User blog comment:OnePieceNation/2011 Episode Summaries/@comment-4783583-20131023141727/@comment-4783583-20131025111328

Bought them online, two volumes at a time over a period of 3 years.

I personally got kind of late into anime and manga (when I was 17, I am now 21). I first got fed up with TV (perfectly fine shows being cancelled, time slot moved, not continued when a new season comes out etc.) and is just started watching tv shows online, then suddenly I had a bit of a nostaligia rush and I went looking for all my favorite cartoons when growing up Sailormoon, Digimon, Medabots, Yu-Gi-Oh,  Card Captor Sakura etc. and then I suddenly was made aware that all my favorite cartoons weren't cartoons but they were anime and suddenly an entite new world had opened up for me and since that point I have been busy watching many anime and hunter x hunter the 1999 series was probably like the 15th series I ever saw. I am now at nearly 700 pieces of individual anime seen:

http://myanimelist.net/animelist/OnePieceNation