Anime What anime made you get into anime?

[yourdemise]

A few come to mind like FLCL and Sailor Moon but the real answer is GS Mikami, I fell in love with the Super Famicom game and decided to check out the show and it changed my mind on anime, Been watching it ever since.

GS Mikami was one of the first manga I ever started reading so it's sort of like that for me but for manga. I never even knew there was a SNES game until maybe a year ago.

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Full Metal Alchemist and Naruto. Not much of a story about it. I just found out about them around the same time.

 

[nyka]

I think it was seeing Totoro as a kid...remember renting vhs tapes? That was the way.

 

[SherionVane]

yes

 

[qw90700]

One Punch Man back in 2019

TBH one of the best way to start watching animes lol. After One Punch Man there was no interesting new anime I found whatsoever. On paper Mob Psycho 100 would be the next candidate but it's meh.

 

[Dani.]

Yes, Dragon Ball really brings back memories, one of the best anime ever produced.

 

[sneakyguts]

my eldest brother got me into anime when i was 6 he made me watch a masterpiece called Takarajima

 

[NovumVeritas]

For me it was Saber Rider:

 

[DrunkGecko]

i saw inuyasha, pokemon, yugioh, dbz, and bakugan
but the anime that got me into actual action anime was parasyte

 

[Cardboardtubeknight Cardboardtubeknight]

Hamtaro

 

[chxshire22]

inuyasha and detective conan :D

 

[Questless Knight]

Saw this one back in 1991 not the first anime I saw but it was got me int to anime before I even knew it was anime.


My first ever anime was apparently Tanoshii Muumin Ikka which I did not even knew counted as anime but it does apparently and I grew up watching it on TV from 1989-1990. when I was 4-5 years old.

But yeah I would say Robotech was what got me to love anime but first ever was Tanoshii Muumin Ikka.

 

[Mahan_Native]

it was Cowboy Bebop
i enjoyed it so much that i watched more Watanabe stuff after that.

 

[afureru]

My formative years with anime were pretty scatterbrained, multiple channels, multiple on demand services, the household wasn't coming around to streaming yet... so I'd say its a combination of these. And at least one explains my taste in fictional women. Despite me seeing some pretty suspect stuff for a 10 year old (both in shonen and shojo), wouldn't change it for the world.

 

[X y b e r - S k u ll]

I think like a lot of people of my generation, we started with what was being shown on TV which would have been things like Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Digimon, DBZ, Shin-Chan, Shaman King, Rave Master and the various Transformers anime they had at the time. As a kid, some of my favorite movies were Ghibli movies and the 2001 adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis. I always knew they were Japanese, they were just so different but so captivating at the same time. For some reason though, maybe because I was so young at the time, I never had the urge to go deeper and find more.

It wasn't until around 2007 I started to branch out and go a bit deeper. I was a huge Naruto fan at the time and had been collecting the manga since the year prior (The anime still hadn't aired on TV where I lived at this point). Eventually it did start airing, but because I was so ahead with the story since I'd been reading the manga, I didn't bother watching it but I ran into another roadblock; No book shop, comic shop or anywhere that might stock manga had the next volume of Naruto I needed. That's when I decided to just go for it and started watching the anime online.

Coincidentally around this time as well, a TV channel called "AnimeCentral" popped up on my radar after hearing about it from some friends at school. I guess because of the type of series they showed they had to follow the TV guidelines in my country because the channel would only air from 9PM to 6AM and then it was just dead-air for everything in between those times. That channel was what really opened the gates for me though, that's where I saw stuff like Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell SAC, Planetes, Wolf's Rain, Escaflowne, Bleach, Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) as well as the Takara Transformers animes from the 80's. Unfortunately, that channel only lasted a year before closing, but because I already had knowledge of where to find anime online, it wasn't that big of a deal to me.

So I guess to actually answer the question, it would be Naruto and everything that aired on Anime Central.

 

[NobodyHere]

i saw inuyasha, pokemon, yugioh, dbz, and bakugan
but the anime that got me into actual action anime was parasyte

I recollect my first time watching Parasyte pretty well, probably because of how emotional it got me. I was so angry with the second half (After the Mc is turned, it’s been awhile). I was really up set when Kana Kimishima died, I despised the Mc, and hated the ending.

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

None that I can think of.

 

[zacharinolongpants]

The weird dub of Nausicaa called Warriors of the Wind. That shit melted my little kid brain.

 

[diet_orange]

Ronin Warriors. Watched it when it was in Syndication long before it hit Toonami and even had that Ryo and Sage action figures

 

[PrismRed]

Technically speaking, Fist of The North Star.
I didn't know it was an anime or cartoon or whatever, one day when I was a brat I woke up around 4AM, I turn on the tv and I saw an animated buff bald dude exploded, I instantly fell in love.
There was this bootleg vhs/vcd/dvs rental place near my house, dad and I visited weekly to rent something, I usually went for Tom & Jerry or Inspector Gadget, until I found a box with Kenshiro's face on it, and the rest is history.

 

[eyixon]

I didnt really know what anime was till much later: during the early 2000s, in west africa we had this thing called DSTV for the first time ever. Cartoon network started showing ads for Toonami, with dragonball z, tenchi muyo and gundam wing only. It was annoying because we never got to actually watch episodes; anytime there's an ad showing toonami is next with the mentioned shows, it just switches to Tom and Jerry or old cartoons like wacky racers, the magic roundabout and top cat. We never got 24/7 cartoon channels until around 2008-ish. So the first anime i was ever able to watch was in highschool, thanks to limewire: Bleach. With time, we managed to download episodes of other anime and i had completely forgotten about dragonball z until 2010, when i got Budokai 3 for X-mas on PS2. In fact, most of what i knew about the story was mainly from the game itself. Keep in mind that internet was ass back in the day here; we literally had to keep our PCs running whilst downloading episodes for several days. It was worth it.

The anime scene here in Ghana was very non-existant coz we didnt even know what anime was until YEAAAAARS later, hahahah

 

[solnK!]

 

[Deleted member 560402]

Pokemon, Card Captors, Flint The Time Detective, Monster Rancher, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Shaman King, G Gundam, Rurouni Kenshin in that order (i think?)

 

[Dr.Kisaragi]

Well here's mine

Slayers and Tobe Isami

 

[Gym Ghingham]

UFO Robo Grendizer 1975​

 

[Sleepstate]

I had watched a few anime's before this but wouldn't consider myself into anime before Please my Melody