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?
| When you didn't have anything left to watch, however you got into anime. Like i saw a lot of my first on a streaming platform that had a small selection, i decided i wanted more but didn't know where to start. My main startng point was with Mal Recommendations, Top 10 lists on YT and blindly trying new series. (Back in the day, i watched on YouTube and would just watch whatever the algorithm recommended me. I also would check the channel of whoever uploaded it and see if they uploaded any more anime) |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. We're freaking out that we're running out of time, but to do what? Should i stop and think of that? Is there something i could do to slow it down? Live in a day for once, instead of watch it sprinting by |
| Random top lists (10, 50, 100, etc.) and recommendations....... |
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| 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. |
IshitatesoMar 5, 2023 11:22 AM
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| I made a google doc of all the anime I planned to watch when I first got into anime. There are 828 anime in this google docs and I've only watched 11 on this list maybe 20 overall from the entire list. So if you see me watching some random anime that no one has heard about, it's probably from this long ass list. Gintama Ishuzoku reviewers Inuyashiki clannad(mal anime genres)https Yh://myanimelist.net/anime.php https://myanimelist.net/stacks/885 great dubs Joshiraku baccano A channel Dororo Prima doll The beast player erin Sket game castlevania Classroom of the elite Perfect insider Rurouni kenshin Sabikui bisco 30-sai no Hoken Taiiku Terra e... (TV) Space brothers Asobi asobase Hoshiai no sora Strike witches Romantic killer Dr. stone Uramichi oniisan dub mushishi Kino’s journey Tatami’s galaxy Ashita no joe Giant killing Fairies Albums Land of the lustrous Kingdom Cyberpunk Serial experiments lain Ping pong the animation https://myanimelist.net/stacks/2776 Aoki densetsu overlord Big windup One outs The founder of diabolism Shigurui |
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| I had a friend give me a list of things to watch. |
| I googled best anime of all time and then I watched whatever picked my interest at the time. |
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| I used either watch stuff I heard about through friends & family, Youtube recommendations, Top ten lists, Anime Fight scenes, etc. |
| I just go the ecchi and hentai tags and see what comes up. |
| From the beginning I checked The "if you like this anime you might also like this" on anime planet. Sometimes my friend recommended some, but generally I was the one who gave her recommendations when I found something I knew she would like. Sometimes AMVs made me curious on some shows and made me watch them. Around three years after I started watching I found youtubers who talked about shows and did recommendations and top ten lists, so I listened to them a lot as long as it was withing the genres I liked. Sometimes they made me get out of my comfort zone, like I would never have watched bokurano if a youtuber hadn't convinced me. |
| Friends' recommendations and searching on the internet. I started branching out on my own relatively soon though. |
| A friend would recommend anime to me when I first started watching anime as an adult. |
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| Let me be blunt. See Kimi no Nawa? Then, I go to the comments of the trailer and everyone recommends similar anime. The same method goes on and on until I found that a certain anime has its certain classification on which genre they belong. Then find shows in that genre. Nowadays, I just trust my gut about what I should watch. Go in blind as much as possible. |
| Family recommendations, especially from my uncles. |
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| I remember first getting into anime again as a teenager and thinking I gotta watch every ghibli movie so I’d find bootleg websites and watch them in bed on my laptop and the first ones I chose to watch were because of merch at hot topic that I really liked then I’m pretty sure on demand on Comcast had an anime section or somewhere I watched stuff on back in the day did it was limited but I saw naruto and sat through so many episodes trying to convince myself I liked it cuz I wanted to be a good weeb lmao when that didn’t pan out I finally turned to good old Google for recommendations which led me to death note, and I liked it so much that for awhile I just would search anime like death note and watch whatever came up (psycho pass, parasyte) |
| Youtube. I've watched a bunch of AMV's, best moment compilations - the source of my long on hold list. I never really relied in recommendations from friends, for some reason I didn't watch any of them xd |
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KUGEKl said: ^More or less this, but eventually started checking out season stuff on my own and such.I used either watch stuff I heard about through friends & family, Youtube recommendations, Top ten lists, Anime Fight scenes, etc. |
DarkShame2 said: KUGEKl said: ^More or less this, but eventually started checking out season stuff on my own and such.I used either watch stuff I heard about through friends & family, Youtube recommendations, Top ten lists, Anime Fight scenes, etc. Same here. I found out about MAL not many year after starting watching anime (around 2017) & it allowed me to find all kinds of hidden gems. |
| Back in the day where there was almost no Youtube or streaming services available, and the internet was quite different, I would get to know by the TV, friends, family and anime events where you could buy physical copies of anime and manga. I used to judge by the cover, so it was always a hit or miss, but those were good times. After that, I'd search in the internet in any database available, and when Youtube became a thing I'd watch tons of videos, AMVs, openings and endings, and sort things out. And when animanga became more popular, things got a lot easier, you could just stream at some random website or download, and use the forums and the database to search for me. Anyway, that's my journey with animanga. |
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| I was a furry long before I became an anime fan, so a lot of my earliest watches were anime that featured anthropomorphic characters. I picked up a few because of Top 10 lists and YouTube videos (I watched Misty Chronexia a lot in those days). I also got access to Netflix around that time and some of the anime they featured caught my interest. |
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| For the first couple years, mostly online word of mouth (whatever I saw talked about a lot on forums and chat rooms), by buying or renting random anime tapes that had cover art I liked, watching anime that was featured in trailers on those tapes, and watching anime that I saw in the Animerica magazine. Then ANN launched its encyclopedia in 2002, and I would spend hours just scrolling through anime in alphabetical order, and adding anything that looked interesting to my Plan to Watch (on my old ANN list). This would be kind of crazy today, but it made more sense back then, because the number of anime in existence was so much smaller. Then over the next year or two, I was starting to focus more on seasonals, and I would look at the charts before each season and just watch whatever seemed like it might be good (and I guess that's pretty much still how I find new anime to watch). |
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| recomendation charts for high level big brain anime such as this one which i still think is much better than most other places to find anime.. https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/whatshouldiread/images/8/8f/List_of_Worthwhile_Anime.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/2600?cb=20130702131927 |
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| Watched some top lists and amvs and picked whatever looked interesting. Some years later, I scrolled through the name list of the site I was using and just picked what sounds nice. |
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| Misty Chronexia, whatever showed up on Youtube and anime of videogames I played (corpse party, Valkyria chroncicles, danganronpa, persona) |
| I started out using YT recs for shows with troupes/themes/genres I was interested in, but quickly moved away from that after I joined MAL. |
| when i first got into anime I watched whatever they showed on tv.. |
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| I went to the same friend who recommended me my first anime. I would also watch whatever my friends were watching at the time even though they didn't recommend it to me. |
| I asked in Facebook groups for recommendations. |
| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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