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    • C
      corp20 Premium Member
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      First Anime was either Sailor Moon or Dragonball
      First Manga was probably Ranma but not too sure I pretty much devoured any manga fan translation I found. Could also be Love Hina, Chobits or Tokyo Crazy Paradise.
      First Light Novel would be Zero no Tsukaima.

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      • Crimson WiseC
        Crimson Wise Premium Member
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        Anime: Dragon Ball.
        Manga: Oh My Goddess, I think.
        Light Novel: SAO.

        The latter two after like 10 years without watching anime.

        Quof got a break.
        WHAT'S THE STORY WITH THAT FREAKING BLACK DRAGON?!

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        • Q
          Qeh Premium Member
          last edited by Qeh

          Thats a hard think to ask. When I was a kid there where so many animation series altogether, which by the time I didn't know were anime. Like Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari (official english title: Tales of little women) or cyborg 009 (series from 1979), knowingly watching anime would be these four but I can't remember in which order I watched them. God bless the anime late night program at 12 PM ;D

          Anime:

          • Armitage III
          • Akira
          • City Hunter
          • Neon Genesis Evangelion

          For Mangas I'll list them as the first language I read them in (physically)

          • Dragonball (native)
          • D-Frag (english)
          • Boku Girl (japanese)

          I absolutly can't rember wich novel I started first. But the First I finished was Kizumonogatari several years ago.

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          • Rahul BalagganR
            Rahul Balaggan Staff
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            First anime (that I knew it was an anime):

            Sword Art Online

            First Manga:

            Naruto

            First LN:

            Spice & Wolf

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            • E
              Eins Premium Member
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              First anime? Neon Genesis Evangelion. I downloaded the VHS rips as 30 megabyte files from these crappy online hosting sites that had like 4 max downloaders per account at like 4 kbps. It took forever to actually watch the whole thing.

              First light novel? Probably a fan translation of Haruhi. I really liked the first season and gobbled up the novels. Too bad the series became a convoluted mess later on.

              Can't tell you what the first manga I read was. Berserk? Naruto? Maybe Love Hina, not really sure. I've never been into manga.

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              • H
                Hyferzftw
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                Hmm I remember myself being an extremely horny kid and loved yuri shows lol that was after Inuyasha I forgot the name of the anime since it was so long ago. But I remember I would only watch yuri/drama/romance anime. Now I am so nit picky about what I watch. I hate anime with exaggerated female body proportion now. I mean there are a few exceptions like prison school and another few.

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                • saskirS
                  saskir Premium Member
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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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                  • J
                    Jaquobus Premium Member
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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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                    • Aruseus493A
                      Aruseus493
                      last edited by Z_Goddard

                      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.

                      My Light Novel List

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                      • P
                        paulnamida
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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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                        • Paul NebelingP
                          Paul Nebeling Premium Member
                          last edited by Paul Nebeling

                          My turn.

                          Anime: Akira
                          Light Novel: Sword Art Online
                          Manga: I don't do manga

                          Now 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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                          • JtamakiJ
                            Jtamaki Premium Member
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                            First anime: Tenchi Muyo! Or outlaw star
                            First manga: InuYasha
                            First Light Novel: Oreimo

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                            • TerrenceT
                              Terrence Premium Member @Jtamaki
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                              @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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                              • JtamakiJ
                                Jtamaki Premium Member @Terrence
                                last edited by Jtamaki

                                @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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                                • DTTAD
                                  DTTA Premium Member
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                                  Anime: Doomed Megalopolis
                                  Manga: ... not sure. Maybe Ghost in the Shell.
                                  LN: High School DXD.

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                                  • R
                                    Rootbeermaster Premium Member
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                                    my first's knowing what they were,
                                    Anime:
                                    Gundam Wing
                                    Vandread
                                    Blood +
                                    Samurai champloo
                                    The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

                                    Manga:
                                    Rosario + Vampire
                                    Negima
                                    himari omamori

                                    Light Novel:
                                    Accel World vol. 1
                                    Is It wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon vol. 1

                                    however my first before knowing what anime was is
                                    Voltron
                                    Sailor Moon
                                    Monster Ranchers
                                    Pokemon
                                    Digimon

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                                    • flarecdeF
                                      flarecde Premium Member
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                                      Anime: Sword Art Online
                                      Manga: Arpeggio of Blue Steel
                                      Light Novel: Accel World

                                      ~ flarecde
                                      Reality is nothing; Perception is everything.

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                                      • the green deathT
                                        the green death
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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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                                        • gunsablazingG
                                          gunsablazing
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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.

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                                          • TerrenceT
                                            Terrence Premium Member @gunsablazing
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                                            @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...

                                            spoiler
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