Discussion When were you introduced to anime?

[IGiveUp]

When was the first time you were introduced to anime, what was the first show you decide to watch and were recommended? What were your first opinion on anime as a whole before and after you became a watcher?

Well not counting the ones I watch as a kid without actually knowing like Digimon or Pokémon, besides those I first started to watch anime in high school like 11th grade since a friend try to convince me to watch some. Beforehand I used to make fun of it without giving it a chance like calling them Chinese cartoon for kids. The first anime I watched was Happy Sugar Life (yes the pedo lesbian show) because I listened the OP on YouTube and it went hard, the first recommended show I watch was (by the same friend) Toradora. I still wouldn’t consider myself a Weeb since I’m not really a frequent consumer unless it’s something I enjoy but at least I can say I watch it now.

 

[ZZebra786]

your mom introduced me to anime after i got done dicking her down. i seen you watching it on tv. i said whats that? your mom said "Anime"

 

[bloomedwengts]

your mom introduced me to anime after i got done dicking her down. i seen you watching it on tv. i said whats that? your mom said "Anime"

stop bullying my fren

 

[bloomedwengts]

around 11 or 12 when my dad showed me death note and i thought it was the coolest thing ever
i used to love stuff like sailor moon and digimon and ranma but i didn't know what it was at the time

 

[Kevin Logan]

I think that thw first anime that I ever watched was samurai x, but I didnt knew that it was made in japan or ever heard about the "anime" word

 

[PointOfNoReturn]

Either Inuyasha on Toonami or One Piece on 4kids in the early 2000s
I think the first anime I got into was Full Metal Alchemist or Marchen Awakens Romance around the same time.

 

[PointOfNoReturn]

I think that thw first anime that I ever watched was samurai x, but I didnt knew that it was made in japan or ever heard about the "anime" word

When I first discovered it was it’s own genre, and not western cartoons, I thought anime was pronounced ”an I’m” and I tried introducing it to people like that for years.

 

[Saito]

Watching Pokemon right before leaving for school, then dbz and so on.

 

[parzurnacs]

I started watching anime when I was 15. First anime that I watched was a not very popular romcom I found in Youtube that nowadays I find ultracringy so I won't say the name. Before that I watched Shin Chan as a kid I guess

I also found anime ultracringy before that, then I started liking it. Now I find it cringy again for 99% of animes out there

 

[Haruhi Suzumiya]

as a kid from Tv, can't remember first anime, maybe yugioh, or any other mainstream shonen dub

 

[KaiserWilhelmll]

I think around age 3 or 4. It was a localised dub of a cartoon that could technically be called "anime" since it was produced in japan. That one and Speed racer. Speed racer does count as anime, right?

If we're talking more mainstream anime then it was through toonami on CN. DBZ, Cardcaptor Sakura, Pokemom were the deal. This was in primary school (around 3rd grade)

 

[Muri]

Definitely when I was I dunno 6 or 7 on TV always thought anime was just some American cartoon for example yugioh naruto and bakugan and stuff and then years later in like late 8th grade I meet this dude who was a massive weeb he was like yeah check it out dude but back then I was hesitant because it was just weird seeing big booby bouncing anime chicks but yeah after that when school ended I was very lost so I picked up anime as a cope first one I watched was sukitte ii na yo and the rest is history

 

[hawt]

First anime that I knew was anime (not kids stuff) that I watched was Fruits Basket (older one) or Black Butler. I was younger than 10 years old and was introduced by my older sister.

 

[Brother Wagecuck]

around 15 or 16 i was introduced to naruto and bleach.

but i didnt really develop my taste until my 20s. mostly kawaii shit.

 

[『 』]

I think I was like 4-5, but I started to become interested in anime as an entire genre around 12-13

 

[bloomedwengts]

I think around age 3 or 4. It was a localised dub of a cartoon that could technically be called "anime" since it was produced in japan. That one and Speed racer. Speed racer does count as anime, right?

If we're talking more mainstream anime then it was through toonami on CN. DBZ, Cardcaptor Sakura, Pokemom were the deal. This was in primary school (around 3rd grade)

you're totally not a boomer

 

[bloomedwengts]

watch this anime it's totally nice and comfy and cute

 

[『 』]

watch this anime it's totally nice and comfy and cute

which one is it? The one IGiveUp mentioned?

 

[anon1822fourthacc]

If you count Pokemon, then when I was a little kid. Stuff like Beyblade and Yugioh too.

But real anime at like 11. After 8 oclock I think Jetix turned into an anime network. Or was it 4kids? Idk.

 

[KARENIN]

In first grade, when some Japanese girl standing in front of me during morning assembly wore a Pretty Cure Max Heart shirt to school and told me it was superior Japanese culture. I didn't even ask her about it lol.

 

[Nameless_sunflower]

kindergarten
first anime was GTO

 

[thirdworldcel]

ranma 1/2

 

[404Errorcel]

Sword Art Online back in middle school

 

[bloomedwengts]

which one is it? The one IGiveUp mentioned?

happy sugar life

 

[smug_tard]

Full metal alchemist
The superior 2003 version
It was the firstbi watched all the way through

 

[Fabio]

I got into anime quite late and actually spent most of my teenage years hating on it. But in late 2017 all of my usual copes stopped working so I decided to give anime a try. My first anime was Girls und Panzer.

 

[Zangano1]

My favorite anime as a kid was Doraemon tbh. Good stuff, I never liked Dragon Ball or any of that violent stuff

 

[Alexander]

DBZ , i watched it with my brother. Naruto too and i remember watching stuff like Meow meow power , Yu Gi Oh , Bakugan , Pokemon and even some one piece.

I would watch Death Note some years later in middle school and again just a bit over 3 years ago which kickstarted my weeb journey

 

[BloatmaxxManlet2022]

For me in my elementary school years, gundam, pokemon, sailor moon etc. later on I was into more wrestling and then back again to anime. Note I’m a total boomer

 

[SpacersChoice]

I was watching yugioh at 2 years old and it was my favorite show for awhile, I can't say what I thought about it before then since I was a baby.

Overall I think I had a good taste in shows for being a kid but now I pretty much stopped watching shows and just focus on doing stuff

 

[Broken&Ruined]

At the age of 9 when I turned on an Anime focused channel in my country with a romcom anime called Hayate the combat butler

 

[TigerFestival]

For me I was around 6 or 7 when I watched the Samurai Pizza Cats. It stood out to me from alot of other cartoons I watched as a kid. I can then remember watching Speed Racer and Sailor Moon when I was around 8, and they gave me a similar vibe of Samurai Pizza Cats, then in 5th grade Toonami aired on Cartoon Network, I remembered watching Dragon Ball Z after school along with others such as Roroni Kenshin, Outlaw Star, Gundam Wing and Pokemon that aired on Kids WB and again these shows gave me that same vibe. In middle school is when I learned these shows were called anime and I became quite the annoying anime fanatic lol, although these days anime has fallen off the rails with all of these slice of life anime and that Onimai anime featuring a dude becoming a girl being one of the biggest ones. Sigh Anime used to be so based, now it only panders to lonely Japanese men who want to relive their high school years or worse become girls since being a man sucks in Japan. Ugh.

 

[johan]

Was around 2015 when an acquaintance of mine recommended Death Note.

 

[NekoRightsActivist]

around 2006 with stuffs like Rozen Maiden and Haruhi, alone with Touhou although that wasn't technically anime

 

[yknowwhat]

first anime scene ive ever watched was a dbz scene where goku and piccolo threw gohan off a cliff and was like wtf

 

[Ironsides]

Use to think it was for girls in elementary school until my male cousin told me about it and fell in love with it.
I wish Ruka Sarashina or Chizuru from rent a gf would “rape” my pp
am drunk afmaxxing rn

 

[SoupaSilva]

Other than pokemon and seeing anime on websites with drawing tutorials probably 11.

 

[Kpwat]

By the time I was 8 years old I knew the big eyes cartoons were from Japan or China, and I hated them. I thought, damn those Japanese, why are they drawing eyes as big as oranges, they don't look like that, it's so unrealistic. But as I grew up, I ended up liking anime. This is called character development.

 

[PointOfNoReturn]

Full metal alchemist
The superior 2003 version
It was the firstbi watched all the way through

Did you ever play the PS2 game?

 

[Bitter]

Dragon ball and Saint seiya

 

[KaiserWilhelmll]

At the age of 9 when I turned on an Anime focused channel in my country with a romcom anime called Hayate the combat butler

You are curry or SEA. And the channel's name is Animax

 

[worthless]

i really started watching anime at the end of 2014, when i was 9 y.o.

one day i was scrolling down netflix to find something to watch and kill time, then i found sword art online. i'm still stupid, but at the time i was a fucking abomination, and when i read the synopsis i was like "woeh it's a cartoon about gamers, how cool ", then i got hooked by that dumbass shit. the brazilian locale of netflix only had the first season at the time and for some unknown reason i didn't google anything about it, so i only discovered that a second season had been airing in late 2014 a year later lmao.

anyway, after discovering what anime was, i got into ecchi/harem shit and i would only watch these types of shows. to make it even dumber, for some reason i didn't try to find a decent place to watch them and i would watch anime on youtube. the worst part is that it wasn't that hard to find them there, even uncensored versions. for instance, i watched the first three seasons of highschool dxd and the first one of shinmai maou no testament there, lol.

after that phase, i kinda went normal and would watch some widely-liked stuff like death note, shingeki no kyojin and hunter x hunter, and occasionally some seasonal show.

 

[KaiserWilhelmll]

2014, when i was 9 y.o.

Toddlers.net

 

[worthless]

Toddlers.net

yeah, guess so. still, time sure flies... basically a decade after that and shit's fundamentally the same. in no time i'll be a wizard.

 

[KaiserWilhelmll]

yeah, guess so. still, time sure flies... basically a decade after that and shit's fundamentally the same. in no time i'll be a wizard.

Nigga chill you're just like 18

 

[7yearsaneet]

I was suicidal and thought "my life is over might aswell try anime". It was high school dxd. I loved it. I became a anime superfan. Sat all day watching harem anime. It was only much later when i started watching actual "good anime". I used to think anime was for faggots. I had the typical normalfag mindset about it. I remember someone saying they watched anime and i thought they were a faggot or something similar to that.

 

[Flowerycel]

when I was 8 I started getting anime episodes in my youtube recommended page