How did you get into anime?

mylovelyfate said:
Skipping Pokemon, Digimon, Hamtaro, Bayblade, etc.....

I was in grade 6, and I used to live in this tiny apartment, so I shared a room with my brother and my sister. This one night I passed out early, only to wake up again around 10:20-ish. My brother was watching television, and I didn't recognize the show. It was Inuyasha. I can actually still remember the exact episode, and part of the episode that I checked into (Down the Rabbit Hole and Back Again, and the part where he was burying Kaede, hehe). Luckily for me, it was only the third episode in, because it weirdly intrigued me. Since I only got to watch 10 minutes of the episode, I was completely bummed out when it ended. But miraculously, another episode came on! I don't know if anyone who lives in Canada remembers when they used to play back/back episode of Inuyasha every friday night, but I digress. I was so intrigued by the show at the end of the 4th episode (Yura of the Demon Hair), that I decided to Google the show in the morning. I found out that it came on every friday night, and surely enough, I tuned in. My brother and I loved the show, so literally every friday we'd be on the couch in my room watching it. After I gave my first "real" anime a fair shot, my brother insisted that I try DBZ. I've always had this strange vendetta out for DBZ for ABSOLUTELY no reason, but I gave it a shot, and I enjoyed it too. Not as much as Inuyasha, though. DBZ used to come on monday - thursday, and I'd watch it with my brother every night. Eventually YTV began playing Dragon Ball in the timeslot right before DBZ, and I fell in love with that show too! After a few steady months of this schedule, they replaced DBZ with Inuyasha. I couldn't tell you HOW excited I was. I used to be able to watch 2 episodes a week, but suddenly I could watch 4+2! It was fucking beautiful. Anyway, fast forward to grade 7, and I got MAD hated on for liking anime. Like, fucking ridiculously. I still watched Inuyasha, but I refrained from telling anyone. Eventually, I got friends that liked to go out on Friday nights, so I couldn't catch those episodes anymore, and because of all of the discouragement, I stopped watching it on TV. That was around grade 8 though. I was almost done with the whole show (probably on episode 130 or something + I spoiled and watched the final episode heh) so I didn't miss tooo too much. In the summer going into grade 10 (grade 9 summer) my friend began to watch Elfen Lied, after her sister recommended it to her. Suddenly, one of the people who discouraged me from watching anime started to watch it herself (although she wasn't too bad. My friends have always had a somewhat open mind about these things). Memories of watching Inuyasha started to flood back into my mind, and I suddenly wanted to watch another one. Suddenly, I remembered something from YEARS back. This one time I was in my local library, trying to kill time, and I decided to read a manga. The author was Rumiko Takahashi, and I knew that she also made Inuyasha, so this was probably a good one too. It was Ranma 1/2. I took the book out of the library, and read that one volume practically over and over. Mind you, I had NO FUCKING CLUE what was going on (guy turns into girl? Whhaaaa???) but it was still kind of interesting. Anyway, flashback to the future, and I wondered if that was an anime. I took to Google, but since I couldn't really remember the name (I thought it was called Gundam 1/2... yup, I crossed 2 anime..) it took me a long time to find it. Eventually though, I found it, found out it was an anime as well, and began watching it on YouTube. After I finished Ranma 1/2, I finished off the episodes of Inuyasha that I didn't finish. And the rest is pretty much history.

REALLY FUCKING LONG, SORRY ;D