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YuYu Hakusho, Dragonball Z, and Gundam Wing were airing around the same time when I watched them.

• Spirited Away and various other studio Ghibli Movies - first anime movies i watched and first type of anime content I ever saw, as a young child.
• Neon Genesis Evangelion. First anime series i watched, and first I chose to watch independently. ~ 16 years old.

Dragon ball, because they streamed it on the open channels on the tv. After that it was Naruto, Pokemon, Hunter vs Hunter and One piece

I watched a lot growing up, probably my first one ever was Sailor Moon or My Neighbour Totoro when I was around 5, then as I aged my anime choices slowly evolved (and I was also limited to what was on the TV until around 2003/2004 and started watching streams on whatever site I could find. My first ones that I guess I thought of differently than as an after school cartoon would’ve been Escaflowne in 2002 and Inuyasha in 2003.

My first anime (i.e. “cartoon”) in childhood times is probably Pokemon or Digimon.

Excluding those, it should be The Familiar of Zero or Infinite Stratos. I simply watched whatever my friends were watching / recommended back in my school days.

But the first anime in recent times - the one that kickstarted my 700+ anime journey? It’s Gundam: The Witch from Mercury.

Beyond the usual Dragon Ball and Pokemon things, along with catching random episodes of Sailor Moon, Hamtaro, Cardcaptor Sakura etc on morning TV before school, It was Evangelion, Bebop and couple of years later FLCL on late night TV. I also remember seeing a few random episodes of Escaflowne as well in the 90’s.

I later completely watched and got very into Eva and Cowboy Bepop, but i still didn’t really think of it as Anime for some reason.

so beyond those the first “modern” anime that I watched and actually got into the media properly with was Haruhi, then the first thing I watched in Japanese instead of English was Hibike! Euphonium.

so that’s where I stopped watching dubs for shows other than the classic dub series where most people also listen dubbed.

The first anime I ever saw was Samurai Pizza Cats since my mum LOVED that show and had a DVD of one of the seasons. I can’t figure out the first anime I conciously watched though, it was either Initial D or Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid.

Initial D Stage 1-3 is awesome but I do kinda regret watching Dragon Maid in full due to the Kanna scenes

First “anime” was Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Second one I think was Death Note, then Attack on Titan. Haven’t watched much outside of those, ngl. Not a big anime guy.

First anime that I downloaded and watched on computer was Mirai Nikki circa 2014. I YOLO watched the full series from 21h to 7h next morning.
Totally wasted at the end, like being drunk without alcohol.

Somehow I found doing this funny and redid it (less harcore) a few times with other animes.

I’m semi convinced that I saw some part on TV before, not really sure.

Urotsukidoji, after seeing it on laserdisk at the first ever Hellraiser rave party (Netherlands). I was mesmerized more by that giant screen than the actual rave, so I looked for it, which back then was very very difficult. People didn’t know what anime was and I didn’t even know that word anime. I was lucky enough to have the Videoland (video rental place) help me out because after me telling him what I had seen, he was interested. First I actually managed to get Akira, and watched that, then eventually I found Urotsukidoji, which back then was imported via a label called “Manga entertainment” and dubbed, from great britain. Later on I would also find (very expensive) Manga dubbed tapes in the brand new Virgin megastore in Amsterdam. And thats how I got started with anime, this was in 1992. Been in to anime ever since, first thinking it was actually called manga, but then learning about it. even joined a mailing list fanclub (there was no internet yet, just BBS’s which were dial-in) where I learned a lot about it over the phone from the guy running that mailing list. they would send out a news letter it was a lot of fun reading those.

Born in the 70’s so technically battle for the planets or astroboy. But first conscious choice was Eva on SBS

Pokemon and Dragon Ball were just cartoons to me at entry, but after those I realized I like anime.

First ones after that I got into were Cowboy Bebop and Trigun.

Probably Neon Genesis Evangelion… I watched several others before this because they looked good…I watched NGE because it’s an institution, apparently. Not my favorite, but I could understand the memes after watching it.

I did not expect to be alone on this, but I scrolled through and didn’t see it:

Record of Lodoss War from 1990. I had an older cousin who had fansubs of the series on VHS in '92 or '93. We watched through the whole thing probably a dozen times.