up watching Inuyasha and ever since then, i've been into anime. |
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| When I saw the last episode of School Days. ._. |
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| dragonball z pokemon yugioh FMA elf lied sci-fi channel loads of ecchi anime on there back in the day |
| I dislike lelouch vi Britannia. im a shiki supporter my YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR90F0rzcss4CsrAbkZXTkg/featured?view_as=subscriber Just past the 1500th Mark bitches I approve this video http://youtu.be/U_0CCLxibFk |
| The studio ghibli films got me interested in anime. |
| I was about 10 and my cousin went over to my house and was all like "you have to watch DBZ, it's awesome" and I was like ok, and BOOM! I was hooked! |
| Toonami! |
| I read a lot of manga, but refused to watch anime for some reason that I don't remember. I only started watching anime after playing a number of visual novels and wanting to see the animated adaptations of them. |
| i was born to watch anime... most of my friends are anime freaks they relate evrything to an anime so yeahh had to get into it in order to understand them ;D |
| "Im feeling it tonight roflcopterskatesbbq" |
| Sci-fi channel ^_^ the violence was yummy Dbz Pokemon Yugioh Fma Bleach Naruto Gundam wing * seed was s*** And ecchi anime |
| I dislike lelouch vi Britannia. im a shiki supporter my YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR90F0rzcss4CsrAbkZXTkg/featured?view_as=subscriber Just past the 1500th Mark bitches I approve this video http://youtu.be/U_0CCLxibFk |
| Pokemon Yugioh Bleach Naruto Dragonball Digimon and other childhood stuffz. |
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| My sister got me into it when I was only 3 years old as a way for us to do some "sister bonding". Ever since then I've been hooked, however she's moved on from anime. |
| Watched pokemon and dragonball z before i knew what anime truly was other than that Inuyasha stated me off |
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Rikoster said: When I saw the last episode of School Days. ._. That's one hell of a way to start. As for me, can't really remember. I think it was a combination of watching Chobits at a LAN party and a classmate introducing me to Naruto. |
| Too lazy. Maybe later. |
| Watched Pokemon and DBZ growing up, but I got into anime when I watched Death Note and wanted to watch more anime. |
| My best friend :) |
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