Thread 282159707

How long have you been watching anime?

Since I was 6

>>282159707 (OP)
My parents made a photograph of 3 y/o me watching sailor moon on tv in 1999

>>282159707 (OP)
I started watching death note since 2018 didn't finish then in 2019 I started watching Naruto, JJBA, then finally went back to finish Death Note from then on I continued to watch anime to this day.

30 odd years.
Remember, you're here forever.

>>282159707 (OP)
Since I was like 7 or so. My first anime was Sword Art Online.

>>282159862
Damn, if that's that's what set the bar for you every anime you watched after must have felt like a masterpiece.

A girl made me watch Bleach in 2008, I'm nearing a thousand watched anime now.

Probably watched the typical shows that aired on toonami in 2000 whenever. But really started watching more and renting what blockbuster had, gundam, I think S-cry-ed?. And Higurashi broken into two dozen parts on youtube in 3 minute intervals.

>>282159707 (OP)
A series here and there all my life.
Only got into watching 30+ shows a season this year.

>>282159707 (OP)
Since watching this and Kimba

I use to buy bootleg fan subs on vhs

watched the ghibli movies and also Hildi back in 90s as a kid, then stuff like beyblade digimon pokemon started airing on normal TV

>>282159964
What are you doing here then? Go get that rookie numbers up

1996: Korean dub of Da Garn. But 2006 is when i started looking for fansubs

Since 1998, Greek TV was lousy with them. I never stood a chance.

Since 1999 when Digimon came out in the US. Didn't become anything more than just japanese kids shows or what was on Toonami for me until 2004 or so. Torrenting, cheap 5 dollar bootleg dvds, TokyoPop manga, online forums, and being aware of more shows became easily available. Unironically Crunchyroll back when it was a pirate site was fantastic for mecha.

>>282159707 (OP)
Never didn't, toddler tv here was anime too.

>>282159707 (OP)
like most kids born in the year 2000, I grew up seeing anime here and there but never really watched a whole show.
around middle school is when I picked up Yotsuba& cause my sister liked reading stuff in the graphic novel section of the library and she recommended it to me.
I didn't watch anime during my middle school career, but for some reason I'd always pick on and tease kids at school if they liked anime/had anime merch, I guess I thought kids who liked anime were losers (which didn't make any sense cause I read a bunch of different manga at the time??)

around 10th grade in 2016 is when I actually watched my first series in its entirety, and it was Kill la Kill. ever since then I watched more and more and now we're here, 25 yrs old and 500+ anime inside of me.
funnily enough, I think I turned into the kids I used to bully back in middle school that I thought were losers and weird.
I don't talk to anyone irl outside my family and work, and am basically a shut-in if not for my 9-5.

I guess that's karma in a way lole.

I watched Sailor Moon when it aired on tv and I guess that ruined me as a person
Aside that I started actually watching anime in high school and haven't really stopped since then. Spent more than half my life in this shithole now that I start thinking about it

Little under 20 years.

Too long.

>>282159707 (OP)
21 hours

>>282159707 (OP)
10 years this coming winter. Didn't start until I was a senior in high school. Please don't bully me

>>282159707 (OP)
I watched Naruto and Dragonball Z when I was a little kid, but I never breached Toonami's normie containment until my best friend got me into watching Code Geass when I was like 14, which would have been like 2010. After that, I was off to the races.

>>282159707 (OP)
More than ten years
I started watching a lot when I failed final year of high school because of depression and attempted to seppuku but I was too much of a pussy to do it correctly. My parents are typical Asian parents who think mental problems aren't real but they still took me to the shrink and got me on mood stabilizer. The shrink also told my father to not talk to me because he screamed a lot at me
Anyway, i spent one year being numb and sitting in my room watching anime, as I waited for highschool exams next year. No one bothered me, i just sat in a dark room day after day and watched anime

Good times

>>282159707 (OP)
Since around 1997 but I watched some random things here and there before that.

>>282159707 (OP)
I first tried watching anime for the first time like 12 years ago in my early twenties. Throughout my twenties I'd only watch like 1 or 2 shows a year. Then for some reason a few years ago I my interest in anime skyrocketed and now I'm here in my thirties and anime is what I spend almost all my free time on. I don't know how my life became like this

>>282159707 (OP)
Since '96 or so

>>282159707 (OP)
Early 90's.

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>>282162520
I think most of /a/ started watching anime in the 2000's.

On and off forever but I saw a webm of Eris from Mushoku Tensei on /v/ like 5 years ago which started me on my current binge of anime

>>282159707 (OP)
Since 2016.
Based on experiencing the past eras simultaneously at a later point, I can tell that the golden years of anime are 2009-2013 (turning modern) and 2004-2007 (previous era). I haven't touched older stuff besides some odd movie, there's probably some good stuff there but newer stuff has its advantages. Also, I think we have gotten past the worst point in the ultra modern era, I can smell a renaissance coming, peaking somewhere around 2027-2029 maybe. You seem to get the best stuff during transition of eras, when you mix the good old with improved storytelling techniques or add some new ideas into a true and tested framework. Kind of how around 2009 feels like a transition point between eras where the good of the new and old get mixed at optimal ratio. Then it always overshoots.

>>282159707 (OP)
Almost 25 years and I've only recently fallen into the despair that is watching isekai slop. There's nothing left for me. Just take me out back and put me out of my misery

>>282162574
As in pirated, yeah. I doubt tv/streaming counts anyway.

>>282162807
It's crazy to think that it never even crossed your mind that happily proclaiming how you skipped like 50+ years of the history of the medium and could basically care less makes your confident analysis just really fucking funny. Great post

>>282159862
Gen Z god...

>>282163300
Fair criticism, I don't know everything about anime, but in my experience as classically trained in music: Each era has its strengths, but there are also things that simply progress in a way that obsoletes old stuff. Most classical snobs would consider baroque music basic compared to romantic era classical music, like there probably wasn't much point for baroque people to listen to Gregorian chants after inventing polyphony. And then, modern music, instruments and mixing has obsoleted classical music in many ways. You can always have a preference for aesthetic or quirk from specific era, but on average, things progress forward.

>>282159707 (OP)
2/3 of my life

Since maybe 2005ish, I think. I dont watch much new stuff anymore though. it's all pretty terrible, or maybe I am the one who changed.

>>282159707 (OP)
Kenshin on Toonami was my first anime, would watch it at 4 EST after school every day while it was airing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6viVO9CyWc

>>282159862
same but i was 9

Mid 90s or so. I lived for a few years in Japan as a kid and apparently would watch anime on TV there.

>>282159707 (OP)
Probably actively watching since around Elfen Lied era. Before that whatever was airing on TV.

>>282163852
>there are also things that simply progress in a way that obsoletes old stuff
Nta but how would you even know though if you self-admittedly don't have experience of the medium? That's why you have to reach for examples from drastically different fields that don't in any shape or form even follow the trends of how anime has evolved
>transition of eras
Transition to what bruh? I can understand considering early 2000's and 2010's a different "era" as the change from janky to more commonplace digital tools marks a distinct change in visuals -- which by the way is a point you never actually made in your posts and I had to really leniently insert in here -- but what's the next apparently inevitable transition in periodization? Transition to -- fucking Gregorian chants? You're obviously one of those Spenglerian assburgers who believes in some Hegelian spirit that drives mediums like organic animals because, uhh, one must transition. Like what possible analytical reason can you even have to somehow vibe that 2028 will be the golden years of anime? Fucking lmao

>>282163852
Yes, classical music in fact is obsolete
Is this a real person

>>282163852
>things progress forward
i dont know about you, but increasing use of bad cgi to cut corners, unsustainable animator work culture and the isekaislop feedback loop is not what i call progress

>>282164566
And we're going to have AI tools in anime next which will make the art at least initially look like complete fucking garbage

I have come to the conclusion that anons who always post about Datto, unironically like him now because he decided to stop being Bungie's bitch and accept that Destiny is just going to get worse and worse unless Bungie actually starts to care, while also accepting doing things he likes now and not caring about what others think of him anymore

>>282159707 (OP)
I remember watching anime at 5 so 30 years, but my parents been watching anime since the 70s, taking in count you carry information on your DNA from your parents maybe longer!

>>282163300
I have seen every anime and been watching it for longer than you have been alive, that guy is right, the golden age of anime is between 2006 and 2014, and we are currently in a new goden age since around 2021, good times.

>>282164488
It's just a guess, why you have to be mad? I explained my basis for the prediction because somebody asked.
>Spenglerian assburgers who believes in some Hegelian spirit
I have no idea what you are talking about, cultural and artistic trends oscillate from one extreme to another, that's just my observation.
>>282164566
I said on average, and I didn't mean on average of a year, but more like 20-50 years. Isekaislop is shit, the course correction will take time. Though if isekaislop is a symptom of wider societal disease, then it could take longer for the failed generation to die out.

>>282159707 (OP)
Ever since it became mainstream in America, so probably around the mid-1990s.

when i was like 9 in 2008

>>282159707 (OP)
26 years

>>282165228
>I explained my basis for the prediction because somebody asked
Yeah and it turned out to be of no basis. You don't ever even verbalize what the "oscillation" in anime specifically is, you just think this abstract movement MUST exist because you THINK you can observe it from some field that has nothing to do with anime. You can't justify why you think 2028 is going to be peak, yet you're so dumb that you'll probably walk away from this feeling like your prediction is somehow still actually grounded
>I have no idea what you are talking about
Dishonest or dumb, pick your poison. Who the fuck doesn't know Spengler lmao

>>282159707 (OP)
About 11 years

99 -00. Toonami. DBZ, Sailor Moon, Tenchi muyo, bebop. I would give anything to go back...

>>282165684
>You don't ever even verbalize what the "oscillation" in anime specifically is
2010: soul
2020: soulless
2030: soul again

More seriously, for example, 2010 anime (mostly drama and slice of life for me) are more pure and full-fledged depictions of life experience and emotional experiences, whereas 2020 anime tend to create these niche and unrealistic scenarios. 2020 anime also tend to be hyper-focused on a narrower subject with perhaps detailed depiction, but removed from broader life context. I think longer and broader context stories are better and harder to create since you have to fit more things together coherently. Emotions in 2020 anime feel more phony for some reason, and disconnected from a continuous progression. I think we are starting to move away from that 2020 paradigm and more towards the 2010 paradigm, though of course it won't end up at the same exact point. No, I won't give 3 examples for each point and this all is biased based on the anime I personally have watched.

>>282166449
You seem very confused, I've been asking you for such analytical evidence that would prove that these periodizations are reasonable and that there's some larger trend that would make extrapolating this all to future seem sensible. I didn't ask for your heckin' viberinos about 2030 being a soulful decade just because you saw an anime in 2010 that you liked. You're a fucking clown, buddy

>>282166449
You clearly don't even watch anime, retard.

>>282159707 (OP)
Not counting the handful of shows I watched as a kid, I started watching anime about 6 or 7 years ago just before I turned 30.

I started like a year ago when I was 19

>>282159787
I feel that.

>>282166797
>>282166908
You are free to point out any inaccuracies and present a competing assessment but you are too cowards for that I guess

>>282167603
You're such a fucking retard if you honestly think it doesn't count as "pointing out inaccuracies" to note how you have nothing even remotely resembling actual evidence to justify your huge sweeping narratives. And I don't have to come up with a counter narrative when I'm not arguing for any periodization, such a stupid tangent to pivot to. You probably started this by thinking you were authoritative and cooking, but you've consistently failed to provide literally ANYTHING when asked. Actual clown behavior

Probably 7 I'd say if you count the normalfag intro from over the air antenna TV; Pokemon, DB, Zoids, etc.

Whenever they started Pokemon reruns on Boomerang around 2010 or so.

>>282159707 (OP)
Since around '94 or '95.

In 2004 when I started torrenting.
Watching a few anime on tv doesn't count.

If it counts, when Cartoon Network syndicated Speed Racer during the mid-90s.

>dad bought me gundam boxset and rented me spirited away in 2000 or 2001
>watched toonami as a kid
>got into haruhi and death note as a pre teen on here and other forums but didnt know much about how to pirate yet
>didnt watch anime most of my teen years
>got back into anime with umaru of all things in 2015/2016
>been addicted ever since I got into following seasonal shows

>>282159707 (OP)
19 years and I'm still a noob.

yeah....

Probably since like pokemon.
Though I think I started getting more into it when inuyasha was airing on TV. That's probably the tipping point.

>>282159707 (OP)
going thru old family photos once while backing them up for my dad i found a picture of 7 year old me watching princess mononoke on tv. so about 20 years i guess

>>282159707 (OP)
Long enough that DVD hadn't been invented yet and I had to suffer less than stellar dubs from these muppets.

The absolute first might have been the Street Fighter II anime movie. I was 4 at the time so I barely remember it.

But the first time I became a fan and started watching heavily? Around 2001.
Barring the censored slop on Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, there used to be a channel that aired subbed and raw anime. I remember watching Sailor Victory and Ninja Cadets on it, both which were instrumental into getting me hooked into the medium. Then it started airing The Slayers and raw JP audio of DBZ, which made fall deeper into the anime rabbit hole.
It got worse in 2006 when our home got broadband internet and I discovered BitTorrent. Mai-Hime and Onegai Teacher were the first among many that I downloaded.

>>282172151
I was in my teens when the SF2 anime happened. I was a big fan of the game so the anime was right up my alley. And exactly the age 4 seconds of tits to someone with no internet was a big deal.
I remember towards the end of the 90s late at night SciFi and Bravo showed anime. I remember Moldiver, Tenchi Muyo and Wicked City, but unfortunately shortly after that I started watching VHSs bought and borrowed so it's all a blur what I watched when. It was good times though.

>>282172142
>dubs

>>282159707 (OP)
Around 2004. I was fresh out of highschool at the time and stumbled on Love Hina while downloading random shit from Usenet and it was the first one that I had really enjoyed. I then tried Elfen Lied around that time and it had too much gore for me. I checked out One Piece and didn't care for it. I went on to Bleach, Samurai X, Lucky Star, Samurai Champloo, Clannad (what the fuck are those faces), Spice and Wolf (Horo still my waifu), Welcome to the NHK, Steins;Gate, Yuru Camp, and more recently Horimiya (top tier), Love Is Hard For An Otaku, and A Sign of Affection.

I actually don't really watch very much anime because it's hard for me to find series that really hit the sweet spot for me. I usually prefer to spend my time on other hobbies, but I'm starting to accept the fact that I don't need to watch "many" anime and I can just enjoy slice of life and romance, so maybe that will help me find more stuff in the future that I actually enjoy. Not that I'll ever tell my wife that I spend my free time crying over fictional teenage romance.

>>282159707 (OP)
Long enough to have seen some anime.

>>282174753
>I actually don't really watch very much anime
Yeah I could tell from the fact you just used this thread as an excuse to list literally every anime you've seen

>>282159787
>30 odd years.
same. i remember downloading the first One Piece episodes in realmedia files at 36 mb each. those where the days.
>Remember, you're here forever.
lol i never cared for online discussions really this board doesn't really hold me

>>282159707 (OP)
I took it a bit seriously at like 13-14 when I got q 1-3 set of FMA.

>>282175502
I don't think I hit them all, but probably most of them. Still, I've been here for about as long as the board as existed.

>>282172151
I probably would've downloaded in 2012 if not for the fact that we only had a family computer and my brother kept getting into conniptions when I used it tp do things I couldn't do/were easier to do on the smartphone.

>>282159787
I turned 35 two months ago and I unfortunately can confirm this

>>282159707 (OP)
The first anime I saw was pic related in the early 90s. Then Dragon Ball, Saint Seiya, Versailles no Bara, etc. on TV, dubbed. But I only really started watching anime knowing it was anime in 1999 with Evangelion. That's when my love for anime began. From 1999 to 2006, I watched a lot of anime. Until 2009, when I stopped watching anime because everything seemed like crap to me (watching anime from 2008), I thought anime had come to an end, so I stopped watching anime until 2020. I only watched Shingeki no Kyojin, Parasyte, and One Punch Man during those 11 years. Nothing else, and only because I could watch them on YouTube. But I didn't download anything or search for anything.
It wasn't until 2020, because of the pandemic, that I started watching anime again. Madoka was the anime that restored my faith in anime and showed me that not everything after the 2000s was shit. After 2020, I started watching a lot more anime than before to catch up, and I even started watching seasonal anime. And now I'm still filling in the gaps of old anime that I never saw.
If there hadn't been a pandemic, I might never have returned to anime or watched as much as I have in the last 5 years.

>>282159707 (OP)
Somewhere around 1997 with Pokemon.

>>282162574
10 years ago was mid 2010's

>>282159707 (OP)
too long. I pre-date the internet. We used to watch on VHS tapes.

There exists a picture of me around probably 3 years old dressed as speed racer for Halloween. I don't really remember it but according to my Mom that was the first Halloween costume I ever chose myself.
So at least that early.
>>282164006
People can and will hate on Toonami but coming home, rushing to finish your homework (or just skipping it) and then watching toonami until bedtime was extremely comfy.

>>282175897
Same, July 1990 bro, same

I was 8. First day back from 3rd grade I saw the first episode of DBZ when I got home from school. I was hooked immediately.

Since 1997 when DBZ and Ranma aired in Mexican TV

How long have you been here?

>>282159707 (OP)
I watched Doraemon, Gundam, Starblazers, LoGH, Macross and all sorts of Jap cartoons back in the 80s. In SEA, we don't differentiate Japanese cartoons from american cartoons. They were just cartoons. In the case of Macross, I got confused due to Robotech being aired at the same time on another channel. No one felt more elite or ostracized for watching Jap cartoon. It was just stuff you watched in the afternoon after school.

>>282159707 (OP)
Technically '96 since Ox Tales was on TV.
Didn't start actually downloading subbed stuff till 2005.

>>282171538
Pantsu..

>>282159707 (OP)
Actively hunting anime? 20. Watching what I finally understood was jap made? 30~. Earlier still if you just mean 'did you watch dubbed kodomo show x' that aired on your cartoon block/channel.