DBZ I became obsessed then switched from comcast to verizon and got funimation, then it all began

Probably DBZ, I watched Pokemon first, but DBZ was the first anime that I really thought of as an anime.

I watched DBZ and Kenshin, but I never really knew it was anime until I watched .hack//Sign. Such a trippy yet stirring show

shakugan no shana, although I did get into Yu-Gi-Oh finally around that year as well xD

First one I watched and suspected something was different was when I saw Starblazers on TV. That led me to ask questions and that was around the time Robotech was on TV, so that is the first show I knew was anime.

Gundam Wing via it's Toonami broadcast in 2000.

Outside of Dragon Ball Z, I would say Boogiepop Phantom or Wolf's Rain :)

Mazinga Z ^^

For me it was Love Hina back in college. Before then I didn't even know what anime was. That was the start of my downward (upward?) spiral into nerdom.

I would have the say Sailor Moon as well. I was six when I was watching Sailor Moon so I was a little young to be reading the manga. Since the re-release, I've been buying the new manga they've put out. I also picked back up with Dragon Ball Z and I recently finished Vampire Knight. I'm in love.

Dragon Ball Z & Saint Seiya

inuyasha and tri gun
both f'n awesome

well, I used to watch tons of animes dubbed into my native language like: white lion, Sindbad, lady aldy, lady Georgie, Jetter Mars....etc since I was little, but I never knew they were animes nor I knew they where made in Japan. I guess I knew they were called animes when I became around 20 years old. so the first anime I watched when I knew that they were called animes was Rose of Versailles, actually it was the first anime I downloaded.

naruto and chrno crusade was the 2 first , naruto still is fav

It was Samurai Pizza Cats when i was young, then years later it was Pokemon, then Digimon then some other anime caught my attention but i forgot what

Older stuff like DBZ, Bleach, Yu Yu Hakusho, and The Big O when I was a kid watching Toonami introduced me.

I didn't really start getting into fansubs and such until around 13 though.

Digimon, Pokemon and Doraemon!! All of these ends with -mon :D

Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Sailor Moon

guess it was crying freeman

The first anime I saw that I knew was anime was Vampire Hunter D or Dominion Tank Police. I can't remember exactly which came first. I think Vampire Hunter D did.

Zillion

DBZ

Older stuff like DBZ, Bleach, Yu Yu Hakusho, and The Big O when I was a kid watching Toonami introduced me.

I didn't really start getting into fansubs and such until around 13 though.

Bleach is not older xD.

Mazinger Z, Saint Seiya, Dragon Ball (not Z these days), i think Initial D also, Transformers G-1, Captain Tsubasa, etc.

doraemon

Macross

Dragonball Z, Gundam Wing and Tenchi Muyo!

My first anime i saw (when i was maybe 4 or 5 years old) was Dragon Ball Z and Pokemon, but the first anime, when i was aware of anime, was naruto.

Karekano and Trigun.
I watched trigun more than....maybe 10 times?
I could translate it in both language Eng and Kor :P

Cardcaptor Sakura.

Dragonball Z back in the 90s.

I saw lot's of anime when I was a kiddo, I knew they were different (macross, mazinger, saint seiya etc) than say yogi bear and american cartoons, but when I first became really conscious was when I saw Vampire Hunter D... that just... blew my mind!!!

Naruto when my relatives started watching the Japanese dubs.

Gundam Wing and Escaflowne, but I didn't watch anime for a very long period until I saw Death Note and then I got back into the genre and watched several other titles.

The corrupted/butchered version of Science Ninja Team Gatchaman "Battle of the Planets"
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Ulysses 31
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Thunderbirds 2086
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Dragonball z it blew my little 10 year old mind.

The anime that dragged me into the crazy otaku life of anime marathons started with FLCL. It was the first japanese animation I saw in Japanese with English sub titles. Obviously there has been anime like pokemon, sailor moon, cardcaptors, yugioh, dbz etc. but the first real introduction into the Japanese culture started with FLCL. Transitioned into Naruto when it first came out as an anime in Japan, and then shows like Tehchi Muyo, Love Hina, Trigun etc.

Ranma 1/2. I will be a fan forever and always. Still have the first VHS tape I ever bought.

My first was definitely Rurouni Kenshin, and Gensomaden Saiyuki following that.

Sailor Moon followed by Pokemon.

Humm, it was a long time ago.
Must be "Venus War" or "Dominion Tank Police"

The first anime series I watched by myself was Pokemon, I belive I was around 7 years old. I also watched Totoro when I was younger, but didn't know it was japanese back then (I belive I was 4-5 years old).
When I was even younger my sister and I used to watch Saint Seiya, but I was so young I can barely remember those times, Sailor Moon was fading in popularity here as Saint Seiya grew on popularity here in my country.
Back then I didn't know they were japanese, they were cartoons like any other for me.

That changed when Fox Kids begun airing the "anime invasion" here in 2001, I was 11 and that lasted until I was around 14. I watched Digimon, Medabots, Shaman King, Beyblade, Patlabor, and a few others. On cartoon network I still watched Pokemon, and also watched Sakura Cardcaptors, InuYasha and Dragonball Z.
(Most of them I still watch and still looooooove xD)
By the obvious japanese-style commercials you could tell they were japanese, so that's when I begun to notice how different they were from traditional cartoons.

Gosh I had a childhood filled with anime, boy was I happy. xD

The Gundam Series with Shining Gundam

Growing up in Italy in the Eighties was almost like living in Japan: we had a "golden age" of japanese animation that started in the late seventies and private TV channels started licensing anime series like crazy... Basically every single anime that came out in Japan, even the most obscure ones, was quickly imported and dubbed in italian (even bizarre stuff like The Kabocha Wine or Muteking). That's why I can say I was lucky enough to grow up watching all the classics, and I can't name just ONE anime, but I'll name a few: Uruseiyatsura, Dash Kappei, Maison Ikkoku, Dr. Slump and Arale, Versailles no Bara, Candy Candy, Lupin the Third, Creamy Mami, Hokuto no Ken (can you imagine it? They aired Hokuto no Ken for kids, every afternoon and fully uncut). Of course I love series like Ranma 1/2 or Cowboy Bebop, but that's "recent" stuff for me.

For me I think it was Naruto, but I can't remember exactly.

I watched Voltron when I was a toddler but I think watching Sailor Moon as a preteen was the first time I was really aware that it was a Japanese production (back then we called it Japanimation instead of anime lol). Ronin Warriors and Samurai Pizza Cats were also among my first. ah, to be a kid watching Fox in the afternoon in the 90s

When the sci fi channel was showing anime movies at 10pm, the first one was ninja scroll, street fighter then lensman.

Urusei Yatsura.

Its chaotic silliness is simply unmatched.

Neon Genesis Evangelion. Before that I tried to watch Slayers, but didn't get the... um... mood of it whatsoever.

Venus Wars was on the Sci Fi Channel.

Hm. I believe it was Ronin Warriors, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Shaman King, Neon Genesis and Pok�mon that got me interested way back in the day. Haven't kept up with anime much these days, other than One Piece, which I was very skeptical of initially.

Evangelion and Martian Successor Nadesico, then there were the usual films like Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Spriggan for me.

Shakugan no Shana first season. Actually the anime was pretty bad in explaining the background settings so I had to go read the original novels, and then... (easy to guess what happened after lol)

I like to be honest: the anime that I actually manage to first fully watch was Sailor Moon and it was probably the first one that got me inspired to look through other Anime as well like Project Ako and DBZ.

Dragon Ball Z Kai on Nicktoons, that was the shit.

I first watch Dragon Ball Z, but the first anime i watched that I called anime was the Ranma 1/2. It is not your average anime and is quite old but I enjoyed it. That is what got me into anime.

Hunter X hunter and Wolf rain.
one of my friend, tell me to have a look...

I'd say Pok�mon.

For me, Akira. Legendary

It was "Battle of the Planets"

Sailormoon, first season.

DBZ

Sailor Moon

Honestly, the first anime I actually watched, knowing it was anime was probably...Kaze No Stigma on YouTube. That was ages ago and english dubbed. The next was Zero no Tsukaima which I watched quickly after seeing it in the recommendations.

As for me, Ojamajo Doremi and Hunter X Hunter probably. And also Shaman King.

Which HxH? 1999 version or the new one? New HxH is one of the best series ever produced, everyone should watch it!

TTGL or Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann introduced me to anime.
I must rewatch it soon, it was a mouthful. Phew.

The Films
Akira
Dominion: Tank Police
Vampire Hunter D

The TV Series
Starblazers

Ranma 1/2, which i still consider one of the better ones out.

Ranma 1/2, which i still consider one of the better ones out.

Ranma 1/2 is such a classic :)

Every time I watch an episode, it takes me back to when I first watched it. It's still to this day one of my favorite.

I don't remember, I think it's was cyborg cat Kuro-Chan

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DBZ was my first; it felt unique in comparison to the other shows I watched due to the continuous story (every episode being a follow up to the previous). I only watched Cartoon Network shows at the time so it was a nice change of pace.

"Howl's Moving Castle" and "Laputa: Castle in the Sky", and then all the other wonderful Ghibli movies

Dragon Ball was my first and then came Ranma 1/2 and Sailor Moon

Rurouni Kenshin was the first anime I watched, which was forced upon me by my college roommate. Initially I rolled my eyes at the action...then I tolerated it...then after a few more episodes I became a full blown fan. The addiction's just been getting worse since.

It was a very gradual transition, first seeing them as all cartoon then slowly seeing them as cartoons with Japanese openings (bcos I dont live in US and within the horrific reach of 4Kids opening dubs) then finally recognising them as anime.

I've watched anime since I was a kid with Doraemon, Dash Yonkuro and the staple Digimon and Pokemon but I'm not really sure which made me realise it was anime.

I guess it's Samurai 7 and Witch Hunter Robin. The first 2 series that I watched in Jap dub.

Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon, but as a kid, I didn't know what anime was until I got a bit older. :p

My friens dragged me into SAO...that was the first anime I watched.

I know this may sound kind of lame. But Ah! My Goddess was my first experience. I went to school with a lot of people who enjoyed Anime. One of my friends, Wendy, she let me borrow her VHS, yes VHS tape with it recorded on it LOL. Those were the days!

Well, my passion for anime started with "Sailor Moon". :)
Followed by "Dragon Ball", "Cat's Eye", "Cardcaptor Sakura", "Cutie Honey Flash", etc.

Since then, however, I'm very skeptical and picky about new ones... :p

My first ones were 'Ninja Scroll' and 'Technoman / Tekkaman' still two of my favorites to this day.

I remember me and my friend setting alarms each weekend because Technoman was on at 4am lol.... good memories

Pokemon was probably considered to be my first ever anime I had watched. It was soon followed by Digimon, Hunter X Hunter and Final Fantasy Unlimited.

Half of my childhood were spen in Japan, so for me everything was anime because the other childrens called it anime also, be it the Cindarella or even the Garfield which was extremely popular there that time. But the first purely Japanese title I have seen was the Mitsume ga Tooru and Tetsuwan Atom.

I cannot remember but it was either Sailor Moon and/or Dragon Ball Z!

Pokemon. Although my first anime was Speed Racer.

Pokemon

captain tsubasa was my first and then i watched yakitate japan boy that was a good show

Robotech 2: The Sentinels played on TV when I was around 10 or so (around 1990). It was unlike anything I had ever seen and blew me away. The music, the art, the seriousness of a "cartoon". I didn't know what anime was at that point...remember this is around 1990, but I knew there was something different about this. I happen to have recorded (VCR) the broadcast and I played it so many times after that.

I know that movie in particular gets a lot of grief from the community, but it changed my life.

When Carl Macek died, I was fortunate enough to come across the estate sale. They had a laserdisc of Sentinels and since everyone hates it I got it for a reasonable price. It came with a certificate signed by Carl's wife.

My first Anime was Digimon back in 2001.