How did you get into anime?

vraylle, 11 months ago

Probably showing my age, but Robotech. Really the first anime series widely broadcasted to an American audience.

Zip, 11 months ago

Watch Akira. That is all.

vraylle, 11 months ago

I have!

Maeve, 11 months ago

My now-grown child. Luffy lives in our hearts.

Nexnecis, 11 months ago

Robotech 100%. I was a kid in the 80's and I didn't progress past early Anime , but damn was Robotech huge back then.

cowvin, 11 months ago

Yep, this was probably my first anime. I wouldn't say it got me into anime by itself but it certainly opened the door. After that, my sister and my friends kind of pulled me in. Haha.

hitechlowlife, 11 months ago

I can still remember watching the first season of Macross on rented Betamax tapes. That's almost 4 decades ago, now.

metaStatic, 11 months ago

oh are we showing our age? My first Anime was Astro Boy. I would harass my mother to rent it every time we rented anything.

vanderbilt, 11 months ago

Someone on 4chan of all places recommended I watch Cowboy Bebop. Probably the only wholesome byproduct of that entire site lol.

shillbert, 11 months ago

I started with Kill La Kill thanks to 4chan (well actually, seeing it hyped up so much on both 4chan and Facepunch.)

Maeve, 11 months ago

Hey now, Samurai Jack too.

vrojak, 11 months ago

I had just started university 10 years ago when I would constantly hear people around me mention Attack on Titan. I had no idea about the show, but was curious enough to figure out what people were so hyped about, so in I went. And now, I'm still waiting for that damn final episode!

dill, 11 months ago

My friend and I were sorta making fun of it in 2016.

And he said that he'd watch one episode of an anime (rezero) to see how bad it was. And like 2 minutes in he's like, "wtf this is really good" and I watched it and agreed.

And now its still my favorite anime to this day! :)

Pete, 11 months ago

Pretty typical but adult swim really is what made it happen for me. Good ole bebop and champloo

tripp, 11 months ago

Late 90's, my friend brought over the Evangelion VHS tapes that he had.

Ame_no_Habakiri, 11 months ago

Back when I was a kindergartener, Heidi would run a lot on TV. I didn't realize it was anime back then. Later I would read through all the manga at my local library, stuff like Dragonball, Yu-Gi-Oh and Hunter x Hunter and watched Pokemon when I came home from school. I took a break and came back years later to watch SAO and liked it a lot.
Kill la Kill was the first show I followed on release and actually engaged with the anime community online. That got me completely hooked and into watching new anime each season.

Otome-chan, 11 months ago

I watched pokemon as it aired back in the 90s. Didn't know it was anime lol. I got into anime/manga proper in middle school when a friend introduced me. This was probably around 2006/7 or so? Naruto and Bleach were my first introduction really. Sailor Moon and Card Captors as well.

watchdog, 11 months ago

Early years of Toonami. ‘Nuff said.

atocci, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

It was 9 or 10 years ago I think, back when I still used iFunny regularly. One day there was a featured gif from the anime A Certain Scientific Railgun, but I didn't know what it was at the time.

It was a clip from the first episode, a scene where the main character flicks a coin at an oncoming car, except the coin shoots out at hypersonic speed and blows up the road in front of the car. It was captioned something like "Me when slow cars won't move out if the way". A few days later, I went back to the comments on the post to find out what the clip was from. I watched the whole first season on YouTube on my 3DS that week and it's been my favorite anime ever since.

A friend had been trying to convince me for months to watch Attack On Titan at the time too, but I just wasn't interested in anime until that meme.

alternian, 11 months ago

I recently finished watching A Certain Scientific Railgun and I loved it, it’s probably the first time I’ve heard someone talk about it online.

atocci, 11 months ago

It's not too uncommon to see it mentioned in places like r/anime (Misaka even won the 2016 r/anime Best Girl Contest), but it's definitely taking a back seat now to newer anime. What got you to watch it?

Smiley, 11 months ago

Can't remember how, but I started watching anime when I was around 8 so 2012/2013ish. My mum and I watched anime together after school, some of our first ones were Bleach, Darker Than Black, Azumanga Daioh, Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, Bamboo Blade, and Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East. I remember when anime wasn't well known and people would pronounce it as "ani-mee" lol. Also got bullied at school for talking about it, now its become mainstream xD

Graf_Fiker, 11 months ago

I was watching anime because of my sisters when i was younger, this was in the 90s when anime got popular in the west with Akira or Ghost in the Shll.

Awkward_Silence712, 11 months ago

Before I even knew what anime was, when I was in junior high I was just flipping channels looking for something to watch and I pass Sailor Moon. And at that time I never thought that a cartoon would have girls that looked like that.

TheLazurus, 11 months ago

I was up late one night, can't remember why, and Adult Swim aired the first Evangelion reboot movie, I've been watching off and on ever since.

Jhonatan, 11 months ago

First was Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac in the late 80s, then didn't really get back into anime until Dragonball and then Bleach (what kept me liking anime for good). Recently, I've been digging One Piece and Gintama, among all the other genres.