I firstly watched Oda Nobuna no Yabou in Fall 2014, that was my beginning of watching Animes. But the very first Anime I really watched and liked was School Rumble (watched in 2012)https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/posting.php?mode=reply&f=75&t=303434#
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Started watching in 2011. Watched some about 150 TVs. Every year I watched less and less titles until I completely stopped.
I think I got tired of seeing such love and such friendship that will never happen to be irl. Also the anime girls' cuteness makes me sick by now - every time I remember the real girls, which I don't even want to talk about. Bleakness of the real world is unbearable - but the world of anime only intensifies the despair I feel. Anime is a very fragile shelter for people who couldn't find a place under the sun.
I think I got tired of seeing such love and such friendship that will never happen to be irl. Also the anime girls' cuteness makes me sick by now - every time I remember the real girls, which I don't even want to talk about. Bleakness of the real world is unbearable - but the world of anime only intensifies the despair I feel. Anime is a very fragile shelter for people who couldn't find a place under the sun.
Lincher
In the past when I was a kid, I would watch some anime with my mother. I never really understood it from how young I was, but I still enjoyed it. Then years later, at the end of middle school (around June 2014), I was looking for songs to listen to. I came across a cool looking AMV, and I really liked the song. I knew it was anime from my past experiences, so i decided to try and find that anime to watch. After watching Black Rock Shooter, it became my first anime when I decided to really get into watching, and enjoying anime.
A few years before my best friend found out that she was going to move to Japan because her dad was going to do his PhD there, she began to research and learn Japanese and all those stuffs, and kinda dragged me along with it. At first I only love Japanese culture and language, but then we discovered anime and it was a sad anime (can't remember what it's called) so I kinda got emotionally attached to it :')
It was a really boring day and I asked my mother if she has any ideas, she told me to draw Sailor Moon.
through my friend at school.
you did mean 18+ stuff, didn't you??
(XD just a prank, fam (don't report me plz))
you did mean 18+ stuff, didn't you??
(XD just a prank, fam (don't report me plz))
From anime YouTube channels apparently.
(Not giving his channel's name 'cause you know what every wants in the internet: ATTENTION.)
(Not giving his channel's name 'cause you know what every wants in the internet: ATTENTION.)
I found it when I was looking over my sister's shoulder when i was younger
My sister XD
I was too innocent before i discovered anime. I was just scrolling through Facebook and found a lewd anime scene, I was curious so i did some research and started watching that anime xD. And after than happen more and more lewd anime stuff appear on my Facebook. Curiosity probably helped me discover anime :v
(The anime was Sakurasou no pet na Kanojo)
(The anime was Sakurasou no pet na Kanojo)
I started to watch pokemon, a lot of it, now im hooked, now i usually watch anime on crunchyroll or something
I saw cool art styles on a museum
Siblings made me play Project Diva (yes that Vocaloid rhythm game). Got curious and used Google.
I discovered Anime when I watched one episode of Naruto on RTL ;p Can't remember exactly when.
Gang Cartoon and MCOT's Thai dubs.
tbh Doraemon Thai dubs are the best anime dub you'll ever hear in Thailand.
then never touched anime again since 7 until now
i got interested in anime again bc Kobayashi's dragon maid amd now im a weeb
and, oh one of my friends used to challenge me to dance to highschool dxd's op but i thought anime=hentai back then so
tbh Doraemon Thai dubs are the best anime dub you'll ever hear in Thailand.
then never touched anime again since 7 until now
i got interested in anime again bc Kobayashi's dragon maid amd now im a weeb
and, oh one of my friends used to challenge me to dance to highschool dxd's op but i thought anime=hentai back then so
When I was 5, my friend happened to have the entire Inuyasha anime series and we would watch even with our parents around
they didn't really care tho
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also from plain old television with the usual Dragon Ball, Naruto, Pokemon, etc :,D
they didn't really care tho
ooalso from plain old television with the usual Dragon Ball, Naruto, Pokemon, etc :,D
I walked in my cousin's house with clannad on the TV and started watching it.
thought it was pretty nice but never touched anime until a year later
thought it was pretty nice but never touched anime until a year later
as a kid my father actually always watched dragonball with me and my brother. thus we started watching more anime on local tv as kids. a few years without anime went by and suddenly my brother started watching this new show, naruto. i thought it was a ga* kids show and didn't bother much but since my brother always urged me to, one day i gave it another chance. since i'm posting in this forum, you can probably imagine the rest of the story
(sorry if typos; on mobile phone rn)
(sorry if typos; on mobile phone rn)
Well, I started playing osu!.. So that's how I got into this.. 
Well, my cousin introduced me and my brother to another, then like a year later we watched chuu2byo with a similar protagonist and started to like it !
FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES tbh but i get distracted by the plot and that's where it starts 
When I was in 7th grade my friend showed me Sgt Frog which was my first anime
Watched pokemon when i was younger, if you talking about knowing what anime is only a couple years ago from watching some anime youtubers
Idk how you get to crappy yandere games before anime.schilar wrote:
I discovered it through a crappy yandere game.
the day i joined osu
i literally was like "why pokemon has japanese songs lol" back then
i literally was like "why pokemon has japanese songs lol" back then
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Watched Highschool of the Dead, i was like 7 years old and I did not know what was going on I just watched the zombies
Funny enough, it was a friend that had liked a page on Facebook and I thought why not check it out. The rest they say is history.
Mamba_old_1
I was 3 years old and my dad was watching the animes on french television.
Saint seiya, Dragonball, etc.. the old ones
Glad that other people enjoy anime as much as i do ^^
Saint seiya, Dragonball, etc.. the old ones
Glad that other people enjoy anime as much as i do ^^
FROM THIS GAME !!!!!!!
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I heard a friend talking about some tipe of 'Titans being killed by soldiers' and I was like WTF, then he told me that it was anime, and the anime that he was talking about was 'Shingeki no Kyojin' or 'Attack on Titan'. This was 6 years ago, and now, I can't stop watching anime, I love it. Asuna and Zero-Two best waifus <3
Osu! made me discover anime, those anime OP beatmap made me interested in anime
I grew up watching a ton of Cowboy Bebop, Naruto, One Piece, Pokemon, Digimon, Yugioh when I was a kid. During my teens I decided to watch Fullmetal Alchemist and a few more popular animes around 2010s. Ever since i've done nothing but watch.
While I was dealing with depression, I would watch Youtube a lot. I found a recommended video on YouTube that was a funny moments for some anime called Trinity Seven and after watching it I decided to watch the whole anime because it looked funny. After watching it I looked on MyAnimeList and found different recommended ones that were like Trinity Seven. That's when I got into anime.
I was exposed to anime before I even knew it was anime: Pokemon, Digimon, SonicX
It was in my first year of highschool I started noticing that there is a specific style of animation that is much different from western cartoons. But I didn't know what to call that style, so it was hard to find. Enter my second year of highschool, and my sister comes to me with a recommendation from her friend to watch Fullmetal Alchemist. The rest is history.
It was in my first year of highschool I started noticing that there is a specific style of animation that is much different from western cartoons. But I didn't know what to call that style, so it was hard to find. Enter my second year of highschool, and my sister comes to me with a recommendation from her friend to watch Fullmetal Alchemist. The rest is history.
por la tele XD
This was me, but I watched Sonic X, Dragon Ball Z Kai, and Dinosaur King, all on 4kids Saturday mornings.abraker wrote:
I was exposed to anime before I even knew it was anime: Pokemon, Digimon, SonicX
Later, in the beginning of high school (either 9th or 10th grade), I was exposed to this clip:
Of course, I got curious, and did some research; Shimoneta was my first "actual" anime.
Used to watch Pokemon on TV, I can't really say this is where it started though, I didn't even know it was anime.
About 3 years ago a friend of mine told me about Sword Art Online. I watched it and instantly fell in love. I was a little let down on pretty much everything after the events of Sword Art Online in the story, but I love this show for introducing me into a world which I will never forget.
About 3 years ago a friend of mine told me about Sword Art Online. I watched it and instantly fell in love. I was a little let down on pretty much everything after the events of Sword Art Online in the story, but I love this show for introducing me into a world which I will never forget.
That's one hell of a way to dive in. Not sure if I would have watched anime if my first wasn't something as awesome as FMAjohnmedina999 wrote:
Later, in the beginning of high school (either 9th or 10th grade), I was exposed to this clip:abraker wrote:
I was exposed to anime before I even knew it was anime: Pokemon, Digimon, SonicX
Of course, I got curious, and did some research; Shimoneta was my first "actual" anime.
no
I used to watch Dragonball and Shaman King on a TV channel I found when I was like... 7? maybe 8?
I had no idea that it was anime until I eventually started searching for similar shows.
I had no idea that it was anime until I eventually started searching for similar shows.
I was always a huge pokémon fan growing up and would wake up at 6 every Saturday to catch the new episode. Then I got a friend that was hooked on DBZ, pretty weeb dude, but cool nonetheless.
We played around with various storymaking and eventually we watched some anime. Done deal, weeb ever since
We played around with various storymaking and eventually we watched some anime. Done deal, weeb ever since
I watched Bey-blade, Pokemon, etc. On cartoon channels.
(I would watch Pokemon almost every morning.)
(I would watch Pokemon almost every morning.)
So I started to play this game called "osu" pretty weeb game and I found a song that I really like after further investigation I found out if was from a show called "Z/X something" aaaand I watched it. thats basically how I found out about anime (childhood animes don't count btw) after that my life was ruined but I have 2d waifus now so I call it worth btw the show was pretty shitty lmao
i happened to see a tokyo ghoul fan acc on my insta feed and decided to check it out lol
When you're Asian, you grow up with it, watching stuff like Doraemon, Crayola Shin-chan, and the like. It just kind of happened after I saw my sister watch Shugo Chara! and a few years later, I discovered To Love Ru and I got hooked on anime afterwards.
My brothers were watching Parasyte one day on TV back in 2016ish & I just happened to pass by right when there was an epic fight scene, so I asked them what show it was and the rest is history. XD
When I was little I used to go to West Virginia to visit my great grandparents and my cousin used to live with them and his room was full of anime and manga. Every time I visited them I would go straight to his room and read the Shonen Jump magazines. When he left to live on his own he left the Shonen Jump magazines (and a few hentai mangas on accident). I decided to take them home and they are with me to this day. Except the hentai, those were confiscated 
Honestly my first time finding out about anime was through youtube lmfao
I found anime through youtube music backgrounds and miraie tbh.
I heard about it from my group of friends, they always keep talking about one piece or bleach, they would recognize masks or some stupid stuff and I kinda felt left out.
So I asked one of them if he could recommend me a few beginner anime, not some heavy stuff and long like one piece or other long anime.
Technically Death Note was the first anime I watched fully, but the one that actually got me into watching anime daily was Elfen Lied, which I watched like half a year later after Death Note.
Then I proceeded to watching more triple A titles like Shingeki no Kyojin, Clannad, Swort Art Online, etc..
Up to this day, which has been like 2.6 years, I managed to watch about 150 anime series. Im a little over the half in One Piece and I finished Bleach long time ago.
As I started watching more and more anime, I started to develop my own taste which is basically Romance + comedy or action + comedy.
So I asked one of them if he could recommend me a few beginner anime, not some heavy stuff and long like one piece or other long anime.
Technically Death Note was the first anime I watched fully, but the one that actually got me into watching anime daily was Elfen Lied, which I watched like half a year later after Death Note.
Then I proceeded to watching more triple A titles like Shingeki no Kyojin, Clannad, Swort Art Online, etc..
Up to this day, which has been like 2.6 years, I managed to watch about 150 anime series. Im a little over the half in One Piece and I finished Bleach long time ago.
As I started watching more and more anime, I started to develop my own taste which is basically Romance + comedy or action + comedy.
for You tube
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when i was a kid i'd watch pokémon on tv ;-;
i re-discovered it through SAO Memory Defrag and that got me into SAO, which got me into anime as a whole
i re-discovered it through SAO Memory Defrag and that got me into SAO, which got me into anime as a whole
My parents are otakus...( ´ ▽ ` )
I think I was searching new episodes for Happy Camp when one of those ads appeared on YT back in 2011 or so. Started searching it up and here I am
A couple years ago I used to play hearthstone and stumbled upon nightcore music while watching some hearthstone video. I got really into it and got interested in anime because of how present it is in nightcore.
first watched bakugan
then came to late night naruto on toonami back in 2013, watched s1 sao
6 years later i'm a certified japanese speaking weeb :^
then came to late night naruto on toonami back in 2013, watched s1 sao
6 years later i'm a certified japanese speaking weeb :^
me and my brother used to watch naruto together back in 2013
i only watch naruto and bleach tho
and in 2015, i found this post on facebook that talks about angel beats's ending. getting curious, i read the post and then got confused because i didn't understand anything. and yeah, i decided to watch angel beats and got addicted to anime since then
i only watch naruto and bleach tho
and in 2015, i found this post on facebook that talks about angel beats's ending. getting curious, i read the post and then got confused because i didn't understand anything. and yeah, i decided to watch angel beats and got addicted to anime since then
I found out about anime at a young age (around 5 or 6), and started watching shows like Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh! and Dragon Ball. After a year of watching anime, my parents (annoyed at all of the yelling evident in anime) banned me from watching anime altogether. After that I didn't really watch anime until my uncle introduced me to Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet several years later. Eventually I found anime like Bleach, Sword Art Online, and Soul Eater and my dive into Otaku culture was inevitable. From there I found more stuff similar to anime such as Vocaloid, J-pop, Touhou, and games like OSU!.
Funimation Channel and Cartoon Network when they aired Inuyasha
Got more into it when a friend was shouting Hetalia quotes in elementary school
Got more into it when a friend was shouting Hetalia quotes in elementary school
I used to read a monthly Nintendo magazine, "Club Nintendo", which, for some time, had some pages dedicated to Japanese series/retro games. This section was called "Un vistazo a Japón" (A glimpse of Japan), and, to be honest, I didn't really like that they would use pages to talk about things that weren't precisely Nintendo games. ( ; =ᆺ= )
I remember one day being particularly bored, so I decided to finish reading my Nintendo magazines, since I always avoided reading Un vistazo a Japón. Needless to say, I was very much impressed by the way they talked about those japanese series, and more so of how they presented Neon Genesis Evangelion.
A couple of days after that wise decision (hehe), I watched my first espisode of Eva. I have to say that I wasn't really aware I was watching anime or that I was getting into the otaku culture until my third or fourth anime. I also discovered Death Note and Ef: a Tale of Memories through that magazine. ^^
Good times ~ ( =ᆺ= )
I remember one day being particularly bored, so I decided to finish reading my Nintendo magazines, since I always avoided reading Un vistazo a Japón. Needless to say, I was very much impressed by the way they talked about those japanese series, and more so of how they presented Neon Genesis Evangelion.
A couple of days after that wise decision (hehe), I watched my first espisode of Eva. I have to say that I wasn't really aware I was watching anime or that I was getting into the otaku culture until my third or fourth anime. I also discovered Death Note and Ef: a Tale of Memories through that magazine. ^^
Good times ~ ( =ᆺ= )
In my school friends watching anime.One of them was Fullmetal:Alchemist who, out of curiosity, i started to watch. Later I watched Death Note. And so began my adventure with Anime. Even before I became a Otaku I listened to Nightcore.
Friend was watching Death Note, laughed and called him a weeb and here i am playing hentai maps on osu! a year later... yeah.
Cartoon Network and Toonami used to watch every day after school.
so i was watching tv when i was a child,and then this anime on tv have fanservice happen,which entertain me and make me interested on it,at that time i still don't know its anime,few years later i meet internet and search it on google,and then i know a lot of ecchi anime from that
I know that this was posted 4 years ago and I'm sorry.
I discovered anime 2 years ago, my friend asked me if I knew the anime called "Free!". I didn't so she showed it to me and I freaked out, watching an anime that was also based on the sport I love was a dream come true! (to me...)
I discovered anime 2 years ago, my friend asked me if I knew the anime called "Free!". I didn't so she showed it to me and I freaked out, watching an anime that was also based on the sport I love was a dream come true! (to me...)
I was normally playing video games like the usual, until my brother plays Anohana on Netflix. I just got bored playing and wanted to see what's happening and I just got hooked by it. Then I spent my 5 hours of my time to watch the anime, after that I just wanted more anime to watch. Eventually it made me into a weeb.
My friend was fan of Anime. He was watching naruto and i got into it
when i was in 8th grade,i was recommended by someone to watch naruto,and i fell in love with it and then started watching more and more anime
From my friends ,thanks to them :3c
was looking for a specific genre of anime and found oreimo it was pretty cool
I was watching TV, the first anime i saw was dragon ball z.
From what I remember, I discovered anime when I was in kindergarten by my sisters as they were a huge anime fans in the 2000s, often draw in anime/manga style and own a huge collection of manga (I remember them being a huge Prince of Tennis and Hetalia fans). They sometimes watch anime with me during my childhood and introduce me to anime that I might like (Fullmetal Alchemist, Naruto and Digimon just to name a few). So yeah, I probably grew up with anime.
I friend of mine spent months trying to convince me about watching some anime, until I gave in.
IIRC it was Gabriel Dropout the one that made me stick around anime.
IIRC it was Gabriel Dropout the one that made me stick around anime.