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Mine was 14. Late starter, lol.

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I was five when my parents gave on my birthday gif twas Two VHS anime are Soar High Isami and Zenki this two are my first anime, both of my parents were fans of anime. Since then we'll you know the history.
Aug 9, 2024 1:02 AM
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Around 6 or 7 not more than that..times were good then.
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around 6 years old during the 1990s tv boom
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"What's your age, when you started anime?"

Around 5, I guess.
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When I was seven My first anime are Ghost fighter ( Yu Yu Hakusho), Voltes V, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball and Super Boink (Burin)
I watched on ABC 5, RPN, IBC 13 and GMA.
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Very young when I started watching stuff on television and 12 when I discovered that you can get this shit from the internet. Fivd years later I made this account after a recommendation from a friend. I was using imdb and physical notebooks before that.
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Without counting childhood (because I didn't knew what anime was at the time),I started watching anime during mid 2015 so when I was around 12-13.
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I don't know like 5 or 7 or something. Beyond that I guess like 14 is when I got into it more.
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Aug 9, 2024 2:06 AM

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Not counting all the random anime I watched on TV as a kid without knowing what it was (which would have started around age 4-5), I was 13 when I really got into anime and started actively seeking it out.
Aug 9, 2024 2:33 AM
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10 years ago when i was 13. It all Started with my big Sailor Moon obsession. Good Times😌😌
Aug 9, 2024 2:41 AM

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21 since I started watching anime in 2021
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Aug 9, 2024 2:59 AM

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Anime knowing it was an anime with subs - 7 or 8
Anime on tv dubbed thinking it was a Polish cartoon - 5-6
Aug 9, 2024 3:00 AM

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18, literally a week after I finished school I discovered anime and MAL.
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Aug 9, 2024 3:06 AM

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I've grown up with anime, probably started watching them around 3 years old, or at least that's as far back as I can remember. I only started watching it regularly at around 12.
Aug 9, 2024 3:10 AM
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First anime : 5 yr old ; Started seeking series' at 14.. dedicated watching since 18~19 years old..
Aug 9, 2024 3:11 AM
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I grow watching anime as kid so around the age of 5 to 6 years old.
Aug 9, 2024 3:22 AM
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I remember waking up early af to go to a friends house and watch Salor Moon and Pokemon before going to elementary school in the late 90's. Then on Saturday's watching Digimon and Yugioh. Then my parents got cable and I discovered Toonami and started staying up late to watch Dragon Ball Z. Hard to believe that was nearly 30 years ago. Time flies by lol.
Aug 9, 2024 3:24 AM
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I’ve been fascinated by animation for as long as I can remember. I first saw Star Blazers on tv when I was around 10. Even though I’d never heard the word “anime”, I immediately realized it was different from other cartoons & became obsessed with it (even waking up early over summer break to watch it & going back to bed afterwards). While I also watched other Americanized examples like Battle of the Planets, Voltron & Tranzor Z, the next one to really get me obsessed was Robotech when I was in my later teens. But I didn’t really get into more authentic anime until I was around my mid-20s with titles like Ranma 1/2, Tenchi Muyo, Slayers & Magic Knight Rayearth. Before I knew it, 30 years have passed & I’m watching more anime than ever thanks to streaming.
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I started watching anime at 16. Although I did watch some Doraemon when I was 6-7.
Aug 9, 2024 3:41 AM

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When I was in Primary 6, I started watching anime.
Aug 9, 2024 4:07 AM

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Anime was always on TV and usually the better choice as a kid. I remember coming home from elementary school to watch DoReMi.
I don't remember when I got serious about anime though, it definitely started with Death Note. Maybe like 22? I'm just guessing.
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22, when I seriously got into anime during lockdown but I had watched a few anime shows like Eva, Legend of the Galactic Heroes the New Thesis and Yamato 2199 before that point.
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Millennial, started in primary school.
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Aug 9, 2024 5:21 AM

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if 14 is late starter then what am i?

knowingly watched my first anime at 16. actively started watching at 17 and really got into it by the time i was 18. not counting the time when i was like 3 watching pokemon on tv all day.

for reference the moment i was completly in love with anime was around the same time i created my mal account. it was after that i really got into anime that i felt the need to keep track of what i've watched and discuss and stuff. before that i used mal only to check score and reviews didnt even have an account. i still remember that day. i had just finished watching bunny girl senpai movie it was what solidified me as a lifetime anime fan. i had never loved a piece of media that much before in my life. bunny girl senpai is still a special anime for me so are all the animes i watched when i was still under 50 completed.




Aug 9, 2024 5:28 AM

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if 14 is late starter then what am i?

knowingly watched my first anime at 16. actively started watching at 17 and really got into it by the time i was 18. not counting the time when i was like 3 watching pokemon on tv all day.

for reference the moment i was completly in love with anime was around the same time i created my mal account. it was after that i really got into anime that i felt the need to keep track of what i've watched and discuss and stuff. before that i used mal only to check score and reviews didnt even have an account. i still remember that day. i had just finished watching bunny girl senpai movie it was what solidified me as a lifetime anime fan. i had never loved a piece of media that much before in my life. bunny girl senpai is still a special anime for me so are all the animes i watched when i was still under 50 completed.
TsutanaiFuun said:
if 14 is late starter then what am i?


lol, as you saw in the above replies, I am a literate baby in compared to them...(millennial etc)


Aug 9, 2024 5:36 AM

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nirererin said:
TsutanaiFuun said:
if 14 is late starter then what am i?


lol, as you saw in the above replies, I am a literate baby in compared to them...(millennial etc)

yea well we both can't compare to them. I wish I too got into anime when I was in middle school or something.




Aug 9, 2024 5:44 AM

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TsutanaiFuun said:
if 14 is late starter then what am i?


lol, as you saw in the above replies, I am a literate baby in compared to them...(millennial etc)

yea well we both can't compare to them. I wish I too got into anime when I was in middle school or something.
@TsutanaiFuun then we can also phase this sentence like, "those were such good days". (either way it wasn't bad but lol)


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@TsutanaiFuun then we can also phase this sentence like, "those were such good days". (either way it wasn't bad but lol)
@nirererin @nirererin yeah thats true lol




Aug 9, 2024 5:59 AM

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4 yrs old. i remember watching the first episode of DBZ when it first aired on toonami. it was my first time being exposed to anime. instantly got hooked...now im about to turn 30...been watching anime ever since lol
Aug 9, 2024 6:12 AM

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I started at the age of 11. I started little late but who cares.
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nirererin said:
Mine was 14. Late starter, lol.


Even though Pokemon is my very first anime I was watching, I've started watching anime as a hobby when I was 16 and have stopped it for a while a bit later. Got back to it when I was 20.
Aug 9, 2024 6:36 AM

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nirererin said:
Mine was 14. Late starter, lol.


Even though Pokemon is my very first anime I was watching, I've started watching anime as a hobby when I was 16 and have stopped it for a while a bit later. Got back to it when I was 20.
@Ricchan__ there's an interval but great that u came back, ig :)


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I remember seeing fairy tail and k-on on tv when I was like 4 or 5. I got into anime when I started to binge watch all of the pokemon animes when I was like 10 or something. but I watched them all dubbed.
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I probably started watching anime when I was 17 I think.
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14-15, around end of 2011, before that it was homoruto, belch, conan, shin chan etc pero~
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I didn't get into it seriously until about 24-ish. I only had netflix then and they had like, less than 20 shows at the time. One of them was Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. This showed me that anime can actually be something interesting and I've fallen down the rabbit hole since.
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My anime habit started at age 34 with Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo. I only watched it at first to find out if a friend of mine voiced the MC. He didn't, but I got hooked anyway.

I list Speed Racer and Voltron as some of my first animes, but those were just occasional views.

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14, if I don't count period when I was a kid and watching random "cartoon" on TV.
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I didnt truly submerge into the anime world till I was like 14-15ish I wanna say. Had started highschool. Just some random summer I decided to search up in youtube: "Top Ten Anime Deaths," and the rest is history lmao.
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14, if I don't count period when I was a kid and watching random "cartoon" on TV.
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I was a kid and watching random "cartoon" on TV.

yeah, I also spend my childhood watching cartoons so, I also can't count it as anime ToT


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5-6 (not sure if really counts since I have no idea of what Anime is when I was watching)

Watched only 2 when I was 11-15 but I start to watching much when I was 16-17, I think I even watch more than people who started before knowing it's anime and I watch more Anime in my adult life compared to my teenager years. I never understood why most people say the opposite when everyone have more years living as adult than a teenager.
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2 years ago, so 33. No shot anyone started older than that.
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I was really little and used to watch stuff like Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh with my brothers. Then i saw DBZ for the first time when i was 20 cause i had heard a girl i was trying to get for mine and my best friend's video game project voiced Chiaotzu/Kid Trunks in the Ocean dub. The rest was history, and i started physically collecting similar series like Bleach, YuYu Hakusho, and Naruto, being able to actually hold/read manga for the first time
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At age 15 when I started watching anime properly knowing what it was
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I was 4 when the first episode of Pokémon aired.
And it was so cool.
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About 14~15... sometime in 1996-ish.


IIRC; this Mecha Model basically kicked things off for me, in X-Mas of 1995;





By the close of 1996 or so, i had several of the FHE Dual-Eps. VHS Vols. of the "MACROSS SAGA" portion of ROBOTECH;




Sometime in 1997, i discovered GUNDAM... thanks to this kit;




Sometime in the very-late-90's, i came across my first Waifu figure;



And in the early-2000's, i came by my first Waifu Doll, taking me down the path i follow to this day;



Leap to 2024... and Here is where i stand Today;

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I was 12 when toonami became popular with Gundam Wing, DBZ etc in the 90s, I am 39 now...where did the time go 😭.
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Not counting my childhood days when I would casually watch random episodes of DBZ, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! and Ranma 1/2 if they were on local TV... I properly got into watching and exploring the medium more regularly when I was around 21-22 years old at the time.
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