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| Which generation of anime fans do you belong to and how did you first become aware (interested) in anime? Are there any shows that you consider fundamental to your peers? How do you communicate with older or younger (if any) viewers? |
RobertBobertOct 11, 2023 12:55 PM
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| 80-90's. I watched these shows on TV when I was a kid: Anime 80-nichikan Sekai Isshuu Chiisana Ahiru no Ooki na Ai no Monogatari: Ahiru no Kwak Ginga Nagareboshi Gin Ginga Patrol PJ Jungle Book Shounen Mowgli Meiken Jolie Mitsubachi Maya no Bouken Nils no Fushigi na Tabi Seimei no Kagaku: Micro Patrol TaoTao Ehonkan Sekai Doubutsu Banashi Tanoshii Muumin Ikka Wanwan Sanjuushi @SleepingAyumu You are welcome! :) |
SerafosOct 12, 2023 2:11 AM
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| 80-90s for me, I like two periods most of all. |
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| Early 2000's was my introduction to anime. DBZ and Sailor Moon on the VHS tapes are my earliest recollections. Started diving deeper due to Toonami and when Naruto first aired. |
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| I didn't start watching until around 2017/2018. Most people around me didn't enjoy the medium because it's a small town and all anyone does is hunt. Eventually I met someone who did and they got me hooked. |
How can you keep moving forward if you keep regretting the past? |
| My very first show were 90's. Akira to be exact. Back then we only had 4 channels in the UK, and it was likely 1996 while still at school, 16 at the time so not too bad, but we overtook the VC room at lunch time (as no one uses at lunch) and one of our friends had brought in a VCR of Akira and said look what ive found. We got busted a quater of the way through. But the visuals, the sounds. Comapred to anything id every experienced. Hooked ever since. |
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| 90s as I was born in early 90s and it was on TV as "kids cartoons", I grew up watching both 80s and 90s and even earlier anime, then early 00s anime later on too, I only "discovered" anime in 2008/09 through Naruto. Sailor Moon wasn't a thing in my region and I doubt anyone knew about it at the time. |
| I've been watching anime since the early 2000's. But I am practically identify myself as a 2010's generation anime watcher because that is the time that I began to watch more heavily and I also began to not watch live actions and western cartoons. |
| I guess technically I belong to the 00's? I was born in '97 and I remember as a very young child seeing Dragonball with my brother in the morning on the weekends, it was one of my favorite things. Then growing up I saw Doraemon, Ninja Hattori, Kochikame, Captain Tsubasa, Fushigi Yuugi, Doremi, Mermaid Melody and others Im definitely forgetting though at the time I just thought they were cartoons, as everyone else did. The first anime I actually watched knowing it was an anime was Naruto when I was a teen and since then i've been here :) Mmm as for fundamental shows... I guess usually what everyone considers the beginner animes, not only theyre still a rather solid starting point but a good portion of them hold up today, some more than others but thats just to be expected Im not sure what you mean with communicate though, it it like what type of anime we'd talk about? |
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| It was the tail end of the 90s era, with battle shonen rising in popularity. I watched Sailor Moon, Mobile Suit Gundam, DBZ, Pokemon, Ranma 1/2, and many others. There was a certain feeling that would be impossible to recreate: getting home from school and tuning in to some of these animes that were airing on TV. |
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| Which generation? I'm 90s all the way. |
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| 10s watch all those isekai animes lol |
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| Born in 2000, so 00s, even now I have an affinity to shows of the 2000s in fact. |
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80's/90's here. SDF MACROSS/ROBOTECH was the Gateway for me, at first, during it's original CATV Broadcast run in the mid-80's, - when i was around four or five years of age - and again around the very-late-80's/very-early-90's, when a cousin gave me a transformable model from ROBOTECH... and, finally, come the mid-90's, - and me in my early/middle-teen years - i came aware of ROBOTECH once more, and of SDF MACROSS, - it's primary Anime source material - thanks to more readily-available import Anime Mecha Model Kits and discovery of VIZ COMMUNICATIONS' "ANIMERICA" Anime Magazine... |
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| My first anime was DBZ but I didn't know what anime was until Naruto in the 00s. |
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| Grew up in the 90s, I never really watched anime except for some that were occasionally on TV. |
 I respect your opinion as long as you respect mine. |
| I don't really feel in place or with a sense of belonging to any of the individual eras, truth be told, because I started watching only in 2016 (despite already being in 20s), but it isn't like I started with all or even mainly 2016 and other recent year series. The majority I watched then were probably from the 2000s. More specifically I started in September of 2016 and my first six series (the amount I watched during the remainder of that year) were, respectively, from 2004, 2011, 2005, 2000, 1996, and 2004 again. And I didn't start watching actual current seasonals (as in, while they were still on-air) until 2020. |
WatchTillTandavaOct 11, 2023 3:33 PM
| Early 10s is when I watched my childhood shows like Beyblade and where anime was first introduced to me, between 10s and 20s is where I sporadically watched anime like Kaichou wa Maid-Sama! and Toradora, 20s is where I probably became a casual anime fan and 2023 is when I started animanga as a serious hobby. I'm gonna confuse myself so I'll just say 20s for simplicity sake. |
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| I grew in Naruto era but never considered myself as anime fans since i didnt knew Anime term beside naruto like seasonal, seiyuu, etc all of them i founded after high school graduated instead but not also in Isekai and CGDCT phase since SAO never be mentioned as Isekai when it released even until 2016 where konosuba aired at the time. More likely i grew in 2010s early before isekai era in 2016 when romance era on the peak like Steins gate, Angel beats, Anohana, Guilty Crown, Tasogare otome x amnesia, SNAFU, Golden Time, SKNU, Plastic memory, etc |
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| I think my introduction to anime was pretty natural, and didn't even know it was popular until I started seeing it everywhere after I began watching it. I got into it in the summer of 2020, the year Avatar the Last Airbender finally got put on Netflix I think, and I was binging it because I finally got to watch it all the way through after only being able to see episodes here and there throughout my childhood. I watched the whole thing like 3 or 4 times back to back, and I was really getting bored of it after the final time, so I wanted something else to watch. Started scrolling through Netflix looking for cartoons and saw Naruto, and the rest is history. I watched some as a kid of course, such as Bakugan, Beyblade, parts of Pokemon, and parts of DBZ which my uncle owned, but I didn't know what anime was at the time and I just saw them as regular cartoons. I don't see anything as fundamental to the anime or manga experience as a whole as long as you at least try something before saying you dislike it. And outside of MAL I don't really talk to other anime fans. The closest would be on Twitter (X), but I mostly just lurk everywhere. |
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| I guess in the 90's and 00's...I loved anime to the point of buying anime magazines. |
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| I grew up in the 2000s era watching pokemon, and I watch mostly shows from the 2010s, but have only been following anime seasonally in the 2020s. Multigenerational :) |
| “Since when was this world so beautiful?” ~Yuuri (girl's last tour) |
| I did not start watching until the late 2000s, but I did not see Bleach until 3 years of watching anime, my One Piece was dubbed by 4K!DS and was mocked as "not anime" and Naruto (and Black Butler) were considered a horrible fanbase to the point where Naruto fan was something of an insult. Most of the stuff I saw was mecha, Dragon Ball and pretty much the entire Phase I and II Toonami lineup. So I identify more with the 1990s crowd. |
| Technically, I did watch some anime on TV in the 2000s, but I don't count that since I didn't even know what anime was at the time. I first became an anime fan in the 2010s. 2015, specifically. It was all thanks to Akinator, strangely enough. From there, I just went deeper down the rabbit hole... |
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| I guess I technically belong to the 90s, but I never really considered myself an "anime" fan back then. Yugioh, DBZ, Pokemon, Sailor Moon, Yu Yu Hakusho etc. they were all just shows on Cartoon Network for me. I didn't even watch Bleach and Naruto until around 4-5 years ago. Also, think the first anime I even watched with a Japanese dub was Attack on Titan. |
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| A combination. My introduction to anime was through Americanized versions on syndicated television during the late 70s through the early 90s (Star Blazers, Battle of the Planets, Voltron, Robotech, Tranzor Z, DIC Sailor Moon, Pre-Z Dragon Ball). I started buying anime on VHS tapes during the mid-90s (Project A-ko, Bubblegum Crisis OVA, Slayers, Tenchi Muyo, Ranma 1/2, Magic Knight Rayearth, Nadia: Secret of Blue Water) & then dvds (Outlaw Star, Saber Marionette J, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Big O). Didn’t completely stop, but kinda lost interest in the late 2000s through early 2010s. Then around 2017, started streaming which enabled me to explore genres I didn’t pay much attention to in the past. Currently watching more anime than at any point prior. “What a long strange trip it’s been” ๐ |
OhayotakuOct 11, 2023 8:49 PM
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| Like I watched AOT and Food Wars before COVID, but I really only started to really watch anime until 2020. |
| "Those words are meant for those that dare defy god's final warning... An epigraph of their stubbornness" - Maho Hiyajo (Steins;Gate 0)    |
| I was mildly aware of anime as a kid, but I really got into anime in 2014, so 10s. |
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| The early-to-mid 2010s. Sorry, but nothing gets better than the dredges of Tumblr during the early years of Free! Iwatobi Swim Club. And when Yuri!!! On Ice aired? Shit was wild, a time to be alive. Plus, the early/mid 2010s still kept a lot of anime from the 2000s alive: not yet forgotten or considered old. |
Reply to Jellyf
The early-to-mid 2010s. Sorry, but nothing gets better than the dredges of Tumblr during the early years of Free! Iwatobi Swim Club. And when Yuri!!! On Ice aired? Shit was wild, a time to be alive. Plus, the early/mid 2010s still kept a lot of anime from the 2000s alive: not yet forgotten or considered old.
| @Suzuruzu How quickly time flies. It seems like I just recently read the announcements about the future premiere of Yuri on Ice! |
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@Suzuruzu How quickly time flies. It seems like I just recently read the announcements about the future premiere of Yuri on Ice!
| @RobertBobert Seriously! It feels like two years ago. I can still hear that girl screaming in that reaction video when episode 7 dropped. That shrill shriek. By the way, where the hell is Ice Adolescence? |
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@RobertBobert Seriously! It feels like two years ago. I can still hear that girl screaming in that reaction video when episode 7 dropped. That shrill shriek. By the way, where the hell is Ice Adolescence?
| @Suzuruzu I would imagine it is in production hell due to MAPPA's workload. But this is a sequel to a cult show, so it’s unlikely they gave it up. |
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| born in 00s era. started watching in 20s era |
 The end of an era. Thank you Wit, Mappa and Isayama. Feeling half happy, half sad. Kawaii waifus and precious best girls <3333 |
| I started out watching Dragon Ball on TV. And Sailor Moon even though it was for girls. |
| MEA·MENTVLA·INGENS·EST |
| The 10th I guess: a lot of my favorite animes come from that time period. |
| 1. My age group is not included? Not that I had much access to anime as kid... 2. The ways anime came to my country makes it hard to place my "inauguration phase". Like my first was made in the 60s, but I watched it in the late 70s. My third which is my gateway anime was made in the early 80s and I watched it in the mid 80s. Then there was a big pause (since I disliked the only accessible stuff like Maya the Bee and Candy Candy). So next for me were the late 90s with rental VHS cassettes containing OVAs and movies from the 80s and the early 90s. So I somehow exist outside of the whole anime generations thing? |
alshuOct 12, 2023 12:30 AM
| <-the date to the left hopefully answers this query. |
Reply to Serafos
80-90's.
I watched these shows on TV when I was a kid:
Anime 80-nichikan Sekai Isshuu
Chiisana Ahiru no Ooki na Ai no Monogatari: Ahiru no Kwak
Ginga Nagareboshi Gin
Ginga Patrol PJ
Jungle Book Shounen Mowgli
Meiken Jolie
Mitsubachi Maya no Bouken
Nils no Fushigi na Tabi
Seimei no Kagaku: Micro Patrol
TaoTao Ehonkan Sekai Doubutsu Banashi
Tanoshii Muumin Ikka
Wanwan Sanjuushi
@SleepingAyumu You are welcome! :)
I watched these shows on TV when I was a kid:
Anime 80-nichikan Sekai Isshuu
Chiisana Ahiru no Ooki na Ai no Monogatari: Ahiru no Kwak
Ginga Nagareboshi Gin
Ginga Patrol PJ
Jungle Book Shounen Mowgli
Meiken Jolie
Mitsubachi Maya no Bouken
Nils no Fushigi na Tabi
Seimei no Kagaku: Micro Patrol
TaoTao Ehonkan Sekai Doubutsu Banashi
Tanoshii Muumin Ikka
Wanwan Sanjuushi
@SleepingAyumu You are welcome! :)
| I voted 90s because ahhh, coming from a small Eastern European country, they've only reached us in 00s, so in my childhood. HOWEVER. after checking @Serafos list, I found two animes I was obsessed with between ages 4-7... Given I STILL remember them goes to show how much impact they had on me. Honestly, I nearly cried when once upon a time I accidentally learned Yume no Hoshi no Button Nose was anime as I was 150% obsessed with it in my super early childhood... AND NOW I'VE LEARNED Mitsubachi Maya no Bouken and TaoTao Ehonkan Sekai Doubutsu Banashi ARE TOO T_T Many thanks, my man. Brightened my dull office day! Certainly will have to rewatch them as I remember literally nothing about them except how much I loved them and the character designs, haha. |
RobertBobert said: Which generation of anime fans do you belong to I'm sandwiched right between the 90s and 2000s :D RobertBobert said: how did you first become aware (interested) in anime? Randomly, when i first learnt how to use the TV remote RobertBobert said: Are there any shows that you consider fundamental to your peers? Aside from the ones you mentioned in poll, i'd add For 90s: Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, One Piece 2000s: Beyblade, Precure, Tokyo Mew Mew RobertBobert said: How do you communicate with older or younger (if any) viewers? The same way as i comunicate with fans my age? I'm not sure, i need some examples |
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1. My age group is not included? Not that I had much access to anime as kid...
2. The ways anime came to my country makes it hard to place my "inauguration phase". Like my first was made in the 60s, but I watched it in the late 70s. My third which is my gateway anime was made in the early 80s and I watched it in the mid 80s. Then there was a big pause (since I disliked the only accessible stuff like Maya the Bee and Candy Candy). So next for me were the late 90s with rental VHS cassettes containing OVAs and movies from the 80s and the early 90s.
So I somehow exist outside of the whole anime generations thing?
2. The ways anime came to my country makes it hard to place my "inauguration phase". Like my first was made in the 60s, but I watched it in the late 70s. My third which is my gateway anime was made in the early 80s and I watched it in the mid 80s. Then there was a big pause (since I disliked the only accessible stuff like Maya the Bee and Candy Candy). So next for me were the late 90s with rental VHS cassettes containing OVAs and movies from the 80s and the early 90s.
So I somehow exist outside of the whole anime generations thing?
| @alshu Looks like I wanted to write "before the 80s", but it turned out to be "early 80s" or something like that. |
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| So I am kinda in a weird spot. I was born in 2002 and started watching anime around 2008-2009ish watching the dub of the current at the time season of Pokémon which was Diamond and Pearl, but didn't really start watching more than that until the early 2010s with the dub of the Beyblade Metal Saga, reruns of Digimon Adventure 01 and 02 on Nicktoons, reruns of Yu-Gi-Oh! on nicktoons, new Yu-Gi-Oh! ZeXal episodes on Nicktoons but I didn't really actively start watching anime as anime until I was around 13 when I got into Dragon Ball. Once I finished DB I did watch some newer shows, but the bulk of what I watched was catching up on older shows that I missed out on like Yu Yu Hakusho, Evangelion, Fullmetal Alchemist, Cowboy Bebop etc. Ever since Crunchyroll stopped offering new episodes 1 week after release with ads, I kinda stopped watching newer shows since I prefer to stream legally unless there is absolutely no other option available and Crubchyroll has gobbled up like 90% of current anime release licenses. I'm basically a 2000s kid who mostly started getting seriously into anime in the 2010s but still mostly watched shows that are older than 2010. I'm a weird mess with everything lmao |
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| I was born in 1980 and I've been exposed to anime since forever. |
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| Mix of 2010s and 2020s Started watching through Youtube during the 2010s as a young child. The anime I can vaguely remember watching were Kirby Right Back at ya, Pokemon, Sonic X, FSN 2006, Bakugan and I think a few episodes or clips of Azumanga Daioh? I don't remember anything else because of how young I was at the time. I just thought they were cool cartoons and would watch episodes completely out of order because I thought they were just like american cartoons where you didn't have to care what episode you were watching. Then I actually started to watch them how they were intended in 2019 or 2020. Starting with Initial D. |
| 2010s. K-On and CGDCT in general in the beginning, new gen shonen era starting in mid-'10s... It's kinda easy to communicate with the other generations, since the shows are likable by many. |
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