How did you get into anime?

[Sami_jane]

i will admit that i ended up getting into anime because of dragon ball z. :p my brother started watching it around the freza saga and i thought it was the stupidest cartoon i ever saw till i decided to sit down and watch it. from there my brother started watching inuyasha and i thought it was stupid again until i started watching it and it became my fav. anime. so after taht i just watched what ever came on after inuyasha until i decided to start buying it and so on.

[jon_jinn]

i got into anime when i first started watching pokemon on tv. i didn't know it was anime at that time but i started watching dbz with my brother and then yugioh and then i started reading the dbz manga (which i referred to as comics back then). then i got into shonen jump when i saw a picture of goku on the first issue.

[Goofy-Luffy]

I watched Superbook, then the next would be. . . I donno. . . flying house maybe? ? ? oh, and sailor moon. (come on, I was like three, I didn't know what it was)
I found out what anime was when I watched One Piece.
So yah. That's it.

[Mi-Ru-Me]

I got into anime because of the desinges for the gils I mean yes I watched Voltron and Robotech as a kid like as far as I remember even before since my dad told me I have watched it for awile. But When I saw Project A-Ko I couldnt get enouph and started watching everything I could find which wasnt much every now an again I would rent or my friend would have a tape or sci-fi would show something then finnally my dad got actionchannel then I got a job dilivering newspaoers and was able to start buying stuff now I be happy

Yet I am sad that I just have to buy the series wile half the people that i know who watch anime download everything they watch (it almost feels like they are cheating but whatever)

[Kokhiri Sojourn]

One of my friends got really into it, and didn't have anyone to talk to about it. Well, I told her that I'd listen, and she talked me into watching a night of adult swim. Inuyasha didn't quite hook me, but Cowboy Bebop was next and I was forever sold - it was the Waltz for Venus episode, I think 8, with Roco Bonnaro and his blind sister - still one of the best episodes in all of anime in my opinion. Then came Trigun, Haibane Renmei, lesser things like Yu-Gi-Oh!, subscriptions to Shonen Jump, and these wonderful thin dvd box sets for a quarter of the price for all those $30 dvds with four eps. It was pretty amazing, really.

[GrubbTheFragger]

Watched some Pokemon and was like hey this is pretty neat. Then i watched G-gundam and was like feh to pokemon and then i started getting into more and more anime and thats how it happened

[Puguni]

Sailor Moon. It was like, the answer to my feminist little girl side.

[CobaltAngel]

One word:

POKE-MEN!

[mssthang_1]

the very first anime pic i saw was sailor moon in a magazine....i was a kid so it freaked me out when i saw those girls with really big eyes....i guess the very first anime i watched was sonic underground, but i didn't know what anime was at the time....then i watched digimon (i'm sorry i just couldn't get with pokemon if you paid me)...still didn't know what anime was...then my mom found this article in a christian newsletter saying that pokemon and digimon was evil, so me trying to be obediant to my parents, i strayed away from anything with big eyes, cute creatures, and kanji on the screen....then one night my brother was up at night watching....you'll never guess...gundam wing, i watched it with him and fell in luv with the show then we moved to japan and that's when i started to realize what anime was, i watched kindaichi, transformers, hikaru no go, naruto, etc....then i was officially hooked (true story )

[Peregrine]

Well, when I was really little I watched superbook, but only like once or twice. Then, we went to visit some relatives and they watched Speed Racer. I was enraptured, but I still didn't know it was anime. Then, a few years later, my brothers and I got hooked on the Saturday morning Pokemon. And yet, through all this time, I STILL didn't know what anime was. Somewhere during the Pokemon phase, I went to see a movie with my friend, and I saw a preview for Spirited Away. And the rest is history.

[eye776]

Long time ago, back when Italia Uno was still airing in Romania. Don't really remember my first show though...

[Mimiru14]

well..it all started with sailor moon.I'll always have a soft spot for sailor moon

[Akane]

Years ago, my sis got into it o.o 'Twas only natural for me to copy her XD And I've always looked up to her since she's older and my only sibling. She has ALWAYS been into cartoons and such...so I guess 'tis no surprise she found out 'bout it first. So thanks, sissy! ^.^

[Zeke]

I was pulled in by Cartoon Networks showing of DBZ, and then I saw Princess Monoke. I have been hooked since, and I have no regrets.

[wingedfox]

I started on pokemon then moved to sailor moon then to escaphlnoe(haha no idea if I spelt that right)

[Radical Dreamer]

I started on pokemon then moved to sailor moon then to escaphlnoe(haha no idea if I spelt that right)

Escaflowne is what I think you mean. XD

[KhakiBlueSocks]

Well, l started with Noozles back in my childhood, but didn't realize it was anime until much, much later! Then I went through my Pokemon phase, which then blossomed into Digimon--and it stayed that way until one night when I discovered Adult Swim...back when Yu-Yu-Hakusho first premiered...the first episode actually...

That was my first exposure to REAL anime! What really took me by suprise was the fact that the main character (I know his name, but I refuse to spell it!) started cursing like a salor! Then came Bebop, Outlaw Star, and Pilot Candidate...after that...I was hooked!

[For_Him]

It all started when I watched an episode of DBZ when Goku was facing down Frieza, then I got hooked.

[Adie]

The first anime show I ever saw - and liked - was Hamtaro. I watched it on Cartoon Network, but I had no idea what anime was at the time. After that, I really got into Piano. It very much intrigued me, as I had never seen an animated show that so accurately portrayed daily life. After that, I began browsing around on the Right Stuf website and started researching anime. So... I guess that's how I got into it. =)

[WrestlingOtaku]

I used to watch Speed Racer on Cartoon Network when I was really little. (Of course, I didn't know it was anime at the time.) After I started school, their were quite a few people who talked about DBZ during school almost all the time. I never really got into it that much thou I did watch a few episodes. My brother then showed me an anime called Medabots when I was 13 and I liked it quite a bit. This was the first show I watched and actually knew it was an anime. After a short hiatus, mostly for not having the ability to watch any due to loss of monitary income and cable, I began to rent DVD's from my local Blockbuster (Trigun and Record of Lodoss War to be exact). I became hooked shortly after starting these series and began to look into others like .hack, Black Cat, Rurouni Kenshin, Trinity Blood, and others.

[Smile:)]

I think it start with Digimon my borthers and I loved it! but didn't know it was a anime. Then some time in 2005 one of my borthers told me about one piece on cartoon network and we like it for a few months but got sick of it, then one day I got online and fond out that it was a anime and a dub so I fond the sub and I loved it! And then I fond out that a LOT of other shows that I like are anime. And now I love anime!
(See some good came of the one piece dub j\k)

[[GMOD]Vedicardi]

Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Zoids, and Digimon were defiantly influential for many anime fans, as well as Dragon Ball Z, though not so much for me.

That was when from 2nd to 5th grade. In sixth and seventh, nothing special happened, but I really got back into the swing of things last year, when I went through half of FMA and watched a load of Inuyasha. I even asked my mom to sign me up for the local anime club, but since she's so cautious about everything, she never actually did. Oh well, I didn't miss out on much.

[ChronoShinobi]

Well, it's kinda embarrassing, but I started out as a Pokemon (dub) fan as a kid, but I grew out of it. In high school, I was introduced to Megatokyo by a friend (and a fanboy incidentally) who told me about all the references it had to anime. I read it (and still do) in college, where a different friend was watching Battle Doll Angelic Layer (last 4 episodes) and I was really touched by the ending. I went out and bought the set to see the rest of it, 2.5 years later, I've now seen/read at least 25-30 series and here I am!

[Fish and Chips]

Well, it's kinda embarrassing, but I started out as a Pokemon (dub) fan as a kid, but I grew out of it.

Nothing to be embarrassed about, we all watched it at one point or another. I remember watching some Speed Racer, Sailor Moon, Pokemon, Digimon, Dragonball, Gundam Wing, and etcetera when I was young, naive, and impressionable.

Don't worry about it.

[ICE-rocks]

We'll it was about 7 years ago. My brother showed me and my little sister Dragon ball z (sayin saga) I thouht it was pretty cool, my sister fell in love with it. after that we began to watch (the old) toonami (Gundam wing and the other classics too) . My brother would always pick up the next dbz videos that came out to the stores for my sister. From then On I loved Anime, it just blew other cartoons away.

[Fantasy Dreamer]

I've been into anime about... 8 years? When I was nine or ten I saw an episode of Sailor Moon on Cartoon Network. I didn't really start watching it daily though. Then on Saturday mornings my brother and I would Watch Pokemon. Once that habit was established, I saw Sailor Moon again and started watching it regularly. From there, I watched other animes that toonami aired, until I 'graduated' (in 2005) to adult swim 's anime and beyond. I love it and the list of anime I've watched keeps growing.

[rocklobster]

Nothing to be embarrassed about, we all watched it at one point or another. I remember watching some Speed Racer, Sailor Moon, Pokemon, Digimon, Dragonball, Gundam Wing, and etcetera when I was young, naive, and impressionable.

Don't worry about it.

Like I said in my review of Speed Racer

What other anime characters do you know that advertise for Geico auto insurance and Volkswagen?

[himura_KAORU]

My story is the same as many others. I saw Sailor Moon on TV (before Cartoon Network.... don't even know what station was airing it back then...) then Dragonball Z, Pokemon, etc.

Rurouni Kenshin was the first anime series I liked enough to get obsessed over =P

[narutofreak]

My friend I met in 8th grade told me about jrock and anime and I scoffed at how stupid it must be. Ever since the first time I watched Princess Mononoke and listened to X Japan's Endless Rain, I have been hooked to both jrock and anime. Never again will I judge things by looks!

[Lady Arianrod]

My first anime show was probably Sailor Moon, but I also enjoyed watching Pokemon in '98 and Digimon in '99. I also liked Escaflowne when it was briefly on Fox Kids.

No one show in particular got me into anime, but I think that I enjoyed Digimon and Card Captor Sakura because they had at least some character development, unlike Pokemon (sorry to all former and current Pokemon fans!)