| A lot of us have already watched anime from an age we can't even remember anything, say Pokemon, who were born in the late '90s. But when was the time you actively became a fan of anime/manga? For me, it was around when I became 11 or so years old. The Naruto hype has swept me away, like many others at the time. What about you guys? |
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| ehhh, I would say 19 I have watched a few shows before, but I never really cared to explore beyond stuff like shaman king and naruto, so I wouldn't really call myself an 'anime fan' then been watching a ton of everything for about 4 years now |
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| I've been a sort of active casual for most of my life, but I didn't actively look farther into the medium until like 2014-2015 when I finally finished Death Note (started it back when it first aired but got bored). |
Imaishi said: ehhh, I would say 19 I have watched a few shows before, but I never really cared to explore beyond stuff like shaman king and naruto, so I wouldn't really call myself an 'anime fan' then been watching a ton of everything for about 4 years now Yes, Shaman King was the shit back then. Even had a custom opening song for a bunch of countries which was quite lit. |
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| When I was about 24. Wish it was earlier but I also did watch the odd ep of Pokemon, DBZ, CCS, and Sailor Moon on TV when I was about 8. |
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| Ive watched anime and read manga ever since kindergarten but i never really started doing as an everyday thing until i was about 11 when i finished angel beats for the first time |
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| I don't remember it's all vague,but if i had to give an age then it would be around when i was 16 ( that's too late i guess,but i don't regret it ) |
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| @MOB_ABOMINATOR not at all, I also started watching anime seriously at 17, and I don't feel like I've been left out of anything. @Pixel_Vapour you know what they say, it's never too late to start watching anime. |
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| At about age 13-14. This year I'll be 25 years old. |
| When I was 18, before that I only knew DBZ, Pokemon and Digimon. |
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| chronologically 1, but i became aware of Anime when i was 12, and started actively partaking in the community when i was 14 |
| When I was about 13 or 14 I started watching anime and then after high school I got more into the seasonal stuff and watched a lot of shows. |
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| 14 I guess, at least it's when I started watching anime other than pokemon |
| Around 13-14 at the start of high school, when the friend group I joined was really into anime, so I looked into it to find out what they were talking about, watched all of Naruto, Soul Eater and Death Note and then ended up going even further down the anime hole than any of them and well.... here we are |
| somewhere around 10 years old during the Pokemon and Digimon days |
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| I think in 17, of course in childhood I saw some of them like pokemon,naruto and shaman king but I wasn´t fan of anime in general yet :) |
| 16 sadly... Wish it was way earlier! |
| since my previous life really.. astral projection reveals i was a huge macross fan back when it first aired in this current life around 2011 i started watching anime other than childhood series from TV, so 16-17 i guess |
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| About 16. I had an older sister who tried to introduce me to some of the mainstream stuff before, but I wasn't watching anime on my own. |
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| Like 11 or 12. I was heavy into Blue Dragon and Bleach. |
Weirdo47 said: 12 'u' Now that I remember... the way I discovered anime was so weird and random :>| So, how did you encounter anime? You've piqued my interest. |
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| Watched anime since I was 6-7 years old. Though, not an anime fan until I was 11. I was just mixing up what I watched back then, just happens to be that one of them is anime. |
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| 14, when I watched elfen lied, so it was fall 2013, I remember because kill la kill was airing and the hype train for that was going on. |
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| I was 12 years old when it hit me that I liked anime. Inuyasha and Ai Yori Aoshi kept me strong until I explored other things. |
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| Technically since before I was born. Well, I'm 5 and it started in 95. Yeah, ain't it a thrill trying to figure me out :) |
| Just living the life of an anime princess. |
| I have been an anime fan my entire life, I have that otaku blood |
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| I first started getting interested in anime when I was ten years old. |
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| if I don't count the ghibli that I watched during my childhood, or some animes that I saw in high school like Naruto, Dragon Ball or One Piece. I think we can say that I became a real fan at 19 or 20 years old. |
| When I was 13, I guess. But I was watching anime on TV since 4 or 5 years old. |
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| Twelve thirteen or something I guess |
| I've been watching Anime since 1992, when I was 4 years old. Even at that age, I could easily differentiate between Anime and western cartoons. There was always something about Anime that caught my eye in a way that western animation didn't. |
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| When I was 10 or so, back in 1998-1999. You damn kids have it so easy nowadays. |
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| When I was 4 they streamed Dragon Ball on our national television. I didn't even know it was called Dragon Ball, I just called it Goku. And I was always like: "Yay, Goku's on television". A few years later, when I was 10, they started streaming Dragon Ball Z and then I learned it's name is actually Dragon Ball and not Goku, lol xD. And after Frieza saga they stopped streaming it, so I decided to find the rest of the show on the Internet. And then I unfortunately fell into a trap called anime. (For all the facepalmers: Note that I'm not a Dragon Ball fanboy, I just like watching it and it was the first thing I ever watched) |
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| When I was 14-15, wish I started earlier though. |
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| I remember when I watched Little Busters at the age of 9. The only reason why I like anime is because of its art style. |
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| At the age of 13, but I watched the typical stuff before that. |
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pajamaplace said: When I was 14-15, wish I started earlier though. Same feelings here. I wasted so much time on things like Dragonfable, FIFA campaigns etc, where I could have been watching shows earlier. One Piece & Fairy Tail would still be slaughtered by my breakneck viewing speed. Started around 13-14ish. Made a MAL account when I was 17. |
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| When I watched Sailor Moon at around the age of 8, so late 90s. It grew in 2004 when I got my stepdad to buy bootleg anime DVDs for me from ebay (Galaxy Angel, Sailor Moon and Magical Canan). |
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| discluding pokemon and such, i started watching anime at age 9 with madoka magica and attack on titan. |
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| I think when I was younger I always had an interest. Like, I would read manga and buy some dvds though I never had the energy to watch them outside Bleach. Then in 2012 I sat down and watched Lucky Star, Haruhi Suzumiya and Acchi Kocchi and that led to me picking up a couple seasonal Winter 2013 while watching K-On. I think thats when I became a fan and fast forward to today is where I am at. |
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| It was a few years ago, don't remember the exact year but thinking on it chronologically (going by stuff I can remember around the time) probably 2014-2015. So 16-17 yrs old. 16 sounds about right. Thinking about it a little harder, I remember The Legend of Korra. I was definitely watching anime when it was on Season 3 which would be 2014. Also I watched Netflix on PS3, I got my PS4 August 2015, haven't really touched Netflix on PS4 since I was kinda done with it Netflix at that point. So actually maybe 2013-2014. (15-16 yrs old) 2013 would've been when all my shows of interest ended but I watched reruns on TV for awhile, don't remember If I watched Netflix that same year. Might've been mid to late 2013 though. Doesn't feel like I've been in the scene that long. But before all that, I only watched tidbits of Pokemon on TV (didn't regularly watch). I was shown Dragon Ball as a kid though. I remember getting Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 when it came out for the Wii and being so happy, rushing to hook it up and play. I thought I started all gaming at like 10-11 but BT3 was 2007 so I guess I was actually 8-9 starting out. Wow, lol. So I guess I had a year or two with PS2 post-PC because I started PC like July 2008. Edit: Thinking [gaming] a little more I remember getting Mortal Kombat Armageddon w/ the Strategy Guide near/at launch. 2006... so I guess I was 8 starting gaming. Think I'mma stop delving into the past now. |
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| I got into anime and actively started watching it at the age of 11 with Death Note. |
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