my very first anime was Sailor Moon in the 1996, then i starded to be an anime fan when i watched Excel Saga and Evangelion in 98-99.

It was DBZ and Neon Genesis Evangelion for me
- My brother was always buying things from Japan so that's how I got into it

Sailor Moon. I still enjoy it to this day nearly 9 years after seeing it for the first time (though not in big doses. That show can be real repetitive at times).

DBZ, Ronin Warriors and I hate to say it, Sailor Moon, were my first anime shows I watched.

Id say Robotech or Akira.
If you count Transformer as an anime then it might've been the 1st.
(This gives you a hint of how old I am. :-( )
But Ninja scroll turned me into a "full time" anime junkie.

Transformers is an anime, 'cause it was created on japan (maybe they are guilty for all the next mecha-shows like gundam or robotech) and translated to america ( & caribbean :P)

My first was Slayers, and Sailor Moon. Mostly Slayers.

One of my various babysitters had just returned from a trip to Japan and returned with a bunch of dubbed animes [ On VHS o.o ] for us to watch.

I adored Slayers to pieces. <3

Miyazaki's Panda! Go Panda! (it's a lesser-known film by him, comprising two parts) on VHS, which I used to watch over and over as a toddler, along with Tonari no Totoro (aka My Neighbor Totoro) and Laputa: Castle in the Sky. Yep, I was wild for Miyazaki films. Still am, too, although Howl's Moving Castle could have been better...

Pokemon introduced me to the world of Japanese animated TV, followed by Patlabor (which I simply adore). Now I'm hooked on Yakitate!! Japan (manga and anime).

Yeah! Go Yakitate!! Japan! That was the first anime I ever intentionally watched.

Transformers is an anime, 'cause it was created on japan (maybe they are guilty for all the next mecha-shows like gundam or robotech) and translated to america ( & caribbean :P)

The very first series of Transformers was made in America.

The characters were based on a japanese toyline.

I believe it was... Big O actually. I feel bad about that. I had seen anime before that( just the stuff that was on Toonami like Kenshin, Tenchi Muyo, Dbz, sailor moon, the horribly butchered Cardcaptors) but I really don't feel like I saw it as anime, just cartoons. Now I know better though.

that would be inuyasha because i've never seen anything like before at that time.

Pokemon was probably the first Anime i got into.

Being relatively new to the world of anime myself, ( i've only really been into anime for about two years)

Tsubasa Resevoir Chronicles was the first anime series that got me hooked. The manga got me interested enough to dive into the vast world of manga and anime.
Of course "first" excludes Studio ghibli stuff like Miyazaki's "totoro" XP I grew up on that movie.

The very first series of Transformers was made in America.

The characters were based on a japanese toyline.

Do you mean the "Go-Bots"?
:D


Welcome to FF shire Ronin Maj.

The first anime I saw was Project Ako. It was on the Sci-Fi channel when they had Saturday Anime on really early in the morning. I was wondering why my brother was awake so early on a saturday and it was because of that. I remember watching several anime movies that way like Vampire Hunter D, Green Legend Ran, and A Wind Named Amnesia.

@jeepjockey03-Project A-ko rocks :D :cool:. Although that wasn't my very first anime, but I think that was about my fourth one. I liked it so much I did eventually buy a boxset of the series on DVD XD. I found it when I went to Comic-Con of 2005 and it was $30 for the three DVDs. I first heard about it when I found it at a Blockbuster video rental store.

In chronological order my first four animes were:
1.Sailor Moon
2.Iczer One
3.Mermaids Scar
4.Project A-ko

:cool:

The Animes I grew up watching were Voltron, Speed Racer, Akira and Dragon Ball.

Sailor Moon was my first anime, but I think it was Digimon that made me realize what anime was.

Welcome Rosa II

As far as I'm concerned, the original Transformers was the first anime related series i remember watching as a kid with the re-runs showing every morning when I was a wee lad in the mid 90's. The anime that pretty much made me think, "Hey there's this island country called Japan and they make good shows!" was probably Pokemon. I was born at the right time for the Pokemon world wide phenomenon. Amongst all that fandom, I took a liking to Neon Genesis Evangelion, only at the time I was 7 and didn't understand Eva's true nature. I only liked it cause it had big robots fighting evil alien things and had an awesome intro song that I love to this day. =D

The first anime I watched was the English version of DBZ in 1997/1998. And that was all I knew about anime; I knew about Sailor Moon but I thought it was too girly and I never cared about it.

But the show that opened the floodgates was "FUSHIGI YUUGI." I watched this show in Japanese and I had no idea what to expect. The storyline of Fushigi Yuugi was well done, the voice acting was superb (more so than ANY English voice acting that I have ever heard), the music was great, and it is one of the few shows that made me cry (I'm a guy).

If it wasn't for this show I would not have watched other shows such as Neon Genesis Evangelion, Rurouni Kenishin, and Blue Seed; I guess when you watch one great show of a genre it prompts interest in the whole.

In addition to watching other anime, what made this show so significant was that it generated an interest in the Japanese culture, music, and language.

I was 17 when I watched this show and I'm 27 now. I watch this show, or bits and pieces of it, every couple years and I still rank this show as the best anime.

Mine was Silent Mobious.

That awesome show is what brought me into anime.

Hmm...
Such fond memories...
Magic Knights Rayearth...
Fufufufufu...

Mine was either the first Ghost in the Shell film, or Metropolis, I can't remember which cause I borrowed the two DVDs from a friends and i'm not sure which I watched first. But anyway, I liked them and then just started watching more.

Oh yeah...
I have the original Ghost in a Shell...
Heh... On VHS...

;o awesome, didn't know it was that old!

I remember playing the Playstation 1 game as well at the time, loved it, even though I only had the demo of it from one of the Playstation Magazine discs :D

Ha ha!
I have that too!
Yeah... It is that old...
I consider it a classic...

Well yeah, nowadays films like Ghost in the Shell and Akira are considered the classics of anime, I suppose they do give you quite a good idea of what the rest of the world of anime is like, if you're watching some for the first time.
Of course, animation has moved on quite a lot since then, but still I think it's more about the storyline and character depth in an anime that's important. Probably just me though.

Well of course...
Anime and Manga are just like everything else in the sense that it evolves...
But the classics are just timeless...
Like some new ones now are okay but will eventually fad out...

Yeah I suppose, shame really.

Oh yeah...
I have the original Ghost in a Shell...
Heh... On VHS...

same here, i also have..
ninja scroll, akira, patlabor 1,2, X, rojuin z, guyver ,and a few others

On VHS!?
That's pretty cool...
I have Akira also on VHS...
And something called Bable and Dominion...
They were pretty sweet...

i have dominion tank police w/o case,

funny, i just had a yard sale last week, at $2ea, i did not sell any of them. Akira and Robot Carnival i did not put out for sale.

I would never sell any of my anime or manga...
But its funny a friend of mine... his dad threw away his VHS Akira... He got so mad...
And another friend of mine... His dad threw away his FFIIV... I wish i saw his face...
But if that happened to me...
I would like go on a killing spree...

The shows about ninjas and ghosts were the first anime I followed that weren't tainted by the hazards of dubbing and editing for a US market. First heard about 'em in high school and got hooked ever since. Kudos to Kishimoto-san and Kubo-san for such cool work!

Ninjas and ghost hunh...
I take it you must be new to this...
I ask cause those are fairly recent...

I wrestled with selling em, although i own most on dvd also. Wrath of the Ninja (yotoden or something) was a cool title, similar to Ninja Scroll, had the 8 demons a little monk, ninja girl and was set during the Edo era.

I've heard of that...
Never really got around to watching it...

If you guys want to chat, take it to PMs.

get ---- nuts homes...

will do

Sailor Moon/Saint Seiya and Dragon Ball Z XD

For me it was the Sci Fi channel anime weekends. They would show Anime movies like Akira and Project A-ko to name a few. Then I started watching Dragonball Z and Sailor Moon on local television. That's what pretty much got me into Anime.

The first shows I saw but DIDN'T know were anime were Voltron (Lion Force), StarBlazers, Robotech, early '80s anime. I didn't actually get into anime until the early '90s myself, with Sci-Fi Channel's Saturday Anime, with Tenchi Muyo! In Love, Gall Force, Project A-Ko. The first anime-anything I remember purchasing was Devil Hunter Yohko Volume1 Special Edition in English. Then, I got into other anime titles, not exclusive to ADVFilms, but also from Pioneer/Geneon, Manga Entertainment, FUNimation.

My first anime: Nassica of the Vally of Wind... My next exp. Ninja Scroll... followed closely by Ghost in the Shell, all the Dragon Ball,Z,GT... Ranma 1/2...Overman King Gainer... in short I'm a Otaku

Neon Genesis Evengalion, Macross, 0079 MS Gundam

Robot Carnival, Cowboy Beebop, Street Fighter Alpha, Tekken,(Tekken also lead me to the band Stabbing Westward)

We have Winrar, Quadruple post

hey tdryu double posting is bad, mmkay.
edit your post instead.

sorry system hiccup

Bullshit. A system hiccup would be two or more posts saying exactly the same thing, not three unique ones and one duplicate. Fixing it now, but don't make me have to do this again.

Also, people who refer to themselves as "otaku" are usually really dumb, pretentious, and annoying.

My first animes (in which, I knew they were anime) were Sailor Moon, DBZ, Tenchi Muyo and Cowboy Bebop. DBZ is about the only one out of the list that I don't enjoy as much anymore as the others.

oh so you're otaku too prak?

I find DBZ has kinda lost its luster only because my anime viewing has evolved plus I was able to see the japanese not E-Dubbed version

I admit it... my first was Sailor Moon way back in '96. My sister was actually the one to point out that it was anime and then told me what anime was.

My first that I ever saw was Ronin Warriors, but I didn't know was anime was yet.

untill Nassica all I was able to vid was DIC, Hanna-Barbera, Warrner Brothers, Disney & Don Bluth. I think I was like 9 or 10 I knew that it was diffrent.

First anime I watched was Pokemon. I was already familiar with the games, but my cousin introduced me to the awesome show. However, the first anime I watched and realized it was an anime was Tenchi Muyo.

I'll divide this into two parts:

1st Part: Younger Days (early - mid 90's)

I'd say animes like Voltes V, Daimos, Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Ranma 1/2, BT'X, Samurai X, Slam Dunk, GateKeepers and Yu Yu Hakusho because these were frequently shown on TV back then and the stations have had plenty of reruns for these animes.

2nd Part: Reawakening of my interest in Anime (August 2007) after a hiatus from 2003 - 2007

Ginban Kaleidoscope: Reawakened my passion for watching anime (another thanks to my PS2 hehehe!). Changed my anime interests to watching animes with love stories and beautiful women (I only used to watch animes with fighting and robots).

Others

Read or Die OVA, Read or Die the TV, Onegai Sensei, School Rumble

hehe. I got into anime pretty recently considering my age. Around the summer before my senior year in high school I watched Naruto with a friend of mine. I had really never seen any true anime before then and I/We were watching it because I was bored and she was an anime addict. It really caught my attention and set itself apart from most of mainstream cartoons not shown on cable(yeah yeah). There was action, character developement, and more realism in the fight scenes. Wow, people actually bled when cut and the phrases like "I will KILL YOU!" haven't been changed to destroy and whatnot. After that (since I was still using dial up at home) I wound up downloading anime at school and watching it on the provided laptop (new public school btw and first in the district to offer laptops to students so security was lax/nonexistent).

That sounds a lot like my experience. Just before my senior year of high school, I finally decided to see what these two friends of mine from a video game web site were chatting about (it was Yakitate!! Japan), and wound up becoming irrevocably addicted. During my first year of college, downloaded anime was essentially the only form of television I watched.

Sailor Moon and Dragonball were probably my first animes, but didn't know about anime then.

Until my cousin introduced Ranma 1/2.

DBZ introduce me to anime but it really was Neon Genesis Evangelion

Dominion tank police mid 90's

I've been watching Anime for a year now.
My very first Anime was Kiddy Grade, figures i'd go for one with fanservice:-P

I'm gonna say Beyblade, but a lot of people call that "fake anime". I did watch Pok�mon before it, but that was back when it was just "a cartoon" to me and not an anime.

.Hack//Sign

I first watched Superbook but I had no idea where it was from. Then I started watching Pokemon but while I knew it was from Japan I didn't see what the big deal was. Next came Yu-Gi-Oh! and I still wasn't really into anime. But then a friend loaned me his Cowboy Bebop tapes, and then I was hooked.

Incredible! Superbook sounded extremely familiar to me, and sure enough, THAT was the first sort of anime I had seen. I had no idea it was anime, but I loved it (I don't think my mother did). Had you not posted on it, I might have forever remained in the dark about this.

Once again, the first anime I watched intentionally, and knowing it was anime, was Yakitate!! Japan. It was probably the best introduction I could get.

But now I know: the first anime I watched without knowing its country of origin and style was Superbook.

I watched Digimon religiously.

The first shows I watched that I understood as anime were Cardcaptor Sakura and Yu-Gi-Oh though~

The series that got me interested in anime were Robotech, Voltron, My Neighbor Totoro, and Ranma 1/2 (english dub), if my memory serves me correct.

My interest in anime peaked when I watched Macross Plus, Giant Robo, Sailormoon (*sigh* :-\ ), Tonde Buurin (aka Super Pig/Super Boink/Pig Girl of Love and Courage) or, Dragonball, and Dragonball Z (*sigh* :-\ ).

My experience is similiar to cj_siege_tank except that my hiatus from anime started around early 2002 and ended early 2007. I'm starting to watch old school anime (or anything pre-2000) and some newer stuff in order to reignite my passion for anime (mixed result so far).

*Sigh*
Sailor moon, Mobile Suit Gundam (The one in the 90's), and DBZ.

Verrrrrryyy first? DBZ.

Sailor Moon :X (God I loved when they transformed :D) and Pokemon

tetsuwan atom (astroboy).
i saw it since i can remember, and knew it was anime.

I think, going back about 15 years in my head here, that I seem to recall watching about 4 minutes of Astro Boy in about 1993.

Then again I might be mistaken 15 years is a long time.

Yu Yu Hakusho

digimon and pokemon. I LOVE ANIME.

Ghost in the shell and Patlabor

lols ive watched anime wayyyyy back when i was less than 1 years old. but i never called them anime. i would either call them asian cartoons or japanese cartoons. the term anime was first used by me for gundam wing, which i was assume be the gateway anime to my anime collection and interest.

though before gundam wing i would watch pokemon, yugioh, dbz, db, dbgt, lets&go, B't X, Totoro, Panda Ko Panda, and many others...just never thought them as anime.

My neighbor Totoro might be the first anime ive ever watched...way back when i was 1 years old. My grandparents bought the VHS, 1st edition, for me to watch when it was released. Man that was a long time ago...

It would be robotech on the old Toonami on cartoon network

Dbz was the first anime that got me into it, but i can remember watching another anime with a guy with 3 eyes.

My friend introduced me to anime when he brought over his VHS copy of Street Fighter: The Animated Movie. I happened to be a fan of the video game series and that movie blew the live-action "adaptation" out the water. When my home first had the internet, anime was subject I would always look up. Now I appreciate animation in general.

Martian Succesor Nadesico or The Professional:Golgo 13. I can't remember which one I watched first. All I know is that I liked both of them.

Mines would be Noozles at first i thought it was Sailor moon untill i found out on Wikipedia that Noozles was an anime

Ghost In The Shell and Uritsakodoji for me.

Legendary stuff is Legend.

For me is Hikaru no Go.
Really confusing (heheheh) but really cool and great.

Armitage III

When i was little, i already started watching anime, but that didn't get me deep into watching more animes, thus at one moment i stopped. Until when i was 14(2004) i was introduced to Naruto, within weeks of watching it, i dwell deeper into other kinds of anime thus i started watching animes again up until now.

About 5 years ago, my cousin introduced me into Hellsing, and Trigun.

A friend of mine introduced to me to Inuyasha 4 years ago. Since then I've had another friend who have introduced me to much more anime. Such as Hellsing to be exact.

Bio Booster Armor Guyver! I was only six years old and was completely shocked by the violence and the blood but I just couldn't keep my eyes away from it.

Death Note my first anime ever. And still best for me.

I watched DBZ and Sailor Moon but knew of them as regular cartoons. I also considered Pokemon (Digimon and Monster Rancher, too) and Cardcaptor Sakura as regular cartoons. I finally realized they were anime in 9th or 10th grade. I guess it took me awhile, but I never really hung out with anyone I knew that enjoyed anime. In 11th grade I had a friend who loved anime, but I honestly thought she was crazy. I saw a couple of animes during high school thanks to WB and cartoonnetwork, but I wasn't exposed to much.

I would have to say EVA was...though maybe it was Macross: The Movie or Armitage III DX who knows...it was a long time ago.

dragon ball z, when i first saw it 13 years ago in tagalog.

The first anime I ever saw, and knew wasn't an American-made cartoon was the first Fist Of The North Star (Hokuto No Ken) movie. And it's one of my favorites to this day.

that would probably be sailor moon

Dragon Ball, when I was twelve. Lately I rewatched my first ''I didn't know it was anime'' movie Nagagutsu wo Haita Neko, I think I was five when I saw it on tv.

idk, Poke'mon was actually the first anime i ever saw, but it was either Gundam or DBZ that was the first anime i actually knew what it was, then i got into Yu-Gi-Oh! big time, that would be the show that actually got me into anime

sadly my first was sailor moon or cardcaptors.
I can't really remember...

Let�s see my very first anime were Dai no daibouken and Saint Seiya but
it wasn�t until a friend of mine bought some Sailor Moon mangas that I was able to tell the difference between cartoon and anime. Soooo I would say that my introductory anime was Dragon Ball Z.

my first anime had to be vampire princess miyuu,I fell in love with it the second I saw it I was 10 at the time and I could tell it wasent like tom and jerry

Everyone used the word japanimation when anime first started to become popular here. I can't remember anyone ever saying anime until I was at least 15.

shade17 is just too young to remember those days. :)

In the beginning, I just called it Japanese Animation, straight up. Then Japanimation, then Anime.

Anyway, I gotten my taste of it back in '94. My first three were Project A-ko, Venus Wars, and
Dominion Tank Police. Never looked back since.... unless, ofcourse, to remininsce

Well, for me it was InuYasha, I didn't really know Gundam Wing was "anime" until after a while.. to me InuYasha introduced me into anime, and Gundam SEED made it great! xD

Project A-ko, Venus Wars, Dominion Tank Police, 1994.

As a kid I first watched shows like Pokemon, Digimon, Sailor Moon, CCS, Zoids and DBZ etc. but didn't differentiate from cartoons because of the english dub. So for me, the first 'real' anime with original jap audio was Samurai Deeper Kyo.

If not mistaken, the first anime series and movie I saw were Shinseiki Evangelion and Akira.

I would have to say Tenchi Muyo.

Bleach

my first anime was captain future, I love it a lot til today ...:rolleyes:

Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z and Pokemon.

Who could ever forget the greatest hero that ever was:

Tuxedo Mask!

Sailor Moon was the first one that I realized as anime I didn't know Pokemon was one until later.

I know I was exposed to anime before I knew what it was (titles like Dominion and Lodoss War as shown on Sci-Fi Channel), but I think the first one I watched KNOWING it was anime was the original Vampire Hunter D movie.

Starblazers prefarably yamato galaxy express 999 g force all in that era and stil am today. most remind me of the classic ones like they made back in those days.

Sailor Moon; however, the first series that I actually watched and kept up with was Bleach.

Well, Sailor Moon was my first anime (though I guess the first one was Grand Prix No Taka if I remember correctly), but I didn't know it was anime =_=. Therefore, Fruits Basket is the first anime that introduced me into anime and I knew it was anime lol. It happened in a random summer day of 2008.

sailor moon/dbz/slayers/astroboy(reruns not that old)

Saint Seiya was pretty popular with kids around here, so I'm guessing it was the first one. I also remember "Fly" (Dragon Quest) and Dragon Ball coming a little time later. >:

Haha Inuyasha was the first anime I watched and knew it was.
it was probably 4 years ago when I first saw good quality anime like that one.
and then I moved on to FMA, and others while slowly expanding my list over the years.

Cardcaptor Sakura was the first anime i watched. After that i saw Cowboy Bebop and Neon Genesis Evangelion!

the first anime i watched was battle of the planets aka gatchaman then robotech, asto boy lol and mazinger z, gigiantor, giant robo and THEN THE FIST OF THE NORTH STAR. i watched anime that most people don't remember like cybuster, cybernatic guardian all old school stuff I have noticed that the Japanese Artists like revamping a story over and over again they are masters lol at it. yeah im old lol

As a kid I had a beta tape of the first episodes of Robotech.

After that would be Sailor Moon.

The first anime I saw, I think I noticed a difference in having actual continuing stories compared to other cartoons, but then again I might be projecting back what I think now.

Robotech for sure... then they killed it before I saw the end of the series <_>

either pokemon, sailor moon, or cardcaptor sakura

Mmm did Robotech come before Ronin Warriors and Sailor Moon for me... not sure... Tenshi Muyo did that's for sure...

robotech came first then ronin warriors

I think its Sailor Moon,Dragon Ball,Wedding Peach...They're the first anime to aired in Indonesia (i think)...
After that Captain Tsubasa,Hunter x Hunter(the first anime that make me an otaku that i am today),Shoot,Slam Dunk...
To bad HXH in hiatus,i miss it...T^T

The first anime I ever watched was Neon Genesis Evangelion.
God that name is a mouthfull...

Hi. I have to believe my first anime was Tenchi Muyo in Love movie. It aired on the SciFi channel in the mid 90's (96 or 97). That was my first taste of anime as I know it I can remember.

Sailor Moon was also aired on local television which I watched regularly. This could be my first also.

my first anime was Tenchi Muyo! its been my favorite since

I've actually, like quite a few people, watched many anime without actually knowing what it was. For example, I watched Pok�mon and Inuyasha, along with a few others in my childhood. The first time that it really dawned on me that these so-called 'cartoons' were actually a subset of a much greater genre was when I watched Fullmetal Alchemist back in 2003; personally, I'd say it was pretty good way to be introduced into anime. : D

Dragonball z was the first for me that I knew was anime. Never guessed old speed racer was up till 2000 I though it was a us cartoon. But hey I know now lol

inuyasha

I don't really flaunt this proudly but it was........sailor moon

I really don't know. I think it was...Dragon Ball. I don't know when I learned it was anime though, but it was at some point.

I watched Mysterious Cities of Gold and G-Force as a kid, but it was probably when Akira came out on video that I learnt what distinguished "anime" from animation. I still have the stickers that came with the Akira video - LOL

For years, since I was about 9 I think, I've been watching anime, never actualy knowing what it was. I watched all the 4Kids crap, and I loved it. Then I snuck out of bed in the middle of the night and watched the Adult Swim anime block, and the rest is history.

seriously? first anime that realized is different? Hm... I have to think is Fushigi Yuugi and fell in love with the characters so much. (wah, it brings back memories!) And I guess I was too young to know what anime is when I watch Dragon and Sailormoon. Yup, that's it.

god i love inuyasha :P I'm only on episode 147 i'm nearly finished but as soon as i watch it all, i'm watchin it again :)

I think it was digimon on tv, it seemed different didn't know it was 'anime' just different examing the credits pinpointed its origin to japan thats all i knew, this being in zambia (africa). Then watched love hina on winamp (all i knew at the time) when i just came to england thats when i knew what of anime the word.

Pokemon. I think the only reason I thought it was anime was because people were also playing the Nintendo games and they seemed to be connected.

About a year ago i was laid up after a bike accident, my partner's younger brother loaned me alot of his stuff so i started with Hellsing. Then watched Ghost in the shell and that was me hooked since.

Dragon Ball, then DBZ, was disappointing in DBGT as it doesn't have much of concrete reference to it's predecessors.

Inuyasha in the 5th of grades, ftw :3

Dragon Ball, and it's still one of my favs

Gundam Wing. Not the best Gundam series, but the one that brought me into anime.

Dragonball z and sailor moon thank god for japan...

Dragonball z and sailor moon
Same for me. Toonami was the best imo before the decline.

Same for me. Toonami was the best imo before the decline.I KNOW.... What happened? If it a'int broke don't fix it...

Ranma was the first anime I saw, knowing that it was anime.

Very first was Mazinger/Tranzor Z which why hot blooded super robot shows have a soft spot in my burning heart of justice.

Humm... Here in Brasil, the first anime that i've watched was Speed Racer. Logically, in the end of the 70's i don't have any clues that is 'Made in Japan' or something....

But the 'first' anime (without pt-br translation) that i've watched was Hokuto no Ken. And the episode was the end of the battle between Yuuda and Rei. Was the first vcr tape from japan that my aunt gave me as present (the fact was she recorded many ads and commercials from tokyo to show me...... Very funny)

Samurai Pizza Cats for me and then when I was more aware of what anime was and not just a funny sounding word I guess my first real experience was Excel Saga.

Well, like most peeps, I watched pokemon and etc...but I also watched Vision of Escaflowne, .Hack, DBZ and a few others, which I knew were different from cartoons, but didn't know they were anime. Then my brother showed me the original Akira....it was like an awakening...I was @.@ for weeks...and thoroughly creeped out(I was 11 btw).

i think da first anime i watched was akira or ghost in da shell iv also seen armitage 3 all of them an dbz tenchi muyo sailor moon and a few ovas started watchin them wen i was bout 5


I think the first anime I watched was Tenchi Muyo (wishes that they come on T.V again or at least release more of the DVDs in the UK) After it stopped being shown I watched Neon Genesis Evangelion.


Yuyuhakusho, inuyasha, and cowboy beebop, Which Later Turned into Tenchi muyu, Trigun, and infi other Anime's.


Robotech, Tenchi Muyo!, Wing Gundam, and the old Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh!


Dragonball Z, Tenchi Muyo and Gundam Wing on Cartoon Network (and boy did they edit Tenchi with regards to (Ryoko's) nudity and inuendo).


Pokemon and Tenchi Muyo,
Id seen DBZ, but didnt know it was anime, same for digimon.


Tenchi Muyo! I think was my first anime.


DBZ and Tenchi Muyo!


My first anime was Dragon ball z, I saw it on WB a Long time ago. I could just tell it wasn't like any other cartoons just from the way everything looked.

Then my area got Cartoon Network and thats when i really started to see more anime. programs like Voltron, Sailor Moon, Tenchi Muyo, Dragon Ball Z, Gundam Wing, and Ronin Warriors.


The first anime I officially knew was anime was the Tenchi Muyo move, Tenchi Muyo in Love. You know, the one where they all time-travel to the seventies and such. It aired on the SciFi channel back in the day when SciFi was still of (dubious) quality, and it forever changed my worldview on animation. After that came Yuu Yuu Hakusho, Yotoden, Ronin Warriors... All classics, and all truly great. But Tenchi will always have a place in my bitter, withered heart. ^^


I believe it was... Big O actually. I feel bad about that. I had seen anime before that( just the stuff that was on Toonami like Kenshin, Tenchi Muyo, Dbz, sailor moon, the horribly butchered Cardcaptors) but I really don't feel like I saw it as anime, just cartoons. Now I know better though.


The first shows I saw but DIDN'T know were anime were Voltron (Lion Force), StarBlazers, Robotech, early '80s anime. I didn't actually get into anime until the early '90s myself, with Sci-Fi Channel's Saturday Anime, with Tenchi Muyo! In Love, Gall Force, Project A-Ko. The first anime-anything I remember purchasing was Devil Hunter Yohko Volume1 Special Edition in English. Then, I got into other anime titles, not exclusive to ADVFilms, but also from Pioneer/Geneon, Manga Entertainment, FUNimation.


My first animes (in which, I knew they were anime) were Sailor Moon, DBZ, Tenchi Muyo and Cowboy Bebop. DBZ is about the only one out of the list that I don't enjoy as much anymore as the others.


First anime I watched was Pokemon. I was already familiar with the games, but my cousin introduced me to the awesome show. However, the first anime I watched and realized it was an anime was Tenchi Muyo.


I would have to say Tenchi Muyo.


Hi. I have to believe my first anime was Tenchi Muyo in Love movie. It aired on the SciFi channel in the mid 90's (96 or 97). That was my first taste of anime as I know it I can remember.

Sailor Moon was also aired on local television which I watched regularly. This could be my first also.


my first anime was Tenchi Muyo! its been my favorite since

It was Tenchi Muyo! for me as well. God did those girls make me feel funny.

My first one was Akira at age 7 or so, i knew it was /different/ from the other shows that were airing at the time.
At the time i was barely able to read, but i still liked the animation. That was in the 1990's or so.
Many years later cable TV became available in my region, and with it cartoon network. Watched it mostly due to the novelty of it, and learned a good chunk of English at the same time.
Few more years passed, and animes finally made their way into TV programs. namely Sailor Moon. Suddenly cartoon network seemed like child's play :0
And the rest is history.

that I KNEW was anime *sigh* lucky star looking back now, it just gives me more of a reason to shoot myself first anime I saw that I didn't know was anime was dragon ball z

For me it was Green legend Ran.

It was late and I got bored with space ghost coast to coast so I tuned into sci fi. They were advertising the Saturday morning anime block. It started with Fatal furry2 then Green legend Ran. I saw it they advertised and I learned something new. I'd never forget that night.

宇宙戦艦ヤマト (space battleship yamato)

i was six years old, 1976, walking to market and saw a colour tellivision in a shop and was showing an episode. i did stop to watch and was late. i was explained then it was anime and i have been hook on anime ever since.

You are an epic fag. This is an english-speaking board, so post in english. Pull this crap again and I'll edit your posts into the most random and idiotic thing I can think of.

To be honest, even though I'm a guy, I was infatuated with the 'Sailor Moon' series when I was 9, 10, somewhere around there. Maybe it was more like 8. From then on, Toonami was my favorite TV programming and I kept an eye out for anything anime I could find!

You are an epic fag. This is an english-speaking board, so post in english. Pull this crap again and I'll edit your posts into the most random and idiotic thing I can think of.

actually i am an epic lesbian. not as epic as some, but definitely in the top five.
i will edit the post, however, please show me where in the rules, faq, or posting guidelines where it states a fan who has english as a non native language, and was a child in naha okinawa, six years old in 1976, when she first was exposed to space battleship yamato and understood it was anime.

or for any other person.

That post lacked a cohesive point. Try again if you like, but try not to dig your hole deeper.

My point is that on an english-speaking board, few (or possibly none) of the people reading your posts are going to have any idea what you're saying. Use your brain a bit, because you're either being an idiot or you're typing in a language no one is likely to understand because you think idiots will think you're cool because of it, in which case you're still an idiot, but made worse by being a pretentious one.

That post lacked a cohesive point. Try again if you like, but try not to dig your hole deeper.

My point is that on an english-speaking board, few (or possibly none) of the people reading your posts are going to have any idea what you're saying. Use your brain a bit, because you're either being an idiot or you're typing in a language no one is likely to understand because you think idiots will think you're cool because of it, in which case you're still an idiot, but made worse by being a pretentious one.

i assume all people know exactly what i know, plus a bit more. until i am proven wrong. i have found this is far better than to assume all people know less than i do, and in return treat them like children.
my previous experience with this board had shown me the people i was speak with and exchange soundtracks with were perfectly capable of read 'and' understand kana. it was my error to assume that other people in other parts of this board were ignorant of how to read and/or speak more than just english.
if you doubt what i am saying, please refer to some of my past posts:
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the only mistake i made was in assuming that previous experience with one area of this board would apply to all areas of the board.

You tagged everything in those posts with a fucking english name, you dunce. No one ever communicated with you in any language other than english, and odds are they just ignored everything you said that they couldn't read.

Your hole is officially bottomless now.

no, i did not. only on some. i am not a translation machine.
and, you are much the idiot if you assume that a great percentage of those there are not capable. example http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1361230&postcount=6. just because you are not does not mean others are not.

either way, if you would prefer, i will assume all people out side of that section are too ignorant of kana to be able to communicate properly.

i often wonder what is the greater crime.
to assume people are smart enough to know.
or to assume they are too dumb to know.
or, to assume that because one does not, others do not either.

usually, only those who know not complain. should they not feel happy that one assumes they are not only smart enough to understand, but do.

and, i should note, grammatically, my answer original, before i did edit it for those unable to read proper kana, was all that would be needed to answer the original question proper.

no, i did not. only on some. i am not a translation machine.
and, you are much the idiot if you assume that a great percentage of those there are not capable. example http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1361230&postcount=6. just because you are not does not mean others are not.

either way, if you would prefer, i will assume all people out side of that section are too ignorant of kana to be able to communicate properly.

i often wonder what is the greater crime.
to assume people are smart enough to know.
or to assume they are too dumb to know.
or, to assume that because one does not, others do not either.

usually, only those who know not complain. should they not feel happy that one assumes they are not only smart enough to understand, but do.

and, i should note, grammatically, my answer original, before i did edit it for those unable to read proper kana, was all that would be needed to answer the original question proper.

Chill Chill for the sake of peace chill. Yes it was an accident but don't keep it going especially with a mod.

Remember the mod is just trying to keep everything in working order. It just maybe that the mod is a little harsh because of all the dopes he has dealt with in the past.

Chill Chill for the sake of peace chill. Yes it was an accident but don't keep it going especially with a mod.

Remember the mod is just trying to keep everything in working order. It just maybe that the mod is a little harsh because of all the dopes he has dealt with in the past.

apology. i have work very hard to be able to communicate in this language of english. what he did accuse me of was wrong. i do not show off how good i am with a fork, and i never did use one before i was 17 years old. i do not show off how good i am at driving on the western road side, even if it still does feel wrong. i do not show off how i can use feet and fahrenheit, even if meters and celsius is normal for me.

it is natural for me to use kana.

mod or not mod, he did decide to act superior. to use hate speech. to threaten with not ask first when no rule was broken. then to insult. honest mistake is honest mistake, but a mod should be better than that.

edit : i have decide i will confine self to previous section of board as contributor of sound tracks. this should solve issue. thank you for your post and concern shadowtheman.

dbz

Captain Tsubasa was the first anime I saw, though I didn't know what an anime is back then.
First anime I knew and saw was Hellsing though.

The first anime I watched and "knew" it was anime was Ranma 1/2 I fell in love with it immediately and their wacky characters lol

Samurai Champloo :-D

The soundtrack is something else

The first anime I have watched was DBZ but didn't know it was an anime till I was like 12 lol. The anime that I have watched and knew it was anime was Inuyasha. From that point on I keep watching newer animes.

Project A-ko ^_^

First Anime I ever saw and knew what it was was either Robotech or Akira, not sure which as i was fairly young at the time and We watched both one after the other.....

First Anime I ever saw and knew what it was was either Robotech or Akira, not sure which as i was fairly young at the time and We watched both one after the other.....

If you watched them both on TV I think Robotech aired first in the 80s.

dbz, ranma 1/2, and later, robotech: macross saga
anime enthusiast since I was a little kid and watched those

If you watched them both on TV I think Robotech aired first in the 80s.

Watched em both on tape the same day, and I was 8 so it was around 90/91 I think... it coulda been a few years later.

I watched Voltron back in the day but just considered it a cartoon until I got a little older. For me the first Anime was DBZ

actually i am an epic lesbian. not as epic as some, but definitely in the top five.

awesome. can has homo general discussion nao?

nausicaa is a bit obvious but I'll run with it.

guess it was Voltes V... i think :P

Haha, I guess that was Appleseed on VHS.

I watched stuff on TV before but I didnt know things like Speed Racer are actually anime.

First one I actually sat down and knew I was watching anime was Ranma 1/2, my buddy dave got me hooked, and i've been hooked ever since, mmm anime love

hmmm,lets see, well there was DBZ,but for me i didnt really consider it "anime" because i watched it in french dub polish voice over,it was sooo in tune,i thought of it as kickass #1 "cartoon",then there was tenchi in cartoon network's toonami,but 3 episodes into it CN was cut off from our channels,man that freakin KILLED me,i remember crying over that xD especially cuz i was fascinated by the different animation and all the hormones at that time(not to mention i was kinda in love with ryoko :p ),was about 13,then i forgot all about anime for a while,then i saw an AMV of naruto and it began....... ^.^
hehe sorry for talking so much but hey i felt like it :o

hmmm,lets see, well there was DBZ,but for me i didnt really consider it "anime" because i watched it in french dub polish voice over,it was sooo in tune,i thought of it as kickass #1 "cartoon",then there was tenchi in cartoon network's toonami,but 3 episodes into it CN was cut off from our channels,man that freakin KILLED me,i remember crying over that xD especially cuz i was fascinated by the different animation and all the hormones at that time(not to mention i was kinda in love with ryoko :p ),was about 13,then i forgot all about anime for a while,then i saw an AMV of naruto and it began....... ^.^
hehe sorry for talking so much but hey i felt like it :o

Everyone's in love with Ryoko <3

Street Fighter V, Black Jack and Naruto.

Pokemon!!!

Tenchi Muyo!

I know a lot of people don't consider it "true" anime, but Speed Racer was my first.

Right around the same time was Toonami's block of DBZ, Tenchi, Sailor Moon, Outlaw Star, Pokemon and Card Captor Sakura. That was when I really realized I had a thing for these wacky Japanese action cartoons....

Surprisingly, I now own the DVDs to most of those animes and still watch em. :)

Don't worry Speed Racer is absolutely anime.

Captain Tsubasa was the first for me.

It were Dragon Ball series, Saint Seiya, Sailor Moon, Slayers, Transformers Victory.

I've been watching anime for about 17 years now. I'm not an expert in the field at all but I do know that it was much later on and me seeing Cowboy Bebop that finally did it for me.

For me it was Robotech like so many western kid back in the 80's the true heyday of cartoon on tv. not like the garbage on tv today.

early 90'sspammed j-stuff, and I thought it was american. Sentai stuff like vr troppers and poiwerrangers. Anime like samurai pizzacats, ronin warriors, transformers, sailor moon, you know the goodstuff... I had no idea anime was japanese or different till like 97...98 that was middle school. My first real anime was shoujou kakume utena.. maybe.. no had to be some no name anime from blockbuster...

I remember watching Voltron and Robotech and loving every minute but I didn't know anime was a genre back then. I thought cartoons were cartoons but I started watching Dragonball Z and the obsession began. I could name anime that I love all day long but DBZ started it all for me and will always be my "first".

Probably DBZ or Pokemon when I used to get up every day at some godly hour in the morning so I could get ready for school whilst the aerobics was on and then I used to sit down like 5cm from the TV with my sister watching Cheese TV. I also remember sitting with my legs crossed. Now I can't even sit on the floor for like 5secs without my back hurting

the first anime i ever saw and that made me an anime fan was DragonBall Z

uhhh ill have to say dbz

First anime I ever sat down to watch was Cardcaptors. And I loved it to death. Still do in fact.

Probably something on the lines of Devil Hunter Yohko, back in Blockbuster when it was referred to as "Japanamation".

Voltron, Robotech, Star Blazers. I prefer the Japanese versions of all 3.

Well, I'm old and moldy. I remember watching Speed Racer when it was on TV in the 60's. Does that count?

I remember watching Prince Planet in black & white on tv.

First anime that I knew was anime? Project A-ko on a Sci-fi Marathon. I watched Voltron (Go Lion) before that but I didn't know it was anime. In fact I was drawn to Project Ako because I noticed the similar art style to Voltron

wow at first i was loking in the store for hentai then i sow elfin lied and when i completed ifall in love witt anime and i was crying so much becouse its great story

Actually it was Dragonball. At the time I was living abroad and they had it in French. I was only about 7 years old and so had no idea it was Anime until I grew up and came across some unbelievably provoking Anime illustrations of Bulma :|.

Other than that I did watch alot of Anime. Although, I do not watch Anime as much as I used to.

Gundam Seed was probably the first thing I knew was anime. Either that or Yu-Gi-Oh!, Rurouni Kenshin, Duel Masters, or Inuyasha. Stuff that was on when I was in sixth grade and started getting into it.

3rd Grade. I was watching Cartoon Network. Then.... Gundam Wing. The name inspired glory.

Personally, for me it was Mobile Fighter G Gundam. (: That was the first series where I really knew it was anime and enjoyed it. ;D I knew of other 'anime' movies/shows/series but I didn't know it was 'anime' (or rather japanese anime to be specific) until this series. ♥

Dragon Ball series that's what it intruduced me to anime.

Edit: shelbey-a-gogo, you have a nice fuckable body.

Bubblegum Crisis. I once watched the sixt part in the middle of the night by pure coincidence. For a child back then, an experience you never forget.

Didn't get into anime until back in the toonami days really. My cousin was talking about it all the time and I suddenly got interested.

The ones that did it for me was Sailor Moon and Big O.

Mine was probably FMA or something that came out around that time, i'm not really sure since I started re-watching everything once I found out all my old favorite cartoons were actually anime...

Pokemon, Sailor Moon, and Tenchi Muyo. Ah good times

That series with Harlock in it.
There's two or three series I think, can't even remember the exact names anymore.

S-Cry-Ed man did I love that show. Just recently bought the series boxset.lol

Well, back in the day during primary school, I used to watch Cheeze TV. It showed several anime, including Cardcaptor Sakura, Sailor Moon, Pokemon, Digimon, and Dragon Ball.

I didn't really recognise them as anime until later on though, so I'd say Inuyasha was the first one I saw and recognised as anime. I'd just learned what it was and bought Inuyasha to give it a try. Then I rewatched my old nostalgic shows knowing what anime was.

DBZ, Sailor Moon, or Pok�mon.

digimon & pokemon & doraemon (so many -mon....)
Can't enjoy 'em as how it used to be....

Sailor Moon and Voltron. Yes I know, I was young, but the violence was so NOT Bugs Bunny, I was intrigued and kept watching them.

Ranma 1/2

DBZ and sailor moon...i wanna go home early just to watch them :)

captain daimos
yattaman
sailor moon
captain tsubasa

polonia 1 started buying old anime from the 70's/80's from italy to show on tv early in the mornings, back in 1993-1996

Vampire Hunter D in about 1991. It still is special to me.

It was called "Candy Candy" I think...and it was so unique that everything afterwards was easily identifiable as "that Candy-style". "Battle of the Planets??" (or summink....?) followed and that was more to my liking. :D

DBZ and sailor moon...i wanna go home early just to watch them :)

Same, but only it was DBZ for me, 5pm every weekday. Then Zoids and Cowboy Bebop. And then Blue Gender on DVD. Good times.

My first was My My Mai (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=47), although that's not what got me into Anime. I saw that OVA and liked it well enough, but I didn't really come into enjoying the format until a friend introduced me to Ranma 1/2 (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=64). I've since discovered other shows that I really enjoy, but I'm not what you'd call an anime buff. Ranma 1/2, however, will forever be one of my favorite shows, anime or otherwise.

Beyblade!

For me, probably Dragonball Z.

Fist of the North Star..

Voltes-V, Mazinger-Z and Space Cruiser Yamato. oh the memories

Ninja Scroll, Akira, and Demon City Shinjuku.

Sailor Moon and DBZ. I'm thinking hard but I honestly can't remember watching any anime before those two.

...Astroboy, maybe? But I think I watched Sailor Moon before that.

My first was Angel Sanctuary :) thanks to a dear friend!

I watched a lot of anime as a kid, but didn't know it was anime. The first show that I watched and KNEW it was anime was Sailor Moon. That's what got me started :)

Ah, yes! It's true....! Many of the ones showed in television are anime!

I "grew up" watching Lupin tv series on TV, here in North America.

Yeah it was on tv back in the 70's on cable.

Although we didn't call it anime then, it wasn't really anything different than other animated shows.

Battle of the Planets came along later, it was horrible.

But the first true anime show I watched, that introduced me to the whole mess was "Pop Chaser" of Cream Lemon series.

the very next show I watched was the Project A-Ko movie

Project A-Ko has to be the most insane of them all, and I believe holds the worlds record for most "cameos" by other characters.

that was something the japanese did that north american studios could never get away with,

they would always "cameo" or spoof characters even from other competing studios! That doesn't really happen any more

I doubt anyone has ever come up with a definitive list of cameos (intentional or otherwise) in Project A-Ko

PS - very obscure reference which I'm sure no one else ever got - the "theme music" during A-Ko vs the Grey Side is the OLD theme from "Hockey Night in Canada" - have a listen sometime...

Voltron and Saber Rider on VHS. Later it was Candy, Candy on television; You know there is something different about these cartoons when you witness one of the main characters falling from a horse and breaking his neck. Now thats hq cartoon fun. Anyhow, later it was Sailor moon, the original DB ( one of the best ever ) and then the internet came and you pretty much know the rest.

I watched Doraemon & Digimon when I was a kid but had no idea those were anime. The difference probably came to me when American cartoons started to have little to no plot and started dragging on....Well.. this is sorta contradictory since the pokemon series of .. 'anime' has no plot but still...

first anime was berserk at 6. my parents were asome

no way
did they know what was in it?

sort of... now that i think of it... it was closer to 7... plus it was my dads decision, didnt think my mom would of liked it.

Ranma 1/2 and Magic Knight Rayearth.

I hate Ranma's creator now, though.

Battle of the Planets (AKA Gotchaman), Star Blazers (AKA Battleship Yamato) and Speed Racer

Dragon Ball Z & Ranma �. :)

I think my first anime was the Ghost in the Shell movie. After hearing about different animes while poking around different Final Fantasy and kingdom hearts fansites, I decided to check our vast collection of dvds for anime. I found that, popped it in, was confused and slightly freaked out by the halfnakedness and goryness. Then as the movie went on i didn't mind as much. That or it was the last six episodes of Cowboy Bebop found while poking around. Now, I am fully using on demand for anime viewing purposes and am getting recommendations from a friend about what anime to watch online.

My first was Akira, loved it.

I was in the habit of picking out anime as a kid tho I didn't know about it, I could pick out -the good cartoons- by turning over the box and looking at the screencaps how the faces were drawn. ^^

Dragonball then DBZ! Best anime ever! So amazing!

Hmmm, either Sailor Moon or DBZ was definitely the starting point. I watched Pokemon but never thought of it as anime even though I knew it was japanese. After that, Tenchi Muyo, Ronin Warriors, or pretty much anything else on Toonami (I watched that shit religiously as a kid) and on Saturday morning ABC Family which came to be known as Jetix or something. They had shows like Shinzo, Beyblade, and Samurai Pizza Cats.

His and Her Circumstances. Just wished the anime had more of an ending.

Dragonball Z

Akira. It came on the Sci-Fi network back in the ninties. After that it was Sailor Moon.

ah my goddess -> el hazard -> vandread -> gensomaden saiyuki -> gate keepers ........ -> mitsudomoe -> maria holic .........

Pok�mon was the first anime I watched but I didn't realize that it was from Japan until a while later. A while meaning a few years. Anyway, the first anime I ever atched realizing it was from Japan was Bleach.

Pokemon was my first anime but at the time I thought it was just a regular cartoon. Then later I started watching DBZ and very rarely Inuyasha. My first IMO real anime was Fullmetal Alchemist because it was the first anime I saw from episodes 1 - 51. Now I'm watching stuff I never saw as a kid such as Cowboy Bebop and Outlaw Star. I'm also starting to enjoy Iunyasha alot more as well.