| I grew up watching classics like Dragon Ball Z, Trigun, Neon Genesis Evangelion and Record of Lodoss War. But for me, the most defining anime of my youth was Fullmetal Alchemist (2003). I had never seen anything like it before growing up. And it still holds a special place in my heart. Which anime do you have a similar experience with? |
| Yugioh GX and 5ds since it got me into a ton of the games. |
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| Haruhi. Gaogaigar. Gurren Lagann. 90s-2000s mazinger. Twelve Kingdoms. |
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| eva. it made me want to get into anime. before that I only watched stuff on tv. |
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 Captain Future (1978). It was the first shounen broadcast on German public TV in the early 1980s. After the half a dozen of kids (G rated) anime shows they had shown before, it felt incredibly mature to my young teenage mind. That was probably the moment I understood anime exists, and is not the same as "kid cartoons". |
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Bleach was a weird one for me, i remember it being the one i looked forward to most on the Toonami lineup of 2013, but i remember nothing about it. I was lured in by boobies.   the original Dragon Ball was a series i got back into as a teenager, having missed it at a kid. (Feel free to make fun of me, but i was a kid with no internet) when Dragon Ball came on Toonami, it aired with GT as the same time and i passed on it because i didn't know what the difference was since Goku was a kid in both, i thought it was just so weird that i skipped dragon ball |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. We're freaking out that we're running out of time, but to do what? Should i stop and think of that? Is there something i could do to slow it down? Live in a day for once, instead of watch it sprinting by |
| None, I did not watch a single anime as a teenager. |
| その目だれの目？ |
| Although I'm barely making it out of my teen years (if you consider all the years with "teen" as teen years), Paranoia Agent is probably the one that impacted me the most. It changed my perspective on anime as a medium when at the time, I usually watched more comedic and sillier titles. It made me seek out more psychological anime and manga and that made me absolutely adore the genre. |
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| Mine was also Fullmetal Alchemist, the original. I watched that as a kid with my older brother for about half of it and then the remaining half by myself. It was my first anime I ever watched. After Fullmetal I think I watched a few random animes and then started One Piece lol |
| Depends, what are we classifying as "teenage"? 13 until 19 and 364 days? Pre-18? Because we're talking about multiple different phases of my life: In middle school, Date A Live was responsible for much of my sense of aesthetics Highschool: Rokka no Yuusha and Re Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu First year of college: Made in Abyss and Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch Second year of college: Killing Bites, Golden Kamuy, Darling in the FranXX, Selector Infected WIXOSS, Bokura no and Overlord II (Let's just say that 2018 was a core year regarding anime for me) |
What was the most significant anime of your teenage years? SUPER DIMENSIONAL FORTRESS MACROSS (1982) Not only did this Series Debut on my Birth Year... but it Singlehandedly Gatewayed me into Weebdom on the Strength of this singular Mecha Model that i had Come Across smack in the middle of my Teendom in Late-1995;   And Lookit Here, ...Thirty Years Onward;    |
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| The same anime as it was for me when I was a kid, a teenager, at university and right now -> Bleach. At my early teenage years Bleach was still airing and later the manga was still going, manga has been finished when I was 17 so pretty much it should sum everything up. |
| Classroom of the Elite. It changed my mind on perceiving my surroundings differently and taught me that people are not always the same inside as they seem from the outside. But of course, it's not my favourite anime. 'Significance' and 'Favourite' are different things. |
| Toradora maybe? It made me appreciate and analyze love and friendships. I wanted to make sense of things. That was teenage years though. Maybe I have changed. Maybe I have not. |
| AM I A POTATO??? |
| Naruto. It's the series that introduced me to anime in the first place. |
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Rally- said: What was the most significant anime of your teenage years? When I was still an edgy horny teenage brat, I would have to say "Project A-Ko". Back in the early 90s it might not have been the most watched Anime, but it was the most humorous Anime I owned on VHS at the time and that some how stuck with me all throughout the 90s. Even back when I was still a kid living in Japan, my parents took me with them to see it screening in a theater back in the mid 80s and remembered having a lot of fun (wasn't often my parents took me with them on their theater dates). After that my parents started taking me with them to see every movie they went to in a theater till I reach my teenage years, because they realized how much fun I always had (this isn't to say they were always anime though). Once this Anime film released on VHS in the West, it was one of the 1st Anime birthday gift that I had ever received from my parents (my father is an OG otaku). They even gifted me later that same year as an Xmas gift the squeal to the film which was "Project A-Ko 2: Plot of the Daitokuji Financial Group". Beyond that, it's an Anime that I continued to love just as much as "Akira", back then while renting shit like "Bubblegum Crisis", "Devil Hunter Yohko", "Vampire Hunter D", "Venus Wars", "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind", etc... on VHS (eventually till I bought them on all on VHS tapes simply to collect and own), "Project A-Ko" was the 1st Anime franchise that I continued to follow all throughout the 90s. Always anticipating the following sequels to eventually come out in the West, already knowing the complete A-ko story had already fully concluded for the Japanese Audience at the end of the 80s... Where the 1st Western Domestic Laserdiscs that I bought back in the 90s were both "Project A-Ko 3: Cinderella Rhapsody" and "Project A-ko: Love & Robots". Because they didn't widely distribute them on VHS back then (or at least no copies I could find sold anywhere near where I lived at the time). Even knowing I could only watch them using my Fathers Laserdisc player with his expressed permission. Eventually was even able to get my hands on "Project A-ko: Uncivil Wars" on VHS, once I started college. So well "Project A-Ko" might have not been the most watched Anime franchise for me, it certainly was one that kept loyal to the medium in general. Even eventually opened me up to eventually discovering "Agent AIKa" due to most the A-ko franchise being produced by Studio Fantasia, where only the 1st two productions were produced by APPP. Where most of the original in house staff that worked on 'A-ko', made up most of the staff at Studio Fantasia by the 1990s anyways. |
ColourWheelJul 31, 11:36 PM
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| Definitely Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, I watched when I was 16-17, and helped with my depression at the time (and still to this day), and it was the anime that had me interested in anime again after a few years break from the media, plus, my first mecha anime, that it turns out to be my favorite genre. |
| Probably Attack on Titan. That and Deathnote are what really got me into anime as a teen. Honorable mention to High School DxD. |
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| I don't remember, although I do remember watching anime on cable television during my teenage years. |
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| @Zarutaku Me too, luffy will be king of the pirates and he will find the one piece. |
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@Zarutaku Me too, luffy will be king of the pirates and he will find the one piece.
MYZIC said: he will find the one piece |
| Monster It shed a new light on certain things and got me thinking about them from a different perspective |
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Rally- said:
What was the most significant anime of your teenage years?
What was the most significant anime of your teenage years?
When I was still an edgy horny teenage brat, I would have to say "Project A-Ko". Back in the early 90s it might not have been the most watched Anime, but it was the most humorous Anime I owned on VHS at the time and that some how stuck with me all throughout the 90s.
Even back when I was still a kid living in Japan, my parents took me with them to see it screening in a theater back in the mid 80s and remembered having a lot of fun (wasn't often my parents took me with them on their theater dates). After that my parents started taking me with them to see every movie they went to in a theater till I reach my teenage years, because they realized how much fun I always had (this isn't to say they were always anime though).
Once this Anime film released on VHS in the West, it was one of the 1st Anime birthday gift that I had ever received from my parents (my father is an OG otaku). They even gifted me later that same year as an Xmas gift the squeal to the film which was "Project A-Ko 2: Plot of the Daitokuji Financial Group".
Beyond that, it's an Anime that I continued to love just as much as "Akira", back then while renting shit like "Bubblegum Crisis", "Devil Hunter Yohko", "Vampire Hunter D", "Venus Wars", "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind", etc... on VHS (eventually till I bought them on all on VHS tapes simply to collect and own), "Project A-Ko" was the 1st Anime franchise that I continued to follow all throughout the 90s.
Always anticipating the following sequels to eventually come out in the West, already knowing the complete A-ko story had already fully concluded for the Japanese Audience at the end of the 80s... Where the 1st Western Domestic Laserdiscs that I bought back in the 90s were both "Project A-Ko 3: Cinderella Rhapsody" and "Project A-ko: Love & Robots". Because they didn't widely distribute them on VHS back then (or at least no copies I could find sold anywhere near where I lived at the time). Even knowing I could only watch them using my Fathers Laserdisc player with his expressed permission.
Eventually was even able to get my hands on "Project A-ko: Uncivil Wars" on VHS, once I started college.
So well "Project A-Ko" might have not been the most watched Anime franchise for me, it certainly was one that kept loyal to the medium in general. Even eventually opened me up to eventually discovering "Agent AIKa" due to most the A-ko franchise being produced by Studio Fantasia, where only the 1st two productions were produced by APPP. Where most of the original in house staff that worked on 'A-ko', made up most of the staff at Studio Fantasia by the 1990s anyways.
Amazingly... I Just Discovered the First (1986) A-Ko OVA Myself quite Recently. it's a Lovable Little show in Itself... But it's Soundtrack is the True Gem to Be Discovered. Feel Free to Commit Me to the Asylum; but IMHO it is Among the Best Anime Soundtracks of All Time. "Dance Away" alone is a Joyously-Happy-Sounding little Treasure that makes me feel Great about Life Every Single Time i Listen to it. The A-Ko 1 OST is Full of Fantastic Music... but "Dance Away" is Positively Possessed with the Spirit of the Most Lovably-Sunny-Minded Anime Hunnie♥ that you can Possibly ever Think Of... No Joke~ |
MasterTasukeAug 1, 10:29 PM
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| Yes, Project A-Ko. The only anime I consumed in my teenage years was whatever Sci-Fi channel aired and whatever I could find at the local video store. Standing with Akira and Ninja Scroll, Project A-Ko just stuck with me as truly unique and special despite my limited anime experience. The Discotek perfect edition on blu-ray is incredible/must-own. |
| Absolutely Sonny Boy, It made me realized how much escapism I did back when I was 16 |
| Probably Naruto, this series still lives rent free in my head years after I watched it. It's also probably a series I have the most problems with while liking it at the same time. |
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| Probably DragonBall Z and Ninja Scroll. |
| Sailor Moon was my most influential anime of my teenage years, but I'd been watching anime LONG before I ever became a teen. My childhood anime made me a lifelong fan, but Sailor Moon is what made me a full-on otaku. |
| @MasterTasuke same, but the DYRL movie. I watched the series much later. |
| Seeing as I was a teenager from 2015 to 2021, I'd say definitely Attack on Titan. |
Some of you never watched Bakugan Battle Brawlers on TeleToon in 2008 and it shows. |
| Check my avatar for the answer......... |
| probably attack on titan, just cuz it got me into anime |
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