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[- LenoxHD -]
53 posts
Joined March 2016
[- LenoxHD -]
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)
Luqanted
825 posts
Joined November 2013
Luqanted
by a PSP game kekekekek
Stanvord
115 posts
Joined January 2017
Stanvord
Found Pokemon somehow. don't know where
Keiger
328 posts
Joined December 2016
Keiger
I started to watch pokemon, a lot of it, now im hooked, now i usually watch anime on crunchyroll or something
Alysia_old_1
243 posts
Joined April 2016
Alysia_old_1
I saw cool art styles on a museum
Nitrous
1,206 posts
Joined October 2015
Nitrous
Siblings made me play Project Diva (yes that Vocaloid rhythm game). Got curious and used Google.
NerdyBaka
14 posts
Joined December 2016
NerdyBaka
I discovered Anime when I watched one episode of Naruto on RTL ;p Can't remember exactly when.
-Cappuchino-
79 posts
Joined February 2016
-Cappuchino-
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
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Steii
13 posts
Joined December 2015
Steii
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Sonagi
6 posts
Joined January 2011
Sonagi
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 :ooo
also from plain old television with the usual Dragon Ball, Naruto, Pokemon, etc :,D
SmokeyBonez
5 posts
Joined September 2015
SmokeyBonez
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
mulraf
1,067 posts
Joined January 2012
mulraf
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)
SupertCZ
15 posts
Joined March 2016
SupertCZ
Well, I started playing osu!.. So that's how I got into this.. :D
rightgate
1 post
Joined August 2016
rightgate
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 !
KuroSeijin
3 posts
Joined February 2016
KuroSeijin
FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES tbh but i get distracted by the plot and that's where it starts :)
Lost-Replay
6 posts
Joined April 2016
Lost-Replay
When I was in 7th grade my friend showed me Sgt Frog which was my first anime
Mineko
568 posts
Joined May 2013
Mineko
when I started playing osu! lol
Alizie_old
Alizie_old
When I was 5 years old, because of my sister. uwu
J25_games
41 posts
Joined January 2017
J25_games
Watched pokemon when i was younger, if you talking about knowing what anime is only a couple years ago from watching some anime youtubers
schilar
12 posts
Joined February 2018
schilar
I discovered it through a crappy yandere game.
Green Platinum
2,660 posts
Joined July 2011
Green Platinum

schilar wrote:

I discovered it through a crappy yandere game.
Idk how you get to crappy yandere games before anime.
pkhg
2,507 posts
Joined May 2010
pkhg
the day i joined osu
i literally was like "why pokemon has japanese songs lol" back then
E m i
E m i
watched bleach every day at 10-11pm (don't remember) every night when i was like 4-6 years old

didn't know what was going on. just discovered it randomly while watching a tv channel
Cote
275 posts
Joined January 2015
Cote
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
HawkAussie
12 posts
Joined February 2018
HawkAussie
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
Mamba_old_1
I randomly found YuruYuri in 2012, i loved it so much and i keep watching anime since 2012 :D
nikky
36 posts
Joined March 2018
nikky
I'm a half japanese, that's why.
f3n1ks
1 post
Joined January 2017
f3n1ks
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 ^^
Shiina Yuuki
32 posts
Joined February 2018
Shiina Yuuki
FROM THIS GAME !!!!!!!
Coriolis
8 posts
Joined March 2017
Coriolis
7 year old me went on netflix and decided to watch SAO.
six years_old
3 posts
Joined September 2016
six years_old
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SrJuanraHD
3 posts
Joined September 2017
SrJuanraHD
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
Sensor
7 posts
Joined December 2016
Sensor
Osu! made me discover anime, those anime OP beatmap made me interested in anime
joltypanda
13 posts
Joined May 2018
joltypanda
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.
K4STOR
1 post
Joined April 2018
K4STOR
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.
abraker
Global Moderator
8,355 posts
Joined July 2014
abraker
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.
kuromamani
1 post
Joined April 2018
kuromamani
por la tele XD
johnmedina999
296 posts
Joined October 2016
johnmedina999

abraker wrote:

I was exposed to anime before I even knew it was anime: Pokemon, Digimon, SonicX
This was me, but I watched Sonic X, Dragon Ball Z Kai, and Dinosaur King, all on 4kids Saturday mornings.

Later, in the beginning of high school (either 9th or 10th grade), I was exposed to this clip:

nsfw warning

Of course, I got curious, and did some research; Shimoneta was my first "actual" anime.
Kirika
92 posts
Joined July 2016
Kirika
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.
Cooksie
15 posts
Joined October 2014
Cooksie
A friend of mine told me about it
abraker
Global Moderator
8,355 posts
Joined July 2014
abraker

johnmedina999 wrote:

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:

nsfw warning

Of course, I got curious, and did some research; Shimoneta was my first "actual" anime.
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 FMA
Dialect
1,547 posts
Joined May 2018
Dialect
no
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ChaikaHQ
9 posts
Joined June 2015
ChaikaHQ
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.
TeeArctic1
70 posts
Joined December 2014
TeeArctic1
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
Yvan
2 posts
Joined January 2017
Yvan
Friends..
God Only Knows
5 posts
Joined April 2016
God Only Knows
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Reactions
24 posts
Joined April 2016
Reactions
I watched Bey-blade, Pokemon, etc. On cartoon channels.

(I would watch Pokemon almost every morning.)
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Sytex
85 posts
Joined October 2014
Sytex
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
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koemada
188 posts
Joined April 2018
koemada
i happened to see a tokyo ghoul fan acc on my insta feed and decided to check it out lol
Lilias
5 posts
Joined June 2018
Lilias
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.
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Kaitoh
26 posts
Joined July 2016
Kaitoh
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
Grimbolo
5 posts
Joined October 2017
Grimbolo
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 :(
Xyloze
1 post
Joined June 2018
Xyloze
Honestly my first time finding out about anime was through youtube lmfao
valsack632
3 posts
Joined March 2018
valsack632
I found anime through youtube music backgrounds and miraie tbh.
SnixWasTaken
112 posts
Joined December 2017
SnixWasTaken
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.
theCarlos7u7
11 posts
Joined June 2017
theCarlos7u7
for You tube
[ Sekki ]
30 posts
Joined July 2014
[ Sekki ]
my cousin introduced me
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DeletedUser_10883764
From a mobile game lol, also someone tell me to play osu! and I felt like "Hmm.. The songs are not bad..." And I googled that specific song which leads me to anime XD
Lumyh
83 posts
Joined July 2018
Lumyh
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
SepelaThons
16 posts
Joined April 2018
SepelaThons
My parents are otakus...( ´ ▽ ` )
TimeLimit
125 posts
Joined December 2017
TimeLimit
Watched high school DXD back in 2015.
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Journal
66 posts
Joined December 2017
Journal
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
samX500
54 posts
Joined January 2018
samX500
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.
keremaru
228 posts
Joined November 2017
keremaru
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 :^
Lembambo
3 posts
Joined January 2018
Lembambo
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
CamelWhistle904
6 posts
Joined April 2019
CamelWhistle904
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!.
Junkella
3 posts
Joined February 2017
Junkella
Funimation Channel and Cartoon Network when they aired Inuyasha

Got more into it when a friend was shouting Hetalia quotes in elementary school
Tranquilmonia
7 posts
Joined September 2018
Tranquilmonia
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= )
AncapOtaku
1 post
Joined July 2019
AncapOtaku
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.
immensive1
1 post
Joined August 2019
immensive1
Friend was watching Death Note, laughed and called him a weeb and here i am playing hentai maps on osu! a year later... yeah.
HaruTenjin
4 posts
Joined July 2018
HaruTenjin
Cartoon Network and Toonami used to watch every day after school.
Cahyono29
57 posts
Joined January 2017
Cahyono29
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
Soteiro
4 posts
Joined August 2019
Soteiro
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...)

To be honest, my very first anime was Pokémon. Due to my parents being gamers and all that.
SeiSeiun
40 posts
Joined November 2019
SeiSeiun
I was horny
unexplainable
22 posts
Joined September 2020
unexplainable
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.
MICEK_old_1
49 posts
Joined January 2018
MICEK_old_1
My friend was fan of Anime. He was watching naruto and i got into it
animeslayergp
392 posts
Joined June 2019
animeslayergp
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
DanPlease
13 posts
Joined October 2020
DanPlease
I got some friends who recommended me some anime
Aiery
156 posts
Joined June 2017
Aiery
Memes
Adinda
1,386 posts
Joined January 2020
Adinda
From my friends ,thanks to them :3c
Noob
149 posts
Joined August 2020
Noob
ㅤ
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phe
62 posts
Joined July 2020
phe
I read Doremon mangas and eventually started watching shows.
Arhippa
23 posts
Joined April 2017
Arhippa
was looking for a specific genre of anime and found oreimo it was pretty cool
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MqybeAny
1 post
Joined May 2020
MqybeAny
I was watching TV, the first anime i saw was dragon ball z.
Green Ghost
32 posts
Joined September 2017
Green Ghost
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.
niita
43 posts
Joined August 2017
niita
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.
ICanNotDoSlider
256 posts
Joined May 2020
ICanNotDoSlider
brother
ClevelandsMyBro
879 posts
Joined April 2018
ClevelandsMyBro
uh its weird

i was through forbidden youtube when i stumble across Yamada-kun to nana-nin no Majo. that was the first anime i ever finished. yea, i think thats enough.
YamichanKawaii
305 posts
Joined June 2019
YamichanKawaii
too long ago to remember
Sies
Global Moderator
1,910 posts
Joined May 2015
Sies
My friend forced me to watch it >.>
Riae
Riae
bike
ogleshi
1 post
Joined January 2021
ogleshi
I discovered anime from watchmojo and screwattack (yeah I know memes). I already knew that anime existed but those two youtube channels really convinced me to start watching it. It also helped that I had a friend in middle school and we would watch anime and youtube during class.
merbear_old
2 posts
Joined December 2020
merbear_old
My brother got me into watching anime
wlax
1,211 posts
Joined March 2019
wlax
When I was a kid, my I watched "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea" that my mum downloaded for me. After few years I've watched "Your Name" and became anime lover. Anyways, I've stopped watched it so actively lately.
Riae
Riae
Actually i found a sticker of asuna sticked to my bike then asked my friend who is this and what is this then he explained about anime i got interested now look at me a dumb weabo.
Edit:im only saying im the one whose dumb not all weebs sorry if you got offended.
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Im Nooooob
11 posts
Joined November 2020
Im Nooooob
from dream
natalializme
33 posts
Joined September 2020
natalializme
i started liking anime when my mom showed me "my neighbor totoro" when i was about 8 years old xd
fixgacha
43 posts
Joined January 2020
fixgacha
A friend of mine told me to watch some so I watched the seven deadly sins and then konosuba. I liked it.
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