Your first anime

[Toriver]

My first were Gundam Wing and DBZ on Toonami when I was a kid, though I only understood DBZ, really. It was only upon re-watching Gundam Wing when it aired on Adult Swim a few years later that I really appreciated the storyline rather than just watching a bunch of robots fight each other.

 

[Lord Kodous]

Full Metal Alchemist

 

[Whitenail]

Do films count? If so then the first anime I fully watched and understood as you said would be Steamboy.

I don't really watch much anime, though a friend of mine has steered me towards the shows Code Geass and High school of the dead, are they any good?

 

[mkg]

Speed Racer I guess, but I don't think that qualifies under the modern conception of anime.

 

[HandsomeJack]

Vampire Hunter D, the origional 1980's one, had just come out in the USA. That was the only one I had seen for about 3 years, then I saw the Bubblegum Crisis series (again, the origional OAVs). By highschool I was watching more and more.

On second thought...if this counts: Voltron. Yeah, that was the first, never thought of it as ANIME as a kid...that term wouldnt come into popular wester use until the 80's

 

[tthor]

probably Naruto, but for some reason that just doesn't fell like the first anime to draw me in.. that would probably be Full Metal Alchimist

 

[JokerCrowe]

Digimon I guess. But that was before I knew it was Anime. The first Anime I've watched knowing it was anime was a show called Rozen Maiden. (desu)

 

[Norix596]

Cartoon Network Dubs of Rurouni Kenshin

 

[Asuka Soryu]

Dragon Ball Z and Yu-Gi-Oh!

 

[Gigano]

Aside from all the stuff I watched as a kid (Pokemon etc.), it would be Death Note.

 

[Count Igor]

Yu-gi-oh.
Hot damn, they were amazing back then.
I looked it up, and cards that were selling for about £5 when the first episodes were on are about £70 now.
I could've been rich

 

[Bigsmith]

Pokemon, but that was before I new it was an anime and thought it was english.

 

[^=ash=^]

Like many before me, Pokemon. However the first anime I watched, knowing it was an anime not just a cartoon, would be GANTZ.

 

[ShakerSilver]

Hmm.... can't remember. It was either Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, or DBZ.

I don't watch that much anime anyways.

 

[370999]

pokemon and Digimon, not sure which can first.

 

[unicron44]

Afro Samurai and Cowboy Beebop. Then I kinda stopped after that because nothing else interests me.

 

[TBPride]

I don't count pokemon, digimon, or yugioh, since I didn't know they were anime, I just thought of them as cartoons. First anime I really watched was Bleach, cause one of my friends wouldn't shut up about it. I liked it alright, but it opened the door into the anime world for me, so at least it was good for something. Watched FMA right after that, and had the usual reaction: THIS IS AWESO... *sees ending* wait, WTF?

 

[Steppin Razor]

Not counting the shows that were on TV when I was a kid and never really got around to watching all of, such as Pokemon/Digimon/DBZ etc, my first anime was Evangelion.