| 13 years old ( first anime Naruto ) , now i am 18 |
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| I can't remember what exact age but what I know is that I've been watching anime since I was a little girl. |
| Probably at 4 or 5 with anime like dragon ball pokemon yu gi oh and so on... |
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| Started with Sailor Moon at 5 years old |
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| I think 11 or 12. I thought it was pretty lame before then. |
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| Like most kids I grew up with things like Pokemon and Yugioh but it was not until I was 17 that I gave anime a real try and Naruto was the first one for that. Its funny I was 17 but I totally felt like I was a kid again from watching Naruto lol |
| How I love a game |
| 4 with kochikame,perman and chimpui |
| A little I think around 5 or 6 (Pokemon, Naruto, City Hunter), but I really began to get into anime at 13 or 14 with the Monogatari Series '- ' |
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| I watched Pokemon and Naruto when I was probably 6. And then I stopped at 10, possibly. In 2016, I started watching anime again, it was Naruto to be the first one at that time as well. |
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| started watching anime in 1997. That was when aka zukin cha-cha aired in cartoon network.. now I miss that anime. |
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| I started when I was 16 with Death Note because I wanted to see what everyone was referencing. May have been a late start compared to others that grew up with stuff like Pokemon and Naruto, but I'm 20 now and still going strong with anime (Still have never watched the kid classics that most watch though lol) |
| I draw a clear and careful distinction between when I saw a very limited amount of anime as a young kid on American TV, dubbed and out of order, and when I first started purposely watching series with intent and in order. The first was 99% Pokemon's season 1, the Indigo League episodes, when I was 8 and starting from second grade in school. Maybe I saw 50 episodes in total? Just in reruns at whatever random time in the afternoon it was on after school. At this time, to my eyes, ears, and brain, there was no "anime". There was a slightly different looking cartoon. Just as there were slight variations in drawing style and such between different American cartoons, like whether something was Disney, on Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon, a Warner Bros. or Hanna Barbera creation, etc. The other 1% around that young age was a handful of Dragonball Z episodes when I was in middle school/junior high at some point (a literal handful; maybe just 5-6). After that time, I didn't watch anime until high school age, around 16, when I watched Spirited Away, and so from that point the only anime I ever saw for years after were a few Ghibli movies. By then (when I first watched Spirited Away) I knew what anime was, but had no interest in looking up series to actually try and start and get into them. I think I was under the false impression from the outside that all anime series were mainly just one genre of Dragonball-style battle shounen. It seemed so removed from anything I was interested in and just internally dismissed anime as "Series with guys with crazy colored big hair screaming at each other and fighting all the time", like some 80s American superhero series made to promote toy sales. This was my ignorant opinion on all anime apart from the few movies from the Ghibli canon I'd seen. Everything else was Pokemon and Dragonball to me. It wasn't until I was 25 when I actually sought out a series to watch by happenstance (actually misunderstanding the description and thinking it was a movie) and was blown away. That was three years and a month ago. |
| I watch anime from as long as I can remember, but I watch them seriously from when I was twelve, so more than ten years. |
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| 3 years old with Pokemon, Sailor Moon, Monster Rancher etc.. later around 5-6 shinzo, mushrambo, medabots, yu gi oh, dragon ball etc.. Around 8 Shaman King, Duel Masters etc.. Around 10-11 I understand that those animes were "mangas" with Naruto, HxH and Evangelion. |
| 6 years old. But much later did I finally watch something in Japanese. |
| I started watching anime at 7. It all started with Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie. |
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| when i was 8. i got an ipod touch for being in the talent show, and my dad downloaded some videos back when itunes had free episodes. one of them was the first ep of angel beats. i started watching more free videos until i finally found out what exactly i was watching, and i just went from there. |
| At a very young age without even knowing it was anime. Stuff like Maya the Bee etc. |
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| I watched my first anime when I was 8 years old in 1999, when I still didn't know what anime was. I started watching anime for real when I was 14 in 2005. |
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| I watched my first anime coming out of the womb because Swan Lake was playing in the room while I was born. I win. |
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| The first animated anything I ever watched was probably The Jungle Book anime, which for years I didn't know was an anime until I got on MAL and stumbled upon its entry. So probably around 3 years old. |
| First anime I watched was Laputa:Castle In The Sky when I was about 8. Apparently they try not to refer to this show as Laputa anymore as "La Puta" means something along the lines of the whore in Portuguese I've heard, so now it's more generally known as Castle In The Sky. |
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| First anime i ever watched was Dragon Ball Z Kai when i was 5 |
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| 5 or 6, discovered Sailor Moon, not really watching it regularly tho. Also rurouni kenshin. In the 90s |
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| around 5. started watching pokemon and transformers and stuff as a kid like many others. didnt know it was anime tho |
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| I was probably 5. My first episode is from Pokémon. |
| Well, I started watching since I remember my existence lol. One of the first memories I have is watching Saint Seiya on TV when I was 4. But, if you consider when I knew what anime was and watched with subtitles on the internet, I was 12/13 years old |
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| Somewhere between 1.5 - 2 years old. |
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| When I thought they were just an extension of western cartoons: 6. When I become aware of what anime really was: 16. |
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| MAL says bakugan is an anime sooooo ig like 8? i didnt know it was an anime tho, it was just a show airing on cartoon network for me. but like seriously watching anime, i was 12 |
 𝐼 𝒯𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉, 𝑀𝒶𝓎𝒷𝑒 𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝒞𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝐿𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝑀𝑒 𝐿𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝒰𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝒯𝑜, 𝐸𝓋𝑒𝓃 𝒯𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝐼'𝓂 𝒟𝒾𝒻𝒻𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓃𝓉. 𝐵𝓊𝓉 𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝒞𝒽𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒𝒹 𝒯𝑜𝑜, 𝒮𝑜, 𝐻𝑒𝓇𝑒'𝓈 𝒯𝑜 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒩𝑒𝓌 𝒰𝓈. |
| I was around 6 or 7 when I had seen my first episode of anime. It was DBZ in the saiyan arc. And I found it while I was channel surfing. But when I actually started watching and enjoying anime and knowing what it was, I was like 13 or 14. (16 now) |
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| I was 21 years old when I saw my first show. Before that I had seen a little bit of Pokemon at a friend's house when I was much younger and maybe when I was 20 before I turned 21 I saw a couple films but I didn't start my real Anime journey until 21. |
| I started watching anime at age 7 or 8 still unaware that it was referred to as anime. Then when I was 14 I began watching anime with in earnest. |
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