EldritchCherub Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Off the top of my head it was probably Digimon or Megaman NT Warrior. I remember filling up stacks of tapes for some of these series, and then being disappointed when I ran out of space. Does stuff like the Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain count, or are we considering only Japanese anime? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RinXD Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 pretty sure anime is in reference to Japanese animation animaniacs and pinky and the brain are considered western cartoons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zalor Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 pretty sure anime is in reference to Japanese animation animaniacs and pinky and the brain are considered western cartoons. Yeah, Pinky and the Brian doesn't count as anime. Sorry. As for me, technically my first anime was Pokemon. But the first anime to really get me involved in Otaku sub-culture was Kanon 2006. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceris Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Yeah, Pinky and the Brian doesn't count as anime. Sorry. As for me, technically my first anime was Pokemon. But the first anime to really get me involved in Otaku sub-culture was Kanon 2006.I wonder how much of a turnoff Kanon 2002 would have been. Zalor and Tyrael 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zalor Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 I wonder how much of a turnoff Kanon 2002 would have been. That's a funny question. I never considered that before. I probably wouldn't have hated it, since what attracted me to Kanon was that it was a story that emotionally impacted me for the first time. Kanon 2002 might have still succeeded in this regard (maybe, I still haven't watched it so I don't know how bad it is). Before Kanon I only watched fighting shounen, so pretty much anything that could get me to cry would have impressed me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrael Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 That's a funny question. I never considered that before. I probably wouldn't have hated it, since what attracted me to Kanon was that it was a story that emotionally impacted me for the first time. Kanon 2002 might have still succeeded in this regard (maybe, I still haven't watched it so I don't know how bad it is). Before Kanon I only watched fighting shounen, so pretty much anything that could get me to cry would have impressed me. I've seen enough of the 2002 version to say that it's pretty bad. The animation is very inconsistent. The characters look dreadful, I'd say they look worse than the VN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zalor Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 I've seen enough of the 2002 version to say that it's pretty bad. The animation is horrible. Considering that Berserk is in my top 5 anime, I don't mind bad animation. But the fact that there is no way you can cram all 5 routes into 13 episodes without completely compromising the story, is probably what would bother me more. Also, unlike Berserk the art style of Kanon 2002 is ugly. Berserk at least has gorgeous artwork to make up for the lack of movement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zapiboss Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 My first anime was Shin Chan (Xiao Shin in chinese), easy to understand even if i didn't speak well chinese at that time. Very funny, and nowadays, in comedy animes, when i see anime doing parodies of it, i felt very nostalgic. The last i've seen with Shin Chan parody is in Dengi Gai! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byakku Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 I spent a portion of my childhood in Japan, and I was really into Doraemon and Astro Boy as a kid. The series which got me into anime as a whole was Chrno Crusade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RinXD Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 o.o It scares me that not one person has mention any of the gundams as first anime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totodile Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 My first anime was actually DBZ and after countless spin offs, years of episodes and the almighty abridged version i finally realised..............goku was a bitch. Master Roshi best guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinovaA Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Now... my first anime was PROBABLY Death Note. It was the gateway drug to the magical world I now live in. Went from there straight to Code Geass and I was set in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decay Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 My first one was probably Pokemon during my 6th and 7th grades, although I started watching DBZ at around the same time. The first fansub I watched was Evangelion probably a few years after it aired when a high school buddy handed me some burned CDs with the entire series. It was two 700mb CDs that contained the whole series in .RM format, it was super low res and really blurry, but somehow it was the perfect gateway drug into the rest of the anime world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evanukon Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Technically Naruto, but the one that really got me into anime was Elfen Lied. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reyaes Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Technically Naruto, but the one that really got me into anime was Elfen Lied. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RinXD Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Technically Naruto, but the one that really got me into anime was Elfen Lied. Why please dont put naruto and elfen in the same sentence o.o makes my eye twitch when reading it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosakyun Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Samurai X mate. That's the first one that I watched, if I remembered correctly. That was back in Grade School or Preparatory School. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewy Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 My first one was like Digimon back when I was like 4 or 5.... But the one that got me into anime would have been Baka to Test (don't judge >.<) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverLi Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 I am like most of you here. I watched Pokémon when I was young without realizing it was anime and not cartoons. It's the same in a child's eyes of the west. But what got me into anime is probably Code Geass, FMA Brotherhood or One Piece. They were throughout awesome and never lost attractiveness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewy Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 I am like most of you here. I watched Pokémon when I was young without realizing it was anime and not cartoons. It's the same in a child's eyes of the west. But what got me into anime is probably Code Geass, FMA Brotherhood or One Piece. They were throughout awesome and never lost attractiveness. Ayyyyy One Piece XD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XReaper Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 simply "Akira" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulJustIn Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Akira .......nostalgic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reyaes Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 I never watched one peice as a kid. I feel like I missed out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Undying Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 My first anime was Akira and lodoss war ova, got both vhs the same day dont remember which one I watched first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deep Blue Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 It was captain tsubasa/dragon ball/saint seiya/ranma 1/2 one of those for sure, dont know which one was the first one, I was 4-6 years old cant really remember, just watched them like any other cartoon on the tv. I do know that my first real anime was Evangelion when i was about maybe 10-11 years old and then Akira. (I knew that they were anime and not just some "cartoon") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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