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.
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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.
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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