Gateway Drugs. Or How I Got To Know Anime.

I'm not ashamed to admit that it was the ALMIGHTY powers of Pokemon that got me into anime. It was like around 1999 or something when it was really popular, and I just got hooked, both by the game and the (terrible) TV series. But I was young at the time so I didn't care. All I knew was that the animation was (in my opinion) far better than the Saturday morning Disney lineup that I just had to watch it. Then came along Digimon, where I discovered that there's more to anime than the aesthetics -- the story (whatever story Digimon had for it's audience).

Then I realized after some bad searching that you can download these things, and I discovered other rather popular shows that are shown in the US - Gundam Wing, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, NGE, etc. The first series I've downloaded and watched in its entirety was Fushigi Yuugi, and even then I thought it was literally da bomb.

I wish I had a more colorful start to anime, but these series were enough. What really got me into manga, though, was Hikaru no Go. But that's another story altogether, since manga for me is much more diversified.

Jam it back in, in the dark.