Posted on Aug 21, 2023
Anime can invite you into worlds you didn't know before. It does for me
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"The cover of the VHS tape told me it was a cartoon, so I was game to immediately watch it. My brother and I — neither of us old enough for elementary school yet — sat down, and what played blew our minds.
Instead of cartoon figures and backgrounds, we were treated to scenes of the countryside.
This is some documentary or drama — the adults lied to me!
But it was rude to immediately leave the room or turn off the video, so under parental force, we kept watching.
I was at an age where if it wasn't a cartoon, I wasn't interested. But the visuals started to draw me in".
"The cover of the VHS tape told me it was a cartoon, so I was game to immediately watch it. My brother and I — neither of us old enough for elementary school yet — sat down, and what played blew our minds.
Instead of cartoon figures and backgrounds, we were treated to scenes of the countryside.
This is some documentary or drama — the adults lied to me!
But it was rude to immediately leave the room or turn off the video, so under parental force, we kept watching.
I was at an age where if it wasn't a cartoon, I wasn't interested. But the visuals started to draw me in".
Anime can invite you into worlds you didn't know before. It does for me
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