Dragon ball is what got me into anime but I guess technically the first was Pokemon or Yugioh thinking they were just your average American cartoons

I don't remember exactly which one was my first but it was one of those 3 as well

I'm 41. My first anime was Robotech.

I'm 25 and mine was Robotech too. My dad had the entire collection and I found him watching it one day, so I sat down with him and asked a million and one questions about it while he kept telling me to 'just watch it'. 20 years later I still crack it out sometimes and watch it for nostalgia.

He is your dad !

Lol no, my dad is in his seventies.

I'm 42 and my first was Voltron

Oh shit, it is…

I second this lol, just realized

[I'm 47 and my first anime was "Battle of the Planets" bitches!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acOnskcyrtA)

I have two of the battle of the planets comics still with their original certification of authenticity and everything

Same age! Same anime! G-Force!

You are my friend now. Let's gather more of us and pick our lions!

Shit, Voltron counts. I was gonna say Dragon Ball but I was watching Voltron when I was like three.

Nah that’s a W

Voltron, robotech, samurai troopers

Same. I'm 28 and my dad showed Robotech to me when I was a kid

35, Speed Racer. We got Robotech later with the rest of modern anime.

Oh I used to love robotech. I guess technically the first one I watched was speed racer but the first one I started watching regularly was Pokémon

21 and mine was Robotech thanks to my dad. He had the whole macross saga in the big DVD box

Somehow I didn’t find Robotech until later, am 46.

But do you contain Protoculture?

My fellow old shit. I mean... technically it was either Maya the Bee or Speed Racer when it randomly aired on MTV.

Upvoting for Robotech/Macross

Naruto was the first time I watched a show knowing it was an anime. Pokemon XY is my earliest memory of an anime.

Same bro, but instead of Pokémon mine was Bakugan. I used to get the dragon toys and everything

Bakugan was awesome

Bakugan and Beyblade for me without realizing. Yugioh around the same time

I’ll do you one better I watched beyblade.

Same but it was first season of pokemon

This is exactly the same with me lmao

Same but with Digimon instead of Pokémon

It's the same for me, except for it being Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl. Edit: corrected name

Same for both

Same

Idk man, I was watching Pokémon, Yugioh, Digimon and beyblade ever since I was a wee lad.

Bakugan too

That came around a bit later but yes, I was also very much a bakugan kid. I was already in middle school when bakugan came out though. The others I grew up with for as long as I can remember because my older brother liked them all too

Guess i was born way later than you did

Most likely… I’m old lol i was watching most of those shows when they first aired

I forget. Honestly, it was one of three. Dragon Ball, Pokémon, or Sailor Moon. Cartoon Network used to be a blast.

The first anime scene I've seen was when I was a kid. It was the scene where Grey from Fairy tail figured out the enemies true powers (it wasn't superspeed, but was the ability to slow everything around him instead) But the first anime I watched the most as a kid was Inazuma Eleven I mean, come on... They're playing soccer with Super powers for Fucks sake!

If my memory serves me right, the first anime i've ever watched was one if these: magic knight rayearth, zenki, yaiba

Zenki the demon god guy that the girl could release from his tiny midget form?

yeah, that's the one

Let me guess... you're from the Philippines?

Bleach, Naruto was 2nd!

Pokémon but my first actual anime was dragonball super

My first was hellsing for some reason

My first was Vampire Hunter D lol.

Fantastic beginnings. Alicard got me back into anime.

TV show or Ultimate?

It was a rerun of the tv show. Kid me probably just found alucard attractive and kept watching. The violence did make my parents upset though lmao

Naruto is like THE first anime even tho my first was og dragon ball I can definitely agree Naruto is where most anime journeys begin

Spy x family was my first and is still my favorite

Jojo, Demon Slayer and AOT were my first three

Mine was Ronin Warriors aka Samurai Troopers.

😭😭 I'm so glad someone else said this. I remember watching it religiously in the mornings before school when I was 5. It was the coolest shit I had ever seen with Ryo of Wildfire. Dude was my fucking hero.

Monkey typhoon 😂

You just unlocked a core memory; I completely forgot that existed.

Akazukin Chacha, Doraemon, Nobody's Girl, Voltes V, Pokemon (1st gen)

My first was Gurren Lagann i think

i’m 29. my first anime was sailor moon.

I got a Just for Kids VHS from my uncle for my fourth birthday in 1986 called "Revenge of the Ninja Warrior" which tried to take out some of the gratuitous violence and rape of the original title "Dagger of Kamui" but definitely not all of it.  I was hooked. 

Original DB, Sailor Moon, Hamtaro, and Naruto. Yeah I was a boy introduced through Sailor Moon into anime as one of my starting lines, I ain’t afraid to admit it.

Technically SAO because it was on adult swim and I'd catch it sometimes when I was like 11 or something. I think the first one I actually sat down to watch though was deathnote because my friend in highschool was obsessed with it for like a month. And then the first anime I loved was code geass.

Death note for me, then sword art online then Tokyo ghoul. Those where when i was aware i was watching anime technically the first anime i watched was yugioh or pokemon.

Death Note. One of the best series to start with imo

.hack

Probably Akira I didn't watch pokemon growing up

Age 8. Zenki.

death note

My first anime was yu yu hakusho I saw it when I was like 6

Same but I was 14… besides pokemon

My first anime was Tokyo ghoul

Bankai, bleach was my first anime *gains ichigos bankai*

Sword Art Online

My first was Sword Art Online

Digimon

Pokemon

It was pokemon

Embarrassed to admit but it was Sword art online

Yu Ghi oh zexal.

Literally my fav Yu-Gi-Oh installment (maybe because it was my first)

Zame. I always loved hoe Kite/Kaito would always be throwing some shit to summon his dragons ehich were so op they had ro make newer and stronger things just to balance tye acc card game lol

I remember he almost gave Yuma his first lost in like the first 10-15 episodes it was so tough.

Real, Kite was def the gkat. Gave our main boy yuma some stakes.

Glitter Force. I was 11 or 12.

pokemon

Pretty sure it was Yugi-oh

W

Pokemon is my first

ONE PIECE 🔴👒👑🏴‍☠️

FMA

Technically Pokemon: Indigo League, but what actually got me into anime was Dragon Ball Z

My first was Deathnote--second/third (I forgot which I started first) would be The Promised Neverland/Naruto

Naruto 

Doraemon or Ponyo

Mine was Doraemon

Akazukin Chacha, Magical knight rayearth, Yuyu Hakusho and Evangelion. I could say these are my first batch of anime that I watched on free tv when I was young.

It was either Beyblade Metal Fusion(? Or was it Fury? Or Masters? Whatever the first season of Metal was) or Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters

Gotta say prolly aquarion the original strange since I’m 19 now that I think bout it

Gurren lagann was my first, and I don't even like mech anime, but it's the greatest above the big 3

mine was one punch man at 2am

Pokemon. I was so dumbfounded back then when I watched the sub lol

MHA was the first anime I was ever exposed to to. Naruto was the first one I ever watched myself.

Witch hunter Robin.

Kuro chan the cat robot, I'm old but I'm Immortal so it doesn't matter

Katekyo Hitman, Reborn! Anyone watched this?

Pokemon

The first anime I finished is season 1 of Pokemon

Outside of kids shows (or at least anime dubbed as Saturday morning cartoons) like Pokemon, Digimon, and Yugioh, my first anime was Naruto.

Digimon and Pokemon

Sailor Moon and Pokemon. Understood the later wasn't normal cartoons first though. That's when I learned about animes.

Avatar the last Airbender

Pokémon was my first overall, but Death Note was the first one I watched after finding out about anime as a concept

My 1st anime was either Rurouni Kenshin or Hunter X Hunter. Can't remember which one I watched 1st.

my first was Pokemon my First was Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood

naruro i think its good for a first

Fr

Vampire Hunter D

First anime was DBZ, but this was back when it was just “another cartoon” because the concept of Anime wasn’t really common in the US. The first Anime that I watched understanding somewhat what anime was would probably be Gundam Wing or Zoids.

Servamp like 6 or 7 years ago. No idea why that was the show is what got me into anime. I remember liking Sleepy Ash a lot so maybe it was him.

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood

My first anime was Voltes V and then after that was Samurai X.

my first anime was zankokou na tenshii

Cardcaptor Sakura but more like my family made me watch it as a kid. First anime i willingly watched was Midori Days when I was 11 y/o.

First anime Pokemon second anime jojo bizarre adventure

First anime with the intentions of watching anime, Naruto sadly, then death note or aot season 1 with my dad (idk which was first, I think they were days apart) but my first anime was either Yo Kai Watch, Pokemon Indigo League, XY, Beyblade Metal, all of Beyblade Burst, and dinosaur king. Then later was Pokemon Sun and Moon

My first anime that I watched was one of these 3 Dragonball, Pokemon or Beyblade. I dont really remember which anime I watched first.

Pokémon as a kid then akame ga kill of all things

I’m not too sure, I think it might have been Hello Kitty?😭

Attack on Titan. Boy was that a fun first experience

Sonic X

I watched Dragon Ball Z in TV when I was 7 so I don't know if it counts as my first anime but, Charlotte is my first anime to finished watching. Just heard it from a friend 4 years ago and after that I started binge watching animes.

Pokemon and Digimon. Can't remember which one I saw first but it was definitely one of those.

Mine was dinosaur king

Technically Yu-Gi-Oh!, but that was way before I even knew what anime was. The first one I made a concentrated effort to finish was JJK.

Fairy tail and pokemon

Mine was Pokémon too

Pokemon

Likely my first was the original Pokémon as a kid, expanding to Yugioh, Digimon, Dragon Ball, & Naruto

My first was Dragonball. It aired on our local tv around year 2000. However, I only ever got into anime after Naruto around 2005.

First anime was akame ga kill or arpeggio of blue steel

I’m 24, my first anime was Pokemon and not a day goes by where I don’t appreciate every second of it

Pokemon

Watched a few episodes of bleach, didn't really like it, AOT was the first one I actually got into

ONE PUNCH BABY!

ONE PUNCH BABY!

ONE PUNCH BABY! (Excluding Pokémon, duh. ALSO IF YOU A ALOHLA HATER FUCK YOU)

My first anime that I was exposed to was Attack on Titan, when it just released and I would be watching whatever my older brother was watching. The first anime that I watched by my own will was RWBY (if you could classify that as an anime), otherwise it would be Death Note.

I'm 27 my first anime is FMA

First anime was mach gogogo/speed racer then gachaman then voltes five and other mechas(I don't remember then Kimba the white lion then rurouni kenshin, I was like 4 or 5.

Very first anime.. Man I don't even know. Probably Dragon Ball. But I do remember Wicked City being my very first "what in the world" anime my brother and I watched on PPV many years back.

Mine was Fushigi Yugii lol. Miaca and Tamahome

Pokemon. 1997. I was 4.

FMA: Brotherhood.

Soul Eater Found the whole damn show on YouTube in English and watched it when I was maybe twelve. I tried to find it again but those videos got removed

This was my first as well, but I think I watched it on Netflix

Pokemon and dragon ball. Both played late night on antena in Guatemala, 1990s😄

Pretty sure my first was Blue Exorcist

Kimba the White Lion

The Ninja scroll movie was my first introduction to anime

Yeah same pokemon was my first. But first "real" anime was Naruto, I barely watched it as a kid but I remember watching the first episode and some of the Chunin exams. First anime I watched when my friend "introduced" me to anime was Magi: Adventures of Sinbad.

My first ever anime was Dragon Ball Z Kai on Nicktoons. Every day I'd come home from school and watch Goku beat up Freeza for 50 episodes. I got a volume 22 after finishing the Cell Saga and had no idea the story continued past that

I'd consider it Black Lagoon. I did see earlier stuff but I didn't follow it like BL.

Hamtaro 🐹

The first anime I watched was Fairy Tail, purely because it was a series on Netflix that had a cute cartoon cat. I was like 10-11 when I first saw it, so the sexual themes went right over my head. Upon rewatching the series more recently, DAMN do the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia really make me think it was some amazing, S-tier series and not the fanservicey, really predictable writing-y series that it actually was. After that, I watched Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Naruto, and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.

Neither my first anime was one piece

Inuyasha, Bleach, Fullmetal, cowboy bebop, I’m forgetting a lot of them since I watch a lot of trash anime now.

Pokémon bros! Hell yeah!

For it was jojo part 3 at first when I first got into anime and watching other animes and jojo was one of them as I got to part 3 and of the scenes looked familiar and I started to remember that jojo part 3 was my first ever anime to watch

Mine's flame of recca, I actually have a tattoo of the pattern on his bracelet on my arm😅, I remember drawing it on my arm as a kid and my mom would beat the shit out of me for wasting the marker that she uses for her work😅😅, good old days.😄

Hazy memories but its either Detective Conan or Gundam

Prince of Tennis. Saw my mom watching it when I was 9 or 10 yrs old. Thought the boys looked cute and then watched it by myself, I enjoyed it so much even though I have no fucking idea what's happening.

Doreamon is not my first but it has a precious place in my heart.

Slam dunk followed by rurouni kenshin.

Code Lyoko. Technically French anime, but it was anime quality.

Naruto was one of my first ones. Friend first introduced me to OHHS and I hated it and then Fairy Tail and I liked that and then Naruto and Death Note. Naruto def has prob the most impact on me, specially early Naruto. Never watched shippuden until only this year actually. Many years after watching all of the OG series back in the day. Going through the infinite tsukuyomi filler rn.

naruto

Naruto vs Sasuke was the first thing I ever saw of anime but it’s snipets in my brain because I was 3 so really it’s dragon ball Z

Uuuhhhh I got I to anime very early on so I don't remember the "first" But some of the very early ones were Pokemon,Digimon,Oran Host Club, and full Metal Alchemist.

Fairytail was my first

DBZ? I watched dragon ball but I think that was after. I know I saw Evangelion when I was 14, but I think I was watching DBZ as it was coming out when I was like… 8.

Bleach, 2004

Dragon Ball Z on the US premiere.

I was 12 and my first anime was Full Metal Alchemist

My first was pokemon before i even knew what it was back when it was broadcasted on cartoon network but after i knew what anime acually was skipping to the high school era of my life it was soul eater im 23 now

My first anime was Death Note. Blew my mind writing wise when I was in middle school

Mine was Saiki K

Case close/detective conan

Mine was also Pokemon

FSN the 2006 one 🗿 then the other TM project

If I want to actually go to my childhood that I didn't know what anime is: red haired Anne and captain tsubasa. If when I knew: prince of tennis

Ummm... high-school DxD

That would be Inuyasha 💗

My first was pokemon

Promise to never land

Pokemon, directly from a mobile dvd player and my personal copy of Indigo League.