[Anonymous]

Mine was Project A-ko. 1992. I was in love!

[Anonymous]

My first anime was Speed Racer in the early 90s. For some reason it came on MTV, so that was the only time my mom let us watch the channel.

[Jessica]

So im not really sure if it was my first but S-Cry-ed was what really got me into anime if you havent seen it you should check it out

[Anonymous]

Bleach

[joylilly]

My neighbor Totoro. My uncle married a Japanese lady and she put it on. It was in Japanese, which I don’t speak. I was about 14 maybe? I watched it anyway because I found it so enchanting and then the cat bus! Oh wow I was so excited!. Started watching anime as soon as I could get a video store membership 🙂

[Sara]

Mine was Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel monsters <3

[Wren]

Sailor Moon! I loved watching it on Toonami. The little art segments they’d run during the commercials was the whole reason I started drawing! I wanted to be picked.

[Janine]

Claymore! I think I started with a winner. I’ve loved anime and manga ever since. 🙂

[Rafael]

I had two big “anime phases” in my life:

The first was between the ages of 4 to 14, it began with Saint Seya and ended with shows like Inuyasha and Hellsing.

Then when I was 22 I decided to watch all the top 250 movies on the IMDB and I stumbled on Miyazaki’s films, first Spirited Away then Princess Mononoke and I was so impressed by their quality that I decided to dive into this amazing world again.

[Anonymous]

Sailor Moon

[Dom]

Death Note – Haha I know it seems like a strange one to have watched first

[Felicity]

Death Note was also my first one.

[Dom]

Ah nice!

[Jessica]

Sailor Moon was mine

[Corrine]

For me it would be Sailor Moon, Pokemon, Dragonball Z and Digimon they used to be on back to back after school.

[Gabrielle Jones]

I think the first anime I ever watched was Pokemon, followed by Yu-Gi-Oh, Digimon and Sailor Moon. But I’ve always considered Cardcapture Sakura as my gateway anime.

[Anonymous]

Sailor moon and pokemon. Years later Angel beats and deathnote

[DanM86]

First anime would be Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland although it had both American and Japanese animators in production. After that would be Pokémon back in the late 90s.

[Abbi]

i watched pokemon and some ghibli films as a kid, then intentionally got into anime through parasyte (i kept seeing memes of it on facebook and wanted to know what it was about!)

[Daniel V.]

Like many 90s kids I grew up watching Dragon Ball and that was one of the greatest influences I ever had in my life. Goku truly inspired me to be a better person and doing what I consider right and this and that.

Many people probably see this kind of animes as “just a nonsensical, violent show with a bunch of overpowerered guys exchanging hits and energy balls”, and while that’s not totally inaccurate I just kept with the good side, which I think is much bigger than the bad side.

In recent decade I also started watching One Piece and, although I arrived late to “the hype” and I watched it just for curiosity, I soon got to love it, in some ways even more than DBZ. Once again I’m aware of the many issues of this kind of animes (I especially have a hard time dealing with the oversexualized female characters and mysoginist stuff) but the good side of these is so big… I guess I can simply forgive that.

Also watched other animes in the middle ranging from similar “shonens” like Bleach and Full Metal Alchemist to “more adult-oriented” stuff like Death Note and Monster. Although very old (much older than me, actually) also watched Mazinger Z and derivated spin-offs like Great Mazinger and Grendizer and I had a good time with these. Grendizer is one that keeps resonating often in my mind because my toxic relationship with technology in recent decade after this cyber-world being my passion for so many years, similar to how Dr. Umon had his passion for astronomy crushed by war. But these are topics that goes beyond anime anyways.

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