The first anime I ever watched in my life was Tenchi Muyo, it was in Japanese so everyone talking just sounded like a bunch of crazy sound effects! But for my age it was incredibly amazing, the art style was better than anything ive ever seen, the action was a lot more fluent and fast paced, and most important it had boobies. Tenchi Muyo immediately raised the standard of cartoons I wanted to watch, I ended up watching series like Ranma 1/2, Fist of the North Star, Ninja Scroll, things FAR out of my age category! I eventually had to stop watching these series and watch whatever I could find on TV, but I wanted Japanese anime, in whatever form I could get it. So I settled series such as Samurai Pizza Cats and Sailor Moon and Ronin Warriors. The Series that's REALLY pulled me in when I was young was Pokémon, I was truly in love with that cartoon. It was ridiculous... I remember one time I had to leave to school early cuz my brother wanted to get to school early to go to the computer lab. He wanted to leave the moment the episode started and I was furious! I literally RAN from my house all the way to my friends house who lived across the street from the school, (my middle school was over 2 miles away)! And somehow I still managed to finish the episode. This was the beginning of me becoming an anime fanatic, and I expanded in other series such as Dragon Ball Z, YuYu Hakusho, Gundam Wing, Tenchi in Tokyo, Digimon, Outlaw Star, Big-O, Monster Rancher and Escaflowne.
As I got older I started to refine my anime taste, I was too cool for Pokémon (but not to cool to play the games after class in the high school library) and DBZ was too corny for me. In my first year of high school I lucked up and found a Japanese Anime Club where people there introduced me to series like Trigun, Kodomo No Omocha, Flame of Recca, that year we had to sell candy to raise money to go the Anime Expo together, This was before it got so big it had to be moved to Los Angeles, it was totally overwhelming! It was SO crowded!! Ive never seen a cosplayer before so it was really exciting for me, and I talked this adult into buying my first sword for me in the exhibit hall! That year I found out about Shonen Jump magazine and I found out about new anime like Naruto, One Piece and Shaman King. Every year after that I've gone to I make sure I find several new series to watch. As I got older I decided to rewatch some of the old series from back in the day like Ninja Scroll and FoTNS so I can finally learn the story properly and enjoy them the way it was intended, This pulled me into more adult themed series like Jojos Bizarre Adventure, Blue Seed, FLCL, Blue Exorcist, and Deadman Wonderland. I am a big fan of short anime series and movies, my favorite anime movie of all time is Princess Mononoke, Summer Wars is a special second for me as well. When it comes to short series id say Eden Of the East is my favorite, my wife and I had a wonderful time watching that together. I am a really big fan of anything Hayao Miyazaki touches, he is a brilliant story teller and Princess Mononoke is one of the best anime movies of all times, I DARE you to argue with me!!
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