What got you into anime? What was the first anime you saw? Share your anime-related memories. Oh, and I'd like to mention that I will judge you.
So. Personally, I grew up with anime. Atom (Astroboy), Ultraman, Gatchaman, Dragon Ball, Ranma, Doraemon, and a whooole bunch of others that I don't know the English titles for. However, my biggest obsession was Mado King Grandzort. I was so bummed when I immigrated that it wasn't very big in the US. Culture shock's a bitch when you're a little kid.
Um, Toonami is what got me into anime, but I got into Romance Comedy through Love Hina, I read Vol. 12 when I was at the library, and I just loved the kissing scene towards the end, but that's just me
Neon Genesis Evangelion then Hellsing. The first made me realize how deep and intelligent anime could be and the second made me realize that when it comes to massive amounts of carnage and violence, accept no substitute!
I really had my mind blown though with Evangelion and from there, I really fell in love with the whole scene.
The very first anime i watched the whole way through was Ronen(sp?) warriors.
God i loved it. Sailor Moon for boys.
it was inuyasha and 12kingdom for me. me and my bro was getting ready to sleep(theres a tv in our room) and our mum was in our room. so our mum was like randomly changing channel when she suddenly stop at a anime that was 12 kingdom. it was the 1st episode and me and my bro was totally fascinated from it. that was how we found out about the new geration of "Cartoon", ANIME
Sailor Moon and I am ever happy I had that.
I can't even imagine being myself of today without Sailor Moon.
It was Pokemon and Salor Moon, but at first i didnt know they where anime. The First one that I knew was anime was Gundam Wing.
like alot of people; Sailor Moon
Damnit, that Tuxedo Mask, he stole my childhood heart ^^;
speed racer and robotech
Gigantor (Tetsujin 28)
I would have to say Dragon ball Z or Sailor moon were the first that I ever SAW.
The first anime that I really loved and really kicked off my animegenes was Mobile Fighter G Gundam.
dual parallel trouble adventure
I'm adding to the long list of people who started off with Sailor Moon. I wonder where I would be if I have never discovered it... then there is Pokemon and Digimon which got localised - those made me like it even more
Digimon > Pokemon though
Sailor Moon DUB was my first anime - I had no idea it was anime at the time, but the anime that sparked the interest was Digimon Adventure DUB. I can't say I seriously watched till 2006 (Foxtel) though, and it was late 2007 before I got to see anime in a decent volume. (finally got rid of a awful 400MB/month quota @ 512k connection - my father thought it was heaps, and still seems too)
Dragon Ball, every morning at 5 on FOX ch23 back in 1992. :)
I believe mine was Captain Future
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Future#Anime
god I'm old, BTW not that old since they only release the series in mid 80's in my country.
When I was five my brother was watching akira and told me i couldnt see it cuz it was for big kids only, so i snuck by at night and saw that scene where tetsuo hallucinates his guts comming out and toys attacking him, I had nightmares that night, but i love that movie.
I can't remember as much but I didn't even know what the hell was Anime back then. Back then, around when Toonami was in its early days of awesome-ness, they aired Dragonball Z and Sailor Moon. I hate to admit but I was more fond of Sailor Moon than DBZ. DBZ was a good anime but I find those episodes where they talk too much and they still haven't started the fight is....yea...rather ridiculous. As for Sailor Moon, I really like it for some reason. The fact that I'm a guy and that I watched Sailor Moon can be weird to everyone. Even for me. The plot was something I have never seen before in my entire life, the first time I watched. Here is this teenager girl who has no idea that she can transform into a magical girl with magical powers to fight evil. When Tuxedo Mask came, I wanted to be that guy. Mysterious and kool.
There was a couple years hiatus of me not watching any anime anymore after watching DBZ and Sailor Moon until....Pokemon and Digimon came. Afterwards all these other animes came: Speed Racer, Street Fighter II, Rurouni Kenshin, Gundam Wing, Blue Gender, and other anime that Toonami aired. I guess you can say that Toonami got me into Anime including myself. Then there came underground anime.
Maybe because of Sailor Moon, I was more interested in Romance/drama/slice of life/school type of Animes.
serial experiments Lain
Unlike most of you, I was introduced to anime through lurking on 4chan's /a/. I enjoyed reading the pointless arguments, and after getting sick of people raving on endlessly about a particular anime, decided to watch it. That was my gateway drug.
I don't really remember, but the first anime I watched fansubbed was Love Hina. It influenced me so much that I'm still obsessed with moeshit.
Probably Dragon Ball classic (the one before Dragon Ball Z) with annoying Cantonese voice sub
My first anime that I watched was Naruto English dub.
>>43
Aren't you a little youg to be around here?
>>45
because the naruto dub started after 2000
probably Dragon Ball growing up, which lead to DBZ and other random anime on Canadian tv.
cowboy bebop on cartoon network back when adult swim rocked... now they basically suck, like can anybody but a eight grader really watch Tim and Eric?
I think it was pokèmon, a great hit here a few years back, and then after a while I got the taste for Naruto, wich I streamed of the net. (and still does..) for sode I am still a n00b, but now I'm at my 83 series of Anime ^^
Ninja Robots. It used to be on Cartoon Network back in 1999. I didn't realize what I was watching was anime back then.
i got hook on anime when i first watch ranma 1/2. ever since then i became i a big fan of rumiko takahashi work. and now i love anime since.
I think I got into anime as a passing hobby because of .hack//SIGN and Gundam Wing.
Once Fullmetal Alchemist came out on adult swim, and I happened to pick up the 4th volume of the Azumanga Daioh manga, I think that's what really got me into it.
Of course I saw Pokemon as a kid and all, but the anime that got me hooked into that realm would have to be Hellsing.
I started watching anime probably when i was 6, didnt know it at the time tho :>. dragon ball and DBZ were the shit, not to mention all the other animes on CN and midnight run (before adult swim)the anime that hooked me was kenshin, i loved that series ^-^. now im and addict :3. And... what do u mean, "you'll be judging us" :?
probably Pokemon, truth be told.
Though I had some odd "grimm's fairy tales" or something anime on VHS, but it was often violent so my mom forbade us from watching often.
Gundam Wing here.
first anime I ever watched was ghost in the shell couldn't understand it at first but eventually it grew onto me and I just got into other things from there on.
Well I grew up with Pokémon, Sailor Moon and that shit but the anime I watched knowing it was anime was probably Neon Genesis Evangelion and Macross Zero. Then it it became Naruto and shitty stuff like that.
I didn't get into anime until I was like 15.
First anime series, I have to admit was Dragon Ball Z.
Lifesize GUNDAM Special Effects in Odaiba Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlvP7EXv15k
I suppose most of us grew up with pokemon haha
Dragon ball Z aswell
They never really got me hooked onto watching them though, they just blended in to the Saturday morning cartoons if you know what I mean...
MY first series was Love Hina, and I still love watching it even to this day, then there was Tsukuyomi: Moon phase, still lots of memories for me there, And the Evangelion series
Now I just watch alsorts, I'm following most of the new releases but I'll never stoop as low as Naruto and Bleach,
They really need to die already...
The majority of the Ep's are of battles which are made up of mostly talking...
My first one was Voltron and Tekkaman Blade. I remember watching those back when I was a kid in the Philippines. When I came to the states, I was hungry for more, and sadly saw my Tekkaman, localized to the poor "Teknoman." I mean that in retrospect. When I was a kid, I didn't care, because it was still the same cool ass robot whoopin' some ass.
I think the first anime that I saw knowing what it was (Voltron was on US TV on Saturday mornings when I was a kid, and I also caught a few episodes of Speed Racer here and there, but had no idea that these were even from Japan) was either Akira or Vampire Hunter D, both of which I watched on VHS when I was in high school. I was impressed with and enjoyed both. But the first series that really got me hooked was the original OVA series of Ranma 1/2, which got me to watch every episode of every series eventually (as terrible as the quality eventually got), and then to watch the entirety of Maison Ikkoku and Urusei Yatsura. My Takahashi-mania was thoroughly quashed by Inuyasha, though. Boooooring. I watch a huge variety of stuff now, mostly comedies and the occasional feature film. I think I've seen about 350 series in their entirety, and perhaps 100 movies.
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Junior high school, not high school, sorry. I'm super-old, incidentally.
First anime I saw was Dragon Ball Z. First time I heard of the word anime was when I was 12. First anime I willingly watched was Naruto. First anime I willingly watched and liked is... Full Metal Alchemist. Now I don't watch anime, and instead read manga, because manga is 100x better.
At some point a channel in my country started playing DBZ, Sailor Boon and Magic Knights Rayearth.
DBZ and Sailor Boon sucked, but after watching MKR I started getting into animu.