How did you get into anime?

Back in the day, when i was a kid, i didnt have a cable, or even watch tv at all... whn i moved, into my new home... we had over 1000 channels{with nothing on most of the time}. but i channel surfed-for like 3 hrs i came across Cartoon network, i met the loony toons{after a wile they got boring/old, yet still a lill funny}, and then Infamous Toonami.
{for me not having cable/or dish} it was like discovering plutonium!...

i was addicted... i whent to sleep with the TV on. well thats when adultswim came on... where iv watch Witch Hunter Robin, for the first time. and after that,... Cowboy bebop, and so on. Till i had access to the internet i looked up eps i missed and found sooo much unwatched anime...
It was like discovering plutonium all over again...

Well I...my god, I honestly can't remember. What I do remember was that Toonami was involved. I think it was DBZ. I can openly say that I cried a little inside when I realized Toonami was canceled.

I was born into the damn culture.

Its my flesh and blood. Its like the white to my rice.

What I'm trying to say, I'd take anime over real tv anyday.

I was born in Okinawa so Anime was all over the tube. I lived there until I was around 6, then moved to Holland, then to America. I started watching the original Toonami with Moltar, and grew up coming home watching Tenchi Muyo, Card Captor, DBZ, and my favorite; Gundam Wing. I'm a fakken deviant for mecha.

Then once I hit high school, they had an Anime Club. I went to it once...Wanna know why? They considered anime, to only be Naruto. All the so called otaku's only watched Naruto and where extremely selective to certain Americanized Anime.

To top it off, it was fuckin annoying sitting their trying to watch something and every 5 minutes hearing fat fangirls scream 'AHHHHHH OMG SASKE OMG, HE'S SOOO KAWAII.'

So I essentially drifted away from Anime. I got into other things which I regret, and now since I got out of public schools, and moved away from an influence that took me away from who I truly was. Now, I'm rebuilding myself, and also rebuilding a revenue of Anime to watch and Manga to read. =)

That's me in a nutshell.

i just heard your life story in 5 mins...0.o

I used to watch Pokemon, Digimon, and Monster Rancher. I'd watch Cardcaptors if no one was around since I was embarassed because it was girly. That was about it for the longest time - I didn't really care about anime; they were just shows to watch.

Ever since I was interested in porn, I've been into hentai. In the back of my mind I'd consider watching anime for this reason, but never did. One day in high school though , a friend of mine showed me some Elfen Lied and Bleach and I thought they were kinda cool. Later, I decided to check out my school anime club (which was pretty crummy) but I gradually began to watch more and more anime, and now it is a huge part of my life. I even work in an anime store.

Incidentally, that friend who introduced me to anime doesn't watch it much anymore... too bad. But he created a monster.

Well, how did I consciously get into anime would be the question. So I was like everyone else like the stuff on Toonami but I didn't think of it as anime. That said my first interaction with something anime like was the first Shonen Jump in America. A few years pass then I discovered the internet. I was pretty much a casual reader/watcher but then the thing that got me hooked was Haruhi.

heeem i got into anime is from Digimon
over it i looking for some nice story but give a sex sense like negima
my lover Anime Girl is Evangeline
BTW because Her i can't get out from Anime *^,..,^*

I saw it then I was like, "American cartoons got nothing on this stuff".

Toonami and Gundam Wing.

DUBBED crap on Toonami and KidsWB *Saturday morning cartoons. :P

introduced by a friend, then so on...

When I was changing channels, I got interested in it.

To be honest I really don't remember how I got into it.

I used to watch dragon ball and sailor moon on TV when I was 5 and as I grew up I gradually grew away from it but when I was 17 my friends mentioned something about Hentai and me curious asked them whats Hentai? and they told me, This got me
interested so one day I was selling my guitar at a pawnshop and I decided to goto the Grooveyard (a Cd/Dvd/Clothing/Random stuff store).



And I awkwardly asked the girl
operating the the front counter if I could special order a dvd, She said okay which one, I told her I was looking for Anyone you can do, I can do better.... and she typed it in and found it!! I was like HOLY SHIT!! (in my head) and I paid with cash and she gave me the receipt and I was on my way. I was in total shock, My first hentai dvd was on its way. The dvd arrived about half a week later so about 4 days and I picked it up and I was reborn into a hentai fan. I also started watching ecchi afterwards but hentai is my main focus.

I got into anime by first watching dubbed anime in the mornings when there was nothing to watch on TV. If I Recall Correctly (IIRC), I think it was Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, and Tekkaman Blade (dubbed version XD). Though I did watch subbed Crayon Shin Chan in its entirety on the local Japanese TV station here until it got licensed for the US and got turned into mumbo-jumbo (season 1 of the US release, his sister has already been born, the seasons I remember were waaay before that).

Of course I watched Toonami for Gundam Wing and DBZ IIRC. Then I learned of uncut + subtitled anime and then hated dubbed (and edited) anime with a passion which is mostly shown on TV these days XD.

Pokemon then Yugioh then naruto then bleach the rest is history

Zenki then DBZ then Yugioh (I didnt know pokemon was anime since it had english credits)

Doraemon is the first anime i watched and that make me love anime~