Kababi said: jknightkt22 said: How the fuck did you have the time to watch all that shit in a year? That's like half of what I watched in my life.I thought my roommate was a nerdy ass weeb until I watched attack on titan. A year later I'm almost at 60 days on mal. Lmao I broke my leg and was out for a while, plus there were many days at school when I was running on about 2 hours of sleep. |
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| I blame Fullmetal Alchemist. A little bit of DBZ too, but mostly because of FMA. |
GroovySensei said: OnionKnightRises said: I'm typical, I watch anime because I grew up on it. I watched Dragonball, Pokemon, Digimon, Yugioh, and other shows like it when I was a kid, not knowing it was a separate medium. I became aware of what it was in high school, and that's when I actively started watching it knowing what the medium was, starting with the original FMA, and Death Note I think if it weren't for Toonami and Adult Swim, I would've completely missed seeing a bunch of anime. I used to get the shonen jump's every month as a kid, I didn't realize it was seprate medium either until I started seeing Death Note aired on Adult Swim after reading the manga years prior. Yeah, Naruto was one of the last anime I had started watching before figuring out what anime was. Anime like FMA, Death Note, and Code Geass are what got me to actually seek out other shows in the medium, unlike before when I just watched Naruto and didn't really go out of my way to find other anime. I never had Toonami as a kid, but I did get anime recommendations from a cousin who used to watch Toonami, which is how I know about Zoids |
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| I was on Youtube in 2007 and somehow found clips of the first anime I would ever watch, which was called Starship Operators. |
| I could agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong. |
| Found Naruto on Netflix the original gateway drug. I think a lot of people started with good old Naruto. |
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| Watched Pokemon and YuGiOh on Netflix since I was really into Pokemon at the time and my brother used to watch YuGiOh when he was younger. Stopped watching for a while and didn't really get into anime until my 11-year-old self decided it was a good idea to click on one of my youtube recommendations that have been appearing on my page for a while. It was a clip from Date a Live with big anime tiddies in the thumbnail (captivating, I know), and after watching a few more clips from the show I decided to watch it. Now 4 years have passed and I still laugh at the way I got myself into anime and how a pair of anime boobs changed literally everything. |
MarkerheadApr 21, 2019 8:59 PM
| I know this sounds like the stupidest reason ever but... there was this anime forum I really liked the design of and I decided to watch a few shows to fit in. Since then I continued to watch anime and that forum no longer exists XD |
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| A friend of mine introduced me to Sword Art Online. I gave it a shot and found it a fairly decent show. I decided to check out the medium as a whole and haven't looked back since. |
| One of my older sisters showed me Cardcaptor Sakura in 2000 or 2001. |
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| JRPGs. Specifically, PS1 JRPG animated openings made anime hold far more appeal than those other cartoons the uncool kiddies watch. There were lots of 'em during that era, and a fair amount had very well animated sequences that played before the start menus; as if to compensate for the graphical limitations of the hardware. As well as anime stylised avatars alongside text, like in Grandia. In the early 2000's I was playing the .hack games and learned there was a prequel anime: .hack//SIGN. After watching that, me and anime became a thing, and here we are today~ I think, before that, I watched Star Ocean EX: a shitty, low budget adaptation of Star Ocean 2. I try to erase that from memory and think of .hack as my first anime evar. |
| I think it was just chance that I start watching 'em |
| depression it was a v hard time in my life and i binge watched everything on netflix (most popular shows) and when i ran out of things to keep me away from reality i saw the death note on there but the actual episodes werent on netflix so i ended up watching it on 480p on YouTube- |
"those who aren't able to find a more miserable person than themselves turn to the internet and call others losers,even though they've never met"- Satou from nhk |
| Dragon Ball Z ... It used to come on TV but they kept repeating the same arc again and again so I decided to pick it up. And now here I am. |
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| I honestly just wanted to watch some hentai and the other stuff was good too |
| Toonami, just like countless other people my age lol. |
| Idk, I've always liked comics and animation and storytelling in general since I was a little kid. It was just natural that anime would be part of that. Can't really pin it down beyond that, from my earliest childhood cartoons on TV to my teenage years to my adult years and discovering MAL anime was always a part of my life to some degree, just like basically any other storytelling medium (Books, manga, comics, movies, TV Series etc...). I guess I was just born a nerd. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| When I was a kid I watched nothing but battle shounen. The last one I watched was Bleach which left a horrible taste in my mouth. I quit for nearly ten years because I thought all anime had to offer was that genre(I also saw anime as cartoons). Then my youngest brother who is 8 years younger than me started his weeb phase. I am now 20 about to turn 21. So I ask my older cousin what I should start of with since I'm not gunna ask a 12 year old what anime I should watch. He tells me about Sword Art Online and Tokyo Ghoul, I love horror but I've been a gamer all my life so SAO sounded perfect. The idea of SAO was great. The incest creeped me out a bit and it's obviously fucked up. I am too though and I thought to myself "if there's stuff like this, there has to be way better stuff than SAO." So instead of watching Tokyo Ghoul next, I decide to search for something to watch on my own. I come across Haganai(Harem, Slice of Life, Comedy, Romance, School) I then met one of my favorite characters, Rika. Her glasses and lab coat were super but then she busts out all the dirtiest and I fell in love. So the next anime I decide to watch is Heaven's Lost Property. At this point I'm like I really love Oppai and Harems in anime. This is what I should have been watching all along. But not really since I was a preteen around the time I stopped watching. Fast forward 3 years from my 2nd start at anime. I have no honed my tastes in anime while dropping my love for harems because they are honestly all the same formula and they're trash content. Minus the ecchi. I watched Suguha's love for her cousin fail(I ship Suguha/Kirito) and I watched two great(at the time) ecchi animes. These factors made me realize that there was more to anime than just battle shounen. I finally found a place where entertainment was as messed up as me. Here's it's more acceptable. That being said, 15 of my 19 favorites happen in a school environment and my taste has evolved immensely. I still love my ecchi and my taboo animes but I prefer a SoL, Rom, Com. If it has ecchi, that's just icing on top of the cake. I also never thought I would get into sports anime since I'm not a big sports guy, but I love Haikyuu!! and the Chihayafuru series. |
| “The world is full of nice people. If you can't find one, be one.” ― Nishan Panwar 8=D ~ O: |
| The sexy girls with their big soulful eyes and long legs, of course. |
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| Blockbuster rentals, parents thought it was just another cartoon. They eventually caught on when they walked in on some Ghost in the Shell tiddies.... I got grounded for awhile lmao. |
--Toshi--May 16, 2019 11:33 PM
| A friend insisting I should give animes a chance. |
| A commercial for Kill la Kill on Toonami. |
emailfraud said: A commercial for Kill la Kill on Toonami. Wow, you are pretty new to anime huh! That show is definitely a "thrown into the frying pan" first time type of anime lol. |
| Toonami/Adult Swim. If you don't know what i'm talking about, fuck, you're young. |
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| I'm pretty sure what properly made me enjoy anime was from music such as nightcore and vocaloids. |
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| I spent my childhood watching Naruto and One Piece. When I got older, I kinda grew out of anime for a while, until i started to watch One Punch Man and Boku no Hero. |
| I randomly came across corpse party on youtube and finished it. I thought it was amazing (though, in hindsight it really wasn't). Then I watched death note and that sealed the deal for me. |
| I'll shamelessly say it's High School DxD and Attack on Titan, ahh good times. |
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GroovySensei said: Holy shit is that Ayane's High Kick?!?!? Yes, and how come it's not on your list? |
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| I started with Death Note, which was good. |
| I grew up on Naruto. It was probably the only show I watched regularly on the local cartoon network and. Unfortunately, it was never aired in its entirety on TV, so around the same time, when I got internet access, I started watching it on the web. That's when I've found about anime and got my entire early adolescence ruined. |
| Terror in Resonance, Tokyo Ghoul and Aldnoah.zero are what got me into watching seasonal animes. But before that, I've only watched animes on TV and SAO. |
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