First experience with Anime/Manga.

[GradualMetamorphosis]

Yu-Gi-Oh!! =D

I wasn't into the cards so much as I was the show. And not the new GT poo...that stuff is horrible compared to the original show!

But yea..that got me interested in anime..that and the fact my friends were always reading manga in middle school. I watched Inuyasha and wasn't too impressed with it, then I saw maybe one episode of FMA(still not seen any more than that) and then I saw Rurouni Kenshin on tv and fell in love!! =] <3

Oh gee, such happy thoughts.

Note: complete list of anime I like on mah profile.

 

[Kitangel]

Spirited Away. Then... um... more Studio Ghibli films. then Manga - Fruits Basket. now? idk...

 

[Sphinx777]

Honestly, Sailor Moon was the first anime I can remember watching... though I didn't know what anime was back when I was eight, lol...

I started really liking anime after I saw The Big O series... it was way cooler than the normal cartoons they had on CN, and it got me interested in finding other kinds of shows similar to it... so now I'm hooked on the stuff, yeah...

 

[SuperSaint4GodDBZStyle]

For me it was DBZ and lil Sailor Moon and Cardcaptors. I really enjoyed anime more and made it a part of my life when I started to create my own animes. Not really drawing because my drawings suck, but I'm very good at writing story lines.
I made one that model dbz. I was very interested in the immune system so I made up Super Cells, they're basically white blood cells transforming into like super saiyan warriors fighting deadly diseases. I had a big imagination back then...what am I talking about I still do. I have another one in the process. I'm planning on writing the whole anime on my laptop and someday in the future I would hope it could become a real anime.

 

[dragonfruit29]

My first experience with anime was watching Sailor Moon on USA ten summers ago. I'd heard about it before then, bur hadn't watched it until I was 15, and goodness, I loved it, even if it was badly dubbed. After that, I ended up watching plenty more anime. I'm not nearly as addicted as I used to be, but I still enjoy collecting anime and manga.

 

[heavensworthit]

I'm not entirely sure but I think it started with Naruto or Inuyasha a couple years back....

 

[Netbug009]

My earliest anime memory was watching Ranma 1/2 when I was a wee little kid. I can barely remember the series though.

 

[Ninjitsu14]

Dragon Ball Z was the first anime I ever saw, back on Toonami. I remember rushing home every day just to watch it.

After that, Sailor Moon, Cardcaptors, and later Pokemon, then Yugioh.....I'm still a fan of Dragon Ball Z, and of Pokemon (to an extent), but I'd prefer to read the manga now than watch the anime.

Now I like Naruto, One Piece (now that, you know, the voices aren't annoying...XD), DBZ (not that GT crap), Bleach, and Death Note. I luvs me some good old Death Note!!!!

I also like reading Saiyuki and Fruits Basket.

 

[fuerein]

My first encounter with actual anime, and not the 80's saturday morning cartoons, was in college a couple friends started watching Love Hina. I came in an episode or two after they started and then wasn't able to finish it till I had moved out on my own and found a complete copy of the series. My friends had watched the last half of the series without me... grrr....

 

[pw89]

Rouroni (spelling?) Kenshin

 

[fuzzyjesusfreak]

Heh, pokemon definately.

 

[Blackmarch]

So, what was your first experience. I am not talking about the shows you watched as a kid, but the experience that made you a fan (unless it was those shows).

For me, it was the Chobits AMV made to the song "Not Gonna Get Us". That led me to watch Chobits, which led me to watching anime as a whole.

Nausicaa of the Valley of the wind Manga... if there was any comic deserving of the title "graphic Novel" that was it.
Totally blew me away. Still haven't really come across anything equal to it in many aspects.

Which spoiled me too lI have pretty high standards for what I will watch or read.. so there isn't that much anime that I really care or like.

 

[garfieldthecatman]

I was first hooked to Dragonball series. Then I had an adult that I thought was really cool introduce me to Naruto. Then, while I was looking up Naruto episodes, I came across Bleach, which is my current addicion.

I think Renji and Kenpachi should have their own show.

 

[TheManeki]

It was back when I was seven, and I made friends with a boy who had just moved to the US from Japan. So he wouldn't feel too lonely, his grandparents would tape Japanese shows on Betamax tapes and mail them to him, and we'd watch them. He'd translate enough of what was going on for me to follow along. I got to see Muscleman, Doraemon, and some of the old Gundam that way.

It was very cool and different, and fun to watch. Too bad my friend moved back to Japan a couple of years later, leaving me without a fix until anime started to be available in my neck of the woods in the early 1990s. Other people here have mentioned the Sci-Fi channel's airing of the old Streamline titles. That was a load of fun.

 

[Kitangel]

Nausicaa of the Valley of the wind Manga... if there was any comic deserving of the title "graphic Novel" that was it.
Totally blew me away. Still haven't really come across anything equal to it in many aspects.

Which spoiled me too lI have pretty high standards for what I will watch or read.. so there isn't that much anime that I really care or like.

What about the movie? Nausicaa is a brilliant film! Come to think of it, Studio Ghibli is THE BEST anime studio in - ever. Mononoke was wonderful, I loved Laputa, and HMC Is awesome too

 

[GreenWizard]

Tenchi Muyo OVA's on Cartoon Network SEVERAL years ago is
what got me interested in anime mainly. Then I found out that
the college I went to (BSU) had subbed tapes in the media section
of the library, and from that I discovered there were more tapes
to check out (a lot of Pioneer anime like Tenchi and El-hazard,
and others like Urusei Yatsura).