Topic: How did manga/anime come into your life? (Read 16970 times)

Okamirei · « **on:** July 06 2005, 10:15 am »

My father introduced me to manga actually^^, it was so long ago....maybe when I was 1 or 2?

He was a big anime fan too, hehe.

so...what about you guys?

monkey · « **Reply #1 on:** July 06 2005, 10:25 am »

bought Dirty Pair Flash on Video when i was looking in a sci fi store (i've always been into space series etc)

Blaze · « **Reply #2 on:** July 06 2005, 11:02 am »

well the first time i saw CCS i started to wach more anime and read more manga thx to sakura

Sakaki · « **Reply #3 on:** July 06 2005, 11:36 am »

I've always had a passion for Japan, and grew up watching some of the dubbed *urgh* stuff on TV.

My daughter started watching anime and manga quite a while back, and got me into Cardcaptor Sakura and Sonic X. After that, I guess I just went manga/anime crazy.
Anime and Manga fulfills something in my soul I guess.
It's just something about the culture of Japan that speaks to me.

ani · « **Reply #4 on:** July 06 2005, 12:52 pm »

anime? I thought it was just cartoons at the start but then in the mornings they started to show Sailormoon on one of my favorite morning shows.. ^^ umm.. Agrro's Cartoon Connection..?? ^^ and after that after looking around on net I found out that it was an anime.. Of course.. after that I didn't reallyget to watch more because we were moving around so much .. but the first anime after coming back to australia that i watched was.. low and behold ... Cardcaptors! [yes the dubbed version

;;] It was pretty good but when i found out that the manga and the japanese version was bettef I started hating the dubbed version.. ^^ umm... ta da!

cloud · « **Reply #5 on:** July 06 2005, 04:14 pm »

me i got it from my friend 3-years ago with shonen jump

Shinigami Zero · « **Reply #6 on:** July 06 2005, 06:03 pm »

My friend's older brother gave me fansubs back when I was a wee little 7-year old. I was hooked.

Sugar Fairy · « **Reply #7 on:** July 06 2005, 08:26 pm »

Ani - I got started with sailormoon as well!

I remember watching dubbed Sailormoon, and my sister and I were making fun of it since the voice acting was AWFUL. The voices were all pitched WAYY too high, it was really awful!! All the voice actors (except for Mamoru) were screeching.

buuut, we got hooked on the story anyway, and just kept the volume down to protect our ears.

And that was... lemme think, around 10 years ago..

Cardcaptor Takato · « **Reply #8 on:** July 07 2005, 12:01 am »

I found out about anime through Sailor Moon. I first saw it when I was on vacation in the Gulf Shores one year but I didn't know what it was at the time. All I knew was that it was the strangest cartoon I had ever seen in my life. Eventually I forgot about it later on in the day (I had watched it on the TV in the hotel room early in the morning while waiting to leave) until a summer later when USA Network started airing some TV show called Sailor Moon. Out of curiosity, I checked out the first episode the day it premiered and was hooked ever since. Eventually I realized that this was the weird show I had watched a year ago on vacation, so I did a search on the Internet for Sailor Moon and discovered it was Japanese animation. I eventually learned about all the differences between the dub and Japanese version, then I started watching the original. I also started watching other anime and collecting manga and I've been hooked ever since. It's been eight years since then now.

Jas-chan · « **Reply #9 on:** July 07 2005, 01:46 am »

My older cousins gve me the first volume of CCS out of the blue on my 10th birthday, and after changing schools , I saw some other girl reading manga, and we started reccomending other anime and manga to each other...

I love reading manga but my parents aren't that happy about it, for some reason

Pickthelock · « **Reply #10 on:** July 07 2005, 02:17 am »

I just decided to grab the first YGO manga off of a random shelf in Target and loved them and got more. In Target I also so the Fruits Basket dvds and I wanted to see it so I got the FB manga and fell in love.

Ruby Chan · « **Reply #11 on:** July 07 2005, 05:20 am »

I liked things like Cardcaptors, Pokemon and Digimon...then I realised they were all from Japan! So when Ant and Dec (2 UK presenters) went to Japan, I fell in love with the country and started looking into other Japanese cartoons.

Most of my current fav anime I simply fell in love with from episode guides and character bios. (Naruto and Inuyasha for example)

As for manga...I bought the CCS and Yugioh ones at first to compare them to the programmes, and went on from there.

Blaze · « **Reply #12 on:** July 07 2005, 09:50 am »

wow cool

bLuetopaz · « **Reply #13 on:** July 07 2005, 10:10 am »

my very first manga (Sailormoon) was introduced by my friend.. hehe.. but after a while, i stopped and after my little bro showed me the CCS anime.. im hooked!

Mina · « **Reply #14 on:** July 07 2005, 11:03 am »

I grew up being surrounded by manga and anime.... however, I wasn't allowed to read manga....

So I sneakly read them

Sugar Fairy · « **Reply #15 on:** July 07 2005, 11:59 am »

going a bit off topic, have YOU influenced anybody to be as obsessed over anime/manga? and how? i've been pushing CCS in the faces of my friends, and they're not showing any interest.

or maybe because they're around 30 already.

Usagimiyuki · « **Reply #16 on:** July 07 2005, 12:11 pm »

I had heard about this character called Sailor Moon. One day, while shopping, I saw a little girl's pair of sneakers for sale, and it had Sailor Moon on it. I thought, "There goes that Sailor Moon thing again. WELL, during this time, Cartoon Network was showing Sailor Moon on TV, so one day I sat down to LOOK at it. I was looking at " The Doom Tree" arch of Sailor Moon. But I realized that the stories did not end in just 25 minutes. They continued on and on... well, I was interested to find out what was going to happen the next day, and the day after that until I learned that ANIME is not a "cartoon." Well, after I learned about Sailor Moon, CCS and others followed. Now,... I LOVE ANIME!!!!!

monkey · « **Reply #17 on:** July 07 2005, 02:08 pm »

Quote from: Sugar Fairy on July 07 2005, 11:59 am

going a bit off topic, have YOU influenced anybody to be as obsessed over anime/manga?

i have. i kept telling him how good it was, and he just said they were silly cartoons. then as i talked more and more, and showed him some slips and more stuff. he started to watch Love Hina and now he likes all kinds of anime !!

Fai · « **Reply #18 on:** August 03 2005, 12:23 pm »

Oh wow, I have to think about this..*thinks* Oh yea! It all started with Sailor Moon lol! I was crazy about Sailor Moon when I was little..I even wanted to have my hair dyed blond..o_O

Star · « **Reply #19 on:** August 03 2005, 12:40 pm »

it probably started with pokemon but when i moved i got cartoon network and saw tenchi ten kenshin i fell in love with it
but istarted to get the mana lastyear kenshin of course

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