What was your first anime? When did you started to watch it? How did you become aware of its existence?
Was it the anime that made you an anime fan? (If you consider yourself as such)
How does it rank for you? Would you say you still like it? Would you consider it one of you favourite anime series?
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The Wizard of Oz was the first, before I knew there was some sort of a difference between this or that animation.
The first “proper” one was either Spirited Away, Chobits (by recommendation) or Bleach. I adore Miyazaki’s work still, Wizard of Oz has a special, nostalgic place in my heart and I want to see it again sometime, Bleach I probably couldn’t bother to watch anymore (soooo much filler and pointless fan-service aimed at teenaged boys, I couldn’t stand all that stuff even then), Chobits I might give a spin sometime just to see if it’s at all not-horrible, but it’s been a while so I can’t really remember. The whole virgin-boy wants sex angle and fan-service thing never appealed to me and ruins so many animes that would be good or even great otherwise.
Before I knew what anime was, probably something like Speed Racer.
First “let’s see what this anime thing is about” anime that I watched: Ghost in the Shell (the OG movie). It was a good choice.
I have a vague recollection of seeing part of Princess Mononoke as a child, so I guess that would be my “first”, although what really got me interested in anime was watching the first couple episodes of Attack on Titan at a high school club.
Oh no how dare you remind me lol. Wolf’s Rain here’s episode 1 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x82c7kc the theme SLAPS but the whole things lowkey furry bait. still good, kinda wanna watch it again.
The first anime I watched fully knowing it was an anime is Vampire Hunter D back in the late 80’s. I still have a soft spot for it.
Dragon Ball and Toonami pulled me back in hard. I loved anime but didn’t have much access to it until Toonami.
I had watched some anime adaptations (Voltron, etc) when I was younger, but I had no idea what anime was back then, and not sure those would count.
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It’s been pretty long ago for either interpretation, so my memory might be off.
The first ever was probably Heidi or Biene Maia.
The first ever not explicitly produced for a western audience was probably Captain Tsubasa.
The first after having a concept of anime vs. cartoons was one of Akira, Ghost in the Shell or Blue Lagoon.
Edit: As for how they impacted my liking of anime, I know that I liked Ghost in the Shell, but I wouldn’t consider it my favourite (that’s Ponyo by far) and getting into anime had mostly to do with having gotten into manga.
