What was your gateway, /a/?

Yuru Yuri

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>>148313418

Anything early toonami and adult swin related. Op's pic, full metal, case closed,FLCL, inuyasha dont judge , and Dragon ball/DBZ. Good times staying up late to watch crazy Japanese cartoons.

Ichigo Mashimaro

>>148313785
There's nothing comfier than waking up in time to watch inuyasha before school

>>148313418
What gateway?
I was born anime` I'll die anime.

>>148313418
I was LARPing Dragonball Z on the playground in elementary school.

>>148313418
It was this, zatch bell and sailor moon all when I was 3-5 years old. I remember watching sailor moon solely for the transformation sequences and panty shots.

I won't count Pokemon and Digimon. I think the first really Otaku anime I watched was the dub of Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi of all things. It was on some weird cable channel whose name I don't remember, and I randomly caught a marathon one night and watched because tits.

ITT people confusing first anime with gateway anime.

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If we're counting Toonami, then this fucker right here.

>>148313418
>>148313949
Basically these 2

>>148313974
Inuyasha had some top tier ending music. Always lulled me off to sleep in 8th grade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcfL89VFbYA

>>148313418
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BcM31lohl0

Is Yu Yu Hakusho worth watching?

>>148314861
Yes

>>148314861
Absolutely, dubbed or not it's great

FMA 2003

Kinnikuman

Fucking Zoids

To this day I don't know if it was actually any good, giant animal robot battles were just sick as fuck

>>148315239
Rewatched it recently. It's pretty bad desu but way funnier than I remember. The MC is basically a douchier version of Naruto.

Hajime no Ippo y Cazador Equis

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Bobobo

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>>148313418
Yu Yu Hakusho

I saw that shit on Toonami when I was like 6 years old and it was good shit.

>>148313974
Inuyasha is a late night anime, you pleb

>>148314861
It's fucking amazing

I only re-watched it out of nostalgia and found it to hold up even by today's standards.

Hell, especially by today's standards

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Sci Fi channel

Magipoka, around the time when it aired.

Death Note

The gateway to the "I know that he knows that I know but what he doesn't know is that I know that he knows that I don't know" genre

>>148316620
It also ran at like 5AM or something

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Pic related

If you don't think Niggabee was the tightest shit, get out of my face

>>148314861
I rewatched it about 2 years ago, one of the few dubs worth watching for the most part. It's pretty good.

>>148314225
>be in elementary school
>look forward to DBZ erryday
>if I sprint home fast enough I can even catch Sailor Moon beforehand which rarely happened and never really made a point to do so, but was glad when I actually made it
>one day watching Sailor Moon because I got home in time to catch it
>big brother randomly walks into the upstairs living room after grabbing some snacks, which never happens because he and his friends use the downstairs living room to watch Saved by the Bell every afternoon
>try changing channels in time
>fail
>he changes it back
>calls his friends upstairs to show them what I was watching
>they all sit down laugh their asses off the entire rest of the episode while I sit in anger and embarrassment
>after it's over they all go downstairs and finish their show
>would always get a little shit/joke thrown my way every time they came over to watch Saved by the Bell and I had to go downstairs through the living room to use the bathroom
Sailor Moon. Never again.

>>148313769
Me too, anon.

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>>148313418
NGE
It was pretty wild going straight from Western shit right into that.

anime girls wearing donald trump hats

>>148317651
Fuck, wrong picture.

>>148314461
All of my yes.

>>148314861
Re-watched it a couple of months ago and holy shit I liked it more than I did when I was a kid, so much fun

>>148317688
you're a mess just like jeb

Grew up with the usual pokemon/dbz/beyblades. But the first anime I actively sought out to watch was Afro Samurai. It blew my mind at the time.

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>Scrolling through channels one night
>Land on CN as soon as the first episode starts
>Stop for whatever reason, don't even remember why, I think I liked all the people walking towards the building.
>Like the banter enough during the beginning scene to decide to watch the rest.
>Redman slaughters everyone
>I like this ;:^j

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>no Yu Yu Hakusho in Canada
>no NGE in Canada
>Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Samurai Champloo don't air until 2006 in Canada, and only then on an obscure paid cable channel called Razer

It just ain't fair man. Even Europeans and Latinos got these shows.

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Code Gay-ass.

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>>148313418
:3

>>148318153
Are you 15 by any chance?

Dragon Ball Z. Then once bought a One Piece-tankobon out of sheer curiosity and loved the style

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Buncha fucking babbies ITT.

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I watched DBZ and Pokemon and such as a kid, but watching this with /a/ was my first "real" anime.

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First was prob pokemon, yu gi oh and shit.
Gateway was this.

>>148318908
Close, I was 16 when it first aired back in the good ol days of 2012

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>>148318414
half truth anon, in Mexico we have to wait for those series every saturday's midnight

then adult swim fucking ruined everything

>>148316600
>>148318414
>>148319142
Fuck off

>>148317370
what a nice guy
did you try planting tranny scat porn on his computer yet?

Dragon Ball and DEE BEE ZEE
That was so fucking hype to watch for the first time

It doesn't quite hold up, but it's still really fucking fun to watch and pretty emotional for me. I still tear up when characters die.

I watched Naruto, and dropped it around ep 110, and then I went on to watch NGE which I'd actually been meaning to watch for several years but never had gotten around to it because I was lazy and watching an entire TV series was an alien concept to me due to my Technology=Evil mom.

>>148318990
are you my parents?

>>148317370
Jokes on them, you were watching the superior series.
>saved by the bell
Are you fucking kidding me? That was such a load of retarded normalfag horseshit.

>>148319500
>normalfag horseshit
>bullying your younger brother in front of your friends
checks out

>>148313418
Pokemon was my first anime, after that stuff like Yu-Gi-Oh, aand other ad anime.
But Gash Bell was my first one that convinced me to get into the online anime forums.

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>>148314461
my nigga

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Dad randomly brought home the tapes one day. ~7-8 at the time I think.

>>148313769
This and Saint Seiya

>>148319273
what's your problem, autist

>>148317370
gotta say, sailor moon probably holds up a lot better than saved by the bell. It definitely had more of a cultural impact.

>>148320313
>autist

Do you know where you are, faggot?