Which anime first hooked you into this hobby?
Pokemon/Love Hina
both for anime and manga
Fullmetal alchemist brotherhood. I had seen anime before this but none of them grabbed me and made me want to watch more like this did.
For me, it was Trigun. Specifically, the run they showed the first time on adult swim 12 years ago. Man, I didn't know what I was watching, all I knew was seeing this cool man shooting a sweet .45 caliber pistol against a varying array of madmen, weirdos, and the occasional good looking villain was enough to leave me looking for more. That, and it helped that this was the only anime my little brother liked.
>>138605534
Same, then i watched steins;gate and fell deeper into the rabbit hole.
Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040, back when it was airing on TV.
naruto. i watched many before it but naruto marked the beginning of the end.
Sailor Moon
flcl
>>138605377
I can't remember but either it was rurouin kenshin, dragon ball, or yu yu hakusho? Ahhh... nostalgia. I still remember hamtaro
>>138605377
Serial Experiments Lain. Wasn't quite my first, but it was the one that hooked me.
Samurai Champloo first
>>138605377
Death Note was my first anime, but Infinite Stratos made me what I am now.
>>138605377
znt
i live for harems
>>138605377
Pokemon/YuGiOh as a child, Black Lagoon as an adolescent.
>>138605377
first anime was horror child storys on white VHS´s
they were all cuteuntil everyone was butaly murderd in gore fashion
otherwhile it was Cobra space adventure
Katekyou Hitman Reborn and Kimi no Iru Machi
Initial D
Panty and Stocking was the first I went crazy over.
Yosuga no sora
Inuyasha, " I want to change the world!" was catchy as fuck
>>138605377
Samurai Pizza Cats, the episode where Polly did some Shinto thing. Broke my brain.
Big O
>>138605377
First seasons of Bleach & Death Note.
>>138606182
>Getting hooked by kimi no iru machi
Wow anon I would have left and never looked back if that was one of my first mangos
>>138605377
NHK made me like anime.
This scene
>>138605377
Gundam Wing
Yes yes, I was a Toonamifag.
Rizelmine is the first one I saw, I'm pretty sure.
I watched some pokemon, hamtaro, and medabots when I was a kid but we didn't have cable or even decent over the air service at my house so it was only when I was over at friends.
First and still the best.
>>138608645
Elfen Lied was a great. It tried so hard to be serious and shock the viewer but just came off as nothing short of comedic.
>>138609111
Agreed
Watching Vampire Hunter D with my brother and dad
The regular dubbed stuff on TV like Dragon Ball. The first show I watched with subs was Eva.The first late night show I watched as it was airing was Bakemonogatari. >inb4 newfag
>>138605377
Record of Lodoss War OVAs and the Slayers as a child, my dad was into anime and bought the VHS as they came out.
>>138609194
Believe me I was shocked as fuck when I saw it the first time
>>138607549
I was at the age where I couldn't tell the difference between good manga and shit.
>>138605377
Hell of a weird one to start on, but it worked.
>>138609111
This one came soon after. Still great.
>>138607170
Watching this now, absolutely amazing series.Dorothy a best.
>>138609194
As baby's first edgy anime, it worked, at least for me. The OP at least I can still appreciate.
>>138610554
>dat Yoruichi booty
Mmm-mmm-mmm! Delicious!
Late night anime on Sci-fi
>>138605377
Card Captor Sakura when I was like, 3 years old.
There was never any hope for me.
Either Samurai Champloo or Yu-Yu Hakasho
>>138605377
And I never looked back.
I think the first anime I really watched was pokemon. I then started watching things like dragon ball and other anime on Toonami so I guess my interest in anime started there. I remember one night I watched the first episode of FMA and the part where Ed loses his leg and they see the product of their failed transmutation really scared me. I wouldn't watch FMA again for probably a few years. My friend introduced me to manga around 6th grade with Buso Renkin and Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning so that's where my interest in manga began.
>>138609236
I had always watched the regular dubbed stuff on TV too, but I think the first anime I watched subbed, while it was airing, was Code Geass. I remember streaming the episodes once a week late at night when they'd come out. I wonder when I stopped streaming anime.
>>138605377
>hobby
This shit has been a time sink for years taking my years and turning them into memories.
That said, probably Tenchi. It's been years, I remember trading tapes with friends and watching new shows.
Haruhi, myHigh School girlfriendintroduced me to it.
Bleach was my first anime.
Even to this day i wait foraizen to get out of the fucking chair
Watched anime before but Full Metal Alchemist or FLCL. Fond memories of both.
>>138612234
please tell me you dumped her for haruhi instead
>>138612952
No, I dumped her for Nagato.
>>138613071
Good job anon.
>>138605377
Heidi The Girl In The Mountains
DBZ
Pokemon
Card Captor Sakura
Samurai Pizza Cats
I am a bit old school.
>>138613071
shit taste, but you were still young back then.
>>138605377
officially, Kanon 2002. I used to watch Granzort and Lets&Go when I was little, but I was too young back then.
>>138605377
Ichigo Mashimaro, watched as much slice as life anime as i could after that
but nothing could compare, thankfully that show is infinitely rewatchable
10/10 shit anime I'm still mad. I don't know why I continued watching anime after.
>>138613273
But Nagato is best girl
Hellsing. I have a blog story about it too.
I know the person who helped introduce me to that browses /a/.
>>138613411
>Hellsing
One of the few anime I think is better dubbed and it's a great show in general. The opening theme is always playing in my head.
>>138613461
I watched it subbed. Honestly I only watched it for a girl, and ended up getting hooked on anime. Its OP is still one of my favorites, definitely in my top 5.
Gundam Seed and >>138606524 on bionix planted the seed. Years later I watched 00, E7, and Eureka 7.
Manga was Monster
>>138613726
Samurai 7 and E7.shameful
Clannad for me.
Naruto got me interested. Steins;gate confirmed it was an addiction worth getting cancer for
Voltes V.
Guilty crown
>>138605377
First seen on tv - shaman king
First watched from ep 1 to the end in about 4 nights at the age of 10 - Eva. That shit fucked me up for life.
*guilty cough* Naruto
Kannon 2006. Back in 7th grade, ah the memories.
Captain Tsubasa, Detective Conan and Phantom Thief Jeanne.
First anime I watched subbed wasShingeki no Kyojin. Yeah, it took me some time
>>138605377
Boku No Pico. I watched it with my sister.
Rosario + vampire when it was on netflix, it doesn't hold up looking back at it, but it made me want to watch more
Lucky Star.
I had seen a lot of the shit on Toonami/Adult Swim growing up and even though I really liked some of it and knew of 4chan since like 2006, none of it changed my habits much i.e didn't actively seek it out on my own and hoard it nor consider myself really into anime.
Until one day some guy posted a gif of the LS opening dance and somehow it transfixed me, watched it loop for god knows how long and went to go seek it out.
Dubbed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN9TD_Txy2k
Lucky Star, I didn't like it, hated it but it got me to try other stuff. I was really into Manga though so Japanese media wasn't new to me.
dragon ball z in the mornings but
naruto made me feel some feels and now i'm just about to go from there
Used to fucking hate anime and hated everyone that constantly posted little girl reaction images
But just last year after summer I remembered that chink show Avatar I used to watch as a kid and decided to actually watch it, watched all ~60 episodes in like 2 days and actually enjoyed it so I decided to give anime a try since I was bored as fuck.
The first anime I watched was Tokyo Ghoul dubbed no fucking idea why but whenever I thought of anime this always came to my head, I actually enjoyed it although the monotonous voice acting got to me and I decided to watch my 2nd anime which was Shokugeki no Souma which i really fucking enjoyed, since then I've watched a shit ton of anime and wish I never started because I cant find anything good anymore and don't want to watch the little girl shit like madoka. I seriously cant understand how anyone could watch that steaming pile of shit it actually infuriates me.
/blog
>>138615444
Are you over 18?
>>138605895
are you me? do you laugh at how unrealistic they are too?
Detective Conan/Case Closed. I watched it on adult swim when I was 5 or 6 years old (it was sor gory for a 6 year old). I remember the train murder case.
Akira. It's been a while since then.
>>138617110
also, I'm still surprised that it's still going to this day. Almost 1000 chapters now, what the fuck.
>>138605377
Haruhi.
>>138605377
Digimon adventures
>>138615566
Unlikely
TWGOK pls no bully
hajime no ippo 10/10 had seen more before this. but this made me realise anime is just great.
Stop lying /a/ I guarantee at least ninety percent of the posters in this room started with Inuyasha and are making up stories.
Haruhi or lucky star
>>138605377
Lain IIRC. Bleach and Death Note made me give anime a chance, but Lain made me actually watch more.
>>138605377
>Fujoshi pandering
Looking back at this, I can't believe I didn't see the signs.
Pokemon. Then Inuyasha. Assuming that's pretty common for a lot of people.
Slayers, because I played Dota at that time and heard that Lina Inverse comes from that series.
>>138606626
This and pic related
Lucky Star, pls don't judge me.
I had seen Pokémon and Dragonball Z like everyone else but I didn't even have a clue what anime was or where it came from.
Through internet forums and youtube I got into this whole business.
Sometimes I wish I didn't.
Bobobo
The best shit I've ever watched. You should watch it if you want have a good time.
>>138605377
My introduction to anime. Also my introduction to yuri. Still hooked on both.
Only started watching anime seriously because of PSG.
mobile suit gundam, gunbuster, dragon ball
i'm old
>>138610429
Oreimo
GITS, Akira and Battle Angel Alita
>>138605377
>Bokuksatsu tenshi Dokuro Chan
Looking back at it now, it was a pretty shitty show
>>138621685
But at least you can get a cheap laugh out of it.
>>138621718
Honestly the first few animes i watched for my hobby were all dumb ecchi shit that I like because I was a 13 year old
While it wasn't my first, SAO was what got me into anime as a hobby.
It's a toss up among Yaiba, Ranma and Dragonball (not Z).
Before those I was a fan of X-men, Power Rangers, Voltron and Biker Mice from Mars so I was inevitably going to shift into liking anime anyway.
One Piece is what really hooked me.
It has a weird mix of comedy and drama. You'd feel really pumped at times, but then you receive a figurative kick in the balls.
still my alltime favorite
I think it was Dragonball's manga when I was like 7 or something, but it could also be either Pokemon or Doraemon.
I read the fight against Frieza in manga first, and holy shit it blew the fuck out of me.
I've liked cartoons since I was little and I never wanted to grow up
Pokemon as a kid, the American dub of Ghost Stories as a redditor
Naruto. One of my friends showed it to me back in 2002 when it first started airing, and I had never seen anything like it.
I used to watch anime back a long time ago but it was mostly battle shounen shit like Bleach, Inuyasha and DBZ.Then I had a period lasting from the end of middle school to the end of high school where I thought anime was fuckin' STUPID and tried to get away from it as much as possible.
And then this little cutie finally brought me back into it after my opinion on the medium mellowed out a bit.
As a very young kid I watched Dragin Ball Z but I didn't really "get" it. I just watched for the action and yelling, even though I had no idea what they were yelling about.
Death Note got me into anime in general and Toaru Majutsu no Index (and it's spin offs) got me into keeping up with anime source material
Probably Astro Boy, which I think I even watched in black and white back then over 30 years ago.
hopeanuoli
>>138605377
eevanjellyon
Yuyu Hakusho
Soul eater
>>138615444
I don't think you belong here
I got french vhs with a few cobra episodes and then it starts
Along with Zenki, Daimos, Voltes V, Yuyu Hakusho, Vision of Escaflowne and BTX
I Watched death note out of curiosity. After that I really didn't watch any more anime until I stumbled upon monster, baccano and neon genesis evangelion. After that, watching anime became an hobby.
>>138605377
mushishi
gave me my massive bias for youkai centric anime
this fucking thing that people won't stop shitposting with
watched code geass before though but that was kind of a one off thing that didn't go anyway
Shamanic Princess
>>138613411
my nigger
I feel bad for saying this but DEEN'Stay Night
I think Code Geass is what got me hooked on anime and JoJo for manga
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Boku No Pico was the first show I watched.
But not counting that, NonNon Biyori
If we're being honest here, I got into anime through the fuckton of hentai I watched in high school.
>>138605377
I... I don't remember
for me id say it was dragonball/dbz, inuyasha, ruroni kenshin mmm prob digimon and everything techTV showed on anime unleashed but i prob had several anime under my belt already by then. cowboy bebop and the anime that i fell in love with was wolfs rain. it was great. that, code geass, eurika7, heat guy j, gundam wing and big o. dang guess iv always loved anime. also i remember renting some anime vhs's real young like ninja scroll and something called utopia or something similar. theres been so many over the years i cant even begin to list them all
>>138605377
Combination of Bleach, Haruhi and strangely enough End of Evangelion.
Oreimo desu
I've been interested in anime and manga for ages, but never actually tried to seek the hobby, since I'm a lazy piece of shit. Doesn't help that my country doesn't have Toonami and the only channel dedicated to anime died years ago, otherwise things would be different.
In short, I started with Madokathis year
>>138619838
Lucky star was awesome though
I got into anime way back with evangelion but i only started watching seasonal shit after i watched LoGH a few years ago.
I just wanted to watch something comfy after work.
>>138605377
well actually I read the manga version first and that sucked me in, but i did watch the anime version of Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne right after so that was the one.
>>138605377
Gaiking.
Desert Punk
>>138605377
I've started my career watching complete shit.
1st anime was ICE
2nd was Hellsing anime series.
