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First Phase : The Big Three(or) The Animes that made me an Otaku (Being Otaku #3)

DEATH REAPERS, NINJAS AND PIRATES Ziggy TV was amazing. But not amazing enough. It only had the episodes of first season of bleach. I was stuck again. I needed more of bleach. That is when I discovered a website called watchbleachonline.com Followed by the discovery of IDM software, I had a hectic schedule of downloading single episodes one by one and binge watching it one by one. I embraced torrent again after learning the concept of torrents. It was simple to understand, and I had to select the right magnet with a lot of seeders. This trick was very useful and thereafter I started using IDM for downloading large single files and uTorrent for massive series downloads. uTorrent was very much handy when I downloaded One piece. My holidays came to an end with Bleach. I loved all the seasons even the fillers. The Aizen Battle had somewhat resembled me with the Hyperbolic Time chamber in DBZ. But when I think about it, all the mainstream Shonen series had influenced from Drag

Beginning of the Trance (Being Otaku #2)

  Usually Naruto would be telecast-ed @ 8 PM slot when my parents watch Thirumathi Selvam, a Tamil serial telecast-ed in Sun TV. That is why I missed Naruto till then. After Thirumathi Selvam ended, I started watching Naruto @ 8PM, Mr. Bean Animated Series in Pogo @ 8:30PM and DBZ @ 9PM. Life was going smoothly. It was in my 10 th grade my life got changed completely because of two incidents. FIRST PHASE – THE TRANCE Watching Naruto was good. But it was also on a loop. The loop ends just before the Chunnin exams, I guess. My memory of Naruto was not that great. Both loops bored the shit out of me. I couldn’t handle it anymore. That is when the first of the two incidents took place. My father was a Merchandiser in a reputed textile company. Basically, he acted as the bridge between the company and the buyer of their company products. This communication needed over time jobs which my father hated. As a result of which, the company he worked on, offered him a desktop