I remember watching Pokemon and dragon ball, even one piece later on and thinking, these shows are more entertaining and better put together then most live action films, so I was hooked. Always loved cartoons and anime, still do, the more stupid, messed-up and dangerous it is the better, though I still need some degree of realisim.
Cause I live in Aussie, everything comes out alot later so I'm not able to watch them on Tv.
Still I can't seem to get enough of them, especially the stuff for older people.
P.S. In Aussie there was no anime, it was all called cartoons, no matter what, so it was hard to tell what was and wasn't at first (i swear i can tell the difference).