Well I don’t know about any one else’s reason for watching anime, but all my life I considered anime to be my way of life. Weird I know, but trust me it makes sense. Well I know a lot of you hate sad stories, but I hope you just suck it up and listen to why I watch anime…..

Ok it all started when I was about 4 and I began to watch Sailor Moon. I liked it at first but I never really got into it until well, the 1st time I saw my mom and dad fight. The more they fought and the more yelling I heard the more I concealed myself into my own little world watching Sailor Moon and imagining myself fighting evil the way she did. Well after that I found that I liked to be alone a lot and that I wrote down almost everything that came to mind, I know it sounds like I needed therapy but I didn’t I just found it easier to be alone is all.

Well this is where I became more intone with anime….The very first time I saw my dad hit my mom. Man that was the ugliest day of my life, but hey Sh*t happens. Well that night I guess you could say I made a sort of promise to myself; I would never suffer the way my mom did. So I guess Anime was really a way to let out my frustration, I have made so many stories that put my emotions in that of my main character, letting out anger frustration and other emotions. And this was all before I knew anything of the anime world like Rp and its history and where it came from Fanfics and Fanart, ect. I watched more and more of the amazing art style and complex colors of anime and I began only to watch that…Yes even Pokemon….Anyway…

It was about when I was 12 that I discovered that the fantastic hobbies that I thought were weird thing I only did, other people did too. Well Ever since I proud to say I split up my parents and now live with my mommy and my demon spawned brother and sister in L.A.

Sorry for that sap story guys its just me and my mom were talking last night and I realized that that is how My love for Anime came to be…I know Im weird but I don’t care!

Aww, that really is sad, but atleast ur open about it, And I'm happy that your life is atleast better than it was before. I too have experienced parents that won't get along =(. My Mom would always fight with grandma and my dad would always defend his mom, so chaois woud ensue. Though Anime is an escape to reality, keep in mind that real life has its optimism as well. ^^ But still, Anime sure is alot more thrilling, wouldn't you agree?

Hell yeah! Thats why I watch it constantly, which annoys my mom cause I ignore her when she talks to me...lol

i hate reality shows.siccoms or whateveranime is much more exciting.im like the only one in my grade though.sigh.

i agree, anime is a way of life :nod:

I had something like that, trapping myself in he world I love, When I was... Pretty little, I got up every morning to watch Digimon 3... when it ended I was sad... It made me relise that the world I live in is horrible and imcomplete compared how happy I was in the Digimon world, When I was Pretty Little... I was looking... now more like desperite to find something to trap myself inside, to make me forget how incomplete my life was... even if only for a few moments... when I was little... I put my soul and happiness into the Anime series ending revealing what I really was... I died a little inside, Thinking about it it wasn just Anime, but Videogames, whatever that brought me joy...
Not trying to change the subject but theres a point to this... I had A videogame when i was little "Okage: Shaddow king", well this was when my mom played poker on the PS2 alot so when she got impaciant because I was playing when she wanted too, Now I was preaty far in the game... this was when it had gotten interesting... I thought the story was an amazing twisting tale that I had invested so much of my joy and happiness into but mainly my soul... and I was saving the game, and she pulled out the memory card, and it all got deleted :lol: I died a little more inside...
but getting back to the point, without any videogames I had anime again... And This time I had seperated myself from puting my happiness into... Because there was almost always the same result. But after a while Anime, I had learned to remember that... Its just a show not a form of life that you can be jelous of a die inside over just because YOUR OWN LIFE SUCKS!!!
but come on, Its not like I cant watch a show I like and not envy it... but... I do like to imagin Im there affecting it somehow... We all do at some point right? putting it ourselves in the story? Just my word of advice: dont get carried away...

To sum up all of that up:

Anime is cool