| Non Non Biyori Before I even watched this then I was only into action packed or gore-filled anime. I've been staying away from SoL anime or romance anime at all cost because I just thought they were way too boring. Once I watched it then it just caught my attention and I couldn't stop watching it. I laughed several times, smiled almost all the time, it was just perfect. The perfect anime I needed to watch to get a break from action anime and so. This anime opened up SoL anime and actually school anime as well. |
| Pretty much all my favorites are ones I didn't expect to be my favorites. |
| I didn't start watching Kekkai Sensen because I wasn't intrested. Friend told me to watch it anyways. oh boy I regret the first decision. |
| every single one of my forum posts is dumb and invalid except for 1, I don't claim them it was a different person it was all fake |
| ef: tale of Melodies - when IT became legit Romantic Psycho Drama |
| Is it GreanPeace? I don't think so - whine to your parents or tell'em to buy sth for ur buttpain. Those ppl won't help you. .. ..  |
| HxH for real i though it's about two lil kids playing fight and i was so wrong.....so so wrong...but this gave me a lesson not to judge animus by its cover |
daAmazinFatB0y said: So what anime did you originally avoid or drop because of a certain reason and then when finally gave it a fair chance became some of your favorite? -Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Watched the 1st 4 episodes, hated the ending of episode 4 and then episode 5 fueled my rage. I was like "wtf? why do that?" It had this 4 episode arc thing and then time would reset and I was thinking it was some Amagami S type shit where each arc is just different from the other, like alternate timelines...so I gave up on it....until I heard something that piqued my interest and continued watching. Damn it was amazing! -Steins;Gate The 1st episode put me off. It was sooo fkng confusing and I thought it was gonna be one of those mind fuck shows that would not make a lick of sense no matter what. I was VERY wrong! took me ages to take the 2nd plunge but it was damn worth it. I agree with these two and they have become 2 of my favourite animes of all time, higurashi being the best of the best in my opinion. |
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| Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. I was REALLY stubborn against this one, and refused to watch it for such a long time. I tried to get through the first few episodes when it first came out, but I couldn't stand how rushed they were and wasn't a fan of the animation style at first. So I dropped it for years until 2014 when I thought, "what the hell, try again." Plowed through the boring first stuff and fell in love with the rest. |
| Haikyuu. I really am not the sports anime kind of guy, but Haikyuu dragged me in. |
| HUNTER X HUNTER I watched half an episode about a year and a half ago, I didn't understand why it was so popular so I stopped watching it. It wasn't until a friend of mine asked me to watch it (because of Hisoka) that I finally gave it another go. Now I can't get enough of it and I'm sure I'm annoying all my family and friends since it's all I talk about now. |
| Bartender Saraiya Goyou Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2199 Kaiji Ergo Proxy NGE Mushishi Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin Sakamichi no Apollon White Album 2 Uchuu Kyoudai Monster Steins;Gate Gankutsuou Pretty much most of my favorites. |
| Anime itself Am i right ? XD XD XD XD XD Joke aside, there is too many for me to count. At least i will give 5 of them; Punch Line, Hayate no Gotoku, Aldnoah Zero, TTGL, Gatchaman Crowds One more; Aoki Hagane. One More Again; Steins;Gate. ONE MORE; AoT/SnK |
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| Akatsuki no Yona, I came into it expecting a moefication of history but it tots proved meh wrong. |
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| Durarara for me Ep 1 was boring af so I was like nope I gave it another try 2 months later and ended up completely loving it This scene made me laugh everytiem Video link |
| Without a doubt it would be BEN-TO. Who would think a show about getting lunch would be so much fun.It is one of the funniest anime I have ever seen and is now in my top 10 anime of all time. |
| Madoka Magica-The art style bothered me at first and it didn't catch my attention until after a few attempts at watching it. Higurashi-I wasn't aware of the time resets my first time watching it. They were a huge turn off for awhile. |
| Lovely Complex -- i thought the characters looked weird (in photos) and wasn't interested at all but then I finally got THAT BORED with a lot of anime and watched it. I'm rewatching it as we speak because I love it so much |
| Xtina is my mother! |
| Nichijou. When I watched it I was still pretty apprehensive about the concept of "slice of life" anime, but I ended up loving it. Also the Monogatari series. I've heard lots of polarising stuff about this show so I thought I was gonna either find it mediocre or flat out hate it, but now I can't get enough of it. You might be joking but this actually applies to me. I hated anime until 2014 and it took me a lot of leaving my "comfort zone" to even watch anime in the first place. |
| Osomatsu-san I really didn't like the visuals at first so I was wondering why it was so famous on Pixiv. But I tried it and it's hilarious af. ♥ xD |
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| I've actually avoided Death Note for a very long time, I thought it was just an overrated anime until I gave it a chance at last, and now it's my all time favorite anime. |
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| Watamote (obviously) I did expect to like it, but I would never have guessed that it would become my favourite. |
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| Free!. One day I started watching it out of boredom, with very low expectations, since everyone was telling that it's just a fujobait with no plot and with dull characters. It was totally different from what I heard about it (at least the first season), I ended up absolutely loving it, it was really suprising. |
fuyukiApr 8, 2016 6:56 AM
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| The two that caught me off guard were Nodame Cantabile (somewhat) and Maria-sama ga Miteru (massively). Nodame was mentioned numerous times on the recs board as a good one to watch so I was expecting at least a decent watch anyway. However, the cover art and the fact that it was about classical music caused me to sit on it for a long time. Needless to say it turned out to be an amazing title for me and I was kicking myself for putting it off so long. The real surprise was Maria-sama ga Miteru. This was just another shoujo romance title in my PTW that also happened to be shoujo-ai (it sports both tags). I even had to Google what shoujo-ai was. The cover was, frankly, pretty bland (no, it's not the pic below which is the one for season 4) though I did find those conservative long skirts the girls were wearing to be rather intriguing because pretty much every other highschool anime have girls sporting short skirts (for the obvious reasons). Anyway, months passed and it wasn't until I'd exhausted almost all the hyped romance titles that I gave this virtually unknown, hardly ever mentioned title a shot. Well, by episode three I was completely enthralled and won over by its characters, its classiness, wry humor and touching drama. What's more, due to the paucity of titles in the shoujo-ai genre it gave me a reason to properly investigate manga as a media and 95% of the manga in my PTR is now shoujo-ai/yuri.  So that one title become a favorite, I gained a favorite genre and it got me into manga. Definitely surpassed all expectations. So yes, there are sleeper hits for everyone (even sleeper genres) and it's one of the reasons why even strange titles deserve a fair look because one may never know... |
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| I think that would be Eureka Seven, it had been a long time in my list because didn't like very much the appearance of Eureka and also it was kind of old, and it is 50 episodes long, but when I decided to watch it I couldn't stop. I watched in 2 days. |
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| Basically all my fave were ones I avoided like the plague before eventually giving them a chance ie One Piece and Gintama. Both looked like shit to me but I finally was like ah fuck it and watched them |
| Azumanga I suppose. My first exposure to it was a drab synopsis and an ugly looking thumbnail, but the anime itself was amazing when I gave it a chance. |
| Gintama, I actually hated it before I watched it for no real good reason. Something about Gintama just turned me off, but one day I decided that it was dumb of me to hate something without watching it, so I decided to give it a watch. At 1st I thought I was right about it being overrated, but eventually it became a favorite of mine before I knew it. |
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| Akatsuki no Yona - I thought it was another generic reverse harem with a useless, annoying female protagonist surrounded by ugly guys, but oh boy was I wrong. So glad my friend was able to convince me to give it a chance. One of my most favorite anime, but also my #1 favorite manga Haikyuu!! - I actually watched a few episodes of it before and dropped it cause I'm not into the sports volleyball at all, but a few months later I tried it again and now it's one of my most favorite anime Hunter X Hunter - I always heard positive things about this series from other people, but I usually hate starting long-series anime and I thought the art wasn't very good and the MCs looked generic. But I just started watching it a few days ago cause I was bored and oh man, even though I'm only on episode 35 I love it so far. And most people say the best arc hasn't even come yet, so this definitely has potential to be on my top ten list anime |
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| Definitely Naruto and Naruto Shippuden. I told myself that I would never watch either of those series, but my curiosity got the better of me one day and now it is one of my top favorites. |
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| Osomatsu-san - thought it would be such a cheesy anime, even though it can be very vulgar I found it rather enjoyable. |
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| most of my favorites really, because i never expect anything of a series when i start watching it. |
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| Definitely gintama, first few episode were boring, but after like 20 episodes it turn out to be something awesome |
| Romeo x Juliet quickly became one of my favorites. At first, I thought it was going to follow the original Shakespearean play, which I thought was mediocre at best (though I enjoyed its simplistic humor). Turns out that the anime is absolutely different from the play, but in a positive way. The anime was thoroughly enjoyable and I loved most, if not all aspects of it. Also, I expected one of my absolute favorite anime/manga to this day, Yona of the Dawn, to be some type of reverse-harem historical bullcrap, but it became really good after the 5th episode. And it's not really a reverse harem either. |
| Log Horizon. Log Horizon. Log Horizon. 500x Log Horizon. I expected a SAO clone without the danger but instead received a story with brilliant characters and world building, with lots of societal commentaries. |
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Kuma said: that's devinitely gintama. the first episode is soo fucking slow, and without realize it, it's already grown become my favorites. 100% this. Also was not expecting HxH to be in my top 3 since I put off watching it for so damn long. |
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| Haikyuu. Never watched any sports anime before this nor was I keen to try one, but this series definitely changed my view. |
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| Fairy Tail: Thought it would suck and disappoint like other long running battle shounen I'd already tried, but fell in love with it after episode 20, after which it only got better (at least until the end of season 1). Seto no Hanayome: Thought it to be fairly generic comedy show at first, but it's absolutely hilarious. |
| Noragami Baccano I thought they would be boring (noragami cuz of tje gods) but it was awesome |
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| Shingeki no Kyojin - Now that I think about it at first I didn’t like how the Titans appearance (promo art) but when I saw them in the first episode + the flow of the story, I was instantly hook up to the series... and now I can’t wait for season 2! |
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| All of them, really. - Akuma no Riddle & Assassination Classroom I didn't find great from the first few episodes, but I was addicted to them by halfway through. - Tokyo Ghoul I avoided because I didn't like the poster, but then I watched both seasons in one day. - I knew nothing about Noragami but randomly clicked on it on AnimeLab and it ended up being great - Kamisama Hajimemashita I felt obliged to watch because it was recommended by a friend, but I was surprised at how emotionally invested I became in the story and characters. |
| kaichou wa maid sama... |
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