| Yui Hirasawa's Les Paul convinced me to watch K-ON |
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| I was lent the subbed version of Code Geass, started watching that and enjoyed it, took me another few years to start watching other anime and now I'm hooked on it! |
| I was a pirate from a fairly young age, and as such, I got a lot of video games. I got a Naruto game for the Wii, liked it, looked it up on the internet and found the series. Same with Bleach. Played the Wii game, looked it up online, then found it. It wasn't until I tried to find series like this that I found Death Note, which is when I finally realized exactly what anime was, and I was hooked. |
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DivisionMarduk said: In my childhood I watched DBZ... but that didnt really hook me. Maybe one or two years ago, a friend started talking about Naruto and how awesome it was. I started watching it, first on youtube. Then all the sudden, I was totally in the whole anime scene and now im here ^_^ SAME :o |
| FMA on animax asia |
| Sup People and yes I am the physical manifestation of Shinji Ikari's Balls And this what elite-sama says to incest elite-sama said: I'm against it because I don't have a sister. It's not fair. |
Nerolunar said: Played League of Legends. Played Ezreal. Found the dance. Watched TMoHS. After that, I began to watch other series, and now I'm here. Still a better love story than Twilight |
| Sup People and yes I am the physical manifestation of Shinji Ikari's Balls And this what elite-sama says to incest elite-sama said: I'm against it because I don't have a sister. It's not fair. |
| 4 years ago I saw vampire knight on tv and loved it to bits. One of the video recommendations on the side of a vampire knight video was an elfen lied vid. And that was my 2nd anime. :D |
| If you don't count Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh, then I guess a friend of mine recommended that I watch Ouran High School Host Club in 6th grade. |
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| I remember it like it was yesterday. It was the 23rd of March, 2013 and I was desperatly waiting for the release of the video game BioShock: Infinite because I'm a huge fan of the franchise and I pre-ordered the Ultimate Songbird Edition (biggest Collector's Edition) of the game. At the weekend before the launch (26th of March) I was staying at a friend's house, having a sleepover. He's a big otaku and I was never really into anime (except for Pokémon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh! and all that shows we watched when we were kids). I had nothing else to do I decided to watch an anime he owns on my laptop. He had stuff like Ikki Tousen, an OVA of Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, some Ghibli movies or Vampire Knight and some others. But he also recently bought the DVD set of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica". I wasn't convinced at first as he has a big wallscroll of Madoka Magica and it looked not really appealing to me. But then I decided to watch it - as I didn't have anything to do anyway - and marathoned the whole thing on my own, covered in a blanket, with quality earphones for the best quality (took around 5 hours to finish the show). I couldn't believe what I just watched. I had freaking tears in my eyes, but it was just a "cartoon". I was blown away by the story, the characters, the art style and the fantastic OST. I got shivers down my spine everytime the ED theme "Magia" played at the end of an episode. Then I said to myself "That's it - anime is fucking awesome. Why did I start just yet? WHY?! That otaku friend gave me the show on my HDD then and on the next days I watched it again and my impressions where the same. I love that show with all of my heart. The next week I got the game I told you about and I was disappointed by it. It was not bad but a huge let down compared to the first two games. The best thing about the game was that I watched Madoka Magica and got into anime and the worst thing that I spent 150 bucks for the Collector's Edition. Seriously. -Based on a true story- |
nightwalkOct 6, 2013 8:53 AM
| Time is money, but money won't turn back the clock. |
| Well I grew up with Hamtaro and Pokemon but it wasn't until 7th I looked into anime. I remember one day while having lunch with my friends my one friend had a small book with a really colorful cover. I asked what she was reading and explained that it was manga and that her and our other friend had spent the whole weekend together watching the anime version and reading the manga. My group of friends then was really small (including myself there were only four of us) and our other friend who was just as clueless as I was said she would look into it so I decided to too. The series was Shugo Chara and when I saw the anime I was kinda taken aback a bit since it was so shojo and I'm not very girly at all. I started the series anyways so I could talk about it with my friends but decided to watch another series because this was a whole section of the internet I was unfamiliar with. I chose Fairy Tail and I loved it. ...and that's how it all started~ |
| I grew up watching Pokemon, DBZ, and Yu-Gi-Oh. Back then I knew about anime but I was reluctant to go farther into it because of the rumors and general dislike towards it by most people. I started watching anime/reading manga seriously between my junior and senior year of high school. I got bored one day and was feeling nostalgic thinking about the shows I watched when I was younger. I then remembered that I watched this "pirate cartoon" for a little while and tried to remember what it was. So I refound One Piece and blew through it. I then moved on to Bleach and Naruto. From there I started reading manga and finding new anime to watch. My favorite anime is probably Cowboy Bebop and my favorite manga is probably Hajime no Ippo. |
| Well I watched Pokemon, Digimon, DBZ, and Yu-Gi-Oh like many people, but what really got me into Anime was actually manga. When the DB/DBZ manga started coming out in the US, I was one of the first people to go out and buy it. Going to bookstores and buying the Dragon Ball Manga made me a fan of manga and I started buying a bunch of other manga'. This led me to discover fan translations and Anime online. I watched Naruto, Bleach, and Death Note when they first came out this way. |
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| watched Clannad. Man tears were wept then BOOM...anime addict |
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bulls123 said: watched Clannad. Man tears were wept then BOOM...anime addict Pretty much the same. I was looking for a non emotional anime because I was planning on watching all of Pokemon until my friend said he had cried at the Butterfree episode. Then I found clannad beliving it was this random series no one had seen and then BANG, Emotional scene after emotional scene. |
| Welcome XD I got into anime because fuck it I'm special and I need something special to watch every now and again. ;) |
| I never really considered anime as a viable source of entertainment; usually I played a decent amount of video games to pass time. Earlier this year, I was trying to find good movies to watch, and ended up rewatching Spirited Away, since its one I watched when I was quite young, and did not remember much of it at all. Anyways, I was reminded of why I used to love it so much, and thus began my search for similar media. I'm not really sure what it was, but I was poking around the internet some and decided to look up "best animes" to find something similar to Spirited Away. After about 5 minutes of searching for something of interest, I decided upon Clannad, and began watching it that night. I made it through the first 8 episodes (Fuuko arc) in one night, and never have I been more suprised in my life. Nothing could have prepared me for the emotional rollercoaster over the four nights I spent watching the series and After Story. Anyways, Clannad was the first anime series I completed, as well as the first piece of media to ever make me fall in love with the characters and cry my heart out, and thus it forever holds that special place in me. After that, my journey into the world of anime deepened as I searched for other Clannad-esque series. So there you have it: my story of discovery! |
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| Welcome to MAL. Enjoy your stay! This is my story of how I got into anime: I remember it like it was yesterday. It was the 23rd of March, 2013 and I was desperatly waiting for the release of the video game BioShock: Infinite because I'm a huge fan of the franchise and I pre-ordered the Ultimate Songbird Edition (biggest Collector's Edition) of the game. At the weekend before the launch (26th of March) I was staying at a friend's house, having a sleepover. He's a big otaku and I was never really into anime (except for Pokémon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh! and all that shows we watched when we were kids). I had nothing else to do I decided to watch an anime he owns on my laptop. He had stuff like Ikki Tousen, an OVA of Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, some Ghibli movies or Vampire Knight and some others. But he also recently bought the DVD set of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica". I wasn't convinced at first as he has a big wallscroll of Madoka Magica and it looked not really appealing to me. But then I decided to watch it - as I didn't have anything to do anyway - and marathoned the whole thing on my own, covered in a blanket, with quality earphones for the best quality (took around 5 hours to finish the show). I couldn't believe what I just watched. I had freaking tears in my eyes, but it was just a "cartoon". I was blown away by the story, the characters, the art style and the fantastic OST. I got shivers down my spine everytime the ED theme "Magia" played at the end of an episode. Then I said to myself "That's it - anime is fucking awesome. Why did I start just yet? WHY?! I could have watched something like that for months, years now. Damn it! That otaku friend gave me the show on my HDD then and on the next days I watched it again and my impressions where the same. I love that show with all of my heart. The next week I got the game I told you about and I was disappointed by it. It was not bad but a huge let down compared to the first two games. The best thing about the game was that I watched Madoka Magica and got into anime and the worst thing that I spent 150 bucks for the Collector's Edition. Seriously... |
| Time is money, but money won't turn back the clock. |
| I grew up watching anime, and still watching it now. |
| Gutalala ~~ sudalala "It would be great to live as a human" -Meruem, King of the Ants |
| Hi and welcome to MAL This is my story So this one time a long time ago when I was about 12 (I'm 17 now) I used to be a normal kid who had never heard of anime, I think I watched a bit of naruto or one piece on cartoon network but that was as far as it went. Anyway I got into a really nerdy group of friends because I was very into heavy metal music at the time and they were the only group that shared my tastes. So this one guy introduces me to anime when we are playing magic the gathering, (yeah I was that kind of nerd) and he's like, 'dude I watch so much anime watch it with me' so I'm like, OK. Next thing I know I'm watching love hina or some other ridiculous ecchi and laughing my head off, so I go home and Google anime, first result: death note. Hey that seems cool, I'll watch it, next minute I'm hooked, I kept watching for a while and now we are here, after watching my first anime though I was a very different person, I think that every time I watch a series I learn something about life and about myself, I think that if I never met Matthew Miller and he never introduced me to anime I would be a very different person, anime has changed me for the better though, and for this I am thankful. If you made it this far then thank you, you deserve an anime related prize but I can't think of any, komene. |
| "Okarin... Okarin... I don't know who that is, but when I say his name, I feel warm inside" - Mayuri "Mayushii" Shiina |
| I've watched Naruto and Bleach long before but it didn't hook me in. It was Death Note what hook me in. After that, i started to watch anime frequently. |
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| It's always been on TV. I started with German dubs of 80s and 70s shows when I was little, then continued with Fox Kids and Kids WB, then Toonami, Tech TV and Adult Swim. I watched a few downloaded subbed anime and movies on premium cable in between. In 2008 I was in a new place with nothing to do, so I started downloading and watching as many anime as I could stomach. They gave me a new appreciation. That continued as a habit for two years. Then I lost interest for a while, and now I'm taking it slowly again. |
| My story is quite a random mash of events that led to it, it's in my profile and I don't feel like copy pasting lol |
 I don't watch as much anime as before... |
| A friend showed me Toonami when I was like 9 or 10. I ended up watching it almost every night it was on for years. I also really got into Pokemon and Yugioh. The cards, games, shows and everything else. It was years before I found out you could watch anime online though so I had know idea there was so much more out there. |
someone said: Hi and welcome to MAL Careful there, OP, not everyone is so welcoming. |
| y'all need to shut the fuck up. |
| Google brought me here when I was looking for another anime after I just finished Eden of the East.I found over 1000. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| There was this hentai... Jk. I started it from manga. Before I knew manga, I was mostly reading comics (tintin, smurfs, excalibur, The Trigan Empire, etc.), then I got hooked with What's Michael. Then I tried some other Japanese comics, and I can't stop. Back then I began to realized two mainstream group of comics, the west and the east, and the middle between (mostly Hong Kong comics). Since there's only a few of genre of western comics that got imported to my country, I began to shift my attention to Japanese and Hong Kong comics. One of my favorite HK comics is Old Master Q (wow, I just found out it was listed in MAL!). And then sometimes around the 90's they began airing anime on TV. I got hooked up since I already read the manga. Imagine yourself as a child seeing your favorite manga character actually speak! Man, that was euphoric. Like winning a lottery for a one year worth of free ice cream. I love ice cream. Anyway, I still find difficulties in listing my manga, since all of my manga collection has been packed in a box rotting somewhere, and some other has been given as charity to a local library long time ago, half-voluntarily, since my mother just grab it all away. |
| The most important things in life is the people that you care about |
| my friend sent me a VHS of Macross Plus. Thats pretty much it ^^ |
azzuRe said: There was this hentai.... Probably one of the best "How I got into anime" stories ever. |
| y'all need to shut the fuck up. |
| Threads Merged. |
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| Watched the standard stuff as a kid such as Pokemon and played some of the games quite religiously. Started watching Pokemon again many years later before getting bored, found episodes of Full Moon wo Sagashite and watched half of the first episode. Few years later once again, try to find Full Moon wo Sagashite again as couldn't remember its name but end up browsing anime forums and watching Clannad to spark it all off. |
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| DBZ and Yu Yu hakusho playing on Toonami like a decade ago. I didn't start watching a lot of anime on the computer till Code Geass and Deathnote played on Tv a couple of years ago. I wanted some more after I saw these two. Naruto ultimate ninja 1, 2, and three helped the anime push though. |
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| One day I though I'll watch naruto coz I loved it as a kid then I got hooked |
| Seeing One Piece on tv while i was on vacation in Japan somewhat early 00's Took me a few months to find out what it was, and then find subbed episodes. At first i watched the episodes Raw up until 34, then i ran into some old fansubs... The ones with the horrible fonts, and the yellow colors.. After that i just started finding out about shows left and right. |
| Doraemon and Agumon. Nuff said. |
| Gutalala ~~ sudalala "It would be great to live as a human" -Meruem, King of the Ants |
| friend introduced me to it |
| my avatar is the bus driver from Rosario + Vampire |
| I was at Walmart and saw a Bleach DVD, and for some random ass reason I felt like watching Bleach, and so I did, loved the hell out of it and then watched other anime and loved the hell out of them too. :D |
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| i watched some bleach, one piece, and naruto on tv sometimes that got me interested. i didn't really start to go out and actively watch anime until around attack on titan. |
| My mom was into anime so when I was around 6, she showed me Spirited Away as a starter. I wasn't really interested in it at the time though. Back in 2012, I was on Tumblr and I saw a Sword Art Online gif set. It looked interesting, so I gave it a go, and here I am now. |
A TV channel used to air dubbed anime, by that time I didn't know it was called anime more like kids show according to the grownups, by the time I was into PC and gaming I came across it again but this time I knew what it was yet didn't know its origin so I was watching English dub again, anyways I finally get to know where it really came from and was already hooked. |
| I watched Death Note |
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| I had watched things like Pokemon here and there but not in a few years, I would say maybe about 2 months ago a friend recommended Chaos;Head, I really liked it, ever since then I have been hooked on anime. |
Look at my wonderful signature. |
| Much like everyone else, i had seen a few episodes of things like pokemon, naruto, digimon, etc but i wasn't too interested. Then, when i was bored, one day i decided to watch random videos on youtube and happened to come across death note and one thing led to another.. |
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