My very first anime was Sailor Moon. I discovered it when I was in 2nd grade. But I'm not talking about Sailor Moon or Pokemon or Dragonball or the series that turned you into an anime fan. I'm talking about the first anime series you watched through KNOWING that it was anime, your first conscious decision to pick up an anime title.

Which were your first anime?

Well, the first series I watched were bits of Sailor Moon, Lodoss War, and Magic Knight Rayearth, but I can't say I got into them much. Then they put Slayers on Korean TV and my life changed. Hey, when you can't understand a word they're saying, but can't keep away from a show, that's a good sign that you're in for life. And then of course, I liked it when the Pokemon and Yu-gi-oh crazes hit the US; you know, before I was aware of what American censorship can do to a series. I do remember a fencing club trip in college where all ten of us at one point did our best Pikachu voice.

No, wait, I think my first anime was actually Transformers, way back in the day. Huh, no wonder I've never fully grown up. Anime must've then been buried in my subconscious by ten following years of Looney Tunes and Disney.

Lodoss War was the VERY VERY first anime I remember...But the anime that really got me started was Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040

The SoulTaker was my first, I walked into a bookstore my 5th grade year and saw it there, the entire series on DVD, I thought it looked cool so I bought it, there my first anime . :P

Well, when I was little, my older brothers would always be watching the anime series' they had on Cartoon Network (not counting Sailor Moon, that was just me). However, the first time I actually saw an anime and chose to watch it was with Gundam Wing. And man, was I satisfied! :P

Let me see, the very first anime I ever watched was Voltron, but I didn't know it was anime at the time (and btw, Transformers started as American, and then the Japanese kept making it after the Americans stopped). I think the first anime I watched and knew it was anime was "Mermaid's Forest," by Rumiko Takahashi, followed shortly by "Vampire Princess Miyu" (original OAV) and "Ranma 1/2." It was all pretty much downhill from there! Before long, I was watching Sailor Moon and Ronin Warriors, and Toonami started bringing in anime, and it was all over but the shouting. I miss the old Toonami from time to time.

*~*Nans*~*

My first anime, my real one, was Slayers. I spent the better part of a year renting the tapes weekly from an anime rental store. I had seen Slayers fanart before on the internet. I had no idea what it was about, but Zelgadis intrigued me. After that I rented something that I thought would be like Slayers, but turned out to be completely different. Has anyone here heard of Gokudo? I used to watch the anime dubbed with my brother, when my brother still liked anime as much as I did. Now, all he does is collect the Kenshin manga, but he still remembers watching Gokudo.

God that was a weird series.

Wow, Mermaid Forest and Miyu... Those are pretty dark. I liked Miyu though - I watched it with my friends, and God, Larva is sexy. I just wish he took off his mask more often. *sigh* We made fun of the way he wraps his arm protectively around Miyu. That was priceless.

I found out about american censorship around the same time I discovered the internet, and subsequently started surfing all these anime sites. I got to be really contemptuous of the DIC Sailor Moon dub. It was this real turn-around. Before that, I used to get really confused by the French Sailor Moon manga I saw in bookstores because they called Usagi 'Bunny' instead of Serena, and I thought the drawings and costumes were all wrong. By the time Yu-gi-oh came along, I knew all about censorship, but I watched it anyway because I had no other source for the Yu-gi-oh anime.

Yu Yu Hakusho.Yep,my first(that I knew it wasn't a cartoon)and still my favorite.
I saw a few episodes on Toonami,so I looked it up online,and read some stuff in fanfiction,I thought Hiei and Kurama made a good couple for awhile,but later found out I was horribly wrong.Not too long after YYH,I got into other animes,I read some fanfiction,I was horrified by some of the couplings,so I came here(when I found FGL).
That cycle continues even now.Because I apparently,I haven't learned my lesson about how evil fanfics can be. :wacko:

An older friend of my family had loaned us a tape full of various animes, those were amongst the first on it. The first few eps of Ranma 1/2 was also on it. Yeah, MF and VPM are pretty dark (and Mermaid's Forest had me thinking I'd never eat fish again - although I wasn't that wild about fish to start with), but I still liked them. Larva was my first real bishonen! I agree, they should have let him take his mask off more often! At least we see his face fairly frequently in the new TV series.

I love Slayers; it's one of my All Time Top Ten! :) I didn't see it until I was pretty well into anime, though.

*~*Nans*~*

I stopped reading fanfics ages ago. Well, more like: I stopped looking for fanfics to read ages ago. Sometimes someone recommends something to me, so I'll read it, but usually I steer clear of the stuff. But because of my proximity to slash fangirls, I get more than enough of it, ANYWAY. My friend Ari is STILL into FMA and STILL likes Roy/Ed slash, and... it's a long story.

I never got far enough into Yu Yu Hakusho to see the problem with Hiei/Kurama, but I never really cared about the pairing anyway.

But we were watching YYH for a while. We positively wailed in the scene where Yuusuke's house is burning down and we thought he was going to die for good.

Yes so many awful fanfics are like that. >.< I hate the Ed/Roy pairing! Along with the Ed/Envy pairing. I mean in the anime they are half brothers!! Also the other major pairings...

Ed/Roy and Ed/Envy are both soo deeply wrong. I'm still into FMA too (one day, I will have the DVD boxset, oh yes, I will), but anyone who thinks those couples would work has a screw loose. As for fanfics in general, there are quite a few really good ones out there, you just have to find them. As someone on another board once said (I don't recall who) once said, "Fanfiction is like a sewer - most of it is cr@p, but every once in a while, someone flushes a diamond." I write fanfiction, and my reviews are all quite positve. It's nearly all DBZ, so I don't know how interested you guys would be, though.

*~*Nans*~*

True that. I'm not a big DBZ fan. My personal vice is Yu-gi-oh, and most of my bishounen aren't nearly as chunky, although I do have a soft spot for Gateau from Sorcerer Hunters.

I've had some pretty good reviews on what fanfiction I managed to post on FF.net too, although there's not a lot of it. Not a lot of fanfiction, and not a lot of reviews. But it's EASY to get good reviews. You don't need to be good. You just don't need to be TERRIBLE.

I once found the most awful Artemis Fowl Gary-Stu fic, and it had a lot of good reviews.

Y'know, I've never actually tried reading fanfiction from the really popular series that I watched when I was little. I just assume most of it's crap.

Lesse, the only fanfiction I've read on FF.net would be from either HunterxHunter, Diana Wynne Jones stories, or, more recently, Petshop of Horrors. I wouldn't mind reading your guys' fics, though!

I've only written one (for HunterxHunter) called "Nightmare" but it only got two reviews. They weren't bad, but still. TWO reviews!

As for the Ed/Roy and Ed/Envy fics, even if they weren't half-brothers, Ed hates Envy. I mean hates Envy! With a vengence! So it'd still be wrong!

Exactly. One of the things that bugs me about yaoi is that so much of it takes two characters who obviously hate each other, or at the very least don't get along very well (Ed/Roy), and pairs them up. Where does the idea come from that they'd be a good couple? :blink:

*~*Nans*~*

Um, I think you guys are getting a little off topic here. We're talking about our first anime and what we like about it.

Oik! Boy have I been gone a long time :o I would have to say my first anime that got me into the genre was Sailor Moon, and I still like it. I started further into it when my brother and I would watch DBZ and Pokemon, then we stopped watching them when we realized that DBZ was just repeating itself and Pokemon was getting lame. Then my friend, Nans, introduced me to Fushigi Yuugi, still one of my faves! And now I'm really into YYH and Inuyasha. Though... for the past couple of years, I've really been losing my taste for anime for the taste of Disney. I think now, I would rather watch a Disney movie over and anime now, but that's just my taste. I'm also a bit of a Lion Voltron buff :) gotta Lotor. Though, with YYH... I liked how it started, its seems like they lost it near the end... which was sad. Now, I'm mostly into stuff like Disney, Winx Club, Inuyasha and 0.0 eep! yes, webcomics (there are jewels out there :P ) Though, I've noticed everyone around me really into Full Metal Alchemist and Naruto.
I used to read fanfics, but then I just got bored, and found webcomics to be far more entertaining, they have pictures.

Yeah.

Thing about anime, though, is that for me, when there's a tournament, that's it for me. I totally lose interest. Yu-gi-oh is the one exception.