Marina / 23 / Spain / Living in Japan / DO NOT repost/steal my gifs/art.

ooh, boi, this one’s tricky. okay so i’ve had ‘phases’:

i started watching anime without being aware of it (as in i didn’t really distinguish it from other animated series) when i was around 5 years old, with the classic Heidi, Marco, Digimon, Doraemon, Pokémon, Cardcaptor Sakura,  Yu-Gi-Oh!… my father’s quite the cinephile and so he’d make us watch Studio Ghibli too, being Spirited Away the one i remember with the most clarity and fondness. man, i watched a lot of anime when i was a kid: Super Gals!, the art style is horrific but i loved the series as a whole; Ojamajo Doremi (just cute magical girls, music related), Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (y’all know this one, it was hilarious), Zatch Bell! (SO GOOD, i don’t think this one was children’s anime at all, i wish i’d kept on watching because i really wanted to know how it’d end); an anime about different girls-only schools where the girls had names like ‘the white/red roses’ and they were all lesbians (i’m sorry i can’t give you a name); One Piece, obviously, God knows when i stopped watching; and that’d be it plus another 10 series for the not-watching-anime-quite-consciously phase. 

+10 years old phase: Naruto, i’d say this is everyone’s first anime tbh, i loved it, still do, i’ve actually been rewatching some episodes these past weeks, but when i first started watching on TV it was kinda impossible to keep track so i ended up reading the manga instead and i stopped reading when that fucking thing that i shall not mention happened. Death Note, NOW this is where the watching-anime-consciously phase truly begins, this is the first anime i looked up and watched on YouTube, followed by Junjou Romantica, which i started watching when i was 12 years old i think like, that’s how much i’ve been waiting for this goddamn third season (wHICH WAS A BLESSING). and it’s still my fave. Elfen Lied, how did i go from JR to this idek. lots of blood and  dismemberment going on. 13 year old me followed the yaoi path with Ikoku Irokoi Romantan, among others, which lmao, my parents discovered so no more anime for Marina, i began buying manga instead. 

now there’s a big lacuna in here ‘til i got back on the anime horse years later, first with Free! which i’d watch as it’d air ‘til i got tired of waiting and stopped watching, and then with FMA, read a bit of the manga first to get into it, and then i watched the whole anime, THE FIRST 2003 ONE MIND YOU, which was the most disappointing thing i’ve ever seen, ‘til thank god later on i discovered Brotherhood, which i’m not done with yet ‘cause i feel like if i finish it i’ll be done with FMA and i’m not emotionally ready. sue me. sometime before FMA i watched Sekaiichi Hatsukoi, but i can’t quite locate that one. although i love it i’m definitely more of a JR fan myself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

and i’d say that brings us to the present and my current and favourite series: after 2003 FMA i started watching Free! again, finished it, lots of tears, definitely one of my favourite series EVEN tho i’m not done with Eternal Summer yet because i’m not ready either. then i watched OHSHC, GSNK, Haikyuu!! (absolute fave), Tokyo Ghoul (didn’t finish Root A ‘cause i’m not about that life, i’m reading the manga instead, WHERE THAT SHIT DOESN’T HAPPEN), Black Butler (just finished Book of Circus, haven’t finished the first season nor watched the second one yet, obvs), Ore Monogatari!! (i love it so much, i’m not usually up for sheer cuteness and shit but this one’s too perfect), SNK (i’ve read more than i’ve watched)… and the ones i’ve been watching more recently are Prison School (guilty pleasure tbh, it’s the worst but it’s so amazing at the same time); and GANGSTA., WHICH IS SO GR8 IT HURTS.

(i was supposed to write an essay but wrote this instead, hope you enjoyed my life’s story. that’s an Ore Monogatari pun, btw)