How did you get into anime?

[jazz]

my brother would always watch sailor moon. when we had cable, i would try to catch whatever shows i could when my mom wasn't around.... for some reason i thought she wouldn't like me watching anime.... dunno where i got that idea from. then one of my best friends wanted me to watch spirited away.... yay! what a good movie... yep. that's how it all began.

[PrincessZelda]

Uh, by watching pokemon.

[Ren_sama]

Sailor Moon. 2nd grade. Gosh I loved that show. Then, I move on...to pokemon, that is. Hoestly, I love Pokemon. It's a great show. And when I think about it, Sailor moon ain't too shabby either. ^_^

[mitsuki lover]

Digimon but before I knew it was anime.The first anime I got hooked on that I knew was anime was Silent Mobius and I started to watch that out of
curiosity to see what anime was all about.

[Kokhiri Sojourn]

My first run-ins with anime were early on and I didn't even know about them. I watched all the Transformers, GI Joe, Superbook series, stuff along those lines. But basically, one of my closest friends introduced me to Toonami one day - I saw Yu Yu Hakusho, Ruroni Kenshin, DBZ, and something else - none really grabbed my attention that much, but they were relatively entertaining the first time around. That same night, my friend called me and told me to watch Adult Swim (I was house sitting at the time, and had loads of spare time to play with) and so I watched Inuyasha, Lupin the 3rd, Trigun, and Cowboy Bebop. I liked Inuyasha much better than the ones on Toonami, and then was totally upset with Lupin - turned out that I happened upon an exceptionally poor episode. Trigun was actually the final episode, and I was utterly bewildered and confused as to what was going on, and then Bebop came on. It was the episode called "Waltz for Venus," and once it was over, I knew my life would never be the same.

[Godly Paladin]

Cowboy Bebop got you into anime, then? I guess I'll have to see it. The only thing I know about it is the trailer that comes with Endless Waltz.

"All right, it's time to blow this scene-n-n-n-n,
Everybody get your stuff togetha,
All right, 3, 2, 1, let's go!"

<Duh-nuh-nu-nu-nu-na-nah...>

[Arnobius]

My first introduction was back in 1985 with a show called "Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000 Years." I remember nothing about it except it impressed me in a way that American cartoons couldn't. A few years later, a brother of mine introduced me to Gunbuster. I always had a positive experience with anime, but didn't really go down otaku road hardcore until I encountered Urusei Yatsura. A combination of slapstick humor and instances of "Hey! You can't do that on TV!" I loved it and bought the entire thing on VHS-- just in time for the company to switch over to DVD.

Glad Animeigo is finally releasing more episodes, since there's been a 5 year hiatus during the VHS-DVD transition.

[Arnobius]

Cowboy Bebop got you into anime, then? I guess I'll have to see it. The only thing I know about it is the trailer that comes with Endless Waltz.

"All right, it's time to blow this scene-n-n-n-n,
Everybody get your stuff togetha,
All right, 3, 2, 1, let's go!"

<Duh-nuh-nu-nu-nu-na-nah...>

You should. I've been into anime for years, but this was quite a new experience when it came out. 1 or 2 lame episodes (common to all series) but the rest were really good. I'd pass on the movie though, made several years later and missing the soul that made the series so good.

[mitsuki lover]

I really got started watching anime when Tech Tv began first airing
Anime Unleashed.That was back when it was on back to back with
Thunderbirds.The first anime that they aired was Silent Mobius and so
that has always been my favorite.After awhile I started watching the anime
on CN and especially Inuyasha and that became my second all time favorite.
What really drew me to anime was the fact that I loved the art work for
Silent Mobius and the story line was a lot more addictive and more of a
emotional roller coaster ride than anything I ever saw on American Science
Fiction.

[Chichiri]

Heh, friend got me into Dragonball Z when I was in 9th grade. Oh my, i ate DBZ up. Haha. Oh those teen years are funny.

but regardless, that is how.

[Nate]

The first anime I watched that I actually knew was anime was, like a lot of people, Sailor Moon. I saw it on TV during a snow day, since it was shown on my local Fox channel at 2:30 in the afternoon (what a HORRIBLE timeslot).

That was the show that sent me looking for more anime. My second anime experience was (unfortunately) Akira, but the third was Ah! My Goddess, such a wonderful series...it was after AMG that I was hooked on anime.

[Bobtheduck]

My first anime experience was Superbook... The first one I knew was anime would be one of the movies they played on Sci-fi channel... Did they play heroic legend of arislan? It may have been that one... Well, the VERY first one I saw of those was that one where the robots kill the humans for destroying the environment, but the one I actually sat down and watched (during those marathons they ran at 2 in the morning) I liked it because it was something my parents wouldn't like, plain and simple. I watched whatever they showed on sci-fi, which included "Uruesei Yatsura 2", and then I saw Akira and Project A-ko at my friends' house... It was a casual hobby until I got this rom for Sailormoon - Another Story in Japanese... I played it, but didn't get very far. I wanted my friends to explain it to me (they watched it on TV) so they let me borrow some eps, and then they bought the doom tree set. After that, I discovered fansubs...

My anime fandom chart... Order. Title (level of otakuism, not a rating of the show, though that did have an effect)

1. Superbook (U)
2. Arislan (?) (2)
3. Urusei Yatsura 2 (5)
4. Akira (2)
5. Project A-ko (6)
6. Tenchi (7)
7. Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals (5)
8. Sailormoon (7)
9. Uncut S season (VKLL days, before DiC finished R: 8)
10. Uncut Stars Season... (7)
Finally, at the death of Senshitv, I learned of Lunaarts and found "Kodomo no Omocha" (10)

I'd have to say my fandom is more like 5 now... It's not quite as new anymore, but I still like it. I'm almost at my ten year aniversary... I think it was in 1995 that I first started watching the anime on Sci-fi...

[Muopii]

To tell you the truth, my first exposure to anime was...hentai...yes, it's true.
Actually up until about a year ago, that's all I thought anime was: cartoon porn. I was watching cartoon network when Rurouni Kenshin came on. I noticed that it said "anime" under the description and I thought why would something like this be on cartoon network? I was just about to change the channel when I noticed that it wasn't porn, just a cool looking cartoon. I watched it, and liked it, I then watched this show, as well as other animes (can't remember which ones) and got sucked in. I have since been a nut for it, (I'm sad to say that it's not without my fair share of hentai exposures, some intentional, some not.)
That's my story.

[K. Ayato]

It was probably the early series of Pokemon (ewww!) and then later on my sister (SirThinks2Much) would bring home recordings of Cowboy Bebop and a little bit of Gundam Wing. I think that's when it really kicked in. Manga, however, doesn't go back that far, although it feels like it to me.

[Alice]

I guess Superbook and Flying House, but I didn't know they were anime... Then I watched Pokemon on Saturday mornings with my cat and my brothers... fun times, eating cereal and stretching out on the couch.

Then I started buying marked-down comics to copy the art from, when I was having trouble writing (so I started trying to draw). Some was American, some anime.

Then I got into YYH, and a few other things, which I completely stopped watching when I gave up anime and manga a year or so ago. Now I'm into it, more slowly, watching His and Hers Circumstances with my brother, and watching Beyblade on Toon Disney.

[Joshua Christopher]

Ninja Scroll? No, wait.... Iria... and... Gigantor.

[eva-boy7985]

Well, unofficially, my parents bought us Superbook videos as kids, but officially my "inception" into the anime world was in 1999 when I watched Gundam Wing, Outlaw Star, and one of the Tenchis on Toonami on Cartoon Network. Thus I've been into it since then, and have been buying it for something like 3 years now, now having over 20 series :-) Aaaaaaaah..... sweet bliss.....

[Rue Shibusky]

Card Captors was what started my interest. Then I met someone in school who also liked the series, and she could draw, so she taught me how to draw an eye. Drawing is what keeps me interested.

[Meza]

Dragonball z was the anime that got me started. My brothers friend told my brother about it and he told me and we watched it. Then i watched other anime.

[Qwilek88]

My old friends got me into it. So did pokemon cards which explains my first ever anime Pokemon.

[FadedOne]

hmm...*doesn't know if she commented in this months ago* probably not..

anyways, I had a friend online who liked anime and encouraged me to watch Big O on cartoon network back before season 2 came on. That show is awesome. So yeah, that started things. Although I really dont think I had half the addiction i do now before I came to CAA. Now I get to have people laugh and call me weird. ^_^ yay for that. it's worth it.

[Otaku10]

I would say DBZ got me hooked on anime, but I saw the series before it showed on Toonami.

[freerock1]

I've kind of been an on-and-off anime person about all my life, though within the last few years I've gotten hooked. Back in the day as a kid, I used to watch Superbook and Flying House. When around the mid 90s (I was probably about 14-15), I watched a little bit of the Japanimation block on Network One. (Big props to anyone who remembers that.) Once we got Cartoon Network, I watched a little bit of the Toonami stuff but never really got all that into it.

Then Adult Swim launched, and like many of you, Cowboy Bebop was the show that sucked me in. Gundam 0083 and Big O helped make me an "addict."

[Kaorugirl]

Well,, when I was a kid, I liked Sailor Moon and (don't kill me for this) Pokemon. But then I got out of the whole anime thing. Until this guy named Yokuo came around and practically shoved a Yu Yu Hakusho disk in my face. Lol, jkjk.

[animegirl1]

well when i got into jr. high everyone was raging about how awsome inuyasha was and i had no clue but the next year i had come back after a long research on inuyasha and found out what anime was and came back and inuyasha was out of style soo i went to the town hall library to see what other types there were and i started checking books out left and right and before i knew it i was obsessed owe and by the way thats how i got absessed with marmalade boy the manga ^_^

[blackunicorn]

A good friend of mine online, Taos, got me into anime. I liked Pokemon and Digimon anyway. But he introduced me to some much better stuff....now I'm hooked!

[Ichigo_89]

I've always loved animation and can recall watching a few titles when I was 4 to 6 years old. Superbook, Voltron (used to be on the ooold Toonami), My Neighbor Totoro, Megaman. I didn't know anything about japanese anime until Pokemon reared it's ugly face. (Of course, I was sucked in) Then my grandparents got cable and I got completely addicted Gundam Wing & Dragonball Z.

A few years later I accidentally found out about [AdultSwim] and my first introduction to top-class anime was Cowboy Bebop part.1 of Real Folk Blues. That was incredible. So yah, I've always sorta been a fan and just didn't know it until later on.

[Radical Dreamer]

Yay for old threads..! Well, since I haven't posted here, I might as well as long as I'm around. XD

Like most of you, I started watching Pokemon with my brother, shortly followed by DBZ (I'm not counting Superbook, since there was such a long time between watching that and getting into anime). A few years later (possibly less), I saw about two episodes of Trigun (again, with my brother). Fast forward several years; I caught Trigun on AS one night (the same episode I had watched with my brother), and I began to watch it for a while. I dropped it not long after, since school started and I couldn't keep up with it so late at night. Then, in my sophomore year in highschool, I caught the first episode of Rurouni Kenshin on Toonami. Uh...the rest is history. XD I've been a big fan of anime ever since!

[Mega.EXE]

Well when I was a young boy of 4 I watched Pokemon! Yay! But at that time I hadn't really realized that it was Anime. And now I watch Rurouni Kenshin, D.N.Angel, Mega Man NT Warrior, Prince of Tennis, Naruto (When I want to fall asleep XD) Deathnote, and D. Gray Man. Of course I owe it to my sister because I don't think I would know about it now.

[creed4]

Robotech, voltron, transor z, speed racer,
I got into it as a kid not knowing what it was. I learned much later the style was called anime