So Sup Forums under what circumstances did you first watch anime?
Did you stumble upon it in your early years on the internet?
Heres mine
>be 9 or 10 years old
>saw my dad on the weekends only at the time cuz lol single moms suck
>dad says i need to watch something super cool
>turns on Ghost in a Shell
>i thought it was cool as shit
>would start watching anime with my dad regularly from that day onward
Anyone else have similar stories?
Jesus no wonder she left him.
Syndicated episodes of Sailor Moon that aired at 5 am on weekdays. I had to get up really early in the morning and sneak downstairs to watch it. Good times.
>be 12
>internet friend sent me a link
>"omg just watch this show"
>School_Days
>Even though it was shit, I enjoyed it thoroughly
>looked up like shows
>watched Majikoi
>the spiral into unhygenic weaboo started
And here I am
Roboturd and chinese transformers was on tv back in the 90s
I watched Hamtaro on Toonami when I was like, six, but then it quickly became other shows on there.
DBZ on Toonami
Pokemon
Technically anime. Made in Japan.
But in all seriousness, it was something about a kid hunting a bear or some shit. It was really brutal, because the kid send his dogs after the bear, and the bear just started killing dogs left and right, so my grandpa turned the TV off.
>tfw you're 30
Nickelodeon showed a shitton of anime in the 80s before they made the first Nicktoons. Technically my first anime was Wondrous Koala Blinky. The first time I was shown something "called" anime was probably some show on Sci-Fi Channel's Saturday Anime Block from the mid 90s, and I didn't realize that Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z were anime until Fox Kid's Magazine pointed it out during their promotion for Digimon Adventure.
A friend of mine has fun stories of growing up in Hong Kong.
He was still in kindergarten when he saw anime like Guyver, Angel Cop, Demon City Shinjuku, MD Geist and others.
Silver fang?
My uncle lost his job and was staying at my parents house in my room and he showed me boku no pico and then we acted it out
InuYasha on YTV and dear lord was that series garbage I still watched all of it
>Sci-Fi Channel's Saturday Anime Block from the mid 90s
this right here
I think it was either sailor moon or pokemon on tv. We still count them as anime, right? If I was to mention animu as it is today then the first one is Green Green on MTV.
Glad someone else remembers this block.
Had you use my dad as a patsy when watching it, because my mom refused to let me watch it (she walked in on me watching the bathing scene from Lodoss War), but I'd get an "okay" from him when he was half-asleep, so the blame could go to him instead.
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My friend's neckbeard weeb brother had vhs of nausicaa and castle in the sky for a long time I misremembered them as being the same movie.
he used to practice bōjutsu in his front yard
What did they air on Sci-Fi?
>Watch filthy frank's weeabo video
>"haha thats pretty good"
>ironically look up some shows
>"hey this angel beats show isnt so bad"
>downward spiral from there
And here i am
Aside from DBZ, I remember some really trippy stuff. One was a weird robot circus in a traveling city robot that just walked through towns and obliterated the people. And all I remember about the other one was a couple dudes fighting at the end of the world and one of them had an umbrella or something. People were turning into cubes.
And TANK POLICE.
I watched a VHS of Project A-ko at someone's house.
Yes. At least, I think it is. Never rewatched it.
I laughed and then I was sad
>people actually got into anime thanks to filthy frank
Fucking hell. I still remember when he made that old "WELCOME TO THE RICE FIELDS MOTHERFUCKER!" video.
I think I've been been down too long in the midnight sea.
Oh what's becoming of me.
A friend in highschool convinced me to watch Cowboy Bebop.
He also told me about alot of other shows, but I was really into video games and never got in to them
We stopped being friends midway through highschool because I was such an autist, but now I really wish I could discuss anime with him, since he got me into it
From what I remember as a kid, it was a bunch of Manga Entertainment and US Manga Corps stuff. Stuff I remember watching were:
Venus Wars
Robot Carnival (that's the what that began with the wandering destructive robot circus)
Ghost in the Shell
Akira
Dominion Tank Police
Gal Force
Roujin Z
Zeirum the Animation
Tenchi the Movie: Tenchi in Love
DBZ Deadzone
Project A-Ko
Demon City Shinjuku
Galaxy Express 999
Armitage
All the Street Fighter and Fatal Fury movies
Lily C.A.T.
The Eyes of Mars
You're just a rainbow in the dark
Bigger sister was watching Bleach on the family computer. My first exposure to anime was big tiddies.
I saw your typical toonami business young but what really kicked it off was when we got more tv stationa I saw this one called colors or something that had a night segment where it aired negima, kodocha fruits basket etc. I was entirely disappointed by the ending to Negimas anime so I thought it had other seasons like yuyu hakusho. Thus I found manga, subs, and the world of unnoficial tranlsations. There was no going back
Pokemon craze in the 90's, along with dragon ball. First Japanese sub show I saw was Chobits though, then a bit of fruits basket.
nice list user
I might dig through for some nostalgia.
Sci-Fi was really ahead of its time on that.
>Sup Forums-tier eceleb garbage
You have to go back to
Ghibli shit on VHS
When I was 14 some guy posted queen's blade gifs on the rap forum I was on. It made my willy hard so I searched it out among other stuff.
I caught a handful of episodes of Dragon Ball Z and Inuyasha on YTV when I was young.
This.. the best part was the shame about watching a girl cartoon but then masturbating to the girls.
My neighbor said his son was going to university and he had to clean his room, he gave me all his Dragon Ball Z VHS. I was at elementary school and fuck that moment really changed my life.
I bought the dragon ball manga, love hina and negima after that.
>Be 5
>Not a burger
>Internet wasn't a thing yet
>Turn on TV
>Watch Ranma, Sailor Moon, Captain Tsubasa, Slayers, Tiger Mask or The Rose of Versailles
>Mother was a weeb so I could watch recorded VHS of Baldios, Grendizer, Future Boy Conan and Captain Harlock/GE999
I loved Japan as a kid cause I knew it was where my nintendo and pokemon came from. Watched dragon ball z in middle school, then later on in high school a friend showed me steins;gate and how to download anime. Within a year I had watched almost a hundred shows.
>Be 12
>Used to frequent a spanish videogame forum
>Lucky Star was big at the time so lots of users had avatars and posted gifs of the show
>Thought it looked cute
>Look up the episodes on youtube
>Become hooked
And the rest is story. I pretty much started watching what was popular at the time like Full Metal Panic,FMA, Azumanga Daioh, Code Geass.
I didn't start watching classic entry level anime like Cowboy Bebop or GiTS until much later.
I mean I remember watching some anime on tv like Dragon Ball, Pokemon etc but they didn't really catch my attention, I guess what drew me in was the cute artstyle.
Just about everyone in the US over the age of 20 will have first come into contact into anime via Toonami, which was my case. Watched DBZ and loved it.
I just watched attack on titan because my high school friends told me to
I remember years ago i would only watch naruto occasionally and tell my friend i'm only watching that shit to see it end and then i'll never watch anime again, should have stuck to that motto
My older brother watched "Japanese cartoons" regularly, so I got exposed practically since day 0. I don't know what was the very first I watched, but it was likely a rerun of something from the 80s or 70s like Daitarn, City Hunter, Ranma, Sanpei or Dragon Ball. We had a few episodes of Voltes V home recorded on VHS I used to watch obsessively.
Later on I'd watch afternoon cartoons with my grandma during break from homework. She didn't really approve of Jap shit. I still vividly recall her immense disbelief and consternation in learning Heidi was anime, she actually liked it and just couldn't believe it.
Here in Italy old school anime was relatively big. They used to redo OP's in Italian, music and all, and they had a very distinctive funky-pop style most of the time, it still has a big following today.
my first encounter with anime was when I found an episode of highschool dxd on a porn site
the first time I actually watched a series was when my dad told me about attack on titan
How the fuck did I forget about Transformers? Had a tv recorded vhs that I actually wore down watching so much.
what a patrician upbringing
was over at a friend's house and we watched pic related on Adult Swim or something
My mom showed me Kiki's magic delivery service when i was super little. I'd catch Adult Swim's anime block when my parents wouldnt shut my bedroom's TV off at night, and I would watch Toonami all the time.
Wow faggot.
When I was a kid in the late 90's, TV slots after school were first the Disney Afternoon stuff, followed by Pokémon, Dragon Ball Z, Gundam Wing and Rurouni Kenshin (Samurai X).
I remember really getting into anime around 2001. My town had a pretty good library and I rented out stuff like Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop, Ghibli movies, Metropolis. When I watched everything available in the library I took to the internet. 14yo me was pretty taken with Love Hina for some reason. Hellsing, Elfen Lied, FMA, Azumanga Daioh were some of my gateway drugs as well.
use to watch literally everything that got subbed
now I watch nothing unless I already know the source material or is completely done.
Grave of the Fireflies.
I think I was 11 or 12. It was going on TV.
I wouldn't count pokemon as anime anymore, shit is such a staple of every kids life for nearly 20 years that its no longer that weird thing, something is off and different about this kind of feel that anime gives you.
sailor moon kind of has that feel but kind of doesn't, I want to say the first thing I watched where I knew damn well this was not normal was galaxy express 999 on scifi, there were some things that I saw before it and thought the same but galaxy express 999 was the first one I can vividly remember.
I watched Azumanga Daioh on Youtube, dubbed, split up into 3 parts per episode. I thought it looked funny so I watched it.
>anime on youtube
Oh shit I forgot about that. Apparently people still do it where they watch it in a tiny box format
My friend got me into the Bleach anime back in 06 or 07, I forget. It was like flicking on a light switch in regards to how quickly obsessed I became. (Don't worry, I quickly found the much better, non-gateway shows and manga.. but Bleach will always hold a special place in my heart for this reason.) I had watched DB and DBZ religiously on Toonami in middle school so I guess that's my FIRST experience with anime, but Bleach got me into loving anime so much, all other entertainment seemed like shit for a long time. Pic related?
>I wouldn't count pokemon as anime anymore
wut?
Started with DragonBall in the 90s.
It was so succesfull that lots of anime started to be translated in Spain, I got to watch at 8 Akira, Mononoke Hime, Urotsukidoji... Videoclub stoner and mother thought that cartoons were only for children so my young me got to watch tons of animated sex and gore.
the stuff what was shown in the afternoon on tv
One of my cousins let me borrow the VHS of Akira.
Although I've enjoyed anime every since, I've never been awe inspired again like I was when I first saw that movie.
second gen weeb, i watched old stuff with my dad, watched Shaman King as it came out, the first Yu Gi Oh, Ergo Proxy later on, he really likes Vandread even though he knows it's shit, he watched Speed Grapher alone, i just used the history to watch it later, HxH 99 and FMA 2003 too, he loves Doraemon which gets broadcasted on saturdays in here, so i really never "discovered" anime, it has always been there
> do I count as 1st gen?
Watched Pokemon and db/z like all the gradeschool kids.
Then I faintly remember watching chobits, the one anime with the golden rollerskates kid and bent bat, and first eps of bleach and old full metal on designated nerd hours one of kids channels had.
The excessive watching started with having to ride a bus for half an hour, checked google for 10 best anime and watched Rozen Maiden out of sheer boredom.
>blogshit thread
Started watching Pokemon and Naruto when I was a kid, my mom told me to stop watching violent cartoons so I stopped. I got into anime years later when I watched Soul Eater
paranoia agent
>Neo-Tokyo is about to E.X.P.L.O.D.E.
What could it mean?
Get out of here, kid.
>be 4
>watch DBZ, OP and mankin with my onii-san on the TV
>be 10
>playing browser games
>saw a bunch of guys talk about elfen lied
>watch like 3 episodes on youtube because I couldn't find more
>fast forward to like 2 years ago
>watch Elfen Lied and read the mango
>I kinda liked it
>continued watching animu to this day anyway
>rewatch it yesterday
>goddamn it's unwatchable
> Tetsujin 28
> 1963
You must be older than my parents.
>come across Cardcaptors on children's TV before school each morning
>also get a dose of Flint The Time Detective and Pokémon
>find you can get anime online too
>watch Keroro Gunso, Lucky Star and Elfen Lied through shitty Kazaa downloads
>then find Sup Forums and lurk for 2 years
fuck you, now i need to fap to that doujin
Source please?
he is a pink haired boy, but here you go Otousan No Onna Ni Natta Boku, have fun
Old vhs tapes. I was 13. Good times. :)
Not cool user, not cool
Moomins aired on the national TV when I grew up + the kindergarden I went to had Ginga Nagareboshi Gin on VHS (needless to say that it was both dubbed and heavily censored).
I was 12 years old when I found a show named evangelion, after that I watched elfen lied, higurashi, hellsing.
I was browsing tumblr in 2013 and saw Kill la kill gifs.
Well... that was unexpected.
Thanks in any case.
This looked like a fun board, so I started watching anime to lurk and post here.
gundam seed lmao
6 years old, neighbors who babysat me also had cable which i did not, 420 sailor moon everyday
We didn't Mickey Mouse and those nickolodeon shows. So instead we got
>gundam >voltron,
>ghost fighter (yu yu)
>dbz
>voltron
>dynamo
>ultra man some other super sentai stuff
>takeshis caste a bunch of other Japanese shows.
I didn't even know what the fuck anime is was until I moved to the US.
>Older sister was a big fan of Sailor Moon
>Only had one tv at the time so whatever she watched I had to watch it too
>Said channel also aired other anime like Orphen, Dragon Ball, Slam Dunk etc after it
>Basically spent my afternoons watching chinese toons
>Sister also used to go to local cons too so she sometimes brought pirated vhs of Dragon Ball movies and some Ghibli stuff
Basically it was my sis who introduced me to anime. Which is funny because she doesn't even watchs anymore and my powerlevel greatly surpasses hers.
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