>>190124
well i discovered anime from a book i found at the library about anime and became immediately obsessed. the first anime i was interested in that the book talked about was ranma 1/2. i couldn't actually afford to buy anime and didn't have cable so i spent all of my time on the internet searching for anime and japanese stuff. mostly geocities and various forums. back then fansub traders would have sites on geocities where they listed what shows they had and an address where you could send money for a tape and return postage with a list of what you wanted and they would send back a tape with the requested content on it. this was my main way of watching anime since i couldn't download it. this was how i originally watched di gi charat and excel saga. i also searched for tapes at used media stores which i bought with my lunch money but since i was buying random tapes of whatever they had i watched most things completely out of order which of course ruined shows like evangelion.