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During the pandemic, I did nothing but watch anime all day.
It's strange how quitting anime (I still read manga but rarely) made me have a temporary identity crisis.
It's like you don't belong to any community anymore—since you can't relate to other people like how AOT slaps or asking when is the anime adaptation of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 7 and all that.
So I discovered this anime.
It's called Monster.
Now I don't want to sound pretentious like "Oh, I watched a very realistic anime, an anime that isn't ecchi or harem—but a true crime, so I must be pretty smart and unique." No—I want to tell you that Monster literally changed how I view anime.
Of course, your taste doesn't have anything to do with how unique or smart you are—a genius mathematician can like a harem, ecchi anime, so no prejudice here.
Perhaps you could say that my taste got desensitized. After watching and reading Monster, I became a different person, and it sucked.
The spark of my taste becoming "different" started when I was reading Goodnight Punpun. I was once a weeaboo that liked the typical cute anime expressions, unrealistic proportions of the bodies, high-pitched voices, etc.
I was once a weeaboo.
Now, it's even worse, I'm like in the middle of the spectrum between a non-weeb and a weeb, where I can relate to neither.
I never thought quitting anime made me question my identity.
Who am I, really?
There are also those "pretentious" anime like Serial Experiments Lain, Terror in Resonance, etc. Masterpieces to some, boring to others.
Nowadays, I'm trying too hard to find a manga that suits my taste. But I'll never be able to read a manga that has the same vibe as Monster and Goodnight Punpun—not impossible, but extremely difficult.
If you've read those two and still able to like anime as it is, I envy you.
P.S. The last anime I've watched was Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?
It's strange how quitting anime (I still read manga but rarely) made me have a temporary identity crisis.
It's like you don't belong to any community anymore—since you can't relate to other people like how AOT slaps or asking when is the anime adaptation of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 7 and all that.
So I discovered this anime.
It's called Monster.
Now I don't want to sound pretentious like "Oh, I watched a very realistic anime, an anime that isn't ecchi or harem—but a true crime, so I must be pretty smart and unique." No—I want to tell you that Monster literally changed how I view anime.
Of course, your taste doesn't have anything to do with how unique or smart you are—a genius mathematician can like a harem, ecchi anime, so no prejudice here.
Perhaps you could say that my taste got desensitized. After watching and reading Monster, I became a different person, and it sucked.
The spark of my taste becoming "different" started when I was reading Goodnight Punpun. I was once a weeaboo that liked the typical cute anime expressions, unrealistic proportions of the bodies, high-pitched voices, etc.
I was once a weeaboo.
Now, it's even worse, I'm like in the middle of the spectrum between a non-weeb and a weeb, where I can relate to neither.
I never thought quitting anime made me question my identity.
Who am I, really?
There are also those "pretentious" anime like Serial Experiments Lain, Terror in Resonance, etc. Masterpieces to some, boring to others.
Nowadays, I'm trying too hard to find a manga that suits my taste. But I'll never be able to read a manga that has the same vibe as Monster and Goodnight Punpun—not impossible, but extremely difficult.
If you've read those two and still able to like anime as it is, I envy you.
P.S. The last anime I've watched was Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?