What got you into anime and manga?

Loneliness and a lot of free time from being neet. You fags are my only friends.

>>157103483
University

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mom

She watched this and dad watched mazinger Z

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>>157103483
internet

4chan
Rozen Maiden
desu

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Having a predilection for comics and cartoons and then living in Japan as a kid

>>157103483
bootleg ctr video tapes from an asian video rental store

Naruto AMV's when I was a kid.

>>157103483
Doraemon

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One Piece

still the greatest

>>157103483
initial d

Death Note. Still believe it's a 10/10, 25 episodes of pure goodness.

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>>157103718
nigga

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>>157103483
No regrets.

>>157103483
I forgot. I always preferred cartoons over live action stuff growing up and it just never changed, I guess.

Pokemon?

First anime I downloaded and watched in Japanese was Naruto though.

>>157103483
Like a normal kid that watches aired cartoons in the morning. The problem is that those cartoons are actually anime and grew to like em.

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>>157103483

Toonami... And reading Love Hina...

So this one time when I was really edgy and 13 I changed my facebook picture to a different grim reaper picture every month and this one Week when I searched "death" on google images It got me a picture of Ryuk. A few days later this asian girl I knew said "omg you like death note?" I haven't stopped watching since.

Forced on family laptop as a teen due to pc trouble.
Watching youtube vids all day, run across Space Battleship Yamato (the old one). Watched the whole thing, I'm a huge sucker for anything sci-fi. Googled 'anime', watched the obligatory Deathnote and got into the shounen shits, followed by any Gundam I could find.

>>157103483
Unironically Kirino porn

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Reading manga was a fad in my school back.

>>157103483
I ran out of western media to procrastinate my life away on and moved over to anime, then manga. I am happier with the last transition than the first.

>>157103515
We can't be your friends: none of us have friends.

>>157104846
Fuck you for posting that image. I didn't want the nostalgia.

>>157103606
Your family is so cool.

Haruhi suzumiya no yuutsu, the first anime I saw subbed.

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>>157104846
>>157104914
oh, they don't look like that anymore?

>>157103483
Toonami.

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>>157103483

Love Hina

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bootlegs

>>157104452
Please be bait

>>157105158
Bait or not, why do you feel the need to reply to it anon?
Ignore it like everyone else.

I've always liked animation and as a kid I watched the series that aired on tv, and read the manga that was available in my town library, among other comics. I read a lot of stuff back then.
Watched a few movies whenever I got my hands on them, such as when a Ghibli film was in cinemas.
Didn't get to anime and manga proper until like after high-school. I have a wide range of interests but anime and manga per se wasn't just among them. Since then it has occupied a slot that became vacant after dropping a few hobbies. I don't know how I got into it. I guess I just figured I could watch something and started with a few recommendations from friends.

Genocyber and other assorted OVAs.

>>157103483
TV. Duh.

What else?
I've probably watched more anime on Italian TV alone than most anons have downloaded.

>>157103483
Evangelion and Love Hina

>>157103483
Some faggot recommended me a shitty series that I dropped around 5 episodes in, a year or so later I decided to give anime another chance and now 2d gives me an erection. Such is life.

Watching Toonami/Adult Swim in the early 2000s. I believe it was Inuyasha, I had been watching one of the earliest episodes (before it turned into repetitive bullshit) and ran into a cliffhanger. I was convinced the TV companies were conspiring against everyone and had the entire series in a secret vault somewhere and that if I looked hard enough, I would find it on the internet, because the internet has EVERYTHING. So I fired up Kazaa Lite and felt vindicated when I saw like 100 episodes and was convinced I had been right. From there I spent a while figuring out why the files wouldn't play properly, and then a period of confusion when everyone was speaking Japanese.

In the end, this one fateful encounter led to my discovery of video/audio codecs, the truth about anime being Japanese cartoons, the discovery of manga, the discovery of hentai, and even this website.

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Anime is more mature than anime and less averse to tropes like Mary Sue MCs and such. Thats the main reason.

I do appreciate good art and story too. Manga usually has interesting settings and plots that would be too risky to make or broadcast as an anime. Historie,Baltzar, Zenith sword etc are good examples of this.

I was playing a Lineage 2 private server around 2007.
A guy I kept pking was named 4chan. I decided to google the name.
A fatal mistake.

>>157103483
Escapism

>>157105158
It was actually true but I knew enough people would ignore that it wouldn't matter.

>>157106526
Now that's how you PK someone. He may not have been able to kill your avatar, but he managed to destroy your soul.

>>157103483

Berserk and vidya

>>157103515
this desu
Got really into self-insert garbage for awhile and now I only watch moeshit

>>157106608
So nothing has changed.

Really though, self-inserting is a mental disposition, not something related to the anime.

>>157106896
Yeah but there are a lot of anime that offer an easy avenue for it.
Blank slate characters without distinct personality are easier to picture yourself into than developed and more complex ones. Not that you couldn't self insert as a superhero or something but it's a different sort of instance.

>>157103483
Watched DBZ as a kid. Then Super came, and when I streamed that shit I realised that there was a whole new world of media ''Anime/Manga''. Since then I have been hooked, unfortunately, 4chan has made my addiction worse.

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>>157103483
My brother had volumes of Love Hina back in the day and i used to watch it on CN and other channels thought they were american carttons, one day i was bored, my friend had a dvd labeled GTO, found out it was called anime and manga and got into it.
I was only into Comedy and SoL though.

A girl told me to watch clannad and here I am

I think my cousin owned this movie which was like an abridged version of the first 10 Dragonball episodes. It was either that or My Neighbor Totoro which were the first animes I saw.
But Toonami being on right after school prolly was the bigger influence.

Hentai, and discovery of said hentai derived from a comic series

>>157103483
DBZ back in 99. Also seasonal anime is cancer and I only read manga now. I've read thousands of manga compared to the meager 200-250 anime I watched. It's been nothing but a blur.

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First anime I watched were Card Captor Sakura & Pokemon but I didn't realize they were anime and just thought they were cartoons than came on TV, so I don't really count those.

I actually don't count Dragon Ball or DBZ either for the same reason. Though I was definitely more aware that they were different from the standard shit I watched on Saturday mornings/cartoon network.

The first "anime" anime that really got me into it was Inuyasha & then eventually other shows on Adult Swim's lineup.

After that once DSL became a bigger thing, my friend introduced me to torrenting. I remember starting to download a show one day & then being excited to watch it 4+ days later when it finished downloading.

I also remember hoping whoever was seeding a show fully would turn their computer back on.

But torrenting was definitely what ultimately led me down this long and lonely road.