| 14y ago I guess. I watched anime before that, but it was just on TV. |
| been aware of anime since childhood just watched Doraemon, kikeretsu, conan, ninja hattori, naruto, dragon ball, perman, Dr. Black jack, Daa daa daa, cardcaptors okay holy shit I've watched a lot of anime in my childhood and wasn't aware of this till writing this post xD Long live Animax!! Best TV channel I came across okay so I guess I started tracking anime around 2018 my starter being classroom of the elite, Food wars and yes "Rosario + vampire" yeah my starter anime include a harem lolol so I've been tracking anime for 8 years now!! |
Barrycade said: Okay Mr. Barry Barrycade enjoy 🥀🥀Brynhildr in the Darkness |
CrescentCaponeMar 23, 8:44 AM
| I used to watch dbz ,chin chan , pokemon, doremon and many more as kids i really got into it around 6th-7th grade one of youtubers I used to watch recommend getting into anime and watch it death I watched death note then one punch man everytime I search one p-unch man one piece would show up recommend so one piece was my 3rd anime then I watched aot ,food wars and many |
CrescentCapone said: You've been pretty consistent huh 1k anime in 8 years. Its quiet an achievement so I've been tracking anime for 8 years now!! |
Barrycade said: just watched a lot and I mean A LOT during lockdown 🥀🥀You've been pretty consistent huh 1k anime in 8 years. Its quiet an achievement |
| 2013/14 for me, got out of it for some time after 2019, and somewhat recently got back into it by returning to some old favorites and checking some out. |
| Started when I was around 5 and then been watching ever since. |
| I am a Completionist. All Anime/Manga will be watched/read. All FILLERS will be enjoyed :) Join my discord - https://discord.gg/CwhqqfGmHw :) |
| About 8 years, 9 to 10 if watching Yo-kai Watch and Pokémon occasionally when it aired counts. |
| Echidna best waifu :D |
| Over 20 years. Been watching since I was a kid. Though I'm not consistent. |
| Since pre school back in the late 90s |
| Probably early 2000s with the Pokemon series before I knew what anime was. Around the mid 2000s 4Kids dubbed Tokyo Mew Mew (Mew Mew Power) and it was released on the UK channel Pop Girl and I was obsessed. Along with Spider Riders and Studio Ghibli I'd say this was my first exposure to anime. |
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This is a question that has no exact answer. Every Sunday when i was a kid (probably early 2000s) i watched dubbed Doraemon, sometimes Dragon Ball, Shinchan, Chibi Maruko chan, and pretty much any anime the local broadcaster shoved up my aß. Since then i'm more of a manga reader. Then when i was a teen i watched Ueki no Housoku, borrowing a less legal burned CD from my school friend. Then I started watching anime again in covid time as a runaway because
. But i'm still more of a manga reader than anime watcher. You can look at my list how much anime i've ever watched, not more than 30 50 titles I assumed, and that in a span of 6 years, excluding local broadcasted one i watched when i was a kid. I still can't understand people who are able to watch more than 500 even 1000 titles like how tf man?
| @themasterseaso Aw man I wanted to see your manga list but it's restricted :( Should be about 20 years now I think. I first learned to distinguish anime from American cartoons with InuYasha when I was 10 years old. |
ChandelaMar 24, 5:07 AM
| I started to watch anime somewhere between 2013 and 2014... I had already watched some episodes of ramdom animes like pokemon, dragon ball, naruto, etc. without knowing they were animes |
| MALoween 2025: |
| missed your reply my bad lol i don't think mal supports liking posts :P |
| How does it take people so long to notice anime was Japanese lol. Even on cartoon network they had shows like 8th MS keep the opening lol |
KiliianSleipnir said: hey thats quite the detailed experience you shared! it did took me a while to read your post but ngl you had a pretty incredible journey. i hope you get to watch the tensura movie in theater :Dthat one's easy for me. August, before my 14th birthday, The Summer of 1990, before i started my Freshman year of High School. my dad was active duty US Air Force and we had just moved to the AFB near Great Falls Montana. mom n i went into town and found the Hastings Books Movies Music and More storefront (the city didn't even have a Blockbuster Video yet) and i saw the most interesting pair of VHS covers in the Kids and Cartoons section. Harmony Gold's VHS Tapes 1 and 2 of ROBOTECH. brand spankin new, nobody was renting them. so i picked em up and for those 3 days' rental i played each tape about 10 times. i was hooked. now i'm not saying i was Bolivian Marching Powder snortin anime 24/7... this is Montana USA in the '90's ... trying to find Funimation's Edub of Dragonball on syndication networks was hard! getting a local video store to buy anime tapes? hard! especially as myself and 10 friends were that Hastings' only 'Japanimation' (as we used to call it back then) fans. DVDs there slowly took over, city got a Blockbuster, some kinda music store in the local mall picked up a few anime titles now n again, the comic book shop would listen to my gang of nerds now n again and special order us something. no seriously we as a GROUP pooled our cash to buy anime DVDs because the comic shop overcharged us. demand there was low, supply on the other hand... as i researched later on outside of high school into college? catalogues were out there in droves. pirate burned disks n VHS tapes abounded. bad qual. no subs. probably supporting some Chinese Triad or Russian Mafia or Yakuza groups or something. Yahoo Groups were the rage. MySpace. we didn't have Cartoon Network or HIDIVE or Funimation... we had ADV Films and Manga Entertainment etc. this was The Wild Wild West of US otakudom's history. 2000 hits and broadband internet spreads like wildfire all over the Earth and Napster dies. but anime streaming piracy explodes. our friends in Japan recorded everything and spread it like viral memes everywhere they could scatter the data. at the peak of my streaming years i think i used upwards of 15 different streaming sites. this alongside Cartoon Network's Toonami block and Adult Swim blocks. i first saw Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Fairy Tale, Dragonball (from the 1st ep all the way through Majin Bhuu Arc). The Big O, Inuyasha, tons of my first time seeing some anime were on Cartoon Network. i still bought DVDs from Funi or Sentai or Amazon or Ebay. Crunchyroll still was a piracy site back then. but if shows like Bleach took their time putting out dubs... i slowly evolved and improved my sub-reading skills till i was doing seasonals etc. fansubbed faster than i could get the Edubs through Cable TV or disk sales. so this August i'll hit 36 years. i'll be 50 years old then too. after all these years as an anime only American otaku, i STILL don't read manga. i'm just not good at it. i've read ONE multi-chapter manga online 'My First Girlfriend is a Gal'... because i liked the anime and i was ultra curious how closely the anime original ending was to the books. it wasn't. but eventually i got bored with that manga and stopped reading it around chapter 92 or so. the black n white and peculiar panel arrangements... i'm too hard wired in my brain via US comics growing up. i'll proudly say, all these years? i've NEVER paid for anime streaming, and i never will. heck during covid confinement in 2020 i charted everything on notepads in pencil and found i watched Cartoon Network, Sci-Fi Channel, a few other channels scattered about... but the VAST MAJORITY of basic cable cheapest package around channels? i didn't give two schitts about. nothing. i never watched em. i was wasting money every month. paying for internet to stream anime etc. AND cable TV? so i cut the coax and have gone no cable ever since, just internet. my MAL profile says i got on in 2015, but i wasn't seriously keeping up with it till '17. i just didn't think i needed it because my pencil n paper notes i thought were enough, for tracking. but i kept reading ANN database/encyclopedia but the cross referencing and the page after page after page deathscrolls to find info and having to use Ctrl+F every time i wanted a smidgen of info? the site is great, they've got a news and info staff better than almost everybody... the encyclopedia is massive and detailed. but the site is a clunker and looks (even today) dated all to heck. so i flipped over to MAL 100% since it was more user friendly. with tertiary Wiki and Fandom (seldom into Reddit or Discord) research dives. Disqus USED to be huge for anime piracy streamers to talk on since every grey-web site used it for chat/commentary/discussion. till their corpo decided to nix their ties to the 'sites' themselves. i really do need to go back into MAL's archives and dig into the 1980's and go Season by Season till the 2010's and SERIOUSLY resurrect every one of my earliest anime memories and document em here. i THINK i've gotten them all from '17 till '20 when i dove deep back then once a year to double n triple check what's swimming in my braincase. so, "How do you watch so much anime?" easy. live like a monk or a hermit in your own home. i don't go out to eat unless somebody else is buying, or i'm spending my monthly 'fun allowance' for myself. i hardly see one movie a year. i don't party like its 1999, i drink at home. no wife. no ex-wife. no girlfriends. no kids. both parents passed away years ago leaving me their house. work friends only. i go to work, i come home, watch stuff online, do chores around the house, read a book or play a game on my phone. sleep. eat. sleep. wakeup. eat. work. do it all over again. i'm not sad, i'm not depressed, i'm just not a people person unless i am required to be by human social/economic reasons. i wish i had better jobs with higher pay and more 'mad money' to spend on my anime DVD/BR collection and a new BR player and new PC and PC games. i used to game on PC every day i wasn't streaming anime. but my good laptop died and i haven't replaced my dinosaur tower yet. for four years. well the tower is over a decade old, approaching 20 years old. but, semantics. my laptop died over four years ago. i DID finally see three anime movies in theater, lucky me! the 1st TenSura movie was local and i shot like a bullet outta a gun to that seat and whew! damn fun! the first two SAO: Progressive movies YES! saw those. #1 was local. i had to drive over 1h away for #2. i WISHED i had driven 2+ hours away for SAO: Ordinal Scale but that theater's showing was way late at night and i'd have to get a motel room for the sleep. or sleep in my car. plus my factory job at that time denied me my application for a paid-vacation day that weekend so... i would have had to work all night, get home, sleep somehow immediately that morning. leave early and drive 2+ hours to the theater, see the movie and drive straight to work and come in late to work all night long. or call in sick and miss the whole shift completely with zero pay. yeah, that wasn't happening. it ticked me off immensely! but that's me. :D i WILL see the next TenSura movie in-theater. i WILL. :D |
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KiliianSleipnir said:
that one's easy for me. August, before my 14th birthday, The Summer of 1990, before i started my Freshman year of High School. my dad was active duty US Air Force and we had just moved to the AFB near Great Falls Montana. mom n i went into town and found the Hastings Books Movies Music and More storefront (the city didn't even have a Blockbuster Video yet) and i saw the most interesting pair of VHS covers in the Kids and Cartoons section. Harmony Gold's VHS Tapes 1 and 2 of ROBOTECH. brand spankin new, nobody was renting them. so i picked em up and for those 3 days' rental i played each tape about 10 times. i was hooked. now i'm not saying i was Bolivian Marching Powder snortin anime 24/7... this is Montana USA in the '90's ... trying to find Funimation's Edub of Dragonball on syndication networks was hard! getting a local video store to buy anime tapes? hard! especially as myself and 10 friends were that Hastings' only 'Japanimation' (as we used to call it back then) fans. DVDs there slowly took over, city got a Blockbuster, some kinda music store in the local mall picked up a few anime titles now n again, the comic book shop would listen to my gang of nerds now n again and special order us something. no seriously we as a GROUP pooled our cash to buy anime DVDs because the comic shop overcharged us. demand there was low, supply on the other hand... as i researched later on outside of high school into college? catalogues were out there in droves. pirate burned disks n VHS tapes abounded. bad qual. no subs. probably supporting some Chinese Triad or Russian Mafia or Yakuza groups or something. Yahoo Groups were the rage. MySpace. we didn't have Cartoon Network or HIDIVE or Funimation... we had ADV Films and Manga Entertainment etc. this was The Wild Wild West of US otakudom's history.
2000 hits and broadband internet spreads like wildfire all over the Earth and Napster dies. but anime streaming piracy explodes. our friends in Japan recorded everything and spread it like viral memes everywhere they could scatter the data. at the peak of my streaming years i think i used upwards of 15 different streaming sites. this alongside Cartoon Network's Toonami block and Adult Swim blocks. i first saw Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Fairy Tale, Dragonball (from the 1st ep all the way through Majin Bhuu Arc). The Big O, Inuyasha, tons of my first time seeing some anime were on Cartoon Network. i still bought DVDs from Funi or Sentai or Amazon or Ebay. Crunchyroll still was a piracy site back then. but if shows like Bleach took their time putting out dubs... i slowly evolved and improved my sub-reading skills till i was doing seasonals etc. fansubbed faster than i could get the Edubs through Cable TV or disk sales.
so this August i'll hit 36 years. i'll be 50 years old then too. after all these years as an anime only American otaku, i STILL don't read manga. i'm just not good at it. i've read ONE multi-chapter manga online 'My First Girlfriend is a Gal'... because i liked the anime and i was ultra curious how closely the anime original ending was to the books. it wasn't. but eventually i got bored with that manga and stopped reading it around chapter 92 or so. the black n white and peculiar panel arrangements... i'm too hard wired in my brain via US comics growing up.
i'll proudly say, all these years? i've NEVER paid for anime streaming, and i never will. heck during covid confinement in 2020 i charted everything on notepads in pencil and found i watched Cartoon Network, Sci-Fi Channel, a few other channels scattered about... but the VAST MAJORITY of basic cable cheapest package around channels? i didn't give two schitts about. nothing. i never watched em. i was wasting money every month. paying for internet to stream anime etc. AND cable TV? so i cut the coax and have gone no cable ever since, just internet.
my MAL profile says i got on in 2015, but i wasn't seriously keeping up with it till '17. i just didn't think i needed it because my pencil n paper notes i thought were enough, for tracking. but i kept reading ANN database/encyclopedia but the cross referencing and the page after page after page deathscrolls to find info and having to use Ctrl+F every time i wanted a smidgen of info? the site is great, they've got a news and info staff better than almost everybody... the encyclopedia is massive and detailed. but the site is a clunker and looks (even today) dated all to heck. so i flipped over to MAL 100% since it was more user friendly. with tertiary Wiki and Fandom (seldom into Reddit or Discord) research dives. Disqus USED to be huge for anime piracy streamers to talk on since every grey-web site used it for chat/commentary/discussion. till their corpo decided to nix their ties to the 'sites' themselves.
i really do need to go back into MAL's archives and dig into the 1980's and go Season by Season till the 2010's and SERIOUSLY resurrect every one of my earliest anime memories and document em here. i THINK i've gotten them all from '17 till '20 when i dove deep back then once a year to double n triple check what's swimming in my braincase.
so, "How do you watch so much anime?" easy. live like a monk or a hermit in your own home. i don't go out to eat unless somebody else is buying, or i'm spending my monthly 'fun allowance' for myself. i hardly see one movie a year. i don't party like its 1999, i drink at home. no wife. no ex-wife. no girlfriends. no kids. both parents passed away years ago leaving me their house. work friends only. i go to work, i come home, watch stuff online, do chores around the house, read a book or play a game on my phone. sleep. eat. sleep. wakeup. eat. work. do it all over again. i'm not sad, i'm not depressed, i'm just not a people person unless i am required to be by human social/economic reasons. i wish i had better jobs with higher pay and more 'mad money' to spend on my anime DVD/BR collection and a new BR player and new PC and PC games. i used to game on PC every day i wasn't streaming anime. but my good laptop died and i haven't replaced my dinosaur tower yet. for four years. well the tower is over a decade old, approaching 20 years old. but, semantics. my laptop died over four years ago.
i DID finally see three anime movies in theater, lucky me! the 1st TenSura movie was local and i shot like a bullet outta a gun to that seat and whew! damn fun! the first two SAO: Progressive movies YES! saw those. #1 was local. i had to drive over 1h away for #2. i WISHED i had driven 2+ hours away for SAO: Ordinal Scale but that theater's showing was way late at night and i'd have to get a motel room for the sleep. or sleep in my car. plus my factory job at that time denied me my application for a paid-vacation day that weekend so... i would have had to work all night, get home, sleep somehow immediately that morning. leave early and drive 2+ hours to the theater, see the movie and drive straight to work and come in late to work all night long. or call in sick and miss the whole shift completely with zero pay. yeah, that wasn't happening. it ticked me off immensely!
but that's me. :D
i WILL see the next TenSura movie in-theater. i WILL. :D
hey thats quite the detailed experience you shared! it did took me a while to read your post but ngl you had a pretty incredible journey. i hope you get to watch the tensura movie in theater :Dthat one's easy for me. August, before my 14th birthday, The Summer of 1990, before i started my Freshman year of High School. my dad was active duty US Air Force and we had just moved to the AFB near Great Falls Montana. mom n i went into town and found the Hastings Books Movies Music and More storefront (the city didn't even have a Blockbuster Video yet) and i saw the most interesting pair of VHS covers in the Kids and Cartoons section. Harmony Gold's VHS Tapes 1 and 2 of ROBOTECH. brand spankin new, nobody was renting them. so i picked em up and for those 3 days' rental i played each tape about 10 times. i was hooked. now i'm not saying i was Bolivian Marching Powder snortin anime 24/7... this is Montana USA in the '90's ... trying to find Funimation's Edub of Dragonball on syndication networks was hard! getting a local video store to buy anime tapes? hard! especially as myself and 10 friends were that Hastings' only 'Japanimation' (as we used to call it back then) fans. DVDs there slowly took over, city got a Blockbuster, some kinda music store in the local mall picked up a few anime titles now n again, the comic book shop would listen to my gang of nerds now n again and special order us something. no seriously we as a GROUP pooled our cash to buy anime DVDs because the comic shop overcharged us. demand there was low, supply on the other hand... as i researched later on outside of high school into college? catalogues were out there in droves. pirate burned disks n VHS tapes abounded. bad qual. no subs. probably supporting some Chinese Triad or Russian Mafia or Yakuza groups or something. Yahoo Groups were the rage. MySpace. we didn't have Cartoon Network or HIDIVE or Funimation... we had ADV Films and Manga Entertainment etc. this was The Wild Wild West of US otakudom's history.
2000 hits and broadband internet spreads like wildfire all over the Earth and Napster dies. but anime streaming piracy explodes. our friends in Japan recorded everything and spread it like viral memes everywhere they could scatter the data. at the peak of my streaming years i think i used upwards of 15 different streaming sites. this alongside Cartoon Network's Toonami block and Adult Swim blocks. i first saw Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Fairy Tale, Dragonball (from the 1st ep all the way through Majin Bhuu Arc). The Big O, Inuyasha, tons of my first time seeing some anime were on Cartoon Network. i still bought DVDs from Funi or Sentai or Amazon or Ebay. Crunchyroll still was a piracy site back then. but if shows like Bleach took their time putting out dubs... i slowly evolved and improved my sub-reading skills till i was doing seasonals etc. fansubbed faster than i could get the Edubs through Cable TV or disk sales.
so this August i'll hit 36 years. i'll be 50 years old then too. after all these years as an anime only American otaku, i STILL don't read manga. i'm just not good at it. i've read ONE multi-chapter manga online 'My First Girlfriend is a Gal'... because i liked the anime and i was ultra curious how closely the anime original ending was to the books. it wasn't. but eventually i got bored with that manga and stopped reading it around chapter 92 or so. the black n white and peculiar panel arrangements... i'm too hard wired in my brain via US comics growing up.
i'll proudly say, all these years? i've NEVER paid for anime streaming, and i never will. heck during covid confinement in 2020 i charted everything on notepads in pencil and found i watched Cartoon Network, Sci-Fi Channel, a few other channels scattered about... but the VAST MAJORITY of basic cable cheapest package around channels? i didn't give two schitts about. nothing. i never watched em. i was wasting money every month. paying for internet to stream anime etc. AND cable TV? so i cut the coax and have gone no cable ever since, just internet.
my MAL profile says i got on in 2015, but i wasn't seriously keeping up with it till '17. i just didn't think i needed it because my pencil n paper notes i thought were enough, for tracking. but i kept reading ANN database/encyclopedia but the cross referencing and the page after page after page deathscrolls to find info and having to use Ctrl+F every time i wanted a smidgen of info? the site is great, they've got a news and info staff better than almost everybody... the encyclopedia is massive and detailed. but the site is a clunker and looks (even today) dated all to heck. so i flipped over to MAL 100% since it was more user friendly. with tertiary Wiki and Fandom (seldom into Reddit or Discord) research dives. Disqus USED to be huge for anime piracy streamers to talk on since every grey-web site used it for chat/commentary/discussion. till their corpo decided to nix their ties to the 'sites' themselves.
i really do need to go back into MAL's archives and dig into the 1980's and go Season by Season till the 2010's and SERIOUSLY resurrect every one of my earliest anime memories and document em here. i THINK i've gotten them all from '17 till '20 when i dove deep back then once a year to double n triple check what's swimming in my braincase.
so, "How do you watch so much anime?" easy. live like a monk or a hermit in your own home. i don't go out to eat unless somebody else is buying, or i'm spending my monthly 'fun allowance' for myself. i hardly see one movie a year. i don't party like its 1999, i drink at home. no wife. no ex-wife. no girlfriends. no kids. both parents passed away years ago leaving me their house. work friends only. i go to work, i come home, watch stuff online, do chores around the house, read a book or play a game on my phone. sleep. eat. sleep. wakeup. eat. work. do it all over again. i'm not sad, i'm not depressed, i'm just not a people person unless i am required to be by human social/economic reasons. i wish i had better jobs with higher pay and more 'mad money' to spend on my anime DVD/BR collection and a new BR player and new PC and PC games. i used to game on PC every day i wasn't streaming anime. but my good laptop died and i haven't replaced my dinosaur tower yet. for four years. well the tower is over a decade old, approaching 20 years old. but, semantics. my laptop died over four years ago.
i DID finally see three anime movies in theater, lucky me! the 1st TenSura movie was local and i shot like a bullet outta a gun to that seat and whew! damn fun! the first two SAO: Progressive movies YES! saw those. #1 was local. i had to drive over 1h away for #2. i WISHED i had driven 2+ hours away for SAO: Ordinal Scale but that theater's showing was way late at night and i'd have to get a motel room for the sleep. or sleep in my car. plus my factory job at that time denied me my application for a paid-vacation day that weekend so... i would have had to work all night, get home, sleep somehow immediately that morning. leave early and drive 2+ hours to the theater, see the movie and drive straight to work and come in late to work all night long. or call in sick and miss the whole shift completely with zero pay. yeah, that wasn't happening. it ticked me off immensely!
but that's me. :D
i WILL see the next TenSura movie in-theater. i WILL. :D
| @Barrycade yup, those of us with a history... have a lot of story to tell. :D you don't wanna know how many of the 'big names in anime' i've dropped in all those decades because frankly... THAT doggone many eps? you're crankin 1K PLUS eps out? yeah you Conan... :D took me for.ev.er. and constant covid confinement in 2020 to even get beyond Funimation's oh.mah.gawd! thaaat suuuuucked English dub of Conan. then of course everything after Funi till Crunchy finally picked Conan up for subs... fansubbed. i got all the way through ep1023 annd i forget which yearly movie. now. some folks will wax nostalgic and say fansubbing was always da bomb.com but nope. more often than not, ya got barely ok stuff. and as i mentioned: rippers/recorders/disk crackers/fansubbers/raw uploaders... there were LOTS of sketchy folks looking to make something off of somebody. what was the old disclaimer? "if you paid for this file. you got scammed. we don't charge for our subs." and so forth. frankly the worst ever fansubs i ever read were 'Strike the Blood' when after TV Season 1 the production committee decided to go 'straight to disk' OVAs and forgo even attempting to sell it to the TV networks. animotvslash fansub group. they attempted to do Komi Can't Communicate too. ohhh gawd, that group had: no grammar skills, no spelling skills, no thesaurus... it read like Chinese stereo assembly instructions translated into five sequential languages before hitting English on the sixth pass. |
| just an ol school American otaku enjoyin the life. don't sass me kiddies, i've been otaku probably since before you were born. leave me in peace and i won't bother you either. |
| for 36 years now. Worst part is I probably watch allot of anime´s I even forgotten so they not added to my list. |
| Me I have been watching anime for 31 years ago! I was 6 and my 1st anime is Bio Booster Armour Guyver OVA on Manga Entertainment Sci-Fi. ;) Agito Makishima/Guyver 03 will always be my 1st anti-hero! |
DGDSMemoriaMar 24, 11:05 AM
| The past couple days maybe plus or minus a few. |
| Wwll, I've been watching anime since I can remember, but the journey really started with Naruto in 2005. It was the craze back in the day. Problem is the dub stopped at episode 52 (Naruto training with Jiraiya to fight Neji) with no definite return date announced, so I started watching online at internet cafés because we didn't have internet at home. It was extra slow with 1 MB/s ADSL. Later, a friend and I would pool our money together to buy bootleg DVDs. Anyway, that's the prologue. The real catalyst was when I caught up with the latest episode of Naruto and thought "what now?" Then I remembered some anime I had heard about before like Death note, Oh my goddess and Ghost in the shell. That's it for that. As to how I ended up in this site, I moved from another listing site that overhauled everything and also made me lose my account. By this point, MAL gets the job done and it'd be a pain to migrate my list properly. |
BatoKusanagiMar 24, 8:15 PM
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Me I have been watching anime for 31 years ago!
I was 6 and my 1st anime is Bio Booster Armour Guyver OVA on Manga Entertainment Sci-Fi. ;)
Agito Makishima/Guyver 03 will always be my 1st anti-hero!
I was 6 and my 1st anime is Bio Booster Armour Guyver OVA on Manga Entertainment Sci-Fi. ;)
Agito Makishima/Guyver 03 will always be my 1st anti-hero!
| @DGDSMemoria The fight against Enzyme was so brutal... |
ComeInReiAsuka said: ColourWheel said: LMFAO... Wow some people on here are really reaching as far back as possible. lol I might as well revise when I got into Anime too... When my mother would have "The little Prince" and shit like "Japanese Folklore Tales" playing on the TV for me while I was still a rugrat in the 70s. lol ...And even before that, was exposed to listening to "Lupin the Third" being played, every time my father watched that shit air on TV, as I was chilling inside my mothers womb. lol @ColourWheel how am I stretching when the seeds of my ryona and rei fetish were planeted in me when I was like 4 or 5 when she was old enough to be my older sister and now I creep on her as a full grown 33 year old man. And yes. You were a fan in the 70s. LMFAO... Wasn't even talking about you. lol Projection anyone? Saw something and decided to make it about yourself? lol Either way, it was just fucking sarcasm. lol |
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ComeInReiAsuka said:
@ColourWheel how am I stretching when the seeds of my ryona and rei fetish were planeted in me when I was like 4 or 5 when she was old enough to be my older sister and now I creep on her as a full grown 33 year old man.
And yes. You were a fan in the 70s.
ColourWheel said:
LMFAO...
Wow some people on here are really reaching as far back as possible. lol
I might as well revise when I got into Anime too... When my mother would have "The little Prince" and shit like "Japanese Folklore Tales" playing on the TV for me while I was still a rugrat in the 70s. lol
...And even before that, was exposed to listening to "Lupin the Third" being played, every time my father watched that shit air on TV, as I was chilling inside my mothers womb. lol
LMFAO...
Wow some people on here are really reaching as far back as possible. lol
I might as well revise when I got into Anime too... When my mother would have "The little Prince" and shit like "Japanese Folklore Tales" playing on the TV for me while I was still a rugrat in the 70s. lol
...And even before that, was exposed to listening to "Lupin the Third" being played, every time my father watched that shit air on TV, as I was chilling inside my mothers womb. lol
@ColourWheel how am I stretching when the seeds of my ryona and rei fetish were planeted in me when I was like 4 or 5 when she was old enough to be my older sister and now I creep on her as a full grown 33 year old man.
And yes. You were a fan in the 70s.
LMFAO... Wasn't even talking about you. lol
Projection anyone? Saw something and decided to make it about yourself? lol
Either way, it was just fucking sarcasm. lol
| @ColourWheel yeah i just used that post to insert my fetish here |
| i started watching around Oct 2021 so it's been 5 years now !!! I did watch a few before that but never consistently and it's funny to admit that Demon Slayer was the anime that put me onto anime for real !! |
| Unfortunately, being a father (let alone a grandfather) is obviously rare among anime fans, because i'd be curious to know about families where the boomers are the otakus and the children are the boring normies. Btw, millenial here, and father of a toddler. I'm almost sure my kid will hate everything i like when becomes a teenager. |
| If we count watching anime without being aware, I have done it for nearly 30 years. I used to watch them on TV or the cinema in the case of big titles like the Pokémon movies and Ghibli. It was in 2009 more or less that I was introduced to Death Note, learnt what anime was and got very interested in watching more. I started watching them through bootleg DVDs, but it didn't take too long until I started watching online. At some point I slowed watching anime until I practically stopped, but recently I got back into it. |
| Well, I’ve been watching anime since I was a kid around 2006 so technically, 2026 is my 20th year with this medium.. deym, time really flew by I started by watching anime on TV back when a lot of channels here would air shows in the mornings. My first anime was either Inuyasha or Shaman King. Those were the days when you had to wait every day for the next episode. When I finally got a smartphone, I stopped watching on TV since I didn’t have to wait anymore I could just watch anytime, which was a game changer. Now I’m trying to catch up on my Plan to Watch list because last year I didn’t watch as much anime as I used to. So while I still have some free time, I’m planning to dive back in and enjoy it again... |
"Where ever you are in this world. I'll search for you.." "Who cares if we don't see the sunshine again, I want you more than any Blue Sky.." "I hope I can reach you.. I hope you'll remember me, even just a little bit.." "I'm the one who lived my life just to meet you, just like cherry blossoms waiting for the spring.." "I decided to bring her back no matter what to take back our future, I just wanted to see her smile again.." "Also, to someone who fell inlove w/ another me may you and your lover.. Somewher in the world, have a happy life.." |
| If we don't count the original Pokemon; which I first saw at the start of the 00s before even knowing what anime was, it has to be HoTD back in 2010 that really got me into the medium. So more or less 16 years; I took some breaks in between, however. |
| Around 9 and 1/2 years. I remember I started in December 2026 then I made my MAL 6 months later. |
Reply to ComeInReiAsuka
@DGDSMemoria The fight against Enzyme was so brutal...
| @ComeInReiAsuka I know right! This is the true 1st anime that I witnessed the true fight to the death and the way Guyver 01 died gave me PTSD for sure but I have overcome it after keep watching the series. |
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@chandela
Just unlocked it for you. I'll make it restricted again in a few days maybe.
Note the list is incomplete as i vividly remember which series i read, whether i dropped it or finished it.
Just unlocked it for you. I'll make it restricted again in a few days maybe.
Note the list is incomplete as i vividly remember which series i read, whether i dropped it or finished it.
| @themasterseaso Aw fuck man I missed your reply and the window it was unlocked; but I appreciate that you'd do that for me on a whim <3 |
I cannot tell you when I first watched anime as there is no way for me to remember. When I was a young child, I watched whatever aired on television, which did sometimes include anime... dubbed, obviously. I did not know that it was anime at the time or even what anime was to begin with. They were cartoons. I can tell you when I first consciously started watching anime, however, as in watching anime with the knowledge that it is anime and the knowledge of what anime is. It was September 2015. That will be 11 years ago this year. It was also 11 years ago when I switched from dubs to subs. Going by my earliest log of a watched anime, which is an approximation since I'm not certain on the exact date or if that show in particular was my first, I "first watched" anime 21 years ago this year. I've likely been watching the medium for longer than that.
So: I will continue to watch anime for the rest of my life. Edit: Since someone was confused, I'll clarify that I knew what anime was prior to seeking it out. In summary, I didn't know what anime was when I was very young, then I learned, and then I later started to actively engage with the medium. September 2015 was the last of these three stages. |
Purple_Gh0st249 hours ago
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I cannot tell you when I first watched anime as there is no way for me to remember. When I was a young child, I watched whatever aired on television, which did sometimes include anime... dubbed, obviously. I did not know that it was anime at the time or even what anime was to begin with. They were cartoons. I can tell you when I first consciously started watching anime, however, as in watching anime with the knowledge that it is anime and the knowledge of what anime is. It was September 2015. That will be 11 years ago this year. It was also 11 years ago when I switched from dubs to subs. Going by my earliest log of a watched anime, which is an approximation since I'm not certain on the exact date or if that show in particular was my first, I "first watched" anime 21 years ago this year. I've likely been watching the medium for longer than that.
I will continue to watch anime for the rest of my life.
Edit: Since someone was confused, I'll clarify that I knew what anime was prior to seeking it out. In summary, I didn't know what anime was when I was very young, then I learned, and then I later started to actively engage with the medium. September 2015 was the last of these three stages.
- I've been watching anime for approximately 21 years by this year.
- I've consciously gone out of my way to watch anime 11 years ago by this year.
So:
I will continue to watch anime for the rest of my life.
Edit: Since someone was confused, I'll clarify that I knew what anime was prior to seeking it out. In summary, I didn't know what anime was when I was very young, then I learned, and then I later started to actively engage with the medium. September 2015 was the last of these three stages.
Purple_Gh0st24 said: however, as in watching anime with the knowledge that it is anime and the knowledge of what anime is. It was September 2015. How do you guys not know? Even back in the early 2000s I knew what anime and manga were lmao. I bought a volume of Blade of the Immortal in 2003, I was 10. I was confused why I wasn't reading it in reverse if it was manga. Heck I even watched bits of DBZ in THREE different languages by that point. |
ComeInReiAsuka12 hours ago
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Purple_Gh0st24 said:
however, as in watching anime with the knowledge that it is anime and the knowledge of what anime is. It was September 2015.
however, as in watching anime with the knowledge that it is anime and the knowledge of what anime is. It was September 2015.
How do you guys not know? Even back in the early 2000s I knew what anime and manga were lmao. I bought a volume of Blade of the Immortal in 2003, I was 10.
I was confused why I wasn't reading it in reverse if it was manga. Heck I even watched bits of DBZ in THREE different languages by that point.
| @ComeInReiAsuka I knew what anime was prior to 2015, but I didn't actively seek it out until then. |
Very Nearly All of my Life. Born Jan. 1982, the Anime that Ushered me into Weebdom to Begin with, "SUPERDIMENSIONAL FORTRESS MACROSS" Debuted in Oct. of 1982. I Vaguely Recollect Seeing (Hearing a BGM, Mostly) an Episode of the Western-Market "Localization" of SDF MACROSS; "ROBOTECH" ...around the time that i would have been about 4/5 Years old. From There; My Fate was Sealed... and it was Only a Matter of Time... |
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