Masses of anime fans quizzed on which title it was which got them hooked on anime in the first place have given pride of place to a certain popular anime series it seems…
The ranking, with a voting sample of 10,000:
1. A Certain Series
2. Sword Art Online
3. K-ON!!
4. Gintama
5. Neon Genesis Evangelion
6. One Piece
7. Sailor Moon
8. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
9. Kuroko’s Basketball
10. Clannad
11. Prince of Tennis
12. Shingeki no Kyojin
13. Card Captor Sakura
14. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
15. Dragon Ball
16. Code Geass
17. Full Metal Alchemist
18. Detective Conan
19. Space Battleship Yamato
20. Monogatari series
21. Mobile Suit Gundam
22. Naruto
23. Free!
24. Yu Yu Hakusho
25. Angel Beats!
26. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
27. Doraemon
28. Shakugan no Shana
29. Digimon Adventure 01
30. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, Yu yu hakusho One Piece/Naruto/Bleach (THEY WERE CALLED THE BIG 3 FOR A REASON) and Love hina should be in the top 5.
I wasn’t impressed with the GITS movies, too hard to understand as a first anime, I hated Speed Racer as a child, but it all changed when I saw FLCL, Ultimate Teacher and Excel Saga. I was hooked on weird anime.
for me it was magipoka. 2005/2006 was good times.
In fact my was zombie loan and manga was to love ru
I started watching anime when I saw “Birdy The Mighty Decode” by when it was english dubbed by Funimation