| I think my first ever experience was watching metropolis when I younger. then in my preteen years I found Neon Genesis Evangelion and then found a website with Air tv (later found Metropolis again) and have been hooked ever since. NGE, Air tv, and Metropolis still remain my favorite animes to this day. |
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| Cuz of Bleach... Then I went to Naruto... then my friend introduced me lol |
| Well I'm pretty sure it started with Toonami back in the day when it first started airing in 97, I used to come home from school everyday and watch Sailor Moon, ReBoot, DBZ, Tenchi & Wing. But it wasn't till I was randomly dragged to see Princess Mononoke in theaters that I started to realize what anime really was. Then I got into Limewire and found NGE, Excel Saga & Love Hina were the first shows I watch knowing what anime was, mainly cause they were all subbed. From that point on I was hooked, although I did stop my fanatical watching of shows for a few years around 2006 to 2009 but then I found Hulu with all it's free online streaming and I was like OMG this is sooooo much better then having to torrent everything. I've been re-addicted ever since. |
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| My best friend has been otaku for years, she was always talking about anime and it started to bother me, since I had no clue what the hell she's talking about. But then she showed me her new bag with Sebastian from Kuroshitsuji on it and I was like - hey.. who's that hot guy? I should consider watching anime, if there's more cute guys like him. Well you could say that my first impulse to watch anime was quite shallow, Kuroshitsuji wasn't my first anime though. It was Death Note. Its brilliant plot and tension made it for me one of the best series I've seen so far and I started to want more. |
| The only thing you can rely on is that you can't rely on anything. |
| Toonami started it though i didn't get really watch them much till a friend showed me a couple |
| The studio ghibli movies got me interested in anime, i watched them all then i moved onto other anime. |
| watching Dragon Ball, pokemon, and other anime series in channel 2 (PH) but I'm not addicted, I started to get addicted when there's a new channel TV5 who started to air anime series. TMOHS, Shakugan no Shana, Fushigi Yuugi, MDL, Code Geass, and others, since then, i've always been busy because of anime :3 |
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| When I was really young, probably 3 or 4, I was really into Pokemon on TV. I'm pretty sure it was before kindergarten (and I still am into it, hahaha). Around that time I was watching Digimon, Beyblade, Cardcaptor Sakura, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Sailor Moon (probably a few more, can't remember atm) all on TV when I was in / before kindergarten until about first or second grade when they all went off air here. And then when I was about 8/9 years old around third or fourth grade, anime like FMA, Naruto, InuYasha, Bleach, One Piece, Eureka Seven, Death Note, etc. (mainly popular ones) started airing on a channel we got and I watched them whenever they came on religiously each week. That's what made me love it. I definitely had a few hiatuses here and there, getting back into it every couple years or something, but I got *really* back into it very recently, about a year ago or so after about two years of forgetting about it. I love anime so ridiculously much now and I'm glad I got back into it. I seem to take a lot of breaks and then get addicted to it all over again very often, though. Actually, I had been watching Ranma 1/2 since I was pretty young, around 8 or so, and re-watching some DVD's of it about a year ago made me get back into it more than ever. Now I watch anime everyday. |
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| About january this year i was late for college so my friend wasnt there to get the bus with and its a 40 min bus journey. For some random reason i thought about death note and thought i heard someone say it was good so i watched an episode of it on the bus and there you go xD after i watched that i started watching other things most recently have just watched lain and found it incredible :) |
| Does anyone else need a doctor to confirm that someone without a head is dead? |
| How I got into anime? Toonami. Best decision ever. |
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| Roughly a year and a half ago, I recently discovered how the piano appealed to me very greatly. A friend of mine held the same interest, and he sent me a video whose audio consisted of a piano piece bearing the most peculiar name - "Bink's Sake." Soon thereafter, I learned that it was an instrumental version of a song from a certain show...a Japanese one. I decided to listen to this Japanese song. Surprisingly, although not understanding a single word, I found its rhythm to be very "catchy" to the eventual point that I would hum its tune. Because of this, I chose to watch the show [apparently called an "anime"] where the song came from - with an initial intent of just wanting to hear said song being played. The full extent of that song came 379 episodes after the first episode. By that point, I was both evidently and completely submerged in anime culture. |
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| worked at a dead barnes and noble years and years ago. for some reason they had a copy of getter robo go. looked interesting, had heard of anime but never seen it. I didn't love it but it piqued my interest - voila! fandom attacked |
| My dad bought a Norwegian comic that had the first volume of the Love Hina manga with it as a plus. Started reading it, found out there was a TV show about it. Watched it, found out it was called anime, watched more of this so called anime. Loved it, though I must say my taste has changed somewhat over the years. So I guess you can kind of say my dad got me into anime. |
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| DBZ and sailor moon at first then other toonami shows then the anime on maguzi. then some on adult swim. then i quit watching it. then my cousin got me back into it by getting me to watch naruto. or u could say he forced me 2. and bleach came later and a few others. |
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| DBZ, Yugioh, Pokemon and Shaman King when I was like 5-10, like everyone else I didn't know it was anime. Then on youtube I happened to find scenes from Highschool of the Dead and it started from there |
| When I was younger I was a massive DBZ fanboy. I was aware that it was anime but I didn't like anime as a whole because of terrible shows like Naruto, 4kids One Piece and Yu-Gi-Oh GX. I loved the weirdness of Japanese culture but shows like Naruto had none of that charm. The show was so obvious with it's approach that even me, a gullible 9 year old, could tell how unoriginal the show was. Plus they were all just so damn boring Last year in November, an Australian games magazine had a special Japan issue. With it they had an anime preview disc with the first episode of a few shows. First I watched Highschool of the Dead. Even when I wasn't into anime, I had heard of Ikkitousen from that same magazine so I wasn't shocked by the fanservice. But the show was just so bad that I could not find any enjoyment in watching it. Plus the dubbing was awful Next I watched Rideback. That was boring. Then Black Butler. Too weird. That's when I found K-On. When I saw Yui playing her Les Paul in the opening I immediately wanted to see more. I'm a huge fan of classic rock music so I was amazed to see Slash's guitar faithfully recreated. Plus I love comedy so I wasn't too bothered by the conspicuous absence of the aforementioned music. But the part that really sold me was the end credits song 'Don't Say Lazy'. K-On then led me to Haruhi Suzumiya. Which led me to Lucky Star. Which led me into the wonderful world of anime. |
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| When I was young i had a VCR so watched the all disney classics! Esp. Beauty and The Beast, which was my favourite I used to want to be Belle. In fact waiting for the next Disney, not anime to come out was my life back then. I came home from primary school and watched non-anime like Gargoyles, TMNT, She-ra, My Little Pony, Animals of Farthing Wood, Red Wall etc... and when I went to visit my younger cuz, she had the disney channel and all the other anime/cartoon channels did I watch Pokemon/Digimon/Monster Rancher etc... Then quit watching for ages, till I joined MAL to keep track of all the anime I had started to watch again - started back with Hakushaku to Yosei. :D |
| I <3 ANIME! That is all You need to know! |
| My dad used to live in Japan in the 80's and my neighbors also used to live in Japan. They mostly really got me into anime with stuff like Gundam Seed, Ghost in the Shell and Full Metal Alchemist. Before I really knew what anime was though, I was still watching stuff like Pokemon, Digimon, Dragonball, Sailormoon and Escaflowne. |
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| Loved watching Rurouni Kenshin on Toonami, when they stopped playing bought the DVD's, started looking more into anime after that when I realized Miyazaki's films were also anime and was just like zomg. When I did a little research (wasn't exactly the best at working the internet back then) I found out I could watch things like Naruto on youtube... here I am like 7 years later (still sour about google buying youtube btw) now hopelessly lost in manga and anime. |
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| I started watching Wedding Peach, when I was 5 yeard old. And then more and more Anime where broadcasted in my country (well actually they where broadcasted in my neighbouring country, but since we speak a very similar language [most people even think we do speak the same language, but that's not true] I could also watch it). The Anime on TV became more and more but suddenly it stopped and they didn't braodcast any Anime anymore. So I started watching them on the Internet. |
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| I started by watching shows on the german tv station called RTL II.I did not know what animes were at the time but i definitely thought they were more badass than western animation,that hooked meup while i was like younger than 10 years old. |
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| I started to watch code geass 3 months ago during exam period (Really. in between my exams.) |
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| My descent into anime stuffs began during my childhood in mid-90's. My favorite show at that time was Sailormoon. I descended even further with Cardcaptor Sakura at 1999, and eventually truly got myself into anime with Neon Genesis Evangelion at 2006. |
| "All life begins with Nu and ends with Nu." However, in Gundam, all life begins with Nu and ends with Hi-Nu. While in KanColle, all life begins with Nu and ends with Kinu. |
| when I was young-gun, my elder brother and friends would watch it on VHS, i was around the age of 6. My brother's friends had a huge influence on me, I looked up to them. First series was Gundam Wing |
| well i had seen pokemon and stuff but the first real anime was code geass , it blew me away and i v been hooked ever since ... (wish i could see it again forthe first time ) |
| "I'm not going there to die. I'm going to find out if I'm really alive.Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop) see you space cowboy...  |
bluedragon777 said: I started by watching shows on the german tv station called RTL II.I did not know what animes were at the time but i definitely thought they were more badass than western animation,that hooked meup while i was like younger than 10 years old. haha must have been bad for those exams |
| "I'm not going there to die. I'm going to find out if I'm really alive.Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop) see you space cowboy... |
| i started with rurouni kenshin on TV. the show starts around 6 pm, also its dubbed. it was my fave anime on TV back then. so when we had PC and internet connection i rewatched it from start to finish that's 95 episodes with seisouhen and tsuiokuhen. |
| I remember one Saturday afternoon when I was about 8, I randomly walk into my brothers' room, looked up at the tv and saw a girl with bright red hair (Project A-ko) jumping from missile to missile toward a gigantic ship. I was hooked onto anime ever since. |
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| I started with the miyazaki movies as a kid, but what got me interested in anime was naruto. But what really hooked me was Haruhi Suzumiya. |
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| My friend added to his favourites on youtube some movies from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. I searched for this anime on google and i found there is moar and moar anime.Then I started to watch 'em all ;x |
| When I started lower secondary school here in Norway I got some friend who watched this show called Naruto. And I was like "Wtf is this shit", so I began watching it with a program called VEOH (We didn't know what torrent was, and stream had bad quality) and I just watched it. When sasuke and naruto fought on the water (ep 133 - 134) I was like "Oh SHI-!". I couldn't remember any names and the language was awkward. But it was fascinating, and Naruto became the best ever. When I found out there was more animes like One piece, and then later Hajime No Ippo which hooked me for good, Naruto became shit though. |
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| When I was still on third grade, my father used to rent video (80's betamax). My first anime is Casshern. I feel old now *sigh*. |
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| When I was a kid I watched Kimba the White Lion, Pokemon and Digimon on TV, but I didn't know they were anime as such. Then during my first year at uni I was bored one night and stumbled across this random Naruto Shippuuden clip on Youtube, the bit when Naruto goes into crazy four-tail mode and fights Orochimaru. I thought "Wow, this looks good!", so I proceeded to check out Naruto. But of course like most anime fans I soon realised there is more to anime than generic shounen like Naruto, but I'll always remember the early days when it got me into anime. |
| Pokemon + Gundam Wing + Outlaw Star= Me being completely in love with Anime. |
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| I think my journey with anime was pretty good. I started with dubbed things on British television, Cardcaptors and Dragonball Z which I adored, then some Big O and Escaflowne got shown which I loved but they were cancelled before I could watch them through. Until 10 years later the past 6 months and I've finished them both. I managed to watch streaming Ouran/Loveless/Strawberry Panic and read a lot of manga which I did because I enjoyed drawing... I quit anime and manga when I was around 15 to be less nerdy and more 'normal'. Even though I enjoyed it, it just disappated. At my absolute depressed low at university, I decided to finally watch the end of Big O, and a few months later I've watched series upon series, enjoying it all so much. It's been great tbh. |
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| I had just built my own computer and had it in my room, I decided I wanted to get some games and some stuff to watch, I had around 3 friends who liked anime so they set me up with bleach and naruto and now I'm here :P |
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| Hmm.. "into it".. I think my first anime was Ninja Scroll. Then my friend got some more on VHS like Akira and Ghost in the Shell. It didn't felt like i was getting into something. It was just something special to watch. I skipped a couple "mainstream" years that swamped our national TV and it was for the better. Many kids got all hyped up about it, but i never really cared. In the end i learned that many, if not all, of those shows where censored anyway, with dialog changed among other sins. Not too long ago a friend was wondering why i am not watching Anime, given that i like Asian cinema so much. I said i don't really know and so he recommended Bleach. It was a good show to boot and after completing it i wanted more. So i started to make my own research and the rest is history. Guess i got "into it" after all. :D |
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| Aside from the obvious Pokemon and Digimon, my brother convinced me to watch Angel Beats, and that did it. I was hooked. |
| -Bored At Friends House. -Picks Up Princess Mononoke. -Goes Home. -Watches Every Other Ghibli Movie. -Sad When Runs Out. -Googles "Good Anime". -Watches Clannad. -Watched All The Other Key Animes. -Broadens Horizons, And Delve. |
| I first watched shows like dragon ball z, Pokemon and yugi-oh and playing with the different trading cards from around when I was 5-6 until probably 12, the when I was 12 I read all of Naruto then when i was 13 i started watching a bit more then near turning 14 started watching more and now that im 14 i watch as much as i can whenever i can. |
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| I think I got into anime because that all techno songs on youtube often has a anime girl as pic... I guess I got interested because of that :P |
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