The attached video inspired me to make this post.

  1. What was your first series or movie?

  2. What were your first impressions?

  3. Best series or movie? Why?

  4. Worst experience with anime? Why?

I heard one of my siblings watching something in a language I didn’t understand. It turned out to me Love Hina. It made me fall in love with the language and culture. My interest in the medium itself, I discovered later, perhaps with Pokémon and Dragon Ball. I don’t remember my initial impressions, but it was warm and fun, I do remember. The immense sexualization of females was definitely encouraging to my adolescent cisman self, to the detriment of the female demographic, of course. Rose of Versailles is probably one of my favorite anime. Other than being an amazing story - considering that it was written by a TWENTY year young girl - the way that it conveys emotions visually and through the soundtrack is, to me, unparalleled. I don’t really have any bad experience with anime. I guess I was shocked when

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    14 hours ago

    I think I know what you mean with the shallow - or if you ask me, unnecessarily thorough - exposition… although, as you say yourself, there are some gems out there that don’t simply hand it all to you on a silver platter. Anime definitely had a huge impact on my Japanese studies at the time. While the easy version of NHK (forgot the exact name of the offshoot…) was what gave me most in terms of pronunciation, intonation and accent - by doing shadowing and transcription -, anime gave me recreation AND the language. :)