| Only from the time I registered these as anime - Medabots is amazing, still is. Death Note now looks like an ordinary thriller with more flash. It's good, but nothing spectacular. For the life of me I can't remember whether Haruhi Suzumiya was any good. I loved it at the time, but it was my first step into anime. All the school anime I watched back then are just okay. |
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| Excluding stuff that I watched when I was a kid, I mostly watched a lot of the shitty ecchi shows on netflix during my first year of highschool (Sekirei, Highschool of the Dead, Shuffle, Rosario + Vampire, Elfen Lied, etc). I haven't rewatched any of these shows in a long time, but I think it's fair to say I probably wouldn't enjoy them to the same extent I did when I was a teenager. Still, they hold a special place in my heart, so I can't rate them too low. |
| Looking back the first few anime that I've watched. - To-Love Ru = So it's some generic harem shit. - Gundam Seed/Destiny = Still the only Gundam series that I'll watch. - Rosario + Vampire = Same as TLR. |
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| So I started watching anime with the 1st being Cowboy Bebop, when i say 1st anime I don't mean the ones you watched sometimes on TV some weeks like Pokemon, I mean when you actively search for it and want to watch it from beginning to end. I believe it is a great anime, but I've been questioning myself to know if I had a bias as it was one of my first animes and when I started watching animes I didn't put any distinction between them, I just watched and rated them from cool to very cool, and maybe didn't think too much about it's greatness in its different aspects (except music, hot damn that CB music is delicious). I still feel like my anime watching experience was more enjoyable when I started, though some shows I watched more recently can still be as enjoyable, I'm almost sure some animes I watched when I started wouldn't be as enjoyable as it was when I watched them then if I watched them now, maybe because when I started I was easily impressed or something I don't know. Another example I have is Mirai Nikki which I rated very cool too but after looking at some reviews explaining reasons why it was disliked, notably the pretty trashy plot and illogical characters, I understood that it only was good because I was simply seeking for something to enjoy and didn't think much more about it, like I didn't think much more about the rest of the first animes I've watched. Or did I? Did those reviews I read bias my view on both Cowboy Bebop and Mirai Nikki, the former for the better and the latter for the worse? I agree with a lot of the points they make but still really don't know where to position myself. I do feel like I've grown not to different "tastes" but just to be able to see the bullshit behind some of the animes I watched, sometimes letting it pass and sometimes not depending how important it is in the story. Anyways, just wanted to know if you guys related to this or had at least once thought about it. What do you think about the first animes you watched? Do you still feel like those were the best enjoyment-wise? If you do reconsider your first animes, what exactly happens (examples appreciated)? Do reviews affect your rating, or do you only rate enjoyment-wise? Sorry for the wall of text I wanted to give out some of my thoughts to maybe make you guys understand better how I think about all of this. Hope some nice discussion stems out of this. |
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| The first anime I searched on the net and watched it weekly was, to my shame, hyakka ryouran samurai girls, I thought it was an action flick with samurai girls, I got heavy ecchi harem with minor action and dumb plot. No reviews or rewatching can change my mind. Regarding other anime I watched before samurai girls: soul eater, death note, d-gray man, blue gender, ghost in the shell, nana. They are still great in my eyes and I rewatched them fairly, even today I get my dose of Asuka. I don't read reviews if I already finished the anime, only if I wanna watch it, I read reviews after I watch the anime only if I'm bored but nothing can change my experience, you can shame kiddy grade for ex, I liked it a lot back in the day, I like the story and everything, you may say it has plotholes or whatever, I say I saw them but I don'r care, I was enjoyed, the anime did its job. |
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| So my first anime (besides One Piece) was probably Evangelion, so i watched it before on TV but only a few chapters, after watching the full anime i didn't really understood what i just watched so i don't know if i can say what i thought of it back then. but today I understand more of the anime and the meaning of most of the symbolism and metaphors on the anime. For me it's a piece of art that was ahead of it's time and very misunderstood by people, but to not incite controversy i'll just say that i just love it and i think i need to revisit it one more time :P |
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| found my old list on my note pad from before MAL Isnt probably in exactly correct order I think either but is helpful since started to really watch anime online around 2010 but started listing shows on note pad around 2012 Is funny that despite it being 50 titles on there only one who've I've actually had an opinion change on is Kanon 2006 after having rewatched years after falling in love with After Story Really thought Kanon was lame when I first watched it and I probably as a kid didn't understand it on first viewing But felt great respect for it after seeing how it influenced the plot and themes in Clannad which I feel emotionally connected to Is funny seeing Samurai Champloo on there too but not Cowboy Bebop Was like one of my most hated shows as a kid so guess 2012 me didn't add it onto the first 50 for some reason that Im unaware of now in the present |
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| I agree with Mirai Nikki, I mean for someone like me who just wants a to get some fun watching a scary yandere, I felt that it was a tad bit illogical. Perhaps they haven't done a proper research about female psychopath but I haven't too. Yeah so like when I was - I am still young okay, I did enjoy it better than if I am to watch it now but I won't change my score just so I could tell others how my taste change over the years. |
| I look at the year/years (2005,2006) on my Malgraph and see very high mean scores. That leads me to believe that my first anime series are better then and as good as current ones. They are in no way inferior to recent or currently airing anime. |
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| No. I respect my former self's opinion |
zieek said: I look at the year/years (2005,2006) on my Malgraph and see very high mean scores. That leads me to believe that my first anime series are better then and as good as current ones. They are in no way inferior to recent or currently airing anime. I think you misunderstood the post, I'm asking if your perceptions on the first animes you saw changed as you grew seeing/knowing more about anime in general. Would you like those first animes you watched as much if you only watched them currently? |
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| By that logic I should rate Doraemon 10/10 and call it a masterpiece of literature as it was my first anime. Haha. Just consider things however you want. You decide what makes something good. We all change over time and I think it's important to be honest to yourself instead of listening to other people. Everything is subjective anyways. Trashy writing can be "objectively" good and fun to somebody and good writing can be "objectively" trashy and boring to somebody else. Yes my views change over time. It's human nature. We change, literally. Even when you deny it, your views of it have changed. It's only the echoes that remain the same. And if you believe it to be the case that your views have not change then it's perpetual cycle of believing that you are viewing things in the same way. |
| @TuturuChan I mentionned in first paragraph that I meant first anime you actively watch, did you watch Doraemon on TV weekly or did you watch it on a streaming site/DVD? I don't think everything is subjective though, I think that when ppl say that it means more that ppl are looking for different things in their anime to give their rating/opinion, which makes people have different opinions. So anime can be both viewed subjectively and objectively as some people only rate on objective criterias, or at least say they do. Anyways that's just my take on it. Those people who think trashy writing is objectively good probably don't know exactly what makes good writing, and probably wouldn't be able to explain what makes the trashy writing good, I probably did the same when I started watching anime and probably still do but have a better idea. Those echoes are the only images I have from my first animes and so my views have not changed as I think I'd have to rewatch the anime to form a new opinion on it, where I'd apply my new rating criterias. |
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| @BiDiGiN VHS xD but yeah It was technically the first anime I actively watched. I watch a lot of others crap too growing up mostly like Sport/SOL/Comedy towards my early teens, but then my drive in watching anime sort of fizzled out went to other mediums and I'm back here again basically. Then we're both in agreement. And I don't think you can rate something "purely objectively" What are you Wikipedia. Haha. You can look at something objectively, ie; "I saw the colour red" what you can value out of it is subjective "I like red". And your assumption is that most people tend to throw the word objectively around without even considering the objective aspects of something before coming to an opinion of it yes? Fair enough. We can only try to look at it objectively, but at the end of the day when we decide something's worth it is mostly subjective. Some people do this with Dora the Explorer too. They look at Dora the Explorer objectively. And they still find the simplistic writing good. Is it bad writing? Or is it good writing? Man rating art is tough. We all have our preferences even after looking at things objectively. Another example would be writing that uses plot devices or Deus ex machina, in a traditional sense that is viewed as bad writing by popular opinion, because it is known as the lazy arsepull of writing, yes? But for example when using it in comedy this can be funny so is it bad or good writing. It can also be used to open up a new direction in a narrative. Sometimes plot devices can work well with good direction. Good or bad is subjective I think. What we can do is just try to look at art for what it is and be aware of our biases. And that's taste. At least that's what i'm told. haha. Which is why the simplification of it is that art is subjective. Because we're not robots or Wikipedia. We are creatures of emotion after all. It's just awareness is important. Which I agree. |
Deknijff said: found my old list on my note pad from before MAL Isnt probably in exactly correct order I think either but is helpful since started to really watch anime online around 2010 but started listing shows on note pad around 2012 Is funny that despite it being 50 titles on there only one who've I've actually had an opinion change on is Kanon 2006 after having rewatched years after falling in love with After Story Really thought Kanon was lame when I first watched it and I probably as a kid didn't understand it on first viewing But felt great respect for it after seeing how it influenced the plot and themes in Clannad which I feel emotionally connected to Is funny seeing Samurai Champloo on there too but not Cowboy Bebop Was like one of my most hated shows as a kid so guess 2012 me didn't add it onto the first 50 for some reason that Im unaware of now in the present Hell ye! Before making myself a MAL account I had a list too! Also I saw you gave Cowboy Bebop a 3, is that the rating you gave after watching it when you were newer to anime or have you rewatched it to give it a proper score? Do you think you'd like it more if you watched it now? |
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BiDiGiN said: I wasn't new to anime when I watched it Deknijff said: Hell ye! Before making myself a MAL account I had a list too! Also I saw you gave Cowboy Bebop a 3, is that the rating you gave after watching it when you were newer to anime or have you rewatched it to give it a proper score? Do you think you'd like it more if you watched it now?found my old list on my note pad from before MAL Isnt probably in exactly correct order I think either but is helpful since started to really watch anime online around 2010 but started listing shows on note pad around 2012 Is funny that despite it being 50 titles on there only one who've I've actually had an opinion change on is Kanon 2006 after having rewatched years after falling in love with After Story Really thought Kanon was lame when I first watched it and I probably as a kid didn't understand it on first viewing But felt great respect for it after seeing how it influenced the plot and themes in Clannad which I feel emotionally connected to Is funny seeing Samurai Champloo on there too but not Cowboy Bebop Was like one of my most hated shows as a kid so guess 2012 me didn't add it onto the first 50 for some reason that Im unaware of now in the present Its just I started watching things online since my dad got me an iPad so could stream on it but I had still watched lots of shows on TV whenever given the chance As for the score. Thats just the score I gave it when I joined MAL and the idea of even scoring shows came to mind but that was like 3 years after having actually watched the show and nah I haven't rewatched it since the first time I finished it all those years ago If I watched it now I think Id just be really bored with it honestly but can't see myself hating the show since anger subsides with time so if anything score would go from a 3 to 4 based on a guess but can't picture enjoyment actually increasing at all |
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| @TuturuChan Very yes I agree, though I still think that some biases still annoy me, like I think it's totally alright to shit on some people's taste if they use weird criterias to rate anime (true ex: disliking Jojo because character present "toxic masculinity", I've seen some other weird shit but like damn that's retarded) or do not use really common and important ones (especially story and animation). I wouldn't do it as I'd probably first ask why and then try to understand that person's values and his reasoning for his choices but in the end like I can decide not to agree with his criterias and tell him he has wrong criterias, if that makes sense. Another factor that can influence your rating is definitively how easily impressed you get by anime, it happens a lot when you begin watching anime but also happens in other situations, usually with the art/animation, I think Your Name doesn't have much merit except its animation/art and some people rated pretty damn high only ranting about how good the art/animation is, if you look at at the Overall rating of some of the reviews it has lots of people give high score to the animation but high score to the story and character too without really explaining why both of these deserve this story/character score that puts Your Name over other animes that have great characters too. Watching more anime made me less and less impressed by it but also made me "sharpen" my criterias if this makes sense I think, though to say it like feels kind of stupid. I still think objectivity exists, mixed with a bit of subjectivity (sidenote: Don't know how some ratings on some show are so varied, all the people who watched it have seen the same thing, which is objectively good at the same level for everyone, like there can be some subjectivity and little score deviance but I feel like some people just use wrong criterias at wrong moment(other sidnote: some reviews out there exposing why an anime is bad for such wrong reasons it's crazy, same thing can be said of the opposite)) like if we base ourselves on the 4 rating criterias not including enjoyment, they all have an objective value that you can rate on a scale in a totally legitimate way. The little problems with it again are 2 things; 1. The scaling: some people may have never seen an anime with great animation and the best animation they saw you'd personally give it a 7, well because for them it's the best, they'd give it a 10. 2: A bad understanding of what a certain objective criteria is exactly, I've seen some review giving high score to music but not really explaining why music deserves the score, usually just saying "music does it's job, helps enhance certain moments and is pretty good" and then giving it a 8/9. Anyways going a bit off topic but I gotta put it out, also Wikipedia is written by human beings lol. |
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| @BiDiGin Yeap even Wikipedia can't be objectively right sometimes. Haha. This world sucks. Well I get that sometimes people overrate/underrate stuff for weird reasons like "I don't like I don't like his face 1/10" can be slightly annoying but yeah that's the beautiful world that we live in. You probably care about anime that's why you get annoyed, I feel the same way sometimes. But you can't change the world and at end of the day we just wanna keep track of the value of our anime. We all love anime here. And everybody goes about it differently. We all came from different backgrounds after all. Back at the topic at hand, yes I do reconsider the first anime or old anime I watch whenever I get the chance cuz I'm a nitpicky guy. I "try" to make sure I'm not too far off the deep end and understand what I'm doing. xD |
| I really relate to the Mirai Nikki paragraph, I had the exact same thing happen to me but with demo's (DouchebagChocolat) review on Youtube, talking about all these things that sucked about the show which I would agree with, but confusing me as to why I ever liked it in the first place. Now I have no idea what my opinion would naturally be without that video. The most notable anime for me where I changed my mind without being influenced by others was Code Geass. It was one of the earliest anime I had ever watched after learning how anime was it's own medium, and I loved it. Fast forward today and I still kinda like it, but jesus christ I just see it as such a flawed mess. I can't even pretend to like the second season, aside from the ending. |
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| My first anime was Attack on Titan, and I thought it was the best thing I had ever seen when I watched it for the first time. After having rewatched it with my friend a few months later, I definitely think it's still a good even great show, but I think after watching a lot more things I can see more flaws in the story and characters. I still think part 1 of the 3rd season was really really good. |
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| I began watching anime fifteen years ago when my daughter brought home a copy of Mononoke Hime ("Princess Mononoke"). It's still deserves the ten I gave it. Saw it again in a theater last year on my seventieth birthday. |
| Not counting the various shows that I saw as a kid not knowing what anime was, it would have to be Akira when a group of friends and I saw it in the theater way back in the 90's. Loved it then love it to this day. |
| My actual first anime was Sailor Moon and I still love it for the nostalgia. I only watched a few anime as a kid as I grew up in the 90's (I'm 33) and there really wasn't the access to it as there is now. |
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| Well as a kid i always loved certain animated shows more than others, but back then i didn't knew that those where anime, so i won't count them. The first anime a watched that i knew was something called an anime was Galaxy angel. Back then i loved it because i was starting to get tired of normal cartoons and was looking for something different and it had what i was looking for, better animation, different type of humour and so on. It was the show that got me into anime and it has earned a special place in my heart, but i will admit that the show has many flaws and hasn't aged well, so i probably wont recommend it to anyone here, but nevertheless i still love to talk about it whenever i get the chance :) |
| Technically my first anime would be Mermaid Melody but I didn't know "anime" was a thing back then. It's alright, the proportions and plot is actually a bit ridiculous when I think back on it, but back then I found the ending with the orange mermaid sad and stuff. Songs are still decent. The first anime I watched knowing it was anime was Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood and it's still one of my favorite. It got me into anime in general and after watching it I went around searching for similar anime. |
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| I guess my first anime was spirited away, which I was terrified of when I watched it when I was 5/6 years old, though i watched it again some years later and I rly enjoyed it then. however, I consider my first real anime to have been death note which I watched at 13??? I thought it was a masterpiece back then and tbh I still think the same so yeah |
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| I occasionally watched anime as a kid, but didn't have a specific interest in it, nor do I remember what my first one was. As an adult, the first anime I watched was Rurouni Kenshin. I vaguely remembered watching this when I was younger, and thought I'd check it out; nostalgia being the main reason. I thought it was mediocre then, and I think the same now. |
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Yasmin1501 said: I guess my first anime was spirited away, which I was terrified of when I watched it when I was 5/6 years old, though i watched it again some years later and I rly enjoyed it then. mine was also spirited away!!! i loved it then and it still brings me a lot of nostalgia. other than that, my first anime was fairy tail. loved it to the moon and back when i first started but now i find it only okay. my expectations went up and now i expect very little to no fanservice so yeh... |
| Besides kids' shows, the first anime I ever watched was Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry. And I still really love it. I know it's kinda generic, but I can't seem to dislike it at all. By the way, this thread doesn't belong here. |
| The first anime I watched (back in August 2018) was Kimi no Na wa and I found it great back then, but now I find many other anime more entertaining and enjoyable than that. |
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| Uhh... Not really sure what my first would be. I've been watching anime my entire life. Maybe Pokemon or Sailor Moon? But I'm gonna go with the first one I ever bought on DVD which was Vampire Princess Miyu. The dub is bad, the episodes are repetitive (wow calling for Larva again? Maybe do something for yourself, Miyu) and Miyu herself is suuuuuuper bland... But I still love it. The ending still holds up pretty well, it's just a lot of the same thing over and over to get there. |
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momotarotea said: Yasmin1501 said: I guess my first anime was spirited away, which I was terrified of when I watched it when I was 5/6 years old, though i watched it again some years later and I rly enjoyed it then. mine was also spirited away!!! i loved it then and it still brings me a lot of nostalgia. other than that, my first anime was fairy tail. loved it to the moon and back when i first started but now i find it only okay. my expectations went up and now i expect very little to no fanservice so yeh... i also thought fairy tale was rly good when I first watched it and I didn't rly understood why so many people criticized it, but I think if I were to watch it now id understand the many problems people have with it |
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| Other than Pokemon and Bakugan, my first anime was Shaman King. I read the manga as a kid and when I found out it had a show I looked the whole thing up on Youtube. I wasn't aware that the dub changed some of the names and that it was made before the manga finished so I was very confused as to why it was doing things differently. Honestly, I don't remember anything about the show since I watched it so long ago. |
| FMAB and I still love it. Amazing story and few plot holes if any |
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| If we are not counting Pokemon, Doraemon, Shin-chan then my first Anime is Death Note and still to this day it is one of my most enjoyable show. |
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| Love Hina 10 years ago, but I haven't gone back and watched it. I don't think I'd like it as much. |
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| My Little Snow Sugar fairy still looks good to me, its wholesome and the fairys are cute. But my first finished anime was Yuri On Ice and now I think its meh, but the skating is nice. |
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