Your first anime

[Right To Bear Blarms]

Ginga Nagareboshi Gin

an anime about dogs hunting down a giant bear.

 

[The Cunting Death]

First casual anime was Megaman NT Warrior
First non casual anime was Welcome to the NHK

 

[Dogs can't look up]

Rereading this thread I realize I haven't seen much anime. Most of you guys' firsts I've never heard of. Helped me put some on my Amazon and Netflix lists though, so thanks for that.

 

[McAfee'sCorpse]

Dragon Ball Z when I was seven, we literally had a box set of six discs of uncensored DBZ episodes. First anime I've actually really gotten into was actually this year, One Piece. I have along way to go, I know. I'm at the start of the Alabasta arc.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Speed Racer or G-Force back when they aired on Cartoon Network in the mid 90s. Back then I didn't know what anime was, just that the series weren't episodic and I had to keep tuning in to follow the plot.

After I learned about anime (or Japanimation as we called it back then) and how it was different than western animation, my first was the Vampire Hunter D movie.

 

[FuckedUp]

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

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[Pontiff Sulyvahn]

My first anime was Legend of The Galatic Heroes.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

The only anime on TV in my area in the early 80s was on the UHF Christian station. They also dubbed and aired Voltron, too, which might explain why it got censored all to hell.

 

[Vlinny-kun]

Technically, the original Pokemon series.

When Toonami was on Cartoon Network I thought a lot of the shit was boring, aside from Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (had to google the name) which was the funniest shit when I was in elementary school. I was semi-conscience of what anime was then. Around the same time I caught episodes of The Prince of Tennis when that shit was airing on Adult Swim and I was staying up way longer than I should. Can barely remember that boring shit.

The actual anime that initiated me into the fray was fucking Rozen Maiden right when I started middle school. I remember watching episodes of the english dub on youtube and thinking of how cool it was. I weebed hard those 3 years after that.

(...and yes, it was because of the desu meme.)

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Technically, the original Pokemon series.

When Toonami was on Cartoon Network I thought a lot of the shit was boring, aside from Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (had to google the name) which was the funniest shit when I was in elementary school. I was semi-conscience of what anime was then. Around the same time I caught episodes of The Prince of Tennis when that shit was airing on Adult Swim and I was staying up way longer than I should. Can barely remember that boring shit.

The actual anime that initiated me into the fray was fucking Rozen Maiden right when I started middle school. I remember watching episodes of the english dub on youtube and thinking of how cool it was. I weebed hard those 3 years after that.
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(...and yes, it was because of the desu meme.)

Fun fact: nearly all iterations of the manga got cancelled

 

[Exceptionally Exceptional]

First anime I ever saw and actually paid attention to was the movie Venus Wars.

 

[WinchesterPremium]

Can anyone else name a shonen with an Al Capone knock-off who has a secret base in Mount Rushmore? An Egyptian mech?

One Piece?

lead female that ISN'T subjected to panty shots every 15 minutes? A shonen where the main character actually does become "The Best X" at the end?

Damn we where this close.

 

[Vapewizard]

I'm just another basic late 90s-early 2000s bitch who grew up with dubbed Pokemon, Sailor moon, Dragonball Z and Cardcaptor sakura. Can't remember which one came first. Sometimes I considered going back to watch CCS in its non-butchered form but then I remembered it has more episodes than I usually commit to these days.

 

[starborn427614]

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The manga was better.

 

[Sithis]

Dragonball, when I was a kid my uncle was a weeb and had some bootleg copies of it. Watched it and enjoyed it but didn't understand it. Then I was a kid and happened to see the first episode of DBZ on TV and recognized the goofy haircut Goku has and watched, then it became a daily watch.

Not long after that came Tenchi Muyo which was my first experience of anime tiddies on screen.

 

[I Love Beef]

Just for Kids Home Video was the shit

Could you believe I was only 2 years old

"Ah, the anime.... You've merely adopted it. You see, the anime.... I was born into it, raised by it, molded by it.... Until normalcy itself felt BINDING. The powers of Anime and Jesus betray you, because they BELONG TO ME"

 

[The Token Ethnic]

First anime I watched where I knew it wasn't a normal cartoon you'd see on TV? Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket. My cousin gave me a vhs tape. It had a bunch of episodes taped off of television without subtitles and I was glued to the screen. Kids in danger, people dying and my first mobile suit introduction. Later on I'd get Pioneer Animation, Streamline Pictures and Manga Entertainment stuff since it was somewhat cheap.

 

[Mooger Meng]

I can't quite recall - my brain is in flux between the Guyver OAV, Akira, and some straight-up Dragon Warrior hentai parody that I can't recall the name of for the life of me.

None of that was really meant to be watched by a 7-year-old.