| and what age i started at 23 my friends had been talking about Death Note, Tokyo Ghoul and Attack on Titan so much i decided to watch it Death Note was my first anime and I immediately fell in love :D then i watched Tokyo Ghoul and i loved it so much too. at that point i didn't know the manga was a lot better :D my first manga was Death Note and my second was Tokyo Ghoul too now I'm 25 and everyone thinks I'm too old to watch anime but i don't listen to them and watch it as long as I enjoy it a lot (always) what's your story? |
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| Just started watching last year because I was bored asf due to the pandemic. Didn't really care for anime before then, I was a major film snob who thought all anime is cringe shit for weebs lol. Now though after watching Eva, Berserk, Monogatari, and all my other favorites, anime/manga is now one of my favorite mediums. Its between anime and live action as my all time favorite. I'm 20 btw |
| I honestly don’t really remember the first time I watched an anime. I do remember that by middle school it was a regular part of my life. I watched an unhealthy amount of Naruto, One Piece, Pokemon, and DBZ as well as numerous others throughout High School. It's a miracle I even got into college with all the Anime I was binging instead of studying. I haven’t really bothered to include the vast majority of these on my list because frankly I can only vaguely recall them, but I estimate I would probably be in the 50+ day club if I did. I only recently got back into things, so I guess I’m both a new and an old school Weeb. |
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| I watched a few series on tv when I was a kid, but I start watching a lot more anime after being recommended a light novel by my classmates in high school. |
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| I really started when I was 12. Before that, my parents would tell me I should not watch those violent Chinese drawings (except for the few my mother watched as a kid lol) but getting into high school made me meet more people who liked shows like Naruto and that was the anime that started it all for me. Playing Pokemon before that played a part in that but my aunt's weeb husband was the biggest influence, he is cool and my family liked him a lot so he kinda helped my parents understand that I would not turn into a some sort of violent kid for watching anime lol. I am 26 now and I am watching Naruto again and it has been really nostalgic and the fact that I am enjoying it a lot has felt nice because it means that after all these years I am still able to enjoy my first anime. |
PilsenEnjoyerMay 7, 2022 11:38 PM
| I was introduced to anime and weeb culture when Miiverse (rip) was still a thing on the Wii U. I was probably 14 at the time. I started reading manga before watching anime tho. I didn't get into anime until about a year after |
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| I watched Pokemon on VHS tape with my sisters when I was 4. (1999) Then one of them showed me Cardcaptor Sakura and Fruits Basket when I was 7. (2002) Then I found .hack//Sign, Bleach, Ranma 1/2, and Sailor Moon: Sailor Stars on YouTube when I was 12. (2007) Then I saw a clip of Kuroinu (hentai) on a porn site when I was 13. (2008) Then I watched my first ecchi, Kanokon, when I was 15. (2010) Then I watched Boku no Pico when I was 18. (2013) Then I watched Evangelion when I was 19. (2014) Finally, I made a MAL account when I was 21. (2016) |
IpreferEcchiMay 8, 2022 12:01 AM
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| I started at 12, my first anime was Elfen lied. How I got into anime: my father that had never watched anime before, one day downloaded some random anime app on his tablet and decided to watch something, and ended up watching Elfen Lied, and my father knew that when I was young I used to like violent stuff a lot, so after watching it my father recommended it to me. |
| I started when I was 21 (2012). Basically, I was just browsing through Netflix one day and I saw the thumbnail for Fullmetal Alchemist (2003). I remembered that I had played and really liked the demo for a PS2 FMA game on a PS Magazine CD a friend had lent me way back in the day, so I ended up checking the series out on a whim. Got super hooked on it and, uh, here I am 10 years later. 31 years old now, still loving anime and with no intention of quitting it any time soon. You're never too old to enjoy whatever hobby it is you love. Pay no mind to anyone who says otherwise. If your hobby doesn't personally affect their lives in any way, then it's none of their business. |
Stygian_PrisonerMay 8, 2022 12:12 AM
| I use to watch Pokemon and Doraemon as a kid. Initially I didn't knew the different between Anime and Cartoon. I first try to watch Your Name in 2017 but the boobs press scene at the start of the movie frick me out. I didn't watch that movie back then. Then In 2019 I accidentally watch the first episode of Death Note in Facebook. Which ultimately made me an Anime fan. |
ZXEANMay 8, 2022 12:13 AM
| I watched Digimon Adventure on TV when I was still in vocational school. |
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| I was 35 when I was scrolling through Netflix and Fate/Stay Night UBW caught my attention. It was rated a full five stars and I didn't know what it was. I was bored, so I figured "what the hell." Life hasn't been the same ever since. To be fair, I had watched some anime in the past (I watched Evangelion when i was 19 or 20 and it blew my mind). |
| I'm no Weeaboo I'm Katsura |
| I start watching anime for around 3 times lol First is my childhood (2012/2014) for shows like Doraemon, Case closed, etc (tbh I read the manga more than its adaptation) Second is around 2017/2018: with random Shinkai Makoto or Hayao Miyazaki movies then stopped Third is 2020 until now: with random seasonal, then I discovered more and more anime that suits my taste through social media, friends, and mal and here I am 10 years since my first anime but I'm still pretty new |
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| first time watching anime when i was somewhere between 5-7 years old i think, Bleach was my first. it was airing on my local tv channel, and i love it. buuuuuut, if we're talking bout how did i start watching animu daily/regularly, twas around 2-3 years ago. i saw this cool Darling in the FranXX AMV on youtube and i somehow got convinced to watch the whole thing. and now here i am :D. |
  "ꜱᴛʀᴇɴɢᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ, ᴡʜᴇɴ ᴜɴɪᴛᴇᴅ, ɪᴛ'ꜱ ʙᴀʀʀᴇᴅ ʙʏ ɴᴏ ᴅᴏᴏʀ..." -Aigis |
| i wanted to ruin my life, yes, yep, uh huh |
| Like many, my friend suggested me to watch Death Note which can be considered my first anime other than the childhood ones. Although I loved the show at that time it wasn't nearly enough to impress me to dwelve deeper into this medium. Then I watched this AMV of one my favourite songs, Little Do You Know and saw the movie out of curiosity. I loved it so much that I even read it's manga, which was my very first. After that I stumbled upon Attack on Titan which totally changed my views on what anime as a medium is capable of and I began to consume more and more anime and even created this account on MAL. |
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| I started watch anime when I 4 year old, first anime I watch is Dragon Ball Z in tv. Then I watch anime continuously after finishing all Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series at 20 year old. |
  What Does Pot of Greed do?  |
| Maybe around 14 is when I knew I was actively watching and seeking new Anime. Before it was just cartoons that aired in the afternoon or Saturday mornings. |
| i watched like every cartoon available on tv, and anime certainly stood out the most as i got older |
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| Not sure about the age, however I can't consider Death Note my introduction to anime because I watched nothing else after finishin it. I took it pretty badly. Bleach is what really got me involved. At that time it was pretty fresh, nowdays I wanna run the heck away from it. |
| Thanks to local TV Channel here who showed me anime like Cardcaptor Sakura and Doraemon back then, it got me interested :) |
 (っ◔◡◔)っ 𝓘 𝔀𝓲𝓼𝓱 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓪 𝔀𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓯𝓾𝓵 𝓭𝓪𝔂 ♥ |
| I watch animes since I was a baby. It means when I first watched them, I didn't knew they were anime. So basically I watched everything that was broadcasted on SBT, Globo, Bandeirantes, Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Disney Channel. Saint Seiya, Dragon Ball, Captain Tsubasa, Tokyo Mew Mew, Cardcaptor Sakura, Beyblade, Digimon, Hamtaro, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Sonic, Blue Dragon, Naruto, Zatch Bell, Shaman King... |
| Shows like Pokemon, then Toonami, then random stuff on Netflix and Crunchyroll. My breakthrough was learning about Yuru Yuri and How Not to Summon a Demon Lord. |
| One Word. Hentai. (30 character limit) |
| I had looked down upon anime as a medium until getting burned out of watching western movies and then getting introduced to some good quality anime like GITS made me dig into the medium. |
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| Technically I started around 10 years old I think with Pokémon in the late 90s and then with Ranma 1/2, inuyasha, Naruto, chobits and such in my teens in the early 2000s. But I wasn't watching as much anime until at least 2013ish when I was 26 and that's when I really started going on my anime binge. Before then I probably only watched about 20-50 anime series and I mainly played video games. |
| Around of age 8-9 my buddy from primary school recommended to me to watch Bleach and shown me where I can watch it with polish subs, I count Bleach as my first anime instead of Yugioh/Pokemon/Naruto which were at Tv, cause back than I thought that anime is a polish cartoon as all of them were dubbed x). Till today I do watch anime in some extent + my first anime is the only title I can call myself a fan. |
| i cant really recall when but i think it would be around when I was 6-10 yrs old. i only watched though tv channels, shows like naruto, pokemon, dragon ball, detective conan, yuyu hakusho... etc. but didn't really watched all of them completely. the only one stood out was Naruto. I guess I started really watching anime in highschool. |
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| around 14 or so, in 1996, i discovered SDF MACROSS, by way of it's mid-80's "ROBOTECH" Western localization. MACROSS, and it's VF-1 "Valkyrie" Variable Fighter mecha indeed started the Anime ball rolling for me, and, unlike many of my generation and older of Anime fans, i was hardly reflexively repulsed out of hand by the Moe boom of the onset of the 21st century. quite to the contrary, i saw much to adore in it, in it's way, indeed every bit as much so as the 80's/90's Mecha series besides ROBOTECH/MACROSS that had fired my Anime passions in the first place. it's all wonderful, and here i am 20+ years on, clinging to it all as tightly as ever...    |
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| Around November of 2020. My ex introduced me to 'Cagaster of an Insect Cage' ... and it went from there honestly. I made fun of weebs mostly because of the fandom when I was younger... Well look at me now. lmfao. Even though I don't have anything Anime/Manga related stuff at home, I would consider myself a weeb. I am 24 now. I didn't start watching it because it started to become popular with the mainstream, I started because I wanted something else to watch. Have barely touched anything Hollywood since then. |
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| All my friends watched anime which got me into anime. Pretty simple |
| Earliest anime I seen was an old VHS tape of Robotech in the early 1990s when I was 6-7 years old. From there, seen it on and off growing up. Then around 2002ish during the original Toonami's run here in the states, I became seriously committed to seeing anime as a personal hobby. |
ggultra2764 said: Earliest anime I seen was an old VHS tape of Robotech in the early 1990s when I was 6-7 years old... one of the early, mid-80's single-episode FHE volumes, perhaps?  |
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I don't recall too many of the particulars of the single VHS volume I had of it. But do recall that there were two episodes on it and they were of the Macross episodes that Harmony Gold hacked up to form the 80s series. At least doing a quick search, it looks like a number of the FHE releases of Robotech had two episodes per tape on them, so it was likely one of those volumes I had considering the time period when I seen it. |
| My dad watched Devilman on Sci-fi channel, recorded it on VHS and I watched it the next day and it was the best thing my young eyes had ever seen XD |
| Started with SAO and the worst part is that at that time I thought that sh*t was good. |
| I was in Elementary School, but I'm not entirely sure how old I was. It was under 10, because I remember being 10 when Pokemon came out and thinking it was cool that I was the same age that you'd be to be able to go out on your Pokemon Journey. But before then, I watched Toonami on Cartnoon Network which included: Robotech, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball Z. Then by Middle School I was doing Adult Swim which included stuff like Yu Yu Hakusho, Trigun, and Cowboy Bebop. |
 "...Is your mother worried? Would you like us to assign someone to worry your mother?" |
| Saw a meme about "Gurren Lagann" in 2012 and decided to watch it out of sheer boredom and thus instantly got hooked. |
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| I was about 5 or 6. I stayed up all night watching cartoon network when i saw Inuyasha for the first time. Watching cartoon network showed me a lot of anime that stuck with me. I was 8 when i saw Yugioh the first time, which was the first anime i ever got super into and made a point to watch every week. It mostly made me watch whatever shonen was on Cartoon Network. 19 was when i watched my first more obscure anime that made me want to check out more in the medium. That being Strawberry Marshmallow. |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. |
| I was watching funny videos on YouTube. When this "Anime Funny Moments" video appeared in the recommended stuff, I clicked on it and then searched for the name of the anime in that video. The name was Ueno-san wa Bukiyou, and after watching it, I saw another anime there (on YouTube). I think it was Senko-san. Then I found an anime site where there was a lot to watch, and that's how I started watching anime. That happened in December 2019. |
 
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