>>23311322 (OP)back in my day you didn't get in through Gundam, that was fansub only in the USA
I started as a kid on Tranzor (Toeizinger mostly), as a weebling in my teens got into Robotech and got a fansub of DYRL fairly early, then Otaku no Video made a big deal out of this "Char" fella so I got a fansub of CCA figuring his Counterattack would be a good chance to see him doing stuff
but yeah there is a bit of a stereotype of "scifi fan" "robot fan" "gundam fan", like how there's scifi fans and trek fans, who won't touch a thing if it doesn't have the Trek universe attached