Postby crusader88 » Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:39 pm
it happened in stages.
When I was in first grade, I was flipping through channels, and came across Sailor Moon. I instantly fell in love and was a big fan for some time. The only problem: I'm a guy. Ah, when I resiliently wore my Sailor Moon shirt to school one day, you can imagine how mercilessly the other boys made fun of me.
In early 6th grade, The Vision of Escaflowne aired briefly on Fox Kids. Though the Americanized version is far inferior to the original, it was still so much better than any other show I'd ever seen that, when it left the air, I didn't stop being heartbroken until late high school and college, when I finally saw the original On Demand and online.
But I didn't really cross the Rubicon (waltz proudly into the manga section at Borders) until October of last year. I was watching AMVs with the Smile.dk song "Butterfly," and one was a tribute to Bleach's Rukia Kuchiki. I got hooked on the anime, and decided to take the plunge and buy the manga as well.
...you must begin a reading program immediately so that you may understand the crises of our age... Begin with the late Romans, including Boethius, of course. Then you should dip rather extensively into early Medieval. You may skip the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. That is mostly dangerous propaganda. Now that I think of it, you had better skip the Romantics and the Victorians too. For the contemporary period, you should study some selected comic books.
-Ignatius J. Reilly, in John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, 1960s
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