Anime What was your introduction to anime?

[LUNARMYTH]

Other than perhaps Pokemon. My introduction came to anime in the form of Toonami. T.O.M. was the man giving us great shows like Rurouni Kenshin, Prince of Tennis, Naruto, DBZ, etc. I truly don't remember which iteration of Toonami I started with but I will always remember the MVP below. How were you introduced to anime? Whether dub or sub. I like both.

 

[RageBurner]

Anime was part of the regular broadcasting here rather than being contained in a block. The first anime I remember watching was Saint Seiya, known as Knights of the Zodiac in some places.

 

[Waffles]

First TV show I had ever watched:

 

[Nevendmisy]

Yokai watch and Yu-Gi-Oh as a small child, but wasn't really hooked on to anime until I watched jojo's bizarre adventure still my favorite anime till now nothing can top it for me

 

[RageBurner]

Yokai watch and Yu-Gi-Oh as a small child, but wasn't really hooked on to anime until I watched jojo's bizarre adventure still my favorite anime till now nothing can top it for me

That's pretty cool! I watched a lot of YGO, too (though when I learned the actual game and started noticing how the duels in the anime were simplified and cards were made up at times I started liking the anime less.

I don't consider myself a Jojo fan because I only truly enjoy the first three arcs, so feel free to oraoraora me to the stars LOL.

 

[RustySK]

The only channel that even aired anime back in the day in my country only did so way past midnight, so even catching it via channel surfing was a crapshoot.

I think it must have been either an early episode of Hellsing or the very last episode of Cowboy Bebop - I can remember kid me watching both without any context while half-asleep.

Cowboy Bebop in particular had me hankering for more. Took me ages to find out just what that weird sci-fi film noir cartoon show might have been.

 

[RageBurner]

The only channel that even aired anime back in the day in my country only did so way past midnight, so even catching it via channel surfing was a crapshoot.

I think it must have been either an early episode of Hellsing or the very last episode of Cowboy Bebop - I can remember kid me watching both without any context while half-asleep.

Cowboy Bebop in particular had me hankering for more. Took me ages to find out just what that weird sci-fi film noir cartoon show might have been.

CB is a real gem. I need to watch it again.

 

[Nevendmisy]

That's pretty cool! I watched a lot of YGO, too (though when I learned the actual game and started noticing how the duels in the anime were simplified and cards were made up at times I started liking the anime less.

I don't consider myself a Jojo fan because I only truly enjoy the first three arcs, so feel free to oraoraora me to the stars LOL.

Yeah Yu-Gi-Oh has changed a lot I played a lot of master duel with my friends last year and the game is totally different with it having way too many mechanics and relying heavily on combos ,also it's okay to like certain parts of Jojo every part is different from the others and people might not be okay with it personally I like them all but to be on equal terms I I will truthfully say that I honestly don't like berserk that much (also excuse my English I type very fast and I'm not really that fluent in talking with it)

 

[VampireLord1024]

Toonami for me as well.

 

[RustySK]

CB is a real gem. I need to watch it again.

Absolutely - Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo and FLCL are my all-time favourites. Worth a rewatch for the soundtrack alone!

 

[Yousef]

2004. I watched for as long as I can remember. It aired on spacetoon. Anime basically never felt foreign. Had tons of classic from my childhood back in 2005 like dragon ball, hunter x hunter, slam dunk, one piece, captain tsubasa, detective Conan and the list goes on.

 

[4fatal]

Sailor Moon. i would record it on vhs in my bedroom as a kid. My mom took me to get a haircut befor it aired once and i cried the whole time lol

 

[RageBurner]

Yeah Yu-Gi-Oh has changed a lot I played a lot of master duel with my friends last year and the game is totally different with it having way too many mechanics and relying heavily on combos ,also it's okay to like certain parts of Jojo every part is different from the others and people might not be okay with it personally I like them all but to be on equal terms I I will truthfully say that I honestly don't like berserk that much (also excuse my English I type very fast and I'm not really that fluent in talking with it)

Oh your English is fine, no worries! I get that Berserk is an odd bird, but I guess what makes me gravitate to it is that there is a message of hope despite the struggle, and it shows that heroes aren't heroes because they are invincible, they become heroes for fighting the odds. And big swords, yup.

 

[KeiNova]

Mine was literally three VHS tapes I rented from Blockbuster in Canada: Akira, Battle Angel Alita, and Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol. 2. Note, it wasn't just the anime that got me - it was also the trailers and their music that came before the main features!

 

[Nevendmisy]

2004. I watched for as long as I can remember. It aired on spacetoon. Anime basically never felt foreign. Had tons of classic from my childhood back in 2005 like dragon ball, hunter x hunter, slam dunk, one piece, captain tsubasa, detective Conan and the list goes on.

Spacetoon is really the goat

 

[Yousef]

Spacetoon is really the goat

Yupp!!! I never run out of shows to list. There was also Digimon, virtua fighter, monster rancher, tons of decent drama animes, some Tokosatsu stuff and a lot more

 

[RageBurner]

Mine was literally three VHS tapes I rented from Blockbuster in Canada: Akira, Battle Angel Alita, and Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol. 2. Note, it wasn't just the anime that got me - it was also the trailers and their music that came before the main features!

Evangelion is incredible, but it led me to feel really depressed for a while, no joke LOL.

 

[Strategist]

I think it was Speed Racer, even if I didn't exactly know it was a Japanese animation at the time. I did have my suspicions since it was goofy as hell and the lips didn't quite match the dialogue. They would show it late at night on the oldies channel, since I believe it was a series during the 70s, way before my time. The animation style caught my eye, for sure.

I'm not sure which series was exactly the first but there were 5 I used to watch that I recognized as anime growing up, way before Toonami. They would show anime shows randomly alongside American cartoons on local TV in Puerto Rico. I assume they picked up the lot of dubbed cartoons for Latin America and showed them here without much thought put into it. I started recognizing which cartoons were Japanese by the subject matter and art style. Always seemed more interesting, emotional and deep than the American cartoons.

Saint Seiya/Caballeros del Zodiaco

G Force/Fuerza G

The original Dragon Ball

Robotech/Macross/Mospeda

and Tekkaman Blade/Teknoman (that one came out a little later, in 92) The Full run is on youtube in Japanese with subtitles or Spanish and it still holds up as an amazing show.

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Edit: Yes, I'm dating myself with these choices. I'm an old fellow.

 

[Cu-Neo]

For me It was Sonic X. Also I watched a lot of beyblade Metal fusion and Digimon Data Squad in the morning before leaving for school. And later Bakugan in the afternoon

 

[chrismas]

Rented DVDs from a Blockbuster, or Hollywood Video, or whatever else the place might've been. The picks (not entirely by me) around that time were a kid's toy anime (may or may not have been Medabots), some magical girl anime (could probably pick it out today), and a horror anime that scared the crap out of kid me (unfortunately the name and look of it eludes me completely).

 

[Gorse]

I knew what "Japanese cartoons" were for a long time – as with many of our non-American posters, shows like Sailor Moon, DBZ, and Tokyo Mew Mew were standard kids' programming, here – but I didn't really get into anime proper until 2008 (at age 10), when I first came across a clip from a weird little show called...

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I'd never watched anything like this before – the protagonists were girls!? P.U.!!! – but what resonated with me most about the show was that the characters talked like me and my friends did. On something like Fairly Oddparents, it was obvious to me even then that the "kids" were being written by adults who were 40 years older than the target audience, but Lucky Star's dialogue actually felt like it was written by real young people.

I got intrigued, watched through the whole show on YouTube (dubbed, and with every episode split into 3 parts, natch), enjoyed it, and thought that was the end. Then, one day, while looking at the recommended videos from an episode of Lucky Star, I encountered the show that made me an anime freak for the next decade:

Ooh baby, those first few bars bring back the memories! I wonder how many times I've listened to this song in my life? I fell in love with every last thing about The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. I wanted to live in that world, and to be friends with all the members of the SOS Brigade. The last episode of the first season (this was way before the second season or the movie) was heartbreaking, because it was my favourite episode of the series by far (I still think it's genius), but there was nothing left. Go-o-o-o-ddddd bless... Haruhi is my favourite anime series ever to this day.

From there, I kept investigating anime through YouTube – it was easy to find in those days, because no one cared if you uploaded copyright material yet. After Haruhi was Popotan, also heavily nostalgic for me, Welcome to the NHK, another extremely good and influential show, then Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan (have the kids discovered this, yet? I bet it's going to be big with them), then stuff like Sgt. Frog which was reviewed by people like Marzgurl or JesuOtaku on ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com.

After that, I started finding anime on my own, downloaded a ton of weird stuff, and $7 trillion in manga and Blu-Rays later, here we are. I think about what my life would have been like if I'd never gotten into anime a lot.

 

[antii]

My Intro to Anime was my older cousins scaring the shit out of me with bleach but i still sat down and enjoyed it

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2004. I watched for as long as I can remember. It aired on spacetoon. Anime basically never felt foreign. Had tons of classic from my childhood back in 2005 like dragon ball, hunter x hunter, slam dunk, one piece, captain tsubasa, detective Conan and the list goes on.

ONE PEAK

 

[Strategist]

The only channel that even aired anime back in the day in my country only did so way past midnight, so even catching it via channel surfing was a crapshoot.

Before Toonami and Adult Swim, Cartoon Network and the Sci Fi channel would aired edited for TV anime movies after midnight. I remember watching Twilight of the Cockroaches, Vampire Hunter D, Dominion Tank Police and Iria: Zerinam the Animation this way.

 

[LUNARMYTH]

Lots of good series in here ranging throughout the times. I love to see it.
The original FLCL is another one I should add. I remember watching it on Adult Swim many moons ago, not knowing what the hell it was but enjoying every second.

 

[Gorse]

The original FLCL is another one I should add. I remember watching it on Adult Swim many moons ago, not knowing what the hell it was but enjoying every second.

I saw the scene in this where Haruko and Naota's dad are eating the egg off one another when I was about 4 years old, in the dead of night, completely clueless as to what was going on. I should sue AS for damages.