What Was Your Introduction Into Anime?

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My first animes were Naruto, One Piece, and Yu-Gi-Oh. Just like Andrew, I watched Toonami on Cartoon Network in order to watch these shows every Saturday. I was sad when it went off the air. However, I am glad that they returned a couple of years ago. The anime that I watch today currently are Black Clover, My Hero Academia, and Bleach on Crunchyroll. If you have the time then I recommend watching them.

My introduction was the latter 1970s with Battle of the Planets. Started watching more in the mid-90s when I opened a hobby shop and manga/anime was starting to take off. After I closed my shop in 2005, I really started getting more into it through Netflix. I still remember the shock that hit me when I watched Elfin Lied after watching 3 straight comedy anime series in a row. I forgot it was a serious series, and it even started off with some humor. Then the poor secretary got her head ripped off, and I was like WTF! :)

My first anime was Dragon Ball (when Goku was a kid).

Unknowingly it was Heidi dubbed into my mother tongue, as an older kid Beyblade and Medabots in English, I kinda missed Pokemon, DB, and Yugioh because my parents were unsure about them (they weren’t very controlling), but I decided to avoid it just in case because I heard bad things. When I was older I had a bad perception of most anime and didn’t touch any for a long time until a classmate in my Matric year (senior year in the US) recommended some to me, her explanations still made them seem weird lol, but I finally gave 1 a shot after playing some Warcraft III mods that had anime characters that I liked, I started first with Naruto, which is why it has a soft spot in my heart. After that Bleach, then One Piece, and kinda escalated from there, till now I’ve watched over 150+ series/moves and read some Manga. So, I was kinda late to the game, but retroactively realized that anime was formative in my early years, and that the hoopla around Pokemon, Yugioh, or DB was dumb.

When I was really little Dragonball used to play on the weekends. I remember watching the pilaf arc and being absolutely enthralled by it. When DBZ got popular when I was older it was really nice for me because I knew Goku from when I was a kid and got to fill in all my friends about his Dragonball adventures.

Started watching Dragonball Z back when it was on Toonami. Would watch and tape the episodes on my VHS recorder when I got home from school. Still have the recorded tapes, but it wasn’t until I got introduced to Trigun when it was airing on Toonami after that I was hooked into the world of anime and the rest is history.

My first anime was Ranma 1/2 and it’s also my first manga series I read. Plus all of the Toonami/WB Kid’s/Anime Unleashed in 90’s/00’s.