| I was Bitten by an Otaku on a full moon, now every night I can't stop the transformation into a drooling anime fanatic |
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| I started watching anime when i was still in primary (elementary) school. I used to watch Neon Genesis Evangelion on a sunday morning after i returned from singing lessons. I watched the whole thing when my older brother decided to purchase the DVD boxset a few years later. Since then i started watching other anime's on television (such as Pokemon, Dragonball Z, Outlaw Star) until eventually i discovered how great the internet really is =D. |
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| I found a book on the ground in a barnes n nobles called "Shaman King" and fell in love with it after reading the first chapter. one of my quotes: "Look, mom this book is backwords!" |
| Unico, its a classic from way back in the day. |
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| toonami edit: the one that actually showed awesome anime |
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| My first anime was pokemon, but i really got into it after watching german dub naruto on tv and it was like "what? they're re-runnung the zabusa arc AGAIN?" Then I started watching japanese anime with english subs and recognized how poor german dubs are xD |
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| Everything began in 2003 when one of my friends asked me to download episodes of Dragon Ball for him. After a while I thought, "Anime, maybe I will give it a try". I watched Spirited Away and loved it and thought like "Wow, give me more". Then I watched Serial Experiments Lain and the rest is history. |
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| I think it all started back when i was between 7 and 9. My twin and i came across Dragonballz, and POW instantly addicted, then we started seeing other shows like sailor moon, Gundam Wing, and as i got older Cowboy bebop, outlaw star and so on so forth. it was only years later when we found out it was all called anime lol |
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| when I was little (97/98 I think…)there was Sailor Moon on TV and so it begun xD my first anime from which I knew it was actually an anime was InuYasha =) |
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| I used to watch Cartoon Network, WB20, and etc that aired some anime. One day at my public library, I found a volume of manga. Looked more interesting than normal comics (with it being shoujo and all) and decided to give it a shot. |
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| I got hooked in anime eversince 1994, when I watch Sailor Moon. Since when I noticed that animated shows orignating from Japan has a better storyline than the Western animated shows during those time, I prefer to watch anime since it has more intersting stories than the Western ones which is repetitive and boring |
 Lizlet L Chelsie and Anri Hiiragi are my waifus!! XD |
| My friend always had cartoon network and i didn't so I used to watch some anime over his house, then when I started renting on Block Buster the first anime I picked up was Ghost in the shell, at the time I was going threw puberty and just wanted to see some thing naked, I knew ghost in the shell has nudity in it and nothing else really, but my Mom would just think it's a normal cartoons, So not really knowing anything about Ghost in the Shell I rented it souly based on the fact it has nudity, but after I watched it, it opened my mind and I fell instantly in love with anime, and I would return to block buster grabbing what ever anime I could find, after I ran block buster dry, I found out about torrents and it's all History from there. |
| It doesn't think, it doesn't feel, it doesn't laugh or cry..... All it does from dusk till dawn is make the soldiers die. |
| the way i got into anime was by my friends persistence lol. she really loves anime and i used to not like it at all. then i watched fruits basket with her and that really opened up my mind to it. |
| i got started when i was like 4 and i saw gundam on tv ever since i m watching amine xD |
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| When Dragonball Z and Gundam Wing were the shit on Toonami. That's how I got into it, after that I went on and off with my addiction. |
| What isn't red? What isn't blue? |
| I watched a lot of anime as a kid, mainly Pokemon, DBZ, Sailor Moon, and CardCaptor Sakura. Back then I didn't know it was called anime. One day in Sam Goody (a movie/music/game store), I noticed there was an anime section. I spent a few minutes looking at the DVDs thinking to myself "Look, there's Pokemon, and Dragonball Z, etc.". That's when I knew that I wanted more of these "anime" cartoons. |
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SkiesOfBlue said: When Dragonball Z and Gundam Wing were the shit on Toonami. That's how I got into it, after that I went on and off with my addiction. Old School Toonami = WIN It was awesome before 75-80% of it's anime was taken off the schedule. |
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| I cannot recall exactly how. I just saw this neat anime piccus in the web and started getting addicted to every single one .O. |
| When I was a kid, I watched whatever was on TV. To list a few anime I watched back then: Transformers, Dragonball, Sailor Moon. I watched Evangelion with my cousin and thought that was cool, despite being ignorant to the mind blowing wtf parts. Then Pokemon came out, then Digimon, Then Cardcaptors. Then Gundam Wing and Escaflowne. My friend introduced me to .Hack, subsequently, my cousin lent me a bunch of anime dvds (including .hack). After that I realized I could download these shows off the internet and then got hooked on everything else I watched... So essentially, I've always been into anime, and my cousin has clearly been influencing me XD |
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| Those cute little creatures from Pokemon....it's very hard to resist those adorable little things. |
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| I had a song stuck in my head and went on youtube to find it and I saw a Naruto amv (no idea what it was at the time) so I clicked it and watched it then I figured out the name of the show and looked on google and soon after became obsessed with the show and since been completely addicted to anime. |
| I watch a lot of dragon ball z back when I was a kid. At the time I didn't know it was an anime. I just thought it was a cool cartoon. Then I was talking about it with some of my friends and they suggested some other anime and I asked, "What's anime?" They laughed at me of course because I had no idea what they were talking about. But it just grew after that. And now I'm a big Otaku. |
| I used to watch a few shows when i was a kid, and then i got some ghost in the shell dvds off some friends and then the glory of the internet (and a kid with a very very sad life) linked me to a page of elfen lied manga on onemanga and from there i got even more into it :) |
| well i used not-to-be a well known crazy about anime until i got friends who watch anime |
| of course i saw dragonball and pokemon when i was a kid but that wasnt what got me into anime, sadly it was death note but since i watched haruhi right after it, the feeling isnt as bad |
| I started watching anime around 1994 or so I think |
| I need money to buy ship slots in KanColle. |
| One word "Toonami" |
| My Friend recommended it to me,so i said ok i watch some. so i watched some then it felt like i gotta watch more and more. then eventually i wanted to draw them and it carried on from there. i used to be a gaming addict, now a anime addict. ^_^ |
| My cousin had a painting unbeknowst to me was Haruko from FLCL, and then he showed me DBZ, and that's how it started. |
| i think it all began with yu yu hakusho in CN .... =) |
| Fox Kid's version of Escaflowne + the internet + friends = getting into anime |
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| Myself :D |
| My Friends brother got me into anime. he put on inuyasha and i thought it was dumb at first then i started thinking it was really cool so i continued watching it online and such...... |
| Robotech, years ago. The crossdresser purple haired singer got my love and interest. Changed my life direction LOL |
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| everything started with RTL2 :3 |
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| Multiple causes. ~Pokemon and Hamtaro when I was little (I didn't get cable until 2nd grade, so I didn't grow up on Sailor Moon and when I saw DBZ at my grandparents I got bored easily.) ~Studio Ghilbi. I saw Totoro and Pom Poko one night at my other grandperent's house when I was 10 and I loved it. ~Avatar. Seriously. In 2004 Nick came out with Avatar and Martin Mystery (Faux anime XD), but despite the fact I didn't watch MM, I started to like the art! This one will shock the crap out of you, but ~I used to subscribe to Nick Magazine, and they had a comics issue, and the 'comics' they mentioned were Manga and Anime. I read the articles and I was like "No way! Pokemon's from JAPAN????" (I was 10 remember!), but then I started watching....I think Azumanga Diaoh was my first subtitled anime. My friend saw it while I was, but then she watched more anime and now I think she's seen at least 100 and she's a year younger than me XD;; |
| I used to watch some random anime shows as a kid, but they don't really have any effect on this. About two years ago I was on a website reading fanfiction a lot, and it was mostly about Naruto. Since I felt kind of dumb that I didn't know anything about it, I started watching the show. Since it was amusing, I watched other anime shows, and eventually got to where I am now. |
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| Shows as a kid, then a couple movies I came across on TV (Princess Mononoke, Armitage and Akira) Then I got the internet (dail up, holy shit so bad..), was bugged by my bud to watch some, watched Naruto and Bleach first, then spread out and got into better anime. Rest is history~ |
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| I used to watch DBZ and Digimon when I was younger never really understood that it was anime. My cousin was the one who got me into anime by letting me watch his copy of Wolfs Rain, and from there I moved on to Fullmetal Alchemist when I went to live with my dad for a semester and I've been hooked ever since. |
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| Very start of anime would be DBZ and Gundam Wing a long long time ago. After that, I watched Naruto, marathoned it, started Bleach, and it went downhill from there. Kinda sad that Naruto is usually the stepping-stone anime when there are so many better shows out there. |
| Last school year I watched a lot of drama/scifi, sga, bsg, firefly dvds,... Sort of ran out of things to watch (ok BSG still airing, still watching so exited)... earlier this school year I mentioned I was ging to dig up Gundam Wing again I watched it on tv an downloaded but never watched it again. It started from there, gave me FMA, EVA,... went from there. I now spend way to much time on anime. But I'm not regretting it yet. |
| naruto started it all. |
| my long lost friend and I loved Sailor Moon and that what really got me into anime, after watching Sailor Moon I started to like other anime on Cartoon Network. It all started in elementary school. I got really into anime during late elementary school and Junior High. Then when i found out there was anime and manga at the local libary, i got obsessed with manga and thats what got me into reading so much shojo. |
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