| i was wondering, what was your first non-toonami or super mainstream anime? for example shows like dragon ball, pokemon, naruto, or cowboy bebop back in the day. i remember mine was Alice Academy and i watched it from Animax. really loved it and i wont forget watching it for the first time. oh and another question although this might probably already have been asked. whats the first anime that really made you fall in love with this genre? mine is definitely kimi no na wa. after watching that i remember binging a whole ton of other animes such as Your Lie in April, Koe no Katachi, and all the Ghibli movies. now im a full blown weeb haha |
| Hmmmm I think it was DN Angel........ |
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| Corpse party and I really enjoyed it but now, looking back, it was quite crap. I watched death note and then the deal was done. I was no longer the same person I was before watching it... |
| It was either Kimi ni Todoke or Hajime no Ippo. I don't know which one was first but I never actually finished Hajime no Ippo so let's just say it was Kimi ni Todoke. It was released when I was on 8th grade and it was just the right anime for my teen ass back then. Then I became a Shoujo trash until I watched Death Note, One Piece and FMAB later. |
| If you read Eleceed you're automatically my friend. |
| i should really watch death note one of these days... |
| my first anime was Pokemon, but my first """"actual"""" anime was Death Note. |
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| My first anime because toonami didn't existed when i started watching tv on my country, pokemon, saint seiya and dbz were on a diferent channel before moving to CN. |
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| I don't know if doraemon or shinchan is non toonami or not since I have never watched it on toonami. If it is then probably akachan to boku which I watched on a channel name space toons which used to air anime like cyborg kuro chan, willow town, sonic which are mainly for kids. I have also watched jungle book but only recently found out that it was an anime. I just found out that toonami wasn't an independent channel during my childhood in my country but it used to be a part of cartoon network, so it is definitely akachan to boku. |
thevagusSep 2, 2019 11:44 AM
 "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost." |
| Iria: Zeiram the Animation Green Legend Ran, Venus Wars, or Armitage: Polly-Matrix in 1997/98. Dragonball Z was the thing that got me interested in the anime medium. |
| "Laws exist only for those who cannot live without clinging onto them." -Souske Aizen "Bleach"  |
| Dragon Ball astroboy and Saint Seiya |
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| Either Neon Genesis Evangelion or Kiddy Grade. |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| one piece. this was the first anime i didn't watch on american tv and the first anime i watched subbed. |
| Either .hack//Sign or Rizelmine that my friend gave me to watch on CD-ROMs. |
| Bible Black, found it on some dragon ball fansite |
GlennMagusHarvey said: Either Neon Genesis Evangelion or Kiddy Grade. damn eva as your first? must've been rough lol |
| Spirited Away when I was 15 or 16 in HS. I realize that's the epitome of mainstream in anime films, but it definitely wasn't from a television airing as I got the DVD. First series not on TV when I was a young kid (like Pokemon) was Koi Kaze exactly three years ago. I seriously don't know whether I would have continued into the anime world if it were nearly anything else, including most of what I've watched since. |
deimos96 said: I loved it. It inspires such strong emotions.GlennMagusHarvey said: Either Neon Genesis Evangelion or Kiddy Grade. damn eva as your first? must've been rough lol Then again I was already an adult when I watched it. |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| Well, if Im not counting animes i watched as a child (toonami or otherwise) and only after i got into anime as a teenager, i believe my first one would be Naruto. I remember when i started watching that i got spoiled that Sasuke was going to leave the village lol i was so mad |
| Death Note. It was also the first airing seasonal I watched along with Code Geass. |
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| i think it was either Gate Keepers, Dual Parallel Trouble Adventure or Black Heaven (Oji the Section Chief) |
| I remember it was right after my One Piece marathon, and i think it was High School DxD, marvelous first choice to enter the world of anime and watch more variety of shows. |
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| Maybe Hunter X Hunter 1999 version in 2005 when I finally had better internet. |
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| For me I would say that the first set of non toonami shows were Digimon, Pokemon, and Yu-Gi-Oh. I remember collecting trading cards for all three series. What really got me into anime was Salior Moon, after seeing the Pretty Guardians I fell in love with that series. |
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| Well, the first anime I entirely watched was Bleach. I think it's considered mainstream Then right after that I watched Naruto, that's even worse when it comes to mainstream haha |
| I don't think Transformers is considered mainstream, although the toys were fairly popular and they did make live adaptations. If it's considered then, Transformers Car Robots is the earliest anime (defined by MAL) that I watched. Actually doing a little research, Medabots aired a week earlier in the US, so that one. |
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| Pretty quickly after discovering anime on Toonami in the late 90s, my younger sister and I started to buy a bunch of random anime VHS tapes. We basically just picked any anime tape that had cover art we liked; we really had no idea what we were getting. I think the first handful were Oh! My Goddess, Magic Knight Rayearth, Tenchi Muyo Ryououki, and Ranma 1/2. We only bought the first few volumes of each one, and back then, you were lucky to get 2-3 episodes per tape, so it didn't add up to much (I did eventually finish watching them all later, except for Ranma). We didn't even care, we were just so excited to see more of this new "anime" thing we'd become obsessed with. As far as full series, I'm not 100% sure, since it was so many years ago. I'm pretty sure it was either Serial Experiments Lain, Key the Metal Idol, Now and then Here and There, or Evangelion. |
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| My first anime was the english version of tekkaman blade (called technoman), after that it was ronin warriors and record of lodoss war and eventually, vampire hunter D, didn't get into toonami until after those. |
| After getting hooked on toonami-type shows, finding out they were called "anime", asking jeeves and limewire about other "anime" I stumbled upon "Mezzo Forte"... "What is this?! It's not like sailor moon or outlaw star... " The rest, as they say, is history. o7 |
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| Part of the meaning of "non Toonami" is kinda lost on me since I never had cable as a kid and thus didn't really know what they aired, and I'm too lazy to Google it. So, I often say that the first anime I watched with the original Fullmetal Alchemist by renting the DVDs from Netflix. But if that doesn't count, check my list, but ignore the porn. |
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| if movies count it was spirited away, quickly followed by the rest of the ghibli catalog. as for my first non-american-tv show, it was gunslinger girl. i had found the dvd somewhere for cheap, and figured i'd give it a shot after coming to like the mainstream shows like dbz so much. up that point, anime was just some campy thing for kids that i found entertaining. that show showed me that they could also do emotion and drama as well, and it made me want more. |
| I don't remember my first one really as I had a couple friends who were my source of anime at the time, but it had to be either Armitage III or The Irresponsible Captain Taylor and as for the show that made me get into anime, would probably be Dragonball. I remember watching random episodes Yuu Yuu Hakusho, but Dragonball really got me into anime. |
__DuckieSep 2, 2019 11:29 PM
deimos96 said: i should really watch death note one of these days... If your list is to be belied you even didn't watched the toonamiest of all anime - The Big O. PS I never had the chance to watch Toonami regularly. The version of Cartoon Network on my cable didn't had that block but there were some advertisements for it - Tenchi Muyou, Gundam Wing (at that point I didn't now I wouldn't like it)...those filled me with envy. One of my friends had the right version but for some reason it didn't had dub or subtitles (the cable operator didn't provide them) so I only glimpsed on few episodes of The Big O without understanding anything. To this day non of the cable operators that are available to me have Toonamie or Adult Swim. You could say that my all animes are non-toonamie. |
alshuSep 2, 2019 11:54 PM
WaterLord said: I remember it was right after my One Piece marathon, and i think it was High School DxD, marvelous first choice to enter the world of anime and watch more variety of shows. a man of culture from the start eh... |
deimos96 said: i should really watch death note one of these days... We seem to have similar tastes so let me say that unless you're keen on mega try-hard edge lords, inexplicable deus ex machina moments whenever the wafer thin plot requires it, an extreme over-reliance on inner monologue as a narrative device and a looping soundtrack put together by some tone deaf guy somewhere then you're not missing much. And that's without mentioning the unsympathetic, one dimensional cast and the lack of on screen "happenings" (seriously, there are scenes where people inner monologue for over 5 minutes and nothing actually happens on screen). I think your like or dislike of Death Note largely depends on age and experience; that is the older you get and the more fiction you've consumed, the worse it gets. I'd recommend anyone give that show a hard pass, though, especially when there are so many other great anime out there. |
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CallMeHoot said: deimos96 said: i should really watch death note one of these days... We seem to have similar tastes so let me say that unless you're keen on mega try-hard edge lords, inexplicable deus ex machina moments whenever the wafer thin plot requires it, an extreme over-reliance on inner monologue as a narrative device and a looping soundtrack put together by some tone deaf guy somewhere then you're not missing much. And that's without mentioning the unsympathetic, one dimensional cast and the lack of on screen "happenings" (seriously, there are scenes where people inner monologue for over 5 minutes and nothing actually happens on screen). I think your like or dislike of Death Note largely depends on age and experience; that is the older you get and the more fiction you've consumed, the worse it gets. I'd recommend anyone give that show a hard pass, though, especially when there are so many other great anime out there. I actually just finished re-watching Death Note again the other day and i still absolutely love it. For what it's worth my dad loves it too and he's consumed a ton of fiction. Goes to show how different people's tastes can be. |
fancyjasper said: CallMeHoot said: We seem to have similar tastes so let me say that unless you're keen on mega try-hard edge lords, inexplicable deus ex machina moments whenever the wafer thin plot requires it, an extreme over-reliance on inner monologue as a narrative device and a looping soundtrack put together by some tone deaf guy somewhere then you're not missing much. And that's without mentioning the unsympathetic, one dimensional cast and the lack of on screen "happenings" (seriously, there are scenes where people inner monologue for over 5 minutes and nothing actually happens on screen). I think your like or dislike of Death Note largely depends on age and experience; that is the older you get and the more fiction you've consumed, the worse it gets. I'd recommend anyone give that show a hard pass, though, especially when there are so many other great anime out there. I actually just finished re-watching Death Note again the other day and i still absolutely love it. For what it's worth my dad loves it too and he's consumed a ton of fiction. Goes to show how different people's tastes can be. True say :) To each his or her own indeed but I stand by my criticism of it. |
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| Shaman King but in France it was mainstream. I remember Shaman King on TV.. it was in 2003. |
| Every Anime I saw as a kid was "Non-Toonami," because Toonami has never existed in Canada. |
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| Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), I just happened to come across a PV of Cardcaptor Sakura on Animax while switching channels so I stuck to the channel for a while and Fullmetal was the first anime I watched on it. As for the anime that made me fall in love with anime, fortunately or unfortunately it was Kyo Kara Maoh, better known as God(?) Save Our King! on Animax, this series ended up being a huge disaster for me, I wish I would have never watched or liked it. |
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| mhh it was either Rosario + Vampire or Elfen lied.Dont remember,but maybe the first one after Naruto was Rosario. |
Maou_heika said: Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), I just happened to come across a PV of Cardcaptor Sakura on Animax while switching channels so I stuck to the channel for a while and Fullmetal was the first anime I watched on it. As for the anime that made me fall in love with anime, fortunately or unfortunately it was Kyo Kara Maoh, better known as God(?) Save Our King! on Animax, this series ended up being a huge disaster for me, I wish I would have never watched or liked it. i never really finished fma... never really got into it. i should really finish it though. cardcaptor sakura was my 2nd anime! i guess i started out with some shoujo anime but i still like them both. |
| Didn't have cable back then, so therefore no Toonami. Watched Sailor Moon off of a VHS and I remember seeing Pokémon on Kids WB a few times (anyone remember that channel? lol). When the WB channel was shifting to CW11 or whatever the hell it's called now, they played Kiki's Delivery Service a few times, which thinking back now is a bit surprising (I mean, when have you seen anime movies other than those related to TV series like Pokémon play on American TV?). But anyway, not counting those, first "non-Toonami/mainstream" anime was Bottle Fairy. Didn't start becoming an avid anime watcher or anything until the middle of my middle school years though. |
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