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What was the first anime you watched in Japanese?


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Since I became an otaku (2009) I spent a year watching anime only in my two native languages ​​(Spanish and Catalan).

In 2010 (17 years old), i watched my first anime in japanese language: Higurashi no naku koro ni.
I was curious to watch some horror anime but there were very few dubbed of that genre in my languages.

When I started watching Higurashi it was strange because the subtitles bothered me and I wasn't used to hearing a new language.
But already from the 2nd episode I got used to it and was hooked on the story.
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Nov 18, 2022 1:12 AM
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If you mean sub then probably Mirumo de pon!
Nov 18, 2022 1:17 AM
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Good Old Gintama from (2009 to 2010)
Nov 18, 2022 1:19 AM
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One piece. I was watching it on some random website. I will never forget how annoyed I was when I couldn't find the dub. I got used to it tho and here we are.


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Nov 18, 2022 1:20 AM
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To be honest, I have no idea. I just can't remember anymore.
Nov 18, 2022 1:23 AM
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Food Wars. Watched other stuff dubbed like Pokemon, Yugioh, Inuyasha, and Ghibli movies all dubbed as a kid
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Nov 18, 2022 1:25 AM
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It was One Piece. I watched it in Japanese years before I really got into anime. It was probably around 2013-2014. At least, I caught up when the anime was in the middle of Punk Hazard.
Nov 18, 2022 1:35 AM
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Kokoro Connect. I instantly realized dub is inferior.
Nov 18, 2022 1:42 AM
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Urusei yatsura and then Ranma ½, city hunter.... Yes I started listening to Japanese audio early
 

Nov 18, 2022 1:43 AM

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Bleach and realised that old Polish Dubs are terrible.
Nov 18, 2022 1:55 AM

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death note.

before that whatever i had watched was dubbed in my national language.

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Nov 18, 2022 3:02 AM

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It was probably mirai nikki which was also the third anime I watched

Nov 18, 2022 3:25 AM

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I think it was Mononoke Hime at a movie theater with bulgarian subs.

Previously I have watched anime with bulgarian dub (which at the time meant you could hear the english dub under it) and in some occasions with english dub.
Nov 18, 2022 3:51 AM

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If you mean sub, then Bleach bount arc. For raw, Aikatsu was my first.

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Nov 18, 2022 4:11 AM

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It was No Game No Life
Before that, I used to watch anime in dub.
Nov 18, 2022 4:12 AM

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I can't be certain what it could've been with subtitles, but DBZ was the first I watched raw, no sub, no dub
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Nov 18, 2022 4:14 AM

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For me the first one i watched was Initial D
Nov 18, 2022 4:16 AM

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It was In another world with my smartphone . before that i watched just some dub on tv.
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Nov 18, 2022 5:00 AM

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Either Maid Sama or Tears to Tiara, don't remember, it's when Animax Asia first started airing subbed anime.
Nov 18, 2022 5:47 AM

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Kaguya sama - love is war

I started watching anime 2 years ago with english dubs and was massively binging them in covid lockdown. I saw the premise of kaguya and wanted to watch it and was hesitant to dive in as it had no english dub at that time. Needless to say hearing Japanese was weird as hell but now I cannot tolerate anime unless its Japanese. Funny how it works. Tho I never enjoyed Japanese dub more than english or vice versa, I just got used to Japanese and don't wanna go back.
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Nov 18, 2022 5:54 AM
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It was Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase and now I can't stand hearing English voices in anime anymore.
Nov 18, 2022 5:58 AM

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Do you mean without subtitles? If so, it's Okama Report; otherwise, it's Detective Conan.
Nov 18, 2022 6:05 AM

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The first anime I watched subbed was Oreimo.

In terms of watching anime raw, I don't know. Raw has never been a goal for me, it's more out of desperation that I have to watch something untranslated (when translations are not available) and just hope I'm able to understand enough of it.
Nov 18, 2022 6:07 AM
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For me it's JoJo's bizarre adventure: star dust crusaders Battle in Egypt.... Actually I don't watch anime in Japanese ,rather I watched in English.
But then oneday I just had to watch dio Brando's voice in Japanese and then Im in great awe of such sinister voice the voice actor produced. And the
He just had to come in as beast titan and roswaal and then some notable voice actors for jotaro and cautious hero protagonist ,and then I started to watch anime both sub and dubs.
Nov 18, 2022 6:11 AM

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i want to say original 1987/1990 Bubblegum Crisis, -back in the mid/late-1990's- but there was such a mind-blowing crush of fresh discoveries for me
as a middle-teen at that time, that it honestly all comes back to me anymore as a rather fairly hazy blur...
Nov 18, 2022 6:18 AM
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Probably Naruto something like 10 years ago
Nov 18, 2022 6:31 AM
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Captain Tsubasa Road to 2002 or the second movie of Sakura Cardcaptor.
Nov 18, 2022 6:32 AM
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Bleach and Naruto, when I got their DVDs for the first time :)



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Nov 18, 2022 6:41 AM

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For me it was Attack on Titan back in 2014-ish. At the time, I only watched whatever anime was available on Netflix, and AoT was the first title I encountered on the platform that didn't have the English Dub option yet; so I figured I'd just settle for the Japanese voices and try to get used to it.

It was a little weird at first, but after a while I realized that the voice-acting actually sounded really cool and intense, so I ended up falling in love with it. Nowadays, i'm still very open to watching English dubs if they're good enough but, yeah, AoT is the one that led me to watch anime in Jap audio more regularly.
Nov 18, 2022 6:52 AM
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Demon Slayer for me. I started watching anime in like mid 2018, but like very slowly, and I'd only watched dub because like I said, I was slowly getting into it at the time, I didn't want to have to read subtitles. I started Demon Slayer out of impulse on May 30, 2020. It was I guess still new to Netflix at the time, so dub wasn't accessible yet, and I was like "Okay, I guess I'll just watch it in sub."
Nov 18, 2022 6:53 AM

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interesting question, it took me a while to remember because i never thought of that before. it was evangelion (late 1995), i started buying the episodes as they came out in japanese with subtitles. before that the only anime series i watched were on tv, so it was all dubbed. but then i realized how superior the japanese voice acting was compared to the dubs, and stated watching subtitled anime after that.
Nov 18, 2022 6:58 AM

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Jojo, i vividly remember it and its Jojo, i used to be a dub watcher in the very early stages of my anime watching and when i got to starting Jojo i already knew of its infamous sub, so i put it on sub and i've never switched since
Nov 18, 2022 7:00 AM

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Akira back in 1991 or 1992. I've never purposely watched a dub.
Nov 18, 2022 7:22 AM

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I actually think my first anime I watched sub was Monogatari because it's the only anime I can think of that doesn't have a dub and I remember trying to find one years ago and just said screw it and watched it. Really bad first anime to watch sub I don't recommend it.
Nov 18, 2022 7:50 AM

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Vinland Saga only because there was no dub at the time.
Nov 18, 2022 7:53 AM

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First was either Azur Lane or Overlord, can't remember.
I've always watched anime in Japanese, I think I've only ever completed one anime with an english dub and that was Konosuba.
Nov 18, 2022 8:02 AM

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Naruto


When I first started I watched in dub and then eventually got to the eps that were sub-only and that's how it started.
Nov 18, 2022 8:03 AM

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First anime that I've ever watched in Japanese?

I'd probably have to say either Sword Art Online or Doraemon.

Correction - it was doraemon
Nov 18, 2022 8:16 AM

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1st anime I seen in Japanese was Naruto Shippuden since the dub was always behind around 100 episodes while it was airing.
Nov 18, 2022 8:19 AM
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My first was Kuroko no basket because I didnt found in english but never regret and start watch all in japanese
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It was Sailor Moon Sailor Stars, in 2001, a few years after I got into anime. I was never interested I watching anime in Japanese at that point, but Sailor Moon was my favorite at the time, and the final season wasn’t dubbed, so I had no choice. Over the following months, I slowly switched over to subs completely.
Nov 18, 2022 11:01 AM

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It's hard to say what exactly was the first one. But it was peobably a fansub Chobits. Back then most of the anime I could get a hold of was fansubs.
Nov 18, 2022 11:15 AM

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It's simple for me. The first anime that I watched with original voices is my first anime that I watched knowing it's an anime. And it was Onegai Teacher. I never used any dubs and I'm proud of it.
Dub = fake crap. Always.
Nov 18, 2022 11:17 AM

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Death note was also my first anime lol

I hate dubs and will never use one
Nov 18, 2022 11:23 AM

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I think it was Zero no Tsukaima back in 2015 or 2014.
Nov 18, 2022 11:24 AM

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First anime in japanese and also first anime: Fairy Tail.
Nov 18, 2022 11:25 AM

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Strawberry Marshmallow in 2016.

I wasn't an otaku yet, i mostly just watched the popular dub tv anime like hte 4kids series. Then i found Sentai's anime network and watched my first sub show.
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Nov 18, 2022 11:38 AM

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I mostly just watched dubbed versions of anime on TV when I first got into it in the 90's so it's really hard for me to remember my first subbed one...There wasn't anywhere to buy them where I lived and I didn't know VHS tapes of them existed lol. I want to say maybe Slayers, Hunter x Hunter, Senkaiden Houshin Engi or Bakuretsu Hunters?
Nov 18, 2022 11:53 AM
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The first anime i watched sub was Asobi Asobase.
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