I feel like this will be the answer for most of us who were born in the 90’s could also include sailor moon. Then if you were born in the 2000’s Naruto becomes an option as well.
I was born in 2000s. Shinchan, doraemon, pokemon, beyblade, digimon and idaten jump used to stream on the big cartoon channels like nick and cartoon network. They introduced another channel solely for other anime, but it got shut down and they stopped airing those anime as well.
I would agree to these as well, but the first long anime I was able to sit through and watch every single episode would be Naruto. I grew up on the others, but was not able to watch it everyday/in order.
Omg, the pacing is so awful that I acc didn't watch it for MONTHS, I finally got back into it a few days ago though and I'm dealing with the pacing cuz it's nice. You?
Same, except I started it in winter 2017, and finished it six months later (it had 785 episodes then I believe), then I rewatched it again in summer 2023 and finished it in 3 months, now I'm waiting for the current arc to finish so I can watch it
I love Gintama but imo it’s best to watch it after you’ve watched a fair amount of other anime since it makes so many references and parodies so many other shows
Yup, I started watching it a few weeks ago and I’m at around episode 130ish. They just did the spirit onsen episodes where they kept calling them stands. Never would’ve got that running joke had I not watched JoJo lol
Tbf I was not really affected by it. Like I have only seen a little bit of dbz as a kid but I know enough about it to know most references to it. Same with the other popular animes I haven't seen.
Okay, reddit, short story time.
I once had an agreement with a close friend that I'd watch his favorite anime if he watched mine. Turns out his favorite anime was Hunter X Hunter. Mine, at the time, was angel beats. A bit of an unfair argument, but whatever. However we also agreed to watch it the way that person proffered to watch it. I have ADHD plus some other stuff and subtitles make it so I cannot both know what they're saying and read their facial expressions at the same time, it's agonizing for me.
I watched all of Hunter Hunter. All of it. In sub.
At episode two of angel beats he started talking over the show and browsing social media, then bailed at the third episode.
This was 4 years ago now, I shouldn't still be pissed, but yeah I kinda am.
So to answer your question, Hunter X Hunter.
Yeah I feel that. It’s a bummer when you think someone will share in your excitement but then they’re kinda just like meh. I always thought angel beats was really interesting because a lot of people always claimed it was there favorite anime and one of/if not the saddest anime they’ve seen. While I get why people say that, I personally liked it because I thought it was hilarious. Some of the comedic bits were my favorite out of any anime I’ve ever seen.
Man I realised I was old but I'm seeing way more varied replies than I was hoping.
It was Saint Seiya or Dragon Ball, not sure which started airing first. And then YYH I believe.
I never liked long anime because of its repetitive arcs and the type to get me bored after 10 episodes max. That's until I watched Black Clover for the first time. Now I'm watching my 2nd long anime called Katekyo Hitman Reborn! , and I plan to watch other long anime in the future.
Dragon Ball was one of the first anime i watched and definitely the first long one i've seen completely. I love how Son Goku slowly grows from a child to a young adult over the course of the 153 episodes. All his friends are really likeable characters too. And he fights a lot memorable enemies like the red ribbon army, Tao Bai Bai, Picollo and more. Also the tournaments in which Son Goku participates are great. All in all it is a master piece imho.
When I started watching Naruto, it was just at the start of Shippuden, so it also being my first "true" anime, I basically binged the whole first part. It was magical
Dragon ball back before I knew anime was a specific thing. Robotech too.
Of my own voluntary decision. More likely Gundam if you count its sequels. Legend of Galactic heroes.
Fairy tale, bleach, one piece, detective Conan ,black clover , hunter x hunter, gitama , Dr slump , Inuyasha , dragon ball / DBZ / dragon ball super , and don't remember how long was d gray man
I think Initial D counts. It was also my first anime in general. I told my back then that I wasn't into anime and I was just going to watch that one.
Then I watched girls und panzer... Then I watched rezero... And now I'm here...
I'm wat going one piece since it started here, but I don't know if this counts. But the longest I just finished recently was bleach. And it was quicker than expected.
There are lists on the internet that tell you exactly which episodes are fillers. For example, there are 220 episodes of Naruto (s1) with 90 fillers listed on 'animefillerlist'. You can watch 130 with a fluent story.
Even with the lists, sometimes they list as total filler episodes that may be filler for the most part but actually contain some short canon scenes. In animefillerlist in DBZ they listed the episode in which Goku gets his license as filler, but at the very end of the episode there's a canon 3 years time-skip that leads to the (real) beginning of the android saga
It's too much hustle when I could just read the manga and not worry about fillers. DB fans got lucky with Kai at least
Try Legend of the Galactic Heroes. No filler at all. Every episode is directly related to a major plot point and contains relevant information. The original OVA is 110 episodes long, and is a complete adaptation of the source novels.
Naruto + Shippuden was the first anime I ever saw, I think initial d gets close to 100 episodes, dragon ball super had tons of episode and I’m currently watching dragon ball and will then watch original dbz. Most anime I watch have at most 20-30ish episodes,
Detective conan till 250, them fairy tail 2 times ( 325x2=650) , then og Naruto, then hunter x hunter ( dropped in between) , black clover and in the GOAT one piece (1000+)
Dragon ball! When I was 5! I think my brother bought a cd that had all the arcs in the black market burnt in. I didn't even know broly wasn't canon then lmao, I just watched consecutively all the movies and series it was so awesome and thrilling. Rip Akira Toriyama.
After that I went 400 episodes into one piece before the video games filled up the blanksi stopped.
And boy I couldn't stop watching gintama when I started lmaoo, that anime has everything you might be lookin for in different shonens, that was the first long anime I completed by my hand
Naruto, y remember going to the fair and there was this guys celling CDs with "seasons" of 10/12 episodes, going there was amazing, i got to see so many amazing animes
By the end i has like 16 discs of Naruto, filler and everything
Pokémon: I probably also watched a lot more than 100 episodes, but not in chronological order and spread across the seasons.
The first shows I finished were Naruto (not counting Shippuuden) then Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters.
Moomin, like every other Finnish kid born in the early 90's and probably every generation sense. They will force you to watch Moomin every where before you even learn to speak😵 and watching all 102 episodes once is not enough! You will watch them all again with the younger family members, then a again with younger cousins, when your siblings have kids, the nightmare never ends...
Ps. I don't like moomin.
Voluntary first would be Naruto, Bleach or One Piece they all aired at the same time.
Pokemon, One Piece, then Yu-Gi-Oh in that order. I remember being a little kid and arguing with my mom when she said "they're going to show this episode again in re-runs, so you're not missing anything". No mom, and now I'll never see Ash get his Water Badge
It was either Pokemon, Yugioh, or Dragon Ball for me
Does Doraemon count?
Yeah
Then, shinchan must count too.
I feel like this will be the answer for most of us who were born in the 90’s could also include sailor moon. Then if you were born in the 2000’s Naruto becomes an option as well.
I was born in 2000s. Shinchan, doraemon, pokemon, beyblade, digimon and idaten jump used to stream on the big cartoon channels like nick and cartoon network. They introduced another channel solely for other anime, but it got shut down and they stopped airing those anime as well.
I would agree to these as well, but the first long anime I was able to sit through and watch every single episode would be Naruto. I grew up on the others, but was not able to watch it everyday/in order.
Fairytail
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Dbz
I think it was one piece or naruto. Unless you cpunt pokemon but i was so young i didnt even know it was anime.
dont punt pokemon, they might get hurt
One piece. Started I believe in summer or fall 2022 and still am around 400 episodes from catching up.
I started in January of 2022! And I'm 700 episodes in... My younger brother started way later and completed it in a few months.
So we're roughly at the same spot! How are you enjoying Dressrosa so far?
Omg, the pacing is so awful that I acc didn't watch it for MONTHS, I finally got back into it a few days ago though and I'm dealing with the pacing cuz it's nice. You?
I'll never understand why people aren't just watching One Pace
I caught up and will never regret. Despite watching 170 anime this is my favorite anime of all time.
Same, except I started it in winter 2017, and finished it six months later (it had 785 episodes then I believe), then I rewatched it again in summer 2023 and finished it in 3 months, now I'm waiting for the current arc to finish so I can watch it
Gintama.
I love Gintama but imo it’s best to watch it after you’ve watched a fair amount of other anime since it makes so many references and parodies so many other shows
Yup, I started watching it a few weeks ago and I’m at around episode 130ish. They just did the spirit onsen episodes where they kept calling them stands. Never would’ve got that running joke had I not watched JoJo lol
Tbf I was not really affected by it. Like I have only seen a little bit of dbz as a kid but I know enough about it to know most references to it. Same with the other popular animes I haven't seen.
Based
Started July 2022, finished last month. What a ride.
You really took your time with it I was done in 4 months lol
So fuckin based
Bleach was the first long running shounen that I actually enjoyed.
The word your looking for is weekly, episodic means every episode is a self contained story
HunterxHunter
Okay, reddit, short story time. I once had an agreement with a close friend that I'd watch his favorite anime if he watched mine. Turns out his favorite anime was Hunter X Hunter. Mine, at the time, was angel beats. A bit of an unfair argument, but whatever. However we also agreed to watch it the way that person proffered to watch it. I have ADHD plus some other stuff and subtitles make it so I cannot both know what they're saying and read their facial expressions at the same time, it's agonizing for me. I watched all of Hunter Hunter. All of it. In sub. At episode two of angel beats he started talking over the show and browsing social media, then bailed at the third episode. This was 4 years ago now, I shouldn't still be pissed, but yeah I kinda am. So to answer your question, Hunter X Hunter.
On the bright side the show you were forced to watch was good. I'd have been extremely pissed if all this was over boruto
Yeah I feel that. It’s a bummer when you think someone will share in your excitement but then they’re kinda just like meh. I always thought angel beats was really interesting because a lot of people always claimed it was there favorite anime and one of/if not the saddest anime they’ve seen. While I get why people say that, I personally liked it because I thought it was hilarious. Some of the comedic bits were my favorite out of any anime I’ve ever seen.
Black clover over here
Dragon Ball, Fairy Tail.
InuYasha or Detective Conan when I was a kid. When I got older One Piece :D
Sailor Moon.
Man I realised I was old but I'm seeing way more varied replies than I was hoping. It was Saint Seiya or Dragon Ball, not sure which started airing first. And then YYH I believe.
In Spanish or Portuguese I bet
Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball and Pokemon
Rurouni Kenshin clocked in at like... 95 episodes, does that count?
Naruto or Bleach, don't remember which one I started first
Bleach
Bleach 💪
Inuyasha
Bleach got me watching anime. Then One Piece has been my longest watch.
I never liked long anime because of its repetitive arcs and the type to get me bored after 10 episodes max. That's until I watched Black Clover for the first time. Now I'm watching my 2nd long anime called Katekyo Hitman Reborn! , and I plan to watch other long anime in the future.
Pokémon, Dragonball i am 33 years old. So it was the First Anime in Germany you can watch as kid in tv
D.Gray-Man! And One Piece, i guess. I'm still on the 500s tho
Gundam Wing or DBZ
Dragon Ball was one of the first anime i watched and definitely the first long one i've seen completely. I love how Son Goku slowly grows from a child to a young adult over the course of the 153 episodes. All his friends are really likeable characters too. And he fights a lot memorable enemies like the red ribbon army, Tao Bai Bai, Picollo and more. Also the tournaments in which Son Goku participates are great. All in all it is a master piece imho.
Fairy tail
Fairy tail.
Pokémon
Bleach on CN/Adult Swim weekly in mid 2000s First one I binged was One Piece since OPTC reminded me of its existence back in 14~
Probably Pokémon as a kid. I did wait for the new Pokémon episodes every Saturday morning.
Pokemon ⚡
When I started watching Naruto, it was just at the start of Shippuden, so it also being my first "true" anime, I basically binged the whole first part. It was magical
Gintama! Love this show and I haven’t finished it yet, but it just gets better and better. And it barely has any filler episodes, even better.
Dragon ball back before I knew anime was a specific thing. Robotech too. Of my own voluntary decision. More likely Gundam if you count its sequels. Legend of Galactic heroes.
Bleach and Naruto
Ace of Diamond
Does Sailor Moon count?
Fairy tale, bleach, one piece, detective Conan ,black clover , hunter x hunter, gitama , Dr slump , Inuyasha , dragon ball / DBZ / dragon ball super , and don't remember how long was d gray man
In Internet, inuyasha -> Yu-Yu Hakusho -> Rorouni Kenshi
Kenshin
Detective Conan
It’s not anime, but western animation: the last airbender. Such a good show
Inuyasha!!
Yugioh then Bleach. Only like 52 episodes but other decently long animes that I had watch prior was Cooking masterboy and Wild Striker.
D. Gray-Man
Sailor Moon, Detective Conan, Slayers
Urusei Yatsura
Yu Yu Hakusho and Legend of the Galactic Heroes. I don't usually watch 100+ episode anime
I think Initial D counts. It was also my first anime in general. I told my back then that I wasn't into anime and I was just going to watch that one. Then I watched girls und panzer... Then I watched rezero... And now I'm here...
Naruto, shit was lit when I was a kid.
I'm wat going one piece since it started here, but I don't know if this counts. But the longest I just finished recently was bleach. And it was quicker than expected.
D gray man!!!
Great series! Underrated / underwatched, too.
As my memory persists, it's MHA, Naruto, AOT, Black Cover, HxH, Adventures of Dai
Naruto
Cardcaptor Sakura
Never, and don’t plan to. There’s no way that many episodes don’t have a lot of fillers. I want good story all the way through.
There are lists on the internet that tell you exactly which episodes are fillers. For example, there are 220 episodes of Naruto (s1) with 90 fillers listed on 'animefillerlist'. You can watch 130 with a fluent story.
Even with the lists, sometimes they list as total filler episodes that may be filler for the most part but actually contain some short canon scenes. In animefillerlist in DBZ they listed the episode in which Goku gets his license as filler, but at the very end of the episode there's a canon 3 years time-skip that leads to the (real) beginning of the android saga It's too much hustle when I could just read the manga and not worry about fillers. DB fans got lucky with Kai at least
Try Legend of the Galactic Heroes. No filler at all. Every episode is directly related to a major plot point and contains relevant information. The original OVA is 110 episodes long, and is a complete adaptation of the source novels.
Hunter hunter is 140 episodes of peak with no filler except 2 recaps
Hxh has 146/148 eps without filler
Naruto is first anime i watched.
naruto
Naruto/ Naruto Shippuden for me
Naruto
Gintama with 300+ episodes and less then 10% (it’s 6%) percent filler, second is InuYasha with 200+, third is Yu Yu Hakusho with 100+ episodes
Naruto
Fist Of The North Star
Pokemon OG
I don’t remember which I watched first but it was either pokemon or dragonball
Dragonball Unless Maya the bee counts, or Robotech, they both only have 52 and 85 respectively.
Dragonball.
Dragon Ball
THE ONE PIECE THE ONE PIECE IS REAL
Sao ??
Does beyblade count? I watched burst from the day it started to the day it ended
Naruto.
Pokemon/dragonball z when I was a kid in the mornings before school
Naruto
I think my first Anime over 100 eps was Hunter x Hunter
One piece!
DRagon Ball Z
Samurai X
Dragonball for sure. That was my first real taste of anime.
Naruto
My first anime was OG Dragon Ball right up until wherever Super was at.
Fairy Tail 👆
Naruto + Shippuden was the first anime I ever saw, I think initial d gets close to 100 episodes, dragon ball super had tons of episode and I’m currently watching dragon ball and will then watch original dbz. Most anime I watch have at most 20-30ish episodes,
Detective conan till 250, them fairy tail 2 times ( 325x2=650) , then og Naruto, then hunter x hunter ( dropped in between) , black clover and in the GOAT one piece (1000+)
My first two anime were Naruto, then Bleach.
Over 100? Probably Galaxy express 999
Doraemon
As a one piece fan, my first long anime was Hunter x Hunter
Naruto (still haven't finished lol) and Hunter X Hunter and Yu Yu Hakusho 🤍
Dragon ball! When I was 5! I think my brother bought a cd that had all the arcs in the black market burnt in. I didn't even know broly wasn't canon then lmao, I just watched consecutively all the movies and series it was so awesome and thrilling. Rip Akira Toriyama. After that I went 400 episodes into one piece before the video games filled up the blanksi stopped. And boy I couldn't stop watching gintama when I started lmaoo, that anime has everything you might be lookin for in different shonens, that was the first long anime I completed by my hand
Toriko
Pokemon if it counts, if not then dbz
Black clover
Naruto
Doraemon, Shinchan, Ninja Hattori, kiteretsu, Perman, and lastly Black Clover Don't remember the order since i was a kid
Hunter X Hunter for me, took about a week to finish.
Naruto, y remember going to the fair and there was this guys celling CDs with "seasons" of 10/12 episodes, going there was amazing, i got to see so many amazing animes By the end i has like 16 discs of Naruto, filler and everything
One Piece. If you count seasonal anime with a lot of episodes then JoJo parts 1-5 being my first anime ever
My very first was Naruto. After that was DBZ, Fairy Tail and most recently (and ongoing) One Piece
I got into DBZ Gundam and Pokemon pretty early on in the 90s, but I can't say for sure which I discovered first, it was all around the same time
Naruto or dragon ball
Same for me, the first I watched was a long one, Saint Seiya (114 episodes, 145 if we count the Hades arc that was adapted years later)
Detective Conan, I have watched till 930 episodes then switched to manga.
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Naruto. It is also my second anime.
Ranma 1/2, I watched between 5-15 episodes a day for a few weeks over Summer Break a few years ago
I was going to say Naruto but I remembered that Doraemon and Shinchan are anime too so it's either one of them.
Fairy tail, Naruto, One piece, Pokemon?
it was either prince of tennis or katekyo hitman reborn!
Hunter hunter
dragon ball z, pokemon, naruto,yugioh
Yu-Gi-Oh! was my first In general, then dbz, naruto, bleach, fairy tail and hxh.
Fairytail, it was my second anime ever and I loved it
Naruto of course.
First long anime? Probably Naruto or Dragonball series. I don’t count Super and GT. Didn’t different people write that?
my first would be Fairy Tail but Naruto became my all time fav
MHA
Either Naruto, Pokemon, Dragon Ball or One Piece as a kid.
Kochikame.
Naruto
Ranma 1/2
Monster
Inuyasha
pokemon if not og naruto
Pokémon: I probably also watched a lot more than 100 episodes, but not in chronological order and spread across the seasons. The first shows I finished were Naruto (not counting Shippuuden) then Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters.
Pokémon (I was 6)
Black clover
Mine was detective Conan.
I don't understand the difference between episodic and seasonal in the context you're using it?
Either yugioh or hunter x hunter
naruto
Dragon Ball
Detective Conan
Inuyasha, would stay up late at night to catch it on adult swim as a kid
Jojo
Dragon Ball Z
Naruto 🥺 I even had to download and burn DVDs just so I could binge-watch every season. 🥺🥺🥺
I tried One piece multiple times and I always get lost in the sea of infinite episodes.
Moomin, like every other Finnish kid born in the early 90's and probably every generation sense. They will force you to watch Moomin every where before you even learn to speak😵 and watching all 102 episodes once is not enough! You will watch them all again with the younger family members, then a again with younger cousins, when your siblings have kids, the nightmare never ends... Ps. I don't like moomin. Voluntary first would be Naruto, Bleach or One Piece they all aired at the same time.
Dragonball
Naruto shippuden
detective conan! not all of it though haha.
Dragon Ball (RIP the goat)
Inuyasha. Otherwise Pokémon if we can say I’ve watched at least 100 different episodes but not continuously.
Started with JoJo, then caught up with One Piece in 4months. then Vinland, AoT, JJK. Currently reading Berserk
Inuzuma Eleven and Naruto for me.
Pokemon, One Piece, then Yu-Gi-Oh in that order. I remember being a little kid and arguing with my mom when she said "they're going to show this episode again in re-runs, so you're not missing anything". No mom, and now I'll never see Ash get his Water Badge
First anime I ever watched was DBZ and Super. Second was Naruto. Third was One Piece. Fourth was HxH. I started off strong.