Growing up as a kid(Granted, I'm not much older), I wasn't exactly treated well by the people around, other than my family because of my looks and being fat etc. Particularly after being gang-bullied by a dozen toddlers and getting a sega saturn game stolen by someone that I befriended(?) at the playground, I started becoming a hermit.
At that time, I came across shows on the television such as Dragonball, Gundam wing, Ranma 1/2, Slam Dunk etc. They were all dubbed in chinese, so I had thought that, hey, these fantastic cartoons are from china!. It didnt occur to me that the OP and EDs were in japanese though. As time went on, I wasn't able to keep track of the time that these 'cartoons' air on the tv channel, hence lost track of them altogether.
After awhile, I got into online gaming. This kept up until about 2 years ago, when a local tv station showed a season worth (26 episodes or so) of english dubbed Prince of Tennis (now my favourite anime). That title was what really got me into anime, especially since I got interested as to how the series goes on after the ones that were shown on the local channel.
I got recommanded by a classmate at that time (now one of my best friends) to animesuki, where I found the torrent links to PoT. It was also during this year that One Piece (english dubbed) aired on the local kid's channel, and that my brother mentioned Naruto to me. This was where the anime fanatic in me started to show...I had completely stopped watching the tv, and only watched downloaded fansubs on the pc(yea I know, a leech).
However, it was after watching He is my master that I truely fell into the world of otaku-dom. I never knew anime could be so....naughty.
(to justify myself though, I've since watched alot less of the ecchi genre, and got more interested in story-based animes...)