The first anime you ever saw

[Zetsubou Bunny]

Oh geez, it was this weird old Christian anime back in the eighties about a two kids, a robot, and a professor with a flying house. :s

Then Totoro.

[Akira Kogami]

PoKeMoN. Heehee. x3

[MrTerrorist]

Originally Posted by Zetsubou Bunny

Oh geez, it was this weird old Christian anime back in the eighties about a two kids, a robot, and a professor with a flying house. :s

You mean Super Book? A friend from the Philippines had said their showing reruns of that show on an American Christian channel for kids.

Anyway, back to the main topic.

The first anime i ever saw was Doraemon and Robotech.

[Kimitachi]

Originally Posted by jorez

Candy Candy or... Captain Tsubasa? These two were my first animes, at least.

Same here!

Candy Candy has been very popular in America since 80's. I have to admit that when I watched it I had no idea about anime. I thought it was an animated soap opera . In fact, it is...

[Jetbent]

Sailor Moon and the original Dragonball. I actually have a lot of fond memories of Sailor Moon and think that it was one of the better romances.

[Starry Dust]

Mines was Sailor Moon too.

I remember surfing through the channels after school, and spotted a bright pink-haired girl (Rini I think ) and thought she looked cool so I stayed and watched the rest.

Then everything else took off until I wasn't able to watch it anymore.
A couple years later I discovered Pokemon and anime was there to stay for me :]

[Uchiha Soul]

Originally Posted by jorez

Candy Candy or... Captain Tsubasa? These two were my first animes, at least.

Captain Tsubasa .. I remember it .. actually loved it
I love Ken Wakashimazu (goal keeper of Kojiro Hyuga) I love their team and of course hate Tsubasa and his team

[Pocari_Sweat]

First Anime w/o being a fan: SDF Macross (Robotech)
Anime because everyone else is watching: Pokemon, Dragonball Z, Naruto (Bleach I stopped very quickly)
Anime that got me into anime: Full Metal Alchemist

I proceeded to watch a lot of shonens after FMA only to realise, FMA was the pinnacle of shonens... bad mistake to watch it first. Never found a shonen better than it even now.

Now I mainly watch slice of life and supernaturals.

[hinakatbklyn]

First Anime on TV........ oh well Voltron (not Go Lion but I have the original now).
First Anime on TV (not completely edited) Sailor Moon
First rentals: Samauri Showdown & the first Street Fighter Movie.
First DVD Rental: (finally aware of anime in 2002) First Slayers Movie
First DVD Series Complete: Slayers First Season

[Jetbent]

Ah yeah I got really into Slayers in around 6th grade. They'd play it along with Dragonball Z (in Japanese with english subtitles) on Sunday nights on the international channel. I also watched the Slayer's movie around that time. That was when I was really getting into anime. That was in 2001... back then though, the internet wasn't very friendly to me and I had a crappy computer... so I wasn't really able to get into anything unless if I watched it on T.V. or rented it. I think I also watched Tokyo Vice around that time which seems to be an obscure movie that very few people have seen, but I thought it was a cool film.

[mimi chan]

My first anime I saw was Card Captor Sakura

[Tyss]

well my very first is actually YAIBA

[Altima]

The 1st anime I really watched that I can remember was Wrath of the Ninja. I have it on dvd now.

[suiryoku]

Pokemon was the first anime I ever saw, either that or Dragon Ball Z. It's been so long I can't remember.

[mchldarst]

Flame of Recca, The word "Hokage" was used in this anime as a ninja clan

[Daggdag]

Yeah yeah yeah....I know it was a horribly made slice of a cow pie, but when i was 4 or 5 I thought it was awesome. That was in about 89 or 90.

[Impostor]

Probably Pokemon or something. Still, the first anime I watched "seriously" was Elfen Lied, which wasn't the best anime to start with.

[Enchanted Princess]

Humm..mine was first Sailormoon & DB...I started taking anime seriously after I watched RK!
Since then, I'm totally a fan!!

[Ricky Controversy]

Mach Go Go Go. When I was watching it, it was being aired on some crappy local antenna channel at 2 in the morning, presumably because 'them thar Japanotoons are only popular with weirdos' or some such rot. Still a toddler yet, I taught myself to sleep from 8 P.M. to 1 A.M., then I'd wake up, sneak across the room I shared with my brother and sister, take our 11" TV into the closet and watch the three hour anime block--which included Mighty Atom and Tetsujin 28-go, so it was clearly 'old people cartoons', despite my liking it-- then I'd go back to sleep. But of these, the first one I happened to see and get hooked on was Mach Go Go Go.

[BigSky]

Dragon Ball lol when I was 6 years old xD