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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #15 on: July 09, 2006, 09:13:17 am »
  I got started on anime after I met my current boyfriend 3 years ago. He was into all of the "plotless fighting" animes so whenever I hung out with his group of friends I'd get stuck watching them. It was almost enough to make me hate anime actually, until I discovered one day that there was a whole world of other better genres to choose from. I've been hooked ever since ;D
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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #16 on: October 28, 2006, 07:54:04 pm »
Hah I'd say dragon ball use to come on Fox in the morning like 11 years ago then it was robotech and gundam, oulaw star.
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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #17 on: November 04, 2006, 04:07:30 am »
When I was little, anime was just the same as any other cartoons I saw on Saturday morning or right after school (4pm used to be the haven for high quality toonin', y'know?). The first two I can recall that I really dug on was Voltron and G-force (they call it Battle of the Planets, right?), closely followed by ol' DiC Sailor Moon (the horror!) and some Speed Racer.

Once I got the internet when I was twelve or so, and started noticing..hey..there's MORE of this stuff? Huh! I really got bitten. Toonami helped that along, too, haha. But once I got hooked on the Pokemon cards, that not only fueled my anime cravings, but my desire to draw.

But man, I'd love to see some ol' G-force for nostalgia's sake...Jun was my hero!

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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #18 on: November 13, 2006, 08:16:21 am »
Many a moons ago when I was 10 my mother's Boyfriend introduced me to devil hunter Yohkko on VHS...then came Vampire Hunter D, Akira...and eventually Ghost in the shell.

The first series I saw on television was Ronin Warriors(english name)  I forget what station it came on but I saw nearly the entire series and thought it was sooo much better than the American cartoons we had at the time...

last year I DL Monster and was almost in disbelief to how deep the characters were...I saw a live action was suppose to me made but never was...I suppose 71 episodes is hard to condense.And me personally I found all 71 to be important to the story development.The ending still confuses me though...long live Dr.Tenma

fast forward to today and my eyes are glued to Death Note and Bleach
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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #19 on: November 13, 2006, 08:27:00 am »
If you are from the states you started off watching Voltron and Speedracer and you didn't even know it.  Thundercats is an American animated Tv show.  But What got me hooked was that like the previous poster stated a long long long long time ago like 11-15 years ago some affliated stations use to run Monkey Magic and ORIGINAL Dragonball stupid early in the morning like on Sunday and Saturday and thats when the bug hit my butt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_Magic_%28animated_series%2

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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #20 on: November 13, 2006, 08:41:09 am »
I have to admit to having watched Voltron and Speedracer as a kid without the slightest idea that they were from Japan. What really did it for my though were the reruns of Robotech when I was about 4. My parents also claim I watched Astroboy, but I have absolutely no memory of that.

I do remember thoroughly enjoying Sailor Moon on YTV (So sue me, a ten-year old doesn't care about dubbing quality) and not being able to rent Bubblegum Crisis because it had nudity in it. I also saw an old movie called Odin: Photon Space Sailor Starlight. It was... odd.

The other show that I saw just a few episodes of and really want to see again was the Thunderbirds anime. It was a great show. And it had trailers for the Lensman anime that I will never ever get to see.  :'(
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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #21 on: November 13, 2006, 09:03:58 am »
Whatever guys just don't retire like Vash did.  :(

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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #22 on: November 13, 2006, 05:53:35 pm »
Whatever guys just don't retire like Vash did.  :(

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Yes, as we all know Vash has retired. It's over and done with, lets let it go. And even if we were to talk about it, it has absolutely no relevence to this thread. Can we stay on topic a bit more please? :-\
"<YaoiBoy> hi guys
<YaoiBoy> nice job getting DN out
<Blue_Mage> I think I might be addicted to the ending song...
<Blue_Mage> It's so pretty."
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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #23 on: November 14, 2006, 07:38:05 am »
Yes, as we all know Vash has retired. It's over and done with, lets let it go. And even if we were to talk about it, it has absolutely no relevence to this thread. Can we stay on topic a bit more please? :-\

Okay. I guess someone pouncing on me for something about that retirement while I was trying to post something relevant to the topic here got me to post that instead.

What I originally meant to post was this:

Something I forgot to say, what got me into anime other than Kids Station was a new TV with cable TV hyperband. That is, you don't need to subscribe to a cable provider to get access to cable channels. Cable TV isn't that popular in Japan. People are just happy with the normal channels they have and a lot of them have BS Digital Satellite, that is where they broadcast anime in HD. So when I got that TV and found a Cable TV channel called Kids Station, I began watching some reruns of old animes. Eventually I got hooked to Conan on NTV and CCS on NHK and that got be started into the latest anime being shown in the normal TV channels.  :D

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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #24 on: November 14, 2006, 08:00:56 am »
For me, I never watched anime on TV as a child.  I first heard of it when I joined a Harry Potter message board about 5 years ago.  A few of my friends on there kept talking about this Rurouni Kenshin show, so I finally decided to ask about it.  One of the girls was also watching InuYasha at the time, and she informed me that InuYasha was airing on Adult Swim in the US.  So, I tuned in to Adult Swim and got hooked on IY.  (I also downloaded the Kenshin OVAs, which I absolutely loved.  But IY was technically my first anime.)

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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #25 on: November 21, 2006, 12:44:43 pm »
Note: I live in Australia.

My first anime would have (sadly :P) been the english dubs of Sailormoon on Channel 7's "Cartoon Network" morning when I was 5-8 (1996-1999).

Second (what I consider my first "Real")anime was Neon Genesis, dubbed, on SBS in 2000 .

That was the last anime I saw for several years, one night I got bored and found an anime stream on WinAMP TV in 2004, (Onegai Teacher), I downloaded that, then downloaded Onegai Twins, then I kinda left Anime again for a bit, now in 2006 I'm Anime Crazy after I discovered one of my friends at school watches it, she gave me several Anime series (Chobits, Full Metal Panics) and I official became addicted to anime and proceeded to download as much as my download limit would allow, and about 2 weeks ago, the same friend gave me The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, so yes, very addicted ^_^ .

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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #26 on: November 21, 2006, 12:57:56 pm »
Note: I live in Australia.

My first anime would have (sadly :P) been the english dubs of Sailormoon on Channel 7's "Cartoon Network" morning when I was 5-8 (1996-1999).

Second (what I consider my first "Real")anime was Neon Genesis, dubbed, on SBS in 2000 .

I am not surprised. It was the first one for many people.

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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #27 on: November 21, 2006, 04:48:36 pm »
My brother got me into Anime although at first i didn't like he's choice, which was  Dragon Ball Z {on a channel that was run by Cartoon network} and Sailor Moon {on Jetix aka Fox Kids} but after watching Trigun, BubbleGum Crisis and Excel Saga with him i was hooked :) and now own a wide collection of Anime dvds.

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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #28 on: November 29, 2006, 01:42:25 am »
I can sum this up in one word:
YAOI!!!!!! :D

hehe... Honestly, I was an anime fan back in the late 70's and I didn't even know it. Anyone remember Yamaoto/Star Blazers? ;)

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Re: What got you started into Anime?
« Reply #29 on: December 15, 2006, 03:07:44 am »
I can't remember what my first Anime series was.  It was like DB or DBZ.  As a child I watched Anime on and off, never really keeping up with any particular series regularly except for around 6th grade when the Pokemon craze started...

I guess you could say my first "moe" experience was with Misty from Pokemon, which amuses me to this day because Tsundere characters are still my favorite.  Anyways, after I got over the Pokemon phase I really didn't watch Anime much at all, except occasionally I would watch Gundam Wing and that Anime with the ditzy Galaxy patrol chick.

It wasn't until senior year of HS that a friend from my Warcraft III Clan gave me a link to a site with DDLs to fansubbed Naruto.  I watched like the first season on and off and didn't really get into it at first because college applications and all that jazz kept me preoccupied.  However, after starting my freshman year of college I started watching it again and I got hooked.  I made it up to like episode 168 and started feeling the fillers, so that's about the time I started appearing on IRC and engrossing myself in the Anime community.... consuming series after series... I also attribute my insane consumption of Anime to my posse... yeah I have a posse - they're a bunch of Anime otaku at my Uni lawl.
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