Your First Anime

wow...my first anime...that was a while back...but i think it was Dragon Ball Z (dubbed version...), but i think the first anime that completely captured my attention was Gundam Wing...back when Toonami was a decent programming block...

My fisr anime was Doraemon when I was about three :3

I will say Gantz so yeah recent otaku although I'm not counting captain tsubasa and dragon ball wich I watched as a kid.

Probably Sailor Moon when I was 3 or 4 years old. It was dubbed TV version with gender changes and all. :P

DOREAMON!

I read that when I was like 6. I remember going to the UCSD Library to borrow more DOREAMON ! >:]

Although I couldn't understand any of it because it was in Japanese and I didn't know it.

Ghost in the Shell the movie and then Akira. When it comes to a series it was probably GITS & Blue Submarine. Then I dove straight in to fansubs and have consumed all Anime worth watching! Literally almost a terabyte of video! I had seen Macross "Robotech" years before but it hadn't piqued my interest, it was too dated at the time.

GO SPEED RACER GO!!!

^_^

Doraemon FTW! :3

My first anime.... that was the dubbed version of Magic Knights Rayearth I think. Since then I've collected the mangas, the OVAs, and the art books.

the first gundam and Evangelion XD since then all i care about in life is anime girls and GUNDAM

Danny, great panchira shot! I've been itching for the next 2D panchira shot weekly, which you said you were gonna do...apparently the idea fell of the face of the planet. ^^;

The first anime I ever saw was part of a single episode of Robotech (Macross) which I really liked but was never able to identify until years later, but the first series I ever actively watched (and fell in love with) was Sailor Moon. The next were fansubbed copies of Saber Marionette J.
Ah,Memories ;)

My first Anime was Voltron back in 1983. Soon it was followed by Transformers and well the rest is history.

My first anime was Voltes V. then followed by Voltron. the rest is now a blur.

My first anime was Robotech. Now that I think of it, I kind of feel old...

I'm not sure if its was Transformers, Gobots or Samurai Troopers.

my first anime was sailor moon dub that aired in the morning before school. i remember getting up extra early just to be able to watch each episode. But at the time sailor moon was just a cartoon to me. But after that my brother introduced me to NGE and while i liked it it didn't hock me into anime as much as Outlaw Star did. I saw those two and loved them and just wanted more.

doraemon in chinese? Digimon in Chinese? LOL. Digimon was shown on Sunday, so I wake up early just to watch xD

I watched Gatchaman (the G-Force version) as a kid, and I absolutely loved it. I watched a few others also growing up. But, the series that got me really into it was Love Hina. I look back on that anime with nostalgic eyes.

the first ever anime i watched was most likely megaman, but i only saw one episode since it was on at like 5 am on a saturday morning.. and that was back when i was like 5 or 6 years old lol

if that doesn't count then i guess it's pokemon hahahaha

i became an anime junky in like 2004, when i upgraded to DSL and was able to download so much more anime hahaha

My first anime would have to be either one of these two (cannot remember which one i saw first).

Saint Seiya or Totoro, definitely one of those.

my first anime was TRANZOR Z.... i think i was just five years old.. oh man... that was a while ago... I'm glad anime turned to be great today..

can someone tell me where the cutie character from the post is from...please >_<

oh and the first anime that i watched was Rahxephon, and i absolutely loved it.
Now that i think about it i came to experience anime quite late in my childhood.

I remember mispronouncing the title of the first anime I've seen. I mispronounced it as "wortel" when it's actually called Voltes V. A classic. I spent almost $200 just to get the Chogokin version sometime last year. Watched it when I was a wee kid back in Jakarta :)

My first anime was "Warriors of the Wind" A dubbed version of "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind", and kind of the first dubbed version of "Guyver" I was like 5 or 6 and I loved all the blood in that series, sure a few episodes freaked me out, but it was awesome!

The first anime that I watched that turned me into a hardcore anime freak was Evangelion. My god I loved that show. But not including that, I used to watch other stuff like Dragon Ball (not Dragon Ball Z) and Pokemon on TV.

Kimba maybe?

The oldest anime remember watching is Robotech and Saint Seiya both in their Latin America releases.

I would've quoted it Danny, but it was in my generic images folder and I have no idea where I got it from. It might've been Sankaku Complex, though I'm not completely sure. (Though I'm sure SC took it from somewhere else, too)

Robotech with cheesy English dub.

...Wow, seems like there's actually a lot of people who remember getting started with Doraemon and Sailor Moon. I'm the same - used to watch both right before going to school in the afternoon. I was living in Hong Kong at the time, and completely left anime once I moved to Canada.

Love Hina was the one that got me back in, though.

Doraemon with the funniest chinese dubs ever

g-force, voltron, speed racer, and silverhawks

Oh god, I can barely remember. I do remember watching shows like Sailor Moon, My Neighbor Totoro, Noozles (ふしぎなコアラ ブリンキ), and can't really remember the rest.

The American dub of Pokemon when I was five. Although, I didn't know it was an anime. The first anime I watched that I knew was an anime was Tokyo Mew Mew when I was ten.

Saint Seiya ^^

My first anime was back in 2000, Gundam Wing on Cartoon Networks "Toonami". Though my interest in anime dimmed for a while then was sparked again not to long ago, it was my first of many animes that I have watched.

Struggling between voltron, Transformers or Mazinger Z.
But what do you know? maybe candy and heidi were first....i dont really remember...

oops forgot the link for silverhawks.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODm0OjB_dJc

I'm sure my first was a dub many years before Pokemon came on the scene. Can't quite remember what, although I do remember some of the homegrown American cartoons I watched around the same timeslots. That was back when Fox and WB had good domestic cartoons.

Yeah there's definitely a difference between "60's/70's/80's edited down" stuff and genuine anime. And I see that most people, by their posts, concur. Like I consider watching the dub of Sailor Moon or DBZ in the mid 90's, borderline genuine, but I don't actually consider having truly watched anime until I started watching giant series like Fushigi Yuugi.

Voltron and Transformers edits... I didn't get into Golion until much later sadly. But The color suited robot pilots got me into everything... ^_^

Mmm, mine would be Speed Racer in dubs. I do kinda miss watching Speed's bottom saved my Racer X all the time dx

My very first experience with anime was way back when Robotech first aired in the US. Of course at the time I didn't know it was anime (or that the source material, SDF Macross, would end up being my favorite mecha franchise), but I think that would count as my very first anime as far as watching it for the first time. As for watching for the first time and actually being aware it's anime, I would probably have to go with watching Dragon Ball Z in Japanese with no subtitles on the International Channel...oh what, about 10 or so years ago. First anime I ever bought was the Macross Plus OVA.

Who's the girl up there? :P

My first was sailormoon in mandarin xD

I have to say for me it's B'TX, dunno why it's my favorite on my childhood days. I love that series along with saint seiya which I didn't finish though.

Voltus V!!! I think that's the only anime available on rental video when I was a tiny kid :D

kiddy grade and neon genesis evangelion... yea i know a weird start but it worked...

I very much want to know the source of that pic too... so cute!

I became addicted to animes at an old age... I was already 19 by that time.
So, I probably watched some stuff before that... Akira, Dragon Ball Z and Saint Seya probably.

But the one anime that really made me addicted to animes was Trigun.
It was also the first fansubbed title I got. The first one I watched in japanese with english subs. I'm pretty shure I wasn't hooked before because of dubbing.

Most people probably already watched it, but just in case:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wLYWgbHwEo

I think my first anime was Voltes V? Haha good times.

My very first anime was the Super Robot anime Voltes V, Daimos and Mazinger Z when I was I think 3 years old when my elder brothers introduced it to me (my brothers btw are also otakus back then)...

Macross, Tetsuwan Atom, and Sailormoon were the anime that captured my fascination to anime =3

Voltes V OP --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8fclG949_E

Daimos OP --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVHJ0Xs3Fcc

Mazinger Z OP --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyRoF689VRE

We even have those vinyl of Mazinger Z theme XDDD

Vampire hunter D. just cant remember why it was that. :> 2nd one was NGE.

Honestly, I can't remember orz.... But I think, one of my earliest anime was Macross dubbed in English. If I remember correctly it was aired in the morning by our local TV station, I always remembered Roy Fokker, and I also faintly remember an episode where Minmei was crying... Nah, I can't really remember much, I was only able to catch it when there were no classes, now I'm itching to buy the original Macross series and watch it with my full attention.

BUT!!! Gundam Wing was the anime that really got me hooked! And it's the first ever Gundam series to be shown in our country by a local TV station. I was just a wee grade schooler
back then! I was so happy when I knew that one of my toys was a Gundam (Yes, my mom bought me a gunpla even before Wing was shown in our country). I was so shocked/happy when I saw the Wing Gundam in anime form, since then I always took care of the model and that's when my addiction for gunpla also started!

I can remember the times that I can only afford to buy 3 1/144s a year because I had such a puny grade school allowance back then T-T

Doraemon for me, but Victory Gundam was another one I have fond memories of growing up with.

My first anime was awfully dubbed Neon Genesis Evangelion on a local TV channel with a lot of scenes cut out way back in 2004, but never the less I was still in shock with its marvelous ending.
Now come to think of it, good 4 years passed since then. Wow, that a lot ^^

PS: we demand source of the posted image in highrez... please ^^

I managed to get through my entire schooling life disliking anime because I thought it was all DBZ and shonen fighty crap.

About six months after school, flicking through cable channels I saw Card Captor Sakura (Or Cardcaptors... *shudder*) and realised it was the cutest thing I had ever seen in my entire life. Got a few of the originial episodes and everything went from there. embarassingly, mahou shoujo still remains my favourite genre.

the first anime i probably watch was either DBZ/ doraemon, EVA, crayon shin chan or marumaru chan --> all in chinese dub btw (ones i could remember). The one that really got me active is probably DNAngel?

Well, my first anime I got into was Pokemon, but that was when I was a weeee primary school student.

hmm...i think it was one of either Street Fighter the movie, Akira, or Wicked City that my brother borrowed from his friend. Then later I think I went full blown into it when Sailor Moon started showing on tv lol

Speaking of Gatchaman, did you know the people who made the TMNT CG movie are making a CG movie of Gatchaman? It's looking very cool even from their progress shots (Imagi Animation). I've never seen any full episode of Gatchaman myself, but I do vaguely remember them on TV as a kid lol.

Ranma? I'm not too sure tho... Remember seeing Wicked City and Silent Mobius early on.

I think DBZ was my first anime ever (that or Pokemon, I don't remember). The first non-dubbed anime was either Naruto or Midori no Hibi.

my first anime would have to dubbed pokemon when i was about 5 years old. think i watched subbed evangelion around that age as well coz it had cool mechas lol even though i didnt get the rest of the stuff.
the first proper anime i watched (ie not dubbed) was chobits which i watched when i was about 12, which i loved coz it was about a guy who wanted a persocom to watch porn lol. while searching for more chobits, i found some gundam and other random animes which just lead me on till now~

Dominion tank police was my first anime

My first anime was Sailor Moon.
I watched it on Swedish television.

Doraemon with the Cantonese dubs. That was back when I was probably 4 years old. I was surprised that they still air it in Hong Kong that last time I went.

Trigun was the first series that I watched.

My first was Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo. Nothing like good ol' Nose Hair Battles to keep television interesting.

Haha, no seriously, my first was FLCL. After that, I just got hooked. All the crazy things going on just kept me coming back for more. I guess that's why I am able to appreciate the wackiness of Bobobo. Does that make me strange? (Although, Bobobo's story isn't nearly comparable.)

Scarily my first anime was Marine Boy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Boy) in the late 1960's. I was about 6 to 8. It was the first Japanese animation ever shown in the uk. Didnt know it was Japanese at the time. I came back to Anime the traditional way via Ghost in the Shell, Akira & Miyazaki. But my first recent seriess that really got me back into it was Azumanga Daioh.

My memories jumbled between three anime so it was either Tekkaman Blade, Crying Freeman, or Castle in the Sky...

I got caught by Ghost in the Shell Movie and Evangelion, both in German back then lol

My first was Marine Boy -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HqSkY4vtVY -- which was shown on the BBC in the late 1960s. I was too young to realise it was Japanese, so it didn't make me go out and search for more. I got into Japanese culture through the historical wargames route, mainly inspired by the TV series Shogun, made about 1980.

Moomins was my first anime. Watched it before I even knew what anime was lol. Then after that it was the usual suspects, Pokemon, Sailor Moon etc.

my first anime was probably saint seiya.. but i was too young to even understand it was a cartoon.. im pretty sure i was still only like 2 years old at the time. the reason i remembered watching such a thing was because i had a figure of one of the characters, and my mum told me that i really treasured it, so she kept it for me in a safe place, and i found it 15 years later.... when i was 17 XD

Cybot Robotchi, or Robby the Rascal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_the_Rascal
man I'm old! ^^;

My first was Akira, and till today it is my favorite film around. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qT_SLtKoeVY

My first anime was Doraemon or maybe Saint Seiya, I kinda forgot lol xP
And my first anime I watched in Japanese would be Love Hina, I fell in love with Naru Narusegawa at first sight ^^;

I thought my first one was Saint Seiya, then followed by Record of Lodoss Wars. but my parents told me that my first one should be Astry boy...

First was Teknoman aka Tekkaman (dub version, which was actually very good). Still love it as one of the best series evar, but sadly I haven't been able to find the uncensored dub dvds anywhere. This series (and DBZ) are actually the only two I like in dub, simply because that's how I watched them first and couln't imagine them otherwise. Now it's all Japanese for me though ^^

Doraemon, should be the first. er, my 2nd anime I think can consider Dragon Ball, although is not watch too much(I mean just watch some of it) because my bro rental it from shop, that time I was in primary school. Then the following is Evangelion then Rurouni Kenshin and Let's & Go.

A dubbed Guyver, when i was 11 or so. I liked the gore in it, and i still think the original OVA is a great series.

hmmmm i think robotech- Macross series and doraemon lol

My first anime was Evangelion

My first completed anime was Love Hina..
I'm not so sure what my first anime episode I watched was... Maybe it was Doraemon.

The first Anime I remember watching and started to get me interested in them has to be Ninja Scrolls, although there were some before i.e. dragonball z etc but at the time I didn't really know what an Anime was.

The first Anime i baught for my collection i think was one of three cant remember which i got first but it was either Macross Plus, Perfect Blue, Akira, since then i've got way over 300 anime dvds including many classics and new shows.

So really I don't think I'll ever grow bored of Anime they are a part of my life now and one of my main hobbies.

Sorry got slightly off subject :D

The first anime I was aware of watching was Marine Boy, AKA Marine Kid in US. That really does show how old I am, sorry. I didn't actually get interested in anime until I saw Kikis Delivery Service in the early '90s though! Mind you a lot of people start with Ghibli movies...

Sailor Moon dub I believe. not sure if you would count hello kitty as anime...

My first anime... how nostalgic. Was Akira, funnily enough. Not very exciting i'm afraid.

Wow I can't really think of the first anime that I've watched as I remember watching some stuff on Saturday mornings and before leaving for school but I can't think of any names. The first real unedited with subtitles anime was Lodoss Wars during my freshman year at college. My roommate introduced me to anime. I also watched Wicked City and La Blue girl that same night. Talk about eye opening.

The first anime I saw (I was young and didn't know it was anime that time) were probably either Digimon or the Moomins (this qualifies as anime, right?). The first anime I watched while knowing it was anime was Ghost in the Shell movie. Thanks to this movie I became an anime fan.

The very first anime I remember watching was definitely Voltes V http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIcMzt2nSyM (aka Choudenji Machine Voltes V) since it was so huge when I grew up in the Philippines. However, I didn't really follow it except for when I happened to flip it on while channel surfing. I guess I really didn't start to make time for anime until Dragon Ball (and eventually Z) and Urusei Yatsura on public TV here in America.

My first anime was Voltron (aka Go Go Lion in Japanese) from a very old VHS cassette and sometimes I still watch it even though it's almost old as me xD (24 years)

I'm surprised that there's no one else (so far) whose first anime was Kimagure Orange Road. While I'm pretty sure I watched shows like Doraemon before my first episode of KOR, I didn't really consider those anime; they were more like kid's shows or cartoons. I suppose the distinction is the episodic format where I can't miss an episode. I was sick from school when KOR was first airing in HK and caught the first episode... couldn't stop watching it and tried to pretend to be sick the week after to watch more. ^^;;

The first anime I watched was 3x3 Eyes (Sazan Eyes)
since then I named myself yakumo (nickname)

My first anime would be Super Dimenional Fortress Macross and it's movie, DYRL> :D then it was Project A-Ko. After that, It was all down hill from there. Oh yes, Voltes V, Combattler and Daimos too :D

well when i was younger i watched Ghost in the Shell movie...them about 2 years later my local tv station started to air Dragon Ball, and Dragon Ball Z. i then after a few years started to notice anime shows like Akira and Hellsing on a german programs, mostly VIVA. didn't understand any of it since it was dubed in german i left it alone. then the summer before my first year in high school my friend started to watch anime and he got me in to it. we were watching Evangelion. after that i feel in love. been watching anime like nuts ever since and feel in love with Japan even more ^^;

The first anime i did watch really active was... Sailor Moon, yea... in german and whatsonot.
The first anime aside from TV, i did rent a video (yes back then they still used the tapes) of Akira.
Maybe not the best ones to start with but yea, i was young etc. pp.

super robot mazinger... for tokusatsu space police gaban

I don't rightly remember if it was the first one I saw as a kid. There've been so many I saw back then. But with a certain amount of clarity, I would say "Galaxy Express 999" the movie would be the one for me

First was Dragon Ball...

Shows my age, but Astro Boy and then Speed Racer when I was a kid. Television had only 3 network channels and then a few channels on UHF, one of which I watched Astro Boy. I think Speed Racer was broadcast on the non-network channels as well. I didn't even know they were Japanese at the time.

Crayon Shin-chan.. aw how i hated it..

My very first anime was Barefoot Gen (dubbed) when I was 3 or 4.
I cried so much... T_T

Tenchi Muyo OVA..rented from a Blockbuster one evening because I was wondering why a 'cartoon' was put in their sci-fi/Fantasy section. Best question ever IMO. And I'd still watch this series when the mood strikes. Especially if I can get other people together who've never seen this classic.

The first anime I watched was Speed Racer..hahah After that it was G-Force. I dind't watch anime again until I started with Ghost in the Shell and Naruto...two huge names. I was hooked after that.

My very first anime was Samurai Pizza Cats XD

I suspect Danny and I are about the same age now... I also grew up on a diet of "Battle of the Planets" and UFO Robot Grendizer (in particular, the part of Canada I lived in, the French edits as well). And perhaps Cantonese dub of Doraemon (we called it Ding Dong); but I did not have a steady intake of it because it was hard to come by.

Decades later, when "anime" became "anime" (i.e.: it was marketted as "something new and cool from Japan") I watched Sailor Moon, Tenchi Muyo, Ranma 1/2, Bubblegum Crisis, etc... My favourites today are anything Macross and Ghost in the Shell. Really, I getting much too old for most TV-style anime for kids.

God damnit!!! Definetly Gatchman! (and im not that old just...nineteen years old) But here, the anime was dubbed as "Fuerza G" and I doesn't know how it call's really =3 Thanks danny ^^

My first one was "Grendizer" called "Goldorak" in france. It was a revolution in my country and some considered it was an invasion from japan tv. For me it was only a pleasure to watch a new anime.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=tW8JKCouIA4

My very first Japanese raw anime was original Bubblegum Crisis OVA and Macross: Do You Remember Love. I was little back then so Minmay's shower scene gave me quite a nosebleed -_-

My first was DB series, because it was aired in local TV station,so I just ride on the wave.
"Rahxephon" & "Full Mental Alchemist" which are the one who got me heavily into anime & later qualified me as Otaku cum Hikikomori ^^;

Dragonball ... in cantonese! (Such horrible dubbing).
The first anime that I knew was an anime (ie: knew that it was different from american animation) was Princess Mononoke. That film still has a soft spot in my otaku soul ^_^

first anime for me love hina

Golden Warrior Gold Lightan was one of my favourites when i was young lad. ^^;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P_cPb980k0

The most I remember is Robotech and Macross are my first anime. others is Gaiking, Gradaizer or someting and the big truck transform into a robot. forget that mecha

My first anime were probably Mitsubachi Maya no Bouken, Alps no Shoujo Heidi and Vicky the Little Viking back when I was a kid. Though at that time I didn't know what anime is. ^^''

Bubblegum Crisis and Record of Lodoss War were the first anime that I watched knowing that they are anime.

I think my first anime i watched was either slam dunk, dragonball, or yu yu hakusho. My memory serves me bad...this was back when i was three..

It was Dragonball and Gundam Wing (well, duh :D)

My very first anime that I knowingly watched was Pokemon - sad but true. I remember when the Pokemon craze first hit the UK and I was firmly in the 'I'm not interested in this !@&%!' camp. Somehow I ended up playing it and that was my first step into the world of anime and Japanese culture, and now I'm hooked. My first non-Pokemon animes were Escaflowne, Gundam Wing and the amusingly named 'The Big O' - does anyone else remember that series?

dam it was along time when i saw my first one i think is ninja scroll :)

That was one of my first too, saber rider(Sei Juushi Bismarck) and Chiisana Viking Vickie in the beginning of the 90's, this is the only ones I can remember and toke me a lot of effort to remember. Still the most famous is dragonball and then Evangelion.

My first anime was Akira, I rented it because I liked the cover... that was like, 15 years ago or something.

the first anime i have see in my life is macross as i remember (dubbed in portuguese), but the anime what take me to the otakus life is saint seya! (dubbed too). in the back of school i always get me running to my house, because of the schedule time in the TV (in the brazil the time of the program always not have the right time to start and end, like in japan....)

My first first anime was Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin I think, that was when I was really young and didn't even know I was watching anime. But first anime that got me into watching anime was Hellsing (the TV version). After that it was Gundam Wing and then I was already hooked...

And after checking AniDB stats I can tell you that I've seen 199 anime series/movies... wonder what will be my 200th one :)

First anime ever was the american version of Macross, Robotech. I remember I got up every day at 5:30am because it was aired at 6am. So I got up, watched it, then got ready for school. That was back in 1986 or so. That was the very first anime as far back as I can recall lol.

I remember watching Macross called Robotech in the states. From that point a new world was opened to me.

I watched Pokemon and such as a kid, but didn't know what anime is back then. Almost 3 years ago I stumbled over a Chobits torrent while searching for something else, well that got me into anime till today.

I think mine must have been Pokemon, followed very shortly by DBZ and Sailor Moon.

My first Anime was Doraemon after that Gundam Wing caught my attention then I became a regular after Vandread.

I remember a meme that asked me what inspired me to draw....and these anime are:

1. Sailormoon (every girl in the planet must have watched this...or maybe just me)
2. Yu Yu Hakusho (This is another local tv classic)
3. Daimos (I love the tacky dub of this for no apparent reason)
4. Voltes V (hey this anime is way too historically banned by our infamous dictator)

My first anime was the first Fatal Fury OVA. I was a big fan of fighting games like Fatal Fury and Street Fighter and ran into the VHS tape of Fatal Fury at a Suncoast (God am I old). I was like 8 at the time and thought the animation looked awesome as it was a style I'd never seen before, so after like a month of hiding the tape in various shelves until I had the money, I finally bought it. I loved it, so I quickly bought the next two Ovas. And so began me love of Anime.

My first ones were the ones that were on Spanish TV: DragonBall Z, Dr Slump... All Toriyama u^^

My first was probably speed racer dubbed then pokemon dubbed
first japanese one were His and Her Circumstances but i didn't understand it at the time.

does doremon count?

the first anime that I watch and I was aware of the fact that its anime was Ninja Scroll The Movie :) Eventually I understand that my first ever anime was Hyakujuu Ou Golion ( Voltron ) :D

My first anime was "Superbook"...an anime showing bible stories. My mom taped it when I was like 3. When I was 5 or so I got Totoro on VHS, the original English dub. I still own it to this day and have it with my regular collection.

First one was propably Heidi (アルプスの少女ハイジ, Arupusu no shōjo Haiji) though I did not know it was anime these days ... back in the early 80ies that was. The german intro however is still one of the best known tunes here. One of the rare cases of a good dub ;-)

Pretty much at the same time there was "Wunderbare Reise des kleinen Nils Holgersson mit den Wildgänsen" (ニルスのふしぎな旅, Nirusu no fushigi na tabi). Man did I love that series :)

The time until I catched on Sailor Moon in the mid-90ies is a blur ... I bet there have been many anime that I did not know of they were anime, but Sailor Moon would then be the first one I recognised as anime, the rest is history for me :)

My virginity was taken at a LAN party when a friend brought End Of Eva. I had never seen the series and I had had many a liter of beer. I was mighty confused, but somehow I was hooked

First anime I watched was "Saint Seiya" (dubbed as "Les Chevaliers Du Zodiac" on French television).
That same wednesday afternoon time slot also aired "City Hunter", "Ranma 1/2" (which I didn't like), "Maison Ikokku",...

I can't remember exactly.. but I know the first was either Tenchi Muyo, The Guyver or Armitage III and I still have them all on VHS lol

Technically, I watched a few weird straight-to-video films that I didn't realize until years later were actually dubbed anime. Serendipity, for example, and My Neighbor Totoro, both of which I watched in elementary school. An interesting one to add to that list would be The Last Unicorn, a fairly well-executed collaboration between US and Japanese animation companies that I love to this day.

In middle school, when DBZ was huge, I became vaguely aware of the fact that these things were getting imported to the states, but couldn't stand them.

Finally, though, in high school I started reading the American version of Shonen Jump, which my now-roommate lent me. Reading imported Japanese fiction was much more tolerable for me than watching it. I then rented Spirited Away, and it dawned on me that I just generally hated most of the dubbed voice acting. The first series that I remember watching on DVD was Chobits, followed closely by Fruits Basket and Fullmetal Alchemist, but during high school I was mostly a manga reader. Now it's the other way around thanks to the Jack Sparrow principle. ^^;

If I go really back, it must have been Spoon-Obasan or Wiki The Viking (dubbed in dutch), and Dragonball (not Z, first one) and Saint Seiya (dubbed in french)

But my real start in watching anime (through fansubs) was Tokyo Underground and Chobits.

Robotech (aka the macross bootleg) and astroboy.

My first anime was Astroboy (in spahish XD)... when I was 3. That was like 21 years ago >.<U

My first anime is lensman. Not sure if any of you guys or gals have seen it.
Link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNSz1vF5LZc

Oh my that was so long time ago I not really sure about the exactly first one but could one of this ones (yes they are in black in white)

Rainbow Sentai Robin (レインボー戦隊ロビン)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4UUy_7QAHI

Yusei Kamen (遊星仮面)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ5fjmmWGoc

Mirai Kara Shonen Super Jetter (未来から少年スーパージェッター)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC5z5vhppMI

My first anime was dragon ball z as well. That was basically the only decent anime around. Although I didn't learn what was anime until a couple of years later.

My first anime was Crayon Shin-Chan when I was back in China.

Oh c'mon? Nobody watch the Original Pokemon? xD

I started out with dubbed versions of Sailor Moon and Gundam Wing on the old Toonami... Never realizing that I was watching anime. Then after I found Adult Swim and watched FLCL dubbed and then realized I was watching anime... A few pushes in the direction by some people I now watch a lot of anime. :s

Back in the day (some 17 or 16 years ago) i watched alot of anime without knowing that i was watching anime. After all, for a 5 year old all that mattered was that it was 2d. Only recently i have found that i have watched more anime than western animation back then.

Astroboy and Robotech. Robotech actually started my fascination of planes. I'd always built some sort of jet out of Lego that could somewhat transform. From then on, my parents believed I would have become a fighter pilot.

robotech, flying house, superbook, kimba the white lion, sailormoon, gigantor, dragonball all aired in the Phils when i was growing up. ah the memories

So what is the image up there from????

My very first anime was Prince Planet (Planet Boy Popi) back in the mid 70's ... also Speed Racer, Star Blazers and Battle of the PLanets. First anime that really got me hooked was Robotech in the early 80s.

Oh i remember those days when i came back from school to watch saint seiya (Caballeros del Zodiaco in Mexico) so its my first anime and still my favorite.

Let's see...first for me was Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers) back in 1975 and then of course...Captain Harlock and Galaxy Express 999. Plus, just about everything else in between. But you gotta love Gurren Lagann, Haruhi and Lucky Star.
Older Anime fan...

Well, my first anime has to be the original Gundam and Cardcaptor Sakura...
I watched the original Gundam in cantonese and Cardcaptor Sakura in english...
Those all start my anime lifestyle...
What really brought it out was Azumanga Daioh...
I couldn't stop laughing just reading through the first volume!!!
Ah, great memories...

Transformers would be my first anime. Followed by Robotech (And later Macross)

Mine would have to be Voltron or Captain Harlock. Though the first one to really grab my attention would have to have been the Macross section of Robotech. Child of the 80's!

My first anime I ever saw was Vampire Hunter D. After that, the first series I ever watched was the ever rememberable Macross. I've loved anime till this day. Except Bleach gets on my damn nerves with the filler episodes. Effin lame

First anime would have to be Speed Racer, G-Force/Battle of the Plantes or Star Blazers can't remember which.
The english dubbed hacked up Macross came out when I was in High School.

The first anime that I knew was anime was a tape I borrowed from a friend that had a raw of Fight! Iczer One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuWlta_TlmA has I had no Knowledge of japanese it was kind of hard to follow the plot, hell it's kind of hard to follow dubbed. Along with the whacked up dubbed ver of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfJC5x_xruQ

mine was Sailor Moon yeah.....

Astroboy... And I kind of remember watching it in black and white TV.

Back in high school my friend introduced me to Cowboy Bebop and I've been hooked ever since.

probably Mazinger Z or Voltes V during the '70s. ^^

uh oh! I think I'm giving my age away. @_@

Inuyasha here then it eventually moved on and now i've watched too many animes to remember lol xD

the first anime i watch is doraemon . but i only turn to an anime otaku after i watched full metal panic

I remember my brother renting a few VHS tapes from this chinese grocery store my family used to go to back when I was a little kid, and he turned it on once we were home. It was then that I was exposed to Ranma 1/2 in Cantonese dubs: The art was really neat, plus I was at the same time exposed to Bruce Lee, so the martial arts were what brought me in at first. But it wasn't until my brother ordered the first 3 few tapes of Slayers and Tenchi Muyo OAV in Japanese with English subs that I really got into anime. Lina casting Fireball and Tenchi using...the Tenchi...have always been my fondest memories of my first foray into anime. Oh, those were the days...

Robotech (english version)

gundam wing

It started with a little bit of Dragonball...

From there Pokemon, Digimon and Gundam slowly filled my life.

Then there was Gatekeepers (loved that anime) and Rurouni Kenshin (claasic!).

The rest is history x_x

The first anime I watched knowing it as "anime" was probably a showing of Akira on BBC Two. Must've been about 11 or 12 at the time. The first title I owned was the venerable Nuku-Nuku when I was 13. Bear in mind that this was that failtastic dub with regional accents - Kyouko with a Scouse accent, anyone? Yet, for some reason, I loved it to bits - mainly for the eponymous big-eyed robot girl and for Arisa, who had the only good voice in the whole endeavour. My tastes weren't as sophisticated back then, I guess...

my first anime series was doraemon. that was when i was still a toddler. my dad would often tell the story of how after taking my bath i would shout "doraemon" and that was their cue to turn on the tellie to the anime. i would then sit in my little red chair watching the series and swaying to the music as they dress me up.

The first anime I've ever watched ...

Gatchaman and Zorro ... in Dutch Dub -*-

Gatchaman was my first anme too, but I was too young to really remember watching this (my parents told me actually). In Poland it was called Zaloga G (G Crew). Then Maya the Bee came along, and I still remember that anime although it was fully dubbed and no one even really know that it was a japanese production. Couple years later and I've come across some really cool old school series like Daimos, Tiger Mask, Captain Hawk and one and only Dash Kappei !

I've probably been watching anime even before I "realize myself". I vaguely remember seeing robots at the age of 3-4. The "first" anime that I know I watched was DBZ movie (forgot the number) but it was Cooler's Revenge and it was in full cantonese dub ;D. On a side note, my first exposure to american cartoon is Batman: The Animated Series.

dr. slump for me

Original Macross, was my first anime that I tuned into. Even before I knew how to read, just the characters caught my wee eyes at the time. But I can never forget seeing those battles, lead by exposition, as a space soap opera.

(Next to Gundam, which is my 2nd favorite)

For me its either Doraemon or Akazukin Cha Cha. Can't remember which one I watched first.

G-Force (or Battle of the Planets?) was my first one as well, it was fab.

My first ever was Cardcaptor Sakura -_-. Loved the artwork, but was grossed out by the shojo soppiness. Had no choice though, it was the only anime on TV at that time. And then came Rurouni Kenshin....

The rest, as they say, is history...

UFo Grendizer
Saint Seiya
Dragon ball Z
Sailor moon
Captain Tsubasa
Shonen no mowgli

One of the above been watching anime since i was born more or less

I'd say either Lost Universe (SLAYERS saga) or Tenchi-Muyo

first first...i can't say.. i suppose was Grendizer or Mazinga (both of go nagai)... but i remember who was the first female maincharacter for i follow in love :) Was the girl of Moby Dick 5 (here u can see the italian version initial song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usCzNXfyi6M).
And another one that i love when i was i kid was the female main character of 魔法の天使クリィミーマミ. I love both Yū Morisawa and Creamy!

the first anime i remember watching was Voltron

First anime and shoujo series for me was Sailor Moon. That's when i first felt moe towards 2-d characters.

My first anime, that I can remember must be Candy Candy (hides)

Whoa that's a time ago. For me it was Atom (Astro boy) and UFO Robo Grendizer. I think I still have some episodes on VHS. After those a lot of other series followed.

My first was Macross I think, or Starzinger both horribly dubbed to Swedish ^^; But they do have some sentimental value.

Hmmm... lets see...
Mysterious Cities of Gold, probably the earliest I can remember, along with crossover Japanese/European stuff like Dogtanian and the Three Muskerhounds in the early 80's.

When I was about 15, or so, I watched Akira and Fist Of The North Star, on VHS. They blew my fikken mind. Up until that point in my life, I had no idea that animation could do such things.

E^D

Dubbed DBZ and Robotech (macross) was my first when I still couldn't differentiate western and eastern cartoons. heheh! The time that I knew the difference between them was when I was watching BurnUp Excess W. heheh! It's still at the top of my list as best series I've ever watched. And that's when I discovered I really love 2D characters. Who wouldn't? Just look at the heroines of that anime. heheh

Show Time! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bFfk_YjQpI

It's hard for me to recall my first anime because I used to watch a lot of TV when I was a kid. I believe Voltron, is one of the first ones I can recall.

I think that my first anime was Mazinger Z, but I started watching preferently anime when "La 2", Spain TV channel, started to broadcast Marmalade Boy (La familia Crece in spanish) on Yakutake TV program. I love Marmalade Boy :3

SAILOR MOON FTW...then it was Dragon Ball Z and then I saw Ninja Scroll 1 night...hell all that got me into anime

LONG LIFE TO THE SAINTS OF ATHENA! yeah, my first one was saint seiya!, still love it!
here is link for the first opening tha make me an anime fanatic!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px2zX-M2alQ

The first one must be Sakura Card CAptor, it made me see a lot of other animes ^^

Well my first anime was also a early morning dub before i went to school.
SANURAI PIZZA CATS!!!! i really want to see it again but in the original japanese version.
(btw nice to meet you all i'm new to the forum)

Voltron for me~ then it was dbz

I have watch tons of anime ever since I was four (even maybe younger) but for me they were only cartoons.

The anime that started it all (first manga too) was Sailor Moon. I got so obsessed I wanted to know more, and found out about anime. From then on it's history, and I have never seen such an uproar for an anime again (it even got its own crappy magazine) outside Dragon Ball in my country (Argentina).

First anime that I watched and was interested in was Macross on Cartoon Network, before the days of Toonami, Adult Swim and more recent stuff.

I think Ghost in the Shell was the first anime that really caught my interest. I was so young though, was a bit confusing. But its actually still my favorite anime movie of all time :D!

Hmm the first anime I remember ever seeing was sailor moon and what a thing to grow up with xD But I think i really fell in love with anime when I saw pokemon for the first time first series back in like 1994? I think thats about when it hit Australia.!

Dbz, Pokemon, Digimon, Monster rancher, Flcl, Inuyasha (i hate it now though) Big O, ect.

The first anime I can remember watching was Pokemon back when I was in the 3rd grade. Although I didn't truly get into anime until I was in high school.

lol, guess what mine was... yep, DBZ, DAMN YOU TOONARMY!

My 1st anime is crayon shin-chan and it is funny and i can really understand it doraemon is also one my first but the first real anime i watched is Shinseiki Evangelion i was 5 den and i really didnt understand it because its too much for me so i need to rewatch it through dvd :3

My first anime was Galaxy Express 999

SailorMoon / Daimos / Voltes V / G-Force
...Not really sure. Daimos is most likely though, since its a 70's anime... Though I was born in the late 80s, haha XD

i would have to say Sailor Moon vback when I was in 5th grade or so.

My first anime was Pokemon back in 98 . Soon to be followed by Tenchi Muyo , and then Serial Experiments Lain

pretty sure it was Gundam Wing on Toonami as well. Such an amazing anime, and i've started watching it again, and it makes a lot more sense now then when i was only 10

it would have to be Sailor Moon and Yaiba

I don't remember much of Yaiba though

gundam seed all because of Lacus Clyne

I was watching the dub of Blue Noah (Thundersub) and Astroboy before I knew the difference between anime and cartoons.

When I became aware, Yu Yu Hakusho was being run, so I guess that's also a first.

Hmm my first anime would have to be Pokemon thought at the time I had no idea what anime was just thought of them as cartoons.

Mazinger Z!

the first anime I watched was You're Under Arrest 2 on AXN XD

the first anime i watched was love hina ^^ #yt#http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Ej4Fchszs#yt#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Ej4Fchszs

First anime that was dubbed would be pokemon. First anime that was subbed would be full metal alchemist.

my first anime would have to be dbz when i wacthed i was glued to the tv for hours on end watching it.

First anime...hmm well I did watch Pokemon back in elementary school, but only recently (about two years ago) started to watch Negima, and from there life has not been the same. So far i've seen Love Hina, Lucky Star, School Rumble, Code Geass, and a bit of Bleach and Naruto when its on TV. Also before Negima, before all the Japanese shows, I watched a French animated show called Code Lyoko, which led up to Negima when it ended. Anyone heard of it?

Mine would be Maple Town ^_^ or Serendipity!

i cant remember which was my first. I think it was sailor moon, i was pretty hooked on that for a while xd

I first saw "La Princesa Caballero" (I was in love with her), then (in black and white! Im 42 y/o), "Señorita Cometa" and "Ultraman" (non anime but japanese enough :)) and "Heidi". My sisters watch "Remi", "Candy", etc.

After a while I see Tekkaman Blade and rediscover the anime. Now I love Azumanga Daioh, Inuyasha, FMA, Gantz, Tenjou Tenge, Ichigo Mashimaro, and recently Gurren Lagann. I still didnt watch Gundam anything nor Evangelion, but I hope I can found the time...

My first Anime ever was Ahiru no Quack. Good old times...

I think it all started when I was introduced by my cousins to dubbed Pokemon when I was a wee lad. Then, throughout primary school, came a plethora of various other anime dubs that I really don't remember or care about anymore. Amongst these was the bastardised, shortened, gay/lesbian relationship-void dub version of CardCaptor Sakura that I just happened to decide to look back into sometime in the 8th grade. I realized how good the subbed version was, and finished all 70 eps on youtube.

This quickly led to my interest in anime, and to my interest in Japan...which in turn led me to this site :D

I've got you all beat!! Kimba the White Lion and the original Speed Racer on a Public access channel!

My first anime, well, the first one that I liked anyway, was Digimon. Seen every season apart from season 5 and after about 8 or 9 years after seeing it for the first time, I still adore it.

I'm not even sure what the first anime I saw was called, I remember as a kid liking a show about a raccoon and children (this was early 80's, it might have been a Sanrio anime) and then moving on to stuff like Urusei Yatsura

My first anime was: CANDY CANDY <3 I love that series even today. The drama, the love, kindness, friendships... Candy Candy had it all. I wish I owned the DVD collection of it.

Z Gundam. Followed by Hamtaro.

The first anime that Ive seen was I think Yu Yu Hakusho or Super Boink.
they were showing on the same channel so I dont remember which one I saw first lol x D

but the first anime that really got me hooked into anime would be Sailor Moon. I still loove the show until today and my friends laugh at me for it but heeey, if it wasn't for SM, I wouldn't have started to watch anime. well, I would have but I would miss out on watching such an amazing show x P

Mine was probly either, DBZ, Initial D or the first series i ever watched from start to finish was probly Nadesico.

Sailor Moon, back when I was four

I watch Cardcaptor Sakura on Video tape first when I'm about 4 or 5 then I read Doreamon when I'm 7. Now I have a full Cardcaptor Sakura on my HDD

mines pokemon yeah i'm a nineties kid

For me it was Captain Tsubasa Dream, then Dragon Ball/Z and Ranma 1/2

Card Captor Sakura for me in 2001, then my brother introduced me to Ghost in the shell, Akira, Evangelion, which was all a bit to much. But what finally got me into anime was Last Exile.

My first anime was on toonami and was probly DBZ or Gundam. but i remember getting very into Pokemon XD

My first Anime.... I'd say that my first anime would be Sailor Moon, since my sister would always be hogging the TV. Now, the first anime I got into would be Love Hina.

macross :) the movie "Do you Remember Love" it was japanese subtitled in english

Now that i saw that video of G force i remember watching it when i was a kid to i guess thats my first anime, but at that age i think i just watched what was on saturday morning. Probley when i was a bit older i saw Dragon Ball Z so with the exception of G force those were my first anime.

First anime that I saw was Tonari no Totoro, then Sailor Moon, Crayon Shin-Chan, and then Tenchi Muyo. Tenchi was back when cartoon network ruled with TOONAMI!

My first Anime was Nagareboshi gin (or Silver Fang as it was called here) Dubbed in Swedish. I get nostalgic when i watch it... The one that really ruined me in my adult years was Neo Genesis Evengelion though, still get the shiws when Eva 01 runs berserk in the beginning.

I think my first anime was Battle of the Planets (the heavily edited version of Gatchaman). It was in 1981 or 1982...
Come to think of it, in my early years I also watched Calimero and Vicky the Viking (in the Netherlands he was called Wicky though).

My first anime was Speed Racer. I became a die-hard fan after seeing DBZ and the like on Cartoon Network and the Saturday Anime on Sci-Fi. They had a week-long feature once with movies like Galaxy Express 999 and Fatal Fury, also got hooked on Zeiram the Animation.

My first anime was The Shinesman. Not sure if anyone heard about since it was only 2 episodes long. It was basically a parody about super hero groups like the power rangers (which isnt anime). Instead of being teens who live a normal life but fight crime on the side, its businessman who stop the world from corporate evil. lol I know it sounds weird, but it has some really funny humor.

If Pokemon counts that but Naruto is the first anime I was serious about watching. I used to follow with what ever my brother said and bashed all "cartoons",but now...its all I watch XD

Dragon ball then Akira then Naruto then One piece also after that She the ultimate weapon then Aoi Yori Aoshi

Mine was Yu-Yu-Hakusho =3 aka Ghost Fighter teehhee~

Either it was Yu Yu Hakusho, Gundam Wing, or another one about some kid with two girls that fight over him. Was on Toonami and the one girl had blue hair and a little cute animal that transformed into a ship if i remember correctly. If anyone can tell me what it was, thanks! =D

hmm, i think it was Cardcaptor sakura on Nickelodeon (if thats how its spelt) and eva on sci-fi channel at 4am :D, but when i reallllllly got in to anime, it was a friend that showed me Angelic Layer, and that was it, i was hooked XD, god i can still remember when my anime goods was small, all angelic layer manga books, and afew other things, i think i still have the pics somewhere on my HDD's XD

First anime.. I don't even remember. It might've been Robotech (Macross). I also remember watching Project A-ko very early on.. so those were the first ones. A-ko didn't hold up very well.. have the original Macross sitting on my shelf waiting to be watched.. but I'm afeared how that might go..

I started with Robotech, Berserk, and Pok'emon.

lol sailor moon for me.. even though im a guy

First anime ever seen was Serial Experiments Lain. After that Noir and NGE.
I still wonder why i fell for anime after watching Lain, as it isnt your "normal" anime.

My first anime was Serial Experiments Lain. I'm a little surprised I'm not the only one.

A very touchy subject, was Sonic the Hedgehog an anime? If not Speed Racer was my first one I believe. Later I got into Neon Genesis along with Fullmetal Alchemist and Ghost in the Shell.

The first Anime I ever watched was an anime called "Crest of The Stars" on G4tV when it had good programming, dubbed of course. After that I was immediately hooked, went on and now have watched over 100 animes, which is surprisingly helping me with Japanese :P