| I never developed an interest in the real world. |
| Short version: Friend at school showed me Naruto -> watch more Naruto -> Google Naruto (fansites) -> Starting to know the word 'Anime' -> Google it -> Watch more -> addicted. Long version: http://myanimelist.net/blog.php?eid=724951 |
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| Downloaded Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children randomly from ApexDC++. Then looked it up and found anime. Also I guess Naruto to an extent since that was the first thing I downloaded after seeing the first 20 something episodes like 10 times on some Cartoon channel. |
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| Watched Shaman King on Jetix as a 6-7 year old then watched Naruto on Animax when I was around 9-10 years old. |
Grusomhed said: I became an anime fan thanks to Pokemon. [s] Pokemon is love, Pokemon is life. |
| watched some ecchi on youtube |
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| from the awful dubbing of dbz |
| save all the cute girls from ntr manga |
| Random youtube videos |
| when i was 11 my friend forced me to watch elfen lied. i liked it but i still wasn't into anime at the time, then last year i was extremely bored and i felt like watching elfen lied again. i watched it again and got hooked, searched up for other animes to watch and found death note.. and yeah. got addicted. |
| Attack on titan picked my curiosity and a friend told me to watch it right now ... and here i am, being a no-life watching anime all the time, fuck yeah! |
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| I watched DBZ then after seeing I was hungry for more animes |
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| Saw FMA 2003 on TV |
| My friend showed me Bible Black. Instant convert. |
| Sieg Zeon! |
| When I was a wee child, my cousin introduced me to anime. That was when I was about 4 years old. I had been watching Sailor Moon around the same time, but it was only after my cousin told me about Dragon Ball Z that I started seeking other things like it; Pokemon, Digimon, Monster Rancher,Tenchi, Gundam, Cardcaptors, etc. Toonami and Adult Swim ended up being heroes to me of sorts, ha hah. If I saw that characters had "those weird eyes" then I'd watch it. There's never been a year when I wasn't watching anime after I was first introduced. |
| Back in 2013 i saw my friends watching this clip/video of bleach while i was walking past them. Back then Bleach was really popular lol. So later that day I went home and watched a few episodes...... I instantly liked it xD Now I'm more into other genre though. |
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| Some horrible ytp convinced me to watch Death Note. |
| Remi Sarah Cedi Tom Sawyer Atrash |
#CHEXIT |
| Anime had been around me for as long as I remember, since in Hong Kong, anime was just really a set norm. It continued even when my family moved to Canada, titles like Doraemon, Crayon Shin-chan and most Ghibli films were some of my most-viewed anime back then. I have to say that I already thought quite highly of anime at that time, since Princess Mononoke is still probably my favourite film. I would say that my family is probably one of the main reasons on why I like anime so much. Seeing anime in both Cantonese and English from the television was what kept up my anime watching time. Pokemon, Spider Riders (Spider Riders! Lets ride~, part of the OP that I remember) are some of the titles that I really liked as a child. For Cantonese dub, Condor Hero and Cooking Boy took was what I looked forwarded to during the weekends. Naruto and Bleach were from my middle school times, but I wouldn't call it the catalyst, but those 2 were probably one of my earliest titles that I watched online. While watching those two primarily and sharing the hype with some friends, I started browsing the web in search of more anime to watch. It soon brought me to MAL, after using the top list and watching titles like Clannad, My Bride is a Mermaid, and Da Capo (I remember I copied out Kotori's song to sing it sometimes), and thus my user name and it just went up from there. So, if I was to name one event, I would probably point of to romance anime, but that itself is not significant enough without what lead up to it. Typing this out was quite fun. *puts into my "about me" section* |
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| By drinking the blood and devouring the flesh of a previous anime watcher. |
| "Let Justice Be Done!" My Theme Fight again, fight again for justice! |
| I remember that i had just rewatched Pirates of the carribean when i remembered about a show about pirates that i had seen on the tv when i was little.So i searched a lot and finally found that it was called One Piece so i started watching it and i was hooked immediatelly.Writing this reminded me that i can't wait for the next Pirates of the Carribean movie i miss Jack and that monkey :D |
FatefulLove said: Anime had been around me for as long as I remember, since in Hong Kong, anime was just really a set norm...[/s] I am British-born-Chinese & anime has pretty much always been part of my life as well. My family would rent videotapes & watch stuff on TVB etc. Doraemon, Yamato Takeru, Creamy Mami, Cooking Boy, Sailor Moon, IQ professor etc... Later my sister introduced us to the Shonen classics like One Piece, Hunter x Hunter, Yu Yu Hakusho & other popular stuff like Cardcaptor Sakura. I must have watched a good 40+ titles before I got fed up of watching things other people recommended. Stopped watching for a few years, then after my trip to Japan 2 years ago I got curious & started looking for shows that interested me. Have been addicted since. |
ramenshojo said: That's nice to hear, but yeah, TVB was a really important part of my childhood. The titles you mentioned looks quite familiar, especially IQ professor, though I don't remember much about them. I do remember part of the opening from IQ professor, but I somehow can't remember me actually watching it. Old Master Q was also an important one and some other non-Japanese made cartoons. I was influenced by my brother on what ever anime he would be watching, I'll be watching, though I'll probably put only Crayon Shin-chan on him. Looking back, they were quite the fun times to be in, especially Doraemon is still a series I really think highly of. It just doesn't get old. |
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RedRoseFring said: By drinking the blood and devouring the flesh of a previous anime watcher. Is there any other way. |
Where the fuck did Monday go? |
| I was bored as fuck and gave some cartoon my brother was talking about a shot And then it began.. |
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| I was browsing 9gag, found a picture with an anime recommendation. It sounded interesting, I gave it a shot and here I am today |
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| had nothing to do and watched death note cause i had heard of it then i just watched more stuff |
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Chiplette said: They used to air a lot of anime everyday back then so it's hard not to get into anime ; u ; Yup, Sailor Moon, Pokemon, Digimon... they were everywhere on TV. I just grew accustomed to watching cartoons over the years. :) |
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| I saw a commercial for attack on titan on adult swim and decided to check it out. |
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| I got into Naruto after I found out a friend of me watched it. I was watching some AMVs of Naruto and I saw this AMV: I watched this show because it looked interesting. I searched for it and found out that there are a lot more anime, so I watched a few of them and ever since than I as hooked. |
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Halicone said: Chiplette said: They used to air a lot of anime everyday back then so it's hard not to get into anime ; u ; Yup, Sailor Moon, Pokemon, Digimon... they were everywhere on TV. I just grew accustomed to watching cartoons over the years. :) |
| When I was little I started to watch Yu-Gi-Oh! until my mother quit letting me because she's an awful person, and when I got older I watched Yu-Gi-Oh!, DBZ, and InuYasha at about the same time. That + me discovering the internet = here I am. |
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| By watching this: |
| "Let Justice Be Done!" My Theme Fight again, fight again for justice! |
| Via Bible Black. |
Praland said: Kamehameha |
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| I did some drugs, got pretty fucked up -- ended up in the hospital for a while. I was lookin' for a good fap in the middle of the night when I came across some nice hentai, and damn I jerked like a mad man to that hentai. Anyhow, after that I accidentally clicked on a somewhat hardcore ecchi show. Unwillingly, I started down the weeaboo path! Oh the misery that followed! |
| My interest for anime started back in 2012 when I found the first episode of Sukitte Iinayo on a certain site and decided to watch, only to try because I was bored. I got absolutely stuck with anime since then. |
| For some reason, I can vividly remember my experience with first getting introduced to anime. I was the sort of kid that watched a lot of different random cartoons as a child. Yes, I watched THE original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon...as well as shows like Garfield and Sonic SatAM. A lot of those shows were kinda going to the wayside during the late 90s and I wasn't enjoying a lot of new shows. Then, I just decided to tune into Fox Kids one Saturday morning and they (as of a week prior) started showing anime style shows. The first one that aired that I watched was a show called Escaflowne. I was FUCKING ENTHRALLED! The show was amazing! Then, I saw a few others like Digimon and Monster Rancher. I really liked Digimon and give it the credit for getting me into anime because Escaflowne was cancelled shortly after I started watching it, but Digimon was on for practically ever. Monster Rancher kinda sucked...I really liked the intro...but the show itself was pretty terrible. I didn't have cable TV as a kid (I grew up in a poor family where all we had was an antenna). I rediscovered my love for anime in college when I would watch Adult Swim and Anime Unleashed. |
| Saw a giant robot gif. Turned out it was Gurren Lagann, watched it. |
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AudioDruid said: Through a friend. Also grew up with a few, but I didn't know that they were animes when I was littler. |
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