chris49ford

"Aging Otaku" ha ha, that is both amusing and scary. "All I Got To Keep In The Divorce Was My Anime" yes, my interest/obsession with anime may have been one of the contributing factors to the dissolution of my marriage. Although I had been vaguely aware of anime all of my life (In 1984 when I was in fourth grade I couldn't wait to get home and watch Voltron -- Although the version us American kids got to see was a cut and paste butchery of the original Go Lion series) it wasn't until say the early 2000's I was up late one night and came across FLCL on adultswim - I was blown away! It just resonated with me - the artwork, the music, the whacked out story line. Then I saw Evangelion, and I have considered myself an anime fan ever since. Recent watches: Watamote, Soul Eater, Ef's Memories and Melodies, anything Makoto Shinkai (5cm per second was beautiful), SAO, AOT, Gunbuster. I am devouring all things in the Hayate the Combat Butler frachise, and just got my hands on volume 22 of the manga. I regularly attend local cons Otakon Katsucon and Anime USA.