Anime Do you remember the first anime you watched?

[ToxicWhiskers]

Funny enough, as a kid, I believed Pokemon was my first anime, followed by Digimon, Cardcaptor Sakura, Monster Rancher and Sailor Moon.

I was wrong, it was actually the 90's Moomin anime.

 

[guzmania]

jjba, for better or worse...

 

[Princess Viola]

It would've been either Pokémon or Yugioh for me, not 100% sure which considering how long ago it was when I first started watching them.

But the first anime where I knew it was 'anime' was Inuyasha, I'd stay up until midnight to watch it on Adult Swim where it aired after Futurama at the time, IIRC.

 

[c la fet]

I think it was Heidi, Girls of the Alps.

 

[MC.Princess]

my first anime was Beyblade Burst. i still love it to this day! :3

 

[DigitalGen6]

That’s easy. Pokémon.

 

[mastermind lissi]

Mine was Pokémon

 

[MelodicCharm]

mine was pokemon because it was on tv, but i don't necessarily count it tbh. i tend to count Madoka Magica as my first anime because it was the first thing i actually sat down, watched, and got invested in. i think i was like 11

 

[Lapidot Matoi]

I started with Pokemon like so many others here. I usually consider little witch academia (my second) as my first to at least stand out a little.

 

[Palamon]

It was probably Pokemon. But, I'm sure there were tons of stuff I watched prior to 2007 when I learned that word existed that were anime.

 

[Sheep]

I think it was Pokémon, but could also have been DBZ! I adored both as a kid and watched them so much - they introduced me to a lot. ahh the 90s memories lol

 

[Othinus]

Probably Digimon, ah the nostalgia!

 

[Insanish Danish]

I always figured it was Pokemon, but now that I think about it I'm pretty sure it was Superbook. I remember seeing a couple of episodes when I was little and I'm 99% sure that was before I watched Pokemon.

 

[Juliyet]

99% sure it was Speed Racer. Not like the full series or whatever, but I grew up with a DVD with some episodes on it.

 

[Calvinッ]

It was either DBZ or Digimon, as I remember owning the latter on video tape. But to be honest at the time, being a child, I saw these as cartoons and wasn't really opened up to what anime was. The anime i'd class as my first when getting into anime was probably Death Note?

 

[Catz]

Definitely Pokemon. I don't remember me watching anything else under the anime category until I was older

 

[FelipePR]

It depends on whether the question considers my ability to distinguish between a "cartoon" and an "anime".

During my childhood I watched several animes, but I didn't distinguish between them and other cartoons present on Brazilian television, I didn't even know the existence of such a differentiation and, often, even the place of origin of the works.

In this context, the first anime I watched was probably Dragon Ball, as it was omnipresent in the Tupiniquin lands, but it could well have been Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac, Sakura Cardcaptor or some other. The truth is: I don't know for sure.

Later, as a teenager, after I was introduced to the world of anime by some classmates, the first anime I watched was: Elfen Lied. In fact, I must have previously watched some episodes of some other anime, which I no longer remember, with my colleagues. Elfen Lied was, however, the first anime that, after some research, I decided to watch in full.