Friday, January 30, 2009

Anime: The Greatest Gift to America







Watching anime is one of my favorite hobbies to do next to playing video games. I wasn't into anime that much back when I was younger even though I watched shows, such as Dragonball Z, on Toonami at my grandma's house every day after school. It remained that way until my 7th grade year when I started watching an anime by the name of InuYasha on Adult Swim late at night. After I started watching InuYasha more often, my interest in anime deepened. Later in life, I started to meet more friends who practically breathed anime and my cousins were also getting into this craze even more. As a result, I became as obsessed with anime as my friends and cousins were.

The genre of anime I usually watch is aimed mainly toward action, adventure, thriller, and supernatural. A taste of what these genres have to offer are things such as demon slaying, fast paced gun or sword fights, good amounts of suspense, and characters that everyone can relate to at a certain point in time. My favorite anime show of all time to watch on Adult Swim nowadays is Bleach. Bleach is about an average 15 year old boy named Ichigo Kurosaki who lives the normal everyday life until a Soul Reaper named Rukia Kuchiki appears in the world of the living to battle evil souls known as Hollows. Ichigo then discovers he has powers fit enough to become a Soul Reaper and harnesses them later on in the series to protect the ones close to him and any evil that threatens the world of the living or the spirit world known as the Soul Society. Other animes I like to watch, besides Bleach, are Death Note, Code Geass, Gungrave, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, and Naruto.

2 comments:

  1. Corbin,

    I don't know much about anime, but I do like the artistic styles that make it distinct visually from other forms of animation. You could center your blog around the world of anime, I guess.

    From a writing standpoint, here's what to work on: varying sentence length. You have several sentences that go on and on (and on). It's good to have an occasional long sentence. Short ones are good too. Just try to mix up the sentence lengths. As far as the long sentences go, if you can't say it aloud from beginning to end in one comfortable breath, break it up into two smaller sentences.

    You go, boy! Nurnberg

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  2. Bleach is good... I started watchin it on adult swim and liked it enough to watch every subbed episode availiable... then I ran out... Trigun was pretty sweet too except that it only went for one season! Never thought much of Naruto or Inuyasha... some anime is just too corney for me.

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