OMG!!! THE WORLD IS ENDING!!!
Hahaha, actually, while everyone is caught up the shonen craze, I, Wan Salwa Nadia, have… have…. turned my back on it…
“SALWA, ARE YOU NUTS?!!! I thought you loved brutal, mindless killing anime with no plot whatsoever”…. Yeah, I know some people are going to say that. But recently, due to some unforseen circumstances, I… I… I have relegated to being a more…. uh… open person?
You see, back then, when I was in the early phase of anime-retard syndrome, I honestly thought that “WHOOOO SHONEN IN, SHOUJO OUT! ACTION COUNTS, KILL KILL!”…. ummm yeah. You get the drift. And also having contracted gamer-who-has-no-life syndrome, it didn’t help at all, for back then, I loved playing fighting, action and platform games. When I got into RPGs, hell, I played it for the joy of killing monsters.
Then, I played it… The first game that made me see killing isn’t everything, that plot counts too… Chrono Cross… Heee, this game made me cry. It was beautiful. It opened my eyes to a world of story and emotions. However, at that time, i was still much of a casual anime fan, and yeah, most casual fans like shonen *well, at least, that was how it was amongst my gang*. But Yami no Matsuei changed my mind easily enough. It even introduced me to a whole new genre in anime… which was shonen-AI.
My whole anime preferences slowly evolved since then. I still liked shonen, but plot-heavy animes like .hack//SIGN were also up on my roster. As the years progressed, then shonen grew less, and the mysteries, horror, coughyaoicough, harem, supernatural, mecha, shoujo and slice of life animes piled on. Sure, I did try to watch Naruto and Bleach, but those no are nothing compared to Honey and Clover, which has become my fav series of all times. I even found myself enjoying Ai Yazawa’s works… particularly Nana and Parakiss…. something which I swore off. Jigoku Shoujo kind of thrilled me *but then again it might just be the loli factor*, and don’t get me started on Clamp. Since Cardcaptor Sakura they have enchanted me, and now I’m struggling to get all thier older works, and not to mention following up on Tsubasa and xxxHOLiC. Speaking of which, I now enjoy Code Geass. Oooh, and I wana re-borrow Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna from Sha. That was good stuff. Ah, I have to re-watch Aishiteruze Baby and Haibane Renmei, as well as Gantsukuou. Heh, what a lineup. And yet there’s more I didn’t touch.
Don’t get me wrong. I still do watch shonen stuff, like D Gray Man, Death Note and stuff. But usually, the shonen I watch tend to have supernatural ties to it. Sigh. I tried watching Hitman Reborn… but it just didn’t cut it. And am I the only person who utterly dislikes Busou Renkin? I couldn’t even enjoy Law of Ueki, though many people say it’s good. It doesn’t help that I’m extremely picky, as I dropped Blood+ after 2 eps….
Sigh………………………. Whatever. I’ll go drown in my random shoujos.
P/S: Mizah,if you’re reading this, I bet you have no clue what I’m talking about.
