| I got interested in anime from memes and clips on the Internet, but the first one I actually watched was Blend-S. This was in 2020, a couple weeks before I made my MAL account. |
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| I had several casual run-ins with anime during my childhood and my mid-to-late teens, but it was in 2012 (i was 21 at the time) that I actually got sucked into the anime medium through Fullmetal Alchemist (2003 version) on Netflix. |
| I started watching anime sometime in 2013/2014, and my first anime was Hetalia. |
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| Of course, I was familiar with pokemon, hamtaro, and the various other anime that were on tv, but I didn't really get into anime until watching a random episode of save me lollipop on youtube. The main character shared a name with my friend's cat, which we were watching a youtube video of lol, so we watched the anime and I went wow this is just like pokemon (art style-wise). I was familiar with anime, and an avid reader of manga, but didn't really get into anime until that moment. Began seasonally watching around 2012/13. |
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1993? I watched anime even before but the knowledge "this is from Japan and it's called anime" I got from this: |
| In approximately late 2016, when I was in middle school. The main series that all of my weirdo friends who were already into anime told me to check out was Highschool DxD, but I didn't watch any full episodes, only scenes from it (also, the manga of DxD was also the first manga I read in mid-2017). Shortly later, I casually brought up how I was interested in anime to my dad and he handed me a DVD of the film Akira, which pretty much blew my mind and changed the way I looked at animation and art in general. |
| My first anime was FMA ,it was dubbed and I saw a few episodes of it when I was 7-8 years old. Then,years later I remembered watching it and I searched it again,watched it and then searched for someting similar...and that's how I got here :) |
| Officially as in subs back in 2003/2004 was Naruto, otherwise unofficially as in dub was DBZ/Pokemin/Digimon and such when I was a kid close to getting into high school maybe. |
| in 2014, when i was 11, a internet friend recommended Hetalia to me. i had an idea of what anime was but i never got into it until then. i liked the anime alot and well, i'm here now :P |
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| Early 2019 after I finished watching a letsplay of Persona 5 (twice lol), 4 and 3. After that I delved into anime where either Death Note or Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood was my first anime, I honestly can't remember which. |
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| I first encountered anime when I was about 7 (so in 1997, basically), back in the days where channel 4 (a British TV channel, for those who don't know) would show anime movies in the middle of the night, like 3 or 4am - Urotsukidoji was the beginning of my love of anime, even though for someone as young as I was at the time it probably wasn't appropriate to see, like at all D: Fortunately it wasn't the uncut version, but it was enough to both disgust and fascinate me :x Then the TV channel Toonami became a thing was I was about 10, which showed all the classics such as Dragon Ball Z and all that, but I doubt anyone remembers that :c |
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| It was 2020 and my first anime was Vinland saga and i am glad that it was this. Vinland is still one of my greatest anime. In future i might found something even better but still Vinland will hold a special place in my heart. |
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321kayla said: same, Inuyasha was the first anime I was invested in and watched on a regular basiswatching late night re-runs of inuyasha on toonami in the 2000s ☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜) |
BabyBitchRat said: I got into anime in 2011 and the ones that got me really into it were Lucky Star, Negima, and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Thank you for reminding me about one of the most adorable series ever animated - gonna be re-watching Lucky Star starting from tonight :3 |
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| I grew up with shows like Monster Rancher, Ultimate Muscle, Beyblade, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Digimon, and Dragon Ball in the late 90s/early 00s, but I 'got into' anime around 2006/07. I watched Da Capo, Da Capo Second Season, and then Utawarerumono. |
| Winter 2016. I got into anime due to Animax. |
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| It was 2005, after watching Shaman King. |
| In 2011 I got into anime after watching dragon ball z on tv |
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| In the 90s (96-97 I think), I first watched Speed Racer on Cartoon Network, then Toonami came out with Sailor Moon and DragonBall Z. Then I first saw Pokémon in the summer of 99. |
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| more or less the usual trappings of an OTAKU within my age group; caught ROBOTECH (SDF MACROSS) and VOLTRON on T.V. as a young child in the mid/late-1980s, didn't really know what i was actually watching. was given a transforming model of SDF MACROSS' principal Mecha, and general claim-to-fame, the VF-1 "Valkyrie" Variable Fighter, by a family member. destroyed the model in short order, -being the ham-handed child that i was- but it's design nonetheless left a mark on me. mid-1990's; rediscovered MACROSS, -as a mid-teenager this time around- via a non-transforming model of the VF-1, which led me to recognizing MACROSS via the ROBOTECH VHS Videotape vols. then-available at my local mall's SUNCOAST VIDEO, and discovering Anime once and for all via SUNCOAST's Anime section, where those ROBOTECH vols. were situated. SUNCOAST began carrying VIZ COMMUNICATIONS' long-defunct "ANIMERICA" magazine, which opened my eyes further, of course, and before long i was in deep, with no turning back...      .jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)  |
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| 80's Astro boy and the adventures of the american rabbit are my first two anime, it doesn't count because I just thought they were cartoons at the time. Later in 95 dragon ball and sailor moon, those two got me into it because at that point I knew they were anime. Then stopped for awhile until I noticed dragon ball z and prefered the style of that show over the first. Sailor moon got old passed a certain age because of the repetitive episode structures, like power rangers. Wasn't into pokémon, inuyasha, yu-gi-oh!, digimon, monster rancher etc. I checked out inuyasha much later and yu-gi-oh the first show which is better than duel monsters in my opinion, then checked out duel monsters. I guess being a magic the gathering player, yu-gi-oh card game was just too basic to even watch. With dial up internet and no easy way to search stuff online, I just stuck with what I knew, until one day someone showed me ninja scroll movie then I was willing to start my anime discoveries. |
deadlyspawnMar 8, 2023 8:29 AM
| 12 years ago, when I already was 20. I randomly watched a few episodes of Wolf's Rain on TV and then decided to search for the whole cartoon on the Internet. |
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| April 2019, Attack on Titan I dont consider my childhood cartoons a "get into anime" |
| 2003 or 2004, I don't remember which year, and the anime was Naruto. |
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Grafko said: Literally me. In approximately late 2016, when I was in middle school. The main series that all of my weirdo friends who were already into anime told me to check out was Highschool DxD, but I didn't watch any full episodes, only scenes from it (also, the manga of DxD was also the first manga I read in mid-2017). Shortly later, I casually brought up how I was interested in anime to my dad and he handed me a DVD of the film Akira, which pretty much blew my mind and changed the way I looked at animation and art in general. |
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| around 2017 and my first anime was attack on titan |
| The original Fullmetal Alchemist in 2006 by renting the DVDs from Netflix. |
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| Pokemon, Digimon, Sailor Moon and DBZ were the first of when I was first really exposed to anime. But if we're going by when I really got into or felt something deeply by anime - then I'd go by when I first watched the 1997 Berserk Anime. And if movies, then the first Ninja Scroll movie. |
| Long loooong back in the year....... 2020. Just kidding, I started when I was very young, about the year 2005 or 2006 and my first anime was Pokemon and Digimon along with some sprinkles of Dragon Ball Z, and ended it with a dessert of Doraemon. Great question |
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| It was Naruto that introduced me to anime back in 2008. While I did check out a bunch of shows like code geass and blue exorcist back then, I wasn’t a full on anime fan. Fate Zero and Steins Gate then came out and blew me away with what anime was capable of. |
| It was 2019 summer, and Death Note was my first anime. |
| Technically a COVID baby since I really got into it in late 2020, but the reason I decided to pick it up was because I got tired of rewatching ATLA over and over, and not really due to the surge in popularity. My first anime was Naruto, and I decided to give it a shot even though I could never get into it as a kid. From there I watched things like The Devil is a Part-timer and Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun, but I was extremely lucky to stumble across Chuunibyou. That was the one that actually got to do the deep dive into anime, and I honestly don't think I would have became such a huge anime fan if I hadn't of watched it. If we're being technical though, my first anime was probably Pokemon, Bakugan, or Dragon Ball, all of which I watched a decent amount of when I was younger. I didn't know what anime was back then though. |
AcctraMar 12, 2023 10:23 AM
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| About when I was 3 years old with Sailor Moon. |
| Like many others in this thread, I found anime through Digimon and Pokémon in the early 2000s. I also was an avid watcher of Toonami, which showed other anime such as Dragon Ball. At the time, I didn't understand that these cartoons were from Japan, but I did get a sense that they differed from the other cartoons I watched. Around 2005 (~age 11), I discovered the wonders of the internet and began watching anime beyond the 4Kids dub of One Piece. I think one of the first anime I watched back then, completely subtitled, was Azumanga Daioh. I watched a lot of random series (and still do haha), Rozen Maiden, Muteki Kanban Musume, Death Note, Haruhi Suzumiya, Higurashi and Hetalia. Teenage me was an edgy emo, but at least I didn't have social media to share my hot takes! I've flip-flopped from watching a lot of anime to hardly anything over the years, but I don't think I'll ever give up anime completely. It's too ingrained in me now! |
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| Mainly thanks to Bleach in 2006-2007, but I was still a kid back then Then I had my Pokémon phase in 2012-2013 where I binged all the series up to the latest But I really dove into the anime world in 2014 at 16 yo, and it was with Bleach again since I wanted to see how it ended |
| It was at the hight of lockdown, I'd finished college. I'd seen some anime before, my brother showed me four shows the new legend of the galactic heroes, yamato, evangelion and goblin slayer. But I'd never gone and looked into anime myself. But back to the lockdown, I was bored and needed something to watch and then I was like oh yeah anime a thing. That exists. So I just sort of picked one that had been on my YouTube feed for a while - Fate/Apocrypha.it looked good it's historic fantasy. Plus the pink haired girl looked cute. I had no idea the hell I was walking into. Firstly Mordred was a girl? Odd choice but it's anime, then her father turned out to be a girl too. King Arthur... A girl. It's anime I said to myself. Wait how'd he father her... in the tale I know Arthur makes love to Morgan his sister. So how do too sisters make a daughter. Wait is Morgan a man? Look it up online. Okay Merlin, that's inventive. But beyond the weirdness the story was alright, the fights dope. Achilles was cool. Fran was cool also made into a girl. So was Astolfo (another gender bent historical figure I believed) And then Astolfo was a guy. I don't care still best girl. So once I finished the show, I suddenly wanted to watch more anime. And more Fate. So I watched Fate/Zero and holy hell that was good like so much better than Apocrypha. But Apocrypha will always be special to me because it's what made me a anime and Fate fan. |
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