I was just thinking about what got me into different things like anime/ games/ comics etc and thought it would be fun to see what brought others into the fold. For me it was
Anime: Princess Mononoke, saw it when I was 10? And it completely floored me with the art style, story, and lore. Still my favorite anime movie to this day.
Video games: Sega Genesis/ sonic the hedgehog and altered beast with my older brother were great times when I was little and got me into gaming.
Comics: Spider-Man and X-men on fox kids in the 90s and Spawn in 97. My first official comic/ graphic novel was Wolverine: Origin
"Anime" - Kimba, the White Lion. My mom would bitch about the low quality animation (she did so about Filmation stuff, too), but the stories and characters were awesome, and it even featured actual character death (the saddest was probably an old turtle.) And I swear I remember an episode called Magic Mask, about a black shamanistic leader of a bunch of African native poachers. He gets shot in the end by a (white) Ranger who was trying to explain to him that the day of the hunter-gatherer is OVER. (People farm. Animals hunt.) Anyway, Osamu Tezuka was about the ONLY Japanese animator I remember as a kid. But I mean, who didn't grow up with Saturday morning cartoons? Or cartoons in general? It would have been gauche back then to give different terms to media just on account of who made it/where it was from. Otherwise, yeah, Disney movies and old Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies and the like. Sunday nights were for The Wonderful World of Disney.
Comics: Grew up with Gold Key comics. WW2 comics (mostly Sgt Rock and Weird War Tales, but I did have the final issue of The Unknown Solider, damnit) the last of the tamed horror comics like House of Mystery or Dark Shadows, Star Trek, there used to be a UFO comic, etc. As well as, of course, Uncle $crooge and Donald Duck comics, and other Disney fare. There was SO much more than capeshit back then.
Video Games: Well, Space Invaders. But when I really started digging on games was when I got a PC in the 90s and discovered there was more than arcade-style stuff, like Dungeon Hack, SimEarth, and Civ. But what really spun my pin was the original Diablo, and Myst. Omg, Myst.