What was your first anime? When did you started to watch it? How did you become aware of its existence?
Was it the anime that made you an anime fan? (If you consider yourself as such)
How does it rank for you? Would you say you still like it? Would you consider it one of you favourite anime series?
I couldn’t say the exact first one I’ve watched, but it was probably something on Toonami like DBZ. I didn’t really know what “anime” was still in elementary school (US).
I didn’t really become an anime fan until my early teens when I became fed up with cartoons censoring death and blood and the likes. I wanted blood, gore and nudity. I found Elfen Lied which is probably the first anime I watched as “an anime”.
I haven’t rewatched it since I’m much older and more sympathetic now. I doubt I could handle the themes without feeling sick so it doesn’t really rank for me anymore.
However the fact that it was uncensored scratched that itch and put me onto anime. Nowadays I wouldn’t call myself a “fan” because of the rampant pedophilia and fan service but I am an anime enjoyer of very few that are very very selectively chosen.
I have to admit I never got to watch Elfen Lied. I never was much into gore, so it was a “I probably should watch this anime everyone is talking about”, but never ended up actually watching it. And now, it’s been years since I finished an anime. I tend to be more interested in reading manga nowadays; and that I seldom do.