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 Dragon Ball Series.

I even loved Aizen battle and the Fullbringers saga. I couldn’t bring myself to hate bleach even though the last arc of Bleach anime was a shit. Also, I was not aware of manga at that time and thus I thought Bleach story ended after Fullbringers.

 Me entering my 11^th grade and finishing my Bleach series occurred exactly at the same time.

I hated going to my high school. Also, I noticed my weight was being increasing day by day. I started to do jogging in the morning time with my friend Subash. He was the guy who enlightened me for watching F.R.I.E.N.D.S. That was not his first of enlightenment's.

During one of our jogging sessions, he was asking me about Naruto. I was awestruck when he asked that to me. One of the joyful moments in the life of an otaku is finding your fellow otaku and sharing you interest with them.

But all I remembered was my failed attempts to download Naruto. My memories of me watching Naruto in Cartoon Network were scarce because of Thirumathi Selvam.

Subash didn’t had that problem in his home. He watched it, liked it and started bragging about it to me. He was also a great fan of Fairy Tail. But I can’t able to get myself watching that anime.

I tried watching like the first five episodes of it but except the big boobs, the anime hadn’t held my interest.

Back to Naruto,

So, Subash enlightened me to watch Naruto. I thought about it.

By then, I knew how to download torrents without picking the broken magnet links.

Successfully, I downloaded the first season of Naruto.

That was when I had an idea to watch Naruto with my brother. After DBGT, watching Bleach solo was fun but it was all within me. I didn’t have anyone to share about the anime. I asked my brother and he said okay!

Otaku Duo re-entered the scene with a drum roll. I was a huge Introvert in my school days. This fact made me empathise with Naruto quickly. The world of Naruto was very different from us, but I can able to empathise with the characters in Naruto. Naruto became my friend, my guilty pleasure and my mentor.

I consider Naruto as a philosophical drama. No one can call Naruto a cartoon. Calling it as cartoon was a shame. Suddenly, it hit me hard. Cartoon were way different from Anime.

I cried a lot watching Jiraya Die. Even when I am typing this blog, I feel wetness in my eyes.

Naruto and Naruto Shippuden The Hurricane Chronicles taught me a lot and it made me the person who I am now.

Finally, I caught up with Naruto. After finishing 220 episodes of Naruto, Naruto Shippuden was an easy binge. We both could not able to stop ourselves from binge watching Naruto Shippuden and it was over within 2 weeks, I guess.

Then a strange thing happened, Naruto Shippuden was an ongoing series at that time and the only thing remained was the Final War. I was surfing the internet and there were a lot of spoilers.

I was thinking How they were getting these infos. That is when I got introduced to manga.

To know more about Naruto, I started reading manga. My brother was not a fan of reading books. But I had my gig with books, and I am also a proud Bibliophile. I started reading manga, but I did not want to read it. I decided to stop reading the manga and watch the anime instead.

Since new episodes of Naruto were releasing every week, me and my brother planned to watch other animes and decided to catch up Naruto every month. Watching single episode didn’t satisfy us.

Otaku duo lasted a year till I found reading manga interesting. That was the start of my second phase of being an Otaku. But before I reach there, our Otaku Duo covered all kind of animes.

I was fascinated to watch Detective conan and my brother liked Yu Yu Hakusho. We both completed the series and moved to Katekyo Hitman Reborn.

I can’t able to cover all the anime the Otaku Duo watched but the last two animes we watched on that time were so memorable.

They were Bakuman and Hunter x Hunter. Our streak lasted long and good. We sometimes catch up animes here and there.

(Officially our Duo ended by watching One Punch Man. After that my college started and went to stay in hostel. But that was way later. Me going to the hostel was the end of my second phase.)

After that we got separated and he started watching sports anime like Kuroko no basuke and hajime no ippo. He even tried reading manga.

My second phase began with One piece and Yu Yu hakusho manga.