I guess my journal, my choice of topic
Firstly, I don’t know how Live Journal exactly works. All I know is that I was allowed to create a journal where I can write whatever I want (as long as it complies with LJ regulations). I did not get any visitors, yet, because the LJ is so huge and it may also be due to the fact that I gave none of my friends the address. (: p) . After I realised this, I know now this is sort of a sanctuary for me, where I can write my feeling and thoughts on certain subjects that I have interests in.
So far, I am fascinated by anime and manga because I am quite new to it - (well, I did start watching it more regularly this year - 2005 -). Actually, it’s quite interesting how I started with this ‘new addiction’, anime and later on manga. It all started with Dragon Ball Z - cartoon network version - (I live in London, England, therefore anime is quite foreign) and it grabbed my attention, this was animation taken to the next level, in case of the fight scenes and the detailed drawing of the characters. This was a new experience for me, because usually other animation didn’t come close. So, I just laid back and watched the CN version (later on I would find out there were scene and certain themes of the anime cut out - “Art has no enemy but ignorance” ), but then the day of reckoning has come upon, a friend of mine (known her since I was 11, now 19yrs old) passed me a CD recordable with three different animes burnt to it and the reason for that was due to my constant complaining of DBZ lack of adult themes and silly dialogues (the English version). I still have that CD and the contents were the original (Japanese version) first episodes of D.N.Angel; Chobits; and Blue Gender. I instantly fell in love with D.N.Angel and laughed my way through the whole episode of Chobits. The other was just not in my taste. Therefore, after that I started ravaging through the Net for the other episodes, sadly, I was too late, they were licensed. But, due to my search, I came across AnimeSuki website when I downloaded Bittorrent and ‘lo and behold’ there was Naruto, but being the fool that I am (sometimes that is - other times I am just to lazy to be bothered) I left it and went on to download Gundam Seed Destiny (I was to late for Gundam Seed, it was licensed). While I was in this Gundam Shrine, I think, or website, I came across this member of the website and she was blabbing about ‘hot, angst bishonen’ and guess who was amongst them? You guessed it, Uchiha Sasuke. I was like, I have to know who that is, because he was in-between pictures of Heero and Kira (Gundam Wing) and he was looking ‘finnnnnnee’. Then I found his name, the anime he was in and I downloaded my first episode of Naruto. And may I say, to this day, I will always be glad to have stumbled upon that shrine/whatever it was, for ‘hot, angst bishonen’. Since that first episode, it was love at first sight for me with a certain prankster kitsune and to this day, nobody has yet beaten him (in particular), as for the current episode in the anime (144), I feel the quality is lacking from those days in the beginning. Hopefully, they will pick themselves up, you knows?
I first started reading manga, when I was waiting for the Naruto episodes to be back on, since they went on a break (after the Neji fight or was that before his fight) and I wanted to know what was happening. Then, I stumbled upon this forum which just told me to read the Manga, which was ready into Naruto second book and that is how that interest flourished.
I know I am such a bore to be talking about my first experience, to now my addiction, of anime, but ‘hey’ this is my journal and I can write about it.
So far, I am fascinated by anime and manga because I am quite new to it - (well, I did start watching it more regularly this year - 2005 -). Actually, it’s quite interesting how I started with this ‘new addiction’, anime and later on manga. It all started with Dragon Ball Z - cartoon network version - (I live in London, England, therefore anime is quite foreign) and it grabbed my attention, this was animation taken to the next level, in case of the fight scenes and the detailed drawing of the characters. This was a new experience for me, because usually other animation didn’t come close. So, I just laid back and watched the CN version (later on I would find out there were scene and certain themes of the anime cut out - “Art has no enemy but ignorance” ), but then the day of reckoning has come upon, a friend of mine (known her since I was 11, now 19yrs old) passed me a CD recordable with three different animes burnt to it and the reason for that was due to my constant complaining of DBZ lack of adult themes and silly dialogues (the English version). I still have that CD and the contents were the original (Japanese version) first episodes of D.N.Angel; Chobits; and Blue Gender. I instantly fell in love with D.N.Angel and laughed my way through the whole episode of Chobits. The other was just not in my taste. Therefore, after that I started ravaging through the Net for the other episodes, sadly, I was too late, they were licensed. But, due to my search, I came across AnimeSuki website when I downloaded Bittorrent and ‘lo and behold’ there was Naruto, but being the fool that I am (sometimes that is - other times I am just to lazy to be bothered) I left it and went on to download Gundam Seed Destiny (I was to late for Gundam Seed, it was licensed). While I was in this Gundam Shrine, I think, or website, I came across this member of the website and she was blabbing about ‘hot, angst bishonen’ and guess who was amongst them? You guessed it, Uchiha Sasuke. I was like, I have to know who that is, because he was in-between pictures of Heero and Kira (Gundam Wing) and he was looking ‘finnnnnnee’. Then I found his name, the anime he was in and I downloaded my first episode of Naruto. And may I say, to this day, I will always be glad to have stumbled upon that shrine/whatever it was, for ‘hot, angst bishonen’. Since that first episode, it was love at first sight for me with a certain prankster kitsune and to this day, nobody has yet beaten him (in particular), as for the current episode in the anime (144), I feel the quality is lacking from those days in the beginning. Hopefully, they will pick themselves up, you knows?
I first started reading manga, when I was waiting for the Naruto episodes to be back on, since they went on a break (after the Neji fight or was that before his fight) and I wanted to know what was happening. Then, I stumbled upon this forum which just told me to read the Manga, which was ready into Naruto second book and that is how that interest flourished.
I know I am such a bore to be talking about my first experience, to now my addiction, of anime, but ‘hey’ this is my journal and I can write about it.