What's the story of your first anime?

Well, I started off with Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh, but after that I joined the anime society at university and my first there was Ghost in the Shell.

^ Similar, except I started watching anime on my own later. The first was the Law of Ueki, followed by School Rumble and Card Captor Sakura. Lost track after that.

Like most people, I started off with Pokemon, Digimon, and whatever else was being aired on TV. The first series I actually watched from beginning to end was the OG Rozen Maiden back in the day.

Watched "Zoids" on TV. Didn't know much of it being an anime. Later I streamed it online and then got into other anime.

Had to have been Vampire Hunter D or Fist of the North Star. What draws in a young pre-teen more than ultra violence? I remember loving the Mortal Kombat games at the time too.

Dragonball Z was my first anime, I first saw it on Toonami and would spend my evenings during my middle school years watching it with my dad.

Well officially it was pokemon but i think it actually dates back to when i was little. I saw an anime from the 80s of the wizard of oz on vhs. Also i saw the sonic the movie on vhs. I liked it and thought the fight against metal sonic was cool. The music was tasty. When i was little though i didnt understand japanese animation and thought it looked too choppy. This was my first reaction to both robotech and knights of the zodiac. It wasnt until pokemon that i really followed a story in an anime but it wasnt until toonami that i learned it was called that. I seriously thought it was called japanamation or japanese cartoons from reading magazines about it. Different times before the internet, i tell you. Toonami set me straight. Everything that was awesome about anime in a single afternoon block. 4kids may have introduced me, but toonami refined my taste for it. Plus it showed alot of cool shows from america and canada also.

My friend in highschool got me into Sailor moon, then I think Pokemon and DBZ followed shortly after and I had an unhealthy obsession with the Lodoss War anime. Just went from there really.

I honestly can't remember anymore what was the very first anime I watched but I do know it was a movie and not a series. Either Ghost in the Shell or Macross: Do You Remember Love. I was a little kid back then though and did not even know much about anime (probably 5-6 years old at the time). I faintly remember wanting to rent the VHS tape while visiting Blockbuster one day and watched it without really being able to grasp the full story back then. The first series I really got into and watched though was Dragon Ball because I had a lot of cousins that were into it. From there, my obsession grew and here I am now.