User blog comment:AtlasFlame206/What is your first impression since you watched Fairy Tail?/@comment-7418318-20130831171543

I first heard about Fairy Tail from my cousin. While he urged me to watch it, I initially ignored him, since his and my tastes are quite divergent when it comes to TV (easily excitable is a good term to describe his taste I guess). What really made me watch Fairy Tail was ironically Naruto. After ignoring Naruto for a long time thanks to only knowing the horrible german translation (imagine the english version of Naruto with even more censoring and even worse voice actors. I know it's hard to believe but it is actually possible) I finally brought myself to read up a bit more on it and was surprised to find out that the german version seemed to be so horrible due to censoring. So I watched the original with subs and actually enjoyed it.

Since I liked the soundtrack so much I listened to a few pieces of it on youtube. Fairy Tail popped up quite regularly in the suggestions of those Naruto OST pieces so I started to listen to thsoe too and this finally convinced me to give the FT anime a spin.

While my initial impression was slightly above average it was still interesting enough to keep watching for a while and I was finally drawn in. Sometime after the Phantom Lord arc I started reading the manga, even though there were still plenty of anime episodes I hadn't watched yet and only continued with the anime when I finished all the available manga chapters. While searching for the release date of the next chapters and episodes I stumbled onto this wiki in late febuary his year. After a bit of lurking, the occasional comment and a little typo fixed here or there, I finally made an account in March.

And since this seems to turned into a "How did you get into anime" ;-)

I think the first anime I ever saw was "Die Königin der tausend Jahre or Queen Millennia in english, though I don't remember a single detail beyond the name or even if I liked it or not (in my defense I was something between five and six years old then) and some years later the occasional scene of Sailer Moon as I passed (and tried to ignore) my sister watching that. Of Sailer Moon I remember not liking this "girly girly stuff" and the stupid english name didn't help much either.

Of course back then neither I, nor pretty much anyone outside of Asia ever heard the word "anime". What little ever made it to Europe was lumped in with the american products.

Next came "Saber Rider and the Star Sherriffs", which I loved as a kid, though today it's a love/hate with the love coming mostly form nostalgia and the hate due to it being a dumbed down and extremely censored version of the original japanese Sei Jūshi Bisumaruku -> "Team Bismarck" (btw, if anyone knows where I can get this with subs, PLEASE TELL ME), but I still never heard the word anime. For me it was just a "Zeichentrickserie" (comic series) like any other.

With barely any anime ever making it into TV around here untill maybe six years ago and those mostly being those made for children several years of void followed.

After this void the next anime I really watched, without changing the channel were Gundam WING and Vision of Escaflowne (all the others were the ones for children) and I loved both. Don't ask me why or how I could love WING. I'm baffled about that too, since today I consider it pretty crappy and one of the lower points of the Gundam franchise, though I still like Escaflowne a lot. Here I first heard the term "anime" and got interested, but since we didn't have an internet connection in our house back then, there wasn't much I could learn. Back then Austria was on the other side of the planet from Japan in more ways than the purely geographical... and still would be in regards to anime if it wasn't for the internet.

After a few more years MTV aired Hellsing (don't ask my why a music station aired an anime... I was just happy they did), VOX once showed Record of Lodoss War and several anime movies and my interest finally started to grow.

But what really sucked me in for good was the chance find of Elfenlied. After seeing just a single episode - and luckily not the first one... I'm pretty sure I'd have stopped watchin if I had started with episode 1 - I looked around and encounted my first Manga and LOVED it (and still do. I have both the mangabooks and DVD, though I could only get them much later),

Anyway the first Anime I actually bought on DVD were the armitage movies, followed by Record of Lodoss War, Gundam SEED and Noir. By now I have a nice collection, though no Fairy Tail yet, since it's so damn hard to get any anime imported into my country without having to rely on the horribly overpriced german online-stores or paying loads of money for the overseas transportation.

Though I have several series I was unable to get the DVDs of sitting on my harddrive (like the, to my knowledge, barely known but still excellent "The Mars Daybreak").

A little side-note: As I kid I loved Wiki, but it's considered a cartoon series rather than an anime despite the actual drawing being done by a japanese studio, probably because it's an Austrian-German-Japanese co-production and first aired in German TV.

Wow... this is definately the longest post I ever made on this wiki and probably the longest I ever made on the internet as a whole. Even the backstory for my self-made Warhammer 40K Eldar Craftworld was shorter than this I think.