How did you get into anime?

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.

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.

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.

Skray, 11 months ago

I think my first ever anime was My Neighbor Totoro, along with other Ghibli films like Kiki's Delivery Service and Castle in the Sky.
Toonami did the rest.

DarkErmac, 11 months ago

First anime I remember watching was Dragon Ball (Saban dub). Other than watching whatever aired on TV (Samurai Pizza Cats, Sailor Moon, DBZ, Pokémon, Digimon, Zoids, Tenchi Muyo), the first anime I seeked out directly was Naruto, after hearing that the sub was a lot better than the dub (spoiler, it was). I’m not a super hardcore watcher or anything, but it’s pretty cool to see how the shows and the fandom evolved over time.

timetravelingnoodles, 11 months ago

I watched Kiki’s Delivery Service as a kid and fell in love with it but couldn’t find it again for years. A guy I was friends with in middle school knew what it was and showed me Manga and other anime on Adult Swim and I was hooked with Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell immediately. Haven’t stopped watching since

MewMew, 11 months ago

Pokémon on cartoon network. Then the
animax channel.

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.

Xperr7, 11 months ago

As a kid, I watched Pokemon as long as I can remember, but, outside of Pokemon, didn't really watch any anime until I was in High School, when a friend recommended SAO. After that I went into a bit of a frenzy, and not very long after I got into manga (which, like with anime, I read Pokemon years before properly getting into it), and that's where I am years later, mostly a manga fiend.

watchdog, 11 months ago

Early years of Toonami. ‘Nuff said.