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When I was a kid, I watched anime without really understanding what it was, such as Dragon Ball Z and Ghibli films. It just depended on what VCR my family happened to buy. As anime came to television, I recorded Shaman King every Saturday morning so I could watch it later, but I still didn't really understand what made anime so different from everything else. It was appealing to me, and that was all.

It wasn't until I was in college, when online media was taking over the world and Attack on Titan was exploding in popularity that I started to consider anime as its own medium. When I saw Eren get eaten by the titan, that was when I realized just how crazy and awesome anime could be. It was different from everything else, and I wanted to see more of it! I started searching out other series. My boyfriend recommended Bakemonogatari to me, and although it took me a few tries to adapt to the dialogue, once I did, I was invested. I thought to myself, "This is it. This is what anime is capable of!" I was completely engrossed in the characters, the complex ideas of anthropomorphism, the animation, the tone - everything about the Monogatari series had me hooked.

But the final straw that sparked my love for anime was in 2017 when I watched Land of the Lustrous and Made in Abyss. Seeing Phosphophyllite struggling to make a better place for gems to live, wanting to have a meaning but finding it hard to value himself - Reg and Riko traversing the Abyss, how desperate Reg was to keep Riko safe and how their lives were always at stake - after literally sobbing for an entire episode each, I realized that: ANIME IS THE BEST THING EVER - and that I was undeniably an Otaku! XD