I had seen a programme on TV (that cool Japanorama with Jonathan Ross) and it had clips from Ghost in the Shell and Akira, and me and a mate of mine (who was already kinda into anime) just decided to buy a dvd each and lend each other what we bought, he got Akira and I got GitS. After that I bought a few DVD movies like Perfect Blue, Street Fighter (the first one) etc while I borrowed other stuff like Blood: The Last Vampire.

I got into anime series through Street Fighter 2v...then once I found GitS:SAC (on gotwoot.net back when it was on this site) I was getting into anime more. I don't really get anything else off gotwoot anymore since they stopped putting the AonE (or whoever it was) subs up...I tried Naruto once but I really didn't like it that much (it surprised me when I found out just how popular it was)...then I downloaded an ep of Paranoia Agent and never even bothered to watch it (I ran the first minute of it and hated the artwork of it...then probably got distracted by something shiny). I started reading manga probably about a year ago (roughly...I can't remember when I started) after I found an ebay auction which offered Akira (plus other stuff like the first book of Appleseed, Dominion and Bubblegum Crisis etc) for less than a tenner...I wasn't really into 'comics' at all so I had never thought about reading manga, I just wanted to see more to the story of Akira...now I buy a fair bit of it...