I got into anime by .... Hentai
I had already decided that the shows aired at child friendly times sucked (Pokemon and the likes).
When I stumbled upon some hentai pics.. I got quick an nice collection (transferred with disks) of pics and got interrested in movies. Downloading them at this time was hopeless so I scanned the TV programms...
And there it was AnimeNight at Vox (German channel) from 0-5.50 AM
At O o'clock you can show nearly anything in Germany Tv

so figured it would be an hentai.
Luckily it wasn't, it were some Bubblegum Crises episodes and a Armitage III Movie all of them subbed, which was very good, I get to this point later.
Well I was kinda hooked from this point on, and got in the habit of watching DBZ (dubbed) everyday (I even then thought it sucked, but compared to other shows aired in Germany it was premium-class).
Now I get my weekly Anime from MTV Germany they just started Bebop.
Why it is good that my first anime was subbed :
I've seen an dubbed version of Armitage III recently I was horrified it was horribble, Armitage sounded like one of these Crossdressing BodyBuilders from Project A-Ko
Bebop is dubbed too, but MTV has done a good job even with the soundtrack.