You're around if not exactly at the same age when we first met, and I was for the first time articulating my ideas and feelings about anime. I never did write a comprehensive framework, nor even address the thing as a whole "anime." It was strange because I had a mature outlook towards created works but was only a beginner in (in)formal anime appreciative writing. The clear difference between us is that you've been writing and talking about anime for all your life (approximately) and you have lived in, through, and away from it.
...Just like me these days. This is why this post speaks to me -- not so much the content: I don't disagree with it even if I don't really have much to say about it or have feelings about it; but what I feel is how it got here. You've lived lifetimes it seems to me. I have as well. And now anime to me is just another medium that has works I really like, but whose vast majority of outputs I tend to ignore.
You're around if not exactly at the same age when we first met, and I was for the first time articulating my ideas and feelings about anime. I never did write a comprehensive framework, nor even address the thing as a whole "anime." It was strange because I had a mature outlook towards created works but was only a beginner in (in)formal anime appreciative writing. The clear difference between us is that you've been writing and talking about anime for all your life (approximately) and you have lived in, through, and away from it.
...Just like me these days. This is why this post speaks to me -- not so much the content: I don't disagree with it even if I don't really have much to say about it or have feelings about it; but what I feel is how it got here. You've lived lifetimes it seems to me. I have as well. And now anime to me is just another medium that has works I really like, but whose vast majority of outputs I tend to ignore.
Watch Pluto. It's an achievement.