@coburn: *recovers from starstruck mode* That’s a very comforting (and optimistic?) way of looking at the ‘daze mode’, and yes, I guess we can always view it in that light. I’d personally prefer to see things that way

Interesting that you mention about the correlation between development, love and growth, something to keep in mind for further discourse (I can’t say anything more insightful about this, at least for now)

@ghostlightning: wow, Eva it is. Now all I need to do is stop being lazy and actually watch/marathon the stuff I download! x__x;

@animemiz: I might not be into One Piece as much as my brothers and other people, but I’ve got to say it’s really AWESOME! Being excited over things, even the most simple stuff, is a sign of having SPICE in/and LIFE

I so agree that the fan girl of us will not die. I was actually out today with a classmate of mine, and she asked what facet of Japanese culture I liked. I think that she and her friend were actually surprised at my responses.. but to be enthusiastic shows a spark or a spice of life. I actually spent some time trying to think about how I am maturing..

I guess I was a shonen fan since I was young, since the only series I grew up were was a lot of action/shonen.

Sure I find myself preferring some older series to the newer ones that I see now, although at the moment.. I am having an obsession with One Piece at the moment.

Thanks for appreciating my words. Your appreciation is spiral energy to me yo!

Watch EVA. It turned me into an otaku, and led me to otou-san, whose debut post at OH! helped me legitimize my fanboy aesthetics, politics, and way of life.

“Perfection does not need your love. It is whole and complete. It is never any less perfect without your love. Nothing, nothing is missing.” – aww, this brings tears to my eyes ;__; O Great ghostlightning, I shall remember this for as long as I live.

@animemiz: the fangirl in us shall not die, but only grow stronger! We learn to balance things as we mature, and so long as we’re aware of our fangirl tendencies, there’s nothing wrong with that! It shows that we still know how to have fun, or something
Oh, I’m at the other end of the spectrum with Fushigi Yuugi, that’s one of the animes I totally LURVV, until the episodes where the author seemed to have ran out of ideas and resorted to ‘cheap plot devices’ x__x;

I don’t go out of my way to watch Dragonball, only when my brothers watch it on TV, and I’d say it’s great in its own right As for YuYu, well, I’d say it’s one anime I’d consider ‘timeless’, though not necessarily the kind of anime I’d collect DVDs of… yeah. I heard great things about Kodocha, and I’d like to think there are people out there who still love it to bits until now.

@animekritik: I doubt my brother will change his mind over it, but you make me want to rewatch it and see it in another light I hope I’d sing a totally different (and better?) note when I rewatch it.

@lelangir: Ohh yes, I mentioned growth with ‘development’ in mind, oh well, I fail in semantics, but so long as the thoughts gets across, all’s well that ends well.

I can’t believe you’re really new in the anime scene, makes people like me who’s been “long” here in the ‘business’ feel intimated. j/k. I’d like to think your taste in what you watch is already in its ’stable’ level when you got into animes, hence you skipped the ‘anime fan identity crisis stage’ lol. Anyways, more development / learning is always good~

MOAR LOVE for ToshoSen is always more than welcome, of course As for being critical of shoujo shows, well, hmm… in my case I’d say it became an instant defense mechanism / result to being exposed to too much shoujo crap. And the next day I woke up I realize that the shoujo stuff I used to be crazy about was total crap. Gah, jaded senses activated~~

@spiralspade: you have yet to discover what anime has to offer, so just keep discovering gems and you’ll eventually see your taste change and get honed through time
@Evalana: learning how to discern good and bad shows is definitely a sign of growth, our tastes get molded through time after all. And wow, you and your sister are quite a completist, I might say. Then again, I think many of us become that kind of fan at some point in our lives.

Princess Tutu is definitely worth keeping, IMO. I owe it a rewatch (or more) myself. Kodocha too, since I became jaded before even giving that series a try x__x;

@schneider: “a pivotal stage to one’s growth would be the realization of one’s tastes” – I concur. I think my Eureka moment happened when brickshats got thrown on my favorite animes, otherwise I never really thought about what I was consuming.

The stuff on your rewatch list is also in mine. I trashed Eva for its ’sacrilegious’ aspects, imagine that lol. 12 Kingdoms is in my rewatch list for a looongg time now, and heh, I should’ve caught it on TV too, would’ve made watching 40+ eps feel like a breeze! My memories of G-Gundam is really faint… all I could remember is the Shining Finger OP song and the ED theme which I loved lol.

@Ryan A: what an epic anime autobiography you have there. I’d say I’m in the same boat as you regarding InuYasha, though up until now I’d say the OP and ED songs grew on me much more than the actual series could ever do lol. It’s always great to see guys discovering shoujo shows, something I’d like to happen with one of my baka anikis *grumble*

Oh, and I feel guilty of trashing Touka Gettan too, but in my case it was the ‘eww incest!’ aspect. Will give that a rewatch when I feel like it.

@didinskee: some animes deserve to be treated ’special’ that way :3 Gah, I guess I’m really missing half of my life by not watching/understanding Eva, eh?

Count on ABS-CBN or GMA for the reairing of the classics!

… so this was what you were working on. good job ^_^