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My first experience with anime came when I was 4 years old, and I was growing up in a shitty, slummy, mafia-controlled town. There was this weird local station that had a bunch of stuff I didn't care about during the day, but then at night, instead of signing off, they started an anime block. All 60s and 70s stuff. It ran from 1 to 6 in the morning, and I would go to bed at 8 and wake up to sneak over to the TV and turn it on real quiet so I wouldn't wake up my older siblings--we all had to share a bed. They never once woke up, and I watched Mach Go Go Go! and Tetsuwan Atom, things like that.
It kinda always made sense to me to be into Anime because I was into video games, and in my childish mind, if I liked video games which mostly came from Japan, then I'd just like Japanese stuff in general.
So...18 years.
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