The anime that started it all...  

I'm not really an anime fan actually, but the one I do remember watching when I was young, probably the first real anime to be shown here in the U.S. was "Battle of the planets", this was about 30 years ago or more.

Hi X,

I think the anime that really got me interested in the genre was Full Metal Alchemist. I had watched animes in the past (Dragonball Z being the main one) but I never knew what anime was at the time and so I can't claim that they started my interest. FMA though did because I discovered it through an anime site, and through that and other member recommendations I explored more animes and became completely hooked. FMA also showed me just how an anime should be done because it actually ended! DBZ never managed that and I grew bored of it, but with FMA I just couldn't stop watching so it gave me hope for the future lol!

All the best,

Dranz

Well...I remember watching Sailor Moon and Dragonball Z on TV back in the days but those shows didn't really drive me to go out and hunt for other anime to watch. I just thought that the shows were really cool and I couldn't wait for it to air on TV. It wasn't until I saw Ranma 1/2 for the first time that I was hooked. After that I saw other series like Rurouni Kenshin, movies like Princess Mononoke and Ninja Scroll and I was just captivated by the diversity in anime. You usually don't see things like that in Disney animations.

Speed Racer Battle of the Planets ( real name Gatchaman ) Robotec DBZ and Sailor Moon

I like anime too and when I was a child there were already anime like voltes 5, voltron, astroboy, transformers. I like to watch cartoon too when I was a child. The first anime that I was fan of was the dragonball kai series.

I really like Anime!! I'm just crazy for Anime!! In the beginning I used to watch DragonBall Z but I didn't knew that it was an Anime!!So, technically, it wasn't the first Anime that made me interested in Anime!! The actual anime that made me crazy for Anime was YU YU HAKUSHO!! And then the craziness for Anime began and then I started watching THE LAW OF UEKI, FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST, BLACK CAT, XXXHOLIC, SHAKUGAN NO SHANA II, GURREN LAGANN, SAMURAI DEEPER KYO, NARUTO, HAYATE THE COMBAT BUTLER, YU-GI-OH!, SLAM DUNK, MAGIKANO, BACCANO!, JIGOKU SHOUJO SEASON 1 and 2, FATE/STAY NIGHT, GOD? SAVE OUR KING SEASON 1 and 2, GUN X SWORD, and many more!!! The list of my favourite Anime won't end!!!

I love anime too!
The anime that started it for me was Akazukin Cha Cha, or Little Red Riding Hood Cha Cha. I watched it when I was like four years old, and I've been into anime ever since. From there I started watching animes like Gate Keepers, Cooking Master Boy, Curious Play, etc. And I stopped for a few years, then got back into it with Bleach. I also like Naruto, Evangelion, Death Note, and many more!

The first anime I watched that piqued my interest was Bleach. I loved it, but I wasn't yet hooked on anime. Then, like many of you, I watched Deathnote and was HOOKED.
I have watched several anime since then but have yet to find something as psychologically thrilling as Deathnote.

I used to watch Pokemon/Digimon/Dragon Ball Z/Sailor Moon/Tenchi Muyo without knowing it was anime. I thought it was another one of those normal cartoons on cartoon network and kids wb. This was back when I was little.

When I seen Yu-Gi-Oh, it reminded me of Pokemon/Digimon.

Moving ahead a few years, I was up one night flipping through the channels, and I came across Full Metal Alchemist. It was the episode with the re-incarnation of Barry The Butcher I believe. I got hooked on anime once again, and ever since then I can't stop watching it. It's all I watch.

The first time ? Hmm, the one that I remember was Doraemon, very old anime. And now, I like watch most of anime. The one I like now are Naruto, Air Gear, Digimon, Gundam as the best anime for me, Full Metal Alchemist (completed), Gurren Lagann (completed), Kiba (completed), Samurai 7 (completed), Basillisk (completed), Hikaru no Go (because of this anime, so I love playing Go). And there are more animes which can't I tell you all of them.