This...is anime! |
In the future I will go into more detail about my anime obsession, but for now you will get the condensed version. I am a relative youngster to the anime world. The first show I really saw that I would consider to be an anime would be Digimon. Thanks to a lack of cable/satellite/internet in my household, I didn’t get much more anime then that and the Pokemon VHS tapes I bought for $10. After a couple years, I stopped watching these and got more involved with the “real world” and didn’t watch anything even animation-related save for Sonic X. I know the show isn’t received well but I grew up with Sonic cartoons so I make no apologies.
This...is not anime, but it is epic nonetheless! |
On my blog I mentioned that one of the things that is popular out of Japan is anime and I posted an anime clip from Youtube featuring hilarious moments from shows. After screening it a few times, I decided to give one of the shows on there a shot. That anime was School Rumble and it shattered my past feelings about anime to oblivion. To this day that particular anime holds a special place in my fandom.
Sadly, though, the year was 2008 and a lot of other shows have come before that I missed. On top of that, a lot of great shows were being imported so I got both carried away and overwhelmed at all the series at my disposal. Now I’m host to about 60 different series and still seem to be collecting more. I am not collecting as fast as I used to, but I am still collecting nonetheless.
My preferred anime is neither overly meant for kids and not for adults. I like the ones that are inbetween those two extremes. As far as genre-specific goes, I tend to lean more towards comedy, slice-of-life, and romance ones that may or may not have a twinge of sci-fi in them. I never have cared for the whole mecha-destroy-the-universe-type of series. I also prefer English Dubbed anime instead of Subbed, but I am not above watching Subbed if I am forced to (Do NOT get me started about Hayate the Combat Butler). I also enjoy more modern series than the older series, especially in art style.
So bitter. So so so so bitter. |
Here is what I am planning. I am going to do my best to do at least one post per week, possibly up to three a week depending on my schedule and so forth. My current job and circumstances make it hard to commit to a set schedule, but hopefully soon I will settle in to a nice blogging routine on here and be able to send you guys fairly scheduled content. I hope my enthusiasm for anime (and sometimes manga) shows forth on here and I hope to have some nice discussion and debate from you guys. Again, this will thrive, but it requires more then just myself posting. No comment is dumb (Unless you’re a bot, in which case I will infect you with a virus so bad that it will make all computers in a 10 mile radius sick). So drop me a like to say “hi”, or “nice post”, or “work on your grammar!”.
So until later, I hope you have a nice day and please come back! I will be posting on here soon with a new review of a series that hasn’t been released yet!
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