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Feb 21, 2017 9:41 PM

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A few years ago I found my Gameboy Advance SP with Pokemon FireRed in it. I had the random urge to play through the game, since I haven't played it in over 8 years. Fast forward and I beat the game, and thought to myself "It's 2013... shouldn't there be an MMO pokemon game?". I play through that and met some people, and they were talking about the anime. I had the sudden urge to watch gens 1-3 again, so I started watching the anime. Soon after I visited my cousin who had just moved, and I bought a 3DS and Pokemon X (they came out when I was visiting.). He was hyped about a Pokemon spin off type series that came out, which was Pokemon: The Origin. This was bad ass to me since it was way more mature and just overall more epic than the main show. Around this time my friend kept telling me to just watch Naruto. Since X and Y had just come out, I decided I would just catch up on gens 4 and 5, since I originally "quit" midway gen 3. Fast forward some more and I had finished the Black and White anime, and by now my friend was nagging me to finally start Naruto. And here we are roughly 3 years later lol.

TLDR My cousin showed me Pokemon: The Origin and I realized there were better, similar shows out there that I have never even thought about looking at before (being anime).
Mar 15, 2017 2:26 PM

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Hi everyone, this is my first forum post and I'm curious, how did all of you get into anime? What was the first anime show you watched in its entirety?

I've had kind of an up and down relationship with anime. I remember watching shows like Pokemon, Digimon, and Dragon Ball Z but I didn't actually watch any of them in their entirety. When I was still a kid I sort of lost interest in anime and for years I didn't watch any or look up stuff about it, although I would often hear some of my classmates talking about anime. I guess I thought anime was weird or uncool when I was a teen, although I secretly wanted to start watching it again. In high school I became a Studio Ghibli fan and saw most of that studio's films, after having seen Spirited Away on t.v. and falling in love with it, but I still didn't watch any anime series. I'm not sure why.

I am fascinated by Japanese culture so it's sort of weird that I didn't make more of an effort to watch anime shows earlier. Last year I finally began to watch anime and it was actually thanks to my family. One of my cousins was always talking about Hetalia and because of her I had seen some clips of the show on YouTube but I hadn't actually watched the show. Another one of my cousins wouldn't stop talking about his favorite anime series (One Punch Man, Attack on Titan, One Piece, etc.) One of the shows he mentioned caught my attention more than the others and since it was a new show and didn't have that many episodes I decided to give it a chance. That show was My Hero Academia (Boku no Hero Academia). I loved it and began to read the manga and now I'm eagerly awaiting the next season. That was the first anime show I saw in its entirety (well, it's ongoing but I've seen every episode that has been released so far) and that is the show that got me hooked again on anime. Yes, I know the opinion on that particular show is divided in the anime community but I liked it.

I then saw Hetalia and then my sister told me to watch Ouran High School Host Club because she had seen it before and now I have a huge list of anime shows I want to see (what have I been missing all these years!? lol). I've still seen very few shows (after Hetalia and Ouran I saw Fruits Basket and I'm now watching Fairy Tail, I'm not very far into it though). I guess you can say that Ouran was the first completed anime that I watched in it's entirety, since Hetalia is ongoing, I think. I'm still kind of new to this whole anime thing but I'm familiarizing myself with different anime shows with each day and have been spending quite a bit of time on this site lately, just browsing through the different shows.

Anyway, that's enough about me, what is your anime story?
Mar 15, 2017 2:31 PM

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Sure there were pokemon, spirited away, blue dragon, naruto
but it was bleach that got me into it really. My friend got me to watch a few episodes but I didn't like to hear japanese voices or read backwards black and white comics.
eventually I looked up how to watch family guy and american dad online, and i came across watchcartoononline.com. they had their own anime tab and even had bleach in english. watched a few episodes and wanted to see more and that was it for me :]
since they were dubbed, they had english names, so i just picked the ones that sounded the coolest
Mar 15, 2017 2:31 PM

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I hated anime, I despised it.
Originally didn't watch Pokemon for years because it looked bad, but when I gave it a change I became hooked. Didn't really get me more into anime though.
2015, still hated anime. People suggested Tokyo Ghoul, Sword Art Online & others to me before but wasn't interested, I was more into western animation.
I went to the school library to take the piss out of manga with friends (1 of them being weeb).
I pick up Detective Conan and am actually interested in it, start to watch on YouTube (when they weren't all taken down) and became hooked.
Here I am.
Mar 15, 2017 2:36 PM

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My first anime were actually Kaitou Saint Tail and Cardcaptor Sakura, I watched the Chinese dub for these shows when I was a teensie little child and I didn't even know what anime was.

Then of course I watched Pokemon when I was here in America, but I still had no clue what anime was.

The first anime I watched that I acknowledged as anime was, get this, Hyperdimension Neptunia: the Animation. The 2nd anime I watched after that was fucking Kantai Collection. This was in Summer of 2015 btw.

So yeah, I was exposed to anime pretty normally but got into it with shitty video game adaptations. It's weird.
Mar 15, 2017 2:45 PM
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I watched some stuff on TV as a kiddo without knowing it was anime (not talking about stuff like Dragon Ball but more so this type of stuff: Mitsubachi Maya no Bouken), when I was a little bit older tho still a kid my brother showed me Dragon Ball Z and later at some point Dragon Ball as well, I have rewatched Dragon Ball Z I think twice or thrice since and Dragon Ball one less then DBZ. Later I have seen Princess Monoke when I was 15 I believe.

EdIT: in my early teens (I believe it was somewhen that age.) I have also been watching pokemon and bakugan on TV.

When I was 17 at my school of of my buds was an anime fan and he was always watching anime at school, once when i was bored and we had no lesson for the entire day I decided to randomly ask him if he could recommend me some show, so he showed ne Code Geass and the rest? The rest is history ;D

But yeah later he showed me a few more shows after a certain moment I started picking my own shows to watch and one year later here I am on a weeb forum.
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Mar 15, 2017 2:46 PM

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when i was small i watched literally every cartoon we had on tv
eventually an anime block started airing and the rest is history
Mar 15, 2017 2:48 PM
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My first exposure to anime was Sailor Moon back as a kid. I enjoyed watching it every time it came on. As I grew older I eventually only watched Pokemon and the original YugiOh. Once Yuigoh was over, I didn't watch any anime for like a little over 7 years.

In April of 2012 was when I decided to watch an anime cause I was bored during my spring break. The show I chose was Durarara!! and after I watched it, I was then completely hooked into watching anime since then.
Mar 15, 2017 2:52 PM

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It just kinda happened. I regret it every day of my life.
Mar 15, 2017 3:09 PM

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I feel bad showing such passion. :(

Well I dunno, since my own anime has been adapted anyway.

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I dunno about you OP but mah anime is the best.
Mar 15, 2017 3:10 PM

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Well back in 2014 my irl friend asked me if i watched anime and i was like wtf is that "is it a game or movie or what" (LOL). He then told me about what it was and that it was japanise cartoons and i started constantly talking shit to him constantly calling him every insult there is, i called him childish, a faggot etc because i was uninformed and thought they werejapenise cartoons for children. But i started watching youtube videos "why do people like anime" and i gradually kept becoming more and more interested over the next 2 weeks of finding out about anime so i asked my friend for a really good reccomendation for me and he suggested attack on titan. I started watching attack on titan and i still didnt like anime for the first 5 episodes while watching because i wasnt being open minded what so ever but then it happened... i watched episode 6 of attack on titan and i was blown away, i was addicted. I had never been more mind blown in my life at how great it was, i just couldn't believe through watching the series how fantastic it was. I fell in love with that show and instantly became addicted to anime, i had to eat my words and i was constantly apologizing to my friend about just how wrong i was because i had never felt so wrong about something in my life. I have wached a lot of anime since 2014, i've watched around 65 shows including 3 long shows which have hundreds of episodes (naruto, bleach and fairytail). I''m also a big gamer and have been since i was 5 years old (currently 19) but anime took control of my lfie lol and i did nothing but binge watch anime for 4 months straight when i discovered it. I had never felt such strong emotion attachment to any entertainment before i found anime. I was so emotionally attached to every anime i watched but after 2 years of watching anime, unfortunately i no longer feel great emotional attachment to any characters or shows i watch these days but i still love anime :P, thats my story, so yes i was a anime hater turned avid anime fan and otaku. I'm glad i discovered anime because anime opened my eyes and made me a much more open minded person since and im open to trying much more things than just gaming. ps i used to be very close minded. [NOTE] you may be wondering how come i didnt know about anime to so late and that is because im from the UK and anime isnt on tv here and not a lot of people watch it, its much more of a niche here than it is in the US
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Mar 15, 2017 3:11 PM

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watched my first anime back in either 2013 or 2014 when i was a massive pixel rpg horror game fan - i loved corpse party and watched the tortured souls ova because it was corpse party related. early 2015 one of my friends was posting pictures of her watching elfen lied on her social media and it intrigued me so i checked it out. after that, another friend told me to watch death note - and so i did. for the next year or so i watched a show here and there but never really got too into it before last spring something randomly clicked and i started watching anime non-stop. i think i had a faint idea what anime was growing up but it never really interested me until i learned that dark, adult anime is totally a thing.
Mar 15, 2017 3:12 PM

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I started my anime obsession by watching Kids' WB from like 6am to 12pm which was when they had showings like Ultimate Muscle, Sonic, Yu-Gi-Oh, Dragon Ball, Yu Yu Hakusho, and One Piece were broadcast in just the morning.

So before classes began I would rush to eat my breakfast and start watching a few episodes before class, I could only really watch it on the weekend because I had school too early to ever finish watching more than 1 or 2 shows.

I stopped watching Kids' WB eventually and Dragon Ball managed to get onto Cartoon Network and then CN began to take over and play anime on Toonami which was when I got back into it for a few years until I realized I could watch them all online with subtitles. Wndows XP days.

Now I've probably seen a majority of all anime that's been released and I don't regret a second of it, anime is great and has a bad reputation because of that dreadful XXX version and the sexualization that's ridiculously overdone but all in all there's alot of really serious and enjoyable anime.
Mar 15, 2017 3:41 PM

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I had been exposed to the medium from a very young age as I was enamoured with Dragonball and Yu-Gi-Oh through pre-school and most of primary school. I didn't really think of them as being part of a separate medium from Western cartoons until I discovered what manga was thanks to my dad. He bought me some Yu-Gi-Oh and Detective Conan he found at the bookstore as a present and basically told me that they were Japanese comic books. I was always really big on comic books and I felt as the style and conventions of manga were unlike anything I had encountered in their Western counterparts.

My interest in the medium only escalated when I was channel surfing and stumbled across Animax (which is no longer around unfortunately), which happened to be airing an episode of the Black Jack OVA series. I was taken aback by the dark tone and mature subject matter that I was being exposed to, due to the fact that I had only really encountered child-oriented animation prior to it. This experience gave me a better appreciation of anime and I soon became absolutely spellbound by it.
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Mar 15, 2017 3:48 PM

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Saw an anime gif on the internet, it was from D-Frag, I decided to watch D-Frag and that's how I got into anime.
“Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's first law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth. But the world isn't perfect, and the law is incomplete..." -Alphonse Elric

"Then and now, what I protect has never changed!" -Sakata Gintoki

I'll take anything like The Pet Girl of Sakurasou. Anything as good as that.
Mar 15, 2017 3:53 PM

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romagia said:
when i was small i watched literally every cartoon we had on tv
eventually an anime block started airing and the rest is history
aahhhh the nineties right?..............
Mar 15, 2017 4:01 PM

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I remember as a kid I watched Howl's Moving castle and Ponyo, not really giving it another thought, just really thinking they were another animated movie. I never watched Pokemon because there were some shows my mom didn't want me to watch and I thought Pokemon was one of them (though I never asked her.) I vaguely remember watching episodes of Naruto but I that was when I was like five so.

Then when I was like 11 or 12 I found SAO and I became interested, because it seemed like a cool concept.

Ever since then it's been a downward spiral.
Mar 15, 2017 4:01 PM
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I was watching a YTer I liked a couple of years ago play Yandere Sim. I'd also watched him play a few other anime-esque games, like Misao or Ib or Corpse Party, and I knew it was associated with anime and I'd really liked watching those games and had wanted to play them for myself and all.

For some reason Yandere sim had that school setting that I really just wanted to see what it was all about, though, so I just kind of YT searched "good school anime" right in the middle of that video because I wanted something more out of it, found MistyChronexia or however you spell his name had a top 10 school anime list, clicked on it, #10 was Kenkou Zenrakei Suieibu Umishou, and so I just went with that to see what's up. Loved it.

I feel like the only notable thing about my story was the odd choice for a first anime, admittedly. Not many people seem to know about Umishou, but it's still in my favorites :V

Mar 15, 2017 4:10 PM

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My sister was marathoning Naruto at the time and I couldn't use my computer (I'm not sure, I think the motherboard was shot). Being bored, I joined her.

I was sitting there, completely numb for A LOT of episodes, after which I finally got up, said "this is shit" and decided that staring at the ceiling was preferable. And since my young, dumb mind was, indeed, immesurably dumb, whenever somebody mentioned anime, I was set to remembering Naruto. And for that reason, I did not touch anything anime related for years.

Fast foward to 2013, I started talking with a guy while playing a free weekend in some CoD. Then we played some osu! and since osu! is mostly buried in anime openings, I asked for a recommendation.
uz fuck it, there has to be SOMETHING entertaining there.

He pointed me towards Higurashi.

I am and forever will be grateful.
Mar 15, 2017 4:16 PM
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I watched Pokemon, Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh as a kid. A little later when I was 6-7, I remember watching Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon and Yu Yu Hakusho on Cartoon Network. I'm pretty sure it was Toonami already. I remember Dragon Ball Z being super popular. Anyway, I was still too young to understand those series. I had no idea what anime was, so I thought all of them were regular cartoons. I eventually stopped watching them because my parents thought they were too violent.

In 2005, I was watching Cartoon Network and I saw Naruto for the first time. I loved it immediately. I still remember the episode clearly. It was when Naruto and Sasuke were fighting Haku on the bridge and he used his Crystal Ice Mirrors jutsu. I thought it was freaking amazing and it was something I've never seen before. They were fighting, there was blood, it was serious. Well, I have seen that before with DBZ and YYH, but I forgot them.

After watching more Naruto, I eventually realized what anime was and that there were more stuff like it. After watching Bleach and One Piece on Toonami too, I was hooked. Yeah, the Big 3 got me into anime and that's why I'm still fond of them to this day.
Mar 15, 2017 4:18 PM

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I has been exposed to Japanese animation practically since I was a kid. TVs transmited series of the likes of Pokemon, Digimon, Doraemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, One Piece, Dragon Ball, Bobobo, Keroro and much more. I watched them almost as I watched western cartoons, and I liked all them very much (I was also part of that generation which grew with Dragon Ball).

Then I started to watch One Piece first, and Naruto later since I liked the series a lot, but after a while, they started to bore me a lot due the combination of fillers and slow pace and I eventually dropped them.

I never got very hooked to anime until starting to watch Bleach back in 2011, who was the first time I enjoyed a Japanese cartoon in a way I never enjoyed before. After the end of Bleach, I took a hiatus in the world of manganime until discovering Blood+ in Animax. I ended liking the series so much that I decided to watch more animes to see if I could find something that I could like as much as that. And that was how I became a full-fledged anime fan.
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I was walking down a dark alleyway minding my own business when suddenly a man in a trench coat loomed out of the shadows and whispered "you wanna buy some animes?"

Well of course I obliged the kind gentleman and I've been hooked on anime ever since.
Mar 15, 2017 4:30 PM

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Bobby2Hands said:
I was walking down a dark alleyway minding my own business when suddenly a man in a trench coat loomed out of the shadows and whispered "you wanna buy some animes?"

Well of course I obliged the kind gentleman and I've been hooked on anime ever since.


Wow....creepy. Lol, which anime did said gentlemen sell you?
Mar 15, 2017 4:32 PM

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IzukuKirishima said:
Bobby2Hands said:
I was walking down a dark alleyway minding my own business when suddenly a man in a trench coat loomed out of the shadows and whispered "you wanna buy some animes?"

Well of course I obliged the kind gentleman and I've been hooked on anime ever since.


Wow....creepy. Lol, which anime did said gentlemen sell you?

I think he said it was called...Heroin.
And the weird thing is you don't watch it, you melt it on a spoon, put it into a hypodermic needle and inject it straight into your veins.
But still a pretty good series, I would give Heroin a solid 9/10
Mar 15, 2017 4:35 PM

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romagia said:
when i was small i watched literally every cartoon we had on tv
eventually an anime block started airing and the rest is history
aahhhh the nineties right?..............
No; it's A+, a poorly documented eastern european 4 hour block which eventually got bought by Animax. The only reference i can find related to its birthday is on the czech wiki, which dates it 2004. Which sounds right as i remember watching animax at my then best friend's 10th birthday.
https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animax

Virtually all people i know from my country who watch anime were following A+ or Animax. It had a bunch of shows i think were on Toonami at that time, most memorably Slayers, YuYu Hakusho, Blue Gender and Cowboy Bebop. We also had some forgettable early 2000 ones like Tokyo Mew Mew and Kiddy Grade.
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Bobby2Hands said:
IzukuKirishima said:


Wow....creepy. Lol, which anime did said gentlemen sell you?

I think he said it was called...Heroin.
And the weird thing is you don't watch it, you melt it on a spoon, put it into a hypodermic needle and inject it straight into your veins.
But still a pretty good series, I would give Heroin a solid 9/10



Hmm...interesting. How strange, an anime you can't watch. But if you say it's good I believe it.
Mar 15, 2017 4:45 PM

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As a child, I was actually pretty much, unknowingly, surrounded by anime. My two older brothers always watched Naruto and Pokemon and played Yu Gi Oh. I payed no attention though and didn't really know what anime was. When aged around 12, I saw a YouTube gamer play the Corpse Party game. After watching a few videos of the game, I watched the anime and I really liked it. Somehow, I still didn't really know what anime was. Finally, when I was 13 a friend of mine was completely obsessed with anime. She drew amazing manga and always talked about Hetalia. At the time I understood that anime was 'Japanese cartoons'. Later that year, my best friend and the friend I mentioned earlier were talking about Black Butler and Death Note each school morning. That's when I watched those animes and completely fell in love. I've been watching anime ever since...
Mar 15, 2017 4:53 PM

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Watched TV as a kid and found that the only shows that looked good were anime (DBZ, Inuyasha, Yu Yu Hakusho). Friends later introduced me to anime they thought would be "right up my alley" (Higurashi, Elfen Lied, Code Geass), and they were. The rest is history, as they say...
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Like most frenchies (I think it's the same for italians), I grew up with mostly anime on television. Ranma 1/2, City Hunter, Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, Ie Naki Ko, etc etc. My father use to earn a living drawing, so when I got older we saw a fair deal of movies or TV shows. Most Ghiblis, Ghost in the Shell, Jin Roh, Ninja Scroll, Escaflowne and a bunch of other shows. And NGE.

NGE was the only anime show I watched in it's entirety for the next ten years. I started rewatching it more and more until the last streaming I knew was taken down, and that's when I started DLing. NGE, then other shows based on recommendations, including Ergo Proxy, Shoujo Kakumei Utena and Kill la Kill. I joined MAL shortly after that and started digging into over-the-top anime and shows with weird art styles.

I think I'd watch cartoons from other countries if they weren't all aimed at kids. I always loved animation, and I'll probably rewatch stuff like Time Squad, Spawn, or the 90's Batman one day.
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As a kid, I had the weirdest tastes compared to everyone else. Thought I didn't know it was anime at the time, everyone would talk about Dragon Ball Z and stuff on Toonami they would watch in secret like Cowboy Bebop and Fullmetal Alchemist. They also liked American superhero shows like Transformers and Power Rangers. I was the only one who despised these shows and thought they were boring because they felt like just action and flashy effects with nothing else to get me invested. I liked Pokémon but only because a friend had gotten me into the games and it was cool as a kid to see what it might be like in action. That was my idea of anime for a long time.

Going on, I made friends who tried to introduce me to SAO and AOT and I hated them for mostly the same reasons, and I didn't realize anime was so diverse so I assumed I hated anime. The end of my junior year, I was heavily involved in my schools concert band, and a Facebook page I liked mentioned that an anime about band was airing, so naturally I checked it out and was shocked that I loved Hibike Euphonium for its human characters and drama as much as its familiar subject matter. I googled similar anime, found Your Lie in April, cried like a baby, and thus my addiction began.
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Well, it began with Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon, CCS, and a few more in the blend that were on Television during that time (Mid 90's-Early 2000's.)

But that was just a taste. It really took off in 2000 with Ranma, Slayers, Mai-HiME, Magic Knight Rayearth, Love Hina, Bubblegum Crisis 2040, Furuba, Serial Experiments Lain, Evangelion, which were all my real exposures to anime titles that continue to be my favorites to this day. They were all watched socially, so besides the stuff that I watched on TV during those days, I really started off being a social anime watcher.

But somewhere along the road, I kind of just went back to being a soloist when it comes to watching anime. :3

But I still watch the occasional anime with a few people here and there! ^^

To this day I can look back at classic anime, and just get blown away by how must quality went into many of their screen-time scenes, that not many of the newer series I've seen seem to know how to replicate. XD

But today, I love anime like Gintama! :3
Mar 15, 2017 5:08 PM
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i grew up a GIGANTIC cartoon fag, then pokemon and digimon came out and i realized i liked japanese cartoons to the point where i stopped caring for western stuff
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It was back in 2015, My reason was that I was very bored at that time because I'm a hardcore gamer but stopped my online game I was playing, also due to life pressure and after many friends tried to convince me to watch anime. Needless to say I used to watch Yugi and Digimon like most people when I was very young. My first Impact was Attack on titan and it was good but i wasn't really hooked into the field (But that's not anymore when season two came and I realized AoT is a masterpiece to me). Then I was looking into some nice collection of scenes for anime over the youtube, I saw two scenes was from Clannad, Although I didn`t know they were the 2 major spoilers of the whole anime with its 2 seasons and I still want to punch myself because I did that. I decided to give it a go, Then it became the one that opened my eyes wide to anime world and that was something I didn't expect because i was never a fan of those genres but not anymore since then
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I got into anime through my oldest sister's drawings (she was 18 at the time now 25, and I had to be 8 or 9 at the time now 16). I admired them a lot (she was pretty good). One day when she was drawing, I asked her what she was drawing, and she answered, "anime."

I was hooked since then, but the things was, I thought it was only an art style (technically it is an art style, but I thought it was only art. Like I didn't know there were stories and shows), so I began drawing anime eyes, other facial features, and hair.

This happened for a few years until one time, on youtube, I came across an amv (back when they were popular), a mermaid melody amv to be exact (it was actually this exact amv). I watched it so many times I memorized the whole video. XD

Then one day, I got to thinking and came to a realization, "what if this is actually a show?" (I had to be 10 at this point) so I searched on youtube "Mermaid Melody episode 1" and it appeared. I was so amazed, and thought it was the coolest thing ever.
Ever since that day, I've been in love with anime (well I mean it was actually my sister's drawings that got me into anime but that video brought me to anime shows).

A few years later, after discovering new anime, I looked back at my sister's drawings (from time to time I'll look and admire the stuff she drew) and realized the anime characters she drew were actually from some series (Sasuke from Naruto, Mizuki from Hana Kimi, and Fuko from Clannad to name a few).

My sister also got me into drawing. She says that I'm the continuation of her artistic side (she doesn't have the time to draw or watch anime/read manga anymore since she's working and is married).
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Like most of the people here, I used to watch anime when I was a child. I remember the last thing I watched then was Howl no Ugoku Shiro.

Then, during my edgy pre-teenager years, I stopped watching anime, I think I thought cartoons was something for kids or something. One day, when the edgystorm passed, dunno why, I decided to ask a weeb friend of mine where could I rewatch Dragon Ball for the lulz. Then I watched One Piece, then Naruto, Bleach and Fairy Tail. After some time I decided to give airing shows a try. Some time later, after some attempts, I started with manga. A year after that, I read my first Visual Novel and became a Fatefag. a year and a half after that I joined this site.

Think that's all.
 
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my anime history?
eh as almost everyone around here that started by watching som of the more famous series that were airing in television like dbz shaman king digimon and pokemon
i had a long hiatus in my anime watching until i was 14 though and i only came back because inazuma eleven was airing when i was 13 and its childish story somewhat touched in ways that nothing else at that time could
but to start watching other new series it was necessary some pressure from my social group that i was really into naruto and one piece at the time.from there until today anime always reamined the only constant in my ever changing sources of entertainement(movies books sports)
Mar 15, 2017 10:42 PM
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Hey Everyone,
I was just wondering what anime was the anime that really got you into anime. Whether it be a movie or a series let me know. I just thinking about this the other day and when I was younger I was really into Sailor Moon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon. However, those are all really main stream and I learned that later on. Anyways it wasn't until I was alittle older that I really started watching all kinds of anime.

So how did everybody else start getting into and watching anime and what was your starter?
Mar 15, 2017 10:46 PM

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Sao was the first real "anime" that i saw, it was 2 years ago and my friend tied me to a chair and forced me to watch it.


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Mar 15, 2017 10:56 PM

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Higurashi got me into anime. it was interesting seeing an animated series that was not just silly humor, so i kept watching anime and iv been here ever since
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Mar 15, 2017 11:01 PM

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Carnivoir_Kitty said:
Hey Everyone,
I was just wondering what anime was the anime that really got you into anime. Whether it be a movie or a series let me know. I just thinking about this the other day and when I was younger I was really into Sailor Moon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon. However, those are all really main stream and I learned that later on. Anyways it wasn't until I was alittle older that I really started watching all kinds of anime.

So how did everybody else start getting into and watching anime and what was your starter?


Basically the same shows, plus DBZ, although I primarily credit Sailor Moon (the others followed soon after, though). My first anime was actually Speed Racer, but Sailor Moon was the first show I understood was anime and made me to want to find more. At the time I didn't really understand how much anime existed, and every time I came across a title I'd never heard of I thought it was "new." I legit thought there were like...ten anime. That's a fourth grader for ya'.

28 now and still searching for more. At least now I understand that there is basically an endless supply, and it saddens me that I'll never see it all.
Mar 15, 2017 11:13 PM
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When I was around 5, I remember they played a lot of Gundam/car related anime series in China. So when Digimon season 1 came on, I was instantly hooked by how great it was. For a kids show, Digimon was like nothing else. Great characters, serious storylines, real villains, and a lot of tragedy that a kid would never see anywhere else.

Eventually, my aunt got me the first three seasons, which were all great.
Mar 15, 2017 11:21 PM

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I watched Gundam DB DBZ and Sailor Moon first they were pretty popular when I was a kid. But Ghibli movies are what got me more interested in anime.
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Mar 16, 2017 1:13 AM
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My first anime was Sailor Moon, but after my cousin introduced me to Dragon Ball Z, I did start seeking out things that looked like it-- other anime even though I didn't know what it was called.

I don't think there's a particular series that made me change from randomly watching a few episodes of a series to actually watching more and more at a relatively steady rate. It's more of a what happened:

1. It's now easier to find series online compared to 1998-2006.

2. I started watching anime while doing my daily exercises in about 2012. I don't anymore (since my job is so active), but I kept up the anime watching habit.

3. I do near everything while watching anime now. Folding clothes, drawing, sewing-- whatever. Thanks to laptops/phones, you can take your anime with you instead of being limited to where the DVD player/Netflix-installed device is.

4. My friend once showed me how actively she used her MAL account to pretty much drop everything. I was inspired and started to actually use my MAL account, but to use it I'd have to actually watch more anime than I had.

What actually bums me out is that I don't think I've finished nearly every anime/manga I've watched/read that I consider to be a big push in me seeking more anime/manga. DBZ, Sailor Moon, Pokemon, Cardcaptors, Naruto, Love Hina, etc.

Also, I want to say that manga actually played a big part in getting me to watch more anime. Nowadays, I watch an anime then probably never seek anything else out about it even if I liked it. Back then, I'd read the manga THEN watch the anime, often following the manga page by page, line by line until the episode would start drifting into something else. Shounen Jump was my life from elementary school until my mom started to consider it too expensive to keep subscribing to. I kept all my volumes though! And then Love Hina and Di Gi Charat inspired me to draw in the manga style, which is something I've sorta grew away from, but still influences my style a little.

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Mar 16, 2017 2:28 AM

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As a kid, i was really into DBZ. However, Death Note is the show that really got me into anime and actually made me go and check out what anime means.
Mar 16, 2017 2:58 AM

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Naruto for sure...
A popular local channel in my country airs naruto that got me into anime since i was 6 years old
Mar 16, 2017 2:59 AM

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Hitman reborn was the one that REALLY got me into anime.
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Mar 16, 2017 3:05 AM

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i thought that this was a post that was going to ask if you made an anime show what would it be
Mar 16, 2017 3:17 AM

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I have watched anime since I was a kid without the knowledge of them being anime like the shows on cartoon network, i.e. Pokemon, Naruto, Bakugan, Zoids, B-daman, Beyblade. Then I usually watch some random shows on other channels on our TV.

It was only until in 2014 when I started watching anime with the knowledge of them being anime. The anime that got me hooked unto the medium was Accel World and it's still one of my favorite shows despite its flaws.

Ever since then I started watching anime online and boom here we are today.



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Mar 16, 2017 3:26 AM

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Cowboy Bebop was my first anime. After that I got into the typical battle shounens. Then one day a friend told me about Steins;Gate, which was the show that really got me into anime.
Mar 16, 2017 3:35 AM

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When I was in elementary school I liked Pokemon, Digimon and Dragon Ball but it didn't get me into anime, I didn't like these shows more than any other cartoon on TV. Then when I was 17 I accidentaly saw Death Note on late night block on TV and this is how everything started.
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