Forum - View topicWHAT or WHO is the reason why you're watching anime?
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ayanami000
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If I were to ask, it's because of Shanks from One Piece. Though I've watched some anime before One Piece, e.g. Dragon Ball, Hunter X Hunter, etc., He's the reason why until now I'm still watching anime. At first, I don't like One Piece because I find it kinda boring but when Shanks appeared in episode 4 and got spilled by sake (not so sure if that was sake or beer) I thought he's cool. Though I keep asking myself why the hell he didn't fight back. After that, I saw/heard my most favorite line coming from an anime character. "Listen up… You can pour drinks on me, you can throw food at me… You can even spit on me. I’ll just laugh that stuff off. But… Good reason or not… Nobody hurts a friend of mine." Because of that, I became a One Piece fan and a big fan of Shanks.
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Errinundra
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Back in the 1960s, when Australia still had black and white television, my mother would not allow us children to watch commercial television stations. The ABC (= Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Oz equivalent to the Beeb) back then showed Astroboy, Gigantor and Kimba the White Lion. The last mentioned was my favourite show at the time and left me with a favourable impression about anime all my life - even as a boy I knew it was from Japan with dubbing.
My love of anime was re-kindled around 2007 by a nephew who introduced me to his fansubs and a friend who took me to see Paprika at the Melbourne Intenational Film Festival. Thanks, Michael and Julie! |
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nobahn
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Whenever this question pops up, I simply direct people to this posting of mine.
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Lili-Hime
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When I was 7 there was this super cute cartoon I was in love with on Nickelodean called The Littl' Bits. I didn't know it but apparently this was dubbed anime! All I knew at the time was I loved the cute art
 About 3 years later my brother brought home an RPG called Phantasy Star III For Sega Genesis and wanted me to help him with it. Both that and Phantasy Star IV which we played soon after had these cool anime style story scenes like this:
So I grew up loving this art style but had no clue where it came from. (Early 90's=no internet). And then... I saw Sailor Moon one day when I was 13 and sick home from school. It changed my life! Shortly after, I also fell in love with Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer on the Sci Fi channel one day, and the Magic Knight Rayearth manga packed in Mixxzine (which of course, I bought because it had Sailor Moon on the cover). Once we finally got the internet a year later, I was a full blown weeb looking up new anime and trading tapes. |
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Alan45
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Who would probably be some random individual who posted a collection of graphics in the CompuServe graphics forum with the title "anime10" The text file with them said anime wasn't all sex and violence and could be beautiful. I didn't know what she was talking about but I agreed the pictures were nice and appropriated a few for wall paper.
What would probably be Star Trek. A local comic shop advertised that they had some Star Trek figures. My wife dragged me into the mall to look at them. I wasn't interested as I had never watched a whole episode of the show (still haven't) and wandered around the shop. On a spinner rack of VHS tapes I saw one of the graphics mentioned above (Urd from Oh My Goddess!). I ended up buying the first Oh My Goddess OAV (subbed) tape and the first Ranma 1/2 TV series tape (dubbed). It turns out the stuff is seriously addictive and I've been watching anime every since. |
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Jose Cruz
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I was bored of Anglo Saxon TV shows and decided to try something different. Always knew anime was such a huge thing. So I decided to try some again as it had been years since. Started with Spirited Away, recommended by both Ebert and by the IMDB top 250. Loved it, 3 months later had watched about 50 anime.
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ayanami000
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That was pretty deep considering it was way back in '60s but still I'm glad you share your reason. Thanks for that
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vanfanel
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Who? As a character, it would probably be Kodai Susumu and Ichijo Hikaru, though I knew them as Derek Wildstar and Rick Hunter when I first met them. They planted the seeds that would bloom when I got to college.
Who? as real person would probably be a host of creators in Japan (Oshii, Anno, Miyazaki, Takahata, and now Hosoda), as well as people like Carl Macek, Robert Woodhead, Toren Smith, and other early pioneers in bringing the stuff to the US (I was never into the fansub scene, so I can't credit those folks). As for What, that's easy; serious, ambitious, sometimes long stories told in a visual style I like. When I was growing up, the "serial novel for TV" format didn't exist in the US outside of the occasional anime that got dubbed and broadcast. Everything either resolved its story in 1 or 2 episodes...or was an open-ended soap opera that never planned for an ending until people got sick of it and it about to be cancelled. Anime like Starblazers and Robotech gave me dramatic, exciting, moving SF stories in serial format with beginnings, middles, and ends, which was exactly what I was wanting -- the excitement of the visual medium fused with the richness of a novel. |
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louis6578
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My very first anime was Kirby: Right Back At Ya. My brothers liked Yugioh and Pokemon, but I never really got into those. Heck, I still, to this day, have not played Yugioh for myself. I mostly stuck to anime based off games I loved, like Kirby and Sonic X, but after a bit, I happened to accidentally catch One Piece on 4kids TV. True, it was terribly localized, but watching through the Buggy and Kuro arcs was enough to endear me to the show through the terrible dubbing and censorship. I even watched Mew Mew Power (Tokyo Mew Mew) and found myself endeared for some reason. I couldn't place my finger on it, but watching those shows gave me my childhood.
After 4kids eventually stopped airing it on 4kids TV (after Drum Island arc), I stopped watching anime for a while and was convinced that I was watching kids shows this whole time, but enjoyed them. At one point, I walked in on my brother watching DBZ Uncut during the part where Frieza was killing Dende's brother/friend/whatever and the villagers to get the dragon ball. It was pretty dark, bloody, and most of all, terrifying. Seeing such an evil bastard manipulate things to his advantage and take innocent lives wasn't something that Saturday Morning cartoons gave me. I was interested in Dragonball Z, and along with some other Toonami shows (Naruto, Bobobo, and MaR Heaven), I was made to be hooked to anime. After DBZ Uncut stopped airing, I bought the original Dragonball on DVD (or should I say... DBD. BOO! TERRIBLE!), and I loved the adventures of Goku and his friends more than the beat-em-up fights of massive explosions that DBZ gave me. From there on, I watched through Funimation's trailers when I got new DVDs and watched the anime from them. The one that stands out the most from my earlier days is a little known gem called Yu Yu Hakusho, which I still deem to be one of the best shounens out there. Now I watch anime reviewers such as JesuOtaku, Bennett the Sage, GR Arkada, and Gigguk. A lot of their favorites turned into my favorites. Heck, I never would have learned about Baccano, Princess Tutu, Fate/Zero, Monster, Gankutsuou, Paranoia Agent, or Revolutionary Girl Utena without them. |
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vanfanel
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Another good one I've been watching on YouTube lately is Bakashift. No danger of spoilers with his stuff (as long as you don't go into the comments, of course). |
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louis6578
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I've seen him, but he's not exactly the reason that I watched any anime aside from Wixoss and Golden Time. |
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anime racket
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I've started watching anime again because of Madoka Magica Rebellion. It may have it's flaws but man is it daring and original. Plus I adore the surrealist art style.
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kookykonata
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I was watching anime (Sailor Moon, DBZ, CardCaptors, Tenchi, etc.)way before I really knew what it was. I just thought that they were cool cartoons when I was a kid.
However, about a year before I actually was interested in anime as something you watch, I got really into manga. I had started a small collection of volumes from a variety of different series' before I started reading the manga version of Chobits, and fell in love with the book. Then, maybe about 4 months after the 4th or 5th Chobits volume came out, I was walking around this store in the local shopping mall called "Sam Goody" and I saw it. It was the first DVD volume of the anime version of Chobits. I bought it on the spot. I'll be honest, I never knew, up until that point, that they made shows based off of these recently found love of manga that I obtained. I went home immediately, ran to my room, and popped in the disc. The rest is history! |
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Elfen12
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Nice question. Like many folks, I was watching shows like Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z and stuff on Toonami when I was younger. I did not know what it was I was watching. Eventually, several years later, my friend from Belgium told me to watch something called Elfen Lied. I'd say more than anything, the name had me the most curious. What kind of show would be called Elfen Lied, especially with the pronunciation. I had no idea what it was, but one evening I gave it a try. I watched the 1st episode that evening around 8pm. Ended up watching the last episode of Elfen Lied around 4 the next morning back when I was able to stay up that late. Now I go to bed much earlier. Anyways, at that point I was pretty hooked, and after watching such series as Neon Genesis Evangelion, Blue Gender, School Days and Please Teacher / Please Twins, upon reccoendation from the same friend group (there were 2 of them), I began to branch out on my own.
If I had to say there was to say there was a character that truly made me fall in love with anime, (Goku not counting because I did not know what Dragon Ball Z was at the time), I'd have to say Mr. Onizuka did it for me. To this day, he still is my favorite character of all time from any show, and the reason I still watch anime. (GTO I also watched almost entirely in one sitting). Incidentally, my name on this forum, Elfen12, spawned from the first show I watched. I also ended up becoming much more of an anime fan than the two who introduced it to me 
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Maidenoftheredhand
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I watched Lil Bits as well but I think my two favorites that I later learned were anime were Maya the Bee & Grimms Fairy Tale adventures. In High School I watched Pokemon, knew it was anime but didn't really become enamored with it. It wasn't until college when a friend introduced me to DBZ, Inuyasha and the Ranma 1/2 manga that I started to really become a fan of anime. Then I started to go Online and would be the one to introduce my friend and her sister to series. Sadly she moved to a different state and we kind of lost touch. It happens. But I am still a fan of anime and since I found that passion as an adult I don't see it as something I'll grow out of. |
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