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I watched this Youtube video today regarding the topic “Anime That Made Me Who I Am” which turned out to be intriguing. At first, I immediately thought he was going to speak only about early 90s classic anime, then he mentioned some that I watched only in my teenage years and it kind of dawned on me..how other people view anime. What anime says about them that influenced their ideals of who they are today. What are yours?

Interesting. What video was it, out of curiosity? And what youtuber?

This was sort of tough because I resonated with so many superb animes over the years. Hm. I’ll give it a shot though.

These aren’t in order of best/better or anything.

1. Inuyasha

As a child this was the very first anime that I watched, loved and kept up with. I remember setting my alarm clock to wake up at 4:30am to watch it on adult swim and I would sit so close to my television because the volume was on low and I didn’t want to get in trouble. Inuyasha was an obsession, I was drawn to the ideals of Naraku, I was invested in the time Inuyasha spent with Kagome and I was enamored with the humor mixed with surreal themes throughout the show. As a child I didn’t understand Kagura’s rebellion and I didn’t care about Kana’s devotion. I was intrigued by Sesshomaru’s determination though and Rin’s ability to humanize a demon. As a child this anime was my entire world because it opened my eyes to wanting more of it. I wanted to see more anime like Inuyasha. I have to also add that being as young as I was, Inuyasha for many people like myself was the first anime we all probably understood. It was simplistic and it tackled the audience in a damn good way of who was watching.Inuyasha was also my very first surreal disappointment of a bad ending though. The love and obsession for the show as a whole doesn’t reconcile the pain and agony I felt after that anticlimactic ending.

2. Clannad After Story

Clannad was one of the animes I watched out of sheer boredom. Yes, I heard the sob stories for years and no that isn’t what intrigued me to watch this anime. Believe it or not, I used to be interested in romance animes, I kind of was drawn to how the boring every day school life could be riddled with romance, something I lacked throughout my entire school life. Diving into Clannad you’re not really expecting what comes next to happen..well, next. The anime does a damn good job of execution and plot twists where your attention can focus on multiple things going on and still have an overlaying theme that’s going to hit you like a boulder at the end. It did really well distracting you from the moments where you knew you were crying but you couldn’t hold back smiling either. It knew all too well that you were invested for the characters..the story though, is what damn near killed me. Not just once though, fucking twice. This was the first anime that I actively cried in. That I actively couldn’t believe happened. So let me tell you something—it wasn’t just what happened that made me cry, it was the dialogue given and portrayed that really resonated with me. There’s a crucial scene of Tomoya speaking to his father and if you’ve watched the anime you’re aware of the relationship they had during his childhood and after Tomoya’s tragedy, it is mirrored (fucking PERFECTLY) what his father went through during Tomoya’s childhood that as an adult he faces the same situation in..this scene had me on the floor balling my eyes out because my father and I have the same relationship and it..tore me in half to know after all those years, Tomoya’s father lived FOR Tomoya. And Tomoya damn near ended his life knowing he too had someone he needed to live for. The flashbacks, the music, the dialogue, EVERYTHING about that scene tore me to pieces. It was the way Tomoya said “I’m so sorry, dad” by the way he said “Take care of yourself.” It was the way “Goodbye” wasn’t a goodbye, it was a “Good luck.” It was the way Tomoya had to find it in his cold, angry and distraught heart that he had to realize he was not the only one who was allowed to suffer and be in pain, and that he was selfish as a child to ignoring his father’s pain and dismissing him as a drunk, not as a recovering sudden single parent. That scene is the epitome of brilliance. I watched that anime during a critical time in my life and even while thinking about it I’m reminded of the moments I couldn’t stop crying. It helped me speak to my dad in a different way. It helped me understand him as a person, not only as a parent.

3. Fruits Baskets

I watched this anime as a child, early teenage years and it could not have been at a better time in my life. Getting older this anime actually remains in my top 5 animes to ever exist in my book and I wish more people knew about it, talked about it. Fruits Baskets was the second anime that made me cry. But not just one episode, through most of the damn season. Whether it was a background story or sheer brilliant dialogue delivery and emotion from characters—this show hit on every single milestone as a teenager growing up in the world of misfortunes. The second main character not only is believable in his disdain towards the rest of the cast, but the humor doesn’t take his anger away from him as a character. One of the characters does so well at being his polar opposite, it’s damn near hard to believe he was the reason behind the second main persons demise and embarrassment. The entire cast of characters have unique quirks, they aren’t downplayed and they aren’t over shadowed. As a teenager growing up, there was one episode that changed how I am today. I used to believe there was nothing special or unique about me, I believed I was just on this earth to outlive my parents and that was it. One episode was the true embodiment (to me) of living for the sake of yourself because you owe yourself that, to make something of yourself while you’re here. This episode to this day remains in my top 3 nest executed episodes to date by far, I haven’t seen such a brilliant scene that comes close to it in my twenty one years of a lifespan thus far. This anime changed the way I viewed others, viewed myself and how I became of age. It’s very, very dear to me.

4. Assassination Classroom

I regret not finding this anime sooner. I regret not being obsessed with this anime during my earlier years of high school or later years of middle school. I regret it so much.This anime changed my entire world, from the way others see me up to the very aspect of my being. The character that resonated with me far better than anyone was Karma Akabane. It was the way he was introduced as an antagonist and ended up being the exact direction the show needed to mold around. Karma’s character struck me as interesting from the second he appeared on screen, but it wasn’t his appearance or sinister personality. It was how real Karma was and how afraid he internally was as well. Every obstacle Karma faced and overcame was due to his over confidence that he was just GOOD at everything he tried and does. When he failed the one thing he was confident about, it wasn’t just a strike to his ego, it was his entire nature as a person. The reason I loved his character so much was because life was just life to him, he wasn’t really interested in the outcome, barely even the trail and error. He just wanted results and he didn’t do anything to better them, he knew he was good. When I watched this anime during the year that I did I was at a loss of..direction. I didn’t have motivation and it seemed like life couldn’t hand me a single..reward for all of my wasted effort I was putting into everything. This anime changed my life because it gave me the hope I needed and it helped me understand myself so much more. This show is littered with humour but behind every single smile on the show there were cruel lessons that I just wish could’ve been driven into my head at a younger age than when I stumbled upon it.

5. Naruto

I thought I’d regret adding this to my list but I think in all fairness it deserves to be here. Everyone knows the disastrous ending this anime had and we could debate for another ten years, it won’t change the lessons it taught us that we embodied and will carry with us throughout our life spans.When I stumbled on this anime I wasn’t even in middle school yet. As a child, it seemed like something an average person could enjoy and achieve. I bought naruto stuff, even the book of hand signs and I sat in my room learning the fire style technique hand signs to show off to my brothers for weeks. This was just something as a child I do not regret diving into. It taught my harsh lessons regarding friendships and it taught me lessons regarding hardships and endurance. I was at an age where I wasn’t really appreciative of very many things and as a young kid becoming a teenager, there weren’t many lessons a parent could teach a child without saying “I’ve been there, I know what I’m talking about” because as true as that was, it didn’t help being a child and feeling like your parents were trying to keep you from maturing into your own being with your own views and opinions. Naruto as a child helped me embody those morals and helped give light to what was important throughout life and a massive theme was friendship.As an adult and looking back on those friendships, I’ve learned some of them were one sided and overall toxic but I still don’t regret having them, otherwise I wouldn’t appreciate the ones I have now thanks to knowing what to avoid. Naruto was the anime that drove home “No matter who you are or where you come from, always believe in yourself. And never let friends down.” You’d play the naruto battle theme song while walking to class in middle school and it still probably wouldn’t resonate with you in this day and age how important those lessons were and still are.It had a terrible cluster fuck of an ending but it still remains of the animes that undoubtedly changed my entire life and made me who I definitely am to this day.

#inuyasha #assassination classroom #naruto #fruits baskets #clannad #clannad after story

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