That missing feeling

pi-natsuu · 2009-10-27T08:41:17-01:00

Remember the first time you watched anime? I don't. But I do remember a soft tingling sensation somewhere in my chest. A sensation that's somewhat nostalgic, a feeling when you found something long gone but forgotten, a feeling that made me crave for it, hungered for it, looked for it, loved for it. I miss that feeling. It felt like my soul had sex for the first time. The first thought on my mind was 'What the hell am i doing all this time!' and 'What the hell was I missing out on all this time!'. Oh, how those days were great. The days when I kept watching, reading, downloading, searching like there was no tomorrow. What caught me was its uniqueness and creativity. I loved how incredibly twisted it can become. I loved how incredibly touching it can become. I loved how it moved me. I loved how i loved the characters. And I loved how i hated them. Something most real-world movies and TV shows fail at. But most of all, I loved how I love anime and all its goodness. It's kind of weird saying that anime literally changed my life, gave meaning to it, gave me a reason to wake up every morning. I probably won't admit this to someone else because it's too embarrassing and kind off geek-ish. But sadly, that feeling has long passed and hollowed out. :( [size=10]just felt like sharing[/h]

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ecentric

15 years ago

I had a fortunate, and at the same time unfortunate, first time experience with anime. My very first one was about 17 years ago back in 1992. I was flipping through the channels and landed on sci-fi (being a huge star trek/star wars guy at the time, still am just not anywhere near as much now). To my great surprise, they were showing Akira uncensored (still dubbed though), I came in right at the Tetsuo break out point where people were just randomly exploding. I had never seen something so brutally honest about violence and yet so refreshingly outlandish.
My love of anime grew from there, slowly sneaking things behind my parents backs, such as Ghost in the Shell, Vampire Hunter D, and Ninja Scroll. Since then I have watched almost every anime I could get my hands on whether it had a good plot or not (and dear god did some of them suck...)

Now in my later years of anime and manga addiction, I find it hard for a lot of the newer stuff to measure up. As such I am kind of disappointed in this year's fall line up so far, but who knows, maybe something will turn it around and bring it back to the time when I couldn't wait for the translation teams to finish an episode.

Sprite

15 years ago

My heart sinks when great animes/manga come to an end

Albel 'The Wicked'

15 years ago

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Every time I watch an anime I always get that feeling. Its sort of weird yet Im used to it.

swordmanXIII FAKKU's Breaker

15 years ago

amazing speech.
yes I remamber my first two animes one DBZ that anime made me feel that if I just push my self I could do any thing. then Sailor Moon that anime made me relize what love is and that you should protect thoses things you love.
man I am getting too sentimental.

I still feel when I watch anime I feel sorry for you that you lost that feeling I hope one day you get it back.

Unsigned

15 years ago

I usual get a sort of tingling sensation in my head and body whenever a series comes to close. I know it has to but I don't want it to.

pumpkin king

15 years ago

I know what you mean the first anime I saw was Tekkaman blade when I was in primary (Didn't think of it as anime then) but the story really left an impression on me. Now days I might find 10/100 different series that I really like but only 1/100 that really stick with me as being something great and 'This is why I started watching this stuff'
Guess its the sad part of being sucked into something.

pi-natsuu

15 years ago

FirstAndOnly wrote...

I sort of lost that tingly feeling over the course of time.

When first got started on anime with Gundam Wing, I thought anime was the coolest stuff ever. As time went on, I find most anime series growing more and more lackluster, probably because I've already looked at or ground through all the good ones.

Nowadays, I barely take a look at the seasonal previews and at best find only one or two shows that would excite my interest.

Exactly where I am right now. And it sucks.
It's like watching anime feels like a job now. What happened to that brief happy moments of watching a perv being a perv and laugh at him for failing or succeeding. Or just being mind fucked with awesome special moves and mindless action. How i miss the good old days.

Kuroneko1/2 wrote...

I think your tastes have become more refined. And now mediocre animes don't satisty you as much as they did back when you started. It's normal. You just have to pursue what gives you the most pleasure to watch.

Maybe. Just wish i could erase my memories so that i could rediscover and re-enjoy those days of curiously watching an episode of a random anime that i stumbled upon on crunchyroll, back when crunchy was still crunchy.

Any of you guys played GTA4? Then you'd know the feeling of playing it for the first time. The city was amazing, was it not. It was alive. The detail of every street and corner was full of life and, well, detail. It was beautiful.
Then the times came when i wished i could memory wipe myself so that I could re-experience that same feeling over and over again. Oh how i wish that feeling was a drug.

( ._ .) *sigh*How I wish I was a robot.

Sprite wrote...

My heart sinks when great animes/manga come to an end

Yes, that happens a lot.

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