What made you want to get into anime and manga in the first place?

>blog shit
No, go somewhere else.

The drawings, who doesn't love them?

>>160236431
Don't like the thread? Don't click into it.

>>160236509
No, fuck you. Don't make shit threads on this board. Lurk more.

>>160236543
I've lurked plenty. Just because you don't like the thread, doesn't mean it isn't allowed. Fuck off and do something that'll make you happy.

>>160236494
Who's your favorite artist?

>>160236292
playing persona 3

>>160236292
You think I can remember?

>>160236819
Interesting. So it was the art style?

>>160237033
How many years has it been, anon?

>>160236706
Many.

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>>160236292

>>160237117
Trigun was definitely up there for me. That, and Outlaw Star.

>>160236292
My dad. He was really into anime and kung-fu movies. But I don't really start getting into it until I saw princess mononoke.

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My mom bought this book for Christmas for me thinking it was a drawing guidebook, but it was really an intro to anime that talked about hentai, harems, etc.

So I was already well-versed to a point in everything before I even jumped in.

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>>160236292
Rewatching Guyver OVA 1989 on VHS over and over and over again.

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>>160236292
Two words. Space Fucking Dandy

>>160236292
beck

>>160237296
These are my favorite type of experiences. It wasn't a show that made you interested, it was the culture.

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Seeing something like DBZ and going "hey this looks cool".

Really never really anything deeper than thinking ___ was something that is entertaining and in this case ___ happens to be a bunch of anime/manga.

Same basic reason I or really anyone would get into cartoons/comics/movies/music/etc

>>160236292
not having anything else to cling to

>blogshit thread
This is the state of /a/ in 2017.

4chan.

Was bored of my other boards, so I decided to check out /a/.

Lurked for a bit and started watching shows from a rec chart.

>>160238048
Are you thankful for it or do you regret it?

>>160238419
it's a it can't be helped kind of feeling

>>160238966
Just out of curiosity, how long have you been watching?

I like the jumping tiddies, adult jokes and violence which don't exist in 95% of western cartoons.

>>160238121
Me too, except I just started watching seasonal shit and whatever got talked about most

>>160239388
Have you watched many "classics"?

>>160236543
>Staying in a thread that you hate
>complaining
I don't know what you were expecting

I think it started with soul eater when some lonely, skeleton like girl told me to watch it in middle school.

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>>160238101
hiro don't pay for mods
janitors are free and work for free
janitors usually come from certain red boards.
I don't know why this surprise you.
it was inevitable
other boards are even in worse state.
like /g/ for example

I went to an anime convention and wanted to know what people were cosplaying, so I started to watch anime.

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Late night YTV and Neopets

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>>160236292
>What made you want to get into anime and manga in the first place?
Becoming disillusioned with western media.
It took me several attempts to finally get into anime. I think I went through TTGL, SAO, and SnK before I finally found my place as a mechafan

I understand the hate with """"blogshit"""" threads. For one, they were never hated before the whole influx of other sites' user coming here for anonymity. Secondly, they are far less cancerous than what goes on it any of the pseudo-generals on /a/.

>>160240335
Blogshit threads are hated because they're full of normalfags blogging. This thread is just talking about what all of us went through at some point by the default of being an anime fan.

>>160236292
I think it was Ranma 1/2. I vaguely remember watching the anime when it came out since I was too young to remember but then I caught eye of the manga in one of the school libraries, discovered an entire medium like that.

>tfw the ranma 1/2 ending was shit

>>160240414
Then this is not a blogshit thread.

>>160239568
Not that many, but actively working on it.

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>>160237483
B-but anon, those are three words!

>>160240589
Blame the idiot that came into a thread he hated to call it a blogtshit thread.

Never understood retards that don't just report from the catalog and move on.

Mainly mature approach, which was a big difference from the stuff I was used to. I'd say quality, but I remember ~90s as the time when animation shined all around the globe.

>>160236292
last summer I binged my first show, Gravity Falls (I've never really been into tv shows or movies).
It was fun so I was thinking what else could I watch.
Saw some OPM memes.
>maybe I'll try anime?
>finds anime recommendation chart
>picks Madoka
>binges
>hooked into anime for life

yeah, Madoka is still my favorite, probably won't drop out of top 5

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I watched a ton of animated stuff since before I can remember. And I was always really interested in it. But I noticed very early on that some of the designs in stuff like the video games I played and stuff like Sonic or Little Nemo were different from most cartoons.

A few years down the line, I learned about Sailor Moon was from Japan and everything just clicked. From then on, I searched for every anime product I could find, even going to chinatown and buying bootleg tapes/posters. And it became my obsession all through the 1990s and up to today.

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>>160236292
This qt.

>>160239864
>/g/
/g/ is one of the best boards in this shithole

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I fell in love with Masa-san, and he's been my husbando ever since. Funnily enough, Lucky Star aired in the same season and doomed anime as we know it. 2007 was a strange time.

>>160242479
Also the year TTGL released which I'm sure influenced a lot of /a/nons.

It was a gateway anime of the worst kind, but it introduced me to manga and I discovered actually decent stuff from there.

Kenshin was the one that actually got me really into things.

Sneaking out of my bedroom in the early 2000's so I could watch reruns of cowboy bebop and Eva on toonami. I would put a towel under the tv room door so the light and noise wouldn't get out. I was in elementary school at the time so I would have gotten in a shit load of trouble for watching "mature" stuff like that. Later on when I was in middle school Cartoon Network did "month of Miyazaki" which got me back into it. I remember I started watching 240p anime with yellow hardsubs on YouTube, back before the big copyright purges of 2008/2009.

God, I miss 2000-2007.

a kid at school told me to watch one piece. From that I watched the rest of the big 3, later evangelion, cowboy bebop etc etc

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>implying i'm here by choice

>>160242779
People who write "etc" twice should be shot.

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I wish

I honestly can't even remember anymore

Just watching a bunch of shit on Toonami/Kids WB and decided to check out the Japanese version of those shows when I found out about them.
Eventually tried to find more things with the same artstyle once I figured out that those shows must have something in common since I liked them so much.

Dragon Ball Z. Watched it when i was really young and really loved it still my favorite show nostalgia goggles are too strong. I didn't reallly get into anime though until the 6th grade when my friend told me to read Yotsuba, so i went to my public library and was surprised by the amount of manga. Once i would finish reading a series i would start watching it and thats what got me really into it

>>160236543

>Don't make shit threads on this board

Were in the land of shit threads.

>>160241341
90% of the catalog is filled with bait, fanwars and consumer electronics. /g/ is fucking dead.

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I watched Code Geass on a whim and got hooked ever since.

>>160236292
Had no friends while growing up and I was bullied so I had to occupy myself with something considering I spent my days inside my room.

>>160245916
Are those chest enhancing exercises?

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I have watched some anime as a 6 year old that was not appropriate for 6 year old; Tiger Mask, Daimos, stuff like that. My interest in anime was kind of dormant until I saw Death Note. Fully reactivated after watching TTGL.

On a side note, since we're already in blogshit territory, why do all IT guys have such a shit taste in anime? Is it because they're unable to grasp the intricacies of human nature and gravitate towards stuff that gives them illusion of understanding people or something like that?

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Because it was cooler than what I ever saw on Saturday mornings besides Batman: the animated series.

First anime I ever saw was the edited version of New dominion tank police on sci fi one early Saturday at my older sisters house. Then what comes on after? the third ova to Iria: Legend of Zerum.

Got me hooked after My aunt lent me the dubbed version or Record of the loddoss war. She had all six ovas.

Then I picked up the Fist of the north star movie and that what got me and my best friend into body building. He thought it was just a "fucken cartoon" then he saw Ken squeeze that guys head like and orange and he said "fuckin awesome!"

I miss him.

>>160246193
Ever considered that to them, you're the one with shit taste?

>>160246319
Yeah, I did consider it for a second, but that's not really the case.

>>160236292

Channel 4, early 1990s. "Neo-Tokyo is going to EXPLODE".

>>160236292
Toonami.

Saturday Morning Cartoons, specifically the Spanish Dub of Dragon Ball Z, Hayao Miyazaki films, and having a weeb biological father who was also a western nerd

>>160238101
Oh fuck off, we've had these kind of threads for fucking years.

>>160246193
>why do all IT guys have such a shit taste in anime?

Citation needed.

>>160246635
I have none, it's just that all I know share that trait. From my company, met while playing board games, other events, the Internet etc. Purely anecdotal evidence.

>>160236543
sounds like you need to try and do something that makes you happy instead of being an edgelord on the internet.

>>160246738

(You) might want to look at your use of the qualifier "all" in that case.

>>160238121
would you happen to have a link to the chart?

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>>160246010
I hate how everyone pretends anime fans had the same experience as you.
I had no (close) friends growing up but certainly wasn't bullied. After that I got a job, re-invented myself, became even more self-hating, and abandoned such a normalfag-ish lifestyle to pursue consuming anime and other interesting media.

I saw a bunch of people on /v/ making off topic threads about Kill la Kill, so I watched it to see what all the fuss was about and I enjoyed it.

Then I watched every other Trigger anime, then Gainax, then Shinichiro Watanabe stuff.

>>160246884
I'd expect an IT guys to be smart enough to understand 'all' didn't mean 100% of the populace, but oh well.
Maybe that's the thing? Love for numbers, flowcharts and technicalities? I have no ill will, mind you. Just hoped to find the root of the problem so that I could help them acquire better taste.

>>160247049

"All" doesn't mean 100% of the populace? Your fucking words.

Please kindly inform me then senpai exactly what you use the word "all" to mean?

If we are free to make up our own language I'll just add p'thai quie wknmmenet, vshbau.

>>160247049
>I want to force people to like and dislike the same things I do
Pretentious cunt

>>160236292
A friend insisted that I should watch death note.
It all went downhill from there.

>>160247159
You think it's possible for a single person to meet and know all the people from a certain group? Maybe if it was some small pool, like 'all members of a band X', but surely no normal person would jump to conclusion that it means every single IT guy on Earth. Come on.
See? That's what I'm talking about. Good with numbers, but really bad with words.

I hate responding to threads with newfag OPs.

>>160247260

Then maybe you shouldn't have used a noun which implies all members of a population. Then you offer the line "...but really bad with words".

Please read up on Dunning-Kruger theory, as you have that in spades. Fool.

>>160247174
>/a/ in a nutshell
Welcome and enjoy your stay.
What's wrong with trying to educate others? It wouldn't be forceful, obviously.

I was bored

I didn't actively want to, it just kinda happened.

>>160247352
>implies
That 's the thing, anon. Ever heard of context?

>>160247428
Jesus, but you're tiresome.

Let us look at the original statement:

>why do all IT guys have such a shit taste in anime?

Right. If 'all' is figurative, metaphoric, or some weird artistic simile known better to yourself it means the whole sentence is without merit, as it fails to adhere to English syntax,

Rewind the tape back and try and say what you meant there using actual words that mean something, as all I'm hearing is a high-pitched whine from someone who spoke nonsense and is trying to prop it up. Badly.

Shit, or get off the pot.

>>160236292
attack on titan

>>160247628
Could you act even more like a stereotype or what? I bet you don't really talk with people outside of the Internet, since nitpicking like that on things that don't really matter is generally frowned upon.
I bet I'm getting trolled here.

>>160247981

You can bet all you like. You're also trying to shore up an argument which carries no weight and using ad hominem to support that. Well, whatever works for the inferior I guess.

Thanks for your greatly valued contribution by the way, and no doubt I'll see you anon. Begging for coins most likely. Ta'ra!

>>160237296
You've posted this before. Or multiple people had their moms buy that book for drawing

>>160236292
when i was playing lineage2 a guy in a l2 forum had those "signature" gifs and shit of naruto and it looked cool
so i started watching it
that was like 10 years ago

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>>160248332
Oh my goodness, so it wasn't all an act? Well, I wish I could thank you for contribution as well, but it seems you were unable/afraid to answer a simple question.
It did give me a hint: I should speak as simply as possible around my IT friends, as to avoid confusion on their part - but still, I'd prefer some actual advice how to help them.

Anyhow, have a nice day.

When I was a kid, Ninja Scroll and I think something called Wicked City aired on Cinemax.

Didn't know where they came from, so I looked it up on the internet (dial up at the time). Been into the stuff ever since. That was...twenty years ago now? I'm 32 and was a kid when I saw Ninja Scroll. Had to have been 20 years ago.

Man. I'm old.

>>160248600

Instead of responding to my comment,you seem to have copy/pasted the first paragraph of your impending novel into the comment box. Well done!

I should probably make you aware that Enid Blyton is dead and can't really function as a proper ghost-writer, and that generally autobiographies are better received when they aren't transmitted in 36-poiny crayola pink comic sans.

Trying to figure out the references in the NicoNicoDouga medley when it first came out

>>160236292
z0r.de

Digimon got me into it. I borrowed VHSes of it from my local library that concluded the devimon arc, but since they didn't have the first few episodes I looked it up online and watched it all.

>>160240013
>Bionix

This nigga knows

>>160248800
Calm down, man. Are you having an aneurysm? I'll concede defeat, or whatever you'd want, just promise me to take the pills.
I'm worried about you, anon.

>>160249164

No, I'm perfectly mellow. A little bored, to be direct.

>>160236292
It was a product of my time.
Aswell i had better luck finding shit to watch on the internet cause of poverty
Also toonami

That program got so many kids on anime its rediculous

>>160236292

Most of my friends are really into anime. I decided I wanted to see what all the fuss was about and have another thing to discuss with them, so I jumped on board.

remember watching One Piece in my parent's (or maybe grandmother's room) and Naruto in the living room when I was really young and enjoyed it. Not the reason I started watching anime but that's the earliest memory I have of it

>>160236292
Fucking gooks hypnotized me with all the effort and autism they put into these shows.

Hardly anyone in the west compares and its a shame

Id like to see russians make animated shit
Feel like itd be fun

>>160237483
I need to watch this

I watched a fucking watchmojo video

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>>160246929
Not sure if you're still here, but this is the chart I used.

Death Note and Gurren Lagann

>>160250296
still here. Thanks very much!

>>160250487
Turns out I've seen three of these. Seems like I have some catching up to do.

>>160236292
It was amazing stuff happening with people that looked cool. It was also an escape from the boring and most times painful reality around me at the time.
Also taught me a few things and opened my eyes to some things. Unfortunately, one of those things wasn't Japanese.

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I used to watch anime because porn wasn't as easy to find as a kid, then I realized there was more to it than just crudely drawn erotica

>>160250567
What three?

>>160251637
Toradora, fullmetal alchemist, and death note. Have also seen one episode of NHK if that counts for anything.

>>160251695
What's next on the list for you?

>>160251763
Probably either evangelion or cowboy bebop. Both have piqued my interest, but I never got round to actually starting them.

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>>160236292
I started when i was just about 3 years old whit western's Hannah-Barbera style and in the end of 60's i discovered the amazing japanese animes. How much did i watch? 500-600 Maybe more and the same amount of mangas. Here some of the first of them.

>>160252311
>animes
>mangas

Because of having been exposed to the various Japanese franchises through time which is probably the reason why 99% of the people are here in the fist place?
I wouldn't have had a resurgent interest in it if msm hadn't turned so shitty and commercialist with even greater subliminal messaging at the turn of the decade.

>>160236292
First got introduced to anime by watching Hayao Miyazaki and random anime I could find on YouTube at the time.

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Going into college I had absolutely no interests besides math, science, and some politics. I wanted to develop a "fun" hobby so I wouldn't seem like a complete freak. So I heard the people at the uni I was going to were into this "anime", and I figured I'd dive in. The rest is Histoire.

Had some life difficulties a few years back when my cousin gave me some animu. Life's still shit but at least i have anime.

gotta run away from reality

>>160236292
Slayers

I was young and liked cartoons. Still do to this day.

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>>160246282
>the third ova to Iria: Legend of Zeiram.


Still mai waifu to this day

A girl I used to hang out with wouldn't shut up about how I should watch Tokyo Ghoul, now I know it's shit but that shit is what made me the weeb I'm today

>>160237483
Space Dandy is kino

>>160236292
Naruto.

>>160236292

Middle school anime club. Saw a pair of titties in an episode of Inuyasha and I've been a weeb ever since

>>160236292
Learning Japanese.

Turns out original manga are great for the first steps towards Japanese literacy, while subtitled anime are a gigantic waste of time if you don't know enough Japanese to understand at least 70-80% of what they say. A basic vocabulary of the 2000-3000 most frequently used words is required for that.

>>160236292
4chan. It's an anime website, so I wanted to get the anime memes.

Pokemon

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>>160252311
There were so many great Gundam animes I still have all the Mobile Suit Gundam Wing episodes on my pc.
I've seen some parts of the new ones the action and especially the animation looks really well done in them but the VAs are really bad and they only have english subs with no dub so I just couldn't get into them.

Robotech

(Posting here because I'd rather not start a thread based around a simple question. Sorry op)
Why are physical manga so fuckin expensive? Its $35 if I want to buy 1 volume of Jojonium or 1 vizbig of Vagabond and $20 if I want to buy Parasyte or Tokyo ghoul.

I saw title "Is it wrong to try to pick up girls in the dungeon", found it amusing, and gave it a shot.

Also, general disappointment with western culture.

>cowshit bebop
Holy fuck just go back to /r/eddit already you cancerous fucking westaboo

>>160236292
Depression

>>160236292
evangelion

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>>160236292

>What made you want to get into anime and manga in the first place?

Probably watching Sailor Moon when I was 5 in like 1994. It had a weird art style and you sort of had it in your mind it was foreign at that age but it drew you in because it was just so different. Just overtime I started to watch shit like Dragon Ball Z in 96 and eventually VHS copies of whatever anime movie or ova episodes available at Blockbluster. I was also thankful enough to know a few older kids (around 5 years older) in the neighborhood who bought anime vhs subs in the late 90's and our county had around 4-5 anime import stores which was a rarity in itself. I was watching Buu Saga by late 98 on crappy recorded tapes and that sort of gave me a more not so great perception of the Toonami dub of DBZ at the time.

But yeah DBZ and Sailor Moon got me into it. The rest was history. I'm sure many felt those two were their first experiences as well (excluding Pokemon).

Note: I'm not a huge weeb, I don't own toys, models, or manga (i'll read it online) and I tend to only come to /a/ for a few specific shows.

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I watched anime until I was 8, realized it wasn't cool and hated it for 10 years, then my college roommate showed me TTGL. Rest is history, as they say.

>>160236292
Pft I grew up with this shit my dad is a Gen 1 weeb

>>160264094
I have no interest at dub, only sub. I can understand about 60% of japanese language for now and my goal is to watch them RAW one day.

>>160245895
This.