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Jun. 8th, 2021 10:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
potofsoupWatched some "retro" anime stuff last night and WOW the way the opening song to Weiss Kreuz whips me back to high school, sitting on the grass with my group of friends talking about the hot gay assassins and staying up late to read horribad fanfiction. KareKano opening brings me back to first time attending anime club in college. The opening to Last Exile takes me to that year of living with gf and deciding that I shouldn't cosplay blonde characters.
It's also so weird to me that back then, given my parents' restrictions on media consumption at home and my financial inability to buy VHS tapes and mail them to other fans that I found on Geocities, my consumption of anime was primarily through reading extremely detailed episode summaries and fan fiction, back when it was like, one person's website with whatever fanfics and character bios and wallpapers they felt like putting up. I think I watched <3 episodes of Fushigi Yuugi, Kenshin, Weiss Kreuz, Gundam Wing, but I sure as heck can still name all of the characters based on a still image ensemble shot.
Anyway, here's a nice retrospective:
(I fell into this youtube hole from "guess the anime opening" videos, of which this one is not bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wyQpSDls5E . I of course failed all the ones labeled "super easy" because I have not watched anime for a while.)
((and then somehow listening to old anime openings lead spouse into a conversation about optimism vs. naivete, cynicism vs. being realistic, and how he thinks we need to sell the house and move to either Canada or New Zealand by 2024 because California will burn and America is a failed state. SIGH))
It's also so weird to me that back then, given my parents' restrictions on media consumption at home and my financial inability to buy VHS tapes and mail them to other fans that I found on Geocities, my consumption of anime was primarily through reading extremely detailed episode summaries and fan fiction, back when it was like, one person's website with whatever fanfics and character bios and wallpapers they felt like putting up. I think I watched <3 episodes of Fushigi Yuugi, Kenshin, Weiss Kreuz, Gundam Wing, but I sure as heck can still name all of the characters based on a still image ensemble shot.
Anyway, here's a nice retrospective:
(I fell into this youtube hole from "guess the anime opening" videos, of which this one is not bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wyQpSDls5E . I of course failed all the ones labeled "super easy" because I have not watched anime for a while.)
((and then somehow listening to old anime openings lead spouse into a conversation about optimism vs. naivete, cynicism vs. being realistic, and how he thinks we need to sell the house and move to either Canada or New Zealand by 2024 because California will burn and America is a failed state. SIGH))
