What anime got you into anime?

[Something Amyss]

Which voices were different? And did yours have a track from the Transformers movie over it's end credits, cos my versions do

I don't remember. I think Blade's voice may have been one that's different. Another fun fact is that Blade is Slade in the US dub.

To be fair, I've got used to the "international" dub. As it's the version of the series that was completed, I haven't seen the US version since it aired in 1995 (?), and I've seen the dub on the DVDs more recently. Though I've seen the Tekkaman Blade DVDs even more recently, because I prefer the version.

As for the closing credits, the intro and ending are, oddly enough, the Japanese version. Which I don't completely mind, because I love the intro song Reason:

Spoiler: Reason" Intro version][MEDIA=youtube]pmX564UTabE[/MEDIA][/spoiler] I think, though I don't remember, they use the first ending theme from Japan through the whole thing, too: [spoiler="Energy Of Love

Which is weird, because the original theme (Credited to Haim Saban or Shuki Levy) appears in the show. Guess they couldn't cut it out of the show proper? Maybe it was a rights issue.

Spoiler: Intro/ending from the US dub, both with the music in question and the narrator calling the main character "Slade."

Out of curiosity, which track from the Transformers movie was it? Because now I'm picturing Stan Bush playing over the Teknoman ending, and it's AWESOME.

(edited to fix broken code and to put the videos in spoiler tags because this post looked really big)

 

[Trude]

2004. Elfen Lied, in all its bloody, dismembering glory.

 

[Grape_Nuts]

Honest answer: none of them (so far).

 

[MrHide-Patten]

Well Ive watched the old staples like Dragon Ball Z, Saloir Moon, and Pokemon in my youth to name a few. It wasn't till I was older and randomly catching episodes of Ghost in the Shell Stand: Alone Complex and Samurai Champloo that rekindled my interest in the drawn media. It was then Bleach that got me into watching subbed material after I wanted to find out more but the dubbing was taking too long.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

Which voices were different? And did yours have a track from the Transformers movie over it's end credits, cos my versions do

Out of curiosity, which track from the Transformers movie was it? Because now I'm picturing Stan Bush playing over the Teknoman ending, and it's AWESOME.

Actually nothing quite so awesome or cheesy, it was this little ditty


The title more or less gives away the use of the track, but hand on my heart, I heard this in one of the international versions I had.

 

[Riot3000]

I started off more old school than my actual age but my first foray into anime was stuff like Speed Racer, G Force, and Voltron due to reruns on tvs and random vhs laying around that kept my young self in check with pretty flashing lights. Since then I still love anime and I personally think it is still pretty great.

 

[Bonecrusher]

my first anime was Voltron and I was 5. I've watched many anime since then. However with Rurouni Kenshin I've realized these kind of Japanese Shows are called "anime", and started watching them specifically.

 

[Scorpid]

Like most people that commented so far I can say that DBZ or sailor moon or Bebop got me into anime since they were the first animes I watched and understood. But I think what made me realize that Anime wasn't like He-Man, transformers, or Ninja turtles by that I mean it wasn't limited to simple kids shows with simple plots that wouldn't shock my point of view was probably Princess Mononoke. It didn't have a main villain except the charming greedy merchant and the animation was like watching a painting come to life and move naturally and fluid. Its taking on of environmental issues wasn't like captain planet and had layers of gray. The love story wasn't saccharin none sense and the female lead was flushed out not just a accessory of the "real" (male) hero. It simply blew my mind, and it still impresses me like no other anime today.

And if Miyazaki after that spent the rest of his career just animating himself pooping for an hour and a half and than releasing it every few years, I'd still call him a genuis for Mononoke alone much less his other stellar work.

 

[Twinrehz]

I'm honestly quite uncertain. I watched pokemans on TV before I knew it was defined as anime, and before I knew what anime even was. Don't know how "into" anime I am, I've watched some popular ones. Elfen Lied, Attack on Titan, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Steins; Gate, 5 centimeters per second and some other short animes by the same guy (Not in that order).

I like anime because of the way it looks, but I rarely get completely involved in one thing.

Captcha: nobody home

 

[Toblo1]

Much like others, I watched a couple Anime when I was younger that I didn't really know was Anime (Yu-gi-oh, Pokemon and DBZ to name a few). The one that REALLY introduced me to Anime was Naruto. Saw that on Toonami, and I have been hooked on Anime since. Although I've been hesitant on watching Anime outside my comfort zone (Could't watch Evangelion for the longest time due to hearing about how scarring it could be. It was the same for Higurashi, but I plowed through THAT show's scary/gory moments just because the mystery was so intriguing).

 

[stroopwafel]

Probably The Guyver(the late '80s/early '90s OVA). It was like the cartoons I loved at the time but much more awesome. Then the Go Nagai stuff like Devilman and Violence Jack and cyberpunk anime like Genocyber, Angel Cop and A.D. police. This was before the internet when anime came on VHS tapes with dubs so bad...well I was too young to give a shit. Anime was something exotic at the time b/c it was so different from the cartoons I was familiar with. Though admittedly it was a time anime was also extremely violent and often downright disturbing. Often starring alienated loners in dystopian worlds. Much different compared to the pansies of most modern anime.

Kind of stopped caring about anime as I grew older though series like Texhnolyze, Death Note, Ergo Proxy, Kino's Journey, Darker than Black, Full Metal Alchemist and Heroic Age(among others) made me keep in touch.

 

[neonsword13-ops]

I guess the anime to really get me into anime was FLCL

My mom had just gotten Netflix for the family to use back when I was in Jr. High because we thought cable was pointless. We got it, and what I got in return was a whole bunch of anime to watch.

The thing is, the only anime I had ever seen was stuff on Toonami. Stuff like Naruto, Bobobo-Bo Bo-BoBo, One Piece, Zatch Bell, and more. But by the time we got Netflix, Toonami was in the void for a long time. So I guess you could say my anime watching experience was quite limited when I was a kid. (And yes, I am a lot younger than the majority of people on this site. I didn't get Bebop, Trigun, or Outlaw Star when I was a kid.)

So anyway, when we got Netflix, I was astounded by how much anime there was on there. And there was even gory stuff that seemed almost forbidden to watch at the time. I browsed through the collection of anime until I found a cover that really stuck out to me. Huh. A girl playing a guitar with a nice array of varied colors in the background. And it says it's only six episodes. What I didn't know about the show was just how fucking crazy it was going to be to watch.

I watched through the whole thing in one sitting and was blown away to say the least. The music, animation, and finale all combined to make a marvelous package of something I had never experienced before in my life. It was crazy, stupid, and fun. That's when I decided that FLCL was going to be my standard for quality anime for years to come. And it still is.

I own the show now, and watch it constantly.

As an artist, it's inspiration.
As a viewer, it's stupidly fun.

It's pretty much my favorite anime and it's the show that got me into watching anime.

 

[Julius Terrell]

Good grief I thought FLCL was one of the stupidest nonsense I've ever watched.

Back on topic....Transformers was airing at the same time as Voltron. That series was just too awesome to miss. I wish more classics would have aired here where I lived.

 

[Vault101]

Well, it would be a most severe stretch to say I'm "into" anime, but it was Ghost in the Shell (the show, not the movies) that alerted me to the fact that anime is a thing and has the potential to almost be to my liking.

have you seen perfect blue? its basically an anime precursor to black swan

"the girl who lept through time" is also a really sweet movie

Paprika (same director as perfect blue) is good, but not as good as perfect blue IMO

I'm not really into anime but those I really enjoyed

 

[pixiejedi]

Its slightly embarassing to admit this, but it was mainly School Rumble. I checked it out on Netflix one day like 4 years ago. After that I decided to check out Ouran High School Host Club, my all time favorite and since then have periodically gone on rom com/straight up romance anime binges.

I sure watched anime before that, I remember watching bits of Sailor Moon before school, stuff on Adult Swim like Inuyasha, Fullmetal Alchemist, Ghost in the Shell, this weird one I can't remember the name of with a guy with a mask that would murder people with a baseball bat, even fell asleep to my best friend sitting me down to watch FLCL. I guess I thought all anime was for younger guys, still don't feel like I'm very wrong about that notion.

 

[pixiejedi]

Edit: sorry, double post.

 

[Dandark]

Mine was Code Geass. Some friends had convinced me to watch Gundam 00 before but I didn't enjoy it that much but then I reluctantly started watching Code Geass and ended up glued to the screen. First time I watched it I went through the entire show, all 50 episodes in one weekend.

After that I started moving onto some of the other more well known anime I had heard off like Bleach. I enjoyed Bleach and though I consider it a pretty meh anime now it was my first experience with that kind of show since I never really watched Dragonball Z.

It was Code Geass that got me into anime though and it still remains near the top of my list of favourite anime to this day.

 

[Mr Dizazta]

For me it was a combination of Dragonball Z, Digimon, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh! and what ever anime series was airing on Toonami and Adult Swim in the late 90's early 00's. However, if I can only pick one, then I believe it would be Yu-Gi-Oh! simply because of the card game that was attached to the series and also if anyone remembers the Beckett Anime Magazine. I remembered that I used to by that magazine for info on Yu-Gi-Oh!, but they also had coverage on other various animes. It was because of that anime that I first heard about Naruto and One Piece before they started airing in the states. Then I hit high school and started to watch anime less and less, only following the most recent Yu-Gi-Oh! series at the time. What caused me to start watching anime again would be a combination of both Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Gurren Lagann. However, it has been pretty recent of me to follow anime anime as it is airing in Japan and I simply have to attribute that to Attack On Titan. Ever since Attack On Titan, I watched Kill La Kill, Log Horizon, Steins;Gate(which is now my favorite anime), Madoka Magica, Sword Art Online, Maoyu, Fairy Tail, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure(2012 and Stardust Crusaders), etc.

 

[keniakittykat]

I've never been into anime as a genre, it's not even a genre, it's a style.
That, and I've been watching it even before I knew what it was. It wasn't until I was 11 and Pokémon got popular I learned what anime was.

But the first one I ever watched was Mapletown. (It was basically antro's in lolita outfits being cute, and made by Toei.)

I also watched Mrs pepperpot, The adventure of Nils, Moomin, Alfred J Kwak, Maya the bee, Adventures of Sinbad and a lot of other shows no one's heard of, but those were based on existing non-Japanese folklore, and I have heard people say those don't count because they're old, and based on non-Japanese lore and locations, even though they're animated in Japan.

It's quite hard to pinpoint which one came first for me to be honest xD
3/4th of everything that was on tv in the early 90's was Japanese import.

 

[Zakarath]

I'd had some incidental exposure to it from some of my college friends, so I decided to give it a shot one spring break when I had nothing better to do; started with Angel Beats! and was hooked.