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Jun 12, 2015 3:44 PM
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When did you get into anime, and what anime got you into it? I got into anime in like 2005 from Pokemon. That was when May was still in the show. Then it went to Dawn, then every other female sub-protagonist sucked after that...
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Jun 12, 2015 3:50 PM
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first season of pokemon
#oldschool #misty #90skids #charizard
Jun 12, 2015 3:50 PM
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Haruhi Suzumiya's suggestive yaoi scenes. I dunno when I first watched that anime, it must've been a dozen months ago.
Jun 12, 2015 3:57 PM
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naruto.
Jun 12, 2015 3:58 PM
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Sailormoon was my gateway. I can't remember if I was 11 or 12 but it was somewhere around there.



Jun 12, 2015 4:00 PM
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Big 3. around 2008
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Jun 12, 2015 4:01 PM
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First ever anime was Attack on Titan


Jun 12, 2015 4:05 PM
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It was one of Bleach, Naruto, or Gundam Seed that got me into anime. I think it was around grade 5. Knew about pokemon, digimon, yugioh but didnt even bother with those cause they were so childish.
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Jun 12, 2015 4:11 PM
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By Hunter x hunter 1999

Jun 12, 2015 4:28 PM

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Around 1997.

My brother's friend lent us a video cassette of Slayers NEXT.
Jun 12, 2015 4:28 PM
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Don't know when, I think when I was 5-6 years old. I got into anime when I first watched Pokemon (the first one), Inuyasha, and School Rumble (don't remember much about School rumble though).
Jun 12, 2015 4:29 PM

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About three months ago.

Suisei no Gargantia.
Jun 12, 2015 4:30 PM

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Around the start of the millennium.
Cardcaptor Sakura!

Then Gundam series and Digimon adventure.
Jun 12, 2015 4:31 PM

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First series of Pokemon then DBZ/Cardcaptors/YuGiOh/Medabots. Then I took a long break and decided to watch HxH when i saw it on Netflix recently. Been watching since.
Jun 12, 2015 4:34 PM

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Watching dbz stuff on youtube, since it didn't air on tv anymore, found Naruto, rest is history.
Jun 12, 2015 5:10 PM

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romagia said:
first season of pokemon
#oldschool #misty #90skids #charizard
Ya I already knew that you liked Pokemon from that awesome Tympole gif as your forum picture. I remember trying to get Seismitoad for hours in black and white and for some reason I couldnt find it -.- Uh, I'm getting off-topic...

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First series of Pokemon then DBZ/Cardcaptors/YuGiOh/Medabots. Then I took a long break and decided to watch HxH when i saw it on Netflix recently. Been watching since.
Pokemon and DBZ were awesome. Yu-Gi-Oh!... uh, I actually never got into Yu-Gi-Oh!, although I did always like the awesome artwork and played the cards, I never watched the anime... Actually, Pokemon wasnt the only anime that got me into anime, there was also Beyblade Metal Fusion, which was like the last Beyblade series that didnt suck... besides Metal Masters... That was ok. After that, though, It wasnt all that good.
Jun 12, 2015 5:12 PM

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I used to watch anime when I used to watch TV. What brought me back and made me watch anime regularly online was Death Note.
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Jun 12, 2015 5:12 PM

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Moved to new city. Nothing to watch. Drunk browsing Netflix = FULL METAL ALCHEMIST
Jun 12, 2015 5:18 PM

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When I was twelve/thirteen I watched InuYasha on Adult Swim. Then I got a computer and finished it online, in the process discovered more anime.

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Jun 12, 2015 5:20 PM

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Silver fang when i was about 7 perhaps.
Jun 12, 2015 5:20 PM

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Around July of last year, so about a year ago. I had watched SAO and Code Geass, but they seemed fairly similar and I didn't really want to watch any more stuff like that. It was Toradora! that got me into anime.
Jun 12, 2015 5:22 PM

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Last winter

Me and my friends watch shows together over skype, and they were going to watch Tokyo Ghoul so I thought I'd watch as well. It was alright, but it really opened me up to research more animes, and since then I've found alot better series.
Jun 12, 2015 5:23 PM

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Around 2008

Jun 12, 2015 5:26 PM

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Last year when my brother showed me Devil Survivor 2. But, I was not dragged into animu by that. Actually, Natsume's Book of Friends made me an japanimation enthusiast (and it is also my favrit and will be always special in mein hart)
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Jun 12, 2015 5:35 PM

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Only 9 months ago, last september. Baccano was the anime that got me into the media.
I have watched Naruto before but it doesn't count as it hasn't made me want to watch more anime.
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Watched Dragon Ball, DBZ, and Yu Yu Hakusho when I was younger but I didn't really get into anime until Naruto during the Pain arc in HS. But it was really Attack on Titan and Hunter x Hunter that really hooked me into anime during college.
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Jun 12, 2015 8:01 PM

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I dont have an exact date, but I remember watching Pokemon, Yugioh, Inuyasha, and DBZ on Toonami when I was very young. I then got a computer and I found HXH 1999/Cardcaptor sakura/etc and my interest in anime grew from there.
Jun 12, 2015 8:04 PM

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Around my teenage years i got into Death Note.That was the show that sparked something in me.I said to myself:

"I like this.I like these characters,i like these stories,and i like this medium.I want to find more things like this."

Ah,i'll never forget Light.He was the one who gave me my love of insane characters.
Jun 12, 2015 8:14 PM

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because most of my shitty idiotic friends right now are very very hypes about anime and always talking about anime all the time

and here i am, trapped like an asshole, wether i like it or not, i must watch anime to counterbalance their knowledge
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Jun 12, 2015 8:42 PM

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Around this time last year. I had always found the art style really cute and interesting so when my boyfriend told me he watched anime I was happy to try watch some of his favourites to see how I liked it
Jun 12, 2015 10:31 PM
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Watched some of the popular Toonami shows like DBZ, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Naruto when I was a kid. I never really got into anime aside from battle shounens until about a year ago when I decided to broaden my horizons and watch Steins; Gate, Watamote, and Clannad.
Jun 12, 2015 10:34 PM

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6 months ago I watched Ika Musume...and somehow ended up loving harems.
Jun 12, 2015 10:38 PM

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Around 2 years ago, I think. Back then, I dismissed anime as "for kids" and something that only involved random fight scenes and yelling.

Well, that was until a friend of mine practically forced me to watch Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu since, at the time, that was the show he was watching.

I found it hilarious and then decided to search up more anime.
Jun 12, 2015 10:38 PM

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Pokemon back in '98 was among the first anime I watched and then I watched whatever was on Toonami and Adult Swim until about '08 when I watched FLCL where I became a more dedicated fan. I also started reading Death Note and Bleach around '06 and that also contributed
Jun 12, 2015 10:39 PM

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Dbz got me into anime so i got into anime a while ago hxh 2011 made me love anime.
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Jun 12, 2015 10:39 PM

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Some of my friends were watching Soul Eater early 2013 and I thought it was cool. Been watching something new ever since.
Jun 12, 2015 10:47 PM

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I watched a lot of anime growing up as a kid like Pokemon, Sailor moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, etc. Except back then, i thought they were regular cartoons. So i officially got into anime in late 2010. I got introduced to Kanon 2006 and was instantly hooked! <3 (: Thus, i continued to watch anime.
Jun 12, 2015 10:49 PM
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I started watching anime in elementary school with Digimon, Pokemon, DBZ, etc. like a lot of kids, but I think I really started liking anime after seeing Trigun, FLCL, Cowboy Bebop (the movie), Escaflowne (this is what got me in to manga, actually), and Princess Mononoke. I have two older siblings, and these are shows they watched, but we only had one TV so that meant that I was also watching them. This was still when I was in 3-5th grade. We got cable when I started middle school, so I started watching the stuff that was offered free on demand. Then in seventh grade, I got tired of waiting for on demand or episodes got take down before I had a chance to watch them, so that's when I started watching anime and reading manga online.
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saw pokemon and digimon at the age of 5, progressed slightly with a mix of saturday morning cartoons and anime like yu-gi-oh throughout the years. My cousins introduced me to subbed anime (naruto: shipudden, while they were still in regular naruto in english) at the age of 13
Jun 12, 2015 10:58 PM
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Also, I think it's interesting the number of people in this thread (and that I know irl) that only got in to anime recently, with recently meaning within the last two or three years.
Jun 12, 2015 11:29 PM

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NHRoccodog said:
When did you get into anime, and what anime got you into it? I got into anime in like 2005 from Pokemon. That was when May was still in the show. Then it went to Dawn, then every other female sub-protagonist sucked after that...


we all know everyone went thru pokemon, LOL

started watching pokemon when i was 3 :*
*starts dreaming about childhood*
Jun 13, 2015 12:46 AM

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I don't really remember when exactly but I remember anime being a heavy part of my childhood. My very very very very first anime was Sailor Moon, then other than the classics (DBZ, Pokemon, big 3, etc) it was Peach Girl just because it was on youtube and the dub was pretty good



Jun 13, 2015 12:49 AM

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When I was a little kid, with Flame of Recca and Yu yu hakusho. Pretty much followed both on TV back then.
My first anime is Chou Denji Machine Voltes V, tho.
Recca is still really nostalgic for me, I want to rewatch it.


Jun 13, 2015 12:54 AM

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Death note
Jun 13, 2015 12:58 AM
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Watching random Pokemon and big 3 anime when I was a kid in our local channel. And the first anime that I watched on pc was Shugo Chara.
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The first season of pokemon (kanto) was the first anime I watched. Did not know it was japanese at that time though I just thought it was american cartoon.

I first properly got into anime during the 2nd year of my college when a friend gave me death note.
Jun 13, 2015 1:06 AM

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I guess Naruto, Doraemon and Crayon Shincan is first anime i watch the show at my country local TV stasion in my chillhood.
And Anohana is my first anime i download and i get into it around that time (2013)
Jun 13, 2015 1:33 AM

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DBZ was the first anime I watched, I used to follow it religiously back when it was being shown in 2002.

I didn't get seriously into anime until August last year, and even then I wasn't watching it a lot until around december.
Jun 13, 2015 2:01 AM

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Cory in the House got me into anime. jokes Shaman King on a channel named Jetix
All credit goes to Sacred.
Jun 13, 2015 2:05 AM

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I've watched a lot of anime when I was way younger, but I didn't know what anime was. Four years ago my cousin showed me Naruto, and that's when my trip began
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