How did you get into anime?
One of my earliest clear memories was watching voltron.
I blame imprinting.
Toonami.
I realized that I would never have a meaningful relationship with a woman, so I needed an escape from reality.
/b/ coerced me into downloading azumanga and haruhi
>>135813246
This desu fampai
>>135812780
one of my xfire friends told me about bleach when it was just a manga so i went and watched the raws like ten years agoi was filthy dumb streaming scum
Pokemon/sailormoon/dragonball
>>135812780
I still haven't.
>>135813276
The pain was intense. I've since moved on. My PVC collection grows and my 2D fetish is strong.
>>135812780
My older sister sat me down and watched Sailor Moon and Gunsmith Cats with meI love herYes in that way
>>135812780
friendsin maplestorymade me try it
Star Blazers
I can't remember that came after that
maybe, robotech paper rpgs?
then sailor moon on tv?
the only thing I know for sure is that I never developed taste
I'm Japanese so I dunno, culture i guess?
>>135812780
Bionix on YTV. Most of the shows were kind've ass but at the time I thought it was the hottest thing since sliced bread.
attack on titan
>>135813274
Same here. I was intrigued by some of what I read in anime rec threads on /b/ which quickly led to my own discoveries among some of the best shows from the 21st century and I was hooked:
All the anime I've seen in the order I've seen it (part one):
Howl's Moving Castle
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoko
Spice and Wolf
Fooly Cooly (FLCL)
Code Geass
Death Note
Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica
Oreimo
Shangri-la
The Grave of the Fireflies
The Girl Who Leapt through Time
Soro no Woto (Sound of the Sky; 2010)
Amigami SS+ Plus
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzymiya
Waiting In the Summer
Clannad
Space Brothers (Uchuu Kyoudai)
Five Centimeters per Second
Clannad Afterstory
The Disappearence of Haruhi Suzymia
Lagrange The Flower of Rin-ne
Squid Girl
Black Rock Shooter
K-On (2009)
Lucky Star
Steam Boy
Tari Tari
Lucky Star OVA
K-On (2010)
Tamako Market
Tamayura Hitotose
Hanasaku Iroha
Welcome to the NHK
Girls und Panzer
Eve no Jikan
A Letter to Momo
Shin Sekai Yori
Red Data Girl
Oreimo 2
Hyouka
True Tears
From Up On Poppy Hill
Chuunibyo demo Koi ga Shitai!
K-On (2011)
Gatchaman Crowds
Kiniro Mosaic
Watemote
Tamayura More Aggressive
Natsuiro Kiseki
Summer Wars
Mai Mai Miracle
Non Non Biyori
Stella Women's Academy, High School Division Class C3
Miyakawa-Ke no Kuufuku (Lucky Star spin-off mini series)
Kyoukai no Kanata
Nagi no Asukara 1
Coppelion
Gunslinger Girl
Gunslinger Girl Il Teatro
Nausica In the Valley of the Wind
Yuyushiki
Wake Up, Girls!
Sora no Woto (repeat)
Zetsumetsu Kigu Shōjo Amazing Twins OVA 1
Chuunibyo demo Koi ga Shitai! 2
Nagi no Asukara 2
Haibane Renmei
Mysterious Girlfriend X
Selector Infected Wixoss
Mekakucity Actors
Isshuuken Friends
Auria
Encouragement of Climb
Denpa Onna To Seishun Otoko
Steins;Gate
Sabagabu
Locodol
Love Live 1
I needed to fit in on all of the /g/ IRC channels
>>135813807
All the anime I've seen in the order I've seen it (part two):
Hanasaku Iroha Movie "Home Sweet Home"
Encouragement of Climb 2 (Yama No Suzame 2) cour 1
Selector Spread Wixoss
Love Live 2
Yama no Suzame 2, cour 2
Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru
Amagi Brilliant Park
Cencoroll (OVA)
SPT Layzner - 1986 OVA 1
Denki-Gai no Honaya San
Shiro Bako 1
Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls 1
Heaven's Memo Pad
Shirobako 2
Sound Euphonium
Norigami 1
The Disappearence of Yuki Nagato
Hotarubi no Mori e
Kiniro Mosaic Hello!
Gakkou Gurashi!
Non Non Biyori Repeat
Day Break Illusion
Little Witch Academia The Enchanted Parade
Tamako Love Story
Gatchaman Crowds Insight
Million Doll
Cinderella Girs 2
Gate-Jieitai-Kanochi-nite-Kaku-Tatakaeri
Wakaba Girl
This game.
Though I used to watchFate Stay/Nightbefore going to school, I thought of it as just another cartoon like Woody Woodpecker and Static Shock.
My friend told me to watch this Hentai. It had scat and hardcore. It was the first japanese animation I saw in DVD. Then I got into Hentai. Eventually, I found anime in the internet.
Anime Week on Sci-Fi
I was looking for the hades season of Saint Seiya back when it was brand new and without dub, and the shady place where I bought the pirate disc sold other series so that was my gatewary.
>>135812780
My mom liked to watch Sailor Moon.
>>135813807
>>135813859
Christ, why the fuck did you decide it was important to post that list?
Pro tip: "Season1 - Season2" are not separate shows.
>>135814242
The /a/ is for autism.
Pretty late, but I started with Baby Steps
>>135814036
Mah Niggah.
A mix of Pokemon and the first thing I first recognized as anime was the movie Kiki's Deliviery Service.
Watched alot of it as a kid.
Mazinger Z
Grendizer
Cobattler V
Kabamaru
Pmw Sanshiro
DBZ movies dubbed in asia.
Grew out of it until one day I saw a Mazinkaiser DVD on sale in maybe 2002 and been watching anime and reading manga ever since.
Lurked the internet until I decided to watch some entry-tier anime likeClannad.Thus began my descent.
Hot girl on skype who was getting naked for me mentioned we should watch some.So we did and thats that
>>135812780
I took an exchange trip to Japan. Given that 70% of the others on the trip were weeb by the time I got back I thought I'd HAVE to give anime a try. Then I found out my best friend was hiding powerlevel and when he discovered I wasn't averse to anime he sperged out recommending me all sorts.
The rest is unfortunate history.
What really got me into anime was GITS on MTV.
>>135813807
>>135813859
nice blogpost you fucking faggot
>>135814528
>Then I found out my best friend was hiding powerlevel and when he discovered I wasn't averse to anime he sperged out recommending me all sorts.
>tfw your that guy
>>135812780
Via haremshit and manga.
>>135813859
You didnt watch No Game No Life.
Go watch it now
>>135813859
You dont have Yuru Yuri on there either
Was at a friends and he was watching soul eater when I was gonna go to sleep, but I ended up staying up all night and watched like 20 eps that night.
If you actually like anime, there's no moment that you get into it. It's just something that you start watching in TV when you're a kid and then at some point you start downloading them.
>>135813807
>>135813859
Omedetou, anon-kun. You've watched more than 5 anime. Pachi pachi.
>>135813807
>>135813859
>I've seen 10 shows with 2 seasons and a couple of OVA
>I need to share how big of casual faggot I am because I love to embarass my self!
If you haven't watched atleast this many shows you fucking need to get the fuck
>>>/out/
>>135813859
subscribed.
Cardcaptor Sakura on my local national TV channel
I wake up every morning just to watch Sakura every Sunday
>>135812780
I watched Naruto back in 5th-6th grade.
I will never have those days back.
friend of mine told me to watch death note and FMA, many years later, here i am
>>135812780
TTGL, Katawa Shoujo, and my college anime club
Now I've seen more and know more about anime than even you lifelong weebs :)
>>135813807
>>135813859
Nice blog there with your anime starter pack
I saw Mononoko Hime on a /k/ stream a few years ago. After seeing Girls und Panzer related pics on /k/ a few times I decided t watch it and I enjoyed it. After that I just kept watching stuff that friends reccomended or that looked interesting.
my dad watched anime with me around as a babby
>>135815071
>icons
Your autism is remarkable
>Watch K-on
>Repeat
>>135812780
I was a mangafag (started with Death Note), tried some anime before but don't liked, them I tried SnK and liked (because fuck it, it's cool) and I'm here since then.
>>135815251
Not really. There's an automated program for that.
Older sister got me to watch Berserk.
Watamote was recommended in the Katawa Shoujo generals. Yes, I am the cancer.
>>135815251
I got it from the best
>>135815386
do you worship her? because you should
I got in to because of 4chan.
>>135812780
I watched Ranma, Evangelion, DBZ and other shows on tv as a kid.
Use to browse /b/ think I clicked on /a/ by mistake and saw something CG related or something that made me want to watch it.
Downloaded it and the rest is history.
I mean I watched Yu gi oh/Pokemon and shit but it was never made me go wow I need to get more of this.
A friend made me watch FMP.
>>135813807
Consider suicide, newfriend.
Watched FMA:B and some episodes of Cowboy Bebop on toonami a long time ago.
Watched only Cowboy Bebop/Naruto/Mushishi/Bleach/Darker than Black over the span of years.
Watched SAO on a whim one day, discovered how effective an escape anime could be.
Slowly turned into a hobby after that.
Toonami when Gundam Wing was airing
Umaru-chan
I did try to watch Clannad once in 2010-2011 because of that one scene where sidekick blonde guy gets BTFO. My brother found out and started to bully me. Made it to episode 18.
>>135815440
Nah I am just really good friends with her. Go over to her place and watch anime together on the weekends. She has pure disdain for moe shit which I find odd. I think of her as a brother honestly.
>>135815626
What the fuck? does that mean you're here for like 6 months?
>>135815671
I dunno man you do the math
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IS3qsmQAjs
Watched this at grandma's, that one tape I had tape ran hot. The people who made Rai knew that kids want to be scared and see cute animals pierced through the throat with spears. She also had Macross, which made an enormous impact on me. As far as I was concerned Star Wars wasn't shit, they had no Itano circus. The Daedalus attack is always nostalgic to watch.
>>135815440
There's guys out there who don't worship their anekis?
watched pokemon/sailormoon/dbz/gundam wing as a kid. cousin then introduced me to bebop & trigun
Aside from Pokeymans and DBZ, I clearly remember watching Lupin III and Cowboy Bebop on adult swim.
watched this circa 1995.though prior to that there was voltron and speed racer
Think at some Point I watched Heroic Age and then I just consumed everything I found.
>>135815671
Pretty much,also, my second anime was oreimo. Imouto fever sure is strong
>>135815995
Do you atleast download shows like a decent human being would? If so then you're alright I guess , be like this guy.
>>135815071
I've been a weeb since I was a kid.
But when I was 13-14 I started to watch shit in japanese but I can't remember the exact moment or how it happened. Probably a friend got me into it.
>>135812780
I already knew some mainstream dbz op naruto you GI oh but i wasnr realy into it although i didnt knew there are more oft the genre .. So i got into it by hearing a Name yuno gasai i searched in the web and found future diary and i was like wtf i need more of this shit.. This is where my love to anime started xD
>>135813241
This + Pokemon, iirc.
1978 my brothers and I watched the original Gatchaman on TV
1984 my brothers and I watched Tranzor Z on TV (Mazinger Z)
1985 my brothers and I watched Voltron on TV
1985-6 my brothers and I watched Robotech on TV. Out of desperation we also watched Sylvanian Families because the voice actors were the same from Robotech.
1990 my brother's friend got him every single episode of the Macross Saga on video cassette, it was taped off TV
1996 my friend introduced me to Ranma 1/2. Up until that point I had some idea some of the cartoons I watched as a kid weren't from the US but I had no idea what Japanese animation was. Ranma 1/2 was the first show I watched I knew was from Japan. I began watching show after show after show I could get my hands on. Luckily I had copies of Robotech on tape I could copy and trade. Picked up everything from Evangelion to 10 Little Gal Force and everything in between.
1998 I graduated from college with a Liberal Studies degree (seriously, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life) I used that degree to get a variety of jobs from test grader to proofreader and used the money to buy DVDs and fansubs.
That's pretty much it. I'm 40, been on 4chan for 9 years, back in school getting a degree in geology. I read and understand Japanese and play a lot of eroge. I took a few Japanese classes back in college.
Sorry for the blog but you did ask. To make up for being a dick, I'm reading this for /jp/, it's something I guess. You can join in and read along or whatever
>>>/jp/14505023
starts here
https://warosu.org/jp/thread/S14283655
>>135812780
Couldn't sleep one night, turned on Toonami at, like, 4:00 in the morning, saw the last ten minutes of the third episode of FLCL, fell in love
>>135813807
>>135813859
Why the actual fuck?
>>135813807
>>135813859
is 4chan your blog or some shit fuck off to /b/
Nichijou MAD's
>>135816095
Streamer. Sorry buddy, anime is not really that essential to me at the moment.
Television back then screened anime. I had no hopes even from the beginning.
My first manga wasAbsolute Boyfriend by Yuu Watase
Not sure about first anime. I used to be friends with every autismo emo reject in middle school so I was exposed to anime from every side
>>135816641
Why the fuck are you on /a/ then . And why are you even sharing it , fucking christ man.
I was watching random youtube videos and Lucky Star was in one of suggestions. I enjoyed it and still enjoy cute girls doing cute things.
Late 90s toonami.
>>135816768
If this makes you feel better, I don't mind downloading 192 kbps MP3 for some albums.
>>135812780
>How did you get into anime?
Fullmetal Alchemist came on after Sealab and Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
I watched 1000 Haruhi flash loops when I was 11, then dropped Lucky Star while it was airing, then watched Kill la Kill, then followed that up with Eva and Madoka, and decided to that CGDCT is the way to go.
>>135812780
Toonami
>>135812780
One day I decided I was going to watch an anime show. It was good so I decided to watch more.
>>135812780
Cause
>>135812780
I watched a lot of Yu-Gi-Oh when I was younger but I started reading FMA and watching early UC Gundam later on, which was the real hook.
>>135816335
>mfw i'm in my 20's and been on 4chan longer then a neckbeard wizard
There used to be a VHS store two blocks from where I lived with imported stuff. The old Japanese guy was cool when I came to watch and whatnot.
I remember seeing Slayers, Devil Man, Onibaba, and various Toku.
>>135816989
>I don't mind
>some
Not that guy and /mu/tant here. Now I think you're trying to b8.
Went to academy instead of middle school. It was miles away and I had to take bus there. Started waking up at 5:30 to not feel asleep when on bus.
Watched inuyasha reruns while waiting.
>>135812780
I was never a weeb until I went to college, where for some reason all my friends were Asian.
It's been a downhill slope from there.
>>135815071
>99% BD
I like you senpai.I regret not watching anime during my mid teens, this list could be so much more.
>>135812780
I watched SAO since dyrus had a twitter about it then bamm.
>>135818410
And some anons still say /a/ haven't changed for the worse.
Good manime? no mech
been nothing but sol and yuri the past few months
>>135818666
Legend of the Blue Wolves
>>135812780
I wasn't properly raised
>>135818729
>Legend of the Blue Wolves
No places has heard of this.
>>135812780
I watched Power DOLLS when I was 6
>>135818380
use this shit I'm using >>135815435
http://animeruinslives.blogspot.com
I think you already have the icons though just cannot be bothered.
>>135813274
This, but add Lucky Star.
I wonder if there's even anything anime related left on that shithole. Whenever I go to see how it looks it's just 3DPD porn and nothing else.
>>135819169
>I think you already have the icons though just cannot be bothered
That's correct. I'm sure when this drive fills up and I have to get another one I'll set them up.I won't.
I watched My Little Pony until I found out that Japan has been making even better cute cartoons for decades. Sorry for being cancer.
>>135819299
>4 TB HD full
>bought another 4 TB for back up
>1 TB fresh downloads sitting on my PC nowhere to go
>Would end up buying x2 6TB
Kill me now.
>>135815054
Pic related show sucked balls
>>135813274
>>135819228
For me it was azumanga, lucky star and rozen maiden, then haruhi some time later
I infrequently watched DBZ and Pokémon as a child. In middle school, my friend forced me to watch two episodes of FMA, which didn't interest me. Then, in high school, I watched Attack on Titan, which prompted me to watch other shows, including:
Knights of Sidonia
Sagebu
Kill la Kill
TTGL
Barakamon
Space Dandy
Steins;Gate
Code Geass
Nichijou
K ON (2011)
Ghost Stories (dubbed)
Neon Genesis Evangelion
I Can't Understand what my Husband is Saying
Himouto Umaru-chan
Parasyte
Death Note
Dragonball Super
Gangsta
Watamote
Non non biyori
Maria the Virgin Witch
Yatterman Night
Squid Girl
got told serial experiments lain was worth watching, is it true? what can i expect of it?
>>135820314
Why didn't you learn from the other blogfag?
>>135820325
You won't understand it.
>>135820314
Why the fuck would autistic fucks like you think it's a good idea to share your shitty anime starter packs with everyone.
First anime I ever saw was IGPX very early in the morning (as a little kid I'd sometimes get up 4-5 in the morning, what I wouldn't give to have that kind of energy again). Later Pokemon and YuGiOh, which are pretty standard fare on American TV. Then Toonami did their "Month of Miyazaki" which is where I first learned that Japanese animation was a distinct category, and that it way outclassed anything in the West. I watched some Naruto and One Piece via Toonami, but of course the block ended up folding in 2008.
I kinda grew away from all animation soon after that, and moved towards non-fiction educational TV. I started coming to 4chan in 2009, but I was almost purely a /b/tard for a while.
One thing that finally did rekindle my interest was as a HS senior, it turns out that Spirited Away was on the curriculum. Man, did that bring back memories. It also got me thinking again about Japanese culture.
Before I went off to college, I heard that the students were big into animu (largest college anime club in the region, with its own con), so that summer I figured, "Well, now's as good a time as any to get started, so I'll have something light to talk about with other people." Over the summer I watched FMA, then Burst Angel and GiTS. I discovered KLK just as it had finished its initial airing, and that definitely got me hooked.
I didn't really make the connection though between 4chan and anime until this previous summer. Once I did however, I've enjoyed the ride ever since.
That's my story, and hopefully now I won't have to explain it again.
Pic: First anime image I posted to 4chan, late one night to /b/ while watching Toonami in college.
>>135812780
Other boards talking about the really popular stuff got me interested enough to give it a shot. Then I liked it enough to start keeping up with seasonal stuff. Now I spend all of my time here instead.
>>135818380
I left my teens with less than 10 shows. I feel like I wasted my precious youth.
My family's pretty open with anime and manga in general. my dad likes Berserk, Akira, and Robotech. Mom liked NGE and FMA when it came out. I was watching cartoon network one time and hit record on an episode of cardcaptors and was hooked on it since then.
>pic related
>>135812780
I watched bits and pieces of a few series circa 2004-5 when my life was first derailed by this place (fuck year limewire and TV anime) but what started me down the path to full-blown weebdom was Dennou Coil. It was so goddamn good that I started looking for more when I finished it and I've been here full-time since - although I will mention that I don't go in for yuri, moebait shows or waifus/tulpas/merch/etc. like much of /a/ does. I went in for Japanese cooking, history, politics, etc. instead. I think I'd be more of a "japanophile" than a "weeaboo", but I think that also correlates to being a more complete and utter failure of a human being.
CCS on TV, and other stuff lead to another then before i know, im addicted to anime.
/a/ -> /r9k/
>>135813618
you were born in japan?
makes sense if so.
>>135812780
Watched Toonami + Pokemon as a kid but grew out of it and stopped watching anime until 2013.
After 6 years of being on 4chan every single day I finally gave in and watched an anime. Death Note dubbed (better than the sub btw, fight me). Liked it and went straight to K-On! (subbed) because I used to see the Keions posted so much on every board.
K-On! is now my favorite anime
Toonami for entry-level English shit, then in middle school my friend gave me a disc with FMP! subbed on it and it was downhill from there.
>>135822246
>downhill
You talk as if anime is somehow a bad thing.
>>135820325
Cool, incoherent, slow
>>135812780
A damn weeb acquaintance. I started watching show he recommended, then there was no turning back.
>>135822246
>FMP!
good choice in friends anon
![[gg]_Valvrave_the_Liberator_-_04_[88D7EE45].mkv_snapshot_16.10_[2015.12.19_01.56.10].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/1V8k1R1.jpg "[gg]_Valvrave_the_Liberator_-_04_[88D7EE45].mkv_snapshot_16.10_[2015.12.19_01.56.10].jpg")
After i had sex with my girlfriend I noticed she had the FMA brotherhood BD on her desk and said her friend gave it to her to watch and we ended up watching it together, pretty comfy Tbh.
Then i started watching other shit like it weeks later.
>>135812780
Visited /a/ one time, fell in love with the board.
>>135822959
>gf
I saw parts of Yu Yu Hakusho when I was pretty young, and never remembered what it was, just that it was an awesome cartoon
Then years later I wanted to watch that cool show from when I was little again, but could never find it on TV
Eventually I was flipping through channels and somehow it was airingIt was the only anime I watched for years since I thought anime was for losers
>>135822959
>After i had sex with my girlfriend
A friend of mine told me to watch Code Geass, he showed me the Opening, I saw CC's ass
Sold.
>>135822959
>After i had sex with my girlfriend
I came to /a/ one day out of curiosity, watched FMA and Eva, and never turned back. Fuck you guys.
I also watched a lot of Pokemon, Digimon, and Hamtaro as a kid, so that probably has something to do with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVys7jcCJDs
This video.
Played WoW with this girl I met on it maybe 8 years ago. A friend showed her Hellsing, and she showed me. That's the first anime I've ever seen.
If anyone's curious, she disappeared about four years ago.Melissa pls I miss you. You're the only person I've never been able to get over
>>135815671
There are plenty of newfags who get into anime because they watched a seasonal meme show they heard about on /v/. I'm sure it happened with hundreds when KLK aired. It's absolute cancer.
![maxresdefault[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/tM45uyW.jpg "maxresdefault[1].jpg")
i heard about this show in my anime club and then someone said we should look at /a/
>>135823809
who /voltes5/ here?!
>>135822959
>After i had sex with my girlfriend
>Having a weeb gf
https://youtu.be/RSe8D2wfGKI
>tfw the pirate rap hooked me on One Piece
>tfw waking up early so I could catch it
Christ, I remember it so vividly. Though, that was my first exposure, yigioh 5Ds was my true gateway anime when I was about 15. Shit was so fucking cool, I mean the opening wasshitty but I still loved the fuck out of it
https://youtu.be/VZhDs5yegkI
>>135823934
Believe it or not, anime clubs *do* talk about is, though it's often in the sort of hushed whispers and "THAT site" that makes you figure out that we're kinda the forces of darkness to people out there.
>>135823934
Believe it or not there are people that casual.
My friend made me watch FLCL and Gurren Lagann after I made fun of her for watching anime.
Pokemon and Yugioh dubs when I was a kid. The first anime that actually got me into anime wasBleach.
>>135813859
>>135813807
/a/utism at its best
>>135823653
Wait did everyone call her Missy? If so I'm the friend that showed her Hellsing.
>>135812780
By saving reaction images of smug anime girls on 4chan. No seriously
>>135822959
beito desu
>>135825183
Well this conversation has certainly taken an interesting turn.
>>135823653
>she disappeared about four years ago
sure she didn't just stop playing?
that happens you know, people lose interest in video games as they get older, just like anime
When I was younger I was flipping through channels and switch over to CN while Toonami was running, and I managed to catch the last ten minutes of the last episode of the first season of Sailor Moon.And, I've continued to have things spoiled for me ever since.
>>135813366
>xfire
My nigga
But for me it was Toonami and Gundam Wing, mostly. 16 years later I have a waifu, love moe and idolshit, and single. Yayyyyy
>>135812780
Tried Bleach and To Love-Ru in middle school but never really got into it. One day I caught the Rammiel fight from 1.11 on the FUNimation channel while surfing for TV-MA boobs and shit. Thus, an Evafag was born.
Pic not related.
>>135812780
I watched Hanaukyo Maid Team Tai on youtube. After that i watched Hanaukto Maid Team La Verite and Mahoromatic the same way. Had a maid fetish, and anime was the lewdest, strangest stuff my 7th grade self had ever seen.
>>135825417
Yozora is your waifu?Goodtaste
I stayed up late one night and accidentally saw toonami. From then on it was all downhill
>>135820314
now THIS is bait
>>135826516
I don`t get it.
>>135812780
TechTV aired a few shows after Robot Wars, which is where I saw Dual and Lain. Apparently they showed Crest of the Stars too, but I somehow missed it the first time around.
I think I saw Spirited Away a few years before that, but it isn't what hooked me.
/f/, /int/, and friends
>>135822959
(You)
>>135827141
I neglected to mention that I was exposed to Doraemon with Chinese subtitles in my childhood.
>>135826895
>a bunch of cops and government agents poring over every thread on 4chan ever
>extremely plausible
![[OZC]The Big O E12 'Enemy is Another Big!' [720p].mkv_snapshot_19.20_[2015.11.04_11.12.50].png](https://i.imgur.com/oXwTisO.jpg "[OZC]The Big O E12 'Enemy is Another Big!' [720p].mkv_snapshot_19.20_[2015.11.04_11.12.50].png")
>>135812780
Watched Toonami
Didn't really watch animu at all in the mid 2000s after that
Got back into it in like 2007 and have basically just watched a shitton of stuff since then
>>135812780
Watched it my whole life. And not toonami or any of that shit. I became more of a hardcore fan a few years ago when I learned more about the fandom and popular anime.
>>135827721
Not all of 4chan, just /b/. You do know what happens there, do you?
4chan bullied me into it.
>>135812780
>How did you get into anime?
I just did. And it never let go.
Surprising enough, I've been to western movies and all that, but that left me anyway. Doesn't help that all those million dollar movies are getting more and more crap.
>>135827775
I stopped browsing /b/ a long time ago, like any rational person would. I'm sure plenty of illegal stuff goes on there, but it's probably reported often enough that they don't need to actively search for it. Or, enlighten me on what's going on?
>>135827859
The downfall in the quality of /b/ is explained in the screencap. /b/ is also extremely fast, so a thread with CP could last a minute and go undetected without DoJ monitoring. Regular mods couldn't report every thread.
>>135825009
Holy fuck can you be anymore of a faggot.
Why do all tripfags think /a/ is their little fucking super secret club?
>forces of darkness
Literal fucking autism
>>135812780
Replaced one sinful hobby into this current sinful anime hobby
>>135812780
Was bored and wanted to watch an anime out of curiosity. Remembered a Ryuuko figurine ad here and torrented KlK.
Toonami, also my dad is a massive weeaboo and let me borrow his Evangelion and Sgt. Frog DVDs.
>>135812780
I want to marry Ui.
>>135812780
In late 90s I watched Dragon Half, instantly fell in love with Mink and furiously fapped to her numerous times. Soon after that I moved on Ghost in the Shell moviewhich i didn't find fappable.
>>135812780
By watching it.
Immenent Blogshit incoming
>Know about 4chan since around 08 or 09 through ED
>Start lurking and using /b/ around late 2010
>Move to /sp/ and /v/ a year later
>See K-on reaction images everywhere
>"Lmao, this shit is gay" as I put up crunchyroll or YouTube or something to watch it
>Enjoy it, watch Squidgirl, Anohana, Clannad and enjoy them. Think that AS is the best shit on earth and nothing could top it.
>Begin browsing /a/ in the summer of 13'
>Get banned and called a faggot a lot
>Don't understand why muh rec threads are deleted and why /a/ is a bunch of pretentious cocksuckers
>Begin watching seasonal stuff
>Begin using /a/ in a not as gay manner
>Enjoy myself watching what I like and calling people faggots on /a/
4chan is the only reason why I started watching anime, built a PC, bought some firearms, among other things. Weird how a site full of autists has given me a variety of interests.
>>135812780
this girl i liked watched a lot of anime, so i found out what she liked and watched it too so we could have something to talk about.
never ended up talking to her just watched more and more, that was 3 years ago now
I looked up Yotsuba a short while after discovering 4chan, then looked up Azumanga Daioh and started watching dubbed episodes on YouTube
A friend before they went tumblr on me. Friends, never again.
>>135814799
Good taste /a/non
>>135829052
It feels good knowing that one day, a famous person will thank 4chan for all the inspiration and memories.
>>135829092
Same here, except I actually borrowed it from the library. Can't get more casual than that.
Evangelion, not even joking. Summer 2005, I remember it like it was yesterday.
>>135812780
Lot's ofmwee spamminggot me into.
>>135812780
Ironically it was K-On! around late 2011
I bought this special Japan issue of a gaming magazine that came with an anime sampler disc. It had the first episodes of a bunch of shows in English dub form. Being uninitiated the yaoi undertones of Black Butler and the fanservice of HOTD were a gigantic turnoff. But for whatever reason K-On! just really clicked with me. Probably because I was learning to play the guitar at the time and since I was awful at it I could relate a lot to Yui.
After that I decided to go out and buy the first two DVD volumes of the show that had been released in Australia at the time as well as the third a fourth volume when they came out. I also watched episodes of Haruhi, Death Note, Lucky Star and Code Geass on Youtube and I watched my first subtitled anime Yuru Yuri when I found out about Crunchyroll. When Bandai shut down and I didn't know whether they were going to dub the rest of K-On! I found out about fansubs and where to download them.
Everything spiralled out of control at that point and I've been watching anime since.
>>135812780
They brainwashed me with pokemon when I was a kid.
porn/hentai
I guess Pokemon was kind of a precursor followed by DBZ? I remember seeing things like .Hack and Inuyasha in magazines and such and always wanting to see more because they looked cool, but they were always on too late for me. Gradually I started getting chances to watch them, initially more at sleepovers and such. It was hard to get into them and they went over my head, but I liked the characters and really wanted to like the shows. My best friend was more into it and helped me find shows to try.
The first show I remember really getting fully invested in (to the point of actually following the plot episode by episode and finishing it) was FMA. I read manga, watched what I could On Demand, eventually started trying to find shows on the internet,started going on gaiaand so on and so forth. Now that I think about it, it would be kind of interesting to go back and try to watch some of the old shows I managed to find only a couple of episodes of when I was young.
>>135812780
Little Witch Academia, but more specifically, Sucy.
Started watching it as a kid. Old school stuff like Yu Yu Hakusho, Hunter x Hunter, Voltes V, Daimos, DBZ, Lupin III, Gundam, among others. They were localized in my own country so it was easy to watch.
I always try to remember how I got into anime or what my first series was I but never can
>>135812780
I wanted to know where all the reaction pics were coming from
>>135829061
that's crushing, anon.
I wonder how many people started watching anime and/or going to /a/ because people on their board spammed a popular seasonal anime a lot.
>>135812780
i watched some shitty bleach amv with a three days grace song.
it caused me to watch bleach, and that got me into anime.
>>135812780
I saw the Hare Hare Yukai dance while looking for new dance moves and it was just downhill from thereno regrets tho
>>135813241
yep
Out of curiousity, how many shows have you faggots watched? I was well over a hundred before I found /a/. I am somewhere above 1000 but I don't know exactly.I streamed all of them. With Hadena subs.
>>135812780
Adult Swim back when they aired it every night.
>>135815071
Where do you get all these icons?
>>135812780
i realized real life is shit
>>135830543
flipfag detected
Space Dandy on Hulu. Then Space Dandy on Toonami. Good times
>>135813575
>Star Blazers
Same. I remember when it first aired, I was fucking addicted. Watched it on our family's 8in B&W TV. Got to the episode where the Yamato sustained massive damage after firing the canon and the fucking TV tube blew. Family too poor to buy a new one. Never finished it.
Didn't find anime again until early 90s when I rented "Warriors of the Wind". Rent that fucking thing a million times.
Few years later, found Suncoast Motion Picture and it was goodbye paychecks.
I watched stuff like Ranma 1/2 and Akazukin Chacha as a kid, didn't even know what anime was back then, I watched them like regular cartoons
Then I watched an episode of Zoids and got hooked, I wondered why regular cartoons couldn't be episodic
Then Gundam, and kid shows like Beyblade, Yugioh and Crush gear turbo
then I discovered a channel that aired subbed anime: Rave, Vandread, Galaxy Angel, Cooking master boy, NieA_7 etc.
started to appreciate the attention to detail in anime, this was also the time I started really liking anime girls
then came the shonen phase
I realized that I really like the comedy in anime
a friend recommended school anime like azumanga daioh and school rumble
while looking for school romantic comedies this was when I stumbled upon Haruhi
then came Lucky Star, then K-ON!
and here I am today
>>135812780
Bobobo-bo-bobo-bo
on toonami
4chan made me start watching it regularly.
Guess it started with Ghibli, K-ON and CCS subbed.
I had watched Pokemon and Dragonball dubbed when I was a kid.
>>135812780
After school cartoons. But if we're talking about things normalfags don't watch, then it would be the year I had major depression and had fucked up my honours at uni. I asked a friend on a whim to get for me some popular shows I'd heard of, and so it all began. Coincidentally, the threats of being kicked out of my house began with it.
Toonami, pokemon, and then whenever CN would show Spirited away.
One of my teachers in grade school played Spirited Away for us as well.She got fired after that.
>>135812780
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvievLytmrs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4KvSneD9Ps
>>135813184
This and Ronin Warriors
I was bored out of my mind after breaking up with my first girlfriend like 7 years ago. As a dirty spic I started rewatching all DBZ then proceeded to watch Yu Yu Hakusho and Trigun, which were part of Animax schedule. After that it was only downhill, I became autistic, discovered /a/ and was influenced into thinking 2D girls were much better than 3D which destroyed my then good social life. At least now there is only regret and cringe.
Cardcaptors, Pokemon and Zoids desu. Didn't even think of them as anything but cartoons until I was older.
My dad had SDF Macross, Gundam, Gatchaman, Gunsmith Cats, and a few other VHS tapes laying around the house. I ended up watching them right along with Barney, Sesame Street, and Thomas the Tank Engine growing up.
I always knew /a/ was '00 baby trash. You guys act so high and mighty all the time, too. Who here had that one kid with VHS tapes of sci-fi OVAs? Now that was a time of discovery.
That little fuck hamtaro and the samurai pizza cats first sucked me in and then I figured out that they showed cooler shit late on TV and gundam, Ranma 1/2, card captor and sailor moon were the finishing touch
Kill Bill made me interested in anime the I was a child.
I grew up watching Ghibli movies and Pokemon, then moved to popular "serious" stuff like NGE and Hellsing. For me it was just a way to kill time, I could spend a coulpe of years without watching anything.
What really hooked me on anime was Nichijou, which I decided to watch because I saw OP somewhere.
I am a moeshit consumer since then.
some people had naruto shit for signatures in a mmo forum so i started watching naruto
>>135833315
>Samurai Pizza Cats
>tfw it used to air every summer, and the one summer it just stopped airing and I never knew what happened to it.
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>>135812780
from nintendo official magazine (NOM)
back when we could first start writing on CDs, my friend gave me inuyasha, evangelion, and love hina.
i was already somewhat interested in manga because i would see wallpapers of trigun and ah! my goddess, so that pretty much got me really into it.
I used to watchBakugan.
Shit was so cash.
Naruto at CN.
Sweet time marathoning that shit. Didn't even know what filler is.
Someone told me to watch Bleach 6 years ago.
Naruto , granted I didn't know that it was anime, and didn't know that is anime.
Shuffle! was my first choiceI cried like a bitchand because of it I got impression that every romance anime has batshit crazy sweet childhood friend
I live in a random island out of nowhere so my mother forbid me going out so I don't meet bad jungle niggers.
The rest is history. I bet she regret making that decision.
Jura tripper
>>135812780
I was in high-school and noticed I'm basically a loser and 4chan is the only place where I actually have fun so I might as well start watching anime. Really glad I started, the porn is a million times better than 3DPD.
>>135812780
>>135812780
My father fought the Japs in WW2. He was a prisoner of war for some years then lived in Japan a bit more before the government helped soldiers like him come back home. He came home with a bunch of Japanese comics. The rest is history. Been a weeb ever since.
My life was shit so I decided to escape into anime. That's seriously the reason. If it wasn't for anime I would've killed myself by now.
When I was 7 or 8 my dad hired for me Urotsukidoji and Battle Angel Alita and that was my foray into actual proper anime, after that Ghost in the Shell and Akira. I was like 7 at the time, I had no fucking clue what was going on but I loved the action and animation.
We also had Robotech and Sailor Moon back then as well, but I didn't know they were "anime".
Back in the 90's a lot of german channels had anime shows.
First anime I watched probably was Sailor Moon..
>>135834771
>german
>Sailor Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypL65XRKN5E
>>135834788
I just watched the original intro and damn, it seems much more mystical there
>>13581278
Dragon ball
>>135833313
Wait till the Holidayfags leave.
>>135831898
We had a poll about this a couple months ago.Most people haven't even watched 100 shows.
>>135825009
holy fuck how have you not killed yourself yet
met some weebs through online games
worst mistake of my life
>>135812780
Used to watch stuff like NGE and death note in a tv site around 2010 but i was not that into it, it was until i discovered this site and thanks to a full blown weeb friend who told me to watch some anime, then the downward spiral started, fun times
>>135831898
140-150 so far
My dad got me one of the Babel OVAs when I was four or five. It was terrible.
When I was eight or nine my mom gave me this obscure Madhouse OVA that I never watched until recently because of how emo and chuuni it looked. It lived up to my expectations.
>>135812780
My first complete anime series was Kaicho wa Maid Sama
My cousin was watching it, as a curious 17 year old, i sat with her and completed the entire series in less than 2 days
Then came a huge lovesick period because the the main girl was so cute and i didn't have any more episodes to watch. The i read the manga, and finally the i got my hands on cousin's anime collection. It was mostly (very) light yaoi or shoujo stuff but some were shounen too, it was fun.
And finally i started browsing /a/, and downloading anime.
School had manga
