| When my online friends introduced me to the anime Gintama. Been watching anime since then. |
Cyanwasserstoff said: This but after that Cowboy bebop relay got me in to it.It really starts with Dragonball Z :) |
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| Started off with dragonball z but then my desire to anime cooled off till i was expose to one piece via the monthly shonen jump releases in north america |
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| Chronologically, I started watching DBZ. Then, some years later I started with Pokemon. After that, I started with Digimon (one anime I liked quite a lot!) and If I remember correctly that’s when I became familiar with the “Anime” concept. That established somehow my journey through this world. |
| When I was little, my sister was watching Sailor Moon and I sometimes watched it with her (only a couple episodes, though). On 6th grade I suddenly remembered the show and wanted to watch it myself. I've been watching anime ever since. |
| Locomotion was an anime channel mostly for adults, I used to watch it now and then without my parents knowing and felt like a rebel. lmao But the first one that I remember watching every episode was Tenchi Universe. |
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| I think the first anime I've seen was on toonami (satellite TV), I can't remember but I think the first anime was Escaflowne which was damn amazing I was about 7 years old possibly younger and that show was kick ass with the whole dragon slaying, giant mecha that looks like a knight, war and shizz I was pretty much hooked. I can also grew up watching DBZ and Sailor Moon |
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| When I started watching Naruto because a friend told me how awesome it was and since then I havent looked back. |
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| Probably most of us used to watch anime as a kid (like Dragon Ball, One Piece...), but what I mean is: how did you start watching anime and how did you got hooked on it? Have you always liked anime or was it a friend who suggested it to you? As for me, apart from the anime I used to watch in my childhood (during which time I didn't know it was anime, I thought they were merely "cartoons"), I've been watching anime for a year and half. It was after I had watched several american series (like Gossip Girl, Supernatural...) that I realized I was getting bored of them. I was in a literature forum back then and I was chatting with a girl when she started talking about how I should give a try to anime, because it was very different to usual american series... I was quite suspicious at first, because I always thought "those cartoons are for kids". She promised me they weren't and, for some reason, I decided to believe her. She recommended two: Code Geass and Death Note, but told me to begin with Death Note. It was weird, because it was obviously not for kids and yet, they were cartoons! I couldn't understand it. I needed some time to get used to it, but eventually, I realized I'd found what I was looking for... So what about you guys? Talk about your experience! |
| I started watching because of Toonami on cartoon network when I was younger. Also, those Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki film's were really cool. I missed all of that stuff and decided to watch anime again. |
| I really started watching anime when I started watching The Future Diary (Mirai Nikki) while it was still airing. It was the first time I saw fansubbed episodes. Then I went on to look for more anime like that. |
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| when i was younger i watched naruto on cartoon network all the time. after awhile i discovered one piece and bleach, and it kind of snowballed from there :) |
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gamer2710 said: I really started watching anime when I started watching The Future Diary (Mirai Nikki) while it was still airing. It was the first time I saw fansubbed episodes. Then I went on to look for more anime like that. Ohh I watched Mirai Nikki too! If you're looking for anime similar to that I'd recommend Fate/Zero. The characters are pretty different but the plot is similar: seven people are selected to fight and there can only be one winner. Personally I prefer Fate/Zero (it's the prequel of Fate/Stay Night, btw). |
| Well I watched stuff like DBZ and Zoids after school but I never thought it was anime. Pokemon, Digimon and Yugioh I don't count because to me they're more of a franchise than an anime. Anyway, I didn't get into anime until I started watching Inuyasha, then watching most of the other animes that aired on Adultswim's block. I then started to play Halo 2 pretty often and would search up music videos for it, watched HMV Hell, and the creator said it was based off AMV Hell 3, and I said I'd only watch 5 minutes of it. 5 minutes turned into watching the entire thing..... After that, there were many animes that I was interested in that appeared in it that I had to look them up and start watching them. After that, while steadily watching the anime block on Adultswim, I was introduced into a larger world of anime and since then it's become one of my biggest hobbies. |
| I did start watching anime by watching tons of harem and ecchi genre anime since the usual cliches on every harem and ecchi genre anime back then were news to me and found it very hilarious. Until then that I was used to it, I tried to look for some more and different genres that they would seemed more enjoyable than harem and ecchi genre anime. |
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| I've always been interesting in Japanese culture since I was a little kid (before I knew what anime was) and I think when I discovered anime it was around the time when I thought that I was "too old" for western cartoons, despite loving them so much. So anime was a nice center point for me. I also watched a lot of anime as a kid without actually knowing that it was anime, like Cardcaptors and Sailor Moon. |
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| I wanted to reminisce about the days i watched DBZ on TV so i started to look at clips and episodes online. As there was a massive list of anime, I then started to randomly click on anime episodes and thought i should watch a new one. Eventually clicked on Hajime no Ippo, watched the first episode and fell in love with it 10/10! Then i watched naruto, then another anime, then another, then another........... |
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Centillion said: Lolled it can't be that bad.Bored. Heard of Naruto. Give it a try. Loved it. Watched another Stuff. Signed in Mal. Planned to watch more and more. Obsessed by psychological genre. Finally knew that Naruto was a complete garbage. |
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| To be perfectly honest... I came across an AMV of Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu where they groped mikuru's boobs. I thought it was sexy and watched the whole series :) But really getting in to anime was thanks to a friend I met on vacation last year who recommended me Soul Eater and Gurren Lagann, after that I began looking for more anime. |
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| A friend introduced me to Toonami back in the day. My fav shows were DBZ and Yu Yu Hakusho. I was really into the Pokemon and Yugioh franchise as well. It took years for me to realize all the other anime that was out there. |
johnyjohny said: Centillion said: Lolled it can't be that bad.Bored. Heard of Naruto. Give it a try. Loved it. Watched another Stuff. Signed in Mal. Planned to watch more and more. Obsessed by psychological genre. Finally knew that Naruto was a complete garbage. It's not. But compared to a lot of other stuff, especially from the psychological genre, it's not very good. And the pointless fillers don't help much. OT; I used to be an avid anime hater. I never watched one, but I still hated it. I couldn't fathom how I could like something in a language I couldn't understand. I couldn't understand how people could like such things. Then, one day. I got a USB stick from my friend. It was during the exams and I was bored of studying. I checked through the USB stick and found 6 video files. Three were labeled Code Geass and the other 3, Darker Than Black. Thinking nothing could be worse than studying, I clicked open Code Geass and gave it a try. I watched through the three episodes and I couldn't understand what the fuck was going on. But I loved it. Both CG and DtB. And that's how I failed my examsstarted watching anime. Btw, it was R2 I watched, so it was obvious how I couldn't understand what the shit was going on. |
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yhunata said: Well that doesn't make any sense, why would you compare anime from different genres. They don't have any of the same themes, or barely anything in common.johnyjohny said: Centillion said: Lolled it can't be that bad.Bored. Heard of Naruto. Give it a try. Loved it. Watched another Stuff. Signed in Mal. Planned to watch more and more. Obsessed by psychological genre. Finally knew that Naruto was a complete garbage. It's not. But compared to a lot of other stuff, especially from the psychological genre, it's not very good. And the pointless fillers don't help much. |
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IntroverTurtle said: yhunata said: Well that doesn't make any sense, why would you compare anime from different genres. They don't have any of the same themes, or barely anything in common.johnyjohny said: Centillion said: Lolled it can't be that bad.Bored. Heard of Naruto. Give it a try. Loved it. Watched another Stuff. Signed in Mal. Planned to watch more and more. Obsessed by psychological genre. Finally knew that Naruto was a complete garbage. It's not. But compared to a lot of other stuff, especially from the psychological genre, it's not very good. And the pointless fillers don't help much. I was comparing it with what Centilion said. He discovered the psychological genre and thus, felt utterly disappointed with Naruto. |
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yhunata said: Still seems pointless to me to compare them, especially when they don't try and do the same things. It's up to which genre you prefer, not which is better.IntroverTurtle said: yhunata said: Well that doesn't make any sense, why would you compare anime from different genres. They don't have any of the same themes, or barely anything in common.johnyjohny said: Centillion said: Lolled it can't be that bad.Bored. Heard of Naruto. Give it a try. Loved it. Watched another Stuff. Signed in Mal. Planned to watch more and more. Obsessed by psychological genre. Finally knew that Naruto was a complete garbage. It's not. But compared to a lot of other stuff, especially from the psychological genre, it's not very good. And the pointless fillers don't help much. I was comparing it with what Centilion said. He discovered the psychological genre and thus, felt utterly disappointed with Naruto. |
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| I think when I found MAL. Anime here in the Netherlands isn't really big, so my exposure to anime is very limited. I recently became interested in anime again and googled around a bit for some titles. I ended up on the IGN boards of all places and had a few titles that sounded ok. I used Anime News Network as a reference site and dabbled around there to find some good titles. However the interface felt very unintuitive and I just didn't like the forums. Somehow I stuck around on MAL for a few minutes, even though the site looks completely bland and unprofessional and soon had a whole list of titles that didn't seem only interesting but actively made me excited to start watching and discover new anime. Even after quite a few months on here, I still find my myself surprised at the genius of this site. The template of this site should just be applied to all forms of media. |
| Accidentally stumble upon Yuki vs Asakura video on youtube. After Haruhi, I finished Lucky Star After Lucky Star, I watch Shana. Read ZnT manga online, found out that it got an anime, found this site. (Pleased after learn that the main lead are voice by the same 2 person) And... Yeah |
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| Was looking for a hobby to do and found that with watching anime, I don't' have to do shit beside sit on my ass all day. |
| Watched Pokemon in the 90's but never really caught on. Read manga in middle school but dropped off. Browsed Youtube in High school and became interested in Vocaloid. The suggested videos had some anime AMV's in them check them out and started to watch a series. |
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| because i was bored with cartoons and now im starting to get bored of anime |
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| I don't found nothing good on TV. |
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| I elt nostalgic about anime that i watched as a child on TV (Pokemon,Dragonball,some One piece etc.) so i decided to check them out since i loved them so much as a kid.After i rewatched some episodes of those anime(and whole DBZ) I started getting into some "classic" anime like Deathnote,Naruto etc(by classic i don't mean good,i mean common and popular anime that people usually watch when they start,not when they already saw a lot of anime). |
| Because Jagex became Fag'ex, so i needed a new hobby... i watch some random anime and started loviin' it a lot. |
| I becan watching anime last summer. Me and some of my family held a vacation in a summer house (special house rented out for short periods of time)... I was bored and my dad had downloaded a LOT of random movies and stuff in advance. One of the many things he downloaded was Kiddy grade. I becan watching it, and i finished the whole serie in just 2 days or so :P |
| my first anime was digimon(still one of my favourite).Then i started watching dragon ball(english dubbed).I was googling dragon ball's episodes.then i found dragon ball and digimon were an anime.I looked on to animes and I loved animes <3 but at the same time I found myself at watching ecchi animes xD |
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| Naruto, One Piece, Dragon Ball Z and Yu-Gi-Oh! was on TV when I was little. I would wake up in the morning before school at like 6 o'clock to watch it. After a few years I finally learnt the difference between anime and cartoons like Spongebob Squarepants and that's when I got curious and started exploring anime |
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| i was bored one day and was looking for stuff to do. Then i discovered bleach and thought it was quite interesting. Then i continue seeking for me since i liked bleach and thats how it started |
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| LOL by watching Hentai. |
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| I watched them first when i was a kid like everyone else and i kept watching whatever is on TV while growing up. One day my old PC stopped working and all i had was a netbook so i couldn't play games anymore so i started looking for good anime and that's how i got hooked |
| Toonami introduced me to the anime universe with Naruto and Bleach |
| sexual incest in nisomonogatari - no one bats an eye romance incest in SAO - everyone loses their minds |
| ^-- luckkyy! Mangas were banned from my schools, librarian told me they lower peoples IQ's. while books raise iq's.. funny, I think it's the other way around *glances at goosebumps* |
| sexual incest in nisomonogatari - no one bats an eye romance incest in SAO - everyone loses their minds |
sminja said: i'm just curious how everyone stared watching anime. for me i wached it all the time with DBZ and all the shows on toonami, but i didnt really realize that i was watching anime not untill a girl i liked got me into inuyasha. then FLCL had me hooked for good. Like many others, it started with DBZ of course. Then I got into Pokemon around the same time and of course Digimon, I just loved those series as a kid. After a little I realized I'd been watching anime, so I went looking for more and I ended up continuing my anime journey starting with Naruto, One Piece and so on... |
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