User blog comment:Ultraprime2/The Fairy Tail Wiki Podcast Reunion/@comment-7716957-20160208174335/@comment-4829046-20160209070032

"I started with FMAB and FT anime around the same time"

O_O Same here Fi! Ironically, both were recommended to me by the same person. Even greater irony is that I knew more about FMA than him by the time the manga ended. Oh and he hates the guts out of FT now :P Funny how life works. You are brought into a series by someone more experienced, but eventually become the person that continued to avidly follow it ^__^" Same principle with Bleach and One Piece, though avidly is a stretch for those.

At least I can gladly say that I loved Naruto and Attack on Titan before I even knew they were popular and would become a common topic among my friends. I honestly never expected those series to get so big, given the preferred genres of the generations of those times. I mean, during Naruto's era, many were obsessed with sci-fi with modern or future settings(I can still remember the GUNZ RULE! mentality >_>) and during AoT era, no one was into seeing animated cannibalism but the respective series somehow made it into mainstream and pretty much became the face of anime for the particular period. FMA still transcends time periods though ;P I wish it were the same case for RAVE but FT generally takes precedence over it unfortunately.