Everyone’s starter anime is death note.
I don’t count sailor moon or dbz cuz you watched those as a kid and assumed they were cartoons.
I mean when you got “into” anime fully aware of what it was and actually became immmmmmersed in this bizarre weeb culture.
It’s usually death note.
Trigun, but I did go through the Light-is-right phase until I watched Code Geass.
Outlier.
Although I guess it was naruto or Bleach for some people.
I got you all beat. The Original Big 3. Akira, Vampire Hunter D, Ninja Scroll. And those when I was a child of 9. Death Note was WAYYYYY down the line.
Akira and bugglegum crisis. Death note was the tail end of my anime addiction phase
It was Fushigi Yuugi and Slayers for me
Detective Conan and FMA yo
Mine was Inuyasha. (And then Fullmetal Alchemist.)
ruroni kenshin, yu yu hakusho and ghost in shell were where I started