Anime What was your introduction to anime?

[rosemarymenace]

Dragon Ball Z was the first manga series I ever read and I read all the way through it when I was like, 9 (probably too young for it but idk lol), but I didn't really carry forward much interest in anime (aside from occasionally watching pokemon) until I got really into JoJo about 6 years later

 

[MasterEn]

DBZ. the second episode was the first time i ever saw the show.

 

[fake-kun]

Pokemon, I think.

 

[bjork]

Speed Racer in reruns in the late 70s/early 80s. Then I guess it would be when Robotech officially aired in 84 or 85, I forget the year, though they didn't call either of those anime at the time. Can't recall the first time I heard the term... I bought some Ah! My Goddess tapes that were AnimEigo around 94 or so, is probably it, but I didn't go "oh, this is anime."

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

I'm not entirely sure, is either Tetsujin 28 or also known Ultraman 28 in some dubbed versions, Heidi girl of the alps or something from the "World masterpiece theater", like Anne of green gables, A dog of Flanders, etc.

 

[DRAKKO]

Boku No Pico. : )

 

[Clippy]

In my neck of the woods we didn't even know that there was a separate term for Japanese cartoons (or that the anime we watched was made in Japan) until we got on the Internet.

One TV station in particular ran 80s shoujo anime in the 90s alongside certified hood classics like Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Tsubasa, Knights of the Zodiac (Saint Seiya if you prefer), Slayers and a bunch of others. One lesser known show from back then that I remember fondly is this one.

 

[RedNin3]

It's probably Dragon Ball Z or Robotech.
But the one that made me a fan of most things anime (and its surroundings) is 100% Tengen-Toppa Gurren-Laggan.
I almost tattooed the flag and everything lmao.

 

[JackNoir413]

Obviously i catched dragon ball and naruto on TV every now and then but the first anime i watched from start to finish on the internet was clannad back when i was like 13. Im still very fond of it and im very thankful to kyotoani for animating it.

 

[Ian Naxieas]

Hmm. This is a tough one. I loved Speed Racer, Voltron and Samurai Pizza Cats as a kid, but I didn't really know what anime was back then, I just liked cartoons.

After that, anime movies on the Sci-Fi Channel (Akira, Iria: Zeiram the Animation, Project A-ko, as well as other random ones I can't recall) got my foot in the door. Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon and Digimon got their hooks into me soon after and by the time Gundam Wing and the Tenchi series ran, I was deep into anime. Good times.

 

[Xdqwerty]

It was either by watching Pokémon black and white and Dragon Ball Z Kai on cartoon network or watching og Dragon Ball in tooncast

 

[Taukyrie]

The first anime I can remember really getting into to the point where I watched it weekly when it was airing was Bobobo-Bobo-Bobo when it aired on Toonami.

It was probably one of the reasons my sense of humor became as odd as it is.

 

[CardcaptorEd2019]

If we're talking about anime for kids, it would undoubtedly be Pokemon. I was around 5 years old when I first started watching it and I gotta give credit to Pokemon that it was also my gateway to video games.

For anime for older audiences I wish it was something more obscure, but just like others have said it would be Dragon Ball. Tho, I guess the original Dragon Ball was for kids so Dragon Ball Z

 

[kamille]

serial experiments lain and neon genesis evangelion. in hindsight i was traumatized for years

 

[Prism_Red]

Back then my local TV station had airings of old anime, cartoons, or movies on late night to morning time slot, I used to wake up really early to watch whatever Ultraman they were currently showing, Hokuto no Ken aired before that.
And the rest is history.

 

[DanCalibur]

Probably Speed Racer cuz it was on air since the sixties but what changed everything here was Saint Seiya in 1994. After that the flood gates were open ?

 

[OmegaPunch's iconOmegaPunch]

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.

I also watched anime on Spacetoon, back when I didn't know what anime was.
I watch detective conan, one piece, inazuma eleven (I still love the Arabic intro), and Fist of the north star.

 

[Stingy Perry]

My introduction to is Macross (not Robotech) like I said on the Sailormoon the dub has retained everything and no loop shots/scenes and it’s also my introduction to the Real Robot a sub genre of Mecha anime.

 

[Jotaro]

obviously, my first ones, were the most well known

like bleach, dbz, yu yu hakusho, one piece and rurouni kenshin (90s version)

 

[King Koopa's iconKing Koopa]

Pretty sure it was Dragon Ball Z on Toonami but I watched a lot of Toonami as a kid so it could be almost anything they aired in the 90s.

 

[Asian girls loverAsian girls lover's icon]

Early '90, Dragon Ball (not Z) or Saint Seiya.

 

[Nidoking's iconNidoking]

When I was like... six I think? My dad rented me 90's Devilman. I also had the Dragon Ball movie Curse of the Blood Rubies that I watched a lot. After that it extended into Pokemon, then DBZ into Toonami as a whole. Snowballed from there.

 

[The Missing Link]

Dragon ball Z, Yuyu Hakusho and Gundam wing which was all on Toonami at the time. Lol as a kid I didn't understand a thing about Gundam wing at first.

 

[Mr. Daddy]

My Mom had gotten into anime back when the term for it was Japanimation, and when I was young she got me started on anime with Inuyasha. Very shortly after I watched some other series she showed me or that were on Toonami, like Trigun, Read or Die, Pokemon, Ranma 1/2, Yu-Gi-Oh, 4kids One Piece, Naruto, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Zatch Bell, and probably some others I can't remember.

 

[Egg (McMuffin) Man]

Pokemon. I know, I'm so unique.

I lived in the US when I was a kid so I watched a lot of Toonami during my elementary school years. Naruto, Zatch Bell, stuff like that.