So I’m Lime. I’m also OASG’s second Justin, but I probably wouldn’t even be bringing that up were there not already a first Justin, because I don’t really go by my real name online at all elsewhere. It’s just an interesting coincidence I guess that I thought deserved mentioning.
This is my introduction post, and it’s probably going to be all kinds of long. Are these things actually even supposed to be this long??? The two examples that Alpha Justin provided for me were actually pretty short. But whatever, I have a lot to say about myself here, and there are probably no actual consequences for dragging this thing on as long as I want to. Even if there were, it’s too late to get rid of me now. Justin Prime has already vaguely alluded to my existence in the comments of the Winter Anime 2015 post, so the people know. I am here to stay, affixed to this blog like some horrible parasite, feeding off its reader base to expand my own online presence and graduate from my current status as a Literal Internet Nobody.
Anyway.
I don’t actually have much of a history with anime to speak of. I watched some of the dubbed shows that were on TV like pretty much everyone else as a kid, but the only one that actually stuck with me was Digimon. I didn’t really even consider getting into it until I went to SDCC in 2013. I was just there for Homestuck, but the people I was hanging out with kept talking about all the hot new anime, and I had to kind of awkwardly stay out of those conversations because I didn’t know a damn thing about anime at the time. So when I got home I decided I was finally going to fix that.
I didn’t follow through on that plan very thoroughly at first, but I got a Crunchyroll subscription so I could keep up with Attack on Titan, and kept it so I could watch Kill la Kill, and eventually around this time last year I figured since I now had pretty much all the anime at my disposal, I might as well start watching them. So I did that. And I went on to watch loads and loads of anime. Way too many to list here. Just, like, a whole fuckton of anime. That’s all that really needs to be said on the matter.
If I had to pick a favorite anime series, I guess I’d say it’s probably Madoka Magica? I couldn’t totally explain everything about why I like it though. It might have something to do with the fact that it was the first anime I tried watching subbed and also effectively gave birth to my interest in the medium as a whole, but I was actually not all that blown away when I first watched it over two years late. It kind of gradually grew on me in the time since then, from “huh that was kind of cool I guess”, to “wow this is way more emotionally impactful the second time around somehow”, to “time to listen to the soundtrack again and cry at every single song”, to “I’m going to try to collect the Japanese blurays even though I know I can’t actually understand most of what they’re saying without subtitles”. So yeah. Great music, great animation, great characters, etc. Everything’s just Top Notch, basically.
That’s just my opinion though, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned from the internet, it’s that my opinions are generally wrong and terrible. Don’t put much stock in them. If you need any proof of this, I was also one of the people who liked Rebellion. The whole thing. Even the ending. Especially the ending.
Anyway, so now I’m here I guess. I actually found out about this opportunity through the little Twitter bar thing on Muse’s blog, which was basically my first experience with the whole anime blogging scene. And now that I’m here I’m seeing some other vaguely familiar names around this blog, and it’s actually kind of hard to believe that I am now technically among them.
It’s like how way back in the summer of 2008, when I was at the young and easily-impressed age of 13, I found some guy’s terrible sprite comics on a Bionicle forum and was completely blown away by them. So I decided to start making my own even worse sprite comics, and within like a year and a half I had ended up forming a group with the same guy who originally inspired me, as well as a bunch of other people who were about as famous as one can get in the terrible Bionicle sprite comics scene. And together over the next year or so, we basically revolutionized that entire obscure subculture. The indirect impact of our group is still vaguely felt today in some ways by certain people, and can even be very loosely connected through a convoluted chain of events to the founding of an actual cult.
Basically all I’m saying is that I feel like this is kind of similar to that I guess.
Normally this is where I’d tell you about all the stuff I do with my life that ISN’T watching anime, but there’s not actually much to mention. I used to play video games a lot, but now I’m just writing a book about video games instead. It’s called Open World, and it’s pretty cool, and you should check it out. It was actually originally inspired by Sword Art Online – which is to say I watched SAO and thought “wow that really sucked, I wish there was something like this but better”, and then I remembered I had a story idea that was actually really similar, so I started working seriously on it until it no longer really even resembled to the initial premise.
It’s actually kind of funny to think that was how it all started, because I don’t even hate SAO anymore. After two seasons it basically broke me. I have this weird sort of semi-ironic fascination with it, where it never does anything but disappoint, and I never do anything but make fun of it, yet I keep coming back for more. I have a strong, genuine desire to see where this trainwreck of a story will go next. I am sincerely attached to these characters that do nothing but fall in love with Kirito and who the author clearly doesn’t even care about enough to keep around. I am captivated by this fictional near-future world that takes almost every opportunity to make no goddamn sense. I can’t wait for the next season of this awful fucking show.
ANYWAY, I’m going to be blogging Aldnoah.Zero 2 here, which I’ll talk about more in the first actual post for it. I also said in the original email exchange that I wanted to blog Juuou Mujin no Fafnir, which Justin the First lovingly described as “probably the worst anime that airs this season”, but he has yet to actually acknowledge this, so that might be his way of saying he doesn’t want me to??? Maybe I’ll just do it anyway though. It’s kind of tempting. So if thorough examinations of this horrendous-looking harem show start popping up here every week, you know who to blame.