Kaycee7:
Tales by Moonlight is am eternal classic. Wish we could get some HD remasters of the OG episodes for our kids.

I started watching anime as a kid. Just didn't know they were called anime till I started watching Naruto and joined the fandom online.

IngeniousLeez:


Tales by Moonlight is one junior kids classic I'd easily rewatch in adulthood now.

Same here. Didn't know they were called anime. I just knew they were unique.
I watched some anime as a kid but didn't fully join the fandom. Ie Akira, Cowboy Bebop.... Also kids in my neighborhood as I weirdly remember now never were into animé. We were mainly into some Hollywood and mostly Chinese movies. Probably why I never fully got into it. Even in school, they weren't discussed until I got into SS 1. Avatar was the closest thing to anime i really followed.

There was a time around 14-15yrs of age when I would have joined anime lore full-time. I wanted to buy Naruto dvd then only to find out about 40+ seasons. Na there fear catch me.
I used my free money, saved it up and bought series or movies of interest. Doing the calculations, #100 X 40+ dvd copies of just one franchise wasn't feasible when I was the primary buyer of films for house. 4k go just blow like that when I get tons of movies to watch. Na wetin make me hate that franchise up till today.

How did you get to watch anime? Was it through DVDs or cable? And or mainly influenced by an older sibling? is Zoro counted as anime? It was my favourite as a kid then.

Baddestguyp:
cos anime isn't for kids...
I won't let my kids touch any anime till they're like 16 minimum


Also kids can't be reading subtitles and all that...
Pre-teens I know sef don't enjoy Naruto or other anime

IngeniousLeez:


Lol, anime like Dragonball and Naruto is still kids friendly bro. There are kiddies anime as well as adult content.

Lol, As a kid then I could read very well, so well that I could even read newspapers with ease in primary four. Na just some big grammars I fit no understand meaning.
I was already accustomed to subtitles at a young age then cos we consumed Indian and Chinese movies then.
Now as an adult, I can hardly watch anything without subs, be it English or a foreign language.

Baddestguyp:
mine was from Naruto

My friend gave me CD to watch it...told me it was japanese anime...

for like 2 weeks I didn't bother to even play it, I still used to watch all these X-Men cartoons then...
Cos I hated anime, wasn't gonna watch some japanese shiit

The day I finally played the CD...season 4 of Naruto (the Sasuke rescue mission)
Omo I was hooked, I rewatched it like 5 times...

I had to collect season 5 from my friend...
From there he started gisting me about the series...
Then I started buying the CDs with my money...

I abandoned all those X-Men and co I used to watch... Naruto opened my eyes

I became a Naruto freak...
Then a girl in my class liked Bleach and introduced me to it...
I and my friend contributed money to buy 20 seasons of Bleach (pirated version)
Immediately he watches a season, he passes it to me...

From there I got into Fairy Tail, Gintama, Ruroini Kenshin (samurai x)...even got into the Sword Art Online hype then and loved it...

And later on Attack on Titan in 2013...was just a scary but good show to me back then...

2021 Attack on Titan season 4 became my number 1 piece of fiction, replacing Naruto and 24

Baddestguyp:
I disagree...they aren't kids friendly

The cartoon network versions censored a lot...
I don't watch Dragon Ball but from clips I've seen it has a lot of pervy stuff...sometimes almost Loli hentai level

Naruto too has a few of those, then it's pretty dark and there is gore...
Old Naruto had dark scary moments...even the power system with summoning death gods, reanimating corpses, using seals and all sort...

At a point I stopped Naruto when I read somewhere that it was satanic
They used signs and symbols as evidence and I believed it since I saw those signs in Naruto

IngeniousLeez:


Bro you were lucky o. I didn't have people close to me who were into animé. There was just one of my friend I'm sec sch. who was the most nerdy one that would have liked anime. I think he liked Naruto then.

But funny enough, when we passed off movies and TV shows across each other I never for once saw anime content amongst anybody. I was the one who had the most CD/DVD library of content.
If one of those werey get few seasons of Naruto then, e for encourage me to buy. We were mostly Hollywood.


There was my best friend then, Pat. Dude was one of the reason I kinda hated horror movies as a teen with his annoying Walking Dead series. If Baba no watch walking dead na Evil Dead. Shït made me think horror movies were only about Zombies and Slashers. I just wash hand comot for that genre until sometime around 2016 when I stumbled upon The Conjuring 2 trailer on ONTV. That scene where all the crosses in the girl's room turned upside down. Bro, that shït left a lasting experience on me. I was fascinated bruh. Ever since then, I've never turned back.
Kudos to Pat tho, he introduced me to Vampire Diaries.

Baddestguyp:
I watched tons of anime ehn around that 2014 ehn ...
I can't count how many I watched then

I hate horrow movies...till now I can't watch them...
That's why I haven't seen Stranger Things till now

IngeniousLeez:


Tales by Moonlight is one junior kids classic I'd easily rewatch in adulthood now.

Same here. Didn't know they were called anime. I just knew they were unique.
I watched some anime as a kid but didn't fully join the fandom. Ie Akira, Cowboy Bebop.... Also kids in my neighborhood as I weirdly remember now never were into animé. We were mainly into some Hollywood and mostly Chinese movies. Probably why I never fully got into it. Even in school, they weren't discussed until I got into SS 1. Avatar was the closest thing to anime i really followed.

There was a time around 14-15yrs of age when I would have joined anime lore full-time. I wanted to buy Naruto dvd then only to find out about 40+ seasons. Na there fear catch me.
I used my free money, saved it up and bought series or movies of interest. Doing the calculations, #100 X 40+ dvd copies of just one franchise wasn't feasible when I was the primary buyer of films for house. 4k go just blow like that when I get tons of movies to watch. Na wetin make me hate that franchise up till today.

How did you get to watch anime? Was it through DVDs or cable? And or mainly influenced by an older sibling? is Zoro counted as anime? It was my favourite as a kid then.

Kaycee7:
ETv in Enugu back in the early 2000s used to do runs of Dragonball, Pokemon and Digimon and movies like Princess Mononoke and Tekken. Our neighbour also had Toonami on their cable so I got to watch other titles like Samurai X, Sailor Moon and Utena.
Also have a clear memory of watching Tokyo Godfathers at one of my best friends' house cos that's the first time I came across the word, "transvestite". It was also the first title I watched in Japanese with sub. The rest had been English dub so far.

Then around 2009, I discovered Naruto and a friend of mine gave me a few DVDs but wouldn't fully get into it until 2010, became a full blown Narutard. Also started hearing about Bleach. The next year, went to my cousin's house, saw the Yoruichi vs Soi Fon fight and was instantly sold on Bleach.
Started downloading episodes by 2013 and was now able to access so many other shows I'd only heard about or seen a few clips and that's how I got to this point.

IngeniousLeez:


Mehn, you entered Gold. you be OG bro. Almost a decade of experience. Teach me the way Sensei.

Saw some English dubbed anime like Dragonball and Pokémon on Dbn and I think Channels. But I wasn't too interested in them.
It was Yu gi Oh! in 2011-12 I really watched. Damn, I never missed that shït every weekday on Galaxy TV.
Those people broke my heart the time they stopped showing that series.

Never really got easy access or exposure to anime after then. By the time I really got well aware of anime in 2015-16 I no really Sabi anime sites. And most of the popular anime were far into hundreds of episodes I was too far aback I couldn't join.

Na 2019 my interest rise again and peaked in 2020.

The anime with 1000 plus episodes I really wanna watch and plan to someday is One Piece.

IngeniousLeez:


Mehn, you entered Gold. you be OG bro. Almost a decade of experience. Teach me the way Sensei.

Saw some English dubbed anime like Dragonball and Pokémon on Dbn and I think Channels. But I wasn't too interested in them.
It was Yu gi Oh! in 2011-12 I really watched. Damn, I never missed that shït every weekday on Galaxy TV.
Those people broke my heart the time they stopped showing that series.

Never really got easy access or exposure to anime after then. By the time I really got well aware of anime in 2015-16 I no really Sabi anime sites. And most of the popular anime were far into hundreds of episodes I was too far aback I couldn't join.

Na 2019 my interest rise again and peaked in 2020.

The anime with 1000 plus episodes I really wanna watch and plan to someday is One Piece.

Kaycee7:
Advice on One Piece: The longer you leave it, the more intimidating the task begins to look. If you take it an episode a day, by the time you're actually ready to binge the rest, you'll probably find that you've got about 500 episodes or less left, as opposed to a 1000+

Baddestguyp:
it took me like 5 years to catch up with One Piece...
I would watch like 100-200 episodes then pause for a year or 6 months and continue...
Finally caught up early this year and I've been watching weekly...

nkiliuzo:
chainsaw man has been mid so far, TF why are people hyping it so much? I don't see it... it's been generic so far

pu7pl3:


I've been wanting to say it's not been that great but it's not been mid either...
Just didn't want to stir up any controversy.

nkiliuzo:
chainsaw man has been mid so far, TF why are people hyping it so much? I don't see it... it's been generic so far

pu7pl3:


I've been wanting to say it's not been that great but it's not been mid either...
Just didn't want to stir up any controversy.

nkiliuzo:
chainsaw man has been mid so far, TF why are people hyping it so much? I don't see it... it's been generic so far

IngeniousLeez:

Kaycee7:

It's only been 2 episodes so far. Still to early to class it mid. Not every show hits the ground running. CSM is still introducing characters. Make we calm down give them a few more episodes.

Kaycee7:
Anticipating the vawulence abi

Kaycee7:

It's only been 2 episodes so far. Still to early to class it mid. Not every show hits the ground running. CSM is still introducing characters. Make we calm down give them a few more episodes.

pu7pl3:


I've been wanting to say it's not been that great but it's not been mid either...
Just didn't want to stir up any controversy.

pu7pl3:


I don't think it's been mid, I don't think it's been other worldly either...
But like you said, it's still early.

sod09:

The guy na mugu
He doesn't know the difference

WriterNig:


Mugu like my whòre mother wey ogun go kill.