What got you into anime?

My grandfather left me a box of laserdiscs containing his entire collection of early Kyoani works

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>>156260648
My first anime was Madoka Magica. Still the best anime I've seen.

>>156260727
underaged?

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A combination of Toonami anime like DBZ and my friend introducing me to Ghost In The Shell and Ranma 1/2 when I was a kid.

>>156260648
I started cosplaying as naruto in my local con.

>>156260648
/a/

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>madoka
>toonami
>naruto
/a/ was a mistake.

Since I was a little kid I always liked anime's art style. I think it was the eyes.

an overweight 14 year old with glasses and a USB stick with death note on it

>>156260648
That video of smug anime girls you sometimes see on /wsg/. Got me into collecting smug pictures and then ended up watching anime

Lucky Star episodes off of YouTube divided into three parts.

I didn't get any of the references.

>>156260781
bro madoka was six years ago

>>156260648
Growing up watching obscure anime rented from Blockbuster and Toonami, Digimon, Pokemon, Sailor Moon, Gundam, etc etc.
Its been downhill ever since.

>>156260648
Gundam Wing on Toonami.

>>156260648
Animated Hentai
Then non-animated hentai
Then I decided to check out what inspired the artist
And so I started watching anime

Trigun and Inuyasha on Adult Swim.

My cousins showing me Inuyasha.

>>156260648
gundam wing and dbz on toonami.
sailor moon and cardcaptor sakura as well

You people will call me a pleb, but back when I was in high school, I played World of Tanks nearly four hours a day, and people in the in-game-chat always said "Panzer Vor!" and I always wondered what they meant. Then one day my favorite e-celeb who published World of Tanks videos on YouTube, The Mighty Jingles was taking about Girls und Panzer and so I watched it subtited on Hulu out of curiosity, and that's the first anime I ever watched. Since then I've seen about a hundred twenty anime titles

>>156261076
Muh nigga. Misao was my first 2D crush.

Well i always watched naruto when i was a kid but never actually got into anime at the time. When i was in middle school i saw the manga for parasyte at a boom store, ended up reading it all online then branched to other manga then anime

>>156261412
>120
Watch more
That's what you should watch in about half a year

>>156260648
I'm peruvian, anime run in our veins, the biggest normalfags of this country have seen at least 100 anime.

>>156261660
t. pidgeon eater

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>>156260648
NTR

This thread makes me feel old.

>>156260648
Hell girl

I watched a lot of anime growing up, but as I got older I stopped watching it. Throughout the years I tried watching things here and there, but never watched more than a few episodes. The show that finally got me hooked was Tsuritama

Came for the cool shonen heroes, stayed for the fanservice.

>>156261781
>tfw parents didn't let me watch Akira with them
Why the fuck do you have kids if you won't watch anime with them?

Did anyone else watch Hare+Guu on Youtube, or was I the only one?

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>>156260648
I am mexican

>>156260648
Jesus Christ

>>156260648
green green

>>156260648
DBZ, Sailor Moon, Cardcaptors and Pokemon.

The first time I thought "I really like these Jap cartoons" was after a friend gave me a USB with every ep of Samurai Champloo on it. Shortly after that I was watching Death Note and Code Geass with /a/.

>>156261902
I think you were. I watched Dokuro-chan and Bleach on youtube though.

>>156260891
i don't see the problem

we were all middle schoolers once

>>156261745
Good taste, anon.

>>156260648
New friends I made in my senior year at university (stereotypically) in the computer science club.

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>>156260648
I've been playing an MMO game, Ragnarok Online, and most people on my private server MOTRonline were into anime in one way or another. So I got it from them.
I lived in Russia and a lot of people in Russia were on dial up at the time, and so was I, so I had to get it IRL. I went ahead and copied what I could from a little internet cafe called Parus, and joined a little sharing group of people that would copy anime by lending each other their hard drives. I have even been once sent Serial Experiments Lain on CD-R over mail.
That was life.

Dennis the Menace drawn in manga style in a book I found in my library so I went and researched what manga was and became a fan. I don't know anyone else who got introduced to manga through Dennis the Menace.

My first anime that I actually thought of as "a Japanese cartoon" was Gundam Wing, but what really started me down the dark path was a friend suggesting that I watch some anime when I professed to be bored while playing WoW with him one day.

>>156260648
Ultimately, a picture of Misty "riding" her Starmie - by Tareme Paradise I think, that I found on some shitty website featuring galleries of hentai pics (that they had to rotate through on a weekly basis because their hosting space was limited), the address of which I had found in some special booklet (on internet erotica) from a cheap softcore porn magazine a buddy of mine had nabbed from the gas station when we were like 11 or 12.

Eventually, I became interested in all the characters I was fapping to.

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Yes I've been around awhile...

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It started as basic tonnami shows as a child
>DBZ
>Sailor Moon
>Cyborg 009
>YYH
about a year or so later I started watching some of the anime shows on Adult Swim
>Lupin III
>Case Closed/Detective Conan
>Shin Chan
>BoBoBoBoBoBoBo
then I had nothing to do with anime until after I graduated high school and during one summer I started to check out all the anime shows that were on Netflix
>Trigun
>Chobits
>Heavens Lost Property
>Genshiken
>Samurai Champloo
just to name a few. As a kid I mostly watched battle shounens so this was the first time I had watched shows that were about other things. I fell in love with it.

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Saint Seiya was the hypest shit in the 90s

Escapism.

I watched Cartoon Network when I was a kid and after school they'd have the Toonami programming block so I'd just watch what whatever they had on. DBZ and Sailor Moon were the first two anime I watched regularly though I'd never admit to my friends that I watched Sailor Moon. Inuyasha on Adult Swim sealed the day.

>>156260648
I saw a picture of Sucy on /c/ and I loved her character design, so I watched LWA and ended up watching a bunch of other shit after that.

>>156260648
My parents discovered anime around the time I was born. They let me watch 3x3 eyes, Devilman and Cutey Honey when I was really little. It turned me into the desensitized pervert I am today.

>>156262509
sealed the deal*

>>156262562
>Devilman and Cutey Honey
the ones from the 70's? Are you a spic and also an oldfag because that seems pretty odd?

>>156260648
Back in the day, the showed Sailor Moon on TV every morning on the USA ACTION EXTREME TEAM. They also showed Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, but those were on after I had to go to school. I watched it every single day.

Since I liked Sailor Moon so much my mom bought me a subscription to Mixxzine, and there I learned about Gundam and Magic Knight Rayearth. After that I kept an eye out and watched any anime that I could get on basic cable, which was mostly the stuff Fox Kids showed (Escaflowne, Digimon, etc.). I also saved up my allowance to buy anime on VHS tape at my local Suncoast for the low price of $20 for 2 episodes.

>>156262657
I meant the OVAs from the late 80' and early 90s. I'm white and 27 if we consider that old.

>>156260648
I watched various stuff like pokemon and DBZ as a kid, then never touched anime for like a decade and a half.

Started watching stuff frequently fairly recently mostly due to how I find it nice to have shows to watch, and there's an absolute fuckton of content of all kinds that I know nothing about for me to dig into, making it all the more interesting.

>>156260648
Sword art online

Pokemon, Digimon, Yugioh, and one or two random DBZ episodes as a kid. Bleach on Toonami was my first anime where I was aware of what it was. I didn't start actively looking for shows until I saw Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged.

>>156260648
Toonami. DBZ, Outlaw Star, Big O, and Gundam Wing. After that, I didn't really watch it until high school. I started with mecha shows Code Geass and Gundam 00, plus some others like Death Note and Gurren Lagaan. After that, I just started watching whatever looked interesting to me on /a/.

>>156260648
Being south American, pretty much everyone here knows about anime and follow at least one weekly show or they simply watch classic shows on TV

>>156262946
>mecha shows
shit taste. You might be too late, anon.
>Death Note
>Gurren Lagaan
yep definitely too late.

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My uncle bought me a Pokemon Stadium 64 bundle the year it came out. My mother was a housewife at the time so she would often watch me play it. One time she started talking about how she liked the cartoon style and it reminded her of some shows she used to watch as a child. One of the ones she mentioned was pic related. I wanted to download it for her so we could watch it together but I couldn't find any DLs at the time. While looking I did run into some other stuff that looked interesting which I ended up checking out, and that's how I got started.

In high school I was one of those idiots who was convinced the entire medium was trash because all I ever saw of it/all the "anime kids" that I saw bullied around school fixated on was Naruto, DBZ, Bleach, so on and so forth.

Then a few friends of mine talked me into watching a Ghibli film with them including the girl I liked at the time so I gave it a shot. After that, I kind of realized that judging an entire medium on its terrible popular titles is like judging western television on Keeping up with the Kardashians or whatever shit else, and started looking for what was actually considered good.

>>156260648
Used to watch DBZ, Pokemon, Shaman King and Hell Girl. I then watched Needless and Panty and Stocking on Youtube since I saw
videos on them due to to my curiousity and well.. it was a steep slope to fall from.

>>156263049
>mecha shows
>patrician taste
Not that anon, but ftfy, you filthy pleb.

>>156260648
Kinnikuman and Sailor Moon

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>>156260648

>>156261684
Whats the source of that image?

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I was playing stepmania on a computer and found a carameldansen song with the hare hare yukai dance going on in the background. I eventually found out which anime it was from and watched it.

>>156260648
Words Worth OVA in English and catgirls
the path of degeneracy started almost two decades ago and I never looked back

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>>156260648
DBZ and Tenchi

>>156263222
mech shows are shit, anon. Deal with it.
>muh gundam
>muh mazinger z
>muh giant robo
>muh code gayass
God it's fucking boring. Nothing worst then people battling inside of giant robots. Watch good anime instead.

>>156263335
the dub of tenchi muyo doesn't hold up. In factm it's horrible.

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Back when I was a lonely shut in I watched Haruhi and got hooked

Now I've normied out a bit but still like anime, which is a huge mistake

SnK and Death Note

>>156263402
>Haruhi
how the fuck did you watch 8 of the same episodes and get hooked? Never understood this.

>>156263343
>mech shows are based, anon. Deal with it.
ftfy

>>156263458
First season was really good. Plus I started to really like the anime art style

Watching endless eight was a mistake though I admit

>After school
>toonami lineup
>Yuyu Hakusho
>Rurouni Kenshin
>G Gundam
Miss those times.
ALL THE MEMORIES. I HAD WERE BEAUTIFUL IN MY MIND.

I simply grew up watching anime. I think it's so weird when people are able to say when and why they started watching anime. Specially if their first anime was something from 2010 onwards.

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Anime CGI scenes from a 3D game about flying things, I still don't quite like anime though.

My first anime was Kill la Kill. Man, those were the days.

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I am from Mexico where everyone is obsessed with anime

We are getting a second screening of SAO: Ordinal Scale, Yu-Gi-Oh The Darkside of Dimensions and Koe no Katachi and Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry next month.

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>>156263761
>Kill la kill was four years ago
Holy fuck where does the time go?

>>156263274
Ima kara Atashi

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Sailor Moon as a small child.

Technically DBZ on Toonami, but I never registered that as anime and still don't really. It wasn't until I discovered Adult Swim that I started actually seeking out actual anime.

Growing up I watched Toonami and WB so I watched a lot of the 4kids! essentials and etc. after that I started watching shows on youtube or whatever i could find them uploaded on when I realized there was way better shows out there they were just in Japanese. Eventually I found tokyotosho, nyaa and etc and have been following anime by season for nearly a decade now.

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Yu Yu Hakush, Ranma 1/2, UFO Baby and Inuyasha

Slam Dunk, DBZ, Yuyu Hakusho

Im a flip

>>156264030
>UFO Baby
wtf is this and is it any good?

>>156260648
I was watching Zoids every morning before going to kindergarten.

>>156261564
I watch like 3-4 shows per season, and that's already more than enough than I can allocate time to.

>>156264063
Shoujo stuff. I'm a filthy old fujo

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>>156260648
Traps

starblazers broadcasts on a UHF channel at 4 am in the united states. the first time it was shown in the USA.

How do you guys keep track of the shows you watch? Do you use MAL? I imagine after seeing 100 or so shows, you can't keep track of what you've seen and what you haven't.

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Stumbled upon AMV Hell 3. Because of that I watched Majou Sensei Negima and Chobits. Moved onto the Big Three and then eventually found /a/ and started watching actual bad shows.

Chibi Maruko chan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIXqS0JNNr4

>>156264120
Are you me? Ranma was the shit when I was a kid coming back from school to see tiddies on TV

>>156264120
Yeh I was a kid too.

1st time seeing Anime Tiddies and Nipples

>>156261094
>>156260727
>My first anime was Madoka Magica.
The current state of /a/.
No wonder this board is full of Kyoanifag, & series like Leddit Zero.

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>>156264120
Ranma was fucking great

That Mexican dub was awesome

>>156260648
my brother and his now wife, had come home from spending a couple of years in Japan. My sister-in-law saw me watching naruto and she info-dumped me on all the cool shit i didn't understand due to the difference in culture. it fascinated me

elfen lied on anime network on demand in like 2005 or some shit

>>156260648
Sword art online mostly. Than my friend showed me Attack on titan and its all been downhill from there.

>>156260648
Saw some hentai porn ads that got me curious but the computer was in the middle of the house so I couldn't pursue it.
Adults always seemed to act like all anime contained porn for some reason so I started watching some Inuyasha marathon, expecting to fap any moment.
I fapped alright, but not to anything hot.
So I figured Inuyasha was too mainstream to be pornographic and started watching shit like Boogiepop Phantom, Read or Die and Crest of the Stars on techtv.
By the time Serial Experiments Lain came on I was hooked.
I went back and watched all of the mainstream adult swim and toonami anime too.
Eventually I heard Ghost in the Shell had raunchy sex scenes so I bought it on dvd and was sorely disappointed, still enjoyed it though.
Around that time, I got the family computer as a hand me down and filled it with anime, porn, and anime porn which was eventually found by everyone, the end.

The Sailor Moon dub. My sister enjoyed it for some reason despite being 15 (I think) and made me watch it with her while our parents were away.
Before that though, when I was like 4-6, I played FF games, which probably begun it.

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>>156264326

>>156263343
I think you're confused, Anon. The single greatest anime ever, Eureka Seven, is a 'mech show'.

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>>156264329
>naruto
12 yer old confirmed

Yugioh manga

>>156264230
>AMV Hell 3
mah nigga. To this day I still imagine Frieza singing every time I hear that Metallica song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mrHCufuBHQ#t=3m7s

my friend posted this in our discord about 5 months ago and ive seen about 60 or so anime now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csy1QcA8xNI

>>156264058
my sea nigga

>>156264668
whats your discord name? Why doesn't /a/ have a discord channel?

>>156264903
>Why doesn't /a/ have a discord channel?
>>>/v/

>>156264903
Because you may as well just be on /r/anime

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>>156264582
Right my bad, didn't realize this thread was for people wanking about their age like they're a preteen or something
oh wait

>>156260648

Cardcaptor Sakura(the shitty awful censored dub), YuGiOh,

>>156264082
ES UN PARAISO

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>>156260648
+ Pokemon, Candy Candy and Puss in Boots

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>>156260648

A friend told me to watch Vandread and Blue Gender, and then I took it from there. Also AXN.

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I could not understand these feels back when I was a kid watching pic related. yes I am that old

>>156265096
oh, and this rad shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtvKrbghDgI

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>>156260648
1969. Souvenirs...

>>156264958
>defending naruto and the kids who watch it
mods ban this child

>>156261678
t. uneducated american

He already said he was peruvian, keep your stupid jokes on pol.

>>156260648
Toonami. The original Toonami, the one that aired around 4pm and showed censored Tenchi Muyo.

>mom likes anime
>dad likes anime
>older brother likes anime
that is how i got into it. anime was huge in my country from the 80s to the early 2000s. i grew up wathcing things from my dad, mom, older brother and on tv (cable or not).

Standard shit.
Power Rangers and Transformers Beast Wars, then Pokémon and Digimon and the other shows on Fox Kids, then Toonami and Adult Swim.

Found 4chan because someone told me to look up Rule 34, then I got curious about the other 33 rules, eventually found out what rules 1&2 were talking about.

90% of my friends watch it.
So one day i just decided to watch attack on titan

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I watched Grave of the Fireflies as a kid and cried my eyes out.
Watched it again last year, didn't cry, but was just sad as fuck remembering it. Grave of the Fireflies is one of the best movies that I will NEVER watch again.

>>156265247
i am chilean weon qliao

>>156265432
you need better friends.

I was browsing this one cartoon site and an ad for Welcome to the NHK was there and it looked interesting.

>>156265570
grave of the fireflies is garbage
>its so sad therefore its good
fuck that movie.

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>>156265690
that's one of the all time great anime shows. Easily in the top 5 of the 00's along with casshern sins and michiko & hatchin.

>>156265761
NHK is awful, what are you on?

>>156260648
Being extremely bored. It has plenty of flaws but it's wildly different from other media and that's all I needed.

>>156260648
4chan.

It stated as me saving smug anime girl images for shitposting, which started to make me think
>hey, some of these girls are really cute
I then started paying attention to the discussion about said smug anime girls and learned what show they were from. It took a while for me to make the leap and actually watch a show, but it's been nonstop since. My backlog is so full.

dark souls

I watched Gunslinger girl and thought it was cool. Then I saw the second season and became very angry.

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>>156265826
>NHK is awful, what are you on?

>>156265826
so i'm suppose to believe that it's awful because of one anon's subjective opinion? How foolish for me for liking a show that most agree is good. Everyone is wrong and you're right.

>>156260891
im not sure about madoka but people who watched naruto when it first aired is now around the age of 20~23

>>156266087
You only enjoyed it because you're pathetic yourself. Whiny normalfag.
>>156266089
>most agree
That's still subjective, no less subjective.

>>156260891
What's wrong with it? Naruto first aired more than ten years ago.

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was also my gateway to transformer shit because I didnt know anime and american cartoons were different

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>pic related
I watched some anime before toonami, but I officially got into it with toonami.

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>>156260648
I really liked guns as a kid and a friend invited me over to his house to watch the first Gunsmith Cats OVA.

>>156266165
now you're just shitposting.

>>156266197
>>156266100
anon stop. naruto is shit and the people who do like it will forever be children.

lolicore

>>156260891
Most people on this site are in their 20s or early 30s. All of those work

>>156266197
15 years but it became plebby when the dub started airing here

>>156266712
>implying
anyone who watches madoka or naruto are obviously no older than 15. Anyone who watches magical shows in general is no adult. I don't know why you would randomly say most people on here are in their 20's and 30's with absolutely no evidence, but you should do more research before posting.

>>156266962
>anyone who watches madoka or naruto are obviously no older than 15.
The question was "what got you into anime"

Anyone who watches magical shows in general is no adult.
That's a value judgement, not an argument

I don't know why you would randomly say most people on here are in their 20's and 30's with absolutely no evidence, but you should do more research before posting.
Polls, general 4chan demographics, general internet demographics, tracking /a/'s favorites over time

>>156260648
Watching Sailor Moon during it's original syndicated run.

I still have memories of several live action bumps they had for a Thanksgiving marathon

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Pokemon I guess. FMA was the first show I watched that I knew that it was something different than American cartoons and that it was called anime

>>156260648
I thought it was for cringey fags but then I found out some my friends watched it so I decided to join in to watch a series with them. We watched 2 episodes of Elfen Lied and stopped for the night, but I watched the entire thing by myself right afterward.

That was mid 2015, I'm sitting at about 135 shows now

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I honestly wish I also watched Sailor Moon and Card Captor Sakura as a kid, but I was probably stupid and just thought they were "GIRLSSSSS CARTOONS EWW COOTIES"

>>156260891
>>toonami
>>naruto
Not seeing the problem. If you started with Madoka though you're either underaged or just discovered anime really late in the game

>>156264202
.xls file

>>156269114
Were you guys like HAHA DUUUUUUDE SHE JUST PEED ON THE FLOOR HAHA WHAT

>>156264202
I use MAL just for tracking purposes. I'm always thinking of starting a backloggery or something for video games but since its much easier to just quickly try out a game than it is an anime (at least for me) there would be way too many games to list for me, maybe 80% of which I havent even finished

>>156269155
No

Rangikus tits from that time they dress up in school uniforms

>>156260648
The sexy as cover of Rosario + Vampire with Moka on netflix back in 2012.
Yes I know, Netflix.

Chojin Sentai Barratack was the first animu I ever watched, and I was 5 years old at the time. Now I'm over 30... and continue to be a disgrace to the human race.

>>156260648
Elfen Lied AMVs on Jewtube.

Combined with the boredom of finishing my first year of university in a program that was too difficult for me. So I stopped trying, stayed at the bottom of the class, and distracted myself with hobbies, music ensembles, and anime.

>>156260648
Outlaw Star

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>>156266962

>implying magical girl genre isn't good

neck yourself, shounen retard

>>156269125
What if Madoka renewed/cemented your interest?

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My Bride is a mermaid

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>>156260648
Escaflowne and Slayers Try. Thanks, Mom.

>>156269189
whats your MAL?

>>156269516
>liking magical anime
please stop being an obnoxious faggot.

10 hour videos

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>>156260648
Slayers

>>156260648
NGE on adult swim

Started with sailor moon when i was very young. From there i watched shows on cartoon network and saturday morning anime like yugioh etc. on various basic cable channels. A tenchi muyo movie was the first time i heard a swear word in animated media (bastard).

I hit my early teens in the age of accessible torrents and it was downhill from there. I was also a frequent flyer in the young adult manga section at my library. I cite this as one of my biggest community contributions from the amount of late fees i paid to the library for being such a forgetful piece of shit.

>>156269984
That was actually one of my first that I really sat and watched through. In the shitty VHS era. Oldfag as fuck. Not oldfag to /a/, just an oldfag.

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Bullet points version:
>parenting consists of parking me in front of the TV and buying whatever games they could afford
>gain general appreciation for cartoons and vidya at an early age
>cartoon networks frequently air (dubbed) anime at that time
>e.g. Pokemon, Digimon, Hamtaro, Sailor Moon, Cardcaptors, Sonic X, etc.
>Start to notice the difference between anime and regular cartoons when the Pokemon craze takes off (grade 4)
>long period of mostly vidya and western "adult" (late-night) cartoons
>early high school
>meet weeb friends
>one lends me his Love Hina manga
>anime interest explodes from there
>start with series like Chobits and Azumanga Daioh
>no end in sight

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>>156270216
>Sonic X
>not watching the superior sonic anime.

>>156260648
Kimba the White Lion, Doraemon and Speedracer were among the earliest anime I could remember watching in life. But what really got me into anime was Digimon, Pokemon and Cardcaptor Sakura. Those anime made me fall for waifus before I even knew it was a thing.

>>156261144
Same Golden Boy, Ghost in the Shell, Ghibli Films. Although to be fair internet was big when I was younger so I when for the lewd cover arts.

>>156270399
I couldn't tell you why, but I never actually watched that. I was pretty crazy about Sonic in my youth. I had pretty much all of the games up to Heroes. I also knew that existed, I had a friend who owned it, I just never had an opportunity to check it out.

>>156260648
My Dad who showed me things like Akira, Studio Ghibli, and Gundam stuff.

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I watched Toonami a little bit, as well as some old VHS Ghibli works like Kiki's delivery service.
My mistake was getting into anime after watching a bunch of shitty animated hentai on newgrounds; i.e. Zone-sama. It wasn't meant to be this way. I could have remained blissfully ignorant.

>>156270444
>Golden Boy
it better of been the dub which is the su[erior version.

>>156270604
>VHS Ghibli works like Kiki's delivery service
Good taste anon

As a kid i sometimes watched naruto or one piece
But steins;gate and cowboy Bebop were the shows which really got me into anime

>>156270816
>naruto or one piece
underage ban
>But steins;gate
normie scum
>cowboy Bebop
decent.

>>156260648
The usual combination of Pokemon in the early 90s with Toonami, Fox Kids, and WB Kids, each localizing DBZ, Digimon, Gundam, etc. Wasnt until the internet was becoming a thing and finding out about Naruto and Mai Hime did things escalate to going from dubs to subs.

>>156260648
Dragon Maid

>>156260648
Funny humor at least.

>>156260648
Watching the (really shitty) dub of Higurashi when it was legally on YouTube back when Geneon wasn't completely dead.

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>>156260648
Televisa and TV Azteca decided to import a bunch of anime in the 90s and boardcast them uncensored the first time. Captain Tsubasa, Dragon Ball, Ranma 1/2, Sailor Moon, Saint Seiya, Dragon Warrior

>>156271208
>higurashi
>really shitty dub
please kill yourself. a really shitty dub is the kind of shit streamline and other studios did in the 80's and early 90's that were almost unwatchable. Higurashi has a very decent dub with good acting and fine voices. I especially enjoy the actor who played the Detective. He was very good.

>>156271249

And dont forget Beta X.

God I miss those days.

>>156260648
Friend got me to watch Death Note, liked it so I searched and watched stuff the internet said was similar to it like Code Geass. Eventually started looking up and watching stuff from various "best anime" lists and got hooked.

>>156271292
Literally the only good voice and good actor in it was Mion/Shion. The rest is trash.

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>>156270922
>underage ban
Do you know what year we have? Naruto was on TV 13 years ago
>normie scum
Sorry that my first anime wasn't some obscure and unknown stuff but something many people like

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>>156260648
Anime-like cartoons on the television.
I literally googled Japanese cartoons and clicked on the first streaming website I found.
My first anime was Hajime no Ippo and then the rest just came naturally.

>>156260648
Watching anime on toonami like in 2005 or 4 and Gaara killing that one nigga in the forest of death.

>>156260648
Sauce on op's image.

Also, what got me into anime is Sailor Moon as a child.

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>>156260648
World of Warships' promotion event with Arpeggio of Blue Steel. I'd watched anime before, but I never really got into it. From there I tried Kancolle, Girls Und Panzer, but the show that really blew my mind was K-On!. I only watched it on a whim since people kept bringing it up, but that was the point where I realized there was so much out there that I had been ignoring.

Four things kickstarted my addiction;

>Watching cartoons before school, some anime included such as Zoids (Chaotic Century and that other one with Bit Cloud, forgot the name)
>Buying Dragon Half and Azumanga Daioh from a collectibles shop for great discounts because I was friends with the shop owner
>Kazaa, downloading random virus-infested shit onto my first computer and watching shitty spanish-dubbed shows
>Trading printed Dragon Ball Z pictures on the school bus and at the lockers in Middle School (One dude was selling hentai images for a dollar a piece, he got so much every day. Wish I got in on that.)

I can't remember the name of the one that got me into Kazaa downloading sprees though. It was about a demon who came to Earth, and she had blue hair, but that's literally all I recall.

>>156260648
bleach

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>>156260648
Gundam SEED, especially Kira and Lacus.

Pokemon (the first season), and Digimon. Then there was Sailor Moon and Dragonball Z on Toonami.

My first subbed anime was Furuba, I guess.

>>156260648

I watched a ton of South Park when I was a young teen, and on YouTube there was this edit with the song "Protect my balls" and the song was over a "Puni Puni Poemy" clip, so I got interested, and here I am

Also Puni Puni Poemy is trash and you should not watch it

>>156272300
learn to image search u retard

>>156260648
Saw trailers advertising network broadcast of Sailor Moon premiering that weekend in 1995, something about the aesthetic struck me as familiar and I figured I might as well check it out on the sly. And the rest is history.

>>156260648
I dated this trap that had real DDs from all the hormone pills back in 2002, and he had these VHS tapes of Ranma 1/2 and Slayers that a japanese dude with a hard-on sent to him.

They aired Voltron on TV back in the 80's and I loved it, but that doesn't really count because I didn't know what anime was back then.

I started watching fansubs with Hikaru no Go and Fullmetal Alchemist.

No idea if to call the early 00s "better times", but it was probably a better time to start watching anime than now.

>>156260648
Depression

Video games, old good ol' 2005 4chan, and social anxiety.

>>156260648
Spent 4 months in Japan for work. Saw Anime everywhere and my assigned Translator was into it a lot. He got me to watch a couple of sub'd anime with an excuse that I could pick up the basics of Japanese. Never learnt jack shit about the language but developed a minor anime habit. I don't watch to much, but still.

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>>156260648

Love Hina

Some girl I liked conned me into watching Bleach. I regret everything desu

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>>156260648
I wanted to fuck Cherry so bad back then.

>>156260648
My cousin imported anime and put subtitles on it to share with his anime club, and he would watch them with me to error check. The first anime I watched with him was serial experiments lain.

>>156270922
Either or a troll or a redditor trying to fit in.

>7 years ago
>grandmother's house
>bored as fuck
>turn on the tv
>death note episode 25
>wtf everyone is dying looks interesting

When i came home i learned what an anime was and i started watching death note from the start and then 7 years later i have 600+ anime watched and around 500 manga in my room, really makes me think

>>156260648
Watched many "japanese cartoons" before I had internet.
Then found out about this show called code geass in 2010 and typed it in. Streamed it and completed r1 and r2 in two days.

>>156260648
My mom bought me a Dr.Slump volume when I was 8 and that was that
Also tons of anime on french tv in the 80/90s

>>156260648
bros and TTGL

>>156275319
>TTGL
This, watched one episode on a recommendation then spent the rest of the night and morning marathoning the other 26.
Then immediately watched all of Soul Eater.

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I remember watching some monster show (It was before Pokemon maybe?) where the antagonists stamped some sort of evil sign to the monsters and they became evil. Does anybody know which show this was?

>>156261412
I never expected to encounter a Jingles fan here.

This question supposes that people here ever did get into anime, when in fact only very few did. Liking a couple of anime, as is the case with most self-described "fans," is different from being an actual anime fan.

My uncle made me watch the entire NGE first series, in japanese, when I was like 6.

>>156275653
do you speak fluent memes now

>>156275626
Look out everybody, we got a special snowflake hipster up in here!

>>156275265
Too bad the series died alongside L in that very episode

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In 2016 summer I was just browsing 4chan 12 hours a day and decided that might as well give anime a shot to not get bored.

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doing G route

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TV

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>>156260648
When I was underaged the only way I could get my hands on some pictures of titties was in Ranma 1/2 and Crying Freeman manga in the tiny manga section of Borders bookstore. My mom and the people at the counter had no idea what I was buying.

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Read or Die
Fucking paper, how does it work?

>>156260648
A geman channel showed Hellsing and X. X is definitely shit and makes me still avoid CLAMP.
Later I was forced to watch Onegai Twins with a friend and stopped watching, until GuP got me hooked again.

>>156264082
my black dude

>>156260648
Seeing Haruhi memes on some forum back in 2009 and being highly confused but also intrigued.

>>156260648
Pokemon, DBZ and YGO as a kid. Got serious after the sci-fi channel had an all day anime marathon once.

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>>156264058
also flip but never got into DBZ or Slamdunk even though it's really popular. I watched Gundam Seed/Destiny, School Rumble and Ragnarok the Animation (i don't even know if it's good but fuck I always watched it on ABS-CBN)


I remember watching Tenjho Tenge at midnight and that's where I started getting boners for 2D then suddenly my cable remove Hero and Animax channels. ;_;

>>156260891
What's the problem? It's normal to start with entry-level trash and dig yourself deeper into more interesting stuff.

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>>156272891
Me too. I miss the show.

>>156260648
I always watched anime after school since RTL 2 used to show series like One Piece, YuGiOh and Pokemon and late night they aired shows like Hellsing, Cowboy Bebop and Golden Boy on another sender called VIVA.
Later I got into manga because I randomly picked up the local version of Jump, which made me discover stuff like HxH early on (You don't know the true pain of hiatus unless you followed HxH from the beginning).
In high school a friend showed me dub streaming sites and Death Note. Around that time I discovered 4chan and after a while switched to torrenting from the sub groups themself.

>>156275390
Probably Digimon Season 2 or maybe Flint Hammerhead.

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Aside from the typical answer of Pokemon, DBZ, etc.

The first anime I ever downloaded subtitled was Hellsing, off of fucking Kazaa. The font was a horrible gothic english.

After that, I torrented pic related, and here starts the downward spiral into harem and romance and cute girl shit.

I grew up reading manga like a fucking nerd, used to watch some classic anime like Doraemon and Sailor Moon, but only started watching it "seriously" once I got into high school. At first it was just to practice my English by reading subtitles. My first anime was a Tales of adaption, I had fun watching it despite having to use dictionary through out the entire series. Then I watch commonly recommended shit like the KyoAni Key adaptions, Gundam, etc. That was when I was thoroughly addicted to anime.

I actually never watched any of the mainstream shit like Naruto or One Piece, because the large number of episodes scared me away.

I was looking for loli hentai anime on youtube and found Lucky Star.

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This shit. I just wasn't the same after watching.

I got into it after I started dating a chick from the country that lost a war to a certain species of flightless birds, and the first ones I watched were Sound of the Sky and... Well that was the first one. Then I moved on to Jin-roh, Strike Witches, Girls und Panzer, Muv-luv: TE, Schwarzesmarken and a few others I can't really remember the names to.

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When I was younger, they used to broadcast Rose of Versailles, Lupin III and Heidi. They're the earliest anime I've ever watched.
If it wasn't obvious already I'm from Italy.

>>156261144

Same as this guy. I grew up in the late 80s/early 90s, Anime was all over normal TV.

>>156260648
Saint-o Seiya of course.

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Sakura Card Captors, Inuyasha and Rurouni Kenshin on Cartoon Network

>>156260648
Naruto

>>156281656
>the country that lost a war to a certain species of flightless birds
I GET IT

>>156266461
Literally liking childrens show as a child doesn't make you an eternal child anon, it means you weren't a fuckin weirdo.

My sister got me watching naruto like 10 years ago, and here I still am. Probably would never get into anime otherwise.

>>156260648
Boredom and exposure from years in 4chan. I spent so much time seeing the shit posted everywhere that I downloaded EVA, Haruhi, Lucky Star and Death Note and watched them all. Started browsing /a/ around that same time.

>>156260891
Nah fuck off.
I'm 23 been here since 2008 ( yes I'm from gaia, but not any of the anime boards ) and my first experience with anime was from Toonami.
Though nothing that showed on Toonami is my favorite anime.

>>156265185
>>156265185
Mazinger, Gaikin, Arbegas... those were the days.

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HOTD after there were Ad's for it on TV. After that Death Note and then Elfen Lied.

I'm not really proud of myself.

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Watched DBZ, Sailor Moon and Gundam Wing on TV, then fell off. Did a rewatch of DBZ as Ghost in the Shell: SAC seasons aired (downloaded them through torrents). A combination of Dragon Ball Super, my friends suddenly recommending me tons of shows and losing interest in video games brought me in deeper than I ever was as a teenager...

>>156260648
When I was really little I watched Black Jack because my dad was a Surgeon, and I had to get back into it in highschool since all the cool kids were and would only talk about anime, playing Yu-Gi-Oh, and screamo (I'm not kidding).

>>156260648

Channel surfing then suddenly watching Evangelizing on PBS.

>>156260648
Samurai X re-runs on AXN, in between You're Under Arrest and Fear Factor

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>>156260648
When my friend talked me into watching HnK when I was 18

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Mexico is probably the most weeab country in Latin America

We got several anime, hell, even Rika Matsumoto is giving a concert in Mexico soon.

>>156270616
I think everything in blockbuster was dub, but yes it was. I also remember waiting weeks to watch certain series in order because some fucker rent part 2 out for 3 weeks over due and I didn't want to jump straight into part 3.

>>156260648
A couple of friends I met in grade 7 were into anime and an anime mag someone gave me for Secret Santa.
I started off watching trashy shows like Rosario Vampire and Mayo Chiki until I struck Soul Eater and A Certain Magical Index.

DBZ ofc however the very first anime I bought was the Appleseed VHS OVA, first time I ever saw pantsu so I had some fond memories.

>>156260648
Saint Seiya, Jibaku-kun and Tenchi Muyo on TV

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The first I remember watching on TV were Cardcaptor Sakura, Pokemon and Digimon.
The first manga I actually bought were Keroro Gunso and Detective Conan, both on the same day.

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Pokemon when I was really young, I guess? But I think this weeaboo friend I had in middle school really solidified my fate, sadly. Although she was really into Naruto, and I just couldn't get into it, so I just read a lot of Yotsuba and Ichigo Mashimaro.

>>156265707
Being a sad film doesn't make it good, Fireflies is good because it an interesting critique on a society that failed two kids during wartime.

a girl i loved roughly 2 years ago got me into it, but since i am a beta, i fucked our relationship up and nowadays only anime is left. desu her taste was shit cause she told me to watch elfenlied.

>>156261094
>six years ago
that's pretty recent though

>>156260648
Harems

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I started with Sekirei, Rosario Vampire, and Highschool of the Dead when they were on Netflix on the Xbox 360

>>156260648
Detective Conan

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Around 1994-1995

Escaflowne

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>>156287993
+ this

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>>156260648
sailor moon and card captor sakura on the tv before school

>>156260648
Watched Inuyasha and Full Metal Alchemist when I was 10.

Thankfully I never went full weeaboo.

>>156288222
Expanded, I was introduced to these by someone I played Ragnarok Online with, and had a crush on.

Toonami when it originally aired around 4pm, watching DBZ occasionally with friends. Tenchi Muyo.

There was a website to watch legends of the hidden temple & nickelodeon videos online you could watch with others online before it DMCA'd or something. Anybody know of a similar site, inb4 twitch/youtube.

>>156288222
>browsing /a/
>not full weeaboo

Saturday Yu Gi Oh and my cousin's unhealthy obsession with Dragon Ball Z

>>156260648
Captain Tsubasa, Slayers, Dragon Ball, Saint Seiya. The actual anime watching rather than "just some cartoon on the TV" began with Tenchi Muyo.

>>156260648
MIKAMI MIKAMI LA CAZAFANTASMAS

>>156260648
Fucking Ouran High School Host Club, and I'm not even a fujo. I read about it somewhere online and watched it. It was dope. Then watched K-ON!. Hooked since then. This was maybe around 2009-10. That plus being in latin america means aas a kid I watched DBZ, cardcaptor sakura, hamtaro, and all the classics

>>156266165
you're subjective

>>156260648
Depression and escapism

>>156265632
gb2nido tonto weon.

reaction faces on 4chan

>>156283085
>2008
lurk moar.

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>>156291111
checked

>>156287351
Plenty of folks get into anime at 12 or 13. We're just getting old.

>>156260648
I was curious so I watched LoGH.

Friendly reminder if you have less than 300 TV series completed and haven't lurked for 2 years without posting you should not be posting on /a/.

>>156291936
I've been here since 2004 and I've maybe seen 100 shows counting OVAs and movies, maybe. What you think of that?

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>>156291936
Then the only people posting here would be you and me.

>>156291936
What if I've seen that many but haven't lurked enough?

>>156292042
No, the people that lurked /a/ would be posting and not crossboarding newfags.
>>156292018
>dumb ESLposter
I think you should be banned for 2 years.

>>156260648
My real first anime downloaded from nyaa not some local tv shit were when madoka, nichijou, twgok, steins; gate airing

>>156260648

Gundam Wing on Toonami around the turn of the millennium, though it took another 10 years for me to watch the full series and 5 more years to really get into Anime properly

>>156260648
The fap material

>>156281047
>The first anime I ever downloaded subtitled was Hellsing, off of fucking Kazaa. The font was a horrible gothic english.

Lol I remember that release too, got it from DC++ around 2004 after stumbling on a edgelord Hellsing AMV.

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>tfw Tenchi fag

>>156260648
Late 80s early 90s vhs

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>>156260648
This or maybe the land before time.

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An ex-girlfriend and loneliness brought me back to anime in my early twenties after I stopped watching it in High School.

I wish I could have a normal life again.

>>156260648
I watch anime with german subtitles to learn german because german media is so goddamn fucking boring

I played Katawa Shoujo and ventured to other VN. After playing through Little Busters and Rewrite, I decided to watch Clannad instead of playing it.

It all went downhill from there

>>156260648
Mother used to watch shoujo stuff like Candy Candy, Secret Garden, Heidi, and Ann of Green Gables. I got used to it and watch anime to this day.

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>>156260648
The original Dragonball.

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I clicked on /a/ by accident and seen something about CG that intrigued me and marathoned that shit and cried at the ending.

>>156260648
Anime.
When I was a kid I love to watch cartoons and that's when I discovered anime.
By 14 I try to buy/read lots of anime magazines, all gone now.
By 16 I started buying pirated anime because I don't have an internet and I was a total newfag.
By 20 I discovered how to download FLV via Orbit to get anime from streaming sites.
By 22 I learned direct downloads, how to use irc, download via XDCC, then torrent.
By 23 I started working and discovered that the 2nd hand book shop also sold manga surpluses. They stopped now because of either loss of surpluses or no one buys them except me. I also discovered /a/. This was way back in 2011.

>>156272891
Do they actually love each other? The romance feels lacking.

>>156292470
I remember downloading Hellsing with kazaa with a 56 kb connection.

I also remember dowloading Final Fantasy cosplay porn with Kazaa

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>>156292535
>calling yourself a Tenchifag
>not using BD screenshots
Poser.

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This guy.

>>156260648
>>156260648
>first
TV, i watched late night cartoons and thought they are cool
>first completed series when i knew this shit's called "anime"
Shingeki no Kyojin memes, i'm not even kidding.

Ghost in the Shell. The 1995 movie.

>>156260648
Anime was always on TV as a kid so with access to internet entering into mainstream it was just natural to look for more. Downloading crappy rmvbs since they were tiny filesize-wise on my dial-up, good times.

>>156260648
Thats funny I just faped to that yesterday.

Before my favorite cousin died he left me his book of super rare pokemon cards. I had no idea what the cards were so I did a pokemon marathon, then got into other shows.

>>156260648
Project A-ko, Fist of the North Star, Akira, Tank Police, and a bunch of other old early 90's OVA's that they used to run on Saturday mornings on the sci-fi channel. I had watch other old anime dubbed when I was young (Tranzor Z) when I would rent it from Blockbuster when I was younger but I had no idea it was anime and just assumed they where cartoons

>>156260648
Toonami and Pokemon got me into anime.

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My pa adored Speed Racer as a kid, he bought all the episodes when I was 10, we watched them all together. Then after Speed Racer went onto Inital D. When I was 12, I just started watching anime with my sister. Sister then started learning Japanese and TL manga, I would then read those.

>>156278174
German channel airing Hellsing, I though Germany's been trying to remove anything even remotely related to nazis from everything?

>>156294280
Fuck yeah, same here. I had a bootleg vhs with first three or four episodes when i was like nine, i think.

>>156260648
My friend was a huge weeb and always talked about his favorite animes. I was shitting with him about him being a nerd and all that until we got to watching K-on.

Absolute shit, but he told me it was the same kind of shit like ghibli and I was hooked ever since.

>>156260781
Not everyone was born into being a total loser like you man.

Some of us had to st

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>>156295327
Do us a favor and fuck off.

>>156260727
wow, are you 12?

>>156295590
Fuck off.

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I had taste from the beginning

>>156260648
My uncle showed me Excel Saga when i was like 10. I never liked anime until i was a teenager though. I thought it was crap for no reason. Then I decided to rewatch Excel Saga and fell in love with anime.