| When did you get into anime, and what anime got you into it? Aside from usual Pokemon/Doraemon childhood memories...... I got into it when I saw "Sakura-sou no pet na Kano" and "Kaichou wa Maid-sama!" In late 2019 And rest is history...... |
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| Around 2015 when I was in high school, and it’s Sao s1. |
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| 2012, when SAO was airing. So it's SAO for me. |
"Nobody could laugh at someone who's trying their hardest" -Machio- |
| Can't really remember the exact year anymore, but Digimon, Death Note, FMAB, etc. |
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| 1990s watching dragonball z on local tv |
| [Primary School around 1-2nd grade so it is my "childhood memory" cause I got early into anime] 2007-2008 by Bleach in internet. Because of the site where Bleach was I've watched Naruto not dubbed like at TV, which I thought was a Polish Cartoon. [Last grade of Primary School] When I finished rewatching Bleach arcs like crazy at the end of 2012 I started by watching some titles in that little illegal site which had a small amount of titles so I went into Sword art Online, Guilty Crown, Psycho-Pass, Code Geass, Fate/Zero and Stay Night, Darker than Black, Btooom, Campione, Chuunibyou and so on till today. |
| I got into anime during my high school days. I rarely watched TV back then and played only computer games and hung out with school friends. Then one day when I was sick at home, I couldn't play on the system and needed to rest. So I just turned on the TV and saw a channel called Animax. Right then it was playing the first scenes of the first episode of Getbackers. That's what got me into anime. I couldn't remember whether it was before or after Getbackers in the TV timeslot but it also showed Rurouni Kenshin. These 2 were my first introductions to anime. |
| Best ending line in anime history = "My name is Saiki Kusuo. I am a psychic." |
| It was a combo: Hotaru no Haka, Chihiro and Byousoku 5 Centimeter |
| If you're a fanboy, please don't waste my time. Watch more movies, please. Kafka, Fu Xuan, Jingliu, Topaz and Huohuo. |
| not sure which one actually got me into it. probably sao |
| still having great time with my stuff |
| I know precisely step by step. I started watching anime in the autumn of 2016. Specifically September of 2016 with the first series I ever watched on purpose with knowing intent, which was in chronological order (from the first episode to the last) and also in Japanese with English subtitles and online. That was Koi Kaze (thus one part of the reason why I choose to honor it today with my forum avatar). Honestly was life-changing. Despite the fact that, as I would discover later, it was still something of an anomaly in the anime universe viewing experience and remains such. Then, after Koi Kaze, from sometime in September until the end of the year in late December, I watched Usagi Drop, Mushishi, Inuyasha, Rurouni Kenshin, and Aishiteruze Baby. Those were my first six series. And my first and fourth watched series are still my #2 and #1 top favorites to this day, even having reached up to 218 series and counting by this point. I'm glad that quite early on I decided to start tracking the order of every series I watched chronologically as it helps me to gain a frame of reference and plot the points in time, (Earth) seasons, life events, etc. which unfolded concurrently to when I was watching a particular show. Well, not that early on in actual time-wise as I didn't do so until 2019, but I had barely watched more than 10 series by that point since even though I started in the last third of 2016, I only watched a small handful of new series during all of 2017 and 2018 and only began watching series closer to a back to back pattern with more frequency in March of 2019. So it was easy to remember. |
WatchTillTandavaFeb 15, 2023 7:11 AM
| It was a combination of memories from watching some of the Dragon Ball franchise on TV which led me to watching MHA, and MHA which actually got me into watching anime. |
| I watched my first proper anime, Deathnote, in 2018 (or 19, not too sure about that). The anime that really got me into anime was Monogatari. |
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| In 2015(approximately) i started watching dragon ball and pokemon on youtube then i went to ecchi anime and i got hooked |
MRpuchamonFeb 15, 2023 8:34 AM
| Three and a half years ago, I began watching anime and it was Death Note that sparked my interest in this medium. |
AryaVaiFeb 15, 2023 9:00 AM
| Summer of 2016, was asked by my sister if I wanted to watch Naruto with her, guess what I answered |
  『 The truth has power because it’s the truth. And because it is the truth, that makes it just. It’s persuasive, isn’t it? Don’t you want truth like that? 』 |
| Late 2019 with Darling in the Franxx I'm ashamed to admit roblox got me into it, but yes, 2019 DitF. |
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| 2002. It was Yugioh. I know it may not count, but for me personally it had such a huge impact on me that i feel it had to count. |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. |
TheBlockernator said: Why wouldn't it count? I think Yugioh is as anime as it gets. Just without any fanservice.2002. It was Yugioh. I know it may not count, but for me personally it had such a huge impact on me that i feel it had to count. it was the same for me. |
utopica said: TheBlockernator said: Why wouldn't it count? I think Yugioh is as anime as it gets. Just without any fanservice.2002. It was Yugioh. I know it may not count, but for me personally it had such a huge impact on me that i feel it had to count. it was the same for me. Because the post said " Aside from usual Pokemon/Doraemon childhood memories " and i feel Yugioh fits into that category. |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. |
| I've watched anime for most of my life but didn't get into it until I watched Dragon Ball Z in 2015. Didn't consider myself a fan until 2018. |
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| It was Sailor Moon in 1998, when I was 13. I saw some dubbed episodes on TV, and I liked it a lot, so I went online to find out more about it. I learned about "anime" through this, and I knew I wanted to see more of it. I watched what I could on TV, and I was lucky to have a paper route at the time so I had money to buy and rent anime, since you couldn't really watch or download it online quite yet. Sailor Moon was also my first manga (1999), the first anime merch I bought (two 50 cent collectible cards on eBay, 1999), and my first subbed anime (2001). Even though I no longer consider it a favorite series, I had fun with it for a few years, and I'm grateful that it introduced me to anime in general. I watched plenty of anime as a kid without knowing it, but I definitely wasn't "into" anime until Sailor Moon. |
palm-treeFeb 16, 2023 9:50 AM
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| Dragon Ball, around 2010 when I got Playstation2 on my birthday with Dragon Ball game (Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3) |
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| Around 2008-2009. First one that really got me into anime was Haruhi. |
| Attack on Titan in September 2020, first semester of college. Though I know I'd seen stuff before in my childhood like Spirited Away. |
| In 2005 October. Shaman King was airing on TV. |
| 1999 Dragon Ball Z and 2001 Hunter X Hunter. |
| Somewhere around 98 when Dragon Ball was first aired on TV here. I never much cared for it personally but loved the hell out of Saint Seiya as it was my first proper anime. |
| It was My Hero Academia which got me into anime in April 2019 |
| For me it tenchi muyo on adult swim. Good ol days. Should also add its the reason romance harem anime is my bread and butter. |
| my first anime was another and i watched it in 2015 and im still here so |
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| April 2014 attack on titan was the reason I started taking anime seriously and regularly on Animax. |
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| First anime One Punch Man in 2019 but I wasn't into anime until I saw Attack on Titan in 2020 when season 4 was airing. |
| Mid to late 90s..i think the anime really got me addicted were kochikame and ranma |
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| first anime: probably mila superstar when i was in kindergarten cca late 90s first anime i followed weekly/daily: pokemon, digimon, various "western" anime like peter pan, pinocchio, etc cca early 00s first anime i followed and was conscious of the term anime: the tv block A+ which started in 2004, and it's somehow only documented on the czech wiki as it later got bought by animax https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animax most notably slayers, yuyu hakusho, cowboy bebop, blue gender.. i think those were the first anime to ever air here on A+ first anime i watched on pc: yuyu hakusho, cca 2007, i downloaded each episode individually from a shady forum >_> first anime i watched on pc outside of childhood shows: either cromartie high school or utena in 2011 first seasonal: sakamichi no apollon, spring 2012 first anime i watched legally: n/a :omegalul: (well maybe technically some shorts) |
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| After I rewatched one of my childhood favourites Avatar in late December 2017 I decided to delve into the medium that it was compared to. The first anime I watched after that was One Punch Man but it was actually a western cartoon that got me into the medium. So around new years 17/18 and none. |
| I was maybe 5 years old ? (2005) when i watched Digimon, but back then I didn't know what anime was. |
KyotofoxFeb 17, 2023 2:48 PM
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| watching late night re-runs of inuyasha on toonami in the 2000s ☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜) |
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| I used to watch them on Toonami and 4kids in the 2000s but didn't really know what anime was, but aside from that I started anime at around 2011 with Blue Exorcist and FMA:B |
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