#i’ve been reading noragami since 2016 and i’ve been invested in the series in general since 2015 so

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YUKINE TAT !! how do we feel about noragami (presumably) ending in like 3-5 chapters 🫠

um… well… does this sum it up for you?

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how this all started (weeb edition)

This is a preface of some random writing posts I’m gonna do next... about anime... and why I develop a certain “taste” in stories (LOL)

When I made this blog way back in 2011, I didn’t like Japanese pop culture AT ALL. I just thought most anime fan are degenerates, and so is the source media. But my mom made me and my sister watch Ghibli movies in the next year, and it kinda changed my view about Japanese (and East Asian) media in general.

However, since Ghibli is pretty mild for “otaku culture”, the most view-changing media for me is Japanese RPG horror games I found in mid 2012, the first one is Ib. Then my sister downloaded Mad Father and The Crooked Man in 2013, and well. There’s no way out ever since.

My (non childhood titles broadcasted in TV) anime encounter was started from horror & intense animes, first was Another, then AoT, Tokyo Ghoul in 2014. The one left the most impression for me was AoT, it surely deserve its fame today. However I was kind of traumatized (LOL) since I actually hate gore and blood, so I tried to find milder titles that aired that season. First time I actually watching anime was from Crunchyroll App and I found SAO II. It may sounds silly, but SAO helped me forgetting the horror of AoT XD

While SAO wasn’t my first anime series like most people, it did one of the first. So I was pretty invested with that series, and the fandom as well. That’s when I found Noragami which also aired in the same season... and one of the most impactful title for me as well. It was in 2016 and I remember how I read SAO light novels. In late 2015 I also started doing digital painting and need new fandoms to draw, as well as started reading Webtoons = my introduction to Korean media.

Thanks to SAO, I also found some references regarding a famous character called Saber from a franchise named Fate Series. I was confused what’s with the weird names?? But the characters look intriguing and there’s this artist I follow who keeps drawing Fate fanarts (and they’re look really cool) so I tried to join the bandwagon by started watching Fate/Zero in late 2016 AND BOY IT CHANGED MY LIFE FOREVER. FATE/ZERO LIFTED THE WHOLE ANIME STANDARD FOR ME... EVERYTHING FEELS SO BLAND AFTER I WATCHED IT... and so... I tried to consume every Fate media I can found for free (and no, not the H) until I ran out of them and... Installed FGO for the first time in March 2017.

I’ve been in Fate fandom and never, ever recovered ever since. I no longer following SAO, even when Eugeo arc was aired in 2018. I’m stuck in Fate hell. I tried to watch more seasonal animes and some considered “classics” but none can hold a candle from my impression of Fate/Zero. I started joining comic cons with friends as seller.

However, while up until now I still can’t move on from Fate/Zero, there are several anime titles I can confidently say very enjoyable. And most of them are not even from “big titles” (they have good ratings, but not THAT popular), this is what I’m gonna write in my next posts.