Author Topic: proper age to watch anime (Read 1098 times)

juggalojohn · « **on:** May 28, 2013, 11:55:26 AM »

how old where you when you watched your first anime. and that was it you watched. other than dbz yugioh and pokemon type things.

mine is 15/16 Rosario+Vampire

xyx · « **Reply #1 on:** May 28, 2013, 01:25:37 PM »

Around 1999 when for the first time Romania would have anime at night, for kids.

I started with yu yu hakusho followed by captain tsubasa, naruto, dragon ball, and the original digimon series.

LillyTown · « **Reply #2 on:** May 31, 2013, 02:26:31 AM »

Around 8, Pokemon was big around 5th grade but even before that I'd seen some stuff on Showtime(East maybe? i dunno, one of em used to show anime late night) and I had some tapes of Evangelion, Orguss, Ninja Scroll and a few others. I could be off by a year or two. I think i was in middle school when Cardcaptors came out here, was my favorite show for a long time. Also, DBZ was huge by then and my buddy got me hooked on it, think it was on CN's 'Toonami' block along with Reboot!(cool show lol) and later Gundam Wing. Oh, that reminds me, before all that I was hooked on Sailor Moon. I remember watching Sailor Moon every day before AND after school.

HeartVivian · « **Reply #3 on:** May 31, 2013, 02:41:59 AM »

If Pokemon counts, then 6-7.

Otherwise, in general, probably around 11 or so when my sister introduced me to it (I want to say Ouran was the first anime I've watched besides Pokemon/Yu Gi Oh), but it wasn't until I was 16 that I really started watching anime.

Ozzaharwood · « **Reply #4 on:** May 31, 2013, 05:51:09 AM »

According to my mom, I've loved anime since I was 3-4. She told me I used to be addicted to shows like Sailor Moon and Cardcaptors when I was extremely young. I also watched Pokemon and whatever else was on TV for years after that. Yu-gi-oh, DBZ, Zatch Bell, Shaman King, etc. I always liked anime TV shows the best. I even watched anime when I was about 11-12 in private because I thought my friends would make fun of me for liking it at my age. I stopped watching it for about 3 years after that though, and when I finally thought I was over it, I came across an anime section on a PSP game site. I decided to download a couple series and try them out. They were horrid quality, but they worked. That was when, at 14-15, I was introduced to the world of subbed anime, and haven't stopped watching it since. I believe the first subbed anime I ever watched was Kanokon, and I absolutely loved it. When I first started, it felt as if I was in a different world. Some of my happiest memories come from the time I first discovered subbed anime.

I feel like I'll never get the same feeling I had back then when watching it though. I wish I could, because it truly was the time I was most happy in all my life.

BronBron06 · « **Reply #5 on:** May 31, 2013, 06:18:59 AM »

http://forums.bakabt.me/index.php?topic=7041.1380

RayIII · « **Reply #6 on:** May 31, 2013, 01:14:18 PM »

Depends on the anime.

Ganbare, Kickers! you can watch at any age. Elfenlied not so mutch.

Tiffanys · « **Reply #7 on:** May 31, 2013, 01:29:11 PM »

Quote from: juggalojohn on May 28, 2013, 11:55:26 AM

other than dbz yugioh and pokemon type things.

Uhh... barring the type mentioned, I started in around 2009 I guess. So, 4 years younger than I am now which shall remain a mystery.

laoa · « **Reply #8 on:** May 31, 2013, 04:18:11 PM »

apart from digimon, yugioh, dbz, pokémon and avatar (I only watched the last two) there never has been anime on tv here, so didn't really know about its existence.
The first real anime I watched, was Code Geass and that was about 2 years ago.
Now that I think about it, I did see some ghibli movies before that.

CappinHoff · « **Reply #9 on:** May 31, 2013, 05:59:34 PM »

I saw Wicked City when I was 8.

Tatsujin · « **Reply #10 on:** May 31, 2013, 06:08:30 PM »

First anime, ever? ... A young princess or wealthy girl, who lost all her funds and was imprisoned in a school or mansion and was given duties to clean, mob and do other chores. It was really old. And I was very, very young. Next time I saw another anime was Ghost in the Shell, around year 1998 or 1999. I was .... uh, I can't remember how old I was. I rented it from Blockbuster because I was so fascinated by the art and the story on the back of the DVD. Then, pokemon for ... 6-8 months and I got bored because it was stupid .. I was stupid for wasting my time on something stupid. Then, DBZ ... YESHHH!!! And then I didn't watch jack shit because I knew nothing about fansubs and what not until 2004 from a certain hidden forum - I stumbled on it from watching Scrapped Princess on winamp internet streaming things ... THEN! I learned about BoxTorrents, AnimeSuki, AniDB, TokyoTosho and .. AnimeYume ... oh god, what other sites were there? Anyways, I watched Scrapped Princess in less than 24 hours ... I was like "omfg THIS ART! What is it called?". So I asked on the forums, and someone told me "Anime", then told me "Japanese made", and I was like "... they did it again .. fuckers are super smart!". And then ... where was I? Ah yes! .. Then I watched Kimi ga Nozomu Eien and holy god I shit bricks of tears. I re-watched it like ... so many times, just thinking through it over and over again made me realize how human I was! God damn it, America ... you suck at making good shit. You too, Canada, Mexico, and all you other countries!

Excellent moments ... I shall endure this hardship until the end of my time.

ConsiderPhlebas · « **Reply #11 on:** May 31, 2013, 06:38:38 PM »

Six years ago, and I'm over half a century old, a friend gave me a crappy rip of Spirited Away, split on CD, didn't really catch on. But about the same time, for some weired reason I bought the DVD for the Ghost in the Shell film. Eh. Then the DVD box for the Ghost in the Shell TV. Ehh.. Then I got the commercial DVD for Spirited Away. Ehhh... Then I got an old fansub of Kiddy Grade. Ehhhh....

WTF.

Who the hell had hidden these gems from me? This is nothing like the awful dubbed crappy game "anime" I'd frequently zapped past on TV... I realized I had lost decades of watching

So now I'm catching up

megido-rev.M · « **Reply #12 on:** May 31, 2013, 11:15:10 PM »

I was watching anime since kindergarten.

Nikkoru · « **Reply #13 on:** June 01, 2013, 05:20:06 AM »

I can't really say "first" as I vaguely remember watching Dragonball, Voltron, and Speed Racer but I didn't exactly follow them as a fan. Around 96/97 a bunch of anime came here and a lot of it was awesome. Gundam Wing, Vision of Escaflowne, Sailor Moon, Pokemon, Digimon, and more. I would say Gundam Wing was my favourite at the time since it was all mature and stuff, but seeing all these was more than enough to fascinate me in the art style and unique narratives coming out of Japan.

I was about 8 or 9 at the time.

Then 4kids started taking over everything and the anime became pretty dull, it wasn't until my learning about fansubs from playing around with Kazaa did I get into Evangelion, Trigun, One Piece, and Naruto.

buchno · « **Reply #14 on:** June 01, 2013, 08:29:49 AM »

Quote from: buchno on May 31, 2012, 07:02:56 PM

Comet in Moominland (dubbed to Swedish)
I didn't even know what anime was at the time.

I think I was about 6 years old.

Shohei-kun · « **Reply #15 on:** June 05, 2013, 04:18:04 AM »

I started watching anime seriously December of 2011. First one I watched was Clannad and I watched a bunch of (what I now consider REALLY bad) slice-of-life shows. I also watched Hayate no Gotoku really early which I regret to this day. I have recently rewatched it and was really excited to see all of the references I missed.

megido-rev.M · « **Reply #16 on:** June 05, 2013, 04:29:45 AM »

Yeah, I doubt many kids would understand a lot of those references.

bentree89 · « **Reply #17 on:** June 05, 2013, 08:05:34 AM »

Well mine woulda been Ghost in a shell way back in 1996. I blame all the jap backpackers that we had working for us at the time. It's all their fault for showing me this awesome stuff.

SchoolDaysEX · « **Reply #18 on:** June 07, 2013, 09:15:42 PM »

Pretty much when Pokémon, YuGiOh, Digimon, and Sailor Moon where dubbed on tv in U.S. Thinking back, I am glad that I watched all of them. good times.

Shohei-kun · « **Reply #19 on:** June 07, 2013, 10:22:53 PM »

Quote from: SchoolDaysEX on June 07, 2013, 09:15:42 PM

Pretty much when Pokémon, YuGiOh, Digimon, and Sailor Moon where dubbed on tv in U.S. Thinking back, I am glad that I watched all of them. good times.

No doubt. When I look at those shows nowadays I realize how bad they are, but the time they aired on Toonami is a very nostalgic part of my life that wouldn't want to live without. I came home every day from school and watched DBZ and YuGiOh.

So if there is a correct answer for the OP, the best time for a non-Japanese child to watch anime would be when he or she can start understanding and appreciating these introductory shows as more than "cartoons".