Sunday, January 30, 2005
Anime-nia!!
The Sunday Times published an article, (3 pages altogether) on ANIME-NIA!! Explaining why anime was so big nowadays. It was totally awesome. I am so going to send them an email and tell them how much I love it!!
I am so going to cut out the article and laminate it! Hehe...
Anyway, the newspaper article also said that if we had a passion for anime, they would like to hear from us. Here's my email to them. [stlife@sph.com.sg]
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Subject: Passion for anime?? More like obsession to me!
Heehee, as the subject stated, anime is not really a passion but an obsession to me.
My name is Judith, or going by my penname as my anime friends know me by, Chibified Kitsunes and I just turned 18 in December. My mum thinks I'm too old for anime, my siblings think I'm childish and some of my friends think I'm way too obsessed.
Like many other parents, my mum thinks anime is a waste of time and money. Some people prefer to just collect the manga or the anime series, some others prefer to collect anime merchandise. I fall under the category of both, collecting the series AND the merchandise.
When I saw the article on the front page of Life this morning, I squealed in delight. I was ecstatic at the fact that Life had published such an article as anime isn't very big in Singapore. I was also really jealous that those 4 people were able to cosplay characters from my favourite anime Naruto. If I was given the chance to cosplay, I would gladly do so. Hand me a costume and I'll hop right into it.
I admit I am an anime otaku. The interest started at the end of Secondary 2 when my friend brought some mangas to school. From then on, anime and manga has had an unbreakable hold over me. I spent most of my pocket money borrowing mangas from a nearby comic shop with my friends.
Many of my non-anime fanatic friends ask me what's so good about anime, especially Naruto. Naruto is one of the few animes that really touched me, it relates so much to real life seeing Uzumaki Naruto trying to get the village he loves to accept him for who he is, not for the monster inside of him. The way he strives so hard to achieve his dream is like any other person in real life.
Naruto struck me so hard, that I started TRULY getting into anime, joining forums, downloading the anime and manga chapter by chapter, episode by episode, collecting posters, buying the merchandise. I spend most of my time writing fanfiction on Naruto too. I have to admit though, I was a little surprised Life didn't mention anything about fanfiction.
Not only did I do all those, I even started making friends around the world who shared my interest. Even they would attest to the fact that anime is the best, or in internet language (|337), pwnz. I even went for my first anime convention where I met some of my online friends for the very first time. It might sound dangerous but it was not, meeting people who really understood your love made it all the more worthwhile.
My love for anime has made a huge impact on my life and I wouldn't change it for the world.
Finally, I would just like to add...
I AM PROUD TO BE AN ANIME OTAKU!!!!!!!
Judith Chen aka Chibified Kitsunes
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Posted by chibified kitsunes at 16:45