U2R writes:

<< 
hmm it all started waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in 
early 80's with those great anime Voltron, Starblazers, Robotech, Voltron 2, 
and all the otehr horiibly dubbed kickin anime of the period(course i didna 
know it was japanese at the time but i'm setting the pace of my life here)
enter Transformers the show that literally shaped a generation into 
animeholics exit cash from my young wallet >>

			I started the same way you did and the big series for 
me were Voltron (I have still have both complete set of robots) and Robotech 
(I only have vague memories of watching Robotech when I was younger though) I 
am working at a camp this summer and a lot of the kids are really into 
Pokemon (a series I still have not seen) The most important things is that 
the kids actually know Pokemon comes from Japan. Many of them have Japanese 
Pokemon cards so I think that we have a good chance of Otakuzing a decent 
part of the younger generations.