Not Interested Entertainment

What do I know about Anime? Hmmm. Well for one thing it comes from a tiny island across the sea with a really strange taste in key chains, a pop­u­lace that con­sumes raw fish, beer vend­ing machines, invented Nin­tendo, and inter­net speeds we can only dream about here in the US. The main char­ac­ters tend to use lots of hair gel and dye, and talk­ing ani­mals are the norm…I think. Basi­cally all I know about Anime comes from read­ing Mega Tokyo.

So, with­out fur­ther ado:

Jen’s Top 10 Reason’s I am Not Not Inter­ested in Anime

10. The sto­ries– I’ve always been a big fan of a good story. Espe­cially when they involve demons talk­ing umbrella’s, peo­ple in school uni­forms, and under­age kids sav­ing the uni­verse on a daily basis.

Story time with Yuki

9. Not hav­ing the ? face around my geek friends– Let’s be hon­est, I’m a geek. But only a pho-geek. I know the lingo. I spend more time with my com­puter than with real live human beings. And I’ve been known to stay up all night read­ing the lat­est “insert pop­u­lar novel here.” But I’m basi­cally clue­less when it comes to Anime.

I have no idea what you’re talk­ing about…

8. angst!- It’s what makes Soap Operas nearly watch­able. And from what I’ve seen it’s a prime com­po­nent of Anime. Bring it on! Unre­quited love is my favorite. If the two main love inter­ests get hooked up before the 5^th sea­son  it’s totally not worth it…

emo boy is crying…

7.The hair– Grav­ity defy­ing. Blue. Awesome.

This dude has spiky blue hair. Did you notice?

6.The fights– It’s all about the action. The more phys­i­cally impos­si­ble the bet­ter. Explo­sions, light­ing, give me the works!

Epic bat­tle.

5.The Weapons– It’s a well known fact that in fic­tion the weapons bet­ter only have the barest com­pat­i­bil­ity with real­ity in order to be super bad-***.  Com­bin­ing weapon types= Awesome.

sword+gun+fire= pure awesome

4. The dude who did Howl’s Mov­ing Cas­tle– That Hayao Miyazaki dude? Hands down the best clas­sic myth film-maker I’ve come accross. So far 95.9% of my entire expo­sure to Anime has been through this dude.

I Love Love Love this movie.

3. The Art­work– All my life I’ve been “drawn” to comics. It use to be super­hero comics. But some­time around my first year of col­lege (a while ago) I dis­cov­ered the Anime style of car­i­ca­ture and fell in love. The lines were so clean and neat! The col­ors so bright! There is just some­thing about the style that rocks my socks off.

Anime accord­ing to Wikipedia

2. Cons– I went to one, AX2009, and I was a fish out of water. I don’t like to be a fish out of water. I like to swim. For years I’ve been observ­ing cons from afar through means of ran­domly com­ing across pic­tures of them in my inter­net trav­els which brings me to my last and biggest rea­son I want to get bet­ter acquainted with the world of Anime.

Ooh a crowd!

1. Cos­play– Cos­tumes, replica weapons, dress­ing up like my favorite char­ac­ter on days other than Hal­loween and not being com­pletely ostra­cized? Bingo. You’ve got me. What can I say? I’ve got a flair for the dra­matic. By this time next year I want to be a proud mem­ber of the, “Who are you sup­posed to be? Really? That’s awe­some!” Club. You know in the good way.

Dude! I’m in this pic!

The only ques­tion is…Where do I start?

I’m open to sug­ges­tions. In the mean time, I believe I’ll watch Cow­boy Bebop.