How did your anime addiction develop?

[JTD121]

I'm not sure how it started, but I do know that I used to watch Transformers all the time when I was about 3 to 4.

Then it moved on to the old SatAM Sonic the Hedgehog, although I'm not sure that qualifies as anime. Anyway, I watched that for a long time, until it just miraculously disappeared off the airwaves.

After that, I kinda fell into a slump of not watching too much anime. Pokemon and DBZ came along after a while, and I loved them. Looking back now, though, I don't see how I loved Pokemon at all...DBZ is decent when they are fighting, other than that, it's kind of annoying how they spend a lot of time powering up and talking to one another...You'd think they were friends instead of mortal enemies...

After a few years of that (it was about 1999 in the Pokemon/DBZ phase, although I still watch DBZ/GT now and then), I got into the whole anime thing. I tried IRC once, but didn't totally understand it, and tried to get some info on a few of the channels, and they kicked me out....After about a week or so of that, I stopped trying and uninstalled it.

However, now I use IRC all the time, although I haven't been on in a while. But I don't use it for downloading any anime. I used to use it for that when I didn't want to wait for the entire second season of Naruto to finish downloading. I also use it for the Naruto manga.

I use BT for most anime nowadays, obviously.

And manga, I used to read it all the time, although it was a 4 or 5 mile (maybe more) trip to the nearest bookstore that had any. On a bike....We (my otaku-ish friend and I) never got around to finding out which bus went up there, since we knew there was one...

But, I have a bunch of anime DVDs, mostly boxsets of series I've seen. A few of them were purchased because I saw them as fansubs. RahXephon was one, Please Teacher! was another, and Abenobashi Magical Shopping Arcade it another, although I only have the first two discs.

Manga, I have 8 of the 14 volumes in my room, although I have read all of the series. I have also read the first couple volumes of Akira, and found it odd that Otomo made a movie of all things. He should have made an OVA in the least! Not a two hour movie! There was so much more than the movie there but...Whatever, his manga to do as he pleased. Read the first 4 volumes of GTO...But I'd rather complete my Love Hina collection than start another one.....Speaking of which, I need to make some space for my manga....If I get a job...

Eh, anyway, it's been a long time coming, but my gaming addiction has started wearing off and has been shunted into anime recently. I only play old-skool games like Sonic 3 & Knuckles (S3 locked-on to S&K) nowadays. Maybe a few newer games, but not as often...It seems anime and to a lesser degree at the moment, manga, has taken over my life. Although the Harry Potter franchise is a close second to both of them.

mainva | aptigo | JTD out

[SK]

i remember when i was a kid i used to wake up early (i used to be able to wake up early when i was a kid for some reason) and watch sailor moon. i loved the art and the action etc. i used to have this friend who told me about it, this was before the whole huge explosion, and i watched it, and loved it. and i noticed it had a similar style to sailor moon, and i could tell they were different from other cartoons. so i started looking up pokemon and found out it was an anime, and i started finding more and more stuff about anime and was really interested in it. then i got cartoon nextwork and i started watching DBZ, which i had seen pics of, and everything went on from there. more animes started popping up on tv that i watched, then eventually shonen jump came out etc etc.

[AnbuAone]

make this quick. Boyfriend and I always love animation. so there you have it. But my first time was in washington state ,when I was living there 5 years ago. when I was 12 I always like weird and odd cartoons. so I started to get my mom to order japanese animation for me. Since i am japanese/chinese but was speaking good english I still understood the animes. weird right. I am not trying to get into it right now. tried

[Lego]

My anime addiction started when i rented Macross Plus 4 on VHS from a local video store.

I saw the cover, and me being age 13-14, went wow, she naked, etc, pre puberty of OMFG boobs.

But i watched it, i found out wow, this kicks ass.

I had never seen anything like this before, i liked it, and went to find other stuff

As i grew up, saw stuff like cowboy bebop,trigun, and etc

Now i hang out in a anime fansub channel, do other stuff anime wise, and im addicted

[JTD121]

Ah! Sailor Moon! Voltron! Thundercats!!

I didn't get to see Ronin Warriors as a kid somehow, but I saw it a few times on Toonami a while ago, and loved it!

I used to get up early to watch Sailor Moon as well! All the time before I went to school. But after a while, I just stopped waking up early, but it then moved to Toonami as well!

mainva | aptigo | JTD out

[Stoopider]

Ahhh... Tis I fell for, when I was a young lad of the age of 17.
My sister gave me her boyfriends whole collection of anime (I wonder why?). And from then on, it was a downward spiral into a vicious anime addiction.

Oh yeah. And mostly from then on, it was the help of Broadband. God bless Fast internet connection. I cannot imagine downloading anime with a dailup.

But before that I've read countless manga's and watch really old Doreamon and DBZ anime's dubbed in 'Bahasa Melayu' (Malaysian official language). But never really was very interested in it.

[XwingRob]

I would have to say Dragonball, Transformers and Samurai Pizza Cats started my interest in anime.
DBZ and Gundam Wing made me really get into anime, though.


*cough*by the way, if anyone can tell me where to download the Samurai Pizza Cats theme song, I'd appreciate it*end cough*