Used to watch morning anime as a kid; pokemon, db, dbz, naruto, when I was in high school I picked up TTGL after watching a YT AMD. It was pretty good, so I talked to some guys and they directed me to a lot of stuff.
Downloaded maybe 30 series and watched them. A while later I noticed all the K-On hype here, so I watched that, since then I pretty much just pick 20 or so series every season, and in between try grab a few older series too.
Actually when I watched TTGL I was already reading a lot of manga because it's easy to do on the bus or in class.