How Were You Introduced To Anime?

Yeah, but only my sister. My parents seem to old for it and my brother wouldn't even consider it.

My older brother introduced me to anime when I was 7. He invited me to watch "Your Name" since it had just been released back then. after we finished it I didn't watch any more anime until the pandemic when I consumed a lot of manga and anime.

From MBC 3, Spacetoon, and my first ever anime was YU-GI-OH! Arabic And Hunter x Hunter 1999 Arabic

I remember watching Pokémon (Diamond and Pearl) when that was airing television when I was little and I knew of a lot of anime from people's personal websites/shrines and Deviantart pages. It wasn't until I was in secondary school (age 11 or so) that I got into it from my friends at the time and the online spaces I was in. I watched Death Note, Kuroshitsuji, Ouran High School, Free! (which I found my DVD boxset of recently lmao), among others but kinda fell off when I was about 14. The last series I remember watching front to back in my teens was Yuri!!! on Ice. After that I just watched the occassionaly Ghibli or Satoshi Kon film until this past year. It was getting into the Persona game series that made me want to pick anime back up. ^____^

probably when i was like 5,i have an older brother who is 4 years older then me, i was watching (i think) dragonball, something along the lines of this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puuCnkMBrt8

Funny thing is,i still havent watched dragonball :P

maybe after i finish bleach and naruto xd

Cartoon Network!
watched pokemon digimon beyblade dragon ball inazuma 11 etc, didnt know that those are called anime though haha but watched all of it

@TheAnimeLogician

Those were some fun times lol

@TheAnimeLogician Yeah, it was nice indeed. my sisters even dragged me to conventions sometimes xd

Older relatives watched dbz, sailor moon, voltron, ronin warriors, and speed racer. Then in high school my brother introduced me to berserk and loved it. The big three and toonami were popular during that time so I watched those.

I watched some Studio Ghibli films when I was little. Spirited Away was the first one, I think. I did see the first Pokemon movie but didn't like it very much. My parents didn't pay for subscription TV so when we got digital TV it was through a Freeview box. Consequently children's TV in our house was limited to CBBC, CITV, and free-to-air digital channels, particularly Kix! (now called Pop Max) This led to me watching an... unusual selection of anime TV series. I remember watching:

• Digimon Data Squad (AKA Digimon Savers), which I don't remember well other than that in this one the humans throw hands with Digimon.
  
• Ultimate Muscle: The Kinnikuman Legacy AKA Kinnikuman II which I enjoyed for its surreal humour.
  
• Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's which is the one with CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES.
  
• Sonic X which I remember liking but haven't seen since I was quite very and I probably would not enjoy revisiting. For some reason it had a completely different theme tune in Europe so I was not exposed to the heavily memed US theme song.
  
• Spider Riders, which was my favourite, and the first long form series I saw enough of to get invested in. I remember this being a good, actually reasonably interesting transforming heroes series with some good villains. The dub also has the most 2000s English anime dub theme song of all time.
  

@FZREMAKE Will do! Thanks, and I'll get right on it. Maybe I'll do a review on the entire Fate series as a whole, idk why, but I feel the Fate series is a heavily underrated series and it should be more in the limelight, as I've yet to hate anything about the series at all. I even use to play the gacha game for Fate, but I had to stop due to money issues because Gacha pulls are expensive T_T

In my childhood it was thanks to television, every afternoon from Monday to Friday they showed anime and on weekends almost all day, as an adult through the typical pirate pages, currently I use Crunchytoll and Netflix mainly.

My first animes were Pokemon, Digimon, HXH1999, YUGIOH, Captain Tsubasa among others

@minmi_pen Awesome and thanks for the link I'll check it out as soon as possible.

@BilboBaggins365 That makes sense, only reason why I never feel burnout form anime is because I make anime content; Tierlist, news videos, documentaries, theoretical discussions based on what anime character is stronger or who best girl is?

It's all fun to me and my passion for anime will never die. Soon when I purchase my 4-string bass guitar and my half stack amp I will do anime covers on my channel.

@TheAnimeLogician Many people don't watch it because of the confusing watch order. Once you get past that, it's an interestingly watch.
Also, I never payed a single dollar for their gacha games. Used to play with the characters I have.

@TheAnimeLogician For sure.
Hope you enjoy it.

@TheAnimeLogician Well that's good it's a creative outlet for you. Anime has encouraged me to engage in that more myself at least. I don't think I could avoid burning out on anything frankly, you always need some variety. Though yeah I have wanted to watch more anime than I have of late.

My introduction was a school project.Back in middle school we had something called research work where the teacher would pick a topic every week and each group of students had to do homework based on it. One day, the topic was cartoons from different countries and the one my group got was anime. Now in my case I didn't know what exactly anime was, (besides some I watched on tv as a kid like pokemon,yugioh,dash kappei etc.) so I decided to watch some random titles I found online. One of them was Tokyo ghoul (which I droped it) and Noragami which I completed. After that I kept watching more and more and the rest is history.


My brother is the one who introduced me to video games. He is the reason why PS2 games were a big part of my childhood.

I found it on cable television way back in the 1990s.

getting really high as a yougin and staying up to late to Toonami coming on the TV.

My brother is 16 years older than me, and loved anime as a kid. He introduced me to pokemon and sailor moon when I was around 7, and then I never stopped watching anime

I knew about anime for some time but was not interested by it.
I first got into manga and from there I watched the anime adaptations of my favorite manges, which naturally led to me getting interested in more anime.
The rest is History :)

Doraemon. Along with other children anime aired on TV back in the 90s, like Hattori and P-man.

From local TVs. During my childhood, I used to watch Shin Chan, Doraemon and Naruto: Shippuden, and all of the episodes are in local dubs. Oh yeah, can't forget Pokemon B&W too.

From local TVs. During my childhood, I used to watch Shin Chan, Doraemon and Naruto: Shippuden, and all of the episodes are in local dubs. Oh yeah, can't forget Pokemon B&W too.

Like most of you guys, Pokémon (still to this day my favorite video game franchise) was essentially my "gateway" into the anime world. I watched the Gen 4 anime back when it first aired on Cartoon Network and was immediately fascinated by it. I didn't really get into anime other than Pokémon until February 2020, when I got bombarded by YouTube with random recommendations about True Tears, a somewhat generic romance anime created by P.A. Works. I completed the anime in about two days and couldn't get over the conclusion (best girl didn't win, much to my dismay). Fed up with the way the anime concluded, I decided to rewatch the whole damn thing a few times immediately after completing it in the pious hope that my favorite girl would win somehow 😹😹😹

For me, it was Saturday morning anime on the then recently new sci fi channel. Probably etcetera more on there than I remember. The first time I caught it, they showed Dominion-Tank-Police. Never saw anything like that at the time, saw a lot more ovas and movies including several project akos, vampire hunter d, Akira, and more

I was exposed to the dubs of One and Bleach with dubs when I was a kid.
It converted me into a great fan of the new hobby?

Present day I may not watch Anime as much as I used too, but I am fine with watching some shows here and there

@ItsAmsyar Those are some nice selections, Shin Chan and Doraemon are instant classics, and I remember being in high school when Naruto Shippuden grew to be massive in popularity. Essentially, me and my brother would collect the manga as well.