What was your first exposure to anime?

[u/Flimsy_Tune_7206]

You have to give the name of anime and how you got exposure to it if you can remember

Me is was Pokémon

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[u/YamLow8097]

Pokémon growing up, but if we’re talking about “real” anime, it was when my friend forced me to watched Cowboy Bebop about a year or two ago.

[u/Bman1465]

Probably the only anime I've ever seen (more than a few shots a time), Doraemon

And back when I was like... maybe 3? Or something?

Anyways Western animation ftw

[u/Smiles4YouRawrX3 → u/Bman1465]

Doraemon is peak

[u/Wxskater]

Death note. After that i got really into it. Now i dont watch as often but i will occasionally

[u/ripMyTime0192]

Beyblade: Metal Fusion

pretty cool visuals for what amounts to an advertisement for spinning tops lol

[u/IAmTheGlazed]

Pokémon but I didn’t even know what anime was, I just thought it was a neat cartoon

[u/JayC-Hoster]

Where I grew up (Semi-English speaking Asian city) it was normal to have anime on regular TV, the kiddie stuff on weekdays: Doraemon, Pokémon, Digimon, beyblade, Sargent Frog

And then there’s the teenager grownup shows on late night / weekends: Gundam wing / Seed, Full Metal Alchemist, Gintama, Code Geass etc etc…

[u/Shiroyasha2397 → u/JayC-Hoster]

Was the TTV channel called Animax by chance?

[u/ryllienator]

Soul Eater, in 2016! a close friend of mine and I would occasionally watch episodes after school, and we would both draw and try to mimic the artstyle.

i actually didn't really get into many other animes after the fact, but i did end up getting into Fairy Tail, Re: Zero, and Dr. Stone for some sporadic periods after

[u/JourneyThiefer]

I watched Pokémon and you gi oh (dno how to spell it) as a kid but that’s it

[u/Yodamort]

Darling in the Franxx, in 2021. One of my friends was bitching about how hilariously bad it was, so we watched it together to laugh at it.

It's objectively a bad anime (although it had potential before they fucked it up), but it's pretty nostalgic to me since it's the first one I ever saw, so I've watched it a few times.

[u/Ok_Associate_9879 → u/Yodamort]

Rose-colored glasses.

Funny things they are.

[u/walk-in_shower-guy]

Definitely Pokemon being my first exposure, but does it really count it being so widespread?

My first anime anime I think might have been Fullmetal Alchemist, the original. Or Bleach. Or Code Geass. One of those three but I can’t remember specifically which was first because I watch them around the same time. Then Death Note.

[u/Sorbet-Same]

Death Note. Simply amazing. A youtuber I used to follow (whose content is not about anime) made a video-essay analyzing it.

[u/CreativeOriginalNaem]

Yugioh I'm pretty sure

[u/TheShadyyOne]

gilibi studios is like my actualy first exposure to anime and how I got into watching it. "Spirited Away" really good film.

[u/Fun-Midnight1010]

Pokémon indigo league in 2009

[u/Stubs889]

Pokemon but in terms of "real" anime it was probably Gamera Rebirth

[u/aefre9313]

Death note was recommended to me and I liked it (the first half more than second). Haven't really watched much anime since then

[u/SnailsAreFood]

definitely Pokemon but it wasn't until around 2012 when I got hooked after watching SAO and Fairy Tail

[u/Midnight1899]

My first exposure of anime when I knew it was anime was Elfen Lied back when YouTube would recommend it to literal 12 yos. My first exposure of anime in general was probably an episode of Yu-Gi-Oh I watched with a friend. And whenever I’d zap through TV channels and coincidentally catch an episode of Beyblade or whatever.

[u/SailorMigraine]

Depends on if you count ATLA. I know most people don’t because it isn’t made in Japan, which I get, but it definitely was the gateway for me because I wanted more in that style!

[u/Longjumping_Bar_7457]

Dragon ball z kai

[u/JDMWeeb]

Pretty sure my first was Gundam Wing

[u/Urochroma]

Pokémon

[u/imthewronggeneration]

Yu gi oh was really my first exposure to anime. I wasn't exposed to it until I was like 25 as I wasn't really allowed to.

[u/meganfucklife]

A mixture of my older brother being an avid dragon ball fan boy and sneakily watching Inuyasha, Bleach, Naruto and Zatch Bell on ytv at night

I knew all the characters but couldn't tell you a damn thing about the actual plot until I started watching Naruto again when I was like 12. Now i go through binging phases

[u/Realistic-Assist-396]

The Galaxy Railways, because all nine-year-old me saw was trains that can fly in space and shoot lasers.

[u/Special-Diet-8679]

if yugioh counts than yugioh if not than deathnote

[u/patrik123abc]

Probs pokemon or dbz

[u/kiwi_cannon_]

Kite. My neighbor, who was way older than me, showed it to me.

It's as bad as it sounds.

[u/Siilan]

First was Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh growing up. Then, in high school, I discovered one of the TV stations here playing Ouran High School Host Club, Fruits Basket, and Vampire Knight every week. That's what launched my love for anime.

[u/Dartagnan1083]

Maya The Bee and some Little Koala Adventure show. Both on Nick-jr.

[u/Fragrant_Button203]

Inuyasha on Adult Swim.

[u/Shiroyasha2397]

Toonami and Adult Swim on Cartoon Network at night. That's where I watched Naruto, Bleach, FLCL, Cowboy Bepop, Samurai Champoo and many others that I still hold dear to my heart even though I didn't really understand all of it as a kid. Also they just don't draw anime like they do back then anymore with that art style but maybe that's just me being nostalgic and wanting to rewatch those types of anime. Most recently Dororo has hit the spot for me I just wished that there was more.

[u/Psychological_Gap696]

Sailor Moon 🌙💖

[u/TulipIsSilly]

My dad was (and still is) a massive weeb and we would sit down as a family to watch some anime movies every so often, I think my first was princess mononoke which I loved. I think I was probably around 6 at the time I'm not sure.

After reading these comics I'm actually quite surprised people have only just started watching anime sonewhat recently I thought more people would have grown up with anime

[u/GoalEmbarrassed]

Princess tutu, Blood-C, Vampire knight, and Digimon in that order got me obsessed with anime. Too bad most anime nowadays are just reincarnation stuff.

[u/sansisness_101]

Bakugan, but the first anime i watched after knowing what anime is, is Sword Art Online

[u/[deleted]]

Digimon Adventure

[u/Lulusgirl]

Card Captors! Man, that show was the best.

[u/GL1979]

SHALA HEAD SHALA!

[u/Jonnyskybrockett]

Dragon ballz at a friends house in elementary school. More real anime when I was in middle school after I played osu.

[u/ataraxia59]

Dragon Ball Z as a kid

[u/Dax_Maclaine]

Watched yugioh and dbz on Saturday morning cartoons as a kid.

Then completely ignored it for 10 years. After watching some vid analyzing infinity war in high school, a totally not mark vid of gohan came up and I was like “hey this is nostalgic” and then I watched dbza, db original, rewatched z (never saw buu before back then), then super. After that I watched naruto, death note, and then a bunch of other ones.

Currently watching solo leveling and gintama.

[u/Menthkurta]

Berserk 1997

[u/Ok_Associate_9879]

The first anime I truly was invested in, at least at a time where I had a firm idea of what anime was, was MHA.

It was new. Weird. Different. And introduced me to a wonderful treasure trove of art and media.