Anime & Manga What was the first anime that you ever watched?

[determinator]

It was Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 and Sailor Moon, before I developed an interest in anime. Then, when I was sneaking nights of Adult Swim, I watched Trigun and picked my first favorite, Cowboy Bebop. I'd say the latter has had far more influence on me than the former.

 

[Requiem]

Dragon Ball or Pokémon.

 

[DignifiedRain]

3x3 eyes.

 

[Camilanizer]

Death Note. If I never watched that I would have never got into anime >.<

 

[Shades]

Going to date myself here. My first anime was probably Robotech. If it wasn't that, it has to be Macron One. Make fun if you want, but back then we had to settle for whatever was broadcast on public television channels.


I suspect that there are some here who will say those don't count as 'real anime', in which case I guess Fist of the North Star probably gets the distinction.

 

[LegoLad659]

Going to date myself here. My first anime was probably Robotech. If it wasn't that, it has to be Macron One. Make fun if you want, but back then we had to settle for whatever was broadcast on public television channels.
I suspect that there are some here who will say those don't count as 'real anime', in which case I guess Fist of the North Star probably gets the distinction.

Oh yeah, I forgot about Robotech!


Man, that was so long ago...


In that vein, I'm going to override my previous answer here and say that my first anime was probably Tenchi Universe.

 

[EastonM]

Attack on Titan, never really got into anime until I watched the show.

 

[Cujo89]

Dragon Ball ....god I feel old

 

[HanaKatana]

Dragon Ball Z if were counting on TV during childhood (though I feel like saying Cow & Chicken xD ) otherwise gateway anime would be Death Note.

 

[Ishtarran]

Relatively sure it was an early Pokemon series.

 

[Corgination]

Digimon, then came Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z! I remember when Toonami hosted some really neat animes back in the day at night. Cowboy Bebop was my first "adult" anime.

 

[Zahkr]

Tokyo Mew Mew

And that was the moment, I lost my shit.


EDIT: My first anime was Ranma 1/2. Still have the episodes on a disk somewhere.

 

[octopodesrex]

Depends how you define anime, I remember watching Voltron as a kid, or Ronin Warriors. Transformers technically, but it was the American version. The first really Anime thing I remember was Dragonball Z, and the first Anime movie I watched was Green Legend Ran when it came on IFC

 

[GoodVibezPanda]

Cowboy Bebop, Gurren Lagann, Fullmetal Alchemist

 

[Qrow]

Inuyasha

 

[Boombleeb]

Sword Art Online, was the first anime I ever watched.


Sailor Moon, was the first anime I ever saw.

 

[Gladius]

Technically, Pokemon followed by Digimon.


But since I didn't know that was an anime at the time...it'd be Naruto.


Which I'm rewatching as we speak. Including fillers.

 

[aaaah]

Hetalia: Axis Powers

 

[Risky Vetis]

Inuyasha!

 

[NekoQueen49]

If Pokemon, Inuyasha and Naruto doesn't count (since I, like others, didn't know it was anime at the time), then it was when I was introduced to Chibi Vampire/Karin by my best friend at the time when I was ten. After that, it was Death Note followed by my long spiral into otaku-dom.

 

[Genon]

Oddly enough, it was S-CRY-ED on Adult Swim. I was like six at the time, and couldn't sleep, so I snuck out of my room to watch Cartoon Network. Imagine my surprise when a completely different fucking channel comes on.


The title flashed by so fast that I didn't really know the name of the damn show at the time, and I was also plopped without context into the climactic final battle of the show. Years later, remembering exclusively the words "Black Joker" and "White Trick" (the villain's attacks), I tracked it down, took one look at the wiki, and after grooving to the rather nice jazz theme song, decided it looked extremely generic and wasn't worth my time.


Then, a year or so after that, I saw Animerica's review of the series. He conclusively proved it was a train wreck, and all I could think was, "Wow! Dodged a bullet there!"

 

[wildfire]

Pokémon and I didn't even know it was anime and Inuyasha

 

[paiyu]

Zoids, I think.

 

[c h i h o]

the first ever anime i watched was fairy tail!


...in fact i'm still watching it bc i haven't finished it lol. i keep skipping arcs so i'm not watching it in chronological order. oops~
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[solvernia]

My first anime was the first FMA back in the day!