13 we just moved to a far away land and it was the 1st time i've ever seen smth like that. since till then the only animations i remember watching were "soviet-toons" (which are pretty subtle in their deep meaning) it was like being struck Von Beethoven; they ripped out my feels and turned them inside out for the world to see. been hooked ever since.
i'm talking about Anime in general, and i'm mostly kidding. i am pretty sure that my parents wouldn't have allowed me to watch Anime though when i was growing up. if they saw one Fan service scene, that would have been it.
I first developed a liking to it when I was four. I remember loving "Pokemon" as well as the movie "Spirited Away". A few years after that, I kind of grew away from it, though... Although, once I was nine, I started watching "Inuyasha" and Lesen Manga as well, and now I've been a self-proclaimed fanatic ever since.
Not exactly sure when. I do know that I was 11 when I first found out exactly what Anime was, though. I like to consider all Anime from that point on as "My first anime" even though my first was technically Pokemon when I was like, 6.
I started to get into Anime knowing what it actually was when I was ... 10 I think. Before that, I have only ever watched Naruto on TV thinking it was a cartoon. XP *hides from raging*
In my case, me and my brother, when we were around 9-10, we used to watch Inazuma Eleven on TV and didn't know it was an Anime oder it was Japanese. They would always end the series after episode 52 on TV and not air the following eps (around 100 in total). We got irritated and started watching it on Youtube... We realized it was actually Japanese. I searched it on Wikipedia and came across the term 'anime' and started taking interest in it. I realized that most of the kid's stuff I had been watching was anime. I did all kinds of possible researches XD ... But soon, Lost all interest... Then after a few days we had just bought a new TV and STB, my brother told me about a new channel 'Animax'... I started watching Anime on it and then streaming on the net and downloading and stuff... Back then, I was like 12-13... :D
Aftertmath - Rightnow, I have watched around 100 anime, oder maybe more... And my brother, who has no interest in the term itself, unlike me only picks up extremely long main-stream shounen anime... Like Dragon ball Z, which he had liked ever since he was a kid.. and Naruto (which I kind of like too).. and One Piece, Bleach, etc... The only long mainstream Anime I've took interest in is Fairytail, which is still not as long as the ones mentioned above...
P.S. - I know that much wasn't asked for... I just got a bit carried away... :P
I was ten years old when I actually got into it. Been a Fan for many years. My first Anime was DBZ and was also the first Anime I ever completed. DBZ holds a very very special place in my heart. <3
I was 4 years old and my first Anime I watched was Dragon Ball and when I was 6 I got into Anime even Mehr when I watched Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away and Yu-Gi-Oh!
I was 13 and at the start of my first Jahr of high school (I live in Australia and we start high school in Jahr 7) I started Lesen the Fruits Basket manga, which led me to watching the anime