The Anime that Got You into Anime?

[bloosica]

Sailor Moon was my first anime ever and will always hold a special place in my heart, but I didn't know what anime was back then and when I started to get into the world it wasn't an instant leap for me. The anime I think that got me into the world of Anime was Witchblade. I was drawn in by the storyline as I had already seen the english tv show before, but the anime was so much better for me. I really cared for the characters. It made me laugh and cry. The action scenes and sci fi elements also drew me to love it. After watching it I wanted to see more. I haven't looked back since.

So how about you? What anime got you into anime?

[keybladeking013]

I remember watching anime as a kid. Like Dragonball, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Sailor Moon. But at the time I didnt know they were anime. And I stopped watching when I got older. Until my sophomore year of high school, when I was browsing on Netflix and I came across Fullmetal Alchemist. I was so sucked into the story, I watched it all in no time. Then I went on to fullmetal alchemist brotherhood. I loved it so much. That when I finished. I went on to watch almost all the anime on Netflix. Now I love anime so much, I just cant get enough of it. But till this day FMA Brotherhood is my favorite series.

[king]

Sailor Moon was the first then dragon ball yu yu hakusho big o and gundam wing the old school one not these other one,s it was blood the last vampire that finally pulled me in and from that moment i was hooked

[Kuro]

My first one was Saber Rider: Star Sheriffs
I continued with Sailor Moon, Dragonball, DBZ, One Piece until i've gotten really into it^^

[DonkeyBlonkey]

I would admit I watched a lot of Sailor Moon with my sister as a kid and CardCaptor Sakura.

On my own time I watched and still love to this day Cowboy Bebop, G Gundam & Gundam Wing. I watched a lot of Dragon Ball as a kid but didn't like it as much as others did. (Probably because the episodes kept showing randomly and I just found shows like Cowboy Bebop or Rurouni Kenshin more entertaining for me)

EDIT: Now that someone mentioned it below. I loved BeyBlade!!! I would buy so many tops and just play with my friends. Yugioh and it's cards played the same part too. Pokemon and Digimon will always have a place in my heart too

[ncatalin]

Anime who made my an addicted is ... of course, Dragon Ball. It`ll be always special for me, is i didn`t see dragon ball i never discover this amazing universe of anime/manga .. so i`ll thank`s to it all my life.

[Sleep]

Well first anime I have ever saw was probably Pokémon but I was young then and didn't understand what it was as I grew up I watched Beyblades, yu gi oh, digimon and I still did not know what it was called after I lossed interest in those I started playing online games, while staying up all night playing games on the computer I think is around 08/09 ish I clicked on hellsing on youtube watched it and finished it and thought it was awesome so I looked into it and that's when I found the community of Anime, and been on and off since that time and here I am in 2013 watching anime and reading manga's.

So I would say my first anime was Hellsing.

[Tarah]

Sailor Moon for me!! After I forgot about Sailor Moon for a long time I got reintroduced by Tokyo Mew Mew... or "Mew Mew Power" as I knew it then ahaha.

[kawaiikerisunshine]

Oct 18, 2013 18:20:53 GMT bloosica said:

Sailor Moon was my first anime ever and will always hold a special place in my heart, but I didn't know what anime was back then and when I started to get into the world it wasn't an instant leap for me. The anime I think that got me into the world of Anime was Witchblade. I was drawn in by the storyline as I had already seen the english tv show before, but the anime was so much better for me. I really cared for the characters. It made me laugh and cry. The action scenes and sci fi elements also drew me to love it. After watching it I wanted to see more. I haven't looked back since.

So how about you? What anime got you into anime?

The anime that got me started was Clannad. I'll never forget looking up random videos on YouTube and seeing that cute art catching my eye. Now granted it's quite an emotional anime but it's one of my very favorites. After I watched the entire Clannad series I started looking up more anime. Before I knew it I was watching anime every day and wanting to read about it as well.

[Tyradra]

Like everyone else i watched DBZ,digimon,pokemon...etc. But the first anime that got me into anime was when a friend of mine from Poland told me to watch Elfin lied. After that i was hooked!

[bloosica]

Oct 19, 2013 20:56:42 GMT kawaiikerisunshine said:

Oct 18, 2013 18:20:53 GMT bloosica said:

Sailor Moon was my first anime ever and will always hold a special place in my heart, but I didn't know what anime was back then and when I started to get into the world it wasn't an instant leap for me. The anime I think that got me into the world of Anime was Witchblade. I was drawn in by the storyline as I had already seen the english tv show before, but the anime was so much better for me. I really cared for the characters. It made me laugh and cry. The action scenes and sci fi elements also drew me to love it. After watching it I wanted to see more. I haven't looked back since.

So how about you? What anime got you into anime?

The anime that got me started was Clannad. I'll never forget looking up random videos on YouTube and seeing that cute art catching my eye. Now granted it's quite an emotional anime but it's one of my very favorites. After I watched the entire Clannad series I started looking up more anime. Before I knew it I was watching anime every day and wanting to read about it as well.

I love Clannad and other emotional animes. My favorite though is Kanon. I think it was the first one that I watched like that. 

[kawaiikerisunshine]

Oct 19, 2013 21:13:47 GMT bloosica said:

Oct 19, 2013 20:56:42 GMT kawaiikerisunshine said:

The anime that got me started was Clannad. I'll never forget looking up random videos on YouTube and seeing that cute art catching my eye. Now granted it's quite an emotional anime but it's one of my very favorites. After I watched the entire Clannad series I started looking up more anime. Before I knew it I was watching anime every day and wanting to read about it as well.

I love Clannad and other emotional animes. My favorite though is Kanon. I think it was the first one that I watched like that. 

Yes I love emotional animes. It's one of my favorite genes. Kanon and Clannad have very similar art work. I was a little sad when I finished the entire Clannad series. But then I found Kanon and Air which both reminded me a lot of Clannad.

[Hikari]

I can't say I remember what anime got me started off but.. It's between Dragonball, Trigun, Gundam, Digimon, Pokemon etc.. I just forgot which one it was. But I started watching them on Toonami.

[sdanimefan]

I would have to say Sailor Moon got me started in anime. Something just clicked when I started watching it. Been a fan ever since.

[Carson]

Well, I watched Naruto as a kid just thinking it was a cartoon, but the first anime I viewed, knowing it was anime, was Deathnote.

[roronoazoro]

The First Anime I ever watched was "Astro Boy" I was 3 year's old when i saw it on TV, and then i got into animes like "Space Battleship Yamato" "The Rose of Versailles" "GoShogun" mostly the 80's-90's animes, which i was born in 1993, i also grew up with pokemon/dragonball,etc and so on. but now i see that anime has went downhill, not to be rude, i do like the anime today, but anime doesn't much have what they showed in the 80's 90's, like gore,etc now its all cute anime girls, with 1 male character, i don't know why its like that now,

but for me my favorite anime series of all time has to be dragonball/blue gender/elfen lied/City Hunter/Patlabor/Ranma ½/Brave Exkaiser/sailor moon/Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water/Future GPX Cyber Formula/YuYu Hakusho/fist of the north star/Tekkaman Blade/Yadamon/The Brave Express Might Gaine/ the Gundam series/Ghost Sweeper Mikami/Nintama Rantarō/Blue Seed/Brave Police J-Decker/bleach/naruto/attack on titan/Macross 7/Magic Knight Rayearth/Mahōjin Guru Guru/Metal Fighter Miku/DNA²/gunslinger girl/Tico of the Seven Seas/Neon Genesis Evangelion/one piece/ so many more. i have seen over maybe 300 anime series in my lifetime, but those in that list is most of my favorites

[imanza]

I'm kind of an unusual case. I grew up in a country where anime was (and I believe still is) broadcasted on TV every afternoon just as kids came home from school, where it's considered a pretty popular form of entertainment and attracts a sizeable fanbase. So I don't recall my very first anime because I remember watching several shows back to back every afternoon on TV, but I will say that the very first anime I remember loving is Ninja Senshi Tobikage which was released in the 80s. It's a mecha anime that's definitely aged and unfortunately doesn't hold up very well by today's standards, but it will always hold a special place in my heart as the first anime I remember getting super excited about when I was around 5 or 6 years old.

[Nathen G]

Oct 19, 2013 20:56:42 GMT kawaiikerisunshine said:

Oct 18, 2013 18:20:53 GMT bloosica said:

Sailor Moon was my first anime ever and will always hold a special place in my heart, but I didn't know what anime was back then and when I started to get into the world it wasn't an instant leap for me. The anime I think that got me into the world of Anime was Witchblade. I was drawn in by the storyline as I had already seen the english tv show before, but the anime was so much better for me. I really cared for the characters. It made me laugh and cry. The action scenes and sci fi elements also drew me to love it. After watching it I wanted to see more. I haven't looked back since.

So how about you? What anime got you into anime?

The anime that got me started was Clannad. I'll never forget looking up random videos on YouTube and seeing that cute art catching my eye. Now granted it's quite an emotional anime but it's one of my very favorites. After I watched the entire Clannad series I started looking up more anime. Before I knew it I was watching anime every day and wanting to read about it as well.

Mine was also Clannad! I would google silly things like "Shows like Clannad" and be looking through yahoo answers for more series to watch.

[bloosica]

Oct 21, 2013 8:42:31 GMT imanza said:

I'm kind of an unusual case. I grew up in a country where anime was (and I believe still is) broadcasted on TV every afternoon just as kids came home from school, where it's considered a pretty popular form of entertainment and attracts a sizeable fanbase. So I don't recall my very first anime because I remember watching several shows back to back every afternoon on TV, but I will say that the very first anime I remember loving is Ninja Senshi Tobikage which was released in the 80s. It's a mecha anime that's definitely aged and unfortunately doesn't hold up very well by today's standards, but it will always hold a special place in my heart as the first anime I remember getting super excited about when I was around 5 or 6 years old.

Wow you must be pretty lucky then. I would have loved that and even now. Other than the occasional "kids" animes (pokemon, dragonball) the only anime that is shown on TV where I live plays at night only on Saturdays.

Oct 21, 2013 9:31:44 GMT Nathen G said:

Mine was also Clannad! I would google silly things like "Shows like Clannad" and be looking through yahoo answers for more series to watch.

I used to do that a lot too when I started lol

[AngelBeatsFan]

i watched Pokemon and DBZ when i was younger then kinda lost interest for a bit then 3 years ago when highschool of the dead was released i got back into anime and have been watching ever since.