| It can be as early as the opening, the first episode, or even after the three episode rule. For me, this has only happened with Konosuba and Kino's Journey. |
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| I knew I'd love turn a gundam when I saw the setting and character designs. Same with hell girl. |
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| Berserk. The atmosphere had me sucked in from the first second. |
| NGE. I was pretty much hooked from the first episode. That OP is iconic. |
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| I saw the first episode of Haruhi, maybe even just heard that first sentence, the narration of why Kyon doesn't believe in Santa, and immediately fell in love. The entire format, tone, and humor just vibed with me so much. Still my absolute favorite show to this day. |
| Keep it simple, stupid. |
| Death Note. The first opening tells me why I will love it. |
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| Dorohedoro most recently. Heaps tbh..... |
| the first time I watched the op of ensemble stars, I knew I now had 49 sons to raise. they're all so precious, wth. I loved the character designs at first sight. |
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Theo1899 said: I knew I'd love turn a gundam when I saw the setting and character designs. Same with hell girl. Was hell girl ending good? Ive dropped it like half way i think but till the half it wasnt that interesting just new character every new episode and that kept going for every ep i watched |
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| @Star-Storm Log Horizon. The 1st episode really sucks me into another world. It is the first isekai i see, back when isekai isn't filled with wish fulfillment trash like nowadays. @CritiasBG Ur absolutely right, the rest of Jigoku Shoujo/Hell Girl are filled with repetitive stuff including all of the sequels. |
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 Try reading Spy x Family Manga ^_^ U will love it, i promise... |
| It happend me recently with Vinland Saga. I was searching for a Action/Bloody/Adventure anime and i love the first episodes. Sad the anime focuses more on the political troubles rather than exploring the world (not saying is a bad thing, but i think i had enjoyed a lot more the series if it was pointed to side histories and the developement of Thorfins personality, wich is a flaw in the series). But yeah, i love fantasy/adventure in general so i tend to be pretty fascinated with theses things, and Isekai genre doing it wrong is why it upsets me more than normal. |
| It happened to me with Hikaru no Go and Servamp, I loved them from the first second. I also watched the first 40 episodes of One Piece (even though I didn't like them) just because I wanted to meet Sanji. I loved his character design from the opening. If it wasn't for him I wouldn't have watched One Piece at all. |
| Yes of course when I saw the LOTGH the first time, I knew it was an instant classic and certified masterpiece. |
| Psycho Pass, Kino no Tabi and Eve no Jikan had my attentiom from episode one. Ramy_Stereo said: Berserk. The atmosphere had me sucked in from the first second. Really? I actually hate the first episode. And the first chapter of the manga for that matter. The rest is great though. |
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| First scene of Clannad. The music... the atmosphere. Just perfect. |
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| I guess it's a movie, but Tamako Love Story. As soon as the first confession hit way sooner than I thought it would, I knew I would be in for a treat Also His and Her Circumstances especially with when the main pairing got together so early on |
 'On-Hold' is another way for a completionist to say 'Dropped' |
Guilion said: Psycho Pass, Kino no Tabi and Eve no Jikan had my attentiom from episode one. Ramy_Stereo said: Berserk. The atmosphere had me sucked in from the first second. Really? I actually hate the first episode. And the first chapter of the manga for that matter. The rest is great though. Don't really know what's there to hate. i didn't really like the structure of showing the present first and then jumping to the past, but that was a bigger problem in the manga than in the anime. |
| Wolf's Rain for me. I already liked wolves before watching, but I liked the premise of the story, the artwork, characters, and music right from the get-go. |
Ramy_Stereo said: Guilion said: Psycho Pass, Kino no Tabi and Eve no Jikan had my attentiom from episode one. Really? I actually hate the first episode. And the first chapter of the manga for that matter. The rest is great though. Don't really know what's there to hate. i didn't really like the structure of showing the present first and then jumping to the past, but that was a bigger problem in the manga than in the anime. For me, Berserk started off a little awkward for the first few episodes, but then I became deeply involved with the characters and story the more I watched it. |
| Most of my favourites tbh. SSSS.Gridman comes to mind as it is my most recent favourite. I knew right from that quiet opening scene. Fuck, I need to watch that show again, it's so fucking good. |
| Ping Pong the Animation (I feel like a broken record), and Baccano for me. I actually quite hate how I discovered Ping Pong the Animation, because I was full tilt elitist at the time and I only watched it because I was sick of how generic every single anime artstyle felt. Not a great start, but I'm glad it ended up being an actual great anime instead of the anime I might have used to shit on other shows. I've only watched Baccano quite recently, but damn I do understand the love for this show now. It has everything I like. Prohibition era setting, ensemble cast with so many great characters, some supernatural blended in, mafias and even a damn Camorra. Seriously, you barely even see mentions of Camorra in Western entertainment, let alone Japanese. Even if I was excited and knew I'd like it, I still had a bit lower of an expectation because of Durarara. I thought the whole gang stuff was going to be super lukewarm and lacking in tension for 90% of the show like Durarara, glad my expectations were wrong. Still a bit annoyed how it definitely is just a huge prologue ad for the novels, I feel like I'd be less crossed by that if I had known beforehand. |
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| For me, I think it's Hoshiai no Sora. The way the first episode deviated from normal sports anime made me fall in love. There is also Sarazanmai, but I had fallen in love with that before the trailers had even aired. Something about the promotional videos completely grabbed me in some way I didn't know was even possible. |
| Happened to me with the first episode of Monster. Recently, I'm having a hard time picking a new anime to see and the opening of Kono Oto Tomare was just refreshing |
| I knew that I'm gonna love Hajime no Ippo the moment I saw Takamura in episode 1. |
| I knew I'd love Parasyte just by looking at its opening. I loved it so much that by the end of it, I actually hated it. |
Rero33 said: Happens all the time. You just know when you see the poster. Posters are evil. After a streak of disappointments by using this method I'm not trusting posters ever again. |
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| beastars. the unique opening told me how brilliant it would be. knew i'd have to binge it lol devilman crybaby also had me hooked really early on, ended up binging that too |
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| Isekai. Anything that resembles a black swordman would be good too. |
| samurai champloo won me with that intro battle cry Rip Nujabes |
| Made in Abyss, I fell in love with it ever since the opening, the world presented was so beautiful and intriguing |
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| Yup and to no surprise they are in my favorites section of my profile. |
| Oregairu. From the instance I saw the first episode I knew I would love the anime and it's my favourite anime of all time! |
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| This isn't much of a spoiler given it's literally one of the first scenes of the series but Darker Than Black had a super fucking effective hook. Give it a watch yourself! It's an anime that could use the attention. |
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| Vinland Saga. Just from the trailers and the first episode, I knew I would love it. And it never failed to amaze me. |
| Berserk that was instantaneous, once I started watching I couldn't stop. Finished it in about a day and it's now my #1 |
| Welcome to demon school Iruma-kun gave me that feel of more recent shows. |
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| I immediately fell in love with Kanata no Astra during the first episode. Its presentation and characters really stood out to me, and I somehow just kept loving it more and more as it went on. One of my favorite shows, without a doubt. |
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| Sequels to favourites of mine I guess. |
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| The anime I really ended up loving are almost always the ones that managed to captivate me during the very first few seconds or minutes. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
Ramy_Stereo said: Guilion said: Psycho Pass, Kino no Tabi and Eve no Jikan had my attentiom from episode one. Really? I actually hate the first episode. And the first chapter of the manga for that matter. The rest is great though. Don't really know what's there to hate. i didn't really like the structure of showing the present first and then jumping to the past, but that was a bigger problem in the manga than in the anime. The first episode of Berserk always struck me as very "by the numbers" for its' time period, the first episode feels to me like something out of Fist of the North Star or Violence Jack. There's a name for the genre woth burly men doing burly men things but I cannot recall it right so that's the best description I can give right now as to why I don't like the first episode. |
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