What was your first anime? When did you started to watch it? How did you become aware of its existence?
Was it the anime that made you an anime fan? (If you consider yourself as such)
How does it rank for you? Would you say you still like it? Would you consider it one of you favourite anime series?
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Pokemon. It ended up being my morning show that would end right before I had to leave for school. But what really put anime on my radar was the old YouTube algorithm, constantly showing me pirated episodes of obscure anime lol. Good times. Thank god I never ran into anything traumatic, cuz I just winged it for a while.
I still love the anime as a childhood experience, but I don’t consider it great. Probably one of the only childhood shows I’d be willing to watch today would be Avatar The Last Airbender, but I know it doesn’t exactly count as anime.
Not counting random episodes of Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh I saw on TV, it was Tokyo Mew Mew. I wanted to watch something truly ‘anime’ and not just another cartoon I could find on TV. At the time, I thought that meant cat girls fighting evil. Tokyo Mew Mew was one of the recently released shows when I went looking for torrents online.
I wouldn’t say Tokyo Mew Mew made me an anime fan, that came later when Haruhi Suzumiya came out and that’s when I truly loved an anime. I still go back and watch it from time time (well parts of it anyway, endless eight kinda ruined it). Toyko Mew Mew is very mid and not something I’ve ever rewatched. I think it was surprising solid for what was essentially a knock off sailor moon, but it’s not a show I’d suggest anyone else to ever start out with.
Kyon-kun, denwa!
It depends on what qualifies as “watched”. If you mean “what was the first anime you watched all the way through” it would be some 2012 anime like Code Geass or something. The first anime I ever remember watching seasonally was Parasyte: The Maxim, because a friend of mine told me I might like it but it turned out there was only 1 episode of it out. That’s definitely when
the infectionmy passion for anime began. I started watching everything I could get my hands on seasonally then. Parasyte is still a 10/10 show by the way, and it 2000% holds up today.Fist of the North Star. In retrospect this probably shouldn’t have been my first as it did level-set things a bit oddly as to the ratio between plot and pure, raw violence.
I couldn’t say the exact first one I’ve watched, but it was probably something on Toonami like DBZ. I didn’t really know what “anime” was still in elementary school (US).
I didn’t really become an anime fan until my early teens when I became fed up with cartoons censoring death and blood and the likes. I wanted blood, gore and nudity. I found Elfen Lied which is probably the first anime I watched as “an anime”.
I haven’t rewatched it since I’m much older and more sympathetic now. I doubt I could handle the themes without feeling sick so it doesn’t really rank for me anymore.
However the fact that it was uncensored scratched that itch and put me onto anime. Nowadays I wouldn’t call myself a “fan” because of the rampant pedophilia and fan service but I am an anime enjoyer of very few that are very very selectively chosen.
I have to admit I never got to watch Elfen Lied. I never was much into gore, so it was a “I probably should watch this anime everyone is talking about”, but never ended up actually watching it. And now, it’s been years since I finished an anime. I tend to be more interested in reading manga nowadays; and that I seldom do.
Apparently it was Pokemom and then Sonic X, didn’t even know what anime was at the time. My first conscious effort in watching anime was Death Note. Ranks pretty highly for me, still like it, and refuse to watch the Netflix version. The previous live action ones were good but not as good as the OG.
Definitely made me a fan.
When I was a kid I had a few VHS cassettes with various shows and movies on them that were often recorded from TV. This was before the mid 90s Toonami era made anime popular stateside I was like maybe 2-5 with these tapes I’d watch and I didnt even know they were anime.
One of them was the Little Nemo Movie and the other one was a several episodes of a series called Serendipity The Pink Dinosaur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity_the_Pink_Dragon
Apparently it’s on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZWuTSp9NgM&t
As for first anime I knew was anime thats harder to say but probably Voltron? If not Sailor moon/dbz
Outside of Dragonball and Pokemon, which were were on next to shows like Reboot on toonami, Chobits was among my first anime that I watched knowing what anime was.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA CHOBITS BABEYYYYYYYY
I fuckin LOVE chobits
The first anime I watched fully knowing it was an anime is Vampire Hunter D back in the late 80’s. I still have a soft spot for it.
Dragon Ball and Toonami pulled me back in hard. I loved anime but didn’t have much access to it until Toonami.
I had watched some anime adaptations (Voltron, etc) when I was younger, but I had no idea what anime was back then, and not sure those would count.
Steel Angel Kurumi and Twilight of the Dark Master My parents really should have been more careful about what I watched. :P
Sure, if by “watched” you mean really digging into an anime, and if by “anime” we’re talking about stuff from Japan, then my first mind-blowing experience was with “Princess Mononoke”. I saw it on TV and it was totally different, super deep, and nothing like the cartoons I was used to. As for a full series, that’s gotta be Evangelion. I binge-watched the whole thing in just two days. I would still rank them as one of the top anime I ever wached.
I watched a lot of anime as a kid, Pokémon is the likely candidate among them but could also be Digimon or Sailor Moon.
First time I went back to it as a teen was after watching a Death Note YouTube poop. First half is still great and one of the only Dubs I am still inclined to watch
I had seen a few episodes of Pokémon, Hamtaro (I think that was the name), and Dragonball Z as a kid but wasn’t ever really into anime. A few years ago I gave Deathnote a try and loved it! Earlier this year I watched Cowboy Bepop. I usually enjoy reading manga more though as some shows tend to feel stretched out. It feels like a lot of them don’t translate very well to 20-30 minute episodes.
Hamtaro will be forever awesome!
I did watch some anime as a kid (Pokémon springs to mind) but I think the first one I really watched as an adult was JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. A friend recommended it to me, and boy was I in for a wild ride! I still feel very fond of it, though I’m not enjoying the last season(s) as much. I don’t think I’ve actually finished watching the last one. But the earlier parts will forever hold a special place in my heart!