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I don't know why I love anime so much.

I've been unknowingly watching anime my whole life. As an Indian kid I never got to watch the popular American cartoons, we didn't get badly dubbed One Piece in India. But what we got was episodic anime like Doraemon, Shin Chan, Ninja Hattori etc dubbed in Hindi and they were awesome. But sadly most of them have now disappeared from Indian television.

In High school I discovered anime and I felt like I found the part that was missing from my life, I found myself in anime, I was and am a loser and I felt represented in anime. It was like when you find a soulmate and they resonate with you on every level. It was like I was made for anime.

Saying that feels pretty cringe now because like all things anime also has become worse in my eyes as time has passed. I was a teenager back then and fanservice was a thing I loved about anime, because they weren't afraid of showing these things that other media treated like the boogeyman. Anime felt more adult, but now as an adult I cringe at most fanservice anime.

Time kept flowing, I got into more and more anime. And I started to get tired of most anime nowadays. And even the good ones don't make me feel exactly how I felt back then. Maybe its adulthood or the passage of time. I can't go back to those days when I was happy.

But almost 10 years later, still going strong watching anime, even though my friends have dwindled on their interests, I still find myself coming back to this medium. This god forsaken devil spawn that has ruined my life, that people treat as the antichrist, I am still a servant to.