I joined the fandom around early September 2011, I came across it while looking up Castlevania related things and found a crossover thing last called Ponyvania: Symphony of Nightmare Moon (I believe it had a different name when I found it), which had audio dialogue from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night mixed with scenes from Season 1 of the show. Unfortunately I went to check for it to link it here but it's no longer available. While watching that video I wasn't sure what show it was using the clips from, looked into it and eventually found out what it was, started watching and got hooked!