For my first entry a little boring back story;
There I was, five year old Buttman, too innocent to realize that in the coming future I would write my name incorrectly and backwards and leave it like that.
Back then the Ninja Turtles were awesome, I aspired to be the next Power Ranger, the best cartoon theme in the world was the Teknoman theme (and I didn't know it was originally Tekkaman Blade), and Eureka's Castle was the best show with puppets ever. Sesame Street? What the heck was Sesame Street?
However, this was really only on Saturdays, and on weekdays there was nothing. What to do?
VIDEO GAMES! What kinds of games? RPGS! Why? I dunno...but hey they taught me to read :3 And back then the best RPGs came from a country in the Pacific called Japan. They also produced interesting cartoons (more on that next)
In short, Japan saved me from a life of boredom and YES I realize that several of the shows I watched and games I played are not Japanese in origin.
Japanese Anime!
Japanese anime, meaning Japanese animation, right? Animations...meaning cartoons...right? Cartoons...a medium of entertainment.
See where I'm going here? No, I don't intend to call you dumb. All that break down was for myself heh.
The point is, Japanese anime were a great influence on myself as a kid. They were entertaining and provided something unique that American cartoons just didn't provide. Action, exaggerated characteristics, androids. American animation just seems to be obsessed with anthropomorphic animals. True, Japanese cartoons had some of those too but they also had hawt robot girls. OooooOOooo! <3
But then...I started to grow 'out'. I eventually put on a pair of glasses, lifted my head up high with a pompous, "Ah ha!" and started to 'analyze' anime.
Stay tuned for Part 2!
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