My first anime was Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato and from then on, it was downhill from there. That is, until I saw (not the whole series mind you) a couple episodes of Robotech. From the moment I saw my first glimpse of a transformable airplane, I knew it was a cool series and wanted to know more, and my friends had a lot more knowledge than I did about where Robotech came from. The Palladium RPG was where I first learned about Macross. I guess the only trouble was, there was just a book for me to read that discussed the series, since they stopped showing Robotech ages ago.
Fast forward about 14 years, and I'm in the anime section at Best Buy, looking for an anime series and there is Super Dimension Fortress Macross, newly dubbed calling out for me to buy it. In the intervening years I had been exposed to many different anime series, hoping that someday I'd be able to watch SDF:Macross in its unedited form, not wanting to settle for Robotech's version. In that time I started watching Akira, Cowboy Bebop, Fullmetal Alchemist and my admitted guilty pleasure, InuYasha. I also enjoy Neon Genesis Evangelion...as a matter of fact, that's the DVD set I was looking for at Best Buy when I discovered SDF:Macross on the shelf. So I guess you could say I've been lead back into the fold (no pun intended) by a series some of y'all hate
Now that I've seen the first six episodes...I want more! I read some of you guys don't like the dub, but since Fullmetal Alchemist is ending soon, its good that my buddy Edward Elric gets a new life as Hikaru Ichijo.