What got you interested into anime?

[Super Kal]

For me, I was in High School, helping in a small comic book during high school, and my friend mentioned Dragonball Z being on after school. I didn't know what it was, so when I got home, I checked to see when it was coming on.Turns out I missed it, so I made plans to catch it when I had the chance. I got hooked the first time I saw it.

What about everyone else?

 

[Eros]

I saw Akira for the first time on the scifi channels anime movie block in 1995.

 

[SSJ4_Mikael]

Power -> Dragonball Z -> Other anime's.

 

[animexcel]

I was watching random DBZ movies/episodes and Pokemon in highschool, but I wouldn't be watching more anime if it wasn't for the Fushigi Yuugi fansubs my sister's friend let her borrow. I found them laying around the house and watched it, I was hooked from there.

 

[Gotenks]

When I lived in Japan I was to young to remember whole episodes but I remember what Goku looked liked, but forgot everything about DBZ. So when I came to the USA I went to my grandmother's house and my older cousin had a dragonballz poster. I looked at it and asked when it comes on TV and thats when I got hooked. Some things came back to me, but Im just glad I got to watch it on its original run...or at least what I could remember. t:

 

[SLVRSR4]

I first started with Pokemon I was hooked with catching them all and then i think the real question to ask is what got people into making hentai!?

 

[Sloth7d]

SpeedRacer was my first anime, though at the time I had no idea what the difference between american cartoons and japanese ones were.
Later on(at the age of ten I believe) I heard about a japanese cartoon coming to America and wondered what the difference between the two types of cartoons are.Long story short Pokemon(yes good old Pocket Monsters) got me addicted to anime.

 

[Ultra-Herald9]

when I was 4-5 Ronin Warriors and Samurai Pizza Cats used to come on at 5:00 in the morning and I used to watch it before I went to preschool.

then when I was seven or eight they started playing Dragon Ball on Sundays at 9:00. I was instantly hooked but like sloth I didn't know these cartoons were japanese until I was like 10. It made me love Japan so much!

 

[November Rain]

cartoon network.

 

[Fading]

Mine would be Akira too. Our church had sleep overs when I was a kid occasionally, and me and a bunch of the other kids were staying there (including my best friends). One brought an Akira tape and we all watched it while eating pizza. I asked him what cartoon that was, and he told me it was anime, and then let me borrow it and a few others he had. I've been hooked since.

After that tho it was watching saturday anime on the Sci-Fi channel before they removed it lol.

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

Must of been Robotech or Mazinger Z.

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

When I was in Japan for a short time (bad idea for blonde girls), and I saw some from some of my...friends I guess you'd call them. It was fairly interesting. What did I watch? Damned if I remember.

 

[Ultra-Herald9]

When I was in Japan for a short time (bad idea for blonde girls), and I saw some from some of my...friends I guess you'd call them. It was fairly interesting. What did I watch? Damned if I remember.

why was it a bad idea to be blonde there? Did they hate you? Did they worship you?

 

[Reptile]

My brother made me watch Ranma and Guyver at age 7

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

why was it a bad idea to be blonde there? Did they hate you? Did they worship you?

Not worship, really. More or less, I was like every guy's very best friend. It gets creepy, fast.

 

[Ultra-Herald9]

Not worship, really. More or less, I was like every guy's very best friend. It gets creepy, fast.

LOL.......actually I'm sorry. Hope they didn't scar you.

Well at least you were popular right?

WOW i didn't realize I said "I". Seriously.....I didn't mean to.

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

They didn't scar me, and popularity has never really been a goal of mine. I just found it hard to enjoy living there. That, and I was taller than most people, which for some reason intimidated people.

 

[AndThePickles]

Probably Sailor Moon.

 

[Crimson_L]

The first anime I saw was Sailor Moon, but Dragon Ball Z got me started, which I saw on Cartoon Network.

 

[crazy monkey]

I used to watch Speed Racer, Voltron, Transformers and Robotech when I was a kid, like between 5 and 7. Because the NES was so big, us kids were hip to the fact that all the cool new stuff was coming from Japan. By paying attention to the art on game packaging, I got good at an early age spotting the difference between west and east art styles, so I could tell where those shows originated.

Then one night on some public access station, I stumbled on a random episode of Galaxy Express 999. It dealt with a war on some planet, and soldiers were being massacred onscreen while some self-righteous commander dude watched emotionless from his ship above. I got caught by my mom, and she made me turn it off, but I had just seen a cartoon that showed people getting killed. I was blown away, and it ignited my curiosity.

Years later, I started with the big films: Akira, Street Fighter, Fist of the Northstar, Perfect Blue, Naussica, etc. It wasn't until the 90's (and the golden age of fansub) that my curiosity became a full-blown obesession for about the next eight years.

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[Warhammer]

Technically, my first anime were Speed Racer, Robotech, Devil Man, Mega Man, Sailor Moon, and this one anime with monsters that fought in arenas. (The lead character wore red Bret Hart glasses and had black hair.)

Also, Everyone talking/drawing DBZ and also, the mass appeal that it had, especially with it being every weekday on Toonami, along with other great anime.

 

[Xenoska]

To tell you the truth i think the first anime i ever saw was Sailor Moon.
it was on TV and i was like WTF. ( after that i changed it to the Simpsons t: )

But i think i started watching anime on Toonami...
Oh.. the first show i loved i think was Rurouni Kenshin and that got me hooked on all samurai-ish shows ( i guess shows with immense fighting )
Which is why i like Bleach. wewt. just watched Bleach #68

I also remember Yu Yu hakusho, and Dragon Ball.
It was hard for me to choose wither or not to play my super cool Super Nintendo ( Zelda: Link to the past.. Best Zelda ever! ) or watching anime...

 

[mfbtl]

Voltron, Speed Racer, and Street Fighter where the first ones I saw. I also saw the Akira movie. But all in all Full Metal Alchemist struck the final blow for me then I was hooked.

 

[crazy monkey]

Oh.. the first show i loved i think was Rurouni Kenshin

Yeah, man, totally. Like I said, I was into anime minimally. Then a friend of mine lent me vol. 1 of the Kenshin fansub, the first four episodes. By the time I saw him again, like a week later, I had watched it five times. My imagination fell in love with that show; its atmosphere, its characters, its outrageous fights. I then subsequently used it to hook nonbelievers in my social circle on anime. Kenshin rocks.

Although, it pains me to admit that its starting to show its age -- as am I.

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