Background info;
The first anime I watched was when my brother borrowed The Imperfect and Semi Perfect Cell sagas, even though it scared the crap out of me, it's the earliest memory of anime I have. I did watch Pokemon now and again, but not regularly enough to remember what happened the previous episode.
I properly got into anime in 2010 when searching around for stuff and came across OreImo, after that I fell in love with the type of medium this entertaining content was. Soon after far preferring it over regular westernised TV content. To this date I've fully completed 36 series of anime, or in other words 829 episodes, but if you count the replays I've done.. 2,197 episodes. I have 5 on watch while another 23 anime series on hold or on queue to be watched. So if you don't count the times I watched anime as a kid, 4 years I've been watching anime for.
Favourite Character;
This is quite the hard one since I have a few who are absolutely 10/10 characters like Tomoya Okazaki, Kyouseku Kousaka and my waifu Nagisa Furukawa. However, the one I can someone relate to the best and who I love the character design and personality a whole lot more than the rest is who my profile image is based off, Araragi Koyomi from the Monogatari series.
Favourite Genre;
A question I'm asked a lot by people but honestly I have none, I just enjoy watching what I find interesting enough. Though thinking about it, it's generally romance/comedy or fantasy/action. Examples would be Clannad/Clannad ~AfterStory~, Shingeki no Kyojin, Monogatari, DragonBallZ, OreImo and Toradora!. So while I don't generally go searching anime by certain genre, they end up being similar, guess that's just the luck of the draw.