Getting Old (Being Otaku #5)

Gantz was a Dark Seinen Manga. It deals with Aliens and post-Apocalyptic Worlds and stuff. If I want to rank all the mangas I have ever read it in my life, Gantz would be in the Top 5.

Reading gantz made me depressed in a good way. It was a cathartic experience. Whenever I feel low in my life, I remember gantz. It won’t make my depression disappear, instead it fuels my depression. Weirdly, I liked that effect. Every now and then I would read a random volume of Gantz to keep myself away from this world.

Gantz helped me to get over my Breakup during my college. It was the power of Gantz.

Finishing Gantz was amazing and it felt like my purpose of life had ended. It was too weird, but I liked that feel that Gantz gave me.

NO MORE ANIME AND MANGA

I watched two seasons of Code Geass around that time for a change, to take myself a break from all these manga reading. It was a refreshing break.

 I checked Code Provider for any anime recommendations, and I couldn’t find any. He was all manga and hentai. But after watching Code Geass, I wanted to watch anime. Not a shonen but a slice of life genred anime.

Samurai Samploo, Gintama, Rourin Kenshin and Cowboy Bebop satisfied me. I made the theme of Cowboy Bebop as my ringtone at that time.

Samurai Shamploo was too deep. If I want to rank all the animes I have ever watched it in my life, Samurai Shamploo would be in the Top 5.

I went on watching two episodes, three episodes of different animes to know my taste and to settle my mind in an anime series.

With this activity, I picked some animes and dropped it mid-way. I picked Toriko, Jo Jo was hot at that time, but I dropped watching it after the first season. I couldn’t able to remember the animes I watched for like 2-episodes and dropped immediately.

It was at that time, me and my brother, the OTAKU DUO had our last best binge Hunter X Hunter

I couldn’t able to settle on a single non shonen anime. Being a 16-year-old sucked. I couldn’t able to understand some animes at all.

I decided to go back and watch some shonen again. Also, solo watching bored the hell out of me. The anime communities in social medias were of different countries and I tried to mingle with them. All the efforts were ended in vain. I tried Indian anime groups in India to mingle but I couldn’t find a single group. The only person who can share my interest in anime was my brother and I wanted us to watch any anime together like old times.

We both decided to watch Hunter X Hunter and it was one hell of a ride. We caught up with Hunter X Hunter.

Hunter X Hunter was absolutely mind blowing. Be it its characters, be it its story arcs, be it its animation, be it its background score, everything was perfect. I even thought of reading all the chapter of Hunter X Hunter manga, but I couldn’t get myself to read any of the manga anymore.

I don’t want to write about Hunter X Hunter anymore because I am planning on reading the manga one of these days and I’ll be covering my opinion of HXH in my future blogs.

The OTAKU DUO finished HXH and my 11^th grade also ended successfully. It was summer holidays all again.

I liked watching HXH as a part of the Otaku Duo and I wanted to introduce this slice of life genre to my brother.

Thus, the next anime we watched on the summer of 2014 was Bakuman. I know I have read all of manga, but I want to watch Bakuman with my brother. He liked the anime too much, but I was not able to watch the anime. Because I know what would happen in the anime.

My brother watched the anime and I left the OTAKU DUO.

11^th grade summer holidays were good and bad. The good part was I was planning on watching this new anime and I was having two full months in my hand. The bad part was I must prepare for my 12^th grade final exams.

12^th grade final exams were crucial in every Indians life. The result would decide our future. But I didn’t care about my future. All I wanted for the rest of my life is to watch anime and read manga.

So, I decided to watch this new anime rather than to study for my supposed good future.

And the anime I had chosen was Attack on Titan.

Me and my brother already had watched the first season of AOT in my 11^th grade. 2^nd season was premiering that summer and I was waiting for it. My 11^th summer holidays were short and the only anime I saw during that period was Attack on Titan. It was kind of the last anime that year.

Due to this 12^th grade pressure, I forced myself to study, study and study.

It didn’t help me. I never studied and was poor at tests.

My anime adrenaline was draining fast during that time. There was a time in my life where the only anime and manga I watched and read was one piece and that too in a weekly manner.

My interest in anime was going away and I thought I was becoming mature as my parents said.