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The King of Harts
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Ah yes, my first purchase. It was just about 2 1/2 years ago, and it filled me with great joy. At this point I had only been watching anime via fansubs for just about 5 months, but this purchase had something -a dub- I couldn't find on the internet outside of Youtube. This purchase was...
The Shakugan no Shana box set 
No matter how hard I tried, I could not find the dub for this show online. I had already seen (and loved) this and the second season fansubbed by this time, but I later learned there was a dub and I wanted to check it out. I don't remember exactly how I came across Deep Discount, but that's where I bought it for $40. Honestly, I was surprised at how cheap this and anime in general was. I had no idea about the industry, distributors, the endless anime debates, nothing. This one purchase opened my eyes to a whole new world and sprung me into buying a lot of anime. Hell, I think I could go as far as saying that I wouldn't be the fan I am with the retail snooping, bargain hunting, collector-ing if I hadn't bought that box set. Sure, I'd still be watching a lot of anime, but I wouldn't have any of this: 
Good thing I liked that dub. |
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kyokun703
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My very first anime purchase, which I no longer have anymore, was volume 1 Ranma 1/2 VHS subbed. Cost 30 dollars for 3 episodes on tape. I bought all of season 1 on VHS over time (since they were so expensive!), and eventually gave them away to a friend when I moved a couple years ago, and replaced them with the DVD set.
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John Casey
 Posts: 1853 Location: In My Angry Center |
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My very first two anime sets ever were...erm, maybe about 5-6 years ago. Around then. We had a used book store called McCay's there, and I found a complete set of Record of Lodoss War, and just thought "Hey, this looks pretty badass." I've watched anime before then (DBZ, Gundam Wing, Escaflowne, etc), but that was the first time I really bought anything like it. And it was also my most mature anime viewing to date.
That same year, on Christmas, after my dad noticed me taking an interest in anime, he decided to surprise me and bought me what I considered to be the greatest anime show ever - the perfect collection of Escaflowne (I still hold that opinion high even today); the really badass one that comes with everything, even the movie in a nice digipak "book-page" box. Ever since then, I just sort of starting buying anime sets one at a time. My third purchase, I think was all four DVDs of Hellsing, and the first two volumes of X TV, and after that I just sort of forgot what I got then. |
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Sanosuke_Inara
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March 7th, 2010 via Amazon.
Princess Mononoke 
My favorite anime of all time.  I had already seen the movie a few years before on Cartoon Network, and really liked it. In the coming months, I got it again off of Netflix and watched it a shitload of times. I was still pretty young back then, and even though it was still my favorite anime back then, I didn't really grasp how much of a masterpiece it was until much later.
After that, years went by without me seeing it. I was randomly listening to songs on YouTube and found one of the main themes for the movie, The Legend of Ashitaka, and listened it to it for hours. I knew that I HAD to see this movie again but would be damned if I did so by illegal means, so I bought the DVD which arrived on March 10th. Watched it that night and was damn near brought to tears at how much I loved this thing, and I ended it watching it a total of 10 times in the first week of owning it(which, with its length, is pretty much 1 whole day out of the week spent watching it). 
So, yep. I still sit down every now and again and give it a watch, and I am beyond eagerly awaiting the blu-ray release that'll come in the next couple of years, which'll end up being my most anticipated anime purchases ever. Such fond memories. 
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asimpson2006
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My first anime purchase was....the first VHS release of Pokemon. So that was back in 1998 when I bought this. Didn't buy my next anime tape until June 2001, then in December of 2001 I bought my first anime DVD's which was the first five DVD's of Mobile Suit Gundam. Still have those DVD's to this day. I doubt I have the VHS tapes any more.
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Aura Ichadora
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First manga purchase: Absolute Boyfriend Vol. 1
It was the only thing I bought at Anime Central 2006, but loved it all the same. First anime purchase: Witch Hunter Robin Complete Collection Before that point, any anime purchased for me was bought by my parents as gifts, so this was officially the first DVD set I ever bought with my own money. Felt so proud. ^^ And since it was on sale for $30 compared to $120, I felt like such a bargain shopper too. 
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FaytLein
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Ah, the glorious times of youth!
If I can wax nostalgic for a moment... It was early in 2001. At the time, anime was only just beginning to take its first tenative steps into being something popular, no longer relagated to the seemy back corners of comic shops and Blockbuster-so-close-to-the-porn-section. Oh no, now fans could prodly walk into Best Buy or Suncoast and say: "Yes, I would like that copy of La Blue Girl. AND NOT IN THE BAG!" Ahem. I was much younger then, full of hopes and dreams when I walked into the Best Buy that day, little knowing what would eventually become the day my obsession would begin. I was heading to the video game section, I doubt I was going to buy anything when I happened to walk past the sci-fi movie section. And then I saw it. A small sign across the aisle had in small print "anime" and I knew I had to go in for a closer look. And there, sitting on the shelf was my first anime product ever. A copy of Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz And not just any old version, the one where it had both the movie AND the OVA version. ON THE SAME DISC! No more watching edited stuff on TV, for the low price of 20 bucks, I had an actual anime DVD in my hands, which I could watch forever! And so it began. And now, after suffering crippling debt for a good number of years after, here I am. Still buying, still loving it. |
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SDAnimeFan
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My very first purchase was a set of Sailor Moon VHS tapes.
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Blood-
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Oddly enough my first anime purchase came before I was really into anime. I bought the Mezzo Danger Service Agency set about, I dunno, five or six years ago. But if you want to count the first purchase since I got into anime in January 2009, then that would be Blood+, Part 1.
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victor viper
 Posts: 630 Location: The deep south |
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What a great topic for getting nostalgic!
Although I can't remember the exact date, it must have been during July or August of 2000, when I picked up Sailor Moon S-Hearts In Ice on DVD. Amazon says the release date was May 23, 2000, and I recall buying it on a hot summer day at Best Buy. I also recall having read positive fan reviews on the web and that the S season had just started airing on Toonami. This was when Best Buy's DVD section consisted of a single aisle among a sea of VHS tapes, and there was definitely no anime subsection. As far as the first multiple-DVD series I ever collected in its entirety, that was Battle Athletes Victory. I remember picking up the first two discs on a whim one day at Suncoast/Sam Goody/whatever it was at the time. I watched both volumes in one sitting, went back a couple of days later, bought the next two discs, and within about two weeks, I was the proud owner of all eight discs. |
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Imperialkat
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My very first purchase occurred in late September of 2005. I was at a grocery store with my family when, in the magazine section, I spotted the October 2005 issue of Shonen Jump. I had been watching anime (on television) for a few years at that point but I had never read manga. The first thing in there: Naruto during the Chunin Exam arc. Those were the days.
My first anime purchase came in December 2006 and I believe it was Afro Samurai. The Spike TV version (because I was broke  ). Got it from a FYE in a mall for 10 bucks. I say "I believe" because around the same time I also bought (also from FYE but on a separate trip) a Geneon double pack containing Basilisk v.1 and Trinity Blood v.1.
My interest in anime and manga collecting didn't really take off until I made some key purchases later. For manga, it was when I decided to try the first volumes of MAR, Bleach, and Death Note, all from Waldenbooks. I suddenly discovered that I couldn't put Death Note down no matter how hard I tried. For anime, it was the FLCL Ultimate Boxset from Anime Castle. I finally had the chance to own my favorite anime of all time. |
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zawa113
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Hmm, well I'm not 100% sure what my first anime purchase was (I have a hunch that I now point to just for simplicity's sake, I'll get into that one in a moment) but let's start with Manga.
It was the first two (maybe three?) volumes of Tokyo Mew Mew, which amazed my late middle school-early high school self because I clearly hadn't been exposed to far better things. I got them at Suncoast and got a membership card, which I never renewed because I don't buy stuff there all that often anymore (and yes, there is still a Suncoast in existence near me). I think this was 2002, it must've been going by the timeline in my head. But clearly I thought that Suncoast was the only place to buy anime and when I saw the prices I just assumed "those are anime prices." Oh, how naive I was! Cus I got an awful lot of anime from them, but one of the first (which I call my first on the basis that I still have this set) was Outlaw Star, which was the first anime to really get me into anime and which I had of course seen on early [adult swim]. I still have fond memories of eagerly staying up every Saturday until 1am to watch a new episode! (I didn't see any of it on Toonami Midnight Run btw). I paid $90 for that set man! It was the perfect collection with the crappy black box but it had the three parts with two discs each. And I still treasure it so that's one series I refuse to trade (or buy) to get a space saving set for. Also, I'd only been into anime for a short while when I bought OS, since I'd only recently seen it on TV and was unaware that "omg, it's all there on DVD!" until I walked into Suncoast (I had very limited internet access back in 2002). Some of my other early sets was Ranma 1/2, which is ironic since I now give so little a damn for it. I think I paid $100-$120 per set and didn't bat an eye cus "those were anime prices", lol! And then years later I sold the sets back to them when I finally admitted that Maison Ikkoku was a thousand times better once I got volume 15 of that one's manga. Heck, it's taken even longer for me to get rid of the manga (back when I didn't see anything wrong with buying the manga and anime of a series when they were near identical), currently up for sale on eBay with less than 2 days to go! But for all I know I really got the Ranma first but I will deny it because saying I got Outlaw Star first fits better within my fantasies. |
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The King of Harts
Posts: 6712 Location: Mount Crawford, Virginia |
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Wait, you mean a box set with an attractive, young female with her tight butt sticking out and a gun in her hand somehow got your attention? I can't believe it.
You don't keep your receipts? I know exactly when I bought everything I own because of those receipts. It's actually kind of cool to go through and look at how much I was paying for stuff ($54 for Strawberry Marshmallow...). |
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zawa113
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@KoH
Keeping receipts is interesting, but then some of us would have over a decade worth of receipts if we actually kept them all  I usually won't keep receipts for more than a year, but every so often I'll find one from 2007 and go "oh, neat! I bought X at Y for $Z!", it's just impractical for me personally to keep all of my receipts evar, I'd imagine it to be the same for others (it's strange enough I still have my box and manual for Pokemon Blue, what elementary school kid actually bothers to keep that sort of stuff?!)
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darkhappy1
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My first anime purchase was The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya DVD 1 Limited Edition at Best Buy. I thought it actually held the entire series, since I didn't even know that artboxes like that (or in general) existed. I felt a bit ripped-off, seeing as I bought it at retail price...
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