What was your gateway anime?
It's funny, I just found out a few years ago, that when I was in pre-school I was already an anime fan, because at that time in the early 90s, Nick Jr. had several animes showing, and they were my favorite shows at the time.
But I don't count those as my first, or gateway, I just thought it was interesting.
Anyway, the first anime I watched that I knew it was anime, was Pokemon. But I got into it a weird way, and we didn't have the WB in my town, I bought the videos, and there wasn't any influence to watch anything else because of it, so I wouldn't call it my gateway either.
But a year later my cusin made me watch Digimon, and that ended up being my gateway.
The next summer, Digimon moved to ABC family, and started airing Beyblade that I watched (am embarrassed to mention...) Then someone online told me about Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Cartoon Network started airing it (since I didn't have the WB). Shortly after that, someone introduced me to Toonami and Adult Swim, where I watched Yu Yu Hakusho and Cowboy Bebop, and about that time I was like, "Okay Anime is a thing I like..."
So yeah Digimon.
I guess you could argue Pokemon in a way, but if I hadn't gotten into Digimon, I don't know that I would have ever watched any other anime, since I was watching Pokemon on VHS.
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