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What first got you sucked into anime and mangas?


Vonnie

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No specific thing drew me in ... Just looking for something different.


 


All the other stuff, the stuff I grew up with, the stuff out of Hollywood,  just was ... blech, and with the Indie stuff you have to wade through a lot of crap to find good stuff.


 


Anime has a different sensibility from the get-go, a different visual sense, storytelling conventions.


 


IN the end I would have to say curiosity drew me to it and familiarity with alternatives pushed me away from the alternatives.


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TV shows became vey boring for me, a friend that I constantly gamed with recommended that I watch some Anime. The first few I watched were Samurai Champloo, Black Lagoon and Fullmetal Alchemist, from that point on I was hooked. I find the stories to be throughly engaging and the restrictions that tv shows have in their story telling and settings are non existent in Anime. 


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Cheeze TV got me sucked into it, I think?

If that wasn't it, my brothers' have a friend who is into anime. He would come over our house and lend us anime that he had put on CD's for us - and we would watch them on the computer. After my supply got cut off I ended up using youtube for anime, it was horrible... 'part 1/9' of low quality goodness... Manga was my next move because I got tired of the 99999 naruto fillers, lol.

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Watched some episodes of Cardcaptor Sakura and Sailor Moon when I was younger along with some other older shows I've forgotten the name of, but I didn't really get into anime properly until 2006 when I started watching Naruto. Then afterwards I started to look for more shows online and now I can say I'm a huge fan. xD


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When I was in high school I remember looking forward to weekends to watch television as my parents don't allow me to watch on a weekday. I remember watching yuyu hakushu and voltes five. When I got to college, schedules are a bit loose so I had the opportunity to watch and be immersed in a lot of animes. Good times.


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Dragonball Z when I was younger. Initially I was like what the heck is this? It looks dumb. Then I found myself occasionally watching some clips of it, then parts of the episodes, then entire episodes, and soon after I was hooked. I found that I had a fondness for anime that had a lot of fighting in it so those have been primarily what I watch nowadays, with the occasional comedy thrown in. 


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