| Not counting my childhood days when I would casually watch random episodes of DBZ, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! and Ranma 1/2 if they were on local TV... I properly got into watching and exploring the medium more regularly when I was around 21-22 years old at the time. |
Stygian_PrisonerAug 9, 2:32 PM
| I was raised on import anime VHS. So, pretty much from the start, but started seeking out anime online around 10~12 or so. |
| 14 years old 🫡 though I wish I could start it doing the pandemic year |
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2 years ago, so 33. No shot anyone started older than that.
host_ said: 33. No shot anyone started older than that. I started "properly" watching at 31-32. You have my respect. What even got you into it at 33? Just curious. I've had friends in my 20s who tried and failed to get me into anime, and then I just picked it up on a whim after coming across some clips online from Demon Slayer and Violet Evergarden. The lockdown happened soon after and the habit stuck. |
| 3, 4, or 5 years old.....I watched anime on german television when it was still a thing....like Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, Wedding Peach, Detective Conan, Dragon Ball, Digimon, Pokemon, etc. .. |
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14 years old 🫡 though I wish I could start it doing the pandemic year
Kiryotsu said: I wish I could start it doing the pandemic year If didn't start in pandemic then ig u r quite new? 2021 or 2022? |
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host_ said:
33. No shot anyone started older than that.
33. No shot anyone started older than that.
I started "properly" watching at 31-32. You have my respect.
What even got you into it at 33? Just curious.
I've had friends in my 20s who tried and failed to get me into anime, and then I just picked it up on a whim after coming across some clips online from Demon Slayer and Violet Evergarden. The lockdown happened soon after and the habit stuck.
What even got you into it at 33? Just curious. Somewhat similar to you, on a whim. I properly got into it when decided to watch Attack on Titan in 2022, because there was always a lot of hype around it that even crossed to the mainstream media. That started the ball rolling with a firm decision to continue other shows. Over the years, in my 20s, I've seen a couple of shows like Death Note and One Punch Man (which I liked), but I always looked at them as an exception to the rule and thought I'd never start seriously watching anime. It opened up a whole new medium of entertainment, feels like I stumbled onto a treasure trove. |
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What even got you into it at 33? Just curious.
Somewhat similar to you, on a whim. I properly got into it when decided to watch Attack on Titan in 2022, because there was always a lot of hype around it that even crossed to the mainstream media. That started the ball rolling with a firm decision to continue other shows.
Over the years, in my 20s, I've seen a couple of shows like Death Note and One Punch Man (which I liked), but I always looked at them as an exception to the rule and thought I'd never start seriously watching anime.
It opened up a whole new medium of entertainment, feels like I stumbled onto a treasure trove.
host_ said: when decided to watch Attack on Titan in 2022, because there was always a lot of hype around it that even crossed to the mainstream media. Yeah, I also remember that time when I am binging AOT like crazy to caught up to the airing/ hype. Tbh, if I didn't watch it then, I don't think watch in any near future. |
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| Around 13 or 14 if childhood not counted, that's also when i started watching not ultra-normies show like dragon ball, pokemon, naruto etc. |
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| I grew up on the Spanish dub of Heidi, so maybe around 4 or 5 was my first exposure? I never had cable, so I watched older media on VHS and DVDs and didn't grow up on whatever was on network TV with the exception of Pokemon DVDs I would rent from my local library. Only when I had home internet access did I learn more about it and became a big fan of it. So I suppose around 13. |
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| sweet 12, i would spend every day watching anime but if you consider anime movies that i watched as a child without knowing it was anime probably 4 years old |
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| properly, its when i was 15 years old. but i was watching conan and doraemon since like 5 |
| Probably 10 or younger is when I was watch dubs on TV (wasn't aware or know about anime then), after that at age of 15-16, I started getting into anime with subbed anime on burned DVD-R from friend during high school. |
| technically when I was around 6 if we count dbz , yu yu, naruto, sailor moon, pokemon, yugioh digimon, inuyasha which I didn't know at that time that they were anime. But I started watching anime regularly (seasonal stuff) at 21 which was in 2013. |
| sic mundus |
| I started around 14 or so. I did watch cartoons growing up, but never anything from Japan to my recollection. |
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| I was 7 years old when I started watching anime, although I don't remember which show it was. |
| Just an simple guy , living his normal life |
| i started watching anime in april 2014, when i was 16 and i go to high school. |
| I watched dragon ball, pokemon as a kid, but didn't start watching anime properly until I was 19 when i met my husband. |
| Not late compared to me; watched me first anime when I was either 18 or 19 |
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| I was like 5, 6, maaaaybe 7. I think it was Pokemon? I'm not sure |
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| If even 14 is considered late, then I guess I'm a dinosaur if I started at 19-20. That was 15 years ago lol. |
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| First show with like 3, but I had no idea that a place like Japan even existed. First conscious anime at 12, but I only started to watch it on a regular basis at 16 |
| I first started watching Beyblade when I was around 7-8, but my love for anime didn't take a turn until I was 13. You could say I was late to the party, hahaha..  |
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| 27 or 28, definitely younger than I am now that's for sure. |
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| I was three - my brother was watching the 1997 version of Berserk. Needless to say, it scarred me. Later on, when the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist aired when I was about 4 or 5, I watched that with him too, I was equally scarred but loved it at the same time, and we've bonded over anime, horror movies, and video games ever since. |
| What if we watched Evangelion in the sewer...? |
| well I was about 5 if we shall count Tanoshii Muumin Ikka, Sandy bell, Techno Police 21C and a few more. When I was 7 I found at a local grocery store 2 VHS tape or Robotech dubbed in my language for like 2 bucks each. So got both for my week money and watched them religiously. It was not until I was 15 I got Robotech protoculrue collectors box I was able to see the whole damn anime instead of 4 first episodes I had on VHS. But I watched allot of anime between I 7 and 15 before I even knew what anime was. I mean for 5-15 year old me all does animes I seen where just cool cartoons I got no clue they where called anime until Internet became more common. |
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| It's hard to say, it depends on how to interpret 'when started watching'. Because I saw my first anime very early, I was 4-5 years old I guess. But I didn't look for it on TV, then around 13 I got a DVD with anime Maburaho from my friend, it was a typical low quality ecchi comedy anime, nothing special so I wasn't inspired enough to look for other anime. Then at 15 I got a hentai collection DVD from my friend, it was shocking experience but not because of hentai itself but due dark thriller plots. And that 'dark' aspect provoked me to look for other dark anime, at that time there were plenty of them thankfully, now you won't find anything like this since modern 'dark anime' not dark at all but 'edgy' to no limit, it's like to compare Hannibal lector with Joker from Suicide Squad or something. But then after I watched few anime series I made a long pause and started again after found a work. I watched everything what I wanted at that point and now rarely check for new anime since it's almost every time "I knew it's nothing special, again, but with over-top rating'. |
| I was already into cartoons by the age of 3 and it was at the age of 6 when I came into contact with my first anime shows (I didn't even know it was called anime back thenLOL) were shinchan, Dragon ball z, pokemon, etc..... |
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