It was an usual day for me, browsing obscure websites to find some exotic stuff, until i stumbled upon a soundless clip of the fight between Shiki and Souren, the emotion was so unbelievably intense i stopped the clip and decided to watch KnK movies. Little did i know how intellectual it was, Aozaki made me say for the first time "I understood every word of the sentence, yet i don't get it.". For the first time, i had to take pen and paper while rewatching some parts, realizing how deep and concrete was the worldbuilding.
And then, while reading the fandom page (didnt know it was low quality back then) about the blond puppeteer, it appeared this guy had a cameo in Fate Zero, watched 6 years ago. This anime i considered as "top quality advertisement for a gacha", was actually the sequel albeit prequel of a very big franchise. Many voices were saying the VN was better than the multiples anime, but my version was so obsolete i searched a patch, and this was on BL.
Kinda more a story upon getting into BL rather than TM, but in my view BL is the true core of TM, so getting into TM implies reaching BL at one point.
A friend showed me the Excalibur scene from Zero. I don't think that's what convinced me to watch Zero though, I think I just wanted to have something to talk about with my new friend. So I started with Zero. However, I quickly understood while watching Stay Night right after that I had watched things in the wrong order, so now I'm a SN->Zero apologist. Now I've watched everything there is to watch. I've been playing GO NA since 2 months after release and read a bunch of the manga, as well as the visual novels.