At what age were you introduced to anime?

Lets see....well when I only had regular television it was samurai pizza cats and pokemon during pokemon's run on upn then came cardcaptor sakura, digimon, and yu-gi-oh......when I finally had cable it was actually a preview for the next of dbz in japanese and toonami(a course)that got me started on cable-anime

Samurai X as it was known in Trinidad, Rurouni Kenshin to you all.

It was random. Just one day without any preamble it started showing on local TV and that was it.

That anime formed a cult following among the youth in my country (if you did not know what happened in last week's episode of Sam X, you were just out of it) followed by an obscenely large anime/manga boom. There was a time where every other-other person had some sort of anime item on their person whether it be a T-shirt or a keychain or a backpack.

It lead to us hosting our own anime conventions (I believe a first for the Caribbean)and a large interest in things Japanese (the University Japanese club was never that full before/since that golden time).

Though that time has long past and we have died down to a normal level of anime/manga consumption level in my country, the older ones of us will always remember what Sam X did for us, even if the younger ones cannot.

Samurai X, I solemnly and gratefully salute you. I don't think anything else would have served as a better gateway into anime.

I'd have to say Toonami and a little after that, Ranma 1/2.

An old VHS of A Chinese Ghost Story. Then Dragonball and Toonami/[Adult Swim]

I was more or less aware of anime in my grade school years, but for whatever reason it didn't take (I lived in Hawaii too at the time, so you'd think I'd be all over that). Truthfully though, it didn't click for me until I watched Cowboy Bebop reruns on Adult Swim around 2001. I watched more and more over the years until it became more or less my favorite type of show.

Late 1995 was when I actually realized what anime was. I remember the first thing I watched was Project A-Ko on 'Saturday Anime' on the Sci-Fi channel. Then Akira came next in their rotation and I was pretty much hooked. That was back when they showed some really awesome shows - Roujin-Z, 8-Man, Lily-CAT, Gall Force, Vampire Hunter D, even Tenchi Muyo In Love without really knowing what the Tenchi series was.

I do actually remember watching things like Speed Racer and Robotech some time before that not knowing what they were, but I would guess that Project A-Ko was the first anime I watched knowing that it was 'anime.'

It was hard back then. That was before you could just download stuff off the internet, and 60 minute VHS tapes cost $25-$30. That time period also saw this new thing known as 'fan-subbing' where you would actually send a blank VHS tape to a fan sub group, they'd dub their work over, and send it back. Either you got your rare anime that way, or at a con.

Amazing that it's been eighteen years now. Time flies. Sad thing is it took my wife up until 2008 to become a fan of manga/anime.

The first Anime I ever watched was Perfect Blue. Now I'm hooked on it and hentai, thank God for Rogers Video.

Gotta be gunbuster and dragonball as well as fist of the north star first and then when i got older and started reallly getting into anime It was One Piece. I've been watching it ever since!

I watched pokemon on and off but what really got me started was Naruto on Toonami. Me and my brother would be ready every Saturday night at 9 to watch it.

I properly watched it younger than the age of 11-15, yeah it was primarily Gundam, Zoids, a little bit of pokemon and yugioh too. Yes but my childhood is all but a haze to me xD. I really got into it around middle school though. Yes it was toonami, why they shut it down the world doesn't care they just want it back :D

Probably around 6-10. DBZ!

Last year of High School, 1998 . Was stuck at my Grandmothers house with nothing to do but watch Television. Might be the dream to some but with ADD it was not for me. So watch anything I started watching Sailor Moon.I saw Voltron when I was a kid and my brother was a big robotech fan. Earlier during the first year of High School saw Dominion tank police and Project A-ko, but I say that summer sealed the deal.

I was an early anime freak.

I first started watching anime when I was like 7, being Pokemon and sailor moon, but the one that actually got me into it was Inuyasha. Loved it, still do.

I normally don't count Pokemon - but the first anime besides Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh, and Zoids, was .//hack SIGN :) I was sick and up at 1 in the morning and my mom turned on cartoon network (not knowing that at night time adult swim comes on) and I was hooked. First episode I saw was the one where Tsukasa's blob thing was attacking people.

Gosh so many years ago. Think I was in Junior high, saw the Toonami block which at the time was I believe DBZ, Gundam Wing, Outlaw Star, and Tenchi Muyo. Really dating myself with that one xD. I feel old now lol. Been hooked on anime ever since.