This seems to be a question that my mind runs through nowadays. Maybe i might be a little paranoid, but i wonder whether i would love anime in three to ten years time. My life has already seen an anime decline, watching from 12 different anime titles dwindling down to 1 anime title in December. This might seem trivial but to me, it is honestly scary. Anime has been a constant for the past 4 years of my life. I can say that I've watched over 210 anime titles since the start of my secondary school life (that was when i really got into anime).
Recently i found myself watching less and less anime. The last one i watched (excluding movies) was Madoka Magica. Whenever i try to watch more titles i suddenly feel lazy. Actually i feel lazy for majority of the things i do but Anime is the only one i never really wanted to let my laziness get in my way. But it unfortunately has. I am quite afraid that one day i would not be interested in anime completely. That thought is scary. Anime has opened a gateway of new things for me, such as wanting to live in Japan and reading light novels and learning how to read and write in japanese.
Maybe the one true reason why i am so afraid is because anime is the only thing holding me up right now. In a sense, i am doing the things i do because i am interested in Japan and working my way towards that goal. But what will happen after i reach that goal? Would i fall into a state of limbo? Would my interest in Japan finally wane and leave me without a goal? This may be some sort of identity crisis that most people my age suffer from but i hope that my mind would become less hazy in the future.
But for now, i will try to follow the path that anime has set for me. Who knows. Maybe i might discover that i really am 'in love' with Japan.
Monday 13 January 2014
Saturday 11 January 2014
Oreimo's light novel - My thoughts
So, this is the first post for the year 2014. I'm going to be talking/sorting out my thoughts on Oreimo's light novel. I agree this is kinda late, but i only recently discovered that it ended before season 2 even finished.
I was browsing on YouTube, watching random videos when i came across one of Kirino and Kyosuke kissing. I went into shock and after a few minutes of stillness started watching the video. Shortly after that i started fan girling and went in search of the light novel ending. I came across many discussions about the epic failure that was oreimo. I searched a little more and found out that many diehard oreimo fans went into rage and destroyed complete collections of their light novels, going as far as to burning them into ashes.
I for one was not a diehard fan of Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai! but enjoyed it well enough. I am a fan of Kirino and kyosuke because i really don't give a flying shit about incest. But as for the ending, i think that it was indeed disappointing but at least i got a kiss out of it right? Well, whatever. There is but one thing i have to say to the author of this series.
You are amazing.
The ending of the novel was definitely a ballsy one, condemning kyosuke to a possible life of loneliess while totally ending the incestuous relationship between him and Kirino. But that is exactly why i admire the author so much. It would be so easy to give in to the oreimo fans, maybe giving a Kuroneko ending or a Ayase ending or even a better Kirino ending. But he didn't! The ending of the light novel was almost like (or maybe it was) a large "Fuck you!" to the fans of the novel, Kyosuke did not end up with anybody and ended up rejecting all possible love routes for the sake of kirino. Whose relationship ended as abruptly as it began.
The author ended it like he wanted it to. That action alone shines through the ending because it says one thing to me. I will end it how i want it too, because it is my novel.
I think that the people who destroyed their light novel books are not actually fans of the light novel itself, but the fictional characters that Tsukasa Fushimi created. Those poor books did nothing at all and suffered the fate of being torn, burnt and ripped. I think that is seriously overreacting. Are they going to do what they did every time something in a light novel doesn't go like they want it to? Sure, i would be pretty angry, probably throwing the book down and sulking for a long time, but in the end i am going to have to accept it. Its like reading a book with no happy ending.
What can you do but accept it? Regardless of what happened in the end, the rest of the book was certainly better than the ending, was it not?
I was browsing on YouTube, watching random videos when i came across one of Kirino and Kyosuke kissing. I went into shock and after a few minutes of stillness started watching the video. Shortly after that i started fan girling and went in search of the light novel ending. I came across many discussions about the epic failure that was oreimo. I searched a little more and found out that many diehard oreimo fans went into rage and destroyed complete collections of their light novels, going as far as to burning them into ashes.
I for one was not a diehard fan of Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai! but enjoyed it well enough. I am a fan of Kirino and kyosuke because i really don't give a flying shit about incest. But as for the ending, i think that it was indeed disappointing but at least i got a kiss out of it right? Well, whatever. There is but one thing i have to say to the author of this series.
You are amazing.
The ending of the novel was definitely a ballsy one, condemning kyosuke to a possible life of loneliess while totally ending the incestuous relationship between him and Kirino. But that is exactly why i admire the author so much. It would be so easy to give in to the oreimo fans, maybe giving a Kuroneko ending or a Ayase ending or even a better Kirino ending. But he didn't! The ending of the light novel was almost like (or maybe it was) a large "Fuck you!" to the fans of the novel, Kyosuke did not end up with anybody and ended up rejecting all possible love routes for the sake of kirino. Whose relationship ended as abruptly as it began.
The author ended it like he wanted it to. That action alone shines through the ending because it says one thing to me. I will end it how i want it too, because it is my novel.
I think that the people who destroyed their light novel books are not actually fans of the light novel itself, but the fictional characters that Tsukasa Fushimi created. Those poor books did nothing at all and suffered the fate of being torn, burnt and ripped. I think that is seriously overreacting. Are they going to do what they did every time something in a light novel doesn't go like they want it to? Sure, i would be pretty angry, probably throwing the book down and sulking for a long time, but in the end i am going to have to accept it. Its like reading a book with no happy ending.
What can you do but accept it? Regardless of what happened in the end, the rest of the book was certainly better than the ending, was it not?
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