How Did You Get Interested in Anime?

obviously you never read inuyasha. both the manga and the anime have so much random filler than it makes i can barely stand it. how can someone go from doing an amazing work like ranma 1/2 to the annoyance filled inuyasha?
 
Fishin said:
Suzuka wasn't that great but of all the flaws it had, being a generic harem wasn't one of them - the main character had a grand total of two serious love interests throughout the show, and both of them were actual serious interests, not like all the random girls hanging around a usual harem who never progress in a relationship at all.
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Well yeah Suzuka and Honoka were the meaningful-ish relationships, even though he figures out he doesn't even have a legitimate relationship with/ interest in the latter. But you can't really ignore Hashiba (the other random sprinter girl) having way too much interest in him, or Yui (restaurant chick), neither of whom he formed relationships with, apart from almost fucking Yui. All I'm saying is if any anime that's supposed to be taken seriously has that much random girl drama, it would probably tend to annoy me.



In other news, the ending of Kurokami could have been elaborated a bit more, I didn't even think the show was ending when the random voice-over came in at the very end. I'll reiterate that it was a decent series.

I'm now well into Samurai Champloo. I like it. Can't really expand on that more, but it's got a different direction, and it's not hard to watch. Even if it doesn't have that apocalyptic/ psychoanalytical dramatic flare that it seems I've been buying into lately, heh.

EDIT- didn't wanna waste another post on this, but I just finished Samurai Champloo. I hated the ending, but it was actually a really cool series. Oh well, what can you do.
 
Fishin said:
The commercial breaks are forced (there are usually 3 in a one-minute episode) and you can't skip them, though nothing's stopping you from just doing something on another application at the same time instead of watching. It's usually somewhere between 45 and 90 seconds of commercials for one episode, so it's very mildly annoying but still much less than you'd have to deal with if you were watching stuff on TV and overall not a big deal.
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So, are they full-screen commercials like what's been mentioned for Crunchyroll, or are they the type of little popup ad things that Youtube has? And do the commercials/ads "break up" the video like TV commercials do for shows, or do they actually overwrite the bit of the show like Crunchyroll supposedly does?

Veoh actually has instituted forced commercials now too beyond just the ones when you start up a new video, unfortunately, but oh well.
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Damn, really? Oh well. :(
 
Like I said, streaming video websites are almost all losing money so they have monetize them somehow or go offline. Hulu does commercial breaks like TV does. It'll stop and cut to commercials for 30 seconds then resume the show. Usually at logical points. Why not just click a show and see how it works?

http://www.hulu.com/
 
Firestorm said:
Like I said, streaming video websites are almost all losing money so they have monetize them somehow or go offline. Hulu does commercial breaks like TV does. It'll stop and cut to commercials for 30 seconds then resume the show. Usually at logical points. Why not just click a show and see how it works?

http://www.hulu.com/
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I would check it myself, but my laptop is currently out for repairs so I can only access the internet at work.
 
ferron said:
obviously you never read inuyasha. both the manga and the anime have so much random filler than it makes i can barely stand it. how can someone go from doing an amazing work like ranma 1/2 to the annoyance filled inuyasha?
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ferron said:
i would like to apologize to everyone that would have posted in this thread, but then didn't because a few of us derailed/usurped/annexed this thread.
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Sorry, have to comment about this but, YAY!!! Someone else who's actually heard of Ranma 1/2!!! We MUST get the word out, it is a classic is still valid as a good anime.

I do agree with you about InuYasha to an extent, however both had their own dissappointments. The ending to the InuYasha anime had no closure at all, so it makes me wonder if Rumiko Takahashi is going to make some sort of sequel manga, don't know, still have to research this. And the other thing that dissappointed me? In Ranma 1/2, they never bothered to animate the episode where they actually..well...attempted to get married. I really would have liked to have seen how the anime version treated that. I'm sure it still would have ended in chaos, but still.

And thank you, ferron, for bringing up an important point. Please, everyone, who IS getting off topic (and I thnk you know who you are), please remember that this is a thread about how you became interested in anime, and a place where you can discuss the various animes you like. This is not a place to debate whether or not "anime sucks", or any other kind of argument that may not necessarily be anime-related. As a result to this, I've added a few rules in my first post. I know I should have done this from the beginning, but I didn't think we'd get sidetracked so much here. So before anyone else posts, I please encourage you to read the rules.

So please, people, stay on topic, I started this thread to be fun and hoping to find people with similar interests.

Otherwise, I'm very pleased to have so many replies so far, there's so many different new or just obscure animes I've never heard of, and I'm very anxious to check all of these out very soon!
 
wrecklesswrage said:
And the other thing that dissappointed me? In Ranma 1/2, they never bothered to animate the episode where they actually..well...attempted to get married.
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actually, it was the parents that where trying to force them to get married and they ran away from the procession (while akane was still in her wedding dress). it was a cute ending meant to imply that they would be together.
 
ferron said:
actually, it was the parents that where trying to force them to get married and they ran away from the procession (while akane was still in her wedding dress). it was a cute ending meant to imply that they would be together.
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Oh really? My apologies I was misinformed. I did know that towards the end they were finally honest with each other about their feelings, and that end sort of makes me happy. Ranma and Akane is my favorite pairing.
 
Firestorm said:
How the hell are you on episode 190 and not hate Naruto. That's 55 episodes of unbearable filler. A full year's worth. Not only that, you still have 30 to go. Do yourself a favour and start Shippuden now.

Oh and I find it interesting that your music teacher showed you Princess Mononoke. My teacher for a media class last semester got us to play around with another Miyazaki film, Nausicaa, to get us accustomed to sound design in video.
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Honestly? Because I like to stay up late (it's my only alone time with so many people in the house) so I just watch Anime. And I can't leave something unfinished, so I am finishing Naruto (and yes, the fillers ARE boring), and then Shippuden, and then One Piece. What's next?

Also, props for Naussica. And Castle in the Sky was cool.
 
Eraddd said:
I watched pokemon, digimon, dragonball z, and yu gi oh.

I read the pokemon manga.

That's it lol.
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So good but so expensive. I'm this close to buying 30 volumes from a seller in Singapore but shipping is so damn expensive... It would come to $400 in Canadian Dollars @_@ Can't believe they only ever released the first 7 volumes here.
 
Firestorm said:
So good but so expensive. I'm this close to buying 30 volumes from a seller in Singapore but shipping is so damn expensive... It would come to $400 in Canadian Dollars @_@ Can't believe they only ever released the first 7 volumes here.
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Read all of them from my local library.

Then i read some translated ones that weren't released in english on the net.

I can link to you if you want.
 
I got started with anime by pokemon, and then the rest of the toonami line up, inlcuding DBZ, Rurouni Kenshin, Yu Yu hakusho, and the rest. Then toonami kinda died for a while, a few years passed and then one of my friends suggested i watch Naruto.

So I did. Since then I have seen a little bit of Anime, but nothing has ever come close to Naruto. And as far as the country of the waves arc goes, no book, videogame, or show of any sort, or anything, can beat that for me. Although Deathnote and the Miyazaki movies, espicially Princess Mononoke were very good. the next Anime I plan on watching is One Piece, My friend is making me cause a long time ago i swore never to watch a show that looked that stupid, but he says its good and he hasn't been wrong in a while.
 
hulu is a good choice because it's free 480p quality with only 1-3 max 15-30s commercials which are really not too bad. The only problem with hulu is that they don't have all the episodes uploaded yet for most series.

Veoh, Megavideo, YouTube, - are all very poor quality. Once you've watched a good amount in 480p you can't go back to this quality reduction, it just hurts the eyes and isn't the way the art was meant to be seen.

I find googling the anime with episode number until you find a free site with few or no commercials that streams in 480p is the best way to go. There are various sites that still stream this way and it's just a matter of searching them out.

Torrents are all fine and well, but not everyone has a fast enough connection and it's too much of a pain to download every episode before watching.
 
Friend randomly showed me a certain Naruto episode. the one where Rock lee gets drunk and fights Kimimaro, I just thought this was epic. And there you go.
 
To be honest, I never was a big fan of anime. I just liked some shows but overall I always thought of anime as a strange mumbojumbo world compared to american cartoon (then again, that's not fair, american cartoon definitely have their shares of weird things, just look at spongebob).

I only watched a couple, Pokemon, Dragon Ball Z. I just watched those shows because they just looked really appealing at first glance, even if you don't know what the Hell is going on. Pokemon had cute creatures with cool powers while Dragon Ball Z was every boy's dream. Flying, being kung-fu masters and shoot energy balls out of your hands? AWESOME!

Skipping about 6 or 7 years after 1999, I kept hearing about this show called Naruto?
"What's so cool about that?" I asked myself.
Ninjas? Could you be anymore cliche? Where are the energy balls and why is everyone's name unpronounceable?
I gave this show a go and if I didn't like the first episode I wouldn't even bother watching the rest.

I find myself being nearly in tears at the end of the episode. Naruto just did what I think most anime just can't do. Hook you up in the first 10 minutes. Sure there wasn't a lot of action in the first episode but, wow, it certainly was good in character development.
I started to love anime once one of my friends pushed me into watching One Piece.

Hands down my favorite anime/manga ever. It's just so quirky, humourous and adventurous. And man I love every bit of imagination the author just puts in the story. Especially the devil fruit's (a fruit that gives you weird and amazing powers at the cause of being vulnerable to water) possibilities.

It's actually thanks to One Piece I started watching Bleach and Full Metal Alchemist.

And I gotta agree with an earlier post, "comedy" anime just plain-out suck. Surprisingly I find Bleach and One Piece a whole lot hilarious than Gintama, a show which makes my weeabu friend nearly die of laughter.
 
i watched Naruto and One Peice on CN and found them to be interesting. At that time i didnt even know Pokemon was an anime (i thought anime had to have some sort of violence.)
 
Good lord I feel old.

What got me into anime? Speed Racer, Card Captor Sakura, Gundam Wing, Mononoke-hime and Digimon season 1 & 2

What kept me watching? Cowboy BeBop, Outlaw Star, Angel Sanctuary, Wolf's Rain and Sprited Away.

I think all of those are now considered "old school," which completely boggles me. Not that I don't keep up with the newer anime - I'm a huge Bleach fan, FMA: Brotherhood has taken its place on my top 5 and I just got done watching Gurren Laagan... but seeing everything I watched in my childhood dubbed "old" anime kind of makes me feel a little ancient myself.
 
Claddagh said:
Good lord I feel old.

What got me into anime? Speed Racer, Card Captor Sakura, Gundam Wing, Mononoke-hime and Digimon season 1 & 2

What kept me watching? Cowboy BeBop, Outlaw Star, Angel Sanctuary, Wolf's Rain and Sprited Away.

I think all of those are now considered "old school," which completely boggles me. Not that I don't keep up with the newer anime - I'm a huge Bleach fan, FMA: Brotherhood has taken its place on my top 5 and I just got done watching Gurren Laagan... but seeing everything I watched in my childhood dubbed "old" anime kind of makes me feel a little ancient myself.
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you're making me feel old...do you remember city hunter? how about casshern?
 
Hmmm let's see... I got started with anime with DBZ, Pokemon and Digimon. I also watched Toonami and some of the series they showed like Sailor Moon, Card Captors, Tenchi Muyo, Gundam Wing (one of my favorites), Rurouni Kenshin (another of my favorites), Outlaw Star, G Gundam (and other Gundam series they showed), Dragon Ball and Zoids/Chaotic Century (for some reason I really like this anime). Here were I live I could also watch Locomotion (later Animax), which showed original japanese shows (sometimes without subs!), and some in spanish. There I watched series like Saber Marionnette J (and later JtoX), Prince of Tennis and Blue Seed. Case Closed (Detective Conan) was a series that was shown for a while on CN, and I really liked that one. I also watched Inuyasha on Adult Swim since they showed it every day. Cowbow Bebop and Trigun were also pretty awesone.

From the internet I have watched Whistle!, Tsubasa Chronicle, Death Note, Zero no Tsukaima, Code Geass, Blood+, Tales of the Abyss and Naruto. Currently I am watching Naruto Shippuuden, FMA:Brotherhood, Dragon Ball Kai and Bleach. I'm planning on watching One Piece soon (original version).
 
Ahhh, Casshern. The anime precursor to The Matrix. I only remember the OVA in the 90's, though... the series itself was a bit before my time. Haven't heard of City Hunter, although after checking out Wikipedia, I might need to pick that up.

Mars is another one that seems to have slipped through the cracks, even though the tail end of it was well into the late nineties.
 
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