Series you discovered through the wiki

Now this is an old thread...

Well, most anime I see is just what comes up in the news on some anime site I'm not going to specify. But what I specifically looked up from here are Mahou Sensei Negima!, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Spice And Wolf, Claymore, Scrapped Princess, Change 123, Haruhi Suzumiya, Saya no Uta, Lucky Star, Katanagatari, School Days, and Higurashi: When They Cry. Of course, I've also checked up on series before watching to see if it was interesting, but I don't count that. These are the ones I wouldn't have seen otherwise.

edited 28th Jan '13 5:04:21 PM by AnotherDuck

Mirai Nikki is the big one.

Doesn't this topic already exist, as TV Tropes as a Gateway Drug?

A wiki page and a forum thread are distinctly different things.

Also, given that this thread was started 5 and a half years ago, it is probably a little late to be questioning the validity of its existence.

Which probably was before the wiki page.

edited 30th Jan '13 6:13:57 AM by AnotherDuck

Personally, I think the forums are more suitable for things like this anyway. If anything, TV Tropes as a Gateway Drug sounds more likely to predate them.

edited 30th Jan '13 5:42:13 PM by nrjxll

The YKTTW for TV Tropes as a Gateway Drug dates to 2009. The OP of this thread dates to 2007.

...Maybe we could just move this to Yack Fest?

And I think I discovered a game or two from here.

• Peachi, and it was glorious.
• The Spoony Experiment, but that doesn't count because I don't like how Spoony conducts himself in Real Life. I'm kind of embarrassed about ever liking him in the first place.
• Retsupurae: Also glorious, even though I don't really watch/read Let's Plays.

I think the only series I discovered via the wiki is MLP:Fi M.

Also, I agree with Irene, this feels like it belongs in Yack Fest.

My point was that it feels like a "pages we made because the forums didn't exist yet" sort of thing.

I agree on moving this to Yack Fest.

Yack away!

Persona

Homestuck

Asura's Wrath

Gurren Laggann

edited 1st Feb '13 6:33:50 AM by GearLeader

Disgaea, Blaz Blue (the trope page convinced me to buy CS), and Future Diary.

I used to wonder what friendship could be come share this magic with me.

and that anime about a tough guy whose hand turns into a little girl

The 1632 series, the Belisarius series, the Alicorn-written Twilight fanfic duo of Radiance and Luminosity, Darksiders, Saints Row, and that is about it I think.

Do The Avalanches count?

Marble Hornets was the first true example, but I got into xkcd as a result of someone linking me to it's page on this site.

All of the webcomics I read.

Neon Genesis Evangelion, which led to Madoka Magica, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and Serial Experiments Lain. Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, because of its prominence on the wiki.

So... Anime?

Monster.

Which inspired me to want to draw webcomics.

So basically, TVT is the reason I started (seriously) drawing.

edited 3rd Feb '13 1:50:37 PM by Wheezy

And that is how I started watching ponies. And Tokyo Mew Mew. And Happy Tree Friends, and...

...Dammit, let's just say half of everything I watch now. TMM was one of the first, though.

edited 4th Feb '13 9:48:58 AM by KatanaCat

Webomics, Video Games, and Anime... too many to list!