**What anime did you start out on?**

[Zephyrias]

I believe that a heavily edited Sailor Moon was my very first one. All the S.D., Kanji, and school girl outfits were really different from the cartoons I've watched before (and since I was like 6...). Then I saw edited DBZ and Pokemon, and I noticed a similarity between those 3 shows (aka big eyes, SD, etc). Then I learned it was called anime and that it was really Japanese animation (well, that explained the kanji). It was then followed by Digimon and some other kiddie series. I didn't totally love those shows, I just liked that they were different.
Later, I got CN on cable, and Toonami peaked my interest some more. Sure, they were still edited, but Tenchi, Outlaw Star, and Gundam were definately an improvement.
After I was able to stay up long enough to watch Adult Swim, I became a hard core anime addict!

[Malificus]

I have to say how I got started into manga.

I was somewhere between 11 and 13 at the time (15 now) and Love Hina had just come out. I'm kinda ecentric and bad with money so I decided to buy it at the wishes of my younger sister. I now have almost 90 manga and still no job...

By the way, I finished Love Hina a while ago and am now collecting all of Ken Akamatsu's other manga.

[vorx]

The first anime that I watched was Iria: Zeriam(sp) Hunter on the Sci-Fi channel.
I also watched the newer Giagantor/Tetsujin 28 on Sci-Fi.
I was big into Ronin Warriors when they ran it, and DBZ at 5/6 AM on Fox.
For a while I just watched Sci-Fi, stuff like Fatal Fury and Robot Hunter Casshan.
Robot Carnival was another fave.
Sailor Moon was kinda nifty...

Now I just go between Giant Robo: The Animation, and trying to buy Jubei-Chan.

[dokool]

On the summer between my sophomore year of high school and my freshman year of college, (about... 2.5 years ago, now), my friend told me I <i>had</i> to watch Lain. Not knowing much about anime at the time other than Akira and a Miyazaki or two I downloaded the fansubs. After marathoning it, I had this inexcusable thirst for <i>more</i>.

The next day I was at Best Buy and saw the NG:E box-set with the 'greatest anime of the 20th century' sticker on the packaging. It was all downhill from there.

[longview606]

Robotech on Toonami was my first. Can't remember when that was but I know I missed the last few episodes because of a family vacation. I was mad so I started watching it the second time it was aired and I missed it again because of another family vacation. When I got back it was replaced with something else and that was the end of anime for me for a while. Jump forward 5 or 6 years and a friend lends me NGE disk 1. I go and buy the whole series and love it. My obsession went downhill from there. One day at Suncoast, I did find all 3 boxsets for Robotech so I bought them and marathoned them with a friend. Fun times.

[NiTsukiOutlaw]

My story isn't dramatic, but here goes...

-I had a couple friends who liked Anime...

-Went to one of their houses to get away from parents for an afternoon...

-Watched Akira...

-Then NG:E

-Then another...

-Then Endless Waltz

-Then Gundam Wing (I had to know what the movie was about)

-Then got kicked out of Friends house, (it was three days and twenty-seven cokes later)

-Went to Fry's Electronics

-Spent $450 (The money I had been saving for three paychecks)

-Bought Tenchi Universe, Akira, Heavy Metal, and Gundam Wing.

-Went home, took three days off of school and work to watch anime.

-So, i guess i was an instant addict, huh?

[spike bomb 11]

That has to be the best story so far...

[Zephyrias]

Jeez, I didn't start buying DVD's until 7 years after my first glimpse of anime.

[deathagent]

When i was like 6 I was at my grandparents house (In NY) and saw and episode on DBZ from the saiyan saga, back when it was on upn35 I think it was. It was the episode where chaozu blew himself up on Nappa's back. Unfortunately I did not notice what it was called, what time I watched it, What channel it was on, or even if it was on where I lived in ME. About 5 years later I was into Pokemon, but I didn'y really know that was anime until somewhat recently, so that doesn'y really count. Anyway, asbout a year after that, 6 years since I originally saw DBZ on UPN35.. My little brother was watching a cartoon on CN; I told him it was what he was watching was stupid and to shut it off, like all good brothers should=P Of course he did not and I started feeling wierd, like I'd seen it before, but I couldn't have or could I? By the time It got to the commercial break I had realized what it was. It was the exact same episode of the show I had seen 6 years before. I was into that for a while and started Karate b/c of it and I am now a 2nd degree brown belt. 2 summers ago I got into Rurouni Kenshin and my school started an anime club last year which got me into more anime. last summer I watched about 140hrs of anime. and the not-quite 2 week wchristmas break I had I watched 40hrs of anime in, so now I am a complete anime Addict. I've seen about, well I have no clue how many series I've seen, but I'm downloading about 25 as they are released, on fansub, currently.

[unx16]

for me it was eather DBZ or Pokemon, at the time my sister watched them two alot, so I was pretty much forced to watch them, but I liked DBZ so I guess you could say thats the one that got me into Anime