Your first anime

[Zykon TheLich]

Wello, as someone who grew up in the 90's rather unsurprisingly my 1st anime was Akira. I was 14 I beleive in 1992 (I remember because I was just too young to buy it legally).
After that was 3x3 eyes, Urotsukidoji, Patlabor, Battle Angel Alita, Appleseed, GITS. Soon after GITS I realised that most of the rest of anime was crap and stopped. Now I can't stomach any of it.

 

[Galigain]

super robot monkey team hyperforce go
Me and my freind watch it every weekend
she and i also qoute the series non stop
we even tried and abridged series but in the end we scrapped it because of compressing issues and now we just laugh at the idea of defiling that great show

 

[Galigain]

btw nice avater scumofsociety i love order of the stick

 

[ReiderZevn]

Rurouni Kenshin!
Still my favorite show! Love the story, love the characters, love it all!!!!

 

[rickthetrick]

I'm looking at all these posts and I feel old as hell. I remember my first "anime" was Robotech. When I was in elementary school I'd stay home and watch the episodes that came on in the morning and then have to run like hell the half mile to my school to make it on time. This was back when parents actually let their kids walk to school by themselves.

 

[Terrortree]

I watched zoids when I was really young so I don't know if I can really count that... I guess Yu-Gi-Oh, and just saying it makes me wanna vomit lol

 

[Tetranitrophenol]

Tekkaman! ahh I remember like it was yesterday, 1993 it aired early from 7:30am to 8:00am so I had to watch it in my mom's car with a portable TV on the way to school.

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It was in spanish, and IT WAS AWESOME!, ahh good times! ^_____^

Still I couldn't figure out how in the hell I was able to watch it... that TV was the size of a large VCR used 8 D batteries and had a 3'' black and white screen.

 

[Vykrel]

Pokemon... loved it

 

[Brightzide]

DBZ when I was in Primary School mate. Back when it was 'THE' cool thing of the time, and how many friends you had depended on how much you knew about DBZ...needless to say, I was the most popular kid in ze world....if only for the length of the fad.

It was a fad? Dammit...

Robotech was my first anime. Once it and DBZ came into my life I was not the same child.

Yeah, DBZ was a real fad here in Manchester. All the kids knew of it and went crazy for it. The fad lasted about half a year, and I'm pretty sure something else that was considered cool came and replaced it....Like Beyblades or whatever. I still continued to watch DBZ through the Cell and Buu sagas , just out of interest. And then we kind of grew apart...sad story really

 

[mew1234321]

Well, the first anime I watched to completion, in my current cycle, (For some reason, I tend to go on these weird cycles of stuff) Would actually be, and I'm kind of embarrassed to admit this, but, um...

To Love Ru.

Yeah, you heard me.

I immediately followed it up with Neon Genesis Evangelion, so, it's cool.

Edit:

Actually, the very first anime I can remember watching, waaaaaaay back in the day, when I was but a young lad, would still be Neon Genesis Evangelion. But I didn't understand any of it, and it gave me nightmares for weeks.

 

[Polaris19]

DBZ. Was awhile before I moved beyond it though.

 

[michael_ab]

the first i can remember, identify, and KNOW its an anime? vampire hunter D

 

[EBonhawk09]

Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team. Still my favorite anime show. God I miss Toonami!

 

[Kermi]

Evangelion. Caught it on SBS circa-1998. Started my obsession.

 

[Nikolaz72]

Lets see, as a kid i watched pokemon. Then after forgetting everything about that kind of artstyle i guess i fell upon an anime suggestions thread a couple of months ago i guess im watching the list from the top.

 

[blind_dead_mcjones]

patlabor: the movie, back in the mid nineties with SBS used to screen anime on saturday nights, still being a kid i had no idea what the plot was, but it was so awesome i didn't care...ahh those were the days

 

[PrimoThePro]

Does Digimon count? Sailormoon was my first, followed by Cardcaptors. Love all three

Ashamed to admit it, but ya, Sailormoon may have been my first. I don't think I fully knew what I was watching. But first Subbed anime would be... Bleach I think. To be followed by many more.

 

[StrangerMouse]

Serial Experiments Lain was the first anime I truly got into, and it's my favourite one to this day.

 

[Allison Chainz]

Sailor Moon got me started on anime way back when it first aired on USA network. However, I haven't made it all the way through the entire series because of the sheer length. It would take me a couple of weeks of marathon watching to actually take the whole series in at once. It's amazing to me the difference between the American and Japanese releases of the show from what I have managed to get through though.

Sailor Moon is still among my favorites, along with Princess 9, Super GALS!, Dirty Pair Flash, and Fist of the North Star (another OMG long series).

 

[pigmypython]

For a series I suppose Legend of the Overfiend...series of movies anyway...

Hard.Fucking.Core.
I didn't even hear about Urotsukidoji until I was into my 20s, and I'd sooner watch 2 girls 1 cup again than try to finish it.

Yeah at the time I had the impression that all anime was super hardcore like that. It shook my fragile mind lol.