The anime that changed you

Most of us got to experience our first anime on Adultswim and Toonami when it was around and experienced our Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, Cardcaptor Sakura, etc maybe without even knowing it was anime.

But what was your first anime that you got to see off of mainstream television that really changed your opinion of anime and sent you off to look at other anime whether it was in Japanese or what not?

Mine has to be Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. My friend and her siblings were very into anime, and when I became friends with her in 7th grade, she had me watch the movie while at her house. Even in English the movie was very badass and holds a special place in my heart. The artist has been and still is my favorite artist who I also hold dearly.



Also, here's a wall scroll I have of concept art from Vampire Hunter D:

Cardcaptor Sakura

Berserk. My cousin randomly shows me it on his computer about 12 years ago and I was hooked. Then I watched all the adult swim anime and things progressed from there to downloading terrible quality rmvbs from some site I can't remember and now I'm torrenting the good shit from the subtitle people themselves. Myanimelist shows that I'm coming up on having watched 3000 episodes =o

Haruhi, for changing my view about Anime ...
Clannad --> Touched :oops: (one of best anime ever :))

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'Nough said. Back when it was still on Kids WB I believe.

[color=red]Hmmm perhaps Spirited Away.... I was a bit wary of anime since as a child I saw the gruesome stuff which cemented a fear of anime in general, so when my stepdad gave the dvd and I started off watching it, I was waiting for the film to completely freak me out, of course Spirited Away isn't a film that'll scare anyone, instead I was wonderfully delighted and made me want to see more, but back then I had no internet and no money, so the interest slowly went...

I know that sometime before I watched Spirited Away I also watched Card Captors, but didn't really think of it an anime back then due to my age, it certainly felt different to the many things I had watched as a child so it interested me, until the channel I watched it on quickly stopped airing it.

But what finally caught my attention for anime forever was Naruto, I think a friend I talked to often was watching it and he recommended it, I watched it on youtube (back in the days where it wasn't taken off after 1 second.) and that was what pretty much made me forever interested in anime, I'd go in search for many different types and usually spend hours of my holiday watching anime non-stop.

And here I am now, still wasting countless hours watching anime and now fapping countless times to hentai, it's lazy cum filled life.[/color]

RoboTech; did not have cable until I had my own place.

Ronin Warriors (better known as Samurai Troopers), it came on WB around 95 or 96 (I believe this was before Fox36 became the WB).

There are three anime that changed for me.

Outlaw Star: This was the first anime I ever really watched and was my first anime DVD I got. Before Outlaw Star I had a small interest in anime but never took it, I had a few VHS tapes of Pokemon, Sailor Moon and Magic Knights Rayearth, plus a handful of hentai ones from shows that I saw on Cinamax but never really took it from there. Outlaw Star was the first ever series that had a pretty good plot, great animation and wasn't "kiddy" like Pokemon.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya: After a while I had gotten out of anime a bit, hadn't watched anything new, never kept track of anything and in fact was thinking of selling my anime DVD's I brought a while back. Then I heard of Haruhi due to Hare Hare Yukai videos going around on the Internet. I checked out the series and LOVED IT. I couldn't believe there was a series out there like that. It pretty much saved me leaving the anime scene.

Lucky Star: This was the series that turned me into the otaku I am today. Seeing how Konata was the mega otaku and where else can you get a good series about four high school girls talking about food and make it good? I learned alot of otaku tricks from Konata, like post cards, randomly grabbing series and what not.

Good question... I gotta think for a minute.

I think my first venture into online anime was Bleach. I had missed an episode on Adult Swim, so I went to look it up online. Well, I found it on Youtube, but it was subbed. I actually liked the subbed version more, so I started watching all of my Bleach on Youtube. Then, the uploaders account got banned so I had to search elsewhere for my Bleach. I finally found it on Anilinkz, along with hundreds of other anime! I was in heaven, and that Winter i finished 32 anime series...

Thats the story of how i got into online anime.

There are probably a couple that come to mind.

Irresponsible Captain Tylor: I usually hate space anime. Anything in outer space is for some reason boring to me, but with Tylor at the helm it was awesome. Here we had comedy, drama, interesting characters and a real plot that made this my absolute favorite space-related show. Watched many more after that, but nothing ever came close.

Golden Boy: I hadn't seen hentai before this or anything even remotely ecchi, so this was like a revelation. Extremely hilarious, clever, and above all perverted in just the right ways, I think everyone needs to have seen it just once.

Yakitate!! Japan: Didn't help me to get into anime, per se, but I had never baked bread before seeing this series, and now I can make over a dozen kinds of it. It's goofy, but inspiring, and if they ever make an anime out of 'Addicted to Curry', I'm in trouble.

I have a few actually.

Naruto made me think "Hrm, these cartoons aren't to bad. They are actaully kinda interesting..."

Then Nodame Cantible made me think "Wow, anime can be classy and made for adults..."

Then CLANNAD made me think "Anime is the best thing ever..."

Lucky Star plain and simple =3

Pokemon. Then came Sailor Moon. <3

my first would have to be the first Mobile Suit Gundam, which was the series my cousin made me watch with him on videotapes back when I was a kid. I didn't understand it at all at the time, but since then I've become obsessed with mecha anime.

The ones to take my chastity were Robotech and Tenchi Muyo. Yup, double teamed my first time at bat...After that was Ghost in the shell, and I've been hooked ever since.

I actually can't remember, i have no idea, but i always felt that it was something special about shows like pokemon or digimon.

[color=darkblue][font=Verdana]Awesome scroll, Ziggy! I have one at my parents' house of Keiichi, Belldandy, Skuld, and Urd fixing a motorcycle. x3

My brothers (10+ years older than me) and their friends exposed me to a lot of the gritty 90's anime. Ah!/Oh! My Goddess really changed my life; it's the first anime I liked on my own for its beautiful art work and innocent characters. I grew up around Robotech, Devil Hunter Yoko, Project A-Ko, and Battle Angel. Ninja Scroll and Ghost in the Shell are still very vivid to me. I'm not so much an anime fan anymore, but I used to dream about these characters. Macross Plus (mini series and movie) and Robotech really set the bar for me in terms of what I expect from story lines ad the maturity of characters.

The first couple of mainstream anime I followed and recorded to VHS off the boob tube were Pokemon and Card Captor Sakura. I brought these treasures to my school, but in my memory, they pale in comparison to the anime of my early childhood.[/font][/color]