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I didn't like reading subtitles then I watched Shugo Chara and got addicted
I was born as an Otaku 
spent a lot of time on the internet from a young age. kept hearing people talk about anime. started wondering what it was, googled it and got into it. i think first series i ever watched was bleach, which in hindsight is a testament to my own immaturity and a miracle that i didnt go NOPE.jpg right there. after that i got into other stuff, it was probably touhou that really did it for me though.
slightly related are my resulting glasses fetish and my love of studio shaft, the gen urobutcher and kinoko nasu.
slightly related are my resulting glasses fetish and my love of studio shaft, the gen urobutcher and kinoko nasu.
B-but only the glorious nihonjin can be true otakus.. We are just weeaboos lying to ourselves :<Nya-nyan wrote:
I was born as an Otaku
nihonjin = japanese people
Beyblade, when I was a kid. Don't laugh.
A friend showed me Nanoha(the whole series). Degradation started there.
i see a stupid leaflet ad and i be a real otaku! -trolls- 
For myself it wasn't only one sole cause. It was actually a process that took many, many years. First came the moe of animu characters then the claiming of them...and of course finally finding a waifu among them all. Consequently I had realized I had become an otaku when I purchased a dakimakura of mai waifu, Orz
When I was a child. My big bro loved to watch Dragon Ball and I would be stuck there watching it with him (as I broke my toys)...
The I discovered the internet...
The I discovered the internet...
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Well, I think I became an Otaku when I was about 4. I had watched my first anime (My Neighbor Totoro), and then I watched more and more. AND NOW, I'm addicted to NARUTO SHIPPUDEN!! I have wall scrolls in my room, plushies, and I speak Japanese ALL BECAUSE of anime. I'm the Ultimate Otaku!! >W< 
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i was watching anime like Digimon and pokemon that i watch since i was 2 y.o
then whole obssesion start from K-ON!! but ive watched mainstream shounen tho before that i consider my self an otaku since then o3o
then whole obssesion start from K-ON!! but ive watched mainstream shounen tho before that i consider my self an otaku since then o3o
Like every child it started with pokemon, digimon and Zu-gi-yo and animes like that.
Then my familyy started to buy movies from Studio Ghibli "Spirited away", "my neighbor totoro", "Castle in the sky", "kiki's delivery service" all of them ( bitches i got them on VHS tapes )
Like i got to say, I can still watch spirited away and enjoy it to 120%, you just got to love that movie.
Then my sister borrowed this anime called Ergo Proxy "http://myanimelist.net/anime/790/Ergo_Proxy" yes i know one of my first real animes was a Psychological but i loved it and then i started to watch animes over the internet and playing anime related games and all that stuff ^^
Then you figured out that anime was something bad .... i know swedish people are retarded and became a bit more non talk about it.
and then after i year i just stoped care and share my infomation about the awesome animes im watching to everyone!
Ma story
Then my familyy started to buy movies from Studio Ghibli "Spirited away", "my neighbor totoro", "Castle in the sky", "kiki's delivery service" all of them ( bitches i got them on VHS tapes )
Like i got to say, I can still watch spirited away and enjoy it to 120%, you just got to love that movie.
Then my sister borrowed this anime called Ergo Proxy "http://myanimelist.net/anime/790/Ergo_Proxy" yes i know one of my first real animes was a Psychological but i loved it and then i started to watch animes over the internet and playing anime related games and all that stuff ^^
Then you figured out that anime was something bad .... i know swedish people are retarded and became a bit more non talk about it.
and then after i year i just stoped care and share my infomation about the awesome animes im watching to everyone!
Ma story
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I started became a hardcore otaku when I was rewatching Black Cat. After I watched Black Cat I felt like watching other anime. xD
Oh and Vocaloids, it's a classic: Ievan Polka.
Oh and Vocaloids, it's a classic: Ievan Polka.
I've been exposed to anime ever since early childhood and I have always been attracted to female anime characters (Sailor Moon was the earliest one) then later, I was exposed to the internet and much later, hardcore otaku stuff
Started off with anime for 13 years, then I started to have a lot of free time and involuntarily began getting more connected with the Otaku culture. <3
I started it off since childhood? TV channels used to air lots of anime series early in the morning here.
My sister is one of the trigger points. She influenced me, though she stopped being an Otaku. 
Another thing is, I was also influenced by the art style of it.
Another thing is, I was also influenced by the art style of it.
awesome mom right here[ Yukari ] wrote:
My mother got me watching anime everyday from young~
Can I be your brother? \(^o^)/[ Yukari ] wrote:
My mother got me watching anime everyday from young~
Lols, the things is my mum watches all the oldies :/ I remembered the first i ever watched was gundam wing~
What!? I love Gundam Wing![ Yukari ] wrote:
Lols, the things is my mum watches all the oldies :/ I remembered the first i ever watched was gundam wing~
My mom yells at me when I watched anime... .-.
Watching Fist of the North Star when I was a little girl.
Awwwwwww yeeeaah.Dulcet wrote:
Watching Fist of the North Star when I was a little girl.
Well i guess im fortunate thn o.oNostalgia wrote:
What!? I love Gundam Wing![ Yukari ] wrote:
Lols, the things is my mum watches all the oldies :/ I remembered the first i ever watched was gundam wing~
My mom yells at me when I watched anime... .-.
I've been watching Pokemon and all the mainstreams as a child, but I started to really get into anime when I saw Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni few years ago. I didn't know animes can have stories this good.