What were the First Anime/Manga/LN you have watched/Read Knowing what they were.
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Manga is easy, still have them flying around. Appleseed from Masamume Shirow then Dominion likewise from him. Those were still mirrored releases, interesting as nowadays no one bothers anymore. Then it should have been Blame! (which I really like: even though I have all 10 Volumes I am still buying the new Master Editions)
Anime. Hmm hard to remember to be true.
First VHS I bought was Bubblegum Crisis, Plastic Little. Armitage III. First DVD was Zeiram the Animation, Neon Genesis Evangelion and X-1999. For those I don't know the particular sequence. Although I believe that NGE was first.First LN. Should be "Chrome Shelled Regios". Atleast this was the first one I made an epub of. What was it then.... I believe either Haruhi Suzumiya or Madan no Ou to Vanadis. Although I am not sure if I got before this the physical release of "Parasite Eve" or not. Question would be if I include "Battle Royale" as it certainly is not an LN (more a normal Novel) or not. This would then be the second physical Novel I bought and read.
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The first anime I watched knowing it was an anime was either Detective Conan or Pokemon for TV series, and Spirited Away (that's the English title for the Ghibli anime with Chihiro, right?) for movies.
The first I watched unknowingly should be one of Heidi, Vickie the Viking or Maja the Bee (which aired on state television).
First manga is again Detective Conan.
First light novel I read knowingly would be Index, though I think I've read a part of Kino's journey first volume back in the day.
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Don't remember my first actual anime/manga while knowing what they were as it's been more than 15 years probably. My first Light Novel though would be The World God Only Knows side volumes which were an additional 4 conquests.
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I guess it was Card Captor Sakura and Inuyasha for me. Prior that I didn't even know series like DBZ, Sailor Moon, Saint Seiya and Captain Tsubasa were Japanese. But I didn't start actively watching anime (as in outside of what was shown on TV) until around 2007, when I first watched Death Note through a friend's recommendation. Haven't left ever since xD. For light novels, it was very little later, after watching the Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi (on 2008) I just couldn't help myself, I needed to know what was going to happen next and stumbled onto the novels. By then I had already started reading manga after catching up with Naruto, Bleach and One Piece's anime adaptations.
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My turn.
Anime: Akira
Light Novel: Sword Art Online
Manga: I don't do mangaNow of you want to include from before I knew what anime was, I'll toss out an obscure series called Prince Planet.
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First anime: Tenchi Muyo! Or outlaw star
First manga: InuYasha
First Light Novel: Oreimo -
@jack-tamaki said in What were the First Anime/Manga/LN you have watched/Read Knowing what they were.:
First anime: Tenchi Muyo!
Are you going to be getting the Tenchi Muyo Light Novels? (I think Seven Seas is publishing)
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@terrence Honestly I don't know yet. After reading your post, I looked it up and did see that they are going to release it both in print and digital so it would be easier on the wallet with the other light novels I'm getting but I got a huge back log of books that I need to finish still lol XD
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Anime: Doomed Megalopolis
Manga: ... not sure. Maybe Ghost in the Shell.
LN: High School DXD. -
my first's knowing what they were,
Anime:
Gundam Wing
Vandread
Blood +
Samurai champloo
The Melancholy of Haruhi SuzumiyaManga:
Rosario + Vampire
Negima
himari omamoriLight Novel:
Accel World vol. 1
Is It wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon vol. 1however my first before knowing what anime was is
Voltron
Sailor Moon
Monster Ranchers
Pokemon
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Anime: Sword Art Online
Manga: Arpeggio of Blue Steel
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Yeah Robotech was the first I remember but were things like The Lost Cities of Gold or whatever anime? I remember ordering the VHS of the first volume of Dangaioh and I was so excited to see anime with subtitles!
For manga I bought Mai, Xenon, Kamui and all those early Eclipse/Viz titles.
Yep, I’m old.
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I think mine was full metal alchemist: brother hood
and this was when I was nine, so I was defiantly traumatized by Nina, but still enjoyed it. -
@gunsablazing said in What were the First Anime/Manga/LN you have watched/Read Knowing what they were.:
I think mine was full metal alchemist: brother hood
and this was when I was nine, so I was defiantly traumatized by Nina, but still enjoyed it.Ha ha. Yeah, that was messed up. In FMA anime original...
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I actually knew Star Blazers was originally Japanese. So that and Kimba, I suppose. My first fansub would have been Dirty Pair in 1989. :-)
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@dryurimom Oooh. Kimba. Going way back with that one.
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@paul-nebeling IMHO you can't call yourself an otaku without a full appreciation of Tezuka :-)
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@the-green-death I'll sing that refrain with you as I grew up on Robotech, Voltron, and G-force. First actual light novel was Onegai Teacher, 1st manga was probably Oh! My Goddess. For bonus points I met my wife in the Anime club in college and our fan sub distributor was the lady that married Largo, of Megatokyo's Piro and Largo.
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@steelblaidd high-five Our relationship developed over tabletop games and anime and we named our daughter Nausicaa.
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Anime: Guyver and Dominion Tank Police (can't remember which came first)
Manga: I have no idea... I've read so much!
LN: In another world with my smartphone (I had no idea that translating LN was a thing until a few months ago!)
