I used to think that Japanese animation are for kids or grown up girls who wanted to become kids. Back then in ANU hostel anime was the BIG thing – everyone was talking about anime and that pissed me off to no ends.

Gunshots no longer greeted me when I walked down the hallways – high pitched voices got mixed into the whole atmosphere as well giving an impression of a massive loli war taking place behind all those closed doors.

It was a cold and lonely night when the devil came to me. She held me at gunpoint and I downloaded the first episode of Full Metal Panic…

Episodes came one after another and before I realised it I completely finished that whole series in 2 days. A lot of the jokes were well written and that particular fansub did an awesome job of putting them across. I realised for the first time not all animes have the style/quality of Pokemon.

I asked for more. The devil gave me a list to try and I took it without a second thought. The list looked roughly like this:

a) Naruto

b) Bleach

c) Full Metal Alchemist

d) Irresponsible Captain Tylor (lol)

e) …more

I swallowed them all, and the rest is history. This happened a few years back when you can’t deny that the first 30 or 40 episodes of Bleach/Naruto totally kicked ass.

The devil folded her wings around her and licked her lips. She smiled quietly to herself and watched me download yet another episode of anime…