Well the first anime I had seen was Pokemon when I was 1st year at elementary school. Later I stopped watching it, but I played pokemon games in gameboy for long time.
Around 7th grade (do you call it middle school? - um...because that was the same school as my elementary scool from 4th grade - I changed school after 3rd grade and went to an Art Elementary School) There was some animes in TV that I started to watch, like Inu Yasha and Kaleido Star . Slowly I become an anime fan.
Later, in high school there were some other peoples who also liked anime, so I learned a lot from them - Arigatou. Also I read an anime magazine, and I watched anime on TV. But on TV there were only - how shall I call them? - "standard" animes; like Naruto, Full Metal Alchemist or Bleach (also they were dubbed) - and the magazine was nearly the same. So I watched these, but I knew very little about genres, and such. Also I only started learning english in high school, so in the beginning I was prety weak in it. But around 12th grade (4th grade of high school) I tried out watcing anime in original language, with english sub...
By the way it was Sketchbook Full Color'S (I read about it in the magazine), back then I didn't knowed about genres (also Iyashikei is not a huge genre), but I felt that WAFF, and honestly maybe I was a bit surprised, "It's an anime too, but it's totaly different from those what I had seen before!" I also started using Sketchbooks for drawing, instead of plain paper.
In the next year, because I missed my chance going to university, and some other reasons I lived nearly 1 year with my grandparents. It was fun, but I was unable to watch anime, although I drawed a lot.
I came back home around december 2012. Then...for around two months nothing happened - Also I was very depressed because earlier I again missed my chance going to university. I was searched Mangafox often, but I didn't found any manga that looked interesting (I also thinked all dark... (monotone and dark ->) "Ronin for another year...?!") Then I had a quarrel with my family - oh...I shouted all sort of bad things...oh. Gomen Nasai! But it ended good, they had forgiven me, and I felt myself light because all of my anger disappeared. On that precious day's evening I again searched Mangafox...
...And finaly, I found something interesting. It was Yuru Yuri . Well, I can say It was love at first sight. I had laughted so much, I felt so much better. Also I learned another important something: Although I was always interested in Yuri, but it was more like perverted curiosity. But with Yuru Yuri , and a bit later with other wonderfull Shoujo Ai-s - I felt differently. My heart and soul had been touched...um...it realy hard to put it in words... I learned just how beautiful Shoujo Ai is. I dropped all the pervert things, and I started to read and watch Shoujo Ai, because it's unique beauty, and because it (if it's a good one) always touches my heart and soul.
I accepted that thing, that being a Ronin is not that bad, because you have plenty of free time (although you need to learn hard to finaly be able to go to university).
Then nearly a week after I started to read Yuru Yuri ...I was searched for pictures in Google...
You can bet what happened when I typed Akari in the Google? (+ thing that I had seen Sketchbook Full Color'S before)
Hai! I found not only the Akari I had searced but there was another Akari, who I had seen before somewhere... (Yeah, in a picture in the last page of Sketchbook )
Mizunashi Akari and ... ARIA ...huh? What's that? It looks like a good anime also there are some connection with Sketchbook...so give it a try!
W...w...whoa! I had never seen an anime like it before! (OK, Sketchbook is very similar, and also very good too) Well It's something like that - although you might say it sounds weird or something - There are some anime and manga that are makes you feel WAFF, there are many of them, - although you may need a little luck finding them - but ARIA is not only WAFF, it's + one more level ... It's that what is the opening of the secound ARIA serie (the Natural): it's Euforia.
Then I started to watch MyAnimelist's recommendations and other things, such as what's new on Mangafox, and I had started to see a lot of wonderful animes, and to read a lot of worderful mangas.
Gomen Nasai that this was so long! I hope it didn't bore you.
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