2. Forget what your friends will think. It's so worth getting into it, even if you avoid the whole "fandom" part of it (like I do). I thought it looked stupid as hell too, until my friend forced me to watch the first DVD last year. A week after that, I'd bought every other volume available at that time and watched them.

10. Right on! Toonami was how I found out about most of the original anime series I was interested in, and I don't care what crap anyone has to say about it. If it wasn't for Toonami, I never would've known about most of them OR the ones I got into because I saw them mentioned on websites about those same shows.