I am a fan of classic anime of the 1970s. I grew up watching the bastardized American versions of Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers) and four unrelated robot cartoons that were dubbed in English and packaged (along with a space spoof of the Three Musketeers) as Force Five, with a different show telecast on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc. When I was a bit older I watched the bastardized version of Macross, known here as the first generation of Robotech, as well as the other two generations which were completely different shows retconned into the same universe.
In the nineties, most of these series became available on video, at least partially. Out of nostalgia, my friends and I snatched up as much of this stuff as we could. Eventually, I got turned on to the original Japanese versions of Yamato and Macross, which were far superior. I have yet to see the Japanese versions of the later two Robotech generations, but I imagine they are much better than their American counterparts.
I also received a bunch of other videos from my friend that he didn't want his girlfriend to find after they moved in together (not hentai), including The Guyer, MD Geist, Arcadia of My Youth, and Akira, the landmark anime that people who aren't anime fans have probably heard of. Arcadia got me heavily into Captain Harlock (now spelled Herlock) that encouraged me to buy his comic books and subsequent series, except for the abomination that is known as Captain Harlock and the Queen of A Thousand Years, which were two separate series spliced together in order to be made eligible for syndication in U.S. markets. Instead of being a multi-generational series like Robotech, they spliced parts of both series in each episode, where the main characters didn't interact and a narrator explained that they had met off camera, so to speak. Even as a ten-year-old I could tell that something was seriously wrong with this show. They were recently uploaded to YouTube, but I couldn't get past a few episodes. Nostalgia only goes so far.
For whatever reason, I never got into modern anime series, like Cowboy Bebop or anything that was on Toonami or Adult Swim, maybe because I usually worked third shift and never ran into them on my own. I did like Megas XLR for the brief time it was on, because it made references to and parodied old anime I grew up watching, but it has never been released on DVD or BluRay as far as I can tell.