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Drextan:
I began watching anime a few years ago, because my friend always watched anime in the school on his iPod... I started watching it with him, he showed me Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu!, and it was sooo fun, that I borrowed both seasons and Fumoffu off him... And I watched it and BAAAM, I was sold... I asked for more anime, so he gave me Fullmetal Alchemist, and I began watching Naruto and Bleach...

Sooow, that's what really got me into anime... Before that I had already seen stuff in the TV, like Pokémon and Digimon... I was also reading manga like Dragon Ball, Yu-Gi-Oh and One Piece (the best manga EVER)...

boo radley:
My older bro was into anime and I used to watch some stuff with him when I was younger. This was before the internetz was accessible everywhere and torrents. He would bring home bootleg VHS copies that he or his friends got from one place or another. One of my aunts used to watch anime too and I'd watch some of her VHS tapes and read her manga whenever I was over. I'd occasionally watch the stuff that I could find on American TV too. Finally in highschool a buddy showed me FLCL and Evangelion. I liked it. Didn't think much of it until way after highschool when the same buddy gave me a busted old computer in early 2003. I discovered torrents and the same buddy again was telling me about a then new series called Naruto that he liked and another one called Initial D which incidentally got us into liking, building, and owning fast cars. He linked me to animesuki and it was my first time being exposed to torrents even though they had been around quite a while before that.

This reply is way too long for you guys to read so sorry. Cliff notes: little bit of exposure to anime when younger but being a cheap bastard and being able to download anime for free with torrents is what truly hooked me onto anime.

azn1189:
Well for me I lived in the philippines until I was eleven, and anime is just a normal thing to be watching if you're a kid.  The very first anime I remember watching is probably Voltes Five (sorry if I butchered the name heh). Then ofcourse there was DBZ, which was realllyyy big in phil from toys to videogames to cards. When I moved to the US it was pretty disappointing that there aren't that many television channels that air anime (local channels).

Wizzy123:
I originally would say DBZ, but it was actually my best friend that got me into hardcore anime watching. It was around 1997-1998 during middle school and I came over his house during summer vacation. He was watching Naruto and GTO in Japanese on DVD. I instantly starting cracking up and did the same thing any normal person would do when watching something in Japanese for the first time :D

After me joking and laughing for almost 2 weeks I decided to let him show me what anime was all about. He let me borrow all his Real bout High DVD's and Naruto DVD's. I really liked GTO and I think thats what won me over. He didn't have the entire season on DVD so I decided to research anime and look for stuff similar or more GTO episodes so I could finish the entire series. Eventually I turned to the forums and random fan sites and asked tons of people about how I could really find alot more anime. Thats when I discovered torrents and how convenient they are :) I could go on but it's waaay to much to explain lol.

Reape:
What really got me into anime was my friend. I had watched some stuff like Dragonball Z and read manga like Detective Conan when I were younger and I had kind of bad impression from it and used to tease him from watching anime and his typical answer was: "Have you seen any by yourself?"... obviously I had not seen anything good. Well after some time he managed to awaken my interest and got me to watch REC... and I've been hooked to anime ever since.

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