What got you into anime?

mistakes

An impressionable youthful mind.
I wonder when I lost that.

>>152919401
Lolis

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Anime, I'd say.

The draws.

dad

>>152919401
A very charismatic and nerdy girl on the internet. I talked to her for 12 hours a day for a few months and she really loved anime and her enjoyment of it infected me.

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>>152919401
Lolis.

Toonami

>>152919401
I like cute girls, something sorely lacking in many other mediums.

>>152919401
hentai

>>152919401
The language was appealing to my ears.

Keit-ai. It found a way into my heart.

litol girls

In high school I had a lot of female friends, but in college I had none. I started watching schoolgirl anime to try to relive that experience of having friends

I found some Lucky Star hentai, and thought the girls were really cute, and wanted to watch the show they were from.

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The colourfulness and liveliness of cartoons combined with the mature storylines for mature people like me!

To be completely Honest, crippling depression and hatred of the normalfag world

>>152919401
Highschool dxd

>>152919476
This

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Well it all started in my sophomore history class. I sat next to this really cute asian girl. We were friendly and talked a lot since we sat together in the back. Eventually walking out after class she invited me to go to anime club with her and watch some. Before that I didn't know practically anything about anime and so I thought why not I might meet some qts. I was dead wrong. She was the only qt. I enjoyed it so I became a member. Eventually "dated" 2 of the good looking girls and then moved schools so that was the end of that. I just graduated last may. What a ride it has been

I grew with it like cartoons, I began to run out of cartoons and the few left were terrible so I went full anime.

SAO

>>152919401
My pops got me into anime he'd regularly bring home VHS's for random movies and series like Devilman, Dragon Ball, DBZ, Black Lion, The Fatal Fury Trilogy, Ninja Scroll and BASTARD Etc. Toonami got me from that point.

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>>152919401
Lain.

>>152919737
>Got into anime because of a 3d grill
>Dated someone other than waifu

Kys

>>152919836
Hey what can I say I was a drama/outdoors kind of guy. I soon saw the error in my ways though.

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I'm a chink, so I grew up watching stuff like Doraemon and Shin-chan growing up

Pokemon

>>152919401
watched KissxSis and it was all over.

>>152919401
Because comics and cartoons were everywhere when I was a kid and manga and anime were seamlessly integrated into that.

Visual novels.

A friend had a childhood frined over, and he was a complete weeb.
We spent the weekend watching Berserk and Urotsukidouji.
It was all downhill after that.

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Robots.

>>152919401
Evangelion.

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This beautiful, majestic, angelic creature is what got me into anime.

>>152919938
This was my first waifu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wpipSyYsTE

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>>152919401
Cute little girls.

>>152919401
Adult Swim

YuYu Hakusho
Gundam 0083

>>152919401
DBZ
Talked about it in school, friend said uknowtheresmoreoutthereright and burned me a cd with first eps of a couple of series

>>152919401
People on /sp/ who would constantly post with anime avatars.

Team Fortress 2.

>>152919401
Pokemon. Really, though, what turned me into a weeb was One Piece.

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I saw Sailor moon once or twice as a young kid with my cousins.

Later on, in middle school and maybe high school, I watched DBZ, Outlaw Star and some Cowboy Bebop on Adult Swim.

My parents kind of stupidly bought me Jing: King of Bandits for my 15th birthday if I remember, which is really funny considering their stance on me looking at porn or masturbating, I don't think they even leafed through the thing. Or maybe I got it from a weeb friend I had in boy scouts, I can't remember, but I think it was my parents.

At some point a fujoshi attached herself to me and became my girlfriend which further enforced my slide down the slippery slope, I branched out to stuff like Love Hina, Claymore, eventually Ranma 1/2.

I went through a na**tard phase, I would prefer not to remember that this happened. Whenever I think about this point in my life I want to kill myself.

I finally started actually watching anime in a dedicated fashion with Lucky Star and Haruhi, after that it was inevitable that I would end up here.

>>152919401
A friend in college always carried his handheld consoles around with him and made a few passing comments about anime on occasion when he played some games, and it got me interested enough to try watching some shows just to see what the fuss was about. I watched Dragon Ball previously, but I didn't intrigue me enough to go looking for more.

>>152920056
Andrew?

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>>152919401
The Caramelldansen.

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>>152919401
Lolis.

>>152920072
Nope.

>>152920136
A very good reason to get into anime.

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>>152919401
the loss of my health and consecutively becoming a hikki-neeto. i never asked for this

late night Animax TV; Tenjo Tenge, Speed Grapher and Hellsing

I didn't know Pokemon was anime until I was 14.

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>>152919413
Stop

Dubbed Attack on Titan

>>152919413
Fpbp

original dragonball being on tv before school.

doraemon
read the Manga
watch TV series
bam

>>152919401
Dragon Ball in the morning when I was in Elementary School
Voltron tapes from my local video store.
Pokemon in middle school
Toonami in high school.

Misty was my first animu fap and made me an ass man.

>>152920005
lol

>>152920005
I feel like it was actually ages ago when /sp/ was the meme factory of this website. When was it that /tv/ took over?

mental illness

>>152919401
naruto
>inb4 Naruto is a gateway anime of the worst kind. It's a bad series, a clusterfuck of story and characterization that isn't very well done by any aspect, but which attempts to compensate for its weaknesses by adding in excessive shipping faggotry and DARKNESS. The normal anon can see this as the shit it is, and may enjoy it, hate it or be indifferent to it, but all the while recognizing that the series itself, regardless of their opinion, is plain bad. However, these very aspects that try to smear over the shit of its core make it a breeding ground for aspie, unsociable underageb& faggots who engage in every kind of faggotry both online and in the real world. The superpowered characters all trying their hardest to look cool, the jutsus, peculiar, colorful clothes, the whole ninja faggotry and everything about the Naruto world fuels their escapist fantasies, while the pity-party character backgrounds, emphasis on revenge, and overall preachiness of the series make it fit just right with the mary-sueish drives of your average preteen and his sense of unwarranted self-importance towards the world. Exactly the kind of shit that makes little kiddies and underageb& retards eat this shit right the fuck up. Naruto is basically THE series to attract the most hated anime fanbase known to /a/, which is why, regardless of individual opinions, it is the responsibility of every anon to troll the fuck out of this show and everyone who likes it, and ensure that no Naruto threads ever encourage the newfriends to show their faces here. That being said, AB is really great, but Nyaa.eu and BakaBT are easier to get into.

>>152919401
I saw an episode of Evangelion on adult swim

>>152919401
Being a spic + DBZ/Ranma/Saint Seiya

>>152919401
Unironically jews. I started watching anime because hollywood is shit and forcing politics into everything they make

>>152920994
Talk about calling the kettle black.

>>152920994
Allow me to let you in on a secret.
Everything *is* politics. The only difference is whether you agree with the politics or not.

>>152919401
hentai porn

>implying I watch anime
>implying I'm not here to laugh at you
But seriously, my big brother. It's all his fucking fault for making me watch anime with him when I was still a baby

>blogshit thread
if you're reading this post and you were considering suicide anytime recently, go through with it.

>>152919401
Sakura, as a child, because it's a fucking masterpiece.

Didn't know shit about anime before ten years later, when I see Haruhi. And Haruhi is a fucking masterpiece too.

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>>152919401
Kaga-san
Joke's on you, it's Gundam Wing

>>152919401
I watched pokemon on the talmudvision and became a fucking autist.

>>152921038
I don't agree with what you are saying

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>>152919401
Toonami

specifically Ruoroni Kenshin

I would have remained a DBZ and pokemon casual if not for it.

>>152921202
Well sure.
A difference I forgot is whether or not you make it ABOUT the politics or leave them well enough alone.
A leftist faggot might complain about an all-white cast like an idiot, while a rightist faggot might complain about an obligatory minority cast member in a different movie like an idiot. Both the leftist and the rightist are annoying and getting in the way of the fun.

>>152921272
Don't use emoticons on /a/.

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Cardcaptor Sakura and Pokemon

>>152921276
why?

>>152921438
Not that guy but it's annoying

>>152921438
Because they are ugly.

>>152921438
We have to pretend we are a serious board , if not the rest of 4chan is going to realize that we are a bunch of dumbasses

>>152921524
It's not so much the rest of the board. But the rule was introduced to keep the average underage anime fans out. Back then the boogeyman was gaia.

>>152921202
read Žižek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk8ibrfXvpQ

>>152921558
right gotcha

>>152919401
Anime that aired on tv were always my favorite shows as a kid, but I didn't know what anime was back then.
Then when I was 8 or 9 my older half brother showed me the naruto vs sasuke fight which blew my mind at the time.
Then I just watched every episode youtube and after that I just watched everything that looked like anime on youtube, because of that I watched a lot of the weirder ones first instead of the more mainstream stuff.

>>152921438
How about you try lurking a little, retard.

Suprisingly, 4chan, but I had always held an affinity for weeby shit and of course grew up watching DBZ/Pokemon

Back in the days of YouTubePoop being the cutting edge of memery (2008-9), I remember seeing one with a clip of "Mikuru Beam" from Haruhi and thinking the girl was cute, so some anon off /b/ told me what it was from and I watched Haruhi as my first full series.

After Haruhi, I watched NGE because of a recommendation thread on /a/ which held it as the ONE series everyone needs to have seen. I'd also always had the show title stuck in my memory from the Toonami days because it was so odd. I remembered seeing the episode with the Angel infecting the Magi computers one night in like 2005 while staying up late watching TV, and seeing redheaded Asuka on the back of an old Pokemon comic when I was like 9.

Watched TTGL after NGE, and then Eden of the East as it aired.

From 2009-2012 I watched anime pretty hardcore. Last full series I've seen was Steins;Gate

I still periodically return to /a/ to check out "wtf did I just watch" threads about EoE

The Full Metals. Alchemist and Panic.

Case closed.

God I fucking loved that show.

watching cartoons on youtube back in ~2008, then a bunch of weebs on a tf2 server told me to watch lucky star

>>152919460
Where is that girl, anon?

The best anime, Sword Art Online

>>152921914
ded

>>152921914
No one knows where she is, of course.

>>152919401

Friend tried to torrent Rammstein music videos and ended up with Eva & Hellsing AMV's.

>after over 15 years this is still the best AMV you've ever seen

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6ri2_amv-evangelion-rammstein-engel_music

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>>152919413
fpbp

>>152921927

Unanimous pick for best AMV ever is this, fyi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdUPwR6mzXo

>>152921914
it was a trap

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i friend showed me sword art,
and now i´m here.......

>>152921927
I liked the trigun engel one better

>>152919401
I really, really hate people. Like, nigga, calm down. I can't watch shows with real people in them and only with a few exceptions can I stand the voices of english speaking individuals. The whole japanese thing is so foreign that I don't mark as human in my brain. This effects porn as well to the point that most of the time I have a hard time not getting angry when I try to watch it.

>>152921927
Dude, I remember that amv

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>>152919401
Sailor Moon A picture of Sailor Mercury that one of my friends/That Kid redrew for his art class, ironically enough.

>>152922037
perfect

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>>152922657
This one. He redrew it poster size.

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>>152921285
I WANNA BE THE VERY BEST

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>>152919401
Unironically this.

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Uni friends who were massive weaboos
Good thing my lil brother was already one so now I have someone to watch and shit talk tropes with on occasion

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I watched Dragon Ball Z and Hamtaro when I was really young. Then Naruto became popular so I watched that. Then my sister showed me Elfen Lied and Death Note which I didn't like because ow the edge. Then I discovered Lucky Star and When They Cry on Youtube in 2008 or so and here I am.

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CCS. Then I had to watch DBZ to fit in with the cool kids at school.

>>152919401
Adult Swim: Toonami when I was like 12 I think.

Mainly watched Bleach and Inuyasha

>>152925666
I loved, CCS is a kid.
>Tfw Sailor moon and CCS aired right after eachother in my country.
I miss the time when my country didn't hate anime.

>>152920994
Hollywood is shit, what does have to do with Jews? That's like saying it's shit because white people are in charge, don't you see the hypocrisy in that?

>>152919938
Remove the long hair and it's just a female student(male).

>>152921558
Right implying most of you faggots are not edgy 15 year olds

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Escapism

Oban Star Racers.

>>152925789
/a/ is above 20 years old on average.

My Chinese-Australian weab friend told me to watch the three Key titles: Air, Kanon and Clannad.

After one week of watching and another week of sulking, I decided to look for more shows and that's how got into watching anime.

I wanted something to fill the feel when no gf.

>>152919511
Already a thing.

https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3206139/1/Keit-AI-Tomoyuki-x-Seiko-Keit%E6%84%9B-%E5%A5%89%E6%96%87-x-%E8%81%96%E5%AD%90

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>>152919511

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>>152919511
inb4 404

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>>152919401
My dick

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>>152919511

>>152919401
I realized that I never finished naruto. So I started rewatching it all from the chunin exams and then the train started. I dropped it later when I caught up to the part when it was still airing and moved on to deathnote, gurren lagann, FMAbrotherhood, steinsgate and everything

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>>152919401
By looking up "goriest anime" years ago.