I'm sure everyone watched an anime or two on TV when they were little, and I'm also sure a lot of people didn't even register the origin of the show.
As for me, when I was around 13 I started reading the manga of DBZ on my own because I heard the anime was horrendous compared to it, and DBZ being basically half my childhood I was interested. That pretty much got me into contact with manga and made me aware of the japanese origin of these shows.
After that I just jumped from show to show, first I read the big 3, then I started watching less mainstream anime, and when I wanted to realize it I was already watching anime seasonally.
I still have a fuckhuge backlog though.
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