Anime

While I could count watching Pokémon way back then I didn’t really get into it until I was visiting family and my aunt had Inuyasha playing and for some reason it had me hooked.

Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust got the ball rolling for me. Saw it on the shelf and the artwork and premise looked interesting. Loved it!

After that, I asked the guy at the video store for recommendations and ended up binging Evangelion next. Then I was a goner and just started devouring what the clerk suggested and rarely found anything from his list that I didn't love.

By the time I caught up on all the classics, a ton of absolute classics came out around the same time, and I wondered if there were actually any bad anime. :P

All within a year or 2 was:

• Gurren Lagann
• The Garden of Sinners
• Sword of the Stranger
• Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
• Kanon
• The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
• Utawarerumono

I'm sure I'm forgetting some, but I wondered at the time if it would always be this good. Feels like a bit of a golden age now.

@VulcanSphere Kaguya-sama was the first anime I ever watched and enjoyed

It was 9 or 10 years ago I think, back when I still used iFunny regularly. One day there was a featured gif from the anime A Certain Scientific Railgun, but I didn't know what it was at the time.

It was a clip from the first episode, a scene where the main character flicks a coin at an oncoming car, except the coin shoots out at hypersonic speed and blows up the road in front of the car. It was captioned something like "Me when slow cars won't move out if the way". A few days later, I went back to the comments on the post to find out what the clip was from. I watched the whole first season on YouTube on my 3DS that week and it's been my favorite anime ever since.

A friend had been trying to convince me for months to watch Attack On Titan at the time too, but I just wasn't interested in anime until that meme.

I learned that Yugioh was better in Japanese than in English and a lot more clicked. I watched FMA when I was too young to do that and realized that I liked it and learned it was an anime. The rest is history.

@VulcanSphere it was a very long time, I remember I watched a shounen anime at about 7 years old. I really liked that anime but I didn't watch much. But I didn't know the name of it... But when I get older, I realize it is Reborn for no reason... maybe I have déjà vu 🥺