How:
I first got presented with Robotech in my younger years.. on a channel that normally resides behind a decoder but for a short time they would turn the decoder off on saturday- and sundaymornings around 06:00 to 07:00.. there was also some series about a big futuristic submarine with a gun up front that needed the bow to open and transform..
Robotech peeked my interests (I've allways been a sucker for big robots, especially the battle/transforming types.) I had no internet back then an no-one else knew what I was talking about ( heck, I didn't even know it was called anime then
) so when the decoderless hours stopped there was nothing else on TV of the sort.. well.. except Macron 1.. another giant robot series wich I watched..
Then there were several years of animesilence.. and then all of a sudden Akira played on the BBC, very late at night.. around 2:00.. from then I investigated the stuff and found out some classmates were also into Anime.. the video rentalstores also had a boom of anime in that time, joy
watched many hours of VHS ( gunbuster, guyver, fist of the nortstar etc) then I went to a different school.. another couple of years of animesilence.. got broadband internet.. P2P programs.. AMV's.. Gundam Wing... Neon Genesis Evangelion..
From there on things grew and now I watch it almost daily (Like many, I have so much of the stuff, it'll last me about a lifetime I think
.) My inet is torrenting and FTPing the stuff almost 24/7 (hooray for limitless 20M/2M internetconnections at home!) and I have over 70 retail DVDs of many kinds and genres..
Why:
Hmm.. There is no why actually.. I just like it and I have lured many around me into the dimension that is called anime