Meh, I subtracted wrong. It was when I was 8.

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just a comment for the polling so far:

it seems most people, so far, have been attracted to anime/manga in their teens or later.

And some people still consider anime as children cartoon and manga as comics. Just sad. 😔

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just a comment for the polling so far:

it seems most people, so far, have been attracted to anime/manga in their teens or later.

And some people still consider anime as children cartoon and manga as comics. Just sad. 😔

That is a wrong conclusion. Although My first manga was viewed at the age of 5, I stopped at the age of 7 and started again at the age of 16.

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just a comment for the polling so far:

it seems most people, so far, have been attracted to anime/manga in their teens or later.

And some people still consider anime as children cartoon and manga as comics. Just sad. 😔

That is a wrong conclusion. Although My first manga was viewed at the age of 5, I stopped at the age of 7 and started again at the age of 16.

As i mentioned before "most", over 68%.

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I was not hooked until I was around 13-17 (can't remember when) but I was a fan since I was a wee-little boy. I was just a fan of cartoons in general and I used to watch Cartoon Network a whole lot when I was younger. First anime was probably old, old tapes of Dragon Ball Z in Chinese or Japanese.

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First anime i ever watched was Doraemon 🙂 . My first manga was Pokemon >_>

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just a comment for the polling so far:
it seems most people, so far, have been attracted to anime/manga in their teens or later.
And some people still consider anime as children cartoon and manga as comics. Just sad. 😔

That's pretty much why I started. I have always liked cartoons, and anime just seemed to me, from my experience with Digimon and Gundam Wing (d/l from Kazaa), to be just slightly smarter cartoons with really cool mecha-thingies.

From there it led to Naruto anime back when it was at episode 35 or so... Then to the manga because my internet sucked. Addiction after addiction...

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I started with reading doraemon, then DBZ and sailor moon....After that, my first anime was probably doraemon too, and then it was a mix of a lot of random anime that aired in hong kong while I lived there...

Which dates back to around 10 years now, so I was around 6. Though I accidentally clicked on 7-12...xD

My first anime and manga was Ranma½.. I think i was 6 or 7 then but i got hooked. After that i continued on to watching and reading a bunch of stuff.
I was 6 10years ago, so i have got a 10year addiction to this stuffs 🤣

i think i started reading manga when i was about 10...i can't remember whether it was rurouni kenshin, sailor moon, or detective conan...i haven't really "dig" it 'til i was 13 though...when my bro started downloading Yakitate, and my collection of manga have been expanding ever since i got my own comp.....first anime is probably pokemon 😛

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I guess i first watched anime when I was ~8years old, but never got really hooked as I had strict TV times, so there was no way to get hooked ^^ (it's kinda boring to watch every 3rd show).

I remember watching some of: Robin Hood no Daibôken, Sailor Moon, Lady Oscar, Cats' Eyes and Anime Sanjushi, basically what was airing on German TV at that time. As for mangas, I had no idea such things as Mangas exist and that the animes mostly originate from them.

I guess I wasn't "hooked" on anime until last year, when I started to watch Naruto^^.
I started reading mangas ~2mth later, also with Naruto XD, so ]x[ 18-25(19).
Kinda late =P. I was addicted to some other stuff(legal!) before animes/mangas ^^

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Back where I grew up there was this great video store that had just ONE shelf of anime VHS tapes. I remember I took one of the shelf that was titled "Angel Cop". When I was around 5 or 6 I used to watch Heidi and Maya the Bee, and I always wanted to watch more Japanese animation. Since I was 8yrs old and had watched all the western animation that the store had, I started on the Japanese stuff.
After Angel Cop, my little mouth just dropped. I went back and watched Crying Freeman, Akira, Cobra the Space Pirate, Astro Boy, and some other really crazy series that I can't even remember now (Like the series where a princess controlled this guy with her jeweled crown and another violent series about a disease in space). Ever since then I have been an avid fan 😀

I started manga REALLY late...because it wasn't so readily available here. I think the first manga book I read from start to finish was Ranma 1/2. But now I think I have read over a thousand volumes. I love the stuff! So addictive!

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I watch anything animated when I was a kid, including (especially) NIppon's anime, and shows similar to Doraemon and Crayon Shin-chan. Didn't know they were called anime and that they came from Japan at the time (I was wondering about those weird text on the credits). I found out about the term 'anime' when I was a freshmen in high-school when I heard them from my female classmates while talking about Dragonball, Sailormoon and Akazukin Cha-cha (Also, super sentai shows like Kamen Rider and Power Rangers but they were popular only to guys). Those girls were perverts, they also taught me about 'Hentai' (lol). (Adult Warning:

They showed me a printed naked sailor Venus...being raped by tentacles. I think they were so otaku with anime they'd collect even that. ). In the same year I got to watch my first hentai, La Blue Girl, when some dude (my classmate) invited me to watch it with some other friends. Her sister was there watching too, even told us to wait for her to get seated before starting the VHS tape (lol, girls are pervs). Then came DBZ, etc. I downloaded my first fansub on P2P on dial-up, Evangelion. They were very low quality, 50mb per episode, but still too big for dial-up. I got all episodes after 2-3 months.

I started reading manga 4 years ago when I stumbled on Yotsubato! on Momotato's site. Did not know it was called 'manga' until I saw my first ever fserv on IRC ('manga' was on the fserv's trigger) where I got my second manga Kamikaze, I thought the art was awesome, with all those limbs and blood flying all over the place. Not until I saw Blade of the Immortal 😲 . Then came #ckmoney and found that there was a ton to read. But they (their bots) died good thing #lurk was already in the scene. And now I'm here, old and weary (just kidding. I'm 20), still reading manga. The end.

Quite usual for me - one title started it all. And a rather usual start-title too: Ghost in the Shell.

I was fifteen I think.

The original '95 movie got me addicted to anime. And this made me interested in the original manga by Masamune Shirow, and that was my first manga.

Of course, watching some Ghibli stuff or Sailor Moon or DBZ on TV doesn't count. It's recognizing it as a hobby (or more) that makes you "hooked" to it.

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