Saw Dragonball Z.

Was drunk and missed /b/.

Lucky Star .gif on /b/

been watching them since 3 years old.

Friends introduced /a/

a friend introduced me at a lan party

I wanted to go on a board for hip intelligent net-saavy young adults such as myself who liked anime. I knew about 4chan vaguely from something awful. So I came here one day and never left.

Been watching anime since Ghost In Shell.


I though,"Oooh! anime board! A lot of people will like my choice in anime! And we can all get along with each other..."

That day...That part of me died.

watched Galaxy Express 999 when i was a kid and loved it

recently watched the whole EVA and came to /a/ for answers

What got me into anime:
Evangelion on adult swim

What led me to /a/:
Google search for 'anime image board'

saw the cowboy bebop movie on the movie network

>>21303159
Did you get all the answers you wanted?

I started reading Death Note and it was interesting. My friend around the same time showed me a .swf on shoopdawhoop.com of the Rozen Maidens. I was actually really depressed at the time and I think going home and watching the show on ym computer cheered me up. My depression went away and I began to enjoy anime and manga much more than I had before.

I visited /a/ after I watched another 5 or 10 anime already being a frequent on 4chan. Haven't left.

I used to watch Inuyasha on Adult Swim when I was 12. I stumbled onto here one day when /b/ was down.

Watched Sailor Moon when it first premiered in the states when I was around 5.

pokemon & digimon as a kid got me into anime

>Tell me the story of how you got into anime.
Started watching tv. Dramas and news wasn't my thing so I turned to animation.

>how you ended up in /a/.
All I remember was lurking hongfire's gallery saving pics then I remember 4chan.net. Stayed on /a/ just lurking and saving pics.

I watched DBZ and thought it was awesome when I was 8.

Also had a crush on Saint Tail. Fuck yeah.

what is OP's pic from?

Constantly made fun of my older brother for watching it. Eventually he stated that if I watched ten episodes of Bleach I'd like it. I laughed, started the series. Turns out he was right. (of course Bleach now sucks cock in all ways and I am ashamed to have it as my original show)

was on /b/

Started watching Inuyasha on Adult Swim, then found /a/ a few months later

I WASN'T ALONE ANYMORE!

I got into anime when I saw Iria on SciFi's Saturday anime movie thing that my dad happened to be watching.

I ended up on /a/ via iichan.

my sister was into it and at first i only jacked off to anime then i started watching

i only found out about /a/ when b is down

I used to go on /b/, I was interested in how all the Desu shit started so I watched Rozen Maiden and liked it, I then branched out into other anime.

When I had watched quite a bit, I started going on /a/ from time to time, I noticed that /b/ was a complete shithole in comparison and spent less and less time there. At some point, I stopped going there altogether.

Welp, I was born in Argentina, and when I was younger the "all-powerful" anime was Saint Seiya. I was about 5. Since then, despised anything to do with Western animation.

Been watching anime for as long as I can remember.

Watched shit on VHS man.

Never did.
Looked like the easiest board to troll.

Watched old animes on Cartoon Network: Sailor Moon, DBZ, Hamtaro. Then got into adult swim's anime: Lupin III, Big O, flcl.

/a/ origins. Lurked /wg/ and /w/, checked out /a/ on a whim.

I've always been into anime. Although before the late '90s I knew it as "japanese cartoons" and my family knew it as "those evil japanese cartoons". I mean, supposedly, I watched Mazinger on TV with my uncle when I was < 5yo, and stuff like that. I remember I was forbidden to watch Ranma, but I watched it anyway, for example.

When, around '98 or '99, I had internet for the first time, I was looking for cartoon porn once, and then I found out it was called anime. And then I found a lot of communities (some great ones, but most of them pretty shitty), but most of those are already dead.

>>21303273
Holy shit, that's the exact way it happened.

And I got into /b/ from a friend who told me about Blindmute Loli back when it was fresh and new.

>>21303267
10 years later...

sister is at college and she is successful

and

i am a 22 obese loser who lives at parents and still jacks off to anime dickgirls

>>21303285
/v/ is a lot more easy to troll.

>>21303179
Add FLCL into that, and you have how I got started.

However, I discovered 4chan because of a flash animation (or to be more accurate, a series of them) from a website called ZOMG ZUFALL.

I always watched anime since I was little because I'm half japanese, so I knew most of the robot hero animes. But those were just plain entertainment and nothing special until I bought a Sega Saturn and played ROCKMAN X3. The opening anime intro changed my life.

FUCKING EPIC OP HERE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yM2HLk7qrE&fmt=18

After that, Kodomo no Omocha also changed my way of watching anime (first romance anime) and so forth

I changed to 4chan when crunchyroll died (in my heart)

>>21303201
yeah, eva threads are usualy fun because there is so many diferents points of view and many diferents interpretations ( in b4 DEEEEP)
i can't wait the for 2.0 and the badass shitstorm it gonna create (can't find the cap with mari and all the "crosses" from EoE)

The first anime that I saw was dragonball z. It was a little into the cell saga that I realized that the show came from japan and not amercia. It was a cartoon what else was I supposed to think? I found /a/ when I noticed that there was more then just the board /b/ up there and i visited a few of them and I found some rather good threads about something or other maybe one piece and I just decided to lurk and then it turned on to full being on /a/. well that was a long story.

>>21303296
Forgot the /a/ part...

back in '05, there was a webcomic called... Strange Academy. The forum was fun. And some of the people in the forum were on 4chan. I saw them chatting about it once, and I googled... and here I am.

I started in /c/, though. And I've spent most of my 4chan years on /co/.

Toonami, then I came for Geass.

Ever since I was little I watched anime the same as cartoons.
I guess what really developed my anime taste was DBZ and toonami and from there adultswim.
Then I got into the whole internet fansub thing.
As for 4chan, I stumbled on it around 4 (5?) for my never ending conquest of porn. It took me honestly months before I figured out this website was something other then a porn site.

>adult swim
>/b/
Wow, /a/. That sure explains things.

Cartoons--->comic books---->manga----->anime----->/a/

Didn't really get into anime until like 2005/6 and even then I didn't come here until TTGL.

Some loser told me that if I wanted to become a loser REAL FAST, I should watch anime and if I want to become a SUPER LOSER, I should surf /a/.

I am an adventurous person that is willing to try the full spectrum of life so here I am.

Next, I'm going to try R9K, some loser told me that if I want to be a SMART LOSER, I should surf R9K.

I was never against the idea of watching anime, for what that's worth. But I didn't like anything I saw, until one day I was bitching "Why are all vampires such whiny dipshits" and a friend forced a copy of Hellsing into my VCR and made me watch it. I still don't watch loads of anime, but that's because watching TV makes me feel blah.
As for /a/, I don't know. It seems likely that I googled something and wound up here.

I watched http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning:_The_Bible_Stories in the 1st or 2nd grade and I never looked back.

Toonami and fansubbed VHS DBZ/Sailor Moon/Pokemon movies cemented things.

>>21303355
It's one of the reasons why I like eva threads. There is always something to discuss.

Here you go.

>How you got into anime:
Bored on the Internet, saw a review on Najica Blitz Tactics, thought "Theres no way a show can have THAT much upskirts..." Hooked on anime ever since.

>Ended up in /a/
Uncyclopedia
EncyclopediaDramatica
4chan
/v/
/a/

I used to play Stepmania awhile back, and I downloaded a stepfile + video of the Lucky Star OP. I was blown the fuck away, not really impressed so much as fucking perplexed, so I hunted down some info on the show and started watching, and, well, the rest is history.

Please don't judge me ;_;

>>21303325
/v/ is too respectable a board.
And I want to challenge myself now.

I watched secretly Sailor Moon when I was like 7-8.

Pokemon, Dbz came next, then I discovered Toonami.

Also my older sister was obsessed with Slayers, Ranma 1/2, Rurouni Kenshin etc and encouraged my interests by lending me her various videos and manga for such. I liked all of it.

However, Outlaw Star was the first show that made me realize how much fucking better anime is than western cartoons. Then Cowboy Bebop aired. Gundam 08th MS... And the rest is history.

I discovered /a/ by researching where the hell the Desu meme started.

Started off with the random stuff that was originally made for American TV (Transformers, GI Joe, Maya The Bee, movies based on folk tales). Then I started watching Dragonball, Sailor Moon, then DBZ. Then I dated a girl in high school who was into anime and manga. Then I went to my first anime convention in 2003 at the age of 17. Then I was hooked.

I came to /a/ when a friend told me about 4Chan and how awesome /b/ was. I came to the front page, and selected "Anime" not knowing how to get around. I never became a fan of /b/, but /a/ had me hooked as soon as I started watching Akagi upon /a/non's recommendation.

adult swim actually made it apparent that anime wasn't cartoons, also after watching the first four episodes of Code Geass dubbed I needed more and went online only to be able to find it subbed up to 12.

Found /a/ searching pedo shit and Code Geass

Motherfucking Rave Master. Saw it at the store one day in the book section and thought "Hey, this looks cool." I had watched some anime before that (Toonami stuff, DBZ, etc...), but it was before I made the distinction between anime and normal cartoons. This was what made me actually start looking into anime and stuff seriously.

Don't even remember how I found /a/.

>>21303409
>I'm going to try R9K
Careful what you go there for. There are intelligent people there, but you'll frequently find yourself arguing with idiots. Try and avoid the relationship, political, and religious threads, as none of them turn out well. And trust me, there is a lot of them.

ITT: Most of /a/ are fucking anime newfags.

DBZ, Saint Seiya got me interested
Pokemon + Digimon got me hooked
some years passed, one "friend" of mine gave me a Naruto CD filled with episodes

and another "friend" introduced me to 4chan

fucking friends

>Try and avoid the relationship, political, and religious threads
So what does that leave?

Too many people in here came here because of code geass.

I guess this explains why everyone here likes naruto and shit.

Anime:
Couldn't tell for sure. As a kid, I labeled anything animated as cartoons, but my devotion was likely due to toonami.

/a/:
Downloading Saint Seiya Hades episodes on IRC. Faggots kept linking to /l/ and some guro on /b/, but I wasnt into either. Someone linked to a thread here on /a/ which I actually found interested and stayed since then (mostly). Dunno why I still keep coming since its fucking boring and shit now.

>>21303459
>there is

I found out about /b/ and 4chan in general from Kajetokun's OVER 9000.

I think I found out about /a/ and /jp/ in general from Dan Kim.

At first, I hung out a bit at /b/, but seeing as /b/ was mostly just TITS OR GTFO when I saw it, I quickly gravitated towards here. And then /jp/, /ck/, /k/, and /v/ occasionally.

Somewhere along the way, I got interested in weed and acid, probably from Lain, so I go to 420chan occasionally too.

>Tell me the story of how you got into anime.
I watched DBZ/tenchi muyo/gundam wing on Toonami when I was younger, forgot about anime for a while after that and then got back into it by watching naruto. God I remember when I first got started, watching shit quality .mpg files because I couldn't get .avi to work...
>And for bonus points, how you ended up in /a/.
Decided to start checking out other boards after I got bored of /b/.

Voltes V > Urotsukidoji > Dragonball > Evangelion > ... > Internet > searching porn > /h/ > /a/

caught a few anime on cartoon network back in the old days when I was uberyoung and always wanted to watch more of it but had no access

fastforward to highschool, joined anime club and saw EVA, Inuyasha(back when it was new and I had no idea what the fuck it was), and Captain tylor.

Forgot about anime, started playing WoW.
fast forward 1 year
browsing off-topic WoW forums and see some site called 4chan
clicked /a/
learned about TT

and here we fucking are

I remember watching My Neighbor Totoro when I was really young, but I didn't know it was anime. I started watching Toonami around 2000, with stuff like Dragonball and G Gundam.

Then summer 2003, FLCL blew my fucking mind. From that point on I started getting in to my friends collection. Trigun, Excel Saga, Azumanga Daioh, FMA, pretty much anything dubbed at the time. I didn't start watching subbed stuff until fall of 2005, when I started watching Bleach and Mushishi.

As for coming to /a/, it goes like this. Albinoblacksheep in 03-> YTMND in 04 -> 4chan in 05.

I saw record of lodoss war, original jap dub with subs, as marathon on TV some late night and watched the whole thing, failed two finals, and decided it was totally worth it.

When I was younger I remember getting ready to go to school one morning it was 6:05 am. While I was putting on my shoes I was watching TV and all of a sudden I realized this really cool looking show was already on. I remembered the more I watched, the more I liked it, I kept watching until the end and found out it was Pokemon. I kept watching everyday and I even found out that the show aired at least 3 times a day. Throughout the summer I spent my mornings watching Pokemon. A few months later was watching DBZ, Gundam Wing, Digimon, etc...

Eight years after my first experience with Pokemon and 535 anime series later I was lurking for pics to keep with me forever. I came to the realization that there could be an event in my life where anime would no longer be with me and I wanted a way help preserve it. I searched the internet for safe sites and descent looking pics that I could keep. I found a site called iiChan and I began to liberate them of their pics. While I was cleaning out of their pics I noticed someone put up a link to /e/ on 4Chan, I followed it until I reached /a/. I started raiding /a/'s pics, but I got caught up in replying to peoples questions. Today after creating 50+ threads and 2000+ replies I have made /a/ into my home for anime related things.

Some internet pals had discovered Elfen Lied. We were all "zomg blood guns boobies etc. awesome." And then I watched Chobits, then Azumanga and I was sucked in.

>>21303490
>Voltes V
flipfaggot detected.

>>21303416
thanks, far better quality than what i had

Friend lent me InuYasha Movie Two, watched it, became hooked, saw Love Hina as a first sub, and gradually moved on to better series

I was on /u/ for a few years, then hopped back and forth during TTGL Saturdays, and finally moved here during GEASS SUNDAYS.

Was introduced to Kenshin and it from there, I guess. Not quite sure how I got here, to be honest.

From Arabian Nights Sinbad no Boken, Mitsubachi Māya no Bōken,Battle of the Planets
that aired in public tv
plus shitload more
mostly wmt / studio pierrot and other stuff

watched .hack sign on ytv, got bored waiting for a new episode, discovered torrents through google searching, the rest is history.

>>21303447
frenchfag?

>>21303473
Not much. But you can probably get something decent if you try to get into philosophy.
>>21303485
A simple mistake, please forgive me.

Uh... I basically grow up with it. There's no 'getting into' point. I watched Doraemon, Sailor Moon, YYH since I was a kid and then start reading manga when I was in middleschool

And now I'm in /a/, duh

Saw Eva, forgot all about it, then rediscovered it and started to watch other shows

Saw Patlabor on TV and was interested. Then I saw some tapes of it at a video rental place, there was a small little shelf with about 20-50 tapes, and I watched all of them, when I got through the episodes of Eva they had, I was hooked. From then I started looking up shit streams of things like Captain Harlock online. Anime sucks today.

I found /a/ after I found /l/.

So basically we are all loser. Am I right?

What got me into anime:
Doraemon when I was a lad

How I got into /a/?
I have n idea

fuck yeah pokemon at CN.

then sailor moon, card captors sakura, dbz, yuyu hakusho and samurai x.

Downloaded Azumanga on a whim, fell in love with slice of life/comedy shit. I really enjoy drawing and art n shit, so finding "cartoons" that weren't about fucking dumb crap on nickelodeon was pretty tight. I branched off into everything else after exhausting everything decent in that genre.

Pretty sure I found /a/ after I'd been using rapidsearch through 4chan for awhile(waaaay the fuck back when that still existed), to satisfy my lust for comics. Been stuck browsing with you fags ever since

>>21303623

When I got into Pokemon it was on UPN then transferred to WB. I remember this event well even though it happened years ago.

watched sailor moon and pokemon and shit when i was little, then forgot about it

watched inuyasha when i was a teenager, then forgot about it

watched rod on g4tv, forgot about it, then remembered it a few years later when i got my own computer and finished it off. then i wanted more and somehow ended up here. also, i hated anime and only wanted to finish rod for old times sake, but after finishing it i became an full animefag almost overnight. i lost many friends because of my transformation.

>>21303494
Yeah, FLCL was the first thing other than DBZ I watched, I remember the night it aired on Adult Swim. I couldn't believe what I was watching, it was so... different than anything I had ever seen.

I use to watch Dragon Ball (the original, like Emperor Pilaf, etc) when it was on tv in the mornings a long time ago (mid 90s, I think). I watched DBZ and all that other Toonami shit when it was on, but I didn't really get into anime and manga as a whole until Viz published the original DB in the US and I saw the third volume on the shelf andwas like "HOLY SHIT, I USED TO WATCH THIS!" (I was retarded back then, and only bought the 2nd and 3rd volumes, until I realized I needed the first too.)

This spiraled into a manga addiction, and many wasted dollars on more Viz and Tokyopop merchandise like Rurouni Kenshin and Love Hina. I acquired the Love Hina anime when I was in middle school, but I thought it was shit (even though I loved the manga), and didn't really appreciate anime until the summer of the huge blackout that affected the whole northeastern US.

Adult Swim was airing FLCL, and I was fucking engrossed, until the power went out for fucking three or four days. I missed a couple episodes, and this started my descent into watching and acquiring anime regularly.

By the way, speaking of FLCL, where is that .gif from in >>21302991 ?

The Mamimi cosplayer is calling to me.

>>21303564
I'll let it slide.

Like most people, watching DBZ on Toonami. That and Pokémon/Digimon. Wasn't till the time Hamtaro started that I truly knew what Anime was tho.

As for /a/, I came on 4Chan last year because of /po/, but recently got board and wanted to checkout a few of the other boards. (/a/, /c/, & /v/)

I was 5 and I was watching ghost in the shell with my uncle and aunt, cool shit

Medabots, Digimon, Pokemon, Monster Rancher. Later on, Cowboy Bebop (whenever I got the chance to watch it) and other [as] stuff. My family didn't have cable until toonami was pretty much dead, though. ;_;

Magic Knight Rayearth got me into manga. Saw it at a bookstore, thought it looked cool, got it, and now I'm here.

>Tell me the story of how you got into anime.
I used to play a lot of MMORPG's so being on the internet + being up all night with Adult Swim on got me into anime, really.

>And for bonus points, how you ended up in /a/.
Someone had a last.fm pic in their signature on a forum I used to frequent, which led me to last.fm in mid '06. From there I discovered Loliserv through somebody's profile, which is basically a small imageboard of /g/ frequenters. Discovered 4chan in late '06 through it. I stayed mostly on /b/ until a year or so ago. Since then I've been a 4chan vagabond though I think I've found my home in /a/.

Back in the day, I owned a Sega Genesis, and my friend a SNES. He, of course, had the superior system. (Back then, I still had friends, though not many.) I went over to his house to play games like Super Mario RPG, Contra III, Star Fox, and Mario Kart. At a certain point each day I went over, however, he paused the game, turned back to TV mode, and watched these weird cartoons from Japan in syndication on a UPN or some other misc channel.

The lineup included Ronin Warriors, Dragon Ball Z, and Samurai Pizza Cats. DBZ was already in the middle of the Namek arc. I couldn't figure out what gender Freeza was. This was during the second season of the Ocean dub, by the way. Peter Kelamis was Goku. He remains Goku to me. I once confused Goku and Yamcha, because they both wore the same gi and had similar hair. DBZ didn't really strike me as too great a show at this time.

>>21303682

Every time I hear "Little Buster" automatic night time nostalgia. Best song ever.

>>21303688
No clue where the .gif came from. But I have a feeling it's related to [AS]. I could swear that is Dr. Girlfriend in the back.

>>21303711

Ronin Warriors was different. I was a huge fan of the show, even though I started watching in the middle of it. Probably further beyond that, because the first episode I watched was one in which Anubis, having taken the mantle of The Ancient One, fought Dais, the one with the spider armor, while Mia and Yuli looked on. I was really impressed. When it all reran, I watched the whole thing from beginning to end, the first anime series I watched in entirety, and the first I was a big fan of.

DBZ fandom came when DBZ reran the first time. This was still before CN existed. I was hooked. Then CN came, then Toonami came, then I got hooked on shows like Outlaw Star, Gundam Wing, and Tenchi Muyo. Sci-Fi Channel had Saturday Anime. Encore Action Channel had an anime block. AOL had an anime section, dedicated to stuff like Tank Police, A-Ko, and Bubblegum Crisis. Suncoast video store began carrying anime. I was in heaven. I stopped calling it "Japanimation" around this time.

That's how I got into it.

anime: first exposure was voltron, robotech, and saber riders back when i was very young (late 80s). during senior year of high school, i checked out ghost in the shell and akira on a whim and decided this "japanimation" stuff wasn't bad. that was over ten years ago. since then i've just been falling further and further into the abyss.

/a/: heard about 4chan on various other anime boards, quickly got used to the lack of conventional e-drama, post count/join date bullshit.

70s mecha (Fuck yeah Daimos)

I used to be this huge emoticon kawaii desu ne faggot on a forum. One day came across /a/. And before I knew it, I had a rapeface

Saw an AMV by accident while looking for music videos, thought that Cowboy Bebop would be worth checking out.
That was in 2003.
Came to /a/ when I realized that /b/ was utter shit and needed to be put down.

My hamster died, dad bought me Pokemon Red to calm me down. Loved it, got into the Pokemon anime because of it, was already familiar with the internet so I visited Pokemon websites and found out about Sailor Moon through them. Watched it, loved it. Third anime I watched and my introduction to "serious business animu" was The Big O when it was on Toonami and plenty more followed. My favorite genre is still magical girls, though.

Ended up on 4chan and /a/ just through the word spreading through the internet, considering I've been an internet junkie for about 10 years now popular sites haven't really escaped my sight since then.

>>21303721
Hell yeah bro. But I'm already 20 and I'm still waiting for the day the fog will lift.

shit reading all those storys make me feel like a pedo lurking with kids, when pokemon aired for the first time i was already 16.... damn

>>21303725

It did come from adult swim. I think it was advertising an anime convention or some shit.Whatever it was, it was just a short clip between commercials.

saw dragon ball z and gundam wing on toonami.

Then i watched endless walts on VHS and ever since, its been like a disease.

how i got on /a/? saw 4chan on national news. think it was a bomb threat or something

>>21303728

As for how I got into /a/, I came here to collect pics/troll during Haruhi's prime.

Stayed, saged Touhou threads, enjoy talking about good anime when we actually do so.

>>21303725

Oh yeaaahh....Looks like her to me, and there's Jin, Asuka, and Vash in there too, all [AS] properties, so it probably is.

Also,
>>21303721
Holy shit, YES.
I think the soundtrack was the main reason it was so engrossing for me.

I got into anime when I was a kid. I discovered it in the form of Dominion Tank Police on VHS. I never did saw the second half of the OVA series until I got the DVD at Anime USA 2007.

I first discovered /a/ after I visited /con/ the day after Otakon 2008.