Also, first anime I ever saw was New Dominion Tank Police when I was but a wie nipper. It instantly caught my attention because I was skimming channels and caught it mid-episode, since I was addicted to cartoons and I was very young I became very interested in it the moment Bonaparte tumbled down the elevator shaft whilst Leona and Al screamed "OH SHIIIIIIT!". Before that point I had never imagined a cartoon could contain swear words, thus, I was very interested to see more (b'.')b

The next time I encountered it was when I went to my nans, and my uncle, who hadn't moved out yet, was watching Hellsing on his T.V. (I discovered it was Hellsing maaaaaany years later when watching it myself, my memory is that vivid sometimes I can remember something like that :P) I didn't get to see much of it because he turned it off a few mionutes later so I could play Sonic 1 on his mega drive.

The next encounter with it was again still when I was quite young, me and my dad had stopped up late to watch The Great Escape, and after iot went off he started flicking through channels. when he switched to channel 4 there was an anime on that showed a naked girl with pink hair that was stuck to some pinkish slimy wall. I'm pretty sure it wasn't a hentai though. My dad switched channels almost instantly so I didn't see enough to be able to identify what it could have been as I haven't seen any anime with that scene since.

Since then I was always wondering where I could find shops that sold anime, but had to resort to playing anime games instead. Eventually when I found forbidden planet, a shop commonly found in most U.K towns and cities, my anime interest really started to kick in, since then it has simply escalated to a full-blown obsession, which is where I am today.