| So i just had this random thought and realized... "wow, i started obsessing over anime since i was in kindergarten. that's 10 freakin years of my life." yeah XP first anime was either pokemon, sailor moon, or dragon ball z. cept back then i didn't know it was called anime until 6th grade. but even then, i was watching stuff like yu yu hakusho, rurouni kenshin, and shaman king. so 10 years... i've been obsessing over anime... sadly, i haven't seen as many series as i wish i had. |
| I've been into anime for...3 years now. Ah, make that 3 and a half years. |
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| 10 years for me too, this June...when I first saw Sailor Moon on Cartoon Network. Certainly not my first, but the first to make me look stuff up, find pictures, wait eagerly for the next episode, want to see more shows like it, etc, etc. Though I definitely wasn't in kindergarten, lol. ;) |
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| Well, I generally lumped Pokemon and stuff together with a whole bunch of American cartoons so I won't go that far back. Officially, when I started watching anime directed at slightly older audiences, I would say a year and a half ago. Then about 10 months ago, I REALLY got into it. And here I am now :P |
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| 14 years, wow along time. I count me being into Sailor Moon, DBZ and the like. Hardcore into anime, 5 years this May. |
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| Hmmmm I wasn't obsessed with anime until a 2 years ago. I mean I did watch as a kid, but not as much as now. |
| around 10 years for me too i think |
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| I guess it's up to 12 now. But I didn't watch too much until digisubbing took off in the 2000s. D: |
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| Lets see its been since I was in the sixth grade so roughly 12 years I'd say, give or take a few. |
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| 7 years, thats not including POKEMANZ and, "ON THE NEXT EXCITING EPISODE OF DRAGON BALL ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ." |
| Well over twenty years, though admittedly the past ~15 or so has made it a lot easier with DVDs and more recently (since what, 99 or so?) digisubbing. But I was watching VHS tapes in the late 70s/early 80s as my parents got them directly from Japan, I grew up watching it, without having to wait for or tolerate American butchers and dubs. |
| Eight years and counting. 8'D |
| Since I was 5 with Robotech...so that's...11 years ^_^ |
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Gnome said: Same hereI started watching it back in June of last year. So about 7-8 months. |
| I watch since the days of Doraemon, Sailor Moon, Fushigi Yugi, Dragon Ball, etc. but that time I didn't know nor care about the difference between anime and American cartoon. Ever since that time I kept watching "family anime" like Pokémon and Shin-chan regularly. Then I become a Digimon nerd for years. One day when my household was subscribed to Comcast, I started paying attention to anime. There was on demand. Then I became an Internet user regular back in 2003-2004-ish. I met a friend at late 2004. We both watched Narue no Sekai together, discuss about it and over time unexpectedly we became best buds until today. XD He introduced me to more cool anime like Full Moon wo Sagashite, Haruhi, and Welcome to the NHK. Then on May 2007 I signed up on MAL. Weeks later Lucky Star catches my attention and then I started to seriously catalog my entries here. That was last summer and that's when I started watching anime religiously. |
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| i cant remember when i first liked anime. i used to watch it in like kindergarted/1st grade (sailormoon, dragonballz) and then i watched toonami's gundam wing, etc. and pokemon as well. but in 5th grade i began to maintain my own sailormoon website. which made me really want to get fansubs. So i began to look into it and began to buy fansubs around 6th grade. I honestly havent watched much dubbed anime after that... (the first dubbed episode of CCS pretty much made me not like dubs) soooo i guess i've been watching anime in japanese for about 7 years =] |
| Maybe 5 or 6 years, maybe more. Though back then I wasnt as in to anime as I am now. |
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| i had started watching anime in elementary school...so that makes it around 6~8 years... but its this past 3 years that i started to get really into the anime world~ |
| iv'e been into anime for three years now |
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| Watching anime knowing it as 'anime' : 17 years. If you count the time when I watched stuff like battle of the planets, harlock, voltron, robotech, etc, knowing from all the Japanese names in the credits that it was made in Japan, but not realizing that it was "Anime", then like, 26 years or so. |
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| not nearly long enough, like 2-3 years mabs |
| Since i was in like 2nd grad which would make it around 12~13 years |
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| 3 years or so I watched yuyu, dbz, cdz, pokemon when it started passing on TV, but I didn't know it was anime. |
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| I was counting from about 9th grade which is when I got into anime it's been 13 years. Which makes me feel old. I still enjoy anime though. Honestly at this point in life I don't know what my life would me like now if I had picked up some other hobby at that time. |
| Started about 15 years ago with Grendizer, Future Boy Conan (They were nice days) but obssesion began about 5 or 6 years ago so i guess i have long roots in anime ^_^ |
| I started watching anime by the time I started elementary school, so its probably around 11 or 12 years. |
| I started in either late 1999 or early 2000, I can't tie it down at the moment. Either way, that makes it 8-9 years I guess :) |
sevenf said: okay doodes, i noticed there are people who watch anime "10-13 years (wtf?)", but you have like ~150completed ones, do you also count pokemons, naruto, digimons? D: or do you watch 1 episode per week? ^^ A lot of people sort their lists differently. I personally don't list anything I don't have on DVD or as a fansub. My old VHS collection is obsolete (I haven't had a VHS player for years, the tapes are probably dead anyway, plus I wouldn't want to submit my eyes to VHS resolutions after entering the HD era.) so I don't include it. I also don't include stuff I've just watched and didn't buy or keep, that includes dropped series. |
| Started watching around 13 years ago. Started watching subbed anime around 1 year ago. Watched 92% of total in the last year. |
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Zarin said: 150 series over 10 years = 15 series per year; That's a little over a series a month; Assuming the average series has like 18 episodes or so that's around an episode every couple of days; Not that far fetched since in the 1990's nobody had an internet connection fast enough to download an episode in the few minutes it takes these days. ;-) This is also a good point. For people who have limited time and/or bandwidth, they can't follow a bunch of series every season, they'll just follow the best 2-3 of each season, and that's fine. A dozenish series a year is still worthwhile. Then, there's also people who simply don't watch fansubs, and only watch stuff available on TV in their region, or buy DVDs which of course means they'll be constrained by costs and terrible release schedules (though that's improved a lot in the past couple years). Somebody who's been watching anime since Eva-ish, and has only seen 150 other series, is still a respectable anime fan. As long as they don't still keep Eva in their top10 after having seen 20-30 other series, since it's so shithouse almost anything can upsurp it. (Really. The only reason it's so popular is it was one of the first exposed to the western market as 'anime' as opposed to being butchered in to a 'cartoon') but that's a rant for another thread. |
| I suddenly feel left out =3. 9 months for me hehe. |
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| Probably about 10 years. Though I'm just now watching a lot of series on my own. |
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| Proximately like... a year. |
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| at least 100 years |
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| 2 years ^^ |
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| mm i'm 21 now.. so.. 10 or 12 years? |
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| Hmm, I think it's been two and a half years. I had watched the odd anime now and then when I was over at a friend's house in my early high school years. |
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| Ehhh I've been into anime for over 10 years.....less than 15 years..Gosh I feel so old now >_< |
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| Just shy of 15 years, if you only count what I knew as anime rather than Saturday morning cartoons. If you do count the ancient ones like Voltron and Transformers, it would be 20-21 easy. |
| Let's see, I would say about 7 years? I don't remember exactly when I started to watch anime. Lol |
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| I've been into it on and off for almost 11 years, but I've only really gotten more hardcore in the past 3-4 years. I also didn't have access to fansubs until last year-ish, so the bulk of my watching has been happening recently. |
| I've been actively watching for about four years. |
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| Like many people here, I watched anime before I ever knew what it was. I was an avid fan of Ronin Warriors and Samurai Pizza Cats (and Sailor Moon, which I was only able to justify with my parents by getting my sister into it XD). Later on, I got into Pokemon (the first few episodes really intrigued me, as they were much different than what airs now) and Dragon Ball. It wasn't until 8th grade that I found a "Japanese Animation Exhibition" event going on at the library and was finally able to match the animation style I loved with a name. Half a year later, I started buying retail series and it took off from there. I told that story to get to a point: If you count my fandom from when I first loved an anime series, I've been a fan for 17 years. If you count from the time I knew what anime was, I've been a fan for 9 years. (It's been a veeeery long/expensive 9 years) FWIW, Akahori Gedou Hour Rabuge was the first fansub I downloaded. Less than 3 years of illegal fandom... O.O |
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| Well, the first anime I had seen was Evangelion when I was 11. But I started properly watching anime since 2005 august with Dragon Ball Z, then Bleach and it began my journey into the realms of anime. I have yet to reach SSJ 5... >_> |
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