Who are you?
| First anime was Voltron back on Toonami |
"To Infinity and Beyond."  |
| I started watching the anime in 1999. |
| i am a bloomer. guess that's not too bad |
| As far as I can remember, I started watching anime in 1996, so I'm a boomer. |
| I saw snatches of some anime episodes on occasion during the early 2000s on satellite TV (mainly Pokemon, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and a couple of other animes), but there was never a time when i could watch an anime from start to finish, as life was always in the way, my stepfather loved to hog the TV to himself, and the TV program times hardly ever matched the times when I would be free to watch if I wanted to. It was only in 2020 when I managed to get a internet connection good enough to seriously watch anime on demand, from start to finish. So that's why I chose the 'corona tourist' option, as this is when I consider really counting when it comes to watching anime. |
| I started with Heaven's Arena of Hunter X Hunter, literally one season before Sao started airing. |
| Zoomer, just like real-life. I started watching anime a year before covid |
   "But we're gonna chill today. Let me rock the world tomorrow." ~ Lotus Juice  |
| Started watching in early 2020. Vinland saga was my first anime and i liked it a lot and with kissxsis and yosuga no sora i fell in love with it. |
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| I didn't even know after 2000 was referred to as the dark age. That's when I started watching anime like Naruto, One Piece, Bleach, Eureka Seven, FMA Trinity Blood, Inuyasha, FLCL.... Is dark age a general term I don't understand? I would literally do anything to relive that era of anime and that era largely influences a lot of my creative writing to this day. XD Or... Maybe I'm just old as dirt and this is my wake up call. Eh, either way, I've been using this site since well before 2018, contrary to my profile's join date, and I'll be using it as long as there's anime to keep track of. Which, considering I'll more than likely outlive my plan to watch list, will be, hopefully, quite some time. |
| I'm 2005 born Watched a bunch of "anime" Like doraemon, ninja hattori, perman, ultra b etc etc all my life Got into pokemon when I was 9 tho I watched it a lot before but I don't have much memory Got into Dragon Ball when I was 11 tho same story as that with pokemon Been watching proper anime since 2016. My first proper anime was omamori himari and some other shows that got me into anime were nisekoi, sword art online, high school dxd, to love ru etc etc That was the time period I watched the most anime and still do Had a bad "gotta search for peak fiction" Phase mid 2020-late 2020 during covid era but thank god it's over Now I'm back to being a weeb like em old days |
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| coomer i guess, started in 2012 with DBZ but i haven't watched SAO to this day. |
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Strayfe said: I watched My Neighbor Totoro on VHS the same day I watched The Land Before Time on VHS in the 90's... my mom took me to see THE LAND BEFORE TIME during it's Theatrical run in 1988. i was YOUNG... and i recall REALLY wanting a "Littlefoot" Plush Doll. guess the seeds of Weebdom run Deep with me? after all, 30-some years ago i was all over a Chocolate-Brown Cartoon Dinosaur;  and today, a Choco-Brown Cartoon Wife is where it is totally at;  |
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| 2003 or 2004, I don't remember exactly when. So I'm a doomer. A lot of people started in the 2010s. It makes sense. |
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| I only started properly watching anime last year so I guess I'm a covid tourist. |
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| I'm a doomer. I don't know when exactly I first started watching anime other than when I was really young (early 2000s). My first anime was either Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, or Dragon Ball Z. |
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| anime was always on TV for as long as I can remember, it was grendizer, kurenai sanshiro, mila superstar and my dad had mirai shonen conan on vhs for some reason started watching a lot in early 2000s with dragon ball, pokemon, digimon started watching more in high school because animax became a thing, that was 2005ish (bleach, nana, fma, death note) and since 2010 I watch lots and lots of anime |
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| the anime/s I recall watching are voltes v and yuyu hakusho back in early 2000 so I'm a doomer |
| A bloomer ? Started around 2009 or 2010 |
| Im a corona tourist. But before corona pandemic I used to watch Dragon ball Z on Tv. |
 Hope to find that distinct person. |
| Bordering between coomer and zoomer. Started a month or so before MHA started to air. |
Say-My-NameFeb 25, 2023 8:28 PM
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ThorLL said: Lol. Who do you think were organizing all those anime/cosplay cons for the last quarter of century? Students? +)I do not think actual boomer generation or even gen X watches anime. They are IRL generations, so we should not use this term here. mdo7 said: Huh, by this I'm of Robotech generation, though I would say that Akira and the similar Manga Entertainment releases are also influenced me strongly.Wikipedia said: The Poitras dubs the next generation the "Robotech Generation", after the 1985 television series Robotech, is the earliest major generation in the USA and is distinguished by fans clearly recognizing anime as a Japanese product with significant differences from American animation. Fans from this generation and the Yamato Generation were to make up the significant portion of organized fandom throughout the 1980s. The film Akira, which played in art theaters in December 1989, produced a cult following that Poitras names the "Akira Generation". Akira inspired some to move on to other works but stalled many becoming an isolated work in their eyes, overshadowing the creative context of anime and manga it represented. Then in the 1990s, Poitras states that "something new happened in the U.S.", the "Sailor Moon Generation" was born. Previous generations consisted mostly of college age fans, however in 1995 Sailor Moon was adapted into English and caught the attention of people even as young as grade school in age, many of them female. In the span of a few months, the fan demographic changed dramatically and as their interests diversified, so did the titles adapted into English. Also, lol at the Sailor Moon part, like, wow, an anime made for girls from 7 to 14 years old actually caught their attention? Impossibiru! +) Also, as far as I remember, back in the day exactly college students were the biggest North American audience of Sailor Moon - boys and young men from 14 to 21 years old. Oziaus said: No, you're not. +) We, the old folks, were watching it even before the Internet became a thing, but yes, we watched - or at least tried to - everything we could get our hands on. Because there was little to no way to get what you want, unless you happens to be one of those happy few who has a connection to either pirates or someone who regularly visit Japan.Either way I'm the oldest sounding person here I think. I started watching anime on VHS, moved onto DVD when I could shoplift them from Blockbuster, but I was a little older and more risk adverse then. Really I suppose I started more so in the mid 90s/early 00s when you could start ordering things from people and *cough*pirate*cough*. Wild time back then. If you were an anime fan, you watched it all. Because who the hell knew when a new torrent or sales listing would pop up? |
 There is such thing as shit taste. Only idiots think that every "work of art" should have the same value.  Persona anime are good. Deal with it. |
| I'm the doomer kind and my (little) dark age started with yu-gi-oh in the early 2000s |
| ROBOTECH, -Mid-1980's- must've been around three or four years old at the time. i strongly recollect hearing a specific BGM, at the time. MACROSS/ROBOTECH's VF-1 "Valkyrie" Variable Fighter Mecha left an indelible imprint upon me when a nephew gave me his transforming model kit in the very-late-80's, -had to have been between 6~8 years old or so- and it came around again in late-1995 -had to have been around 14 or so- when i found a non-transforming VF-1 model at a hobby shop, and, in 1996, i began picking up VHS vols. of ROBOTECH at my local SUNCOAST VIDEO, and, eventually, issues of VIZ VIDEO's "ANIMERICA" Anime Magazine. from there i gradually branched out from ROBOTECH/MACROSS into genuine Anime VHS releases... |
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kitsune0 said: Huh, by this I'm of Robotech generation, though I would say that Akira and the similar Manga Entertainment releases are also influenced me strongly. Also, lol at the Sailor Moon part, like, wow, an anime made for girls from 7 to 14 years old actually caught their attention? Impossibiru! +) Also, as far as I remember, back in the day exactly college students were the biggest North American audience of Sailor Moon - boys and young men from 14 to 21 years old. Well, you're not wrong kitsune0. Sailor Moon I found out thanks to information from long time fans that show was watched by college age girls too. So that means Sailor Moon had a deep impact beyond just kids demographic. Also, you're not wrong about boys and men watching Sailor Moon. The problem was back then guys (even little boys) like me couldn't openly admit to watching Sailor Moon and risk being called gay, weirdo, or kiddish adult (remember this is before adult animation has finally become more accepted) and I'm not making this up. So back then as a male, you couldn't just openly admit you're a Sailor Moon fan. I'm sure this is also a problem for girls that watched Dragonball Z, or mature shonen anime to openly admit it without risking a backlash (same logic about the idea of girl gamers). Today, I have no problem opening up and admitting that I watched Sailor Moon as a kid and tell them what impact it had on me as a anime fan today. |
| I'm a zoomer both according to your poll and the real definition. |
| It depends if you mean watching anime casually on tv as a kid without really knowing what they were of if you mean as an "anime fan". Would be doomer in first case, between bloomer and coomer for the second (i'm pretty sure either Death Note or og FMA was the first one i watched in its entirety knowing they were anime, but that was already some years after they came out first) |
| I watched some Ghibli films as a kid and watched Initial D in 2017 but, I wouldn't say I got into anime until early 2020. (Pre-Covid in the U.S.) |
| Started at 2009 or 2010. I am a millenial bloomer. Dodged the coomer status haha. |
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| Corona tourist mostly, but watched Pokemon and Yugioh as a kid which I'm not counting for this. Also watched Fairy Tail first in like 2016, liked it a lot, but only tried and didn't like a few others around that time. Only really got into it early last year. |
| I'm a doomer, I guess. I did watch dub like pokemon, digimon and DBZ on TV before then, but started watching sub in 2004 and seasonally in 2013. |
mdo7 said: About first link: Eh, why you said "even"? The gender norms most furious enforcers are children. So, yeah, nothing abnormal when you look at responses in that first thread and see that most who were bullied talking about school, and those who were not talking about college and above. And still even in that thread you can see responses from people who never even thought there was bullying for such thing. Though, honestly speaking, I myself have no idea how it was in North America at that time, because I was a uni student and, of course, were speaking only to people my age, so, I don't know how it was for boys in school. Also, lol at that immigrant who have no idea how it is in Russia. Neither Sailor Moon is a problem in Russia nor its because of the certain laws. There is - as always - a "problem" with anime in general - but its coming from people who were always the root of similar "problems". However, they are still a minority. We still have cosplay cons. In fact, anime cons, later transformed into cosplay cons, helped to soften the stigma of "Chinese porn cartoons". I know, I'm one of the staff at our local con. Also, I guess that in Russia it helped to accept Sailor Moon that just a couple of years before that there was a big Princess She-Ra boom, boys in high school were bragging about buying localized VHSs (in pirate 90s, mind it) and were discussing the series openly.Also, you're not wrong about boys and men watching Sailor Moon. The problem was back then guys (even little boys) like me couldn't openly admit to watching Sailor Moon and risk being called gay, weirdo, or kiddish adult (remember this is before adult animation has finally become more accepted) and I'm not making this up. So back then as a male, you couldn't just openly admit you're a Sailor Moon fan. I'm sure this is also a problem for girls that watched Dragonball Z, or mature shonen anime to openly admit it without risking a backlash (same logic about the idea of girl gamers). Today, I have no problem opening up and admitting that I watched Sailor Moon as a kid and tell them what impact it had on me as a anime fan today. Now, if you look closely at the second thread, its all same. Called names if you're a school boy, not so much if you're a college student or higher, and still some never experienced name-calling. And the third thread is even less on point. Wow, commie regime not liking imperial Japan cartoons, lol. Even though they were and still ripping their comics (manga) for the last two decades. +)))) Also, can't say anything about Dragonball and girls since this series is basically unknown here. |
kitsune0Feb 25, 2023 5:59 PM
There is such thing as shit taste. Only idiots think that every "work of art" should have the same value. Persona anime are good. Deal with it. |
kitsune0 said: mdo7 said: About first link: Eh, why you said "even"? The gender norms most furious enforcers are children. So, yeah, nothing abnormal when you look at responses in that first thread and see that most who were bullied talking about school, and those who were not talking about college and above. And still even in that thread you can see responses from people who never even thought there was bullying for such thing. Though, honestly speaking, I myself have no idea how it was in North America at that time, because I was a uni student and, of course, were speaking only to people my age, so, I don't know how it was for boys in school. Also, lol at that immigrant who have no idea how it is in Russia. Neither Sailor Moon is a problem in Russia nor its because of the certain laws. There is - as always - a "problem" with anime in general - but its coming from people who were always the root of similar "problems". However, they are still a minority. We still have cosplay cons. In fact, anime cons, later transformed into cosplay cos, helped to soften the stigma of "Chinese porn cartoons". I know, I'm one of the staff at our local con. Also, I guess that in Russia it helped to accept Sailor Moon that just a couple of years before that there was a big Princess She-Ra boom, boys in high school were bragging about buying localized VHSs (in pirate 90s, mind it) and were discussing the series openly.Also, you're not wrong about boys and men watching Sailor Moon. The problem was back then guys (even little boys) like me couldn't openly admit to watching Sailor Moon and risk being called gay, weirdo, or kiddish adult (remember this is before adult animation has finally become more accepted) and I'm not making this up. So back then as a male, you couldn't just openly admit you're a Sailor Moon fan. I'm sure this is also a problem for girls that watched Dragonball Z, or mature shonen anime to openly admit it without risking a backlash (same logic about the idea of girl gamers). Today, I have no problem opening up and admitting that I watched Sailor Moon as a kid and tell them what impact it had on me as a anime fan today. Now, if you look closely at the second thread, its all same. Called names if you're a school boy, not so much if you're a college student or higher, and still some never experienced name-calling. And the third thread is even less on point. Wow, commie regime not liking imperial Japan cartoons, lol. Even though they were and still ripping their comics (manga) for the last two decades. +)))) Also, can't say anything about Dragonball and girls since this series is basically unknown here. Wait what country are you from, you're not an American/US citizens are you? You speak fluent English for someone who is not an American, British, nor Australian. What nationality are you |
mdo7 said: If the riddle in my profile is too hard (though there can be only two answers for that, because pandas are also bears +)), the clue is right in that post of mine, in the next line, comrade. XD As for the language, eh, I still have a way to go, my vocabulary is huge (apparently, even bigger than that of a native speaker of my age, according to some tests I took), but my grammar is still poor 'cause I lack serious practice.Wait what country are you from, you're not an American/US citizens are you? You speak fluent English for someone who is not an American, British, nor Australian. What nationality are you |
There is such thing as shit taste. Only idiots think that every "work of art" should have the same value. Persona anime are good. Deal with it. |
| I've started with Naruto and Inuyasha on TV and have been streaming illegally during the late 2000s - early 2010s but I did join this site during the SAO era so I'll put myself there |
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| This poll is funny, because boomers were born in a time when anime wouldn't be in their list of interests, boomers were born before the 80's minimum. |
deadlyspawn said: I'll just repost my own reply in this very thread:This poll is funny, because boomers were born in a time when anime wouldn't be in their list of interests, boomers were born before the 80's minimum. Lol. Who do you think were organizing all those anime/cosplay cons for the last quarter of century? Students? +) Also, you're wrong by a two decades. Boomers were born before 60s. Those who were born before 80s are Gen X'ers, my generation. +) |
There is such thing as shit taste. Only idiots think that every "work of art" should have the same value. Persona anime are good. Deal with it. |
Kitsune0, I know I wasn't accurate there, that's why I said before 80's minimum. Why does most people on internet read a comment and assume the tone, disposition and/or amotion of the individual that posted said response? I just find it funny (it makes me laugh, not at it though). I'm also not taking this poll super serious, it's for fun, a spare time enjoyment thing. Also I am happy to be proved wrong - cangrats on being able to enjoy this art form, art is for people's lives to become more than what reality offers and enjoy humanistic interpretations of itself and you my friend are enjoying life for sure, "tips hat" |
deadlyspawnFeb 25, 2023 7:04 PM
| Only started watching Cartoon in 2021, but had been fapping to it long before. |
| Corpse party, Persona 3/4 and Danganronpa were the visual novels that exposed me to anime before I was really aware of it being a thing Then I saw a playthrough of the steins gate vn in 2014/2015 and the descent into depravity began |
| deadlyspawn hey, sorry, I didn't mean anything - well, mean. +) To add some more fun: When we first started our local con 16 years ago, it wasn't rare to hear something along the lines of "oh, you're that old and you're watching anime? That's rare", and I wondered - what those kids would think if I said them "hey, you see those hard buffed serious guys with silver in their hair near the entrance and inside the hall? Yeah, they are professional security guards. But we've got them for free. How? Because they are also anime fans". XD |
There is such thing as shit taste. Only idiots think that every "work of art" should have the same value. Persona anime are good. Deal with it. |
| That's awesome kitsune0, Certain people my age give me flack on liking anime still but that's ok, they also think I'm too old for having a death metal project &/or making hip hop remixes. People look up to their elders and get affinities towards those traits once they get there, so you showing them it's ok to like certain art styles well into your future life is an excellent influence. Plus there's so much you can learn in fictional stories if you view every character as a diffirent facet of your own mind having internal dialogue in situations. I do realize however certain styles of stories aren't conducive for this but either way. |
| Aged like wine. Started watching in the "dark age" of hhe early 2000's. |
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| started watching in 2005? I think. Increased by multitudes in 2009 tho when it was the only media I enjoyed for a few years. (born in 1994 so count there how old I was) |
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| I watched my first anime on a vhs tv and had vivid memories of dbz and I’m probably a doomer lol |
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