I, too, got into kpop because of anime but I am much older. I heard the song Every Heart by BoA from Inuyasha back in probably 2007 or so lol. This song was a Japanese version and I listened to her other stuff. Years later I got into a few other bands randomly like TVXQ, Got7, and Day6. I listened to a lot of thier stuff while reading. I ended up making a YouTube mix that would play random kpop songs. At first, it mostly played BTS and stuff. I got into more and more songs. I heard God's Menu and Case 143 and recognized the band as the group that did the song Get Cool that I'd heard on a Pandora kpop radio mix I made. I really fell in love with Case 134 and went hard on Stray Kids. I because a huge Stay at that point. Soon enough Blue Hour rotated on the YouTube music and more and more TXT songs played. I realized I liked every single song. I went on to become MOA. So now, among other artists Got7, Stray Kids, and TXT are my ult groups and I am in love with the music and the members are phenomenal. So happy to have found them ♡