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flonne_666:
I think Kiki's Delivery Service was the first anime I watched. It might have been a birthday gift or something. It's not what got me into anime though, I think Big O, DBZ, and Card Captor Sakura did when they were on Toonami. Some of that old stuff was awesome and still is.

teepo:
It all started with a random Dragon Ball VHS I got when I was six.  Then I watch the Tekkaman Blade dub whatever it was called over here I think it was Tekonoman or something like that.

Calamitygear:
Probably my first initial encounter with anime was Pokemon. While I didn't really care about it one way or another after a while, the series is what sparked my interest in all things Japanese. Though I remember seriously growing to dislike the series since it just repeated the same basic storyline every 50ish episodes...

What really got me into anime was Escaflowne. It aired, not always but usually, on saturay mornings on a fringe antenna-only channel. It was like nothing I'd ever seen before, and it was INCREDIBLE. It did get cancelled off of the air after about 6 episodes in, but the mark it left on me stayed. From there I still didn't really know too much about anime, the next big thing I watched was Yu-Gi-Oh years later. It fed my thirst and I began asking a couple of my friends for anime recommendations, and they gave me series like Death Note, The Melancholy of HS, and EVA. I haven't looked back since! :D

zmalt:
Was lounging around one lazy summer's afternoon and turned on Funimation for the first time. Episode 13 of Suzuka was playing, the episode where (click to show/hide)Yamato and Honoka finally kiss on the stadium steps and Tooi Hi no Kizuato (the piano song that plays whenever something beautiful or tragic happens to Yamato) starts playing. I hadn't played the piano for about five years before that day. That episode alone got me to re-learn it and become an active player again. After that I searched through anime OST's for other good pieces of piano music. If the anime OST moved me at all I would give the anime a try, and for a while that's how I screened my anime selections. My anime watching technique has since matured and I no longer love anime just for the sake of music (although that is a big part of why I love anime).

AceD:
Hmm...must of been around when i was 14/15years old, i saw an advert on Cartoon Network for a certain show that was starting...Dragonba llZ. I watched Pokemon, Tenchi, Sailor Moon, Beyblade and some other random crap around this time to...stopped watching any ''cartoons'' around 16/17 (didn't know it was even anime)

but i wouldn't say any of that got me into anime, around 11months ago i quit a game i played for years, loads of people on that game watched Naruto & Bleach. So since i had nowt to do i downloaded Naruto and Bleach, which i really enjoyed...think i watched Fate/Stay night, Claymore and Shakugan no Shana after (yea...all hail Eclipse!)

Well...that was it, in the last 11 months ive seen 220ish anime  :-X

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