Gateway Drugs. Or How I Got To Know Anime.

Thinking about it now and I realised that the first anime I ever watched was Laputa: Castle in the Sky. The film was aired on BBC2 and placed on an oddly timed TV schedule and this was when I was 8 years old. Luckily, my mother saw this on the TV and started taping it straight away for me and my sister to watch. The film was amazing, I could find myself watching this one film all the time.

A year later, the next anime I saw was Neon Genesis Evangelion that I bought on VHS in Woolworths. It looked really cool on the front and back so I purchased it without knowing was it was to start with and I REALLY enjoyed it.

Our town was very small and didn't have many shops in which to promote products, I was luckly to find the Eva video when I did since it was the only one at the store and I couldn't find any more. I never saw another anime and that one video stayed on my shelf until I turned 11 years old. New shops had started to open and during my first visit to the new MVC shop, I noticed the other Eva videos and was other joyed.

My collection has since exploded 100x fold and with the move to DVD's and the help of the Internet, the word "anime" soon became apart of my dictionary along with the friends I made in the coming years because of anime.

Boring story, ain't it? :P

Jam it back in, in the dark.