╭──────༺♛༻──────╮ Hi Guys! ╰──────༺♛༻──────╯  So, as you probably read in the title this topic is about how you started watching anime! Everyone started in a different way and we would love to hear how you got started! You could make it as detailed or simple as you want. Some stories are ofc more epic or simple than others. Like for me I started watching anime because I saw my brother watched it! And after that I got stuck in an endless YouTube anime hole and never got out. We do have very different tastes in anime now though, so my taste developed through the years to something that is unique to me :D But we can still talk about certain anime's we both enjoy! And now I'm here, about 6 years later. I challenge you to go next :D |
| I started watching anime through a kinda strange way I guess. Some of you might know of a game called Doki Doki Literature Club, i watched some people play it and i fell in love with the artstyle. I never really thought much of anime but that artstyle was so cute and i loved it (the actual game is horrifying though). Anyway i discovered initial d and since i love cars, it looked amazing. it wasnt my first anime howeve. that crown goes to Another, which is a strange anime to be your first being a horror BUT i liked it and loved the artstyle. i went on to watch stuff like re:zero and angel beats and fell in love with anime. I joined a discord server last year to talk about anime with friends and met a bunch of people from the following adventures and i hope to meet more cool people in the future :D |
| I started watching anime (seriously) in 2016? i guess can't remember correctly, it was some ecchi anime that i again don't remember :D but i knew anime since i was 12yrs old from pokemon, naruto, FMA |
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| I think I really started to watch anime back in 2017-2018. The first animes I really enjoyed watching around this time were Blue Exorcist and Full Metal Alchemist (2003 and Brotherhood). I was first introduced to anime back in 2014-2015, when I watched the Pokemon anime, Sonic X and SAO. |
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| During the summer going into Grade 4, my cousin 'babysat' my brother and I and she showed us Naruto. After, my brother and I watched Naruto together, but at some point, I think when grade 4 started, we started watching separately and I lost interest in anime around episode 105 of Naruto Shippuden. I think I got interested in anime a bit more in grade 5, but really I got into anime in grade 6 when I met a girl in the class beside mine who watched a lot of anime. After that, there were months where I would watch a lot of anime, but then months where I wouldn't. But I think for the past year I have been consistently watching anime!! Thank you cousin, you weren't a great babysitter, but thanks for introducing me to anime:)!! |
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| I went to this video store (imagine that) about three years ago and saw Studio Ghibli's movie's on a shelf. Me liking Western animation; I thought the style was attractive and I took out Castle in the Sky. And OMG I was hooked. I watched all of their movies very quickly and then I watched Little Witch Academia for some reason shortly after but then I stopped watching anime until I went to Japan. Now here we are. The first anime I did every watch though was Akira yet I was unaware that it was anime. |
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| My sister forced me to watch an anime with her and after that I kinda started watching anime regularly and now I'm a fatass weeb |
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| Back at 5th grade my bestie and only friend moved to another school :<. After that I got new friends, who just kept talking about this "Attack on Titan" thing. Curious me looked it up and got really hooked into it. |
| Well tbh the first anime that I watch was evangelion in 2001, i was just a little kid so it was an incredible revelation, so amazing, so mature, I loved it, then it was digimon, medabots and all the childhood animes, but I was just a kid so I moved on to the next exiting thing that I found after that.. 10 years later, I started to watch digimon again just because I never really finished it so I watched digimon 1 2 and 3.. Later I started to talk to my friends at school about it, and in that conversation, someone mentioned the "real" ending of Captain Tsubasa(the famous no-legs ending) and we just keep talking about anime endings until someone mentioned the School days ending and how "unexpected" it was.. I didnt pay much attention really... After a few days I was watching videos on youtube and suddendly the "real" captain tsubasa ending video popped up in my recommended videos, so I watched it.. The video was so ridiculous that I even laughed at it, but the next recommended video was the School days endind, I was curious so I watched id... I was so surprised I didnt knew how to react.. And then, the next recommended video... There was where everything actually started, the next video was the one actually made me crazy about anime... "Highschool of the dead - Episode 1"... All the animes that I'd watched until that day were cool and everything, but that anime, was something else, it was so amazing that I couldnt stop watching it until I finished it.. Then I watched Bleach, then I watched B gata H kei, then I watched Dance in the Vampire Bund(one of my favorites anime until this day) and just never stopped... Im so grateful with HOTD that when I read the news that it was cancelled and never finished I literally cried and my heart is still broken until this day, such an amazing story, it will always have a special place in my heart because without that video, maybe I'd never watched real anime... It's been 11 years since I started, and Im sad to say I do not watch as much as before, nor I haven't watched as many animes I would've love to.. My love to anime is fading at speed it scares me.. Kono Oto Tomare was the one that actually made me love anime again, but I feel just one good series is not enough to keep going.. I hope you guys never reach to my point where I don't even enjoy the animes I liked the most in the good days... |
Akiraa-kunFeb 17, 2021 7:26 AM
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| My first anime is pokemon, I watch it when I was young. At that time I didn't know what is anime. The first anime that I watched when I realized what is anime is Naruto(Avatar if you thinks its an anime) How I started watching anime?? In 2019 When I came home from school, at the time my dad had just finished Avatar the last Airbender Live action movie. My dad didn't enjoy it, so he watched the animated series. After that we watched Naruto. That's the story. |
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| Well, I have actually always hated anime (until I didn't :O). My friend did introduce me to AoT and SAO years ago, and I did think AoT looked pretty cool. But I never started watching it. I don't remember if it was 2019 or 2020, but my first anime was techically Initial D. However I didn't think any different about anime at that time. I only watched Initial D becasue I really like cars and my firend recommended it to me. Then, last year, I started watching the flash on netflix... Yeah, at that time I still hated anime, but the flash was so incredibly boring that I checked out anime. I decided to watch Darling in the Franxx, which I consider my first anime. Since it was, I, ofcourse, thought it was the best anime ever made. After having watched it 5 times though... So yeah, I have been watching anime for half a year now and my favorite anime (and manga/LN) is That time I got reincarnated as a slime. |
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| My friend all the time talked only about Mirai Nikki and SnK then in August 2019 I gave a try this first and I wasn't really bewitched. In September teh same year we watched together 1st episode of Darker than Black. She never complete it but I started to watching it at home. Next was Death Note, Another (first completed anime ever), Kakegurui and my beloved Yakusoku no Neverland thanks to what I went so into anime community |
| In 2015 we went to Singapore and at that time my brother was a huge anime fan I think he watched over 800 anime or something but anyway I saw a poster of attack on titan live action movie I was only 11 years old and kept staring at it and thought the poster was really interesting so my brother said that’s attack on titan it’s based on an anime he told me why don’t you try watching it and that is when my life changed , and I’ll tell you something so annoying happened so we traveled from my country to Japan then to Singapore, right after we left Japan I started watching anime and what’s more annoying that we went to universal studios Japan and I say a sign leading to the aot statue I was going to tell my brother let’s go there but cuz I’m stupid I avoided it . |
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| I grew up with it and I guess it just grew within me. |
| Kinda an odd way, but I played a Gacha game for 4 years called Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle (at the time, I wasn't aware of the concept of a "Gacha Game"), and my really good friend at the time was talking about the One Piece collaboration the game was having. This was probably my first real exposure to anime; however, I remember thinking this exact phrase: "the hecks a One Piece?" This kinda shows my general knowledge at the time, so I at least have a general idea of how long I've been watching. I then watched Dragon Ball Super (yes, I skipped OG and Z idk what kid me was thinking), and I was hooked from there. I must say that watching the tournament of power arc and seeing Crunchyroll break was quite the opening experience! I think my second anime after that was Konosuba so clearly 14 y/o me had his priorities straight ;) |
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