Like most I technically started with the Pokemon anime but since that was the Cartoon Network dub I don't count it. So my actually start was at a 8th grade birthday party for my friend James where he showed me SAO. The death gun arc had just wrapped up so that night he showed me all of the Aincrad arc and about half of the Fairy Dance. I was so hyped that wen I got home I watched the rest of Fairy Dance and all of Death Gun. From there it was a pretty slow drip... watched over the course of a couple years all of the mainstream shows (Attack on Titan, Death Note, etc) while regretting that my first was SAO. But then last Nov I got into the seasonal anime game and I havent had a life sense.