Postby GeneD » Fri Sep 13, 2013 10:24 am
About 10 years I think, starting somewhere in 2003, although not as consistently from the start as I'd have liked since anime was hard to get hold of. I also had major anime burn out where I watched next to nothing for a little over a year in 2011/2012, but I've been making up for it excessively ever since.
There’s no way I can pick just one memorable anime moment, so here follows a brief history of GeneD and anime:
- Dirty Pair Flash, marathon-ing it on the Sci Fi channel late into the night/morning when I was still very new to anime. To this day the high school ghost episode gives me the creeps whenever I think about it. I should totally go re-visit my roots and watch the whole OAV series sometime.
- Unsuspectingly watching part of Perfect Blue at a slumber party at a friend's house. "Mmm we wonder why this is rated 16 (or 18 can't remember), it's a cartoon so it can't be that bad can it?" Oh you poor naive little children (we were in high school, but still). Needless to say it's absolutely hilarious in hindsight, but I have yet to finish the whole film.
- Death Note, because it got me out of the Bleach rut, as in, there are things much better than Bleach, go watch those.
- Spirited Away, the only anime I watched with my whole family.
- Watching almost everything, quality or not, that aired on Animax because the Sci Fi channel had been cancelled years before and now anime was back on TV and it was amazing. Related to that, getting my mom to watch a random episode of Gundam SEED near the end of the series because I was going to miss it that day and needed to know what happened. She took notes.
- Watching Sword of the Stranger and Tokyo Godfather with my friends during a hectic thunderstorm at my house and praying to God my computer doesn't explode. Thankfully, it did not.
- Birdy the Mighty Decode, while I don't think I actually watched this streaming, can't quite remember, it was the discussion of the series on the CAA Radio podcast that made me realise there were actually shows on Crunchyroll/Funimation's Youtube that were licensed for my region, thus starting the streaming era.
- Mononoke, watching it with Mr. Hat'n'Clogs' CAA Let's Watch effectively broke my anime drought.
- Making an active effort ever since then to watch good things and finding all kinds of lovely works like Tsuritama, Hyouka, Ouran, Natsume, Princess Tutu, Library War, Kids on the Slope, Rainbow... and the list marches on.