Lagomorph
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How did you get into anime/manga? Did you just always love it or was your story more like mine?
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For 16 years (since seeing Ninja Scroll at 10 years old lolrapescene) I had tried watching anime a bunch of times in the past and never really liked any of it. Studio Gibli stuff was OK, but was basically just Disney - popular shonen stuff like naruto, trigun, fullmetal alchemist, etc. seemed too childish - too similar to regular old american boy's TV shows already out there. I watched other animes like Ninja Scroll, Akira, and Cowboy Beebop, but I found them distastefully gory and ugly. I thought that anime just wasn't for me - and I didn't 'get' other's fascination with it.
Then one day I turned on a random anime on Netflix by chance, just out of curiosity...and discovered the ecchi fantasy anime Rosario + Vampire. It was the lightehearted fun and kawaii of Studio Gibli, the excitement and imagination of shonen pulp, and the fanservice/adult themes of explicit animes I had seen (without being explicit itself). I had no idea such stuff existed!! So now I am totally hooked and love anime and manga!
I have always loved Japanese culture, listened to J-pop, tried learning some Japanese, but up until 2012, never got into anime.
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For 16 years (since seeing Ninja Scroll at 10 years old lolrapescene) I had tried watching anime a bunch of times in the past and never really liked any of it. Studio Gibli stuff was OK, but was basically just Disney - popular shonen stuff like naruto, trigun, fullmetal alchemist, etc. seemed too childish - too similar to regular old american boy's TV shows already out there. I watched other animes like Ninja Scroll, Akira, and Cowboy Beebop, but I found them distastefully gory and ugly. I thought that anime just wasn't for me - and I didn't 'get' other's fascination with it.
Then one day I turned on a random anime on Netflix by chance, just out of curiosity...and discovered the ecchi fantasy anime Rosario + Vampire. It was the lightehearted fun and kawaii of Studio Gibli, the excitement and imagination of shonen pulp, and the fanservice/adult themes of explicit animes I had seen (without being explicit itself). I had no idea such stuff existed!! So now I am totally hooked and love anime and manga!
I have always loved Japanese culture, listened to J-pop, tried learning some Japanese, but up until 2012, never got into anime.