How did everything start for you?

[neonblack]

Easy question but still interesting to hear about this from others *g*

Well, for me it really started when Ghost in the Shell, Neon Genesis Evangelion and Bubblegum Crisis were released in Europe. Maybe also with Escaflowne and Record of Lodoss War. Well, maybe not really at the exact release dates but rather in late 1998 when they showed some of this late at night on TV here in Germany...mostly this was on mondays starting from 0:00 or so but no problem for the real fans

Sure before that I also watched other japan made animation/cartoon as many of the 80s-cartoon series also were made in Japan but that doesn't really count So I could even start with stuff like Silverhawks, Thundercats and whatever else there was in the 80s...but I wouldn't really call this anime because of the rather western design...

I believe manga came before anime...or before I realized what anime really was. So I really should start with the Dragonball mangas. Guess that was what made me more and more interested in these things...maybe because I used to work for some company which had business with most german comic and manga publishers...so I got to know quite much and got to read most of it for free (though I wasn't interested in all that marvel or other "superhero"-stuff very much)

Anyway since then I'm more or less addicted, I think...I wouldn't go that far to call myself an otaku (japanese term for someone being fanatic about anything. rather a general term not only in connection with anime or video games) cause I always knew where to draw the line...

But well since then I really watched most of the "good" (well...good is relative I know^^) anime since 2000...thanks to bittorrent and DSL. There was a time when I was watching about 5-10 series at the same time and couldn't burn away that stuff fast enough...but then work became more important so this got back to "normal" a bit

I could make a really long list of stuff I like but I (somehow I have to say this at about everything I am interested in *g*) leave that for later...

So how about you? Really crazy about anime or not interested at all?

[Silhouette]

I started reading the Dragonball manga when my little brother borrowed those from a friend.
Then I started looking for something more, and found Ghost in the shell, Ninja scroll, Metropolis and Ah! My Goddess The movie, and I was hooked.

[metalkitten]

I guess it started way back in the day when I was very little watching Astroboy and Voltron! Then when I was a teenager my cousin lent me Ninja Scroll and I saw Akira around the same time. Then I got into Neon Genesis Evangelion, Sailor Moon and Ranma 1/2 And the rest, as they say, is history...

[Silhouette]

Yay, Sailor moon for the win!

I remember watching those episodes a very long time ago, of course translated into Swedish. I still know every word of the stupid song.

[Sneltrekker]

I have NO clue.

Somehow I was bored this one time and someone sent me some anime. I can't remember which one. And I liked watching it.

I was active on quite a few anime forums for a while and back then I was really deep into it. But I began to dislike the mentality of most hardcore anime fans. Many are just a bunch of retards.

So after that I haven't really had much contact with too many other anime/manga fans and just been watching/reading some on my own.

Of course, that was easy in Leuven, since one block from my dorm was a big manga/comics shop, but right now it sucks. I have to drive an hour by car to the closest shop.