What was your method of finding new anime when you first got into anime/didn't know of that many anime you'd want to see?
| Used to get recommended Yt videos that where in Japanese that had 100 or so openings from various anime. I'd go down to the comments and they'd timestamp which anime where at which parts of the videos and I'd check one out if the anime looked cool. Yu Yu Hakusho, Rurouni Kenshin and Hokuto no Ken where among these I remember watching and finishing. Once I discovered MAL I didn't really have to go out and discover anything. |
| What ever came on the Tv & whatever we rented from the video stores. |
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| At the very beginning I was choosing the titles with interesting visual key/visuals at one site. Later I've started doing the same in another site. When I've joined Mal I added some stuff to PTW from top 100 and than I was adding there stuff from opening list, some specific scenes list [ex. top hand to hand combat in anime], animemusicquiz which got me interesting and I guess that's it. - I do the same till today with adding to PTW, but I also use some sites which generates random titles, AWC items are involved into my decision of watching, yeah alot of stuff which I watch in nowadays excluding the Seasonals are actually random stuff which I picked completely blind - Actually I go blindly to all titles x) [Obv excluding the sequels] |
| That time i knew nothing about anime i had only Amazon prime, so the first anime i watched was Vinland saga and stil it is the greatest anime for me. And i saw some more show there like dororo and banana fish. I never tried to find what to watch, i just saw anything that came on the screen |
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| typing "best anime openings all time" in youtube and choosing smth based on opening |
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| "What was your method of finding new anime when you first got into anime/didn't know of that many anime you'd want to see?" Advertisement and word of the mouth of course...was surprised to find out that the most popular stuff like Dragon Ball, Ranman 1/2 ect. was quite cheaply made, boring and repetitive. Also randomly watched the Eva movie without knowing there are series...my first anime which unapologetically trolls its viewer. |
alshuMar 6, 2023 1:03 AM
| As you might guess, a lot of these methods are from the pre-streaming/pre-YouTube era of the early/mid-2000s when I first got more seriously into anime: * Very old anime movies and episodes that I saw on VHS tapes my parents rented and/or copied. * Shows aired on US TV, that I either saw or heard friends / family talking about, with the first "anime I knew was anime" being Sailor Moon sometime in the late 90s. * Random mentions on forums. * Seeing or hearing about certain anime at my local/university Anime Club. Which led to my discovering animenewsnetwork by Google searches for terms like "Pacifica anime" after briefly walking in and seeing part of a random episode of Spring 2003's Scrapped Princess. * Seeing trailers on DVDs I'd bought, starting with ADV's releases of the old, heavily-edited/censored DiC dub of Sailor Moon. * Browsing the shelves at Blockbuster and trying out random titles. * Random episodes of stuff shown on The Anime Network on Demand through the digital cable service my roommates and I had in 2004-06, including Pretear, Final Fantasy Unlimited, Angelic Layer, Comic Party, Arc the Lad, Full Metal Panic, Chobits, Petite Princess Yucie, and Rune Soldier Louie. * Anime Music Videos, which I first discovered via Anime Club (see quote below). * Anime that my friends and roommates would give/lend me on CD-R, often with random mixes of fansub groups for shows not yet released in the US. (Including Chrono Crusade, Fruits Basket '01, Fullmetal Alchemist '03, Trigun, and Outlaw Star) ** Technical note: the hard drive of the first PC I owned, from 2000-2005, was a whopping 10 GB -- not even enough for a contemporary 1080p Blu-Ray release of a single movie. External hard drives cost upward of $1/GB, for the early ones I bought. So playing or copying/deleting files off CD-Rs was the only feasible option for myself and probably many others in that era. Ever wonder why old (i.e. pre-2008) files you might encounter are typically 175 MB, or 233 MB per episode? Because those sizes allowed either 4 or 3 episodes to fit evenly on a 700 MB CD-R. Movies were often split into multiple parts at ~700 MB apiece. Some later releases were set at 340 MB (= CD-R / 2) to fit 13 eps on a DVD-R, in order to burn a complete 1-2-cour series on 1 or 2 DVDs. * Browsing torrent sites like AnimeSuki and others. * Checking out other releases from fansub groups I followed. For instance, watching Lunar's Bleach releases led me to DLing/watching their releases of Aishiteru ze Baby, Suzuka (the first "seasonal" anime I watched as it came out), Canvas 2 ~ Rainbow Sketch, Grenadier, Rumbling Hearts, Ouran Highschool Host Club, and Brighter than the Dawning Blue. After that, I got experienced enough with the genre tagging and recommendation systems of sites like ANN, AniDB, MAL, and Anime-Planet to find pretty much anything I could want or be interested on my own. Ishitateso said: Watching AMVs. They were pretty good source of recommendations a decade ago - short, informative, atmospheric music videoclips put together by fans that could pique one's interest about unfamiliar series. I don't even know whether they are still being made, haven't tried to find new ones for years. AMVs are still very much a thing (albeit not as much as they used to be), as seen by the continued existence of their longtime headquarters: https://www.animemusicvideos.org/home/home.php |
| When I didn't really know what to watch some anime websites had a random button, and when you clicked it it gave you a random anime. I did the 3 episode rule and sometimes the animes were lowkey fire (I still do it sometimes). |
| I began watching anime on Hulu (back when it was free with ads), so I just browsed what else was in the site's catalog. |
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| Browsing through Facebook videos to find new anime videos and watch that series |
Complex Stories are basically sleeping pills . Helps to get some sleep . |
| Before MAL's seasonal chart. First I used AnimeS portal for anime and manga, I don't think it exists anymore. After that, around late 2010, I found on Google images this thing called "a visual guide to upcoming TV anime airing from this month to that month. And I used that for a while. |
| I was an avid reader of reviews, back when "I'm this guy, I have a website where I review anime and do nothing else" was where they all were. |
| The same as it is currently Random recommendations from internet (specifically from youtube comments) |
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| Googled for something similar to DB/DBZ (wasn't even looking specifically for "anime" at the time) or got recommendations from people on forums I was on. Also watched a couple anime (Azumanga Daioh, Welcome to the NHK!) because of an anime club I went to a few times. |
"The f**ker who goes round beating people to a pulp. He thinks it'll never happen to himself. But there's gonna be a day when the f**ker gets f**king beaten to a pulp too. But that day's f**king today and the guy doing the beating is a f**king c**t." - Sang-hoon, Breathless (2009)    |
| I used to watch a lot of OP's and the openings that I clicked with I ended up adding in my PTW. |
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| I used to just click on shows and read the synopsis. This was around 2010 that I started exploring online anime streaming sites, and I basically looked through every show that was available. I was watching anime for years before finding out about anime communities like MAL. |
 A society which fails to uphold empathy as its foremost guiding principle is doomed to ignore or even defend the exploitation of its most vulnerable members. |
| I watched anime that youtubers recommended. |
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| Mostly random recommendations from people that I knew back then, and a lot of those recs are absolutely hated by me even to this day lol and sometimes it was just the result of experimentation and not being picky enough. If there is something with an extremely low score on my list, it's almost guaranteed that it's one of those hated things from the past. They definitely brought the most "ruin" to my MAL mean score. |
| I saw different reviews and read about them. |
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| i only got into anime recently and i used youtube to find recomendations first i discovered trash taste and used the podcast to get recommends but i quickly noticed that we have vastly differing tastes so then i just turned to google and searched stuff like "horror anime" or something, then i just looked through crunchyroll libarary judging stuff by the cover u know; finally i gave a chance to myanimelist search functions and ughhh here i am |
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| Since I started watching anime in the late 90s/early 2000s, what I watched was pretty much what came on regular cable TV or sometimes a VHS and eventually CDs I'd borrow from friends of stuff they burned/recorded on them and recommended. Although I did find some early days pirated sites in the early 2000s as well and watch some stuff on them. Sometimes we had to download stuff via torrents. |
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