1st Stage, kinda thought one of the shows was cool, watched it in English.
2nd Stage, seen a few shows, looking for some interesting titles. (still watches in English, thinks the Japanese voices are funny)
3rd Stage, Watched first Fansub series, subbed, kinda got used to the Japanese voices but looking for them in English still
4th Stage Seen a few fan subs, no longer care if its in English, starting to progressively hunt more titles and hunting information on the net such as wallpapers theme songs and forums (like this one)
5th Stage, starting to watch a notice English voice dubs really suck, and, actually annoy you. Starting to listen to Japanese theme music to much and use some standard Jap words in own language, (baka) (me a few months ago)
6th, evolution, Watch entirely too much anime, listen to Japanese music, hunt down all things to do with anime, progressed to eating with chop sticks, ponder relationship with anime characters and lose interest in most Wester Television. (that’s me

7th Evolution, Learning Japanese, only listens o Japanese music, obsesses over everything from Japan. Wants to move to Japan. Only can converse with people at stages 4 and up. Lost interest in everything beside anime. (few guys I know, they are crazy but I can get fan subs of them.)
Fondly enough, Australians I met haven’t gone too far, I’ve met people who are at stage 4 but crazy enough to believe the world is about to end in 2nd impact and they will be resurrected as a main character of a popular anime series

Why post this? Curious to see where other people are at, what stages they know of, what obsessive people they met.
Seems a little more interesting then ‘the (enter useless field here) character of all anime’