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Eva & Endless Waltz

First Vampire D movie

Rurouni Kenshin.

I would say Naruto.. But (now that I look back on it) I was watching Cyborg 009, Speed Racer, Pokemon, Digimon, DBZ as a kid.. But it was Naruto who opened my eyes to Japanese sub. I didn't know there was a world other than American (or any English speaking country) cartoons before that.

Probably Vicky the Viking.

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The first series I watched with any consistency was probably Sailor Moon and the original Dragonball.

It was when I was stuck in a hotel with nothing to do when I switched to Cartoon Network and Afro Samurai came up. I just kinda got hooked onto to anime since then.

Most like pokemon or something like that. The first anime i watched with the intention to watch anime was Highschool DxD after a friend forced me to watch it.

Mojacko was the first I watched, but what got me into anime was Slam Dunk

Hunter X Hunter is what really made me want to go in to Anime. Watched One Piece and Naruto but didn't grab me like HunterXHunter.

Code Geass.

Naruto

On my childhood it`s pokemon, when i growed up first anime what i watched was Detroit Metal City.

DBZ and Card Captor Sakura. Also a little bit of Sailor Moon but I found CCS better and much more immersize at that time.

This is weird, but my first exposure to anime was as a toddler watching half the lineup of Nick Jr. This was around 1988 to 89 when it started and they didn't care so much about educating kids as just distracting them for a couple of hours. It was mostly localized kiddy anime like Noozles, Adventures of the Little Koala, the Little Bits and my personal favorite at the time Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics. I didn't have a concept of other countries and cultures at the time, but I definitely knew they were different from a lot of cartoons. The mouth movements were weird and everybody seemed to lump their sentences together. Pretty much telling punctuation to go fuck itself.

It wasn't until a couple years later that I discovered slightly more mature cartoons done in the same style. The first being Voltron. Then Cartoon Network came along and showed Vampire Hunter D. Then Toonami became a thing and the rest is history.

In summation, you could say Nickelodeon was responsible for putting me in the path to becoming a Nihongophile.

Well, technically pokemon as a child.
But first anime that I recognized as such was watching subbed Jigoku Shoujo on late night tv.

Death note!
Kira is good!

Pokemon but you never really consider it such. The gateway anime fot me watching subbed anime was dragon drive.