so what got you into anime

irionicly mexico would get animes sooner then america haha like the old gt saga was shown there while americans were still in the frieza saga haha animes are shown t.v like a regular t.v show instead of on one day or night so every afternoon id sit and watch dbz,sailor moon, and fist of the north star

I actually stumbled upon anime while I was browsing the internet... seven years ago (holy crap... I didn't realize how long it's been ;____; )! At first I found Vocaloid, and noticed many people asking if the characters were from an anime. Curious, I looked into anime, and found the first one I ever watched, which was Tokyo Mew Mew.

Sailor Moon and Revolutionary Girl Utena. :D Ahhh...*nostalgia* Then Rurouni Kenshin volume #1 was spotted by 10-year-old-me...been a manga fiend ever since.

Well I used to watch anime on TV when I was a lot younger, such as One Piece, Rave Master and Shaman King. Then I didn't really watch any until my Dad brought home Howl's Moving Castle on DVD. So I started getting into Studio Ghibli films and then branched out and started watching anime series ^_^

@animekid YES, Of course! Episode 38 & 39: As descriptive as I can possibly be, but I will NOT repeat myself! So pay attention: Part of Anthy’s suffering has been directly and perpetually caused by Akio, and she believes this is only what she deserves. Utena is right; Anthy is an innocent victim. Utena is wrong; Anthy is the perpetrator of crimes against other victims, and Anthy has enjoyed it. Anthy is both, but luckily for Anthy Utena only cares about the injustice in the situation, and focuses on her glaring need to save the rose bride. Utena looks at Anthy in the past and is inspired t o save her in the present (despite the present). Anthy feared and believed that when Utena realized the truth about Anthy in the present, she wouldn’t want to save Anthy in the past anymore. Anthy believes that she cannot be saved; there is no prince worth believing in. As Akio says bitterly: “There never was any such thing as a prince anywhere in the world in the first place.” With so much pain and evil between Anthy and Akio, this may as well be true. It certainly seems true for Anthy who obeys her brother to the end, and in Episode 39: "Someday, Shine with Me says to Utena": “You remind me of the Dios I once loved.” “But you can’t become my prince. Because you’re a girl.” Anthy sacrifices Utena to her brother’s cause. Presumably Utena is only one duelist in a long line of duelists, as Akio insinuates when he grumbles: “Once again, even this sword fails?” By sacrificing Utena (her one hope) Anthy re-sacrifices herself, accepting her place to take “the millions swords that shine with people’s hatred” in place of the ex-prince. Akio s ays she draws the swords from the prince to herself, as that is the rose bride’s destiny. He tries to justify this by saying: “Anthy wished for it all herself.” In other words Anthy freely chose her fate, it wasn’t imposed upon her. The nightmarish sacrifice of Anthy being pierced by a million swords is played out in the sky over the arena, while a broken Utena screams below. Of course the miracle of Revolutionary Girl Utena is that the heroine finds the will to keep going, and swallows up betrayal in love.(Like Kenshin Himura!)She somehow finds the strength to pry open the rose-shaped gate of which Dios says: “Within that gate is that which is eternal, something shining, the power of miracles. With that power, anything is possible.” When she manages to get it open we see a naked Anthy, (YAY!)lying asleep (in a coffin), opening her eyes for apparently the first time. Anthy’s first disbelieving question is: “Who are you?” And then, “But you’re a…” (WOMAN!) Utena cries out: “I came here to save you…I came here to meet you…So don’t be afraid of this world where we’ll meet…Himemiya!” Anthy finally recognizes Utena by name, and then pleads with her (as her truest self, her awakening self) to flee the swords. We see in this scene and by this plea that Anthy of the present really was only part of who Himemiya Anthy is. The Anthy who sacrificed herself for her brother went to sleep in a coffin (she DIED! >:D), just as surely as Dios evolved (by dying) into Akio. By believing in Anthy of the past (the little girl she saw so cruely punished) Utena has resurrected Anthy of the past. and was then meeting the full Anthy for the first time. The Future (after the anime) Anthy’s hand slips from Utena’s and her coffin falls away from the crumbling arena, leaving Utena to face the deluge of angry swords. We see that Anthy is free, and no longer the bearer of the swords for the prince (for a prince whom she believed in has rescued her). Anthy seems to have more knowledge than Akio about what really happened during the last duel. She tells him: “You don’t know what happened, do you?...It’s alright now. Please go on playing make-believe ‘prince’ in this comfortable little coffin forever. But I must go…That person has not vanished. She’s merely left your world…Farewell.” She tells Utena: “Now it’s my turn to go to you. No matter where you are, I’ll find you for sure. Wait for me, Utena.” Anthy is no longer the perpetual sacrifice, no longer the rose bride who is a witch. She’s said before that all girls become witches but Utena has shown her that a girl can be a prince, against all her expectations. Since Anthy is no longer the sacrifice, she no longer feels the need to play Akio’s game, making sacrifices of others. The Anthy we have known, loved, hated, and feared during the anime is no more. Instead the little girl who gave up everything to save her brother steps to the fore, and steps out Ohtori Academy’s front gate, in search for Utena. TRA-LA-LA-LA-LA!!~ Alas, this STILL made a rather frustrating (yet still beautiful) ending. (I just want to see them together again! :( )

I don't even know lol I know my first exposure was a varity of different animes that were on toonami when I was a kid. But the first one that I actually watched with full interest (being much older by then) was Hayate no Gotoku!

I had seen ads on TV for Pokémon Red and Blue, and one day I saw a VHS of the first episode of the anime at Blockbuster. I had no idea what anime was at the time, but that inadvertently got me into Japanese things in general. Toonami's lineup (specifically Dragon Ball Z, Rurouini Kenshin, and YuYu Hakusho) and Fox Kids' shows (especially Digimon and Monster Rancher) solidified my status as an anime fan.