I saw a gif of Sivil on September 15th, 2017. I thought she looked breathtakingly gorgeous, and looked up what show she was from. This put macross 7 on my radar for the first time, but it was months before I actually checked it out.
Step 2: MEMES
A post about the leaf meme appeared in my tumblr dashboard on 30th of January 2018. It gave a quick summary about Macross 7 and recommended it in the most appealing way possible. I still haven't checked out the show, but my interest in it grew.
Step 3: MUSIC
I looked up the intro after that post, and I absolutely LOVED it. I continued to look up more and more Fire Bomber music, until eventually I found all the albums and downloaded all the songs before I started buying physical CDs, because I couldn't get enough of this amazing music. It was the first time in my life when i got into non-English or non-Slovenian music this non-casually. By the time March rolled around I was already into it HARDCORE.
Step 4: ANIME
20th of April - Hey so uh maybe I should actually watch this show?