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Although my first anime was back during early childhood (back when anime programme block was a regular thing in Indonesian television). Vulcan just really started following anime seriously during junior high school back in 2012 (classmates are into Attack on Titan and Sword Art Online during that time, and we often chatted about latest anime airing during class break. A friend was also into osu! and we played together).

So, kbin anime, how did you get into anime? Share your story here.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@VulcanSphere it was a very long time, I remember I watched a shounen anime at about 7 years old. I really liked that anime but I didn't watch much. But I didn't know the name of it... But when I get older, I realize it is Reborn for no reason... maybe I have déjà vu 🥺

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My friend and I were sorta making fun of it in 2016.

And he said that he'd watch one episode of an anime (rezero) to see how bad it was. And like 2 minutes in he's like, "wtf this is really good" and I watched it and agreed.

And now its still my favorite anime to this day! :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust got the ball rolling for me. Saw it on the shelf and the artwork and premise looked interesting. Loved it!

After that, I asked the guy at the video store for recommendations and ended up binging Evangelion next. Then I was a goner and just started devouring what the clerk suggested and rarely found anything from his list that I didn't love.

By the time I caught up on all the classics, a ton of absolute classics came out around the same time, and I wondered if there were actually any bad anime. :P

All within a year or 2 was:

  • Gurren Lagann
  • The Garden of Sinners
  • Sword of the Stranger
  • Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
  • Kanon
  • The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
  • Utawarerumono

I'm sure I'm forgetting some, but I wondered at the time if it would always be this good. Feels like a bit of a golden age now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@VulcanSphere Kaguya-sama was the first anime I ever watched and enjoyed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It was 9 or 10 years ago I think, back when I still used iFunny regularly. One day there was a featured gif from the anime A Certain Scientific Railgun, but I didn't know what it was at the time.

It was a clip from the first episode, a scene where the main character flicks a coin at an oncoming car, except the coin shoots out at hypersonic speed and blows up the road in front of the car. It was captioned something like "Me when slow cars won't move out if the way". A few days later, I went back to the comments on the post to find out what the clip was from. I watched the whole first season on YouTube on my 3DS that week and it's been my favorite anime ever since.

A friend had been trying to convince me for months to watch Attack On Titan at the time too, but I just wasn't interested in anime until that meme.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I recently finished watching A Certain Scientific Railgun and I loved it, it’s probably the first time I’ve heard someone talk about it online.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's not too uncommon to see it mentioned in places like r/anime (Misaka even won the 2016 r/anime Best Girl Contest), but it's definitely taking a back seat now to newer anime. What got you to watch it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I learned that Yugioh was better in Japanese than in English and a lot more clicked. I watched FMA when I was too young to do that and realized that I liked it and learned it was an anime. The rest is history.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

While I could count watching Pokémon way back then I didn’t really get into it until I was visiting family and my aunt had Inuyasha playing and for some reason it had me hooked.

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