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Started out as a kid watching some "cartoon" on local TV. I remembered them being One Piece, Naruto, Tokyo Mew Mew, Detective Conan, Digimon, Sailor Moon, Inuyasha, etc

During middle school I was more into manga and continue to watch what was available on local TV (Air Gear, Gundam SEED, etc)

I didn't really have preferences at the time, I liked anime because I liked the art.

(2009) In high school I started to get more serious. I discovered internet. Anime streaming and download sites and such. Then I started to watch a lot of anime from various genre. At around this time I joined MAL and got more information about anime.

Slowly, I found out I enjoyed longer series than shorter ones and I enjoyed friendship themed battle shounen more than others. But I still watched many anime from various genre.

(2012) I think I changed from a casual fan to an avid fan at the last year of my high school.
I loved most mainstream battle shounen anime (Gintama, SnK, One Piece, FT, KHR, etc) and they were the ones that turned me into an avid anime fan.

But then everything changed again when I met Trafalgar Law and Eustass Kid in One Piece. For some unknown reason I started to ship them and fell into the darker side of the anime fandom. To this day I failed to understand how Law and Kid can turn me into a completely different kind of anime fan. The Fujoshi. I was an anti-yaoi. They annoyed the hell out of me because so many yaoi ships in battle shounen! I especially got enraged in the KHR fandom bcs this fandom was the first time I was made aware of how dominating the yaoi fans in this genre. Never in my life I imagined myself to be one of them in the future.

I think during my first year in University, I started to obsess more and more in my first OTP, Kid x Law.
I started to read fanfictions every. single. night.
Since I was majoring in Japanese Literature, as I slowly understand Japanese, I started to go to pixiv and read doujinshis on top of fanfictions. My obsession last for almost two years. Nothing but Kid x Law. Until I ran out of fanmade stuff to read. I read all and every fanfictions and doujinshis available. Kid x Law was not that popular in the first place, there was not much to dig. So I started to get frustrated. At the end of (2015), I visited Japan and bought my first haul of doujinshis (in which all of them were Kid x Law).

Then I started to fell out of anime and switched to Western Movies and TV Series. I discovered my second and third and so on OTP. (It's Hannigram, Destiel, Stucky)
I was obsessed with Steve x Bucky but not on the same level of Kid x Law. It lasted for one year I think (and it's a hella popular ship and there was still so much to consume)
During this time, I still watched one or two series every few months. Like Haikyuu, Kurobas. And found a new OTP. (Kuroken, Aokuro, Makoharu, Sanayuki)

(2017) around May (or I remembered as it was exactly just when Boku no Hero Academia S2 just started airing) I made my return to anime and to this site. More active than ever.
I binge watched BnHA and found my newest and biggest OTP yet, Katsuki x Izuku. BnHA was the anime that made me invested in the community again.

Nowadays, my preferences had shrinked greatly. I only watched anime that fit my preferences (which is really just bromance lol)