[General] What anime has changed you the most?

You son of a bitch. I was going to say Eva:/ Oh well. But yeah, pretty much the same reason also.

I hate to say this but I feel like I was changed more by watching the bad stuff. The animes I consider the worst I feel like helped me think about what I really liked in the other works before them and appreciate the medium a lot more for it. Some examples of my least favorites are things like .hack and Gilgamesh. I'm pretty confident they are some of the worst shows in anime :P

I would say naruto, its simple but it changed my perspective of the world.

DBZ, Outlaw Star and G Gundam!

SCHOOL OF THE UNDEFEATED OF THE EAST!

I feel like the anime that molded me the most is Yu-Gi-Oh.

I have so many so I put my top 5 list Fullmetal Alchemist, soul eater, Code Geass, Gurren Lagann, and FLCL. Fullmetal Alchemist and soul eater change me because it brought up those questions about philosophy that I never thought about. Code Geass was the first show that I saw actually kill off main characters. Gurren Lagann taught me to never give up and to believe in myself. And fooly cooly is the show that I consider to be my first anime and I was 10 at the time.

Help me out here,

-The anime that I could say had the biggest effect on me I do not know the name of because I was really young and there was this scene in it that practically traumatized me; as a kid I never went out of my way to find out.
I was really young and it was when the people at adult swim were still taking acid and really starting out. They'd run these bizarre animes really late at night and I thought it was the coolest damn thing. I didn't know how fucked up anime could get though; I was so young and used to shows like Yu-gi-oh. There was a scene that happened that just had a really traumatizing effect on me.
-The one thing I remember; and you'd remember too if you saw this show, was that a dog (a small yellow one) run over by a car and killed and a boy (or a little girl) was there to see it. The kid had such a reaction a just felt so immediately sad. The dog then proceeded to reanimate, but it grew and became blob like getting bigger and bigger and talking in this really creepy damn voice (this was happening over time gradually getting scarier and scarier I cant even explain... the voice was the scariest part to me); all while sort of slowly going towards this kid through a metropolitan city. It expanded so large in a tunnel that in exploded throwing blood and guts everywhere (or something like that) I have this fear of like animals or people chasing me; or even me thinking somethings chasing me, and I really believe it stems from this. I really can't tell you how scary this scene was as a kid.
I do not particularly WISH to find out the name of the anime but, I would like to re-watch in now that im much older and see what it was all about. If anyone know the the hell im talking about shoot me a message or however you notify people on these forums. .

Thank you for reading,
Maeng

I can't pinpoint one so I'll do multiple.

• Pokémon got me into Pokémon. Even though I haven't played the newest games I still play the older games and I play a fan-made MMO called PokéMMO. Been nerding out on it since 1997.

• The English dub of Cardcaptors got me into anime in the first place. Considering the food, use of chopsticks, house etiquette etc. I realised it came from another country and the art style was from there. I would say Pokémon did but I didn't realise it was Japanese; the dubs even called onigiri balls doughnuts and I believed it.

• Zero no Tsukaima: first ecchi. The show at the beginning starts off with the concept of cultural differences and later on arranged marriages in royalty is touched upon.

• Gyo: first horror

• Dragon Ball: first long-running action anime that I've actively kept an interest in

• Studio Ghibli films, 'nuff said.

I nerd out from time to time to someone who is otherwise ignorant of a show or what anime is in general.

The art of good anime is in its storytelling. If not, its message about real-world issues.

Is it any good? I finished Uzumaki yesterday and while it was gross, I also loved it.

I was fascinated by it for weeks on end, definitely worth a watch.

They swapped the main lead between anime and manga. Manga was the guy, anime was the girl.

My first anime was Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh, Yu-Yu Hakashio and the like, but they never really had any affect on me.

The shows That changed my opinion are as follows

• Elfin Lied - it was the point where i decided anime was something I was passionate about.

• Koi Kaze - it was a never judge a book by its cover moment, wonderful story, could have as easily been a live action drama as an anime. Must Watch!

• Spice and Wolf/ Lotte no Omocha! - awoke new fetishes

Probably the closest an anime has come to changing me was Nichijou.
I had watched plenty of comedy anime before then, but Nichijou just blew me away in that I didn't realize an anime could be that ridiculously funny.

i'm probably late on the train but i'm going to have to say berserk. its a series that really influenced me to keep trying no matter how bad the odds are against me. it sure beats going through that phase when i was driven by cowboy bebop to just be really passive and chill with everything, lol.

Haruhi Suzumiya cause like Kyon I like to experience the funny/eccentric things in life despite the fact that we have to eventually grow up or grow out of it. Its not the most subtle of meanings but its what's displayed throughout the 2 seasons and the movie

no! It's never too late, man! I still love people posting on here.

Clannad completely changed the way I looked at kids.

I don't feel like I've ever been changed by an anime, but the one show that really made me a fan was the original Tenchi Muyo OVA series back in the day. Likewise, the one show that made me choke up the most was Cowboy Bebop - what an ending!

Actually, now that I think about it, the one anime that did affect me a lot was My-Otome - it caused me to burn out on anime for the next seven years. =P

Also, was anyone else into collecting anime DVDs circa the early-to-mid 2000s? At my last count I had over 700 DVDs... I burned out around the time the NA anime market was contracting and forcing out a lot of publishers (Pioneer/Geneon, Bandai, ADV, etc.).

Ahhh, the memories!