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Apr 26, 2008 12:13 PM
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soo rack up the memories - which one was the one which caused you to start watching endless amount of anime?
4 me, it was cardcaptor sakura in those childhood days
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Apr 26, 2008 12:21 PM
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Gundam Wing, back in '99/00. :D It wasn't my first anime, but it was all downhill from there.
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Apr 26, 2008 12:23 PM
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Naruto got me into watching subbed anime for the first time. DBZ was my first dubbed anime
Apr 26, 2008 12:54 PM
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Nausicaa when I was VERY VERY VERY little xD er....I think 1994 or 1995
Apr 26, 2008 12:56 PM
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I was a Digimon nerd before became an anime fan. Then somehow I'm watching more shows like Shana and Full Moon wo Sagashite but MAL is the one that pretty much made me watch a lot of shows.
Apr 26, 2008 1:03 PM
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Saw Akira when I was like 8 but I think I was a little young for it!

Naruto was the first subbed anime I watched.
Apr 26, 2008 1:03 PM
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The Record of Lodoss War OVA. I'd seen an episode or two of other things on TV before I watched Lodoss, I suppose, but it's the first full series I watched.

Ultimately, though, it's probably SNES RPGs that got me into anime. Elementary-school-aged me figured that if all those great games could come from Japan, there must be something to those weird cartoons.
Apr 26, 2008 1:07 PM
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It all started with DBZ and Sailormoon. The first good anime series i watched was Kanon tho (the 2002 version). Well, it's not exactly the first good one, there were others but i can't remember. Kanon was the one that got me hooked tho.
Apr 26, 2008 1:20 PM
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I had seen a few episodes of Pokemon, Totoro and four episodes of Bastard (oddly enough) by the time I was 12, but I really had no idea what anime was at the time.
I actually started reading manga before watching anime.
The first anime I actually watched, knowing what it was and what it was all about was Yami no Matsuei, after that my wallet has never been the same. ^^
Apr 26, 2008 1:22 PM
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Apr 26, 2008 1:33 PM

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Evangelion and Escaflowne.

Also random comedy stuff like Saber Marionette and Slayers.
Apr 26, 2008 2:27 PM

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I watched shows like Bleach and Eureka Seven for quite awhile on TV without really being a big fan of anime. I think Chobits really piqued my interest and started me on watching TV shows on the computer. Shuffle! got me hooked to fansubs. 70+ series later and I'm still going.
Apr 26, 2008 3:41 PM

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Bleach, on a recommendation of some friends. Started with the dubs tho but then the dubbed episodes ran out. Switched to subs since there were more episodes released . And that's when I started watching fansubbed episodes for the first time. Since then I have been watching some of the better shows and I'm not planning to quit it soon.
Apr 26, 2008 3:43 PM

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Haruhi and dragon half


Apr 26, 2008 3:46 PM

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Shippuu! Iron Leaguer or Beyblade got me starting watching anime

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Apr 26, 2008 4:05 PM

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Apr 26, 2008 4:21 PM

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watching cardcaptor sakura dubbed on television got me started watching endless amounts of anime.

the dub was just so awful i went online and discovered fansubs, and i bought all of ccs on vhs . i havent really watched any dubs since :P
Apr 26, 2008 4:23 PM
Apr 26, 2008 4:28 PM

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Back when I watched DBZ and other series disguised as Saturday morning cartoons, the word 'anime' was completely foreign to me. What really got me going was Cowboy Bebop on the late-night Cartoon Network block, [adult swim]. It really woke me up to the fact that animation doesn't have to child-oriented.
Apr 26, 2008 4:36 PM
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probably Inuyasha...ironically enough, I hate that anime now.
Apr 27, 2008 12:52 AM

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Dubbed - Probably Pokemon or DBZ or something.
Subbed - Yu Yu Hakusho was one of my last dubs and it motivated me to LOOK for subs, so my first sub would be... probably... Fullmetal Alchemist... because I hated it dubbed =/
Apr 27, 2008 1:28 AM

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a.) .....First anime I watched was Voltes Five back when I was 4.

b.)....Anime that really got me hooked.....Mahou Sensei Negima.....I started watching it.....Eventually I never stopped....
Apr 27, 2008 2:30 AM

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First anime was Pokemon, but back then I'd watch any kind of cartoon. I started watching more anime after Gundam Wing and Rurouni Kenshin. My first subbed anime was .hack//SIGN
Apr 27, 2008 2:35 AM

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FMA, I guess.
Apr 27, 2008 2:44 AM

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DBZ and Evangelion. I remember staying up late the same day every week to watch Evangelion

Apr 27, 2008 3:17 AM

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Ragnarok The Animation or School Rumble
Apr 27, 2008 3:34 AM
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Isn't this the same as "The First Anime You Watched?

Because the one that got you watching anime = the first anime you watch.
Apr 27, 2008 3:42 AM

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Not always. In my case, as I already said, my first anime was Pokemon, but I used to watch it like any other kind of cartoon. Only after I started watching Gundam Wing and Rurouni Kenshin that I got interested in watching more anime.
Apr 27, 2008 3:50 AM

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same here...i've been watching anime for a long time now...Yu Yu Hakushu and Sailor Moon was one of the first animes that i've watched...but even then i was watching only it like any other cartoon or should i say like any other TV show.
The one that got me really hooked into anime was Fate/Stay Night and that was only around a year ago...so it isn't exactly the same as "The First Anime You Watched?"
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Apr 27, 2008 3:51 AM

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Yotoden ! And then Bleach ^_^
Apr 27, 2008 3:52 AM
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Retsu-kun said:
Not always. In my case, as I already said, my first anime was Pokemon, but I used to watch it like any other kind of cartoon. Only after I started watching Gundam Wing and Rurouni Kenshin that I got interested in watching more anime.


Wait. So when you started watching Pokemon (an anime), wasn't that the time when you started watching anime? Pokemon being an anime and all...
Apr 27, 2008 3:59 AM

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When I used to watch Pokemon, I didn't even know what anime was, so I couldn't even get interested in watching them. Reading what the OP said, the one that "got you started watching anime" would be the one that got you interested in anime.
Apr 27, 2008 4:38 AM

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hmmmm....
DBZ and Yu Yu Hakusho were the first animes that i saw but i never liked them and they didn't spark my interest on anime....

it was Voltes V, Daimos, and Escaflowne that did the trick....
a local channel were airing back then a tagalog dubbed version of the first two, and an english dubbed version of the last one....
Apr 28, 2008 7:01 AM

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yeah like many others firsts were dragonball z, sailor moon and pokemon.
i remember as a kid id get up real early before school to watch cheese tv (an old aussie morning kids show) to watch dbz and pokemon with my little brothers lol.

but what really got me started watching anime was naruto and bleach, which i watched due to two of my friends constant nagging to watch them lol.
they later recommended darker than black, which i love.
and then i found d.gray-man and black cat.

oh and we studied howls moving castle in school (for multimedia)

so yeah thats not really one that got me into it, but due to all of the above i am now hopelessly hooked =D
Apr 28, 2008 7:53 AM

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galaxy express 999 <3
Apr 28, 2008 8:06 AM

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My first fansubbed anime was One Piece.
Apr 28, 2008 11:39 PM

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When I saw Mai-Otome like just 3 weeks ago. =)
Apr 28, 2008 11:51 PM

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I that it was dragonall that started it all after that it just went on..
Apr 29, 2008 5:39 AM

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Dragon Ball.

Naruto was the first series I downloaded through the net.



Apr 29, 2008 5:46 AM

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Well, I saw pokémon and sailor moon as a kid, but I didn´t got hooked then.

Believe it was after Hellsing I started watching anime on a regular basis.
Apr 29, 2008 6:17 AM

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Sailor Moon dub got me permanently hooked on anime. I had watched anime before, both of which I knew and didn't know was anime. However, when I saw Apollo Smile on Ch. 26 The U cosplaying as Sailor Moon and then they showing Sailor Mars' first henshin sequence I got hooked.

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Apr 29, 2008 7:01 AM

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Although i am not a big fan, Naruto was probably the first anime that got me addicted to try the rest.

Maybe a bit of Cowboy bebop as well?

Although i had seen others before hand on television.
Apr 29, 2008 7:06 AM

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First of all, I'm already watching anime in dubbed version from our local TV.

Like Doraemon, Dragon Ball, Flame of Recca, YuYu Hakusho, SlamDunk, and Knockout.

Then, here goes Ragnarok: The Animation. First of all, I'm not really into anime. My passion that day would be playing Ragnarok Online. When I've heard about the anime of Ragnarok. I've downloaded it. My first ever, subbed anime I've watched.

Then, I'm now bonded with anime and started searching for more. I started with YT streaming, Love Hina; Onegai Teacher series; and then comes Naruto and Bleach. Then it goes up to now. Downloading from the fansubber's site. ^^
Apr 29, 2008 9:02 AM

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Sailor Moon. Love at first sight.
The further one goes, the less one knows.

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Apr 29, 2008 9:29 AM

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I grew up watching stuff like Cardcaptors and Pokemon and Tenchi, but ultimately it was Trigun that got me into anime full-force.

My first anime was Pokemon though.
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feelix the cat and robotech then went main stream with the dbz and gundam 00
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Toonami
every anime that appeared on it
like dragon ball z, tenchi muyo, cowboy bebop, trigun etc
Apr 29, 2008 11:12 AM

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Card Captor Sakura started it all.
Apr 29, 2008 11:52 AM

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Elfen Lied and Evangelion aroused my curiousity for more Anime, since their stories were pretty interesting and complex.
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Ninja Scroll, when I was in grade 3

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