When did you get into Anime?

[Takachsh]

Like the title is asking...do you remeber when you first got into japanese animation for the first time in your life? or how long you have been into anime yourself?

I think I really started to get into anime about a year and 3 months ago. Right after I finished going to this convention I have been going to for the past 3 years. Thats when the anime buzz really hit me and I could not get enough of it ^^. Before then I was soso into anime, like I collected manga but only like a few, 5-10. Now Im full blown into anime and love it just as much.....except....really expensive ^^.

[Leader Desslock]

Mid 70's, I think.

[Suikoden6880]

When I was 7 and a half.....All thanks to my older brother! ;)

[Death's Realm]

When I was about 5 and started watching Speed Racer

[ryushe]

I started getting into Anime about the same time I started Drawing which was about 8 years old (17 going to 18 now) and I didn't appriciate it like now but those were good times. I think the first anime I watched was DBZ, SailorMoon and Transformers. I remembered it came on channel 11 and about 5:00 am (This was hard for my young weak body :D) and I had to wake up this early every day just to view anime i've come to love and appriciate so.

[kanibal]

I always had an interest in it when I was younger, but I didnt actually make it a hobby until about 6 months ago.

[Bozfan]

At age 9 in in the summer of '98, CN aired the first season of Sailor Moon and I was obsessed. To this day, Sailor Moon is my favorite series as it never gets old because there's is so much of it.

[EdWorshiper]

Age 6, I think.

[Xider]

I've always been a fan (by always I mean since about 7 or 8) but I only became a collecter not to long ago. Anime is an expensive habit! I have friends who spend less on POT than I do on anime...and that is incredible. I am so happy I spend my money on something worth it instead of drugs.

I don't remember who said it, but they said it best. Anime is something special, and if you want it, you have to pay for it! Simple as that.

[jedisolo]

When I was 25 and I saw Cowboy Bebop for the first time on Adult Swim.
-Andrew

[ghost_blade]

around age 5...started wif dragonball z

[Takumi Fujiwara]

late 80's early 90's I used to watch "Japanimation" (<<Thats tells you how long ago it was lol) on this public access channel my cousin used to get when I'd spent the night at his house. I didn't become hardcore into anime untill like 8 months ago when I started collecting dvd, and merchandise.

[safda]

About a year ago.

[yangster]

Last summer when I joined AN.

[CrossboneGundam]

Roughly 1989-90, so when I was 5 or 6 years old. I watched some of what little was on TV those days, but the clincher was Akira.

[crystaltouch]

When i was about 6 , and fell in the love with the Moomins ( Well i think i was 6, I know i was very young)

[Nomnomnom]

When I was still in elementry, or early middle school. I watched DBZ, Voltron, Sailormoon and Robotech.

[sanitylost]

between seven or eight. Remember which anime Robotech. Always wanted to be skull leader, never Rick Hunter.

[Beech]

When I was a young boy (only 17 now), I watched Speed Racer and G-Force. Then on too Sailor Moon (shut up) and DBZ. Cowboy Bebop was the clincher and is still my fav.

[Baka Deshi]

The early 80's. I grew up on stuff like Star Blazers, Battle of the Planets, Speed Racer, Captain Harlock, Voltron, Thundercats, Tranzor Z (Mazinger), etc. But like most children of the 80's, it was Robotech that really roped me into the whole Japanese Animation thing. ^_^

[master terrence]

When I was like 10 I watched Sailor moon

[sicklelee]

I got into anime when Dragonball Z was in its glory days and the first time I ever saw Rurouni Kenshin (the TV series). I can't remeber how old I was

[Carmel]

Back when Sailor Moon aired on YTV, that's when I started getting into anime, with my obsession of Sailor Moon, and later was watching any other anime that aired on TV... so... about 10 years ago? I guess when I was around 8 or 9? (how old are you in grade 4?)

[master terrence]

I dont think it was 10 years ago.. more like 5-7 years ago because I wasn't into anime at that time

[xXdigi queenXx]

I used to watch this weird anime thing (i think tht was wat it was) that had found it's way onto a woody woodpecker video...
I can't remember what it is called I don't think it had a name that I knew of, I was like 5. I think it plante a seed in my mind though. i stuck a thread on here earlier his year asking about it but I didn't get a great response. It was about a queen who passes off her daughter as a prince, but hey get found out and the get sent away. It was very depressing for a kiddies video. I wish I could find out what it was, and watch it. i would be liking watching yor childhood, lol.:)

[xXdigi queenXx]

When i was about 6 , and fell in the love with the Moomins ( Well i think i was 6, I know i was very young)

MOOMINS?! They were terrifying, especially that red-haire done, she was a ryte bi-atch, lol

Plus you could tell that moomin papa was planning something against you in his big black hat, lol

[ctrl]

I've always watched anime since I was a kid. Back when all that I knew about was Akira/Ghost in the Shell/Ninja Scroll :) I really came into anime about 4 years ago. Guy I worked with had an anime check on his desktop (later I learned it was Naru) I asked him about it and thats how we became friends and I got into anime. He's since moved away so I really don't have any friends who are into anime anymore :(

[Mechula]

I could say in the early 80's when I was a little brat watching Speed Racer and Voltron, but that would be cheating since I had no idea what "anime" was at the time.

It wasn't until the mid 90's (either 94 or 95, something like that), when I was in high school, that I actually got into "anime" by hearing about stuff like Akira and Project A-Ko in various magazines and tracking down the videos and by watching a local public access show that aired other stuff.

[Lord Timaeus]

I believe I was 12 years old at the time when I was watching Digimon, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I started to get into other anime...

[JOlteus_K]

I got into to anime when I was nine.

[Crawlspace]

Sometime in the late '90s. Gargoyles had just ended, and I was looking for something to replace it with. My luck being what it was, I was just out of college, gainfully employed, and still living at home. Those were the days. ^_^ Anyway, I picked up VHS's of Magic Knight Rayearth and quickly realized VHS was a dying format. Since I was able to splurge a bit, not having any bills, I bought a dvd player, Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne, and Serial Experiments Lain. My life is only better for it. :)

[DazzleKitty]

Around two years ago.... something like that. I was around fifteen.

[SamuraiOni]

Watched DBZ and Sailor Moon during summers when I was eleven. Got really into anime when I finally got cable and started watching Midnight Toonami. Outlaw Star and Cowboy Bebop were teh clenchers been watching ever since.

[Soaker87]

Not counting my early love for Pokemon, 7th grade.

[EternityOfPain]

When I joined AN in Jan of 2005, prior to that all I had was DBZ and Kenshin DVD's.

[the_television]

If you count Pokemon I got into anime when I was in elementary school. Other than that, my first venture into anime would have been Spirited Away. I purchased it out of the blue about two years ago when it won some sort of animation award.

[Death's Realm]

If you count Pokemon I got into anime when I was in elementary school. Other than that, my first venture into anime would have been Spirited Away. I purchased it out of the blue about two years ago when it won some sort of animation award.

That would be the American Oscar for Best Animated Feature

Im such a nerd for knowing stuff like this

[Toothbrush]

I watched Robotech and Voltron when I was "knee high" without knowing it was anime, but I didnt get in to it untill I saw the Street Fighter movie(I dont remember what year it was).

[KenjiHimura!]

I really got into it back in 6th grade....well... technically i really liked Sailor Moon and DBZ and Pokemon back in the mid to late 1990's, but after i got into Digimon, i was introduced to Big O....then i rented a DVD, and it had a preview for Cowboy Bebop...then i got into Adult Swim, which was really my first encounter with non-kiddie anime. And I mean the EARLY Adult Swim... with the robotic voice introducing the whole disclaimer thing.. not the black and white cards.... and this was around 2000-2001.

[Gerudo Grunt]

When I was about 7 years old and I started watching DBZ.

[Jeikobu]

Well, I got into Pokemon in around 1999 I think, but that was about it until I discovered Trigun, Lupin, and Cowboy Bebop in 2002 I believe. It all kept going from there.

[gunslinger]

I first got into anime when I was 18. In 1999. I got started when I first saw Dragonball Z.

[Shibari]

In the late '80s, I was addicted to Robotech and Voltron. Of course, at that time I had no idea that what I was watching was anime, or even what anime was. Later on, I started renting random anime videos (Venus Wars, Dominion, Akira, etc...) and started watching Sailor Moon when a local channel played it. This was probably around '95-'96. I've been actually collecting anime for about seven years now.

[noriko-takaya]

I'm a child brought up in the old days of anime, such as Gigantor and Speed Racer. However, my actual interest didn't kick in until I saw Macross in Japan in '84. And my current state of fandom I blame on the release of Akira in the late 80's early 90's.

[Japhyl]

In 1998...

[Lunay]

I grew up watching DB/Z, Ranma, Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku, etc, on TV in Japan. I was 6 years old then, and mid-80's anime is what I was fed. I moved to California in 1992, and had completely forgotten about anime, since it wasn't easily accessible compared to when I was living in Japan.

I started to get back into anime in high school; more seriously this time. My passion for anime grew when I took computer graphics for 3 years. The rest is history.

[DJ_EINZ]

I grew up watching cartoons, sadly enough, when my friends sis showed me tirugn on vhs and from then i have been in love, thank you kristina!

[Dorktron2000]

Probably around four or five years ago with that stuff that ran on Toonami. I had practice after school so I started using the internet to research the stuff I liked.

If anyone is talking about the first stuff I watched, it was back when I was eight visiting the Philippines, and I saw some Dragonball Z. Around that time Sailor Moon used to air on TV. I didn't know it was anime at the time though, back then the internet wasn't an option in my house (with our three year old 50 MHz Intel pre-Pentium processor and a hard drive smaller than my current laptop's RAM).

[Sato]

I got into it when I was pretty young, I don't remember when. My first was probably the anime the Sci-Fi channel used to air, then I got into Berserk when I played the DC game. Then I saw FLCL and was like, OMFG anime is good.

[Hika]

Very late 70's. Speed Racer was my first.

[Kaiga]

I'd say around in 1995, I got into anime because of my nextdoor neighbor, so I'd mostly say I've been into anime for about 10-11 years now.

[Kaiga]

I got into it when I was pretty young, I don't remember when. My first was probably the anime the Sci-Fi channel used to air, then I got into Berserk when I played the DC game. Then I saw FLCL and was like, OMFG anime is good.
when did you see Furi Kuri?

[Blue Thunder]

circa 1985. I was a huge Robotech and, to a lesser extent, Voltron fan in my youth. Although I remember a few others... Robotech is what really started me down the path.

[Matt-a-Tastic]

Earlly 2004

[Lemina]

I got into anime when I saw Sailor Moon on Toonami back in late 1999. The moment I saw it, I never turned away from it again, and I kept getting into it more and more. Sooner or later, I got the VHS tapes and those tapes had previews to other anime series I ended up getting too. After watching so many shows on Toonami overtime, I just became an anime fan.

[Magami No ER]

I was four when I watched Lil' Bits and some movie with horses that I could tell was anime. I also was intrigued by teh "One More Time"(forgot the damn band's name, Pink something I think) song that would show on Nick sometimes.
Also then came Pokemon, Yu-Gi-oh, and Inuyasha before I bought my first DVD and said...this is Japanese!

[CMC]

95ish I think? Started renting anime from Blockbuster, starting out with Akira. Which at the age of 12 blew my friggin mind, so I watched it 2 more times directly after the 1st.

Still can't remember what it was that made me pick up Akira at the time, maybe the cool artwork on the box, I dunno. But I'm glad I did none the less.

[Shooting_star]

Around 1999 when pokemon was reall popular.
Thanks to pokemon i am here today.

[Dr. Ezra]

I'd have to say my first encounter with anime was when I was four. I saw My Neighbor Totoro for the first time. Pokemon and Dragonball then led me into other anime.

[MagicianCamille]

For the thousandth time: Around January of 2002, I watched Love Hina, Ranma, Evangelion(blah at the time), and Gundam Wing.

[yukino]

For me it was back when YTV first started airing Sailor Moon. I was babysitting my little cousins and they told me I was Sailor Moon and I was supposed to destroy Beryl (AKA their oldest sister!) I was around 14 or 15 back then I believe.....

[Kafreen]

Probably when I was ten or so when Sailor Moon was on tv and also Ramna 1/2 but that wasn't on tv.

[Sora N]

I started watching anime when I was about 6 years old [sometime around 1987-1988] (now I'm 23) with Speed Race and Ranma ½.

[Hisoka]

I started in the early 90's watching Dragonball and Dragonball Z RAWS. I then bought the VHS fansubs soon after (which at the time were super expensive and rare and hell to find). I was mainly just a huge Dragonball fan and then in the min 90's started buying more fansubs every once and a while. That's how it started.

[Sushikins]

Late 1990's. Started watching Sailor Moon and DBZ

[Psychopuppet]

1991 I would say 1985 but, I had no idea what anime was back then I use to have A decent VHS collection but,have since sold of most them that has come out on DVD or they have broke (Galaxy Express 999 movie copy :'( ).

[saouri]

I'm started in the early 80's, watching Mazinger Z, Ninja Kamui, Heidi, Blue Noah, Festival de Robots...
My family use to say i'm watching animé since i was 3 or 4 years old, in fact my remembers are right with that age.

Now, i'm close to my birthday number 26...so, more than 20 years of "adiction" to animé.

[DarkDestiny]

Whenever Salor Moon aired. I temporarly liked it. Then came Card Captor Sakura and Escaflowne on Fox. Then the losers took them off the air without finishing them!! Grr.Then I really got into DBZ when it was on CN.

[Invader GIR]

Pokemon.... that's when I started getting into it. Pokemon Red was what I got into, then I got into the Pokemon show and from there, I walked through the door of... Imaginaaaaation!

[emotoaster]

since my early childhood I would watch DBZ and others, then it reserfaced when I saw [AS] and I was hooked again

[FayeValentine]

Well I started watching My Neighbor Totoro, Sailor Moon and alittle bit of Pokemon. That was when I was elementary school and middle school (ages 8-12). But I didn't really know about anime back then...But one of my friends introduced me to Princess Mononoke and a number of other anime my sophomore year of highschool. So...I guess it was all because of him that I got so interested and started watching and buying my own series'! Adult swim back in the day helped alot...:)

[Midvalley]

When I caught an episode of Outlaw Star and Cowboy Bebop on Adult Swim about 3 or 4 years ago.

[FURUBA4EVER]

Well...I got into Sailor Moon while watching it in 1995 or 1996...Then, I watched Pokemon, Cardcaptors (urgh...-_-;...Couldn't they have kept the original name?), Digimon, and some other edited anime on public television around 1999...:P (I really liked Sailor Moon, Cardcaptors, and Escaflowne, though.) Those were my first anime... (Fun trivia, but I just remembered it...My first anime movie was the edited Kiki's Delivery Service on VHS...I'm surprised I remember it...)

Then, around 2000, I found a lovely magazine by the name of Anime Invasion (now titled Anime Insider). With this magazine, I found out that there was more to the foreign cartoons I had been seeing. Once I read this magazine, I looked at it as an art form, not just an ordinary cartoon. :)

I think I started collecting anime in 2002, though...I had been buying (which I had not realized) manga for years, though (since 1999 or 2000, I think?). I started collecting anime volume to volume, though, with Chobits in 2003. I had a slow start, but when I think about it, most of it was pretty random. Luckily, though, one morning almost 10 years ago, I turned on the television to find Sailor Moon being broadcast. If I hadn't discovered it then, I doubt I would know about anime at all right now. :) (Funny how things turn out, huh? :P)

[PinoyOtaku]

It all began with Gatchaman in 1994. I never became a full fledged anime fan until 2002. At first I noticed the anime DVD section in my local Best Buy (at the time was just a small rack) and bought Tenchi Muyo In Love 1 along with our first DVD player. Afterwards I noticed the Oh! My Goddess OAV in my local blockbuster and rented that out before moving on to the movie. After the movie I was trying to hunt down some AMG manga, and then I came across AN (still in the black layout :P).

Around summer of that year, I recalled one of my team mates in the summer camp I went to the year before mentioned of an anime convention in Long Beach, CA so I decided to look it up and I decided to go. Before that, I rented out the first two VHSs of Evangelion and got hooked. Anime Expo 2002 pretty much sealed the fate for me as an anime fan. :D

...eleven days later, I joined AN. ^_^ The rest is history. ;)

[xia]

the sanrio films from the early 80s. Sea Prince and the fire child, Unico etc etc.

Full blown anime fandom started in 1995 when I caught sailormoon on t.v one morning. I've been a fan since.

[Evil_Koala]

When I was like 7 I watched Pokemon...that's how it started...

[master terrence]

I got in to it with Sailor moon, then I realy got into it with pokemon...then DBZ, and then found better stuff and went steady :smokin:

[sazae]

At the end of the 60's. Watching Sazae-san every Sunday night night just became a tradition. It was just a neat cartoon that I really enjoyed but once the 70's hit and Doraemon became a phenomenon and Lupin III became the "cool" show that you watched I was hooked.

[Hexon.Arq]

One night, I just decided to rent the first volume of Evangelion. Bada-bing, bada-boom, I was into anime.

[ronin_manji]

well,i cinda got into anime when i was young but i didnt know it was anime at the time.
it was sailor moon. but when i knew and found out what anime was i watchet Evangelion and Bubblegum Crises tokyo 2040

[SDAnimeFan]

Back in 98 is when I started getting into anime. It started with Sailor Moon and Urusei Yatsura Beautiful Dreamer.

[SDF/Draven]

Back in 91 a friend of mine showed me an anime called Fist of the North Star. From that point on, I watched everything I could get my hands on at the time. Vampire Hunter D, Lensman, Dangaioh, Gunbuster, Doomed Megapolis, Dominion Tank Police, Green Legend Ran, Dagger of Kuimai... Then I cooled off a bit, mostly because there wasnt a market for anime yet. Finally a couple years later, "newer" animes came in Ninja Scroll, Street Fighter the movie, Wicked City, Ghost in the Shell, Twilight of the Dark Master, and I was back in it.

Its a shame a lot of folk here are saying that they consider anime to be the American cartoons they saw in Robotech and Voltron. A real shame...

[Kogepan]

I think it must've been the mid to late-80s. I saw this cartoon (or so I thought at the time) called Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs and thought it looked really cool. (I was into Transformers, GI Joe, Thundercats, Silverhawks, and Visionaries--anything that was considered a "boy" cartoon.) But I didn't really know what it was. And then my sister's boyfriend introduced me to Ranma 1/2 via a bootleg fighting game, and I was a goner.

[animegirl7783]

oh god long story but I've been into anime for about 8-9 years I'd say.

[Midoriko87]

Not when did I get into anime, but when did I discover that is was anime? I think my first anime was either Dragon Ball or Speed Racer. I've always liked anime, but I didn't discover that is was "anime" until middle school. That's when, I began to consciously notice the difference between Japanese and American cartoons.

I just love cartoons. I like anime and American cartoons for different reasons.

[R_Rahl]

It was the early 80s. Fist of the North Star!!

[Raistlin-sama]

Around 4 years ago. At that point the Dragonball manga came out in Denmark and the anime was showed on television (with horrible dubbed voices, but oh well).

I immediately loved it, although I quickly realized that the anime sucked compared to the manga.

Then 2 years went by, with me being a Dragonball fanboy, but never really getting further into anime.

So 2 years ago, I started to get seriously into it. Since then I have watched lots and lots of shows, and have become quite the animefan.

That is not long compared to most people in here, I know. But then, anime is not really known as anything, but pokemon and the like in my country at the moment, so I wasn't exactly inspired to become a fan. Another point is of course that I am only 16, and therefore, just haven't had the same time to discover it as a lot of people in here.

[Takumi]

4 years ago.

Decided to see Ghost in the Shell on a whim after hearing quite a bit about it.

Then I discovered Evangelion.

Then Initial D.

And so on.

[Mazinkaiser]

I've been watching Anime for 13 years. When I was 4, I got hooked onto Tosho Daimos, and later I saw stuff like Mobile Suit Gundam, Combattler V, Ghost in the Shell, Megazone 23, Patlabor, Eden's Bowy, etc... that sealed my love for anime.

[RyoTD]

The year was 2001. My friend had just bought Dragonball Vol. 16. Then we watched Dragonball Z on RTL II (German satellite channel) and that's how it went, I suppose.

[Polzinator]

I believe it all started with Gundam Wing.

[Alcione]

it all started when i watched Sailormoon and DBZ when i was 10 years old and became an anime fan since then

[futurebiblehero]

If I've answered this before, forgive me. I'm too lazy to check.

I grew up as a child of the 80s with Robotech and eventually seen Vampire Hunter D somewhere around 1990 or 1991. I've been a fan of varying degrees ever since, from casual to obsessed.

[sicklelee]

I got into anime mostly from friends, anime websites, and the actual shows themselves.

[Hiyono-punch]

If I've answered this before, forgive me. I'm too lazy to check.

I grew up as a child of the 80s with Robotech and eventually seen Vampire Hunter D somewhere around 1990 or 1991. I've been a fan of varying degrees ever since, from casual to obsessed.

Robotech was also one that I started with. The other was Project Ako. I saw both when the si-fi channel used to have them on early in the morning. That was around when I was a freshman in high school. Then I dropped off for awhile (didn't have an allowance at the time so no money to buy). Then I happened to catch Cowboy Bebop on AS and it brought it all back.

[Levon]

Polzinator, whats with & bumping old threads back up? -_-;

[Polzinator]

Polzinator, whats with & bumping old threads back up? -_-;

What are you talking about?

[Levon]

Your bringing back old threads.

[onegaianime]

i got into it about 13 years ago with Robotech

[Daishikaze]

Early 80s, I used to watch Star Blazers (Yamato) and Force Five (Gaiking, Getter Robo, Starzinger, Danguard A, Grendizer) with my brother every day. Later other shows were added to the line-up, like Voltron (Go Lion & Dairugger XV) and Robotech (Macross, Southern Cross, Mospeada), and Transzor Z (Mazinger Z)

There were a whole slew of other shows too that I can't think of at the moment.

[SuperSailorMoon]

When I was 13 I Sailor Moon got me in to anime. I have been in to anime for about seven years.

[Capt. Global]

when i was about 4 or 5, my dad recorded gaiking and getter (star avengers) off of showtime. my older brother grew up with shogun warriors and it tickled down to me.

[Polzinator]

Such as...?

[a fire inside]

i first got into anime this year and the first show i saw was inuyasha and gundam seed on ytv.

[avalanche330]

Early 80's for me too. It all started with Robotech.

[zath]

I was in the mall one day and I went into Suncoast. I saw this huge section on the wall. Suprisingly it was Anime and they were playing the Dragon Ball Z movie Dead Zone and I just had to get that movie it looked so dang cool. I bought that and Read or Die (which I have to buy both again). A week later I was watch T.V. and I saw Toonami(when they showed it on week days. And saw Gundam wing. Been a fan ever since!

[Danju]

I've been watching anime since I was a kid. I've grown up with it.

[LidorBa]

About a year and a half ago.

[Talon]

I watched anime since Maya the Bee... before i even knew what anime was I watched G-Force, Speed Racer, Robotech, Voltron, and My Neighbor Totoro.

[SuperKnuckles]

I got started on anime ever since I was born. Since that was the stuff that was most interesting to me whenever my parents left the TV on with the network channels. Besides, my parents were somewhat of anime fans in their younger days as well.

I can't even remember what the old anime were. They showed a lot of 70's anime during the early 80's.

Though I can't even remember the specifics of those ancient anime, I do remember that a lot of them were awesome. heh. The only show I can remember is Ranma 1/2. All others were either obscure, or were only popular in the 70's and early 80's.

[YouBrokeMyHeart]

Hmm...When DBZ used to come on late at night I got into it, then got obsessed with that and Sailor Moon when CN started to put it on during day hours after school. :lol: Could't get enough!

[DarkWhistler1]

When I was about 8 years old, I saw an anime called Lensman, and so my journey began.....

[lost7]

first anime i have ever seen was gundam wing when it first came out on Cartoonnetwork.(back when it was cool. not the crap it is now) but realy never got into anime till i saw DBZ, yu yu hakusho, and tenchi muyo. then when i saw Ruroini kenshin, i dove into anime and manga.

[charles bronson]

Just like with everyone else here, It started when I was a kid watching voltron, robotech etc.

Then I further got into it when I was around 13 years old when Sci-Fi channel used to air anime on saturday mornings and was amazed when I saw Akira, Record of Lodoss War, Project ako and Vampire Hunter D. Then I got into Dragonball Z and have been a fan ever since.

I can still remember back in 1997-98 when suncoast had a tiny anime section and it was only VHS, now it's a huge section with all dvds. Times have definitely changed.

[Samurai Drifter]

I started watching the summer after my sophomore year in high school, so about three years ago. I was up late one night, and caught Lupin III. My first thought was that it was a really stupid show, but the next night I watched it again (just to prove how stupid it was), and then again, and again...

Eventually I'd seen every episode multiple times. Then I saw Trigun, and the rest is history.

[eVaS.]

During the summer after 5th grade I first started really drawing in gettig into this artform that was still new and unkown to me at the time. Started getting serious about it in watching it probably when I was in 6th grade.

[ronin_manji]

i got in to anime when the buu saga was first coming on tunami and tat was about 3 yrs. back!

[xxxYaoiLovrxxx]

I started to get into anime ever since they aired Sailormoon after school.

[cyborgaaron]

About one year ago... unless you count the countless hours I spent watching Digimon, Pokemon, and Yugioh 3 some years ago.

[Hexon.Arq]

July 3, 2003.

[Porco Rosso]

Growing up with Astro Boy, Voltron, and Speed Racer. Star Blazers tapes helped a bit, too.

[Matsu'o Tsurayaba]

The anime`s that i saw when i was younger was Dragonball,Speed Racer,Sailor Moon,G-Force and Neon Genesis Evangelion.

[Suzaku no Miko]

I got into it when I was in 6th grade, or going into 6th grade....

But I watched anime before that (Sailor Moon, Hamtaro, Pokemon) when I was a child and didn't know the difference between Japanese animation and American.

[MonkeyBoy0314]

Before I was born! My parents were both REALLY into Speed Racer, and when I was born I used to watch Voltron and Star Blazers religiously.

[akpookie]

When I was 12 and saw Akira on the Sci-Fi Channel was the first anime I ever saw (and knew it was anime). I liked it, but thought at the time that all anime was like that (wierd, hard to understand, cool-looking).
I really got into anime once I was introduced to Sailor Moon by a friend when I was 16 and quickly grew obsessed with it. It was all downhill from there. :P
By the way, I'm 23 now.

[Basselope]

In Kindergarten in Hawaii...we could get Japanese programming there! The Shogun Warriors, Ultraman, Speed Racer, Urusei, and they also has some Live action stuff that was based on a Manga there that i watched as well, Gojira, Ultraman, Gamera...this was around 1975-76...been watching it ever since when i could find it on or in a store. Unfortunately even the cheesy stuff...like the badly done re-do's of Mazinger in the stores now at walmart...oi....fave so far is STILL the Shogun Warriors...to me the beginning of Mecha as we know it, i even have the american version of the comics somewhere too....I am now 36

[AsukaxSohryux]

Sometime in middle school, when Cartoon Network would air Tenchi Universe on the weekdays.

[Kilala_06]

i was born in 86' and i can remember watching speed racer with my dad when i was 4..... big anime fan ever since :)

[CanonRAP]

Started watching anime and reading manga since I was around 4. Hard to ignore that stuff when your country of residence is Japan's neighbour.

[Talon]

Hmmm. I started liking anime in the good ol' days, when the Sci-Fi channel aired them (Late 80s early 90s mebbee?). I was instantly hooked. Man I miss the old Sci-Fi channel :(

[Ketaru]

How did anybody find this post from just under a year ago?!

[ShichinintaiRox]

The early 80's. I grew up on stuff like Star Blazers, Battle of the Planets, Speed Racer, Captain Harlock, Voltron, Thundercats, Tranzor Z (Mazinger), etc. But like most children of the 80's, it was Robotech that really roped me into the whole Japanese Animation thing. ^_^


Yep, me too. Early 80's, I was 7-8ish. Battle of the Planets, Speed Racer, Thundercats, old school Transformers. However, I didn't know it was imported or anything, I just liked watching the shows.

Forgot about it for years. Didn't think of anime at all again until sitting in front of a computer at college in maybe 1997 or '98. Found pics of Belldandy from Ah! My Goddess, and was so intrigued by the artwork style, I looked into it further. Came full circle and fell in love with it all over again.

Now I am officially hopeless, and am only *starting* to spend money on anime and manga. *Sigh*. Only starting! :D

[Spike]

I don't know for sure but it was either Sailor Moon or Dragon Ball. I've been watching cartoons and anime since a young age so I'm not sure how long I've been watching this stuff for heh.

[CyberNinja5]

I had always watched anime since 93 when i was 3 or 4 and i used to watch DBZ and some older stuff. And i also watched pokemon and all of that crap and a couple of other kid shows but I never got serious about anime. Untill last year when AS started airing NGE and i was hooked to it. I got the series for christmas last year and have been buying/downloading/watching other shows since.

[CanonRAP]

Forgot about it for years. Didn't think of anime at all again until sitting in front of a computer at college in maybe 1997 or '98. Found pics of Belldandy from Ah! My Goddess, and was so intrigued by the artwork style, I looked into it further. Came full circle and fell in love with it all over again.

Same for me...forgot about anime (but not manga ^_^ ) for a couple of years, then foruming around on my 5th year AWOL I came upon the mysterious title Love Hina...

[synce]

To be honest I got into hentai before anime. That was back in late nineties-2000, shortly before Bible Black first hit DVD. It was all thanks to a feature on Japan I saw on E! :lol:

[Kuyukly]

Hmm!

Something like four years ago, in my freshman year in high school. I was into Pokemon long before then, but back then I didn't know it was an anime, or what anime was, or...you know. It all started with Trigun! :D

[Broand]

I was into Wierd-Al, saw an amv which had 3 different animes in it.
I picked one and got sucked into anime ever since.

It was a selection of Karin, FMA and one I can't remember
I chose Karin and went onto Chobits. I then saw AMV hell 3 and thought to choose one from that list. I chose Excel saga Which I enjoyed, Then I had a hit of nostalgia When I saw Tenchi in there. I went From Tenchi to Ah! My Goddess and onto other things

[jatoskep]

It was probably about 3 years, ago. My family and I were on vacation, and I stayed up all night and watched Adult Swim. I really liked Inuyasha and eventually discovered what anime was. Now I can't stand english dubs though. >.>

[YuriFanboy]

I first got into anime when DBZ and Sailor Moon premiered on Toonami. That's pretty much what got my interest started. It snowballed from there, and now I spend way too much money on anime.

[goddessofanime]

I got into years ago when Gundam Wing and Dragonball were on Midnight Run(pre AS) when I worked late at a job. One day, I decided to purchase Animerica for the heck of it and for something different to read, and I got hooked.

[ladyshiro]

We'll I've always been into anime. I started watching when I was probly 7-8 years old, I became a hard core DBZ fan in highschool. Those were before I knew what anime was. I became a hard core anime fan about 4 1/2 years ago when i was in college and haven't looked back since.

[Blue Thunder]

The moment I saw Macross: Do You Remember Love. It had to be 1985, as I saw it right before Robotech came out. Since that moment, I have been an anime fanatic. Now if only we could recapture the magic that the golden age of anime had...

[Midvalley]

Adult Swim back in 2001 and 2002 got me into anime. That sparked my first purchase, which was Outlaw Star, and haven't looked back since. Although, I did take a break from buying DVDs from 2006-2007 but should be back in the swing of things by 2008.

[Equipollent]

I first got into anime in '98. My friend's older brother had bought evengelion and was showing it to us. After that, I was obsessed with anime for well, it has been almost 10 years. At least the obsession has cooled off to some extent now.