I liked Pokémon, so i started to watch it on a german channel called RTL2. Before they showed pokemon, they showed a program called "Dragon Ball".
And one time when i got bored i watched it too, and started to like it. Then i started to read the manga and that's how i got into manga.

Well, sometimes I just surf the net.. ,but there was something that just came poppin' up.. And it was 'Naruto'..

I always thought into myself "What the heck is Naruto?!!".. Then, I got so tired of seeing that, that I thought that I should check it out myself.. And see what's so great about it..

Then I began to like it.. and from there I got in touch with all the other anime, manga.. Like Bleach and FMA..

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It's been a really long time.. but either from a friend or stumbling upon it in a store.

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Ever heard of Stockholm syndrome...?

Yea.. but I don't get it.. Maybe I'm just being really slow right now.. but I don't understand how that got you into manga/anime.. or maybe it's just me..

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Me neither..

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i got in to anime/manga cause my girlfriend likes it so i started reading it because i wanted to have more incomin with her but once i started i got in to it ALOT (im a geek)

Transformers. Used to watch it on fox 11 every morning at 7 before school. that was when i was still five. Also i had some access to some speed racer(dont remember where from, just that i used to watch it. When transformers changed to beastwars, i quit watching for a while. oh yeah i forgot about tmnt, if you can count that (though i think that it's american.) Anyway, i was out of anime for a while but then i started to learn about japanese weapons, samurai, and bushido. that got me hooked on asian culture. anyway, i wasn't really into pokemon cuz all my friends were, but i did happen to come across something called dbz, which led to rurouni kenshin which led to tenchi muyo, and it was curtains after that.

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I became really good friends with this total otaku even though that was not the type of people I usually hung out with (even though I totally was one). I was at her house one day and I was bored so I picked up Model (vampire manga) and well I got hooked.

When I was in elementary school, my mom bought mangas along with books for us to read weekly. She loved to read, and so did my whole family at that time. My birth country was near Japan so many series got licensed. I read those 1980s and 1990s mangas back then.

My cousin showed Pokemon Red to me and my brother...and then we bought the games...and then we watched the show.
But my manga addiction started when that cousin's BROTHER (who is also my cousin, obviously) showed me an issue of Shonen Jump. Oddly enough, I prefer shoujo now.

The year was 1993. I was a young kid of the age of seven (my birthday hadn't come yet, that year). Summer was in full effect and I was bored out of my mind.

I lived in an Apartment complex at that time, and we had just gotten new neighbors from Japan. They spoke surprisingly good english, so I became friends with their kids (Though, for the life of me, I cannot remember their names, more of an explaination to follow).

So, one day, I was hanging out at their place. The had two kids, a girl the same age as I was, and a boy two years younger. Me and the boy got along great, although he didn't speak much english, it was pretty simplistic to play cards and stuff. So, anyways, on this certain day they pulled out a video and said I might like it.

Now, I will always remember this day because two important things happened to me. One, I discovered anime, and two I discovered computers (Their father worked for a major Japanese corporation, and he had just gotten a new computer, an Apple I think).

Anyways, the anime was Dragon Ball Z. The only thing I really remember was that I am positive it was one of the movies. They would pause it every few minutes, and the girl my age would try and explain to me what was happening in the story.

Those were good times, but they were not to last. The family got called back to Japan, because one of their father's coworkers was arrested for embezzlement, and the company wanted their father to take the position, as he was trusty worthy.

Interestingly enough, for my birthday that year I got a bunch of Robotech video tapes, so even if I had not met them, I would have found anime eventually. Still, I am glad I did.

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Anime started for me ever since I saw the "TV" I remember, even back when I was 3 years old, I would get up in the morning to watch some cartoons. Back then, i always thought those "cartoons" were Chinese. XD Not only quite a long time later till I figured they were actually japanese anime

Manga started when I came across Ranma 1/2 in the library. :3

I used to watch Doreamon in Spanish with my grandmother when I was 4 yrs old.Later when I was 10 I would watch DBZ on the Korean Channel. My favorite movie as a kid was Ninja the Wonder Boy. I had no idea at the time that I was watching Anime, I just thought they were really good cartoons. Later when I was oldenough I got into Bubblegum Crisis, Vampire Hunter D, and Ninja Scroll. 20 yrs later I still love ANime/Manga. The rest is history........

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My Neighbor Totoro as a very small child. But I didn't know it was Anime then, and it didn't click with me until a year or two back that, "Oh, hey, that was Ghibli and Miyazaki, wasn't it?"

Now, the anime that I knew was anime--and the goods that got me started down the long road...back in Junior High, years ago, Yu Yu Hakusho and Rurouni Kenshin, courtesy of Toonami. Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z honestly didn't do anything for me. I dodged the Pokemon craze in Elementary school because I saw through the marketing scheme and the sheer simplicity of the content didn't do anything for me either--I was one o'them "intellectual"-type children. A brat, so to speak.

As for Manga, it just...happened. Just some random stuff I borrowed from friends in school when I was bored in class. The first one I read cover to cover was acquired in that fashion: Love Hina. Yeah, good at what it does; what it does is questionable, but it was entertaining. Better than my Geometry Teacher. Such a preppy, hyper bitch. Didn't learn anything from her and wouldn't have if I'd payed attention, because she's a bad teacher (and, a long story, I didn't have to learn from her to pass).

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