| Well, if you didn't understand yet let me explain with more detail, tell me the first Anime you watched when you "turned into an otaku", the first Anime that you searched for it online to watch. |
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| Attack on Titan, and I think it's a great first watch to get into anime. |
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| I used to watch shows like beyblade or Yugi Oh on TV, at some point I watched like 800 Pokemon episodes + 12 first movies (in one summer, wow I had so much time to waste, I probably still have a bit too much) online but I don't think it really counts because at that time I didn't really know what was anime and only searched for it because TV didn't air all the episodes (+ waiting each for 800 episodes is a bit much). The first anime I watched because I wanted to start anime is Cowboy Bebop, I remember seeing it's OP on Youtube and yeah it's pretty badass so I decided to watch the anime. The rest of the soundtrack is also excellent, I still listen to its OST today. Still pretty nice in general and the action is way better than casual shonen in my opinion and having read a lot of shonen manga before it was a great change. |
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| Bleach. Wanted to know what kids were talking about at my school at the time. |
DavidAlejandro said: tell me the first Anime you watched when you "turned into an otaku", the first Anime that you searched for it online to watch. The first anime I watched by online streaming was Dragon Ball Super in 2015, though I guess it doesn't count since it's the sequel to a show watched during childhood. So the second one, Hunter x Hunter (original 1999 version, watched online in late 2016 and just out of simple curiosity), would be your answer. In fact, if it weren't for it, it's highly likely I would not be writing this now here. |
| Hmm... Hard to say. Attack on Titan was the trigger for me to look in to anime. But I think the first anime that made me think of myself as someone who could really get in to this culture is Clannad. I had never watched anything with any kind of moe asthetic or school settings or the harem setup in the first season... or several other distinctively "anime" aspects that Clannad possesses. But I'd heard so much glowing praise about Clannad so I thought fuck it let's see if there's anything to these cute girl romantic drama stuff. I got used to the asthetic pretty quickly but nothing about the first season grabbed me that much. It obvious who the main girl was and I was happy to see it develop in the way that it did (I don't how some people were disappointed by the choice of girl, it was so obvious...). But I was told the second season was where it got good, so I pushed forward even though I was a little meh about it up to that point. And thank God I did. It was an amazing experience being so emotionally moved when the second season really got going. The art and the general asthetic not only visually but the peculiarly Japanese style of characters and storytelling... All of it combined to bring out more emotion than I'd ever experienced from fiction before - and I was a pretty harcore film buff for many years. Still have a huge collection of western movie DVDs. From then on I knew anime was going to be a big deal for me. |
| “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” -Friedrich Nietzsche Aggregate scoring is bad for the anime fandom |
| I guess it would have to be Asassination Classroom. It was memorable for me because I, sort of, took a 3 year break from watching anime so I could focus on finishing my time at university. I remembered looking up both the dub and sub for the show, and reading the manga after. |
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| Well it greatly depends on when you started watching more anime. Popular names like SAO, Attack on Titan, Code Geass, Death Note, One Piece, etc, will be common answers depend on which 'generation' you are from. But even for people who started with watching on TV, they were most likely also start with the continuation of anime they watched first on TV because you know that some animes are ridiculous long like One Piece and Naruto. And most of the times, what is in TV in some countries is far behind in episodes counting (compare to original airing in Japan and online streaming). |
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| Sorry but... watching anime off TV was mostly the only option until I was 17 outside of spending stupid money on VHS/DVD |
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DavidAlejandro said: Well, if you didn't understand yet let me explain more detailedly, tell me the first Anime you watched when you "turned into an otaku", the first Anime that you searched for it online to watch. I don't remember. Too ancient. Memory is blurry. |
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| Attack on Titan three monts ago. I was blown away |
| honestly? probably Hetalia. Didn't really know what anime was but it's the closet to what I'm enjoying right now, and I knew that I liked it. |
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| The first anime I started watching online was Bleach and Naruto after the first two arcs were aired on TV. |
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| One Punch Man, loved it. The second was Boku no Hero Academia. |
| It was either Code Geass or Attack on Titan |
| Lucky you.My first anime was Death Note or Digimon Frontier. |
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| Parasyte , I fell in love with the ost and the story was awesome as well, its one of my favs |
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| Attack on Titan The first anime I've watched, and my #1 anime ever since then |
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| Searching on the internet: It was HxH version 1999 (in 2006) and gensomaden Saiyuki (2007) as these two were my favorite anime on TV. |
| I think it was Shugo Chara. Used to watch it on youtube, yeah. |
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| Once I got Internet I binge watch two shows from my childhood and they were pokemon and naruto, that was around 8 years ago but if that don't counts then it was clanned. |
| Negima was the first anime i watched online that i hadn't seen here on American TV this was back in early/mid 2009 it was our first manga in like 2003 |
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| Suzumiya Haruhi, I'm pretty sure. Although it could've also been Plastic Memories. I had about a year break then. After that break, it would've been Tokyo Ghoul and Kagerou Project. |
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| Naruto. I bought all the dvd's and watched every single episode. Didn't know what filler was back then. |
| The first time i decided to actively look for Anime is a couple of years ago with Death note, after hearing about it for so long i decided to try it, and at the time i loved it so much that i decided to see more shows (like hxh and mha). And then here I am still as a huge fan of the medium despite my tastes having changed a lot from back then. |
| City Hunter although it wasn't in the 80s, 90s or even 00s. |
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| Samia don. Watched on tv when I was a baby. Didnt turned me into otaku but show was fun. |
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| Most likely togainu no chi. Was so bizarre to me as i didn't know at the time anything about yaoi or shounen ai. |
| I don't honestly remember. I think it was maaaaybe Ghost Hunt since it's the first one that comes to mind. I think maybe Vampire Knight too. |
| It was 2006 I was 15, magic was about to happen. Ayashi no Ceres or Angel Sanctuary |
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| First was Death Note, Then Claymore. Since then I got addicted. |
| Either Mirai Nikki or Kiss x Sis in 2012. I could have started with better ones but at the time i was just happy with watching whatever appeared in front of me,, |
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DavidAlejandro said: Well, if you didn't understand yet let me explain more detailedly, tell me the first Anime you watched when you "turned into an otaku", the first Anime that you searched for it online to watch. Ninja Scroll, Akira, Ghost in the shell the first movie. This was in the 1990s. I was a huge fan of a animated movies like Heavy Metal, American Pop, The Last Unicorn, The Secret of Nimh and The Hobbit and wanted something similar. So I went to a Suncoast video store in the mall and found Ninja Scroll, Akira and Ghost in the Shell dubbed on VHS. The subbed VHS was ten bucks and I wasn't spending ten bucks more on each movie just to read. |
| Probably Naruto. I watched a couple shows as a kid, but I think Naruto was the first one where I buckled down and binged it, and also the one that make me crank out other shows left and right. |
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| the thing is, I was already a weeb since I was young |
| An admin's dickhead Soul banned me from MAL t('v't) |
| One Piece. Then Darker than Black iirc. |
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| Death Note. I remember that it was the first anime which i watched and finished not on TV, but on.. Youtube (I know, i was just a boy that time). After that i found some legal and unlegal websites to stream more Anime, and finished what my childhood had left uncleared like The Law of Ueki, Naruto, Eyeshield 21, Samurai X, Saint seiya (eventhough it's kinda hard to finish this), and others. |
| Hellsing - that's the first Anime I watched completely that I searched online. I guess, that's a good starting and then my second, Rurouni Kenshin. |
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