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I miss the old times where I love everything I watched. I remember loving everything I see. I didn't care for genres, cinematography, writing, characters, shiny animations. I simply had no tastes and I miss those times. I miss the time when I liked SAO.
Back when there were no such thing as watch lists, I just picked up anything on Animax at the time cause I didn't have wifi yet. It started with Danganronpa s1, didn't watch it cause coincidentally a few of my female classmates are a huge fan of Fairy Tail and my kidbrain associated "anime are only for girls". However, the pretty pictures and strange language were enough to keep my curiosity going to the point that I'd sneak glances at the channel when my parents weren't around as if it was some kind of porn. Eventually when no one was at my living room, I spent a good 30 mins (curse you advertisements!) to watch an episode of whatever is currently airing: Nisekoi... episode 4. Yeah I didn't even start from the beginning cause the schedule didn't allign. But this was the catalyst that got me to stick to the TV and defeated my embarrassment of whatching Japanese cartoons in front of my parents.
Now that I think about it, Nisekoi isn't even the first anime that I watched; it's Deltora Quest. It was airing on Toonami for a while then my dad noticed and downloaded the entire dubbed series. Ironic considering that I'm full-sub now. Loved the show to bits, a great shounen show for children.
Streaming - the moment I realize that anime shouldn't be constrained to a small box in the living room I had an epiphany. (Whoops I went on a tangent here)
I've been watching plenty of anime at this point to realize - not really - what is good and what is bad. Guess what my teenbrain thought: "whatever is famous must be good otherwise they would never be famous." "Sword Art Online!" Lol no the first anime I watched on the internet was My Hero Academia. I kept awaiting the next time I get to be online with my dad's laptop just to watch the next episode.
Eventually my world widened even more when I notice the small button labeled as "download" on the site I use... Oh man my dad's laptop was filling up so fast. I even developed a stable system to download anime in my wifi-less home. First, I download a CRAP TON of episodes using the school wifi cause they were unfortunate enough to not ban anime sites; I found this out cause my junior next to me was binging some kind of basketball anime. I downloaded them on thelaptop (Edit: I meant school computer), transfered them to my USB which supports 16 GB (about 10 after I accidentally left it in the washing machine, maybe) then transfer them to my dad's laptop. I remember going home from a day of school, after having 6-18 episodes downloaded during the break time of my schedule, plugging the USB in, initiate the exodus of files, leave it for five minutes while I change, and then once everything is successfully moved I clean my USB and then next day I erased the evidence from my school laptop - this happened every single day for about one semester, the laptop has plenty of room inside it.
I had plenty of pleasant memories with that laptop - which is now broken. So many great things were viewed there, each with their own story to tell.
Angel Beats was the first sad anime I watched. I didn't watch that last episode for a couple weeks cause I know that it was going to end tragically. Every single second of that last episode was burnt into my memory. I was so excited going in cause I found out that it was directed by the same person who made Charlotte possible - one of my fav animes that I watched on Animax, and still is off all time until now, also it apparantly has a higher score on MAL. But I left the series being absolutely heartbroken by the story. I wanted them to have a happy ending,
wasn't what I had in mind but it was such a perfect ending that I can't complain. My only wish was that
they use that to extend the series into a two-cour.
I've also seen Parasyte on Animax, which was my first "dark" anime. No actually if you count edgy as being dark, make that Brynhilder in the Darkness which I also saw on Animax. Anyways, I found out that Madoka Magica was apparantly also "dark" - but unexpectedly. Well, yeah it turned unexpectedly dark and I loved binging every episode lol. My only regret was that I didn't appreciate it enough since I didn't have any taste and didn't pick up on the minute details the author dropped in my first viewing. I didn't appreciate the highs enough because I didn't know the lows, basically.
Well this is super evident when I saw SAO. I love everything, even the Fairy Dance arc which apparantly everyone hates. However, I wasn't that stupid to know that the Excalibur arc was just an utter waste of time. Like, it made no character or plot progression and the plot of the arc itself ends so unsatisfyingly. But I was surprised when I saw Mother's Rosario arc. After my mouth was dirtied by Excalibur, I was pleased by the sweet story of this arc. There was no fanservice, no power building, no deep conspiracy - just great character interactions. To this day it stands to be my favourite SAO arc, maybe even surpassing the, at time of writing, ongoing Alicization arc. I was super happy when I noticed the reference to Mother's Rosario at the final battle of the Ordinal Scale movie. The story of that arc touched me unlike any other SAO arcs had,
made me far more emotional than any other's in the series thus far, and yes I mean even the first half of Alicization. In my book, if Kawahara fail to make me as emotionally invested as I was in Mother's Rosario, he still have a lot of room to improve. I still use the Mother's Rosario arc as part of my huge mentak library of references for good character writing - that's how highly I hold it.
Oh yeah and I also wasted four hours watching School Days just to see what all the controversy is about. At first I was bored to death, pushing just to see the next episode. As I got to the middle, I was pushed, not by great writing, but by how ridiculously idiotic the characters are. I just wanted to know if it can get worst, and by the time I reached the ending... Oh yeah it definitely gets even worst.
Also watched Haruhi on the laptop before it died. I made it pass the Endless Eight then took a break as an excuse for dropping the series in On Hold Hell. Still planning to pick it back up... just like how I plan to do that for Future Diary, Plastic Memories, and so many more...
Re: Zero was my first isekai anime, saw it on Animax. It's also the only series I've ever rewatched simply cause Animax isn't airing anything new. This quickly turns my eyes towards Grimgar: Ashes and Illusion, Overlord, Saga of Tanya the Evil, KonoSuba, etc, etc, etc, so many isekais which aren't trash (jk these are great).
But then there's also the reverse isekai genre (subgenre? Subsubgenre?) Was first introduced to this when I saw Devil is a Part-Timer, love the showand the oppai loli which I think is legal is kinda cute but the real deal drops when I saw Re: Creators. That show was beautiful. Like, forget all my praises for SAO Mother's Rosario, this takes great charactership and turns it up to 11. In fact, I kind of written a short essay about a the philosophy of Re:Creators in my opinion which I just forgot to upload. I'll do the final edits and post it here soon. There were so many goosebumps. I actually plan to extend my watch time by not watching the final episode for a week like I did in Angel Beats but I couldn't since the last third of the anime was literally the entire final battle! Of course I had to keep binging. The ending was so great... All of the cast are in my huge mental library of references for good character writing.
But I kinda came into a problem. Last semester break, I spent my first week finally binging Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, then another on Gurren Lagann. Then, that's it? Do I have to wait every season for another hidden gem like Land of the Lustrous? I mean, I know that there are plenty of great titles out there, I haven't even seen No Game No Life primarily cause I don't want to join the rest of you waiting eternally for a season 2 that may or may never come but also because I'm saving it for when I'm feeling down and need something I can guarantee to be good and binge. I'm also giving the same treatment to Anohana.
This feeling is what made me inspired to write, cause I'm tired of waiting for masterpieces to come that I want to train myself to create a masterpiece myself, well that is if I ever stop procrastinating.
Anyway this isn't about my passion, I just wanted to talk about my history of when I dipped my toe in the huge stream that is the anime world. I was feeling down earlier so I thought reminiscing for the hour and the half I took to type all this down will help lift my spirits up. What about all you, people?
Back when there were no such thing as watch lists, I just picked up anything on Animax at the time cause I didn't have wifi yet. It started with Danganronpa s1, didn't watch it cause coincidentally a few of my female classmates are a huge fan of Fairy Tail and my kidbrain associated "anime are only for girls". However, the pretty pictures and strange language were enough to keep my curiosity going to the point that I'd sneak glances at the channel when my parents weren't around as if it was some kind of porn. Eventually when no one was at my living room, I spent a good 30 mins (curse you advertisements!) to watch an episode of whatever is currently airing: Nisekoi... episode 4. Yeah I didn't even start from the beginning cause the schedule didn't allign. But this was the catalyst that got me to stick to the TV and defeated my embarrassment of whatching Japanese cartoons in front of my parents.
Now that I think about it, Nisekoi isn't even the first anime that I watched; it's Deltora Quest. It was airing on Toonami for a while then my dad noticed and downloaded the entire dubbed series. Ironic considering that I'm full-sub now. Loved the show to bits, a great shounen show for children.
Streaming - the moment I realize that anime shouldn't be constrained to a small box in the living room I had an epiphany. (Whoops I went on a tangent here)
I did a bit of research beforehand and narrowed down my options to Gogoanimehub, 9anime, Animeheaven, and KissAnime (thank goodness I didn't pick this). Animeheaven was the chosen one... RIP it's dead now. That's basically why it was so close to my heart that I made a thread in the news section.
Eventually my world widened even more when I notice the small button labeled as "download" on the site I use... Oh man my dad's laptop was filling up so fast. I even developed a stable system to download anime in my wifi-less home. First, I download a CRAP TON of episodes using the school wifi cause they were unfortunate enough to not ban anime sites; I found this out cause my junior next to me was binging some kind of basketball anime. I downloaded them on the
I had plenty of pleasant memories with that laptop - which is now broken. So many great things were viewed there, each with their own story to tell.
Angel Beats was the first sad anime I watched. I didn't watch that last episode for a couple weeks cause I know that it was going to end tragically. Every single second of that last episode was burnt into my memory. I was so excited going in cause I found out that it was directed by the same person who made Charlotte possible - one of my fav animes that I watched on Animax, and still is off all time until now, also it apparantly has a higher score on MAL. But I left the series being absolutely heartbroken by the story. I wanted them to have a happy ending,
their souls finally getting to finally rest
instead of time skipping with a coma
I've also seen Parasyte on Animax, which was my first "dark" anime. No actually if you count edgy as being dark, make that Brynhilder in the Darkness which I also saw on Animax. Anyways, I found out that Madoka Magica was apparantly also "dark" - but unexpectedly. Well, yeah it turned unexpectedly dark and I loved binging every episode lol. My only regret was that I didn't appreciate it enough since I didn't have any taste and didn't pick up on the minute details the author dropped in my first viewing. I didn't appreciate the highs enough because I didn't know the lows, basically.
Well this is super evident when I saw SAO. I love everything, even the Fairy Dance arc which apparantly everyone hates. However, I wasn't that stupid to know that the Excalibur arc was just an utter waste of time. Like, it made no character or plot progression and the plot of the arc itself ends so unsatisfyingly. But I was surprised when I saw Mother's Rosario arc. After my mouth was dirtied by Excalibur, I was pleased by the sweet story of this arc. There was no fanservice, no power building, no deep conspiracy - just great character interactions. To this day it stands to be my favourite SAO arc, maybe even surpassing the, at time of writing, ongoing Alicization arc. I was super happy when I noticed the reference to Mother's Rosario at the final battle of the Ordinal Scale movie. The story of that arc touched me unlike any other SAO arcs had,
Yuuki's death
Oh yeah and I also wasted four hours watching School Days just to see what all the controversy is about. At first I was bored to death, pushing just to see the next episode. As I got to the middle, I was pushed, not by great writing, but by how ridiculously idiotic the characters are. I just wanted to know if it can get worst, and by the time I reached the ending... Oh yeah it definitely gets even worst.
Also watched Haruhi on the laptop before it died. I made it pass the Endless Eight then took a break as an excuse for dropping the series in On Hold Hell. Still planning to pick it back up... just like how I plan to do that for Future Diary, Plastic Memories, and so many more...
Re: Zero was my first isekai anime, saw it on Animax. It's also the only series I've ever rewatched simply cause Animax isn't airing anything new. This quickly turns my eyes towards Grimgar: Ashes and Illusion, Overlord, Saga of Tanya the Evil, KonoSuba, etc, etc, etc, so many isekais which aren't trash (jk these are great).
But then there's also the reverse isekai genre (subgenre? Subsubgenre?) Was first introduced to this when I saw Devil is a Part-Timer, love the show
But I kinda came into a problem. Last semester break, I spent my first week finally binging Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, then another on Gurren Lagann. Then, that's it? Do I have to wait every season for another hidden gem like Land of the Lustrous? I mean, I know that there are plenty of great titles out there, I haven't even seen No Game No Life primarily cause I don't want to join the rest of you waiting eternally for a season 2 that may or may never come but also because I'm saving it for when I'm feeling down and need something I can guarantee to be good and binge. I'm also giving the same treatment to Anohana.
This feeling is what made me inspired to write, cause I'm tired of waiting for masterpieces to come that I want to train myself to create a masterpiece myself, well that is if I ever stop procrastinating.
Anyway this isn't about my passion, I just wanted to talk about my history of when I dipped my toe in the huge stream that is the anime world. I was feeling down earlier so I thought reminiscing for the hour and the half I took to type all this down will help lift my spirits up. What about all you, people?
