I used to think that Japanese animation are for kids or grown up girls who wanted to become kids. Back then in ANU hostel anime was the BIG thing - everyone was talking about anime and that pissed me off to no ends.
Gunshots no longer greeted me when I walked down the hallways - high pitched voices got mixed into the whole atmosphere as well giving an impression of a massive loli war taking place behind all those closed doors.
It was a cold and lonely night when the devil came to me. She held me at gunpoint and I downloaded the first episode of Full Metal Panic…
Episodes came one after another and before I realised it I completely finished that whole series in 2 days. A lot of the jokes were well written and that particular fansub did an awesome job of putting them across. I realised for the first time not all animes have the style/quality of Pokemon.
I asked for more. The devil gave me a list to try and I took it without a second thought. The list looked roughly like this:
a) Naruto
b) Bleach
c) Full Metal Alchemist
d) Irresponsible Captain Tylor (lol)
e) …more
I swallowed them all, and the rest is history. This happened a few years back when you can’t deny that the first 30 or 40 episodes of Bleach/Naruto totally kicked ass.
The devil folded her wings around her and licked her lips. She smiled quietly to herself and watched me download yet another episode of anime…
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November 18th, 2007 at 8:23 pm #nutcase23
and the downward spiral goes on and on and on and on…….
*maki maki maki maki….*
I think we all started out like that…….lol.
I started with Gundam SEED though…..
November 18th, 2007 at 8:35 pm #oru
oh my god now i remmembe i came into anime cuz of BLEACH O,O now im an otaku… how dous this happen
November 18th, 2007 at 10:01 pm #lanie-emon
Think of it, my rediscovery of anime started with Full Metal Panic as well. Oh the nostalgia ^^.
November 19th, 2007 at 1:29 am #Lss
my first fansubbed anime was gundam seed too. by triad lol.
first anime was the english dubbed speedracer.
November 19th, 2007 at 4:28 am #0rion
:O
A cherry-popping story! These are always fun to read!
November 19th, 2007 at 5:11 am #jellokun
I had watched a lot of cowboy bebop but didn’t seem like anime to me and I still didn’t like anime. Then I also found Full Metal Panic, with it’s mix of humor and action i was sucked in.
I purchased all the volumes from Animenation.com for a whopping $280 dollars for the first two full boxsets and pre ordered all the TSRs.
I pray every night more will be released soon!
November 19th, 2007 at 7:09 am #CoRe
My first anime was “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya” back in Dec ‘06 on DivX Stage 6.
If only I had the money to buy the DVD’s…. DAMN YOU VIDEO GAMES!!111 >_
November 19th, 2007 at 8:57 am #choco
i believe my first anime was ranma 1/2 or inu yasha
ahhh i don’t remember
my first fansubbed was *mind went blank* i don’t remember
November 19th, 2007 at 2:55 pm #waterjunk
we all started out by trying but nobody told us this is a one way street lol. haruhi is still my all time fav =)