| I got introduced to anime by family, have been watching since and surpassed all my anime friends and family at being a nolife anime enjoyer. |
| A long time ago I just happened to watch Digimon from a local TV channel. And the rest is history. |
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| one of my friends told me about anime a few years ago and I decided to check it out for myself |
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| Because TV used to show a lot of anime when I was a kid. |
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| I don't remember, it's just a thing I loved since I was a child. |
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| started watching anime because of cute anime girls |
| Before, I always thought anime was super cringe and avoided it like the plague. I thought it was all like dragon ball z, characters yelling and a lot of lines to depict intensity and panning images to give the illusion of motion. Basically I just thought it was all trash. And it is- the better portion of it anyway. I didn't know anime contained some absolute gems Long story short, everyone was raving about Your Name back in 2017, anime and non-anime watchers alike, so I just decided to give it a try for the heck of it. Liked it, and never looked back. Started with whatever was on netflix, and watched anime on and off. Early 2020 I started to watch anime more regularly and watched a different anime or two every week. And yeah, the rest is history |
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| Used to watch shows like Doraemon, Shin-chan, Pokemon, Detective conan, Kochikame when I was a kid. But I didn't start watching a lot more until a classmate recommended a light novel of Sao to me. |
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| because My gal broke up with me. Now I have a lot. |
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Serafos said: A long time ago I just happened to watch Digimon from a local TV channel. And the rest is history. Isn't Tamers the last one shown on Finnish tv (at least excluding pay television)? 20 years... That's a long time. Pretty crazy. Anyways, I had no idea what anime was before my friend started talking about stuff like Fairy Tail and Fullmetal Alchemist, trying to get me watch them. I was hesitant even though I already watched western animations at that point. Then I went to a holiday resort with my parents but because it was kind of wrong time of a year (no attractions were really open, too much snow for some activities, not enough for others), I decided to check out what this "Fairy Tail" was about. That was my life whole week at that holiday resort, much worth it. |
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mahoho236 said: BetaMaleUltra said: You are like me, when I was younger I never thought that there were lots of gems there. That's the good thing when you jump into the void.Before, I always thought anime was super cringe and avoided it like the plague. I thought it was all like dragon ball z, characters yelling and a lot of lines to depict intensity and panning images to give the illusion of motion. Basically I just thought it was all trash. And it is- the better portion of it anyway. I didn't know anime contained some absolute gems Long story short, everyone was raving about Your Name back in 2017, anime and non-anime watchers alike, so I just decided to give it a try for the heck of it. Liked it, and never looked back. Started with whatever was on netflix, and watched anime on and off. Early 2020 I started to watch anime more regularly and watched a different anime or two every week. And yeah, the rest is history But I think that I got influenced by my family and friends that anime watchers are cringe and that kind of thing. Now I can say that it isn't like that, just some "stereotypes", or at least here. Yeah. It certainly takes some time to learn which anime are right for you, you have to watch a lot of anime, both good and bad. But now we've probably watched enough as to determine what anime we will probably like from first glance. |
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| Have always seen them on TV and few friends insisting, "Dude watch this show Tokyo ghoul, we had a third season recently, it's so good you will thank me 100 times", so I have to check it out myself later on. |
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| Animax is the reason I got into anime because I had nothing else to do at that time. |
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| Because i had to watch something, while waiting for school to start. So i had no other choice. And well, i ended up liking it. If i look back, most of the stuff i liked back in 2007 is actually bad, but still Nostalgic. |
| It was when we got a new TV and It all started with doraemon |
| When i entered my friend room n saw him whom was watching umaru |
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| When I was ten or so I was a really big fan of Deltora Quest, which is a series of children's fantasy novels which has an anime adaptation. I found out about the adaptation and decided to watch it. I liked it quite a bit so I decided to keep watching anime. |
Bet they're all 2D and doesn't even know you exist |
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| I started watching anime for fun that's it. |
Dude stfu -,- who cares? Im happy now ^^ |
Yes sometimes imaginary happiness is the best kind of happiness. I mean nothing's better than to live in your own delusional happiness |
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| Got into it when I was in pre-school. Watched a few episodes of One Piece, and then I stopped. Then around the time I was in school, started picking up more animes, popular ones like One Punch Man, Tokyo Ghoul, Akame ga Kill, Assassination Classroom, safe to say I watched only popular ones around that time. I think I started to watch more anime and get into MyAnimeList was the time I started watching JoJo. From then on, I started to consistently watch anime on a daily basis. |
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| Got into Naruto when I was 10 after watching this fanmade trailer by a pretty famous youtuber - nigahiga. Watched a few episodes, was hooked but eventually got overwhelmed by the insane amount of episodes + the fact that it was ongoing, and so I stopped watching... Fast forward 7 years or so and there I was, watching ANOTHER naruto-related video by nigahiga and this sudden urge to give Naruto another shot came up. Ended up binging Shippuden in a couple weeks. And here I am. |
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| I think I knew it existed, but once I entered the world (thanks Toonami), I wanted more, and here I am |
| "The moment you think of giving up, think of the reason you held on so long." - Natsu Dragneel "Now I see more and understand less." - Taichi Yagami |
| Because I was shown it as a kid and found it enjoyable |
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| Idk I guess I was just scrolling on Netflix one day and I decided to watch Naruto, and now I watch a lot of anime :)) |
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| I watched Pokémon and Yugioh because everyone did that as a kid Also seen some popular stuff like Death Note. But when I actually ended up watching anime a lot was because I ran out of everything western to watch / play. |
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| i started because i saw a video talking about how great death note was |
| Boredom and the lack of interest in most other media. I like other types of shows,but ones that actually catch my interest are few and far between. And during the wait between seasons, there wasnt really much else I would watch aside from episodes I'd already seen. I wasnt as into games as I am now either. Then I saw Full Metal Alchemist on TV and that shit blew my mind, and I realised there was a huge mountain of shows I had never even heard of before. Of course I was also young, so anime boobage played a big part too... |
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| ...because I was a kid and it was a cartoon on tv (referring to Voltron back in the 80's). Later on Toonami became a thing when I was a teen and I was exposed to even more anime and it just went on from there. |
| Because I had a lot of free time in lockdown and had nothing useful to do. I did started in 2020 but I had watched a few anime. At that time wasn't much serious about anime. |
| I had watched all the good TV Series and wanted something to replace |
| If you're a fanboy, please don't waste my time. Watch more movies, please. Perhaps, this is hell. |
| My best friend told me to do it, now I have seen more than him in a half year lol |
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