Anyways, I hope that this topic wasn't covered already by someone else...

We already talked about how people found konachan, but how did you guys find ANIME?
Was it an epiphany, or a gradual process?
What were the first anime you saw/watched?
And most importantly(you don't have to answer if it's uncomfortable)
How old were you when it happened?

I was 4 years old when I first saw Pokemon on TV, then I saw Dragon Ball...

I suggest you actually title the thread in a way that is related to the topic. xD'

I didn't really have to think much of it, anime played in our local TV channels. That's how I got exposed to Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball.

But greater exposure came afterwards through a friend of my cousin, who was dealing in trading VHS copies of other, more obscure anime. That's how I learned of the.. ahem, darker sides, of the anime world.

I must have been watching anime without knowing it since I was 5 or earlier @_@

Toonami introduced me to it. Needless to say I'm glad it's back.

As for how I find anime titles to watch, I either find them through pics of this site and the comments that follow them, or through AnimeSource's "Can you guess the anime?" box.

Agos said:
Toonami introduced me to it. Needless to say I'm glad it's back.

That reminded me... I stopped watching TV when my cable company removed the only channel that used to play anime from time to time. It's been over 15 years, and I can't say I miss it. Anime on the net is so much better xD' (specially because I don't have to endure dubs any more :B)

SK7000 said:
I suggest you actually title the thread in a way that is related to the topic. xD'

I suggest you follow this bit of advice.

Fhhhewwww!!
I thought my topic was being locked again...

BTW Stahn, how did YOU find anime?

Gregol said:
Fhhhewwww!!
I thought my topic was being locked again...

That can be arranged. Change the thread title to something more indicative of the topic for discussion before I decide the title is trollish in nature.

I see that you learned some sarcasm from me.....(*better change the title anyways just to make sure...*)

Anyways, we're getting sidetracked here!
Need more posts!

Dragonball Z pokemon and crayon shin chan were on TV, I hated school and people and pretty much everything else besides computer games. It didn't take very long for me to accept such new worlds into my own. I never really understood why so few people I knew didn't like shin chan (their main argument was something like "it looks funny" , maybe the different styles freaked them out?)

Oh, just thought I should mention:
If you don't want to pour your heart out in here, just don't...

(no connection to previous posts, just thought I should mention as well)*sly* Stahn didn't answer me! hehehe!! he's hiding something!(no offense)

Gregol said:
Oh, just thought I should mention:
If you don't want to pour your heart out in here, just don't...

Well if I did that there wouldn't be a point in scrolling anymore :D
I also jumped from there to other series , a lot of mainstream but I don't really give an F&*!# that people hipster mode on me for that. There's a lot of good stuff in there and I like it :D

yeah, I never understood that either, whatever that was you were saying.....

What do people mean by "mainstream"?

...I watched it. If it weren't for digital cable, I wouldn't be able to watch it. Too bad cable costs $100 fucking dollars a month.

My first taste of anime was Dragon Ball and whatever else they played on Toonami. I can't remember any other show. Back then though I didn't know I was watching anime and thought they were just really weird actiony cartoons. Eventually I lost intrest in them.

Then about two years ago, a guy I follow on youtube mentioned Highschool of The Dead. I thought, "Hot girls and zombies, why not?" Watched it and have been addicted to anime ever since.

I first started watching anime back when i was... 5? Honestly i don't know exactly how old i was when i saw my first anime but i was really small. My first anime or should i say the first anime i was really invested in was pokemon. I watched some others like Hamtaro and Dragonball but pokemon was my entire life back then. Despite watching a number of anime growing up i didn't even know what an "Anime" was until a few years ago. But as soon as i could put a label on these great works i devoted all of my free time to them. However i couldn't see much anime until my parents finally broke down and got me a labtop. Now i watch anime 24/7 and i couldn't be happier! ^w^Okay so that last part isn't entirly true. I'm dying to make my own anime reveiws on youtube but i lack the means to do so. I also want to buy certain series on DVDs as well as plenty of manga and memorabilia. Worst of all i don't know any dedicated fans off-line. But i'm sure that will all come in good time.

@Gregol I'm curious, you started this thread and yet you haven't told us how you were introduced to anime. And btw, a Mainstream Anime is basically an anime that is well known, popular and based on a large franchise. They're typically Shounen animeaimed at teenage boys like Naruto, Bleach and Fairy Tail.

Damn, ecchi figured me out!

Well, I was about four when I first saw pokemon or digimon or whatever that was.
Then anytime my parents left me on my own with the TV, I'd browse the channels for some anime-looking thing. Thus I saw princess mononoke, but didn't know I had until ten years after.
When I was 10/12 I enjoyed one piece and naruto(whenever my parents were away)
The first show i saw completely was Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.
The first anime I watched online was KoiKoi 7(at the age of 15)
Then I remembered that those popular loitumagirl videos contained scenes from Bleach(I read about it on wikipedia when I was about 13). Watched that, but dropped it as soon as the Youtube episodes ran out.
I've been watching anime ever since.

Ooh god ... How could I forget digimon.
I loved digimon back then!
Now when I look at it I'm like.... why do they use the evolution thingy so often and so strangely, but back then I thought it was the best of the best.

>_> the kitty kitty and Tai's little sister ..... never forget QQ

Pssst guys, Medabots!

never finished that one.
Or cardcaptor
Or cowboy bebop

Artwork said:
Pssst guys, Medabots!

I forgot medabots........
This thread is epic. Bringing back good memories :D
Keep posting please ^_^

Mnessie said:
This thread is epic. Bringing back good memories :D

Gregol's been starting some good threads lately, i can only guess what the next one will be.

Mnessie said:
Ooh god ... How could I forget digimon.
I loved digimon back then!

Same here! It was one of my favorite anime growing up, i'm planning to re-watch it someday ^_^