hello. Today's post will not be a review. Today I'm talking about how I got into anime and manga. So let's start at the beginning, so...about four years ago.
When I was in seventh grade my next door neighbour was really into manga. More specifically, Naruto. As in, the anime/manga (I didn't know the difference at the time...) I used to think wasn't anime at all. Mostly because I's a shonen series, so...without the big eyes like in shojo manga. Anyway, she would draw the most beautiful art ever. I love art, so naturally I tried to copy her style (It was all mostly Harry Potter fan art for me back then) because I found it so beautiful!
One day, she loaned me a copy of "Tokyo Mew Mew A La Mode". It was difficult for me to read, since I couldn't get over the fact that IT WAS BACKWARDZZ! I didn't find it very interesting because it was confusing to read. But the art was beautiful! Of course, back then I thought it was the best thing since sliced cheese.
Six months later, in eighth grade I moved away and went to a new school. At the schoolastic book fair, I noticed something odd. They happened to be selling several copies of different manga! I thought "Hey! This is the stuff that my friend showed me last year!" so I decided to buy "kitchen princess volume 1". THAT, ladies and gentlemen, was the first manga I ever bought. I went home and read it twice (because I was still getting used to the whole backwards thing) and LOVED it. I went back the next day and bought "time guardian volume 1" and read it over the course of the whole day (what? pay attention in class? blasphemy!). The next day I bought "Translucent" volume 1. I was hooked. Then I started buying manga at the bookstores. Then I subscribed to "Shojo Beat magazine".
Now, looking back I realize that the first three manga I bought are most certainly not the best I've read. But back then I thought they were the best thing in the world! I still go back to Kitchen Princess and reminisce.
Then I started watching anime.. the first anime I watched was "Tokyo Mew Mew". Then it was "Fruits Basket" (which I watched in one sitting on YouTube).
Then, around Christmas 2008 or whatever I started watching Naruto, upon learning that it really was anime! I entered this phase of "being obsessed with Naruto". I bought the manga. I bought posterbooks. Then...
I discovered yaoi. I became a regular yaoi fangirl. I shipped EVERYTHING Naruto related. Yes, I read yaoi lemons on Fanfiction . net. Something I rather regret now that I think about it...anyway. After a few months I grew out of my Naruto phase and my yaoi phase. I occasionally read yaoi, but never the lemons. (don't ask me how a lesbian can possibly read yaoi and like it. It's not like I get off on it, it's just entertaining to read and laugh at it). Then I got into Fullmetal Alchemist. No yaoi there...but I did read EdwardxWinry fanfiction. No lemons.
And it went on from there. I slowly delved into the madness that is anime and manga fandom.
Then came video games. I recently got into video games within the last three or four months. Zelda. Final Fantasy. Kingdom Hearts. Mirror's Edge. the list goes on.
So it's been about three years since I got into all this. I've grown up a lot since then. I'm currently obsessed with Death Note (again, because the first two times I watched it I couldn't wrap my head around the plot). I used to think that Naruto was all big and bad because of the "cursing" and the "violence". ha ha! I compare that to some of the stuff I watch now ...
So anyway, that's a little bit of my background. Hopefully I'll be back with more anime rants and reviews
-Awesome Alex
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