slesrethRonin

I was collecting anime wallpaper for awhile when I discovered the manga section at the bookstore. I read manga for several years. I rarely bought figures in local stores.

When someone gave me the episodes of Bleach & Naruto off a hard drive I discovered anime in its pure form. With decent acting, not at all like what was seen on American televisions.

I plowed through Bleach I vaguely wondered what I would do when I got to the end not really aware that it was an ongoing series when I saw a fansub website url at the end of the OP.

Within months I was watching everything in sight through nearly all means when I discovered Shuffle!. I thought that the heroine, Shigure Asa, needed a happy ending. Before I realized it, I had a 2d love for the first time. It was also through Shuffle! I discovered eroge and its connection with anime.

It was while searching for eroge that I discovered figurine websites and the irresistible pull of the otaku culture........

^Or so I wrote in my youth.

But, as I sat meditating on my inner geek, I realized my dad basically laid the groundwork. He introduced me to the Marvel comics he grew up with, by watching those 'popular' cartoons from the early nineties.
It took me some time before I realized I had gotten my absolute earliest introduction to Japanese entertainment at a baby sitter's house first. Who's brother let us play his NES, when Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunter's were 'state of the art' in home entertainment.
Before I was old enough to know I was in love, a girl introduced me to anime with Sonic the Hedgehog, as well as Star Wars. We would role play and 'dress up' as our characters, (childhood cosplay?).

From then until standing for several hours at a time in the local department store playing Banjo-Tooie on the N64 and Rouge Squadron on the GameCube with, my dad again. The clerks assumed we were brothers, and not father and son. I guess you can say, like most folks in the dead center of this continent like to say that, “I was, born, bred, and raised", in a certain place. But, it always feels like a galaxy, far, faaar, away.... To me!