| This recently happened to me with Dagashi Kashi. I'm not sure where, but recently I came across this anime's name on MAL and when i read it out aloud, it just rolled off the tongue soo smoothly i was immediately intrigued by it and decided to check it out without a second thought. Yepp! I ended up watching an anime JUST because it's title sounded very smooth and graceful. (and I normally decide what to watch based on premise, hype and genres covered) Have you guys ever strayed from your usual way of finding an anime to watch and started watching something because of weird/absurd reasons? |
MistaAshJul 5, 2020 9:25 AM
| I guess for me its: WorldEnd: What do you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us? or its japanese name Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii Desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii Desu ka? started to watch it because the name was long and back then i told my self that anime with long names probably will be good :D weird ha |
| Don't fuck up the present, it's connected to your future! |
| I watched a couple of anime because they had android girls in them Neo Ranga because someone on /m/ posted some art of the main characters with some cool tattoos which is false advertising if you have seen the show cipher because tonegawa's narrator was in it and not because of the meme yt video that most are familiar with |
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| I was doing a book report for The Kite Runner when I stumbled upon the anime, A Kite. In no way related to the book, the OVA caught my eye so I put it on my watchlist. Needless to say, it was quite different from what I usually watch. |
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| I watched Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou yesterday because I started my journey to become a man of culture, also because the last action/shounen animes I watched disappointed me. |
| Imagine how boring this world would be without Japan - a comment at youtube |
| Someone was praising some tearjerking scene of ID invaded with a beautiful piano instrumental on mal so I decided to watch it just to see what he/she was talking about. |
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| I watched MMO Junkie because of the director`s unique opinion on WW2 and certain events not being real. |
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| Strangest reasons I could think of: Hataraku Saibou! – to study for a biology test about the human body (probably not that strange considering that's what the anime is about but I guess studying is an unusual reason to start in general) Steins;Gate – I was reading a MAL article about the greatest anime of all time or something and on S;G it said something along the lines of "You'll know once you've seen it. If you haven't, go watch it now!" and so I did. Binged it in one go, still one of my favourites to this day. OniAi – Because of the fanservicey opening... |
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| Sometimes it'd be because of clips on YT or if I stumble across it on an illegal site or on Pornhub's hentai section |
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| Sasami-san@Ganbaranai masterpiece |
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| Sometimes i just start watching an anime because i like a certain voice actor and i want to hear his voice. That’s how i started watching Kimi to Boku (just one of many examples). Wouldn’t have started watching it normally I guess but I ended up enjoying it a lot. |
Jdr1 said: I watched Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou yesterday because I started my journey to become a man of culture, also because the last action/shounen animes I watched disappointed me. Welcome my comrade and may the CULTURE be with you And to answer question i watched my first hentai cause i wanted to know if i can jerk off from it |
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| Hibike! Euphonium because I stumbled across this video and I thought it was a really good and funny mashup: Turns out Hibike! Euphonium ended up becoming one of my favorite shows of all time. |
LordOfPigsJul 5, 2020 10:47 AM
I've watched Gin no Saji because of this picture.  Wasn't disappointed. One of the most unique school/sol anime I've ever stumbled upon. |
| Started to watch The promised Neverland because why the f*ck does everybody in my feeds talk about it? What have I missed? EDIT: It pretty much appeared on my feed as soon as I've started to explore animé communities on FB and animé youtube channels. Became my top 5 favorites! |
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lazycat_95 said: I stared watching monogatari series because of a cute white cat GIF. I did too!! Just to know what the context was of the infamous "toothbrush scene" xP |
BaconChips said: I saw One Room while scrolling on Crunchyroll, man it’s fun to watch with other people, but I tried watching it by myself but I was just so uncomfortable lol, I guess the weird part of me watching was cause I was intrigued to see a visual novel as a anime. thanks for reminding me to watch that. this can be my "unusual reason" now |
| Certain shows I've watched just to see why people wouldn't shut the fuck up about them, whether it was in a positive or negative way. |
| I just remembered another one! I wanted to re-watch Hataraku Maou-sama! and when i searched it I found Hataraku Saibou! and then started watching that instead. |
| I'm pretty sure I watched Free! because a friend specifically told me not to, and surprisingly, I ended up loving it. Haven't seen it in years though. There's also Ange Vierge, which I watched one episode of because I saw an episode of a now-defunct podcast where they were going through the first episodes of every anime from Summer 2016 and one of the hosts went on a whole rant about how amazingly shite this show was. I was just like "I have to know." |
| I started xxxHOLiC because Himawari reminded me physically of Lenalee from D.Gray-man, and they even share the same Japanese voice actress, so I went with that and started the anime. |
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| I watched Glass no Kamen (2005) simply because Takabayashi Tomo compared Conrad to Kitajima Maya and I wanted to know how if they really have any similarities. Similarities aside I ended up really liking it. |
| Urusei Yatsura after seeing the first few episodes in the british dub. |
| Shoot first, think never. |
| I literally watched the whole of Love Live because of memes and r/Otonakizaka |
| If I listed every single anime I watched because I saw a out of context fanservice scene it probably would be in the triple digits. |
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| I watched Blend S because of a video on reddit where they remade the OP on an oscilloscope |
| Yeah, I started Higurashi because of that one scene |
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| First thought: Twinkle Nora Rock Me!. I decided to watch it after seeing that unfamous "dancing" scene with poor animation looking more than a slideshow than actual animation to be honest. I wanted to see if the rest of it was that bad as people say. And it happened to be even worse, lmao. |
| I watched Hibike Euphonium because Kumiko's hair is cute. Can't say I enjoyed the series that much, but she was still cute all the way through. |
| Who are you and why do you show your hostility towards a complete stranger whom you've not once spoken with before. Are you seriously asking to get blocked? Well, if that's what your intent is; to tempt me into throwing hands with someone as lowly and insignificant as you, then i may grant your wish provided you articulate yourself a bit better when trying to spite a person of my wavelength. |
| I watched the Ace Attorney anime since I liked this meme format |
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| Started Interspecies Reviewer bc of the sheer number of Nux Taku memes I came across. |
Kasumi_Akamine said: I started watching Fire Force because I saw the main guy, Shinra, in a hentai video on Pornhub. Since the person who posted the video wasn't the one who made the animation and I had never seen the show before, I looked up that name because I thought the name of the creator might have been in the title, but the show came up instead. I watched it when I was done with "stuff" and now it's one of my favorite shows ^-^ LMAAAOOO. Seriously XDD? But yeah there're some shows I never watched but know the character pretty well because of porn :P |
| I started watching Dumbbell Nan Kilo Moteru because I saw a JoJo parody of the op |
| I started watching Jojo because I wanted to understand the vast amount of memes and references to it, wasnt disappointed |
| A Place Further Than The Universe, or Sora yori mo tooi Basho; it was the highest rated anime on an online Japanese site that I heard was the closest Japanese equivalent to MAL, so I wanted to get a sense of the taste from the Japanese audience, and apparently this was the highest rated at the time I visited, with Steins;Gate being second, though I had already watched the latter, so I decided to give it a try. Happy to say, it did not disappoint, and is one of the lighter heart anime that I've watched, about a group of girls who wish to go to Antarctica being its main premise. Personally I think it should've been longer than it was (12 episodes I think?), and maybe they should've made some OVA spinoffs of it, as I did thoroughly like the cast by the end, so I wanted to see more of them and possible side journeys or events of theirs. |
| "I saw the Emperor - this soul of the world - go out from the city to survey his reign; it is a truly wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrating on one point while seated on a horse, stretches over the world and dominates it." |
| I watched Kennel Tokorozawa because I couldn't believe the Japanese would produce soft porn from the POV of a German Shepard who wants to hump his mistress. They did. We'll never reach that cultural level in the West. |
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