It was a hot summer afternoon. I must have been around four at the time.
I was bored out of my mind and my cursed hippy parents wouldn't let me watch regular television. Supposedly it was to violent. HA! My father, however, was already knee deep in the illegal fan subbing business.
He was always watching some anime or another but up to that point I had never cared.
That day as I stepped through the front door, lo and behold, a women in some sort of enhancing suit was beating the shit out of a giant cyborg man to the rhythem of an 80's rock song on my tv.
The year was 1994. The anime was Bubblegum Crisis.
I was never the same again.