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Anime Relations: Bleach

I’m often asked by friends and family why I like Anime so much. I mean I talk about it a lot and every time trying to find an answer among the surge of emotion that comes with the question is hard, really hard. Why do I like anime so much? When I look back on my life anime kind of just appeared, my childhoods fondest memories are watching one more episode of YU-GI-Oh before bedtime or doing like five press ups and being pissed I didn’t look like Goku. Back then I didn’t know that was Anime, it wasn’t until I was sixteen and my Cousin said check out Bleach that I got introduced. To put it bluntly I hated the way I looked at sixteen and I felt my personality wasn’t winning any prizes either. As corny as it sounds every time I watched an episode of Bleach and saw Ichigo get the sh*t kicked out him I felt better like “there’s someone who has it worse”. I mean he had friends (girls too) and Abs but I was willing to look past that. I didn’t know it then but a mentality was building up inside me a mentality that’s common when you watch too much Shounen. When Ichigo was down and the enemy who was on the verge of killing him was taking this moment to narrate their victory (as you do) music started to play it wasn’t much just a sound like enenenuh (sorry I can't sing) but every time it played Ichigo would stand up and you knew the badass comeback was starting. To be honest it made me feel like I could be strong too. So if I was to list a struggle in my life I could definitely list an Anime or Manga that helped. From the first anime’s I watched that inspired me like Code Geass and Your Lie in April, to the anime’s that pushed me over the edge when I was sad like Gurren Lagann (Ep 8 ugh), to Yona of the Dawn, Tokyo Ghoul (Manga), The Breaker (Manhwa), Mongolian chop squad, A Silent Voice and so much more. Anime and Manga are largely the reason I’m me and I’ll never hide that fact. I write, draw, practise martial arts and learn Japanese pretty much entirely due to my inspirations. So anyway a long way of asking ‘What anime and manga influenced your life in some way?’

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Ps. The Bleach sound is called the Precipice of Defeat.