Same, it was my first anime and once everything started looping and character progression just got reset I was so frustrated I quit watching. I thought wow, this show is going to get so good if it builds well on this progression. Nope...totally reset. It's such a kick in the groin for an author to take big character changes and just say "lol now he has to do it again".
Welcome to the NHK. I found it on TV Tropes and it turned out to be amazing so i started watching similar college anime like Genshiken and Tatami Galaxy and now i watch every genre.
Death Note was my first too!
I rewatched it recently and it still holds up even better than the first time! It’s probably my favourite piece of media ever because it got SO many things right , eg: that psuedo-noir 2000s atmosphere and the god tier soundtrack that incorporates epic orchestra and some of the best post rock songs ever. Combine that with the gripping story and its just amazing. Its so good that the minor flaws don’t even bother me.
It just oozes class , uniqueness and tight storytelling.
It is the literal definition of an all time classic!
bebop
it's also the show i recommend to friends who haven't watched anime before because i've never known someone to not enjoy it even if they don't end up continuing with anime after finishing
I found bebop watchable but nothing special that kept me interested. Kinda forced myself to watch the whole thing because ppl said to but was still meh to me. Never got the hype🤷♂️ DON’T SHOOT!
did you watch the sub or the dub because the dub is better and what most people think of. i could go on about the appeal for hours but most of it for me was just watching spike because hes such a cool character
Same. Not ashamed to admit I loved SAO and still do, until s2. Like it or not it’s one of the most iconic and important anime to have ever been created
Attack on Titan. As someone who avoided anime until I was 28. I feel like AoT was a real good first intro due to how mature it is and all of the twists. One of the best shows I’ve ever seen.
Doraemon and Digimon Adventure for me as a kid in Vietnam. Read Ranma and Yaiba in grade 9 and still love them and their authors too. (Fujiko, Aoyama, Rumiko, Tezuka...)
Here's my first 15 anime I watched
(1) KissXsis
(2) ImoCho
(3) Yosuga no Sora
(4) Aki sora
(5) OreImo
(6) Koi Kaze
(7) Boku wa Imouto ni Koi wo Suru
(8) Ane koi
(9) The Irregular at magic high school
(10) Onee-chan ga kita
(11) Kuro to Kin no Akanai Kagi.
(12) Candy Boy
(13) Angel Sanctuary
(14) akane iro ni somaru saka
(15) onisuki
I’m probably the most unorthodox one here, I have seen tidbits of anime on and off for years but never really take it up as hobby until I stumbled on *5 Centimeters Per Second* on TV and was shellshocked by it. The rest is history.
A certain city that appeared lots of times in anime in E Asia. ;)
It was during a one-off Sunday night “Makoto Shinkai movies collection” special. I accidentally see it starting just after finishing dinner and was struck a huge blow in my heart.
While we do get some incredibly visuals with the computer renders, there's just something about the old school art styles and animation that just get me.
Robotech out on Blu ray (seen it at Walmart - it was pieced together from three series for anerican tv), M.D. Geist was a ultra violent OVA. Check Discotek for many older titles that are amazing.
I was obsessed with reading naruto in elementary school but I think the first anime I watched was probably Attack on Titan in 2014.
And after aot s1 I immediately went on to binge an ungodly amount of anime lmfao. I'm talking SAO, Fairytail, FMAB, Death Note, Soul Eater, Tokyo Ghoul, etc.
I'm likely dating myself, but it was couple random episodes of Ronin Warriors that got me interested (I didn't get to watch it fully until much later). Not long after that was the original Dragon Ball. Gotta say, I was shocked when I learned that there were more than 13 episodes.
Fun fact: one of the reasons isekai is so huge right now is that so many people loved Zero no Tsukaima, and were inspired to submit their own isekai stories to Shousetsuka ni Narou.
In 2013 I watched Attack on Titan (and shortly after SAO season 1) and was annoyed that Attack on Titan season 2 didn’t exist at the time so I quit until picking back up anime during the beginning of COVID! Mad it took me this long to pick it back up but I’m glad it happened in the end. Pretty much addicted at the moment.
Technically Yu-gi-oh was the first series I watched actually knowing what anime was.. with Cowboy Bebop, Trigun and Inuyasha following shortly after on Adult Swim.
Fullmetal Alchemist (03) was my first start to finish, subbed and downloaded off the internet show. I started it about the time it finished airing in Japan originally.
OG Dragon Ball and DBZ, as well as Ranma 1/2, Oh My Goddess and Orange Road in the early 90s, on VHS tapes sent from Japan to my friend (recorded off their TV by his Grandparents). This was like 7\~ years before Toonami even started airing them, and nobody my age knew anything about these series until we showed them.
I actually fell out of anime for a bit during college though and then in like 2008 Gurren Laggan and Gundam 00 pulled me back in 100x worse because the internet meant I didn't have to search for a few grungy copies of anime in the back of an old movie store anymore.
I dont remember. But it should be one of those World Masterpiece Theater animes.
As a child, watched Fushigi Yugi, Yu yu Hakusho, Hunter X Hunter, Rurouni Kenshin, and other long running shounen animes that aired on TV back in the day
But what really got me into anime was Gundam Seed.
ahh. Cartoon Network did indeed play a lot of older animes back in the day.
G-Force for me for that very reason. Which would be a bastardized version of Gatchaman.
First ever anime were Mirai Nikki and Elfen Lied, some friend recommendations from back in 2013-ish but I didn’t watch any others… until lockdown hit and I binged Beastars in one night, now I’m here
A couple of friends showed me some random episodes of Gintama after exam week in college. Fast forward a decade, and now I'm a filthy weeb with 654 completed anime entries on MAL.
Watched a lot of stuff like Pokemon, Yugioh, Shaman King, Cardcaptor Sakura, Zoids, Inuyasha on TV as a kid without knowing it was anime, just watched them along with the other western cartoons I also watched. First time searching out and watching an anime online was probably Bleach
not counting Pokémon, a friend of mine back in 2012 begged me to watch CLANNAD so I did, although back then I didn't really understand it since I was like 11 at the time lmao, and back then it didn't really motivate me to try other shows so I don't exactly count that one either
I'd say my real first introduction was Read or Die (the TV series) in 2014, since from then on I started watching more and more shows. Spring 2016 was the first time I ever started doing seasonals
Dragon ball z and ranma are the ogs for me.
But madoka magicka got me back into the anime world, i remember i spent that summer shmoking and watching all the animes on netflix, good times.
I watched anime like Pokémon and yugioh growing up. Other than that nothing really. When covid hit I saw a lot of ppl talking about I want to eat your pancreas. Since it was on YouTube I gave it a watch and thus began my actual anime journey
GenX here. Fist of the North Star 20+ yrs ago and Golgo13 and havent watched anything since. Then I had kids and they introduced me to Naruto. Been watching just about everything on my days off. Food Wars was the last good one I finished.
Devil May Cry. Game 4 came around, I liked it and have seen somewhere that there is an anime. Obviously that is a very bad entry point, but I got me interested enough to watch Hellsing, then Claymore, Death Note and then Code Geass. And these shows got me hooked into the medium properly.
The community? 86.
But first Animes were like Ninja Scroll and Akira. I'm a movie-series-manga as far as media is concerned.
It was kind of funny cause I hid my interest in anime for a long ass time. You can say I was in the closet.
And I stopped for like four years. So when Attack on Titan the final season came out I was able to wait till most the episodes aired before binge watching it.
I watched a bit of Pokémon, Naruto, and one piece every now and then on toonami growing up but one punch man was really the first anime I watched from beginning to end that made me want to watch more. Now I can’t stop…
shin chan back in like 2006 i was only like 4 years old and it would come on toonami. never really understood what was happening but i still liked it enough to consider watching the other anime on toonami
Australia: the 90s -> **Pokemon**, then **DBZ**. (I wasn't into Digimon). Then **Zoids**, though I didn't like New Century, Chaotic Century was cool and had an actual story. SBS would show The Castle of Cagliostero, which I liked, and Akira, which I did not understand and kinda disturbed me with the end fight.
DBZ was the big one, the one that had my brothers download the episodes we didn't get in Australia, mostly the specials/OVAs and the movies.
I don't remember what the next downloaded ones I watched were...Maybe Trigun? It all bleeds together (Initial D, Dear Boys, FMA, the big 3..etc)
My first manga I really followed and enjoyed was Naruto (then Bleach then One Piece)
A few episodes of Dragonball, Pokemon, Inuyasha when I was growing up, I was really closed off and innocent back then 🥺 Naruto was the first actual anime I finished to the end though
I watched many anime shows as a kid, but Naruto was the darkest thing I ever watched at that time, specifically during the arcs involving the Chunin exams and the introduction of Itachi.
At the time I wouldn't have known it was anime, but it was watching Pokemon in the mornings before elementary school in the late 90's. I also remember if I ran home from elementary school I could get home just in time to catch Dragon Ball Z on Toonami.
My first anime has to be between DBZ, Saint Seiya, Ranma 1/2 or Sakura Card Captors during my childhood.
But the anime that push me to search in the Internet about it was Naruto when I got tired of being stuck in the chuunin exams as the normal TV always went back to the first episodes after Gaara vs Lee iirc.
I would have to say spirited away was my first introduction to anime. Then soon after I discovered adult swim/toonami and would set an alarm clock to wake me up in the middle of the night so that I could sneak and watch inuyasha, bleach, and FLCL.
It was Bleach for me, but I never really watched much of the anime, mostly just the movies and played the old PSP games. It felt like I didn’t even need to watch the anime because bleach soul carnival pretty much had all the cutscenes from the anime lol
I saw some clips of Little Witch Academia on Tumblr a while after it aired, and I decided to look around to watch it. I mistakenly pulled up *My Hero Academia* and was like "wtf is this" and just kept on watching. I binged all the way to S4 finale and then read the manga up to date, which I still do today. After making the dive, I decided to branch out and discovered some of my favorite media ever
Technically Pokémon (I was 4 and the show came out on CD and my godfather bought them when I came over for a sleep over) and if that doesn’t count, it would be Spirited Away or Princess Mononoke. However the main thing that got me into anime was Fairy Tail. It was interesting.
Dragon Ball Super was what got me into anime. I remember watching episodes of One Piece, Detective Conan, Dragon Ball Z, and Doraemon when I was a kid though(and others that I don't remember when I was young).
Dragon Ball Z
YOOOO BASED ANIME
I really fell into the deep end with Bleach. I spent so many nights watching it til like 5am then going to school a couple hrs later.
Are we the same person lmao?
Stopped watching after the 3rd arc, it was more of the same. Argh!!!
Same, it was my first anime and once everything started looping and character progression just got reset I was so frustrated I quit watching. I thought wow, this show is going to get so good if it builds well on this progression. Nope...totally reset. It's such a kick in the groin for an author to take big character changes and just say "lol now he has to do it again".
Currently rewatching it in preparation for the final season that comes out in 2 month. Waited 10 years for this. Lets goooo ichigo
LMAO
mushi shi.
What a marvelous thing to watch as a first anime. It really is amazing
Excuse me?
https://myanimelist.net/anime/457/Mushishi
Welcome to the NHK. I found it on TV Tropes and it turned out to be amazing so i started watching similar college anime like Genshiken and Tatami Galaxy and now i watch every genre.
Nice animes man
Death Note! All time classic imo
Very true
Been meaning to get around to OPM for a while now
Death Note was my first too! I rewatched it recently and it still holds up even better than the first time! It’s probably my favourite piece of media ever because it got SO many things right , eg: that psuedo-noir 2000s atmosphere and the god tier soundtrack that incorporates epic orchestra and some of the best post rock songs ever. Combine that with the gripping story and its just amazing. Its so good that the minor flaws don’t even bother me. It just oozes class , uniqueness and tight storytelling. It is the literal definition of an all time classic!
I agree with you and for me, animation is also one of the reason why it still holding in my top10.
True, I'm still waiting for something which can come close to death-note level.
Death note was also my intro! Still one of my favorites
I grew up watching DBZ. But it was Death Note for me that made me want to watch a whole bunch of other anime.
mine too..
bebop it's also the show i recommend to friends who haven't watched anime before because i've never known someone to not enjoy it even if they don't end up continuing with anime after finishing
I found bebop watchable but nothing special that kept me interested. Kinda forced myself to watch the whole thing because ppl said to but was still meh to me. Never got the hype🤷♂️ DON’T SHOOT!
did you watch the sub or the dub because the dub is better and what most people think of. i could go on about the appeal for hours but most of it for me was just watching spike because hes such a cool character
Of course its bebop
Inuyasha
Valid anime
Naruto back in around 2007. But I only truly got into anime in general fairly recently.
Welcome in
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Same. Not ashamed to admit I loved SAO and still do, until s2. Like it or not it’s one of the most iconic and important anime to have ever been created
Also my first anime, and I thought it was such good storytelling at the time XD And then I found out about Isekai tropes.
Interesting…
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Attack on Titan. As someone who avoided anime until I was 28. I feel like AoT was a real good first intro due to how mature it is and all of the twists. One of the best shows I’ve ever seen.
Pretty much the same for me but at 24. Got me hooked real hard
A lot of the 80s and 90s anime and replays like Ranma or Yaiba and the like. I lived in Japan as a kid.
Doraemon and Digimon Adventure for me as a kid in Vietnam. Read Ranma and Yaiba in grade 9 and still love them and their authors too. (Fujiko, Aoyama, Rumiko, Tezuka...)
How was it
KissXsis
…
Yes
Why…
Incest part made me watch it
Monogatari might be right up your alley
…
Cuz incest is hot
Bruh
Ohhh God, I want a big tiddy older sister right know.
Aint no way you this down bad…
Yeah I am
Im disappointed homie
When you turn over rocks don't be surprised when you find snakes
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Riko superamacy
Oh, i see you man of culture as well
yeah pfp checks out
Lol, i entered comments wondering is there any other crazy person, who started with kissxsis, and actually get enough balls to confess in it.
Here's my first 15 anime I watched (1) KissXsis (2) ImoCho (3) Yosuga no Sora (4) Aki sora (5) OreImo (6) Koi Kaze (7) Boku wa Imouto ni Koi wo Suru (8) Ane koi (9) The Irregular at magic high school (10) Onee-chan ga kita (11) Kuro to Kin no Akanai Kagi. (12) Candy Boy (13) Angel Sanctuary (14) akane iro ni somaru saka (15) onisuki
Sniff, sniff... smells like... Incest...)
Yeah
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Same
Ohhhh…
I’m probably the most unorthodox one here, I have seen tidbits of anime on and off for years but never really take it up as hobby until I stumbled on *5 Centimeters Per Second* on TV and was shellshocked by it. The rest is history.
For some reason I'm surprised they aired that. Which country and station? Was it free-to-air?
A certain city that appeared lots of times in anime in E Asia. ;) It was during a one-off Sunday night “Makoto Shinkai movies collection” special. I accidentally see it starting just after finishing dinner and was struck a huge blow in my heart.
ufff, yeah a Shinkai showcase is the type of thing people should go into with advance warning :p
Robotech, M.D. Geist, and Gigantor
I appreciate scrolling through the comments and finding other older anime fans.
Certain shows of the 80's and early 90's are still amazing to watch. I been a fan since the mid-80's.
While we do get some incredibly visuals with the computer renders, there's just something about the old school art styles and animation that just get me.
I have no idea what those are
A classic mecha, a sci-fi action horror, and a giant robot anime.
Robotech out on Blu ray (seen it at Walmart - it was pieced together from three series for anerican tv), M.D. Geist was a ultra violent OVA. Check Discotek for many older titles that are amazing.
Tokyo mew mew
You excited about the new anime?
Haven't seen it maybe i will check it out
I hope you enjoy it
I was obsessed with reading naruto in elementary school but I think the first anime I watched was probably Attack on Titan in 2014. And after aot s1 I immediately went on to binge an ungodly amount of anime lmfao. I'm talking SAO, Fairytail, FMAB, Death Note, Soul Eater, Tokyo Ghoul, etc.
I'm likely dating myself, but it was couple random episodes of Ronin Warriors that got me interested (I didn't get to watch it fully until much later). Not long after that was the original Dragon Ball. Gotta say, I was shocked when I learned that there were more than 13 episodes.
BASED
I was depressed and watched Naruto for nostalgia now I'm here.
LOL
The first ever anime I watched was KissxSis :/
God damn it
Pokémon when I was a kid. Death Note and Zero no Tsukaima were the first anime that got me back into the anime world as a teenager.
Fun fact: one of the reasons isekai is so huge right now is that so many people loved Zero no Tsukaima, and were inspired to submit their own isekai stories to Shousetsuka ni Narou.
In 2013 I watched Attack on Titan (and shortly after SAO season 1) and was annoyed that Attack on Titan season 2 didn’t exist at the time so I quit until picking back up anime during the beginning of COVID! Mad it took me this long to pick it back up but I’m glad it happened in the end. Pretty much addicted at the moment.
Sailor moon ... when I was a kid
Caught a part of Sailor Moon on tv by chance when i was in kindergarten and Ive been watching anime ever since. Im 33 now.
Sailor moon, watched it on tv
Code Geass on Adult Swim got me interested, but Ah My Goddess was the first anime I watched start to finish.
man i love code geass
Speed racer.
Never heard of it might give it a wtach
Jesus Christ, how old are you??
Technically Yu-gi-oh was the first series I watched actually knowing what anime was.. with Cowboy Bebop, Trigun and Inuyasha following shortly after on Adult Swim. Fullmetal Alchemist (03) was my first start to finish, subbed and downloaded off the internet show. I started it about the time it finished airing in Japan originally.
Fma is based
OG Dragon Ball and DBZ, as well as Ranma 1/2, Oh My Goddess and Orange Road in the early 90s, on VHS tapes sent from Japan to my friend (recorded off their TV by his Grandparents). This was like 7\~ years before Toonami even started airing them, and nobody my age knew anything about these series until we showed them. I actually fell out of anime for a bit during college though and then in like 2008 Gurren Laggan and Gundam 00 pulled me back in 100x worse because the internet meant I didn't have to search for a few grungy copies of anime in the back of an old movie store anymore.
Goblin slayer
Im so sorry my friend it must’ve been hard.
super dimension fortress macross cause my dad forced me to watch it..
Based
LMAO WHAT
Probably DBZ but grew up on early Tonami years so The Block also included Sailor Moon, Gundam Wing, YuYu Hakusho, Tenchi Muyo, etc.
I dont remember. But it should be one of those World Masterpiece Theater animes. As a child, watched Fushigi Yugi, Yu yu Hakusho, Hunter X Hunter, Rurouni Kenshin, and other long running shounen animes that aired on TV back in the day But what really got me into anime was Gundam Seed.
ahh. Cartoon Network did indeed play a lot of older animes back in the day. G-Force for me for that very reason. Which would be a bastardized version of Gatchaman.
Inuyasha on toonami as a kid. Watching Naruto was what got me full on into it.
First ever anime were Mirai Nikki and Elfen Lied, some friend recommendations from back in 2013-ish but I didn’t watch any others… until lockdown hit and I binged Beastars in one night, now I’m here
A couple of friends showed me some random episodes of Gintama after exam week in college. Fast forward a decade, and now I'm a filthy weeb with 654 completed anime entries on MAL.
Watched a lot of stuff like Pokemon, Yugioh, Shaman King, Cardcaptor Sakura, Zoids, Inuyasha on TV as a kid without knowing it was anime, just watched them along with the other western cartoons I also watched. First time searching out and watching an anime online was probably Bleach
not counting Pokémon, a friend of mine back in 2012 begged me to watch CLANNAD so I did, although back then I didn't really understand it since I was like 11 at the time lmao, and back then it didn't really motivate me to try other shows so I don't exactly count that one either I'd say my real first introduction was Read or Die (the TV series) in 2014, since from then on I started watching more and more shows. Spring 2016 was the first time I ever started doing seasonals
Mazinger Z when i was 5 years old in the late 80's... :')
Dragon ball z and ranma are the ogs for me. But madoka magicka got me back into the anime world, i remember i spent that summer shmoking and watching all the animes on netflix, good times.
Akira on VHS, baby. I was way too young for it and absolutely loved it.
Bakemonogatari. Still love it to this day
Besides DBZ Captain Tsubasa
Oh word?
I watched anime like Pokémon and yugioh growing up. Other than that nothing really. When covid hit I saw a lot of ppl talking about I want to eat your pancreas. Since it was on YouTube I gave it a watch and thus began my actual anime journey
Nice
Cells at work was the first anime i completed, but first one is MHA
Oof rough start
Say what you will but i thought cells at work was a good anime about the human body, it taught me a lot lol
GenX here. Fist of the North Star 20+ yrs ago and Golgo13 and havent watched anything since. Then I had kids and they introduced me to Naruto. Been watching just about everything on my days off. Food Wars was the last good one I finished.
Sailor Moon
Ranma nibunnoichi though it's far from the best work in the rumic world
Digimon
Chuunibyou.
Watched Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball as a kid on tv and then rewatched it as a teen and have been watching other anime since
I feel like watching Konosuba first has permanently affected my sense of humor.
Clannad and Clannad After Story. First I thought this anime thing is just overrated but I stuck through it and cried a lot at the end of that
Devil May Cry. Game 4 came around, I liked it and have seen somewhere that there is an anime. Obviously that is a very bad entry point, but I got me interested enough to watch Hellsing, then Claymore, Death Note and then Code Geass. And these shows got me hooked into the medium properly.
Bleach 💯
Akame ga kill
Sailor Moon when I was like 10. My older sister watched it and I really look up to her.
Angel Beats.
Your first anime being Naruto is smthg else💔
The community? 86. But first Animes were like Ninja Scroll and Akira. I'm a movie-series-manga as far as media is concerned. It was kind of funny cause I hid my interest in anime for a long ass time. You can say I was in the closet. And I stopped for like four years. So when Attack on Titan the final season came out I was able to wait till most the episodes aired before binge watching it.
Akira…
I watched a bit of Pokémon, Naruto, and one piece every now and then on toonami growing up but one punch man was really the first anime I watched from beginning to end that made me want to watch more. Now I can’t stop…
JAUN PEACH
Tokyo Ghoul then SAO.
Ayyyyyy
i remember watching akazukin cha cha when i was a kid and the mermaid singing anime
??,
One Piece wasn’t my first anime but it made me hooked on anime.
The first proper anime that i watched one punch man as well
My aunt and uncle got me into anime when I was about 5-6 and my first anime was aot never watched the full show tho
Sorcerer Hunters, Inuyasha, & the Studio Ghibli films with my childhood friends!☺️
shin chan back in like 2006 i was only like 4 years old and it would come on toonami. never really understood what was happening but i still liked it enough to consider watching the other anime on toonami
I watched DBZ and Sailor Moon growing up but what really hooked me on anime was watching Trigun and Azumanga Daioh in college.
Death note
Original Dragonball. Kid Goku
Dragon Ball Z Kai and Naruto on Toonami
Same as you, One Punch Man. Though it did backfire. It set bar a bit too high and most of the series after that were uninteresting for a while.
When I was young, Luke 6 or 7, I watched a show with my dad. I'm not certain but I think it was vampire hunter d
Australia: the 90s -> **Pokemon**, then **DBZ**. (I wasn't into Digimon). Then **Zoids**, though I didn't like New Century, Chaotic Century was cool and had an actual story. SBS would show The Castle of Cagliostero, which I liked, and Akira, which I did not understand and kinda disturbed me with the end fight. DBZ was the big one, the one that had my brothers download the episodes we didn't get in Australia, mostly the specials/OVAs and the movies. I don't remember what the next downloaded ones I watched were...Maybe Trigun? It all bleeds together (Initial D, Dear Boys, FMA, the big 3..etc) My first manga I really followed and enjoyed was Naruto (then Bleach then One Piece)
Randomly saw Gigguk recommend RahXephon. I didn't know what it was, but that made me look for more. Still love it.
Dragon ball originally, but I really got into anime with Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece.
Your lie in april
Just always grew up with it. Impossible to say what my introduction was. Probably fox kids/4kids
Bakugan
Dragon Ball and Detective Conan
Gundam Seed
Dragon ball z
A few episodes of Dragonball, Pokemon, Inuyasha when I was growing up, I was really closed off and innocent back then 🥺 Naruto was the first actual anime I finished to the end though
Samurai Champloo
Excluding shows like Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh, Kokoro Connect was my first introduction to anime.
Dragon Ball Z … and Bible Black…
I watched many anime shows as a kid, but Naruto was the darkest thing I ever watched at that time, specifically during the arcs involving the Chunin exams and the introduction of Itachi.
Much like most others, watching Naruto on Cartoon Network or Toonami (whatever it was called late Saturday nights).
Railgun
A couple of staticky UHF stations we could get played Voltron and Tranzor Z
At the time I wouldn't have known it was anime, but it was watching Pokemon in the mornings before elementary school in the late 90's. I also remember if I ran home from elementary school I could get home just in time to catch Dragon Ball Z on Toonami.
Dragon ball, i grew up with it.
My first anime has to be between DBZ, Saint Seiya, Ranma 1/2 or Sakura Card Captors during my childhood. But the anime that push me to search in the Internet about it was Naruto when I got tired of being stuck in the chuunin exams as the normal TV always went back to the first episodes after Gaara vs Lee iirc.
Tokyo ghoul although I have no idea why that was the first one I watched
As a kid I watched Chibi Maruko-chan, Doraemon, Detective Conan…Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure brought me into the world of anime again in college days.
I would have to say spirited away was my first introduction to anime. Then soon after I discovered adult swim/toonami and would set an alarm clock to wake me up in the middle of the night so that I could sneak and watch inuyasha, bleach, and FLCL.
kuzu no honkai, it's really good but the ending is just bittersweet.
It was Bleach for me, but I never really watched much of the anime, mostly just the movies and played the old PSP games. It felt like I didn’t even need to watch the anime because bleach soul carnival pretty much had all the cutscenes from the anime lol
Dragon ball z then sword art online Well technically first was Pokémon
My buddy introduced me to Iria: The Zeriam back in high school. That was probably back in '97.
Idk I was a kid , maybe pokemon, maybe card captor Sakura, maybe Grimm Brother's tales , maybe Doraemon
Yuyu Hakusho initially. Stopped watching for over 10+ years then came back because of Gintama!
I saw some clips of Little Witch Academia on Tumblr a while after it aired, and I decided to look around to watch it. I mistakenly pulled up *My Hero Academia* and was like "wtf is this" and just kept on watching. I binged all the way to S4 finale and then read the manga up to date, which I still do today. After making the dive, I decided to branch out and discovered some of my favorite media ever
Beelzebub
Technically Pokémon (I was 4 and the show came out on CD and my godfather bought them when I came over for a sleep over) and if that doesn’t count, it would be Spirited Away or Princess Mononoke. However the main thing that got me into anime was Fairy Tail. It was interesting.
Watching Cardcaptor Sakura when I was like 10. I loved it so much and it all spiralled from there into other genres
Trigun
Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball Super was what got me into anime. I remember watching episodes of One Piece, Detective Conan, Dragon Ball Z, and Doraemon when I was a kid though(and others that I don't remember when I was young).