It’s just a matter which had crossed my mind a minute ago. I was thinking about how little my attachment to anime, manga and gaming has become over these years. I could still remember back then I was an avid visitor of iichan and its /dqn/ board. I’ve even followed the raid of a certain white-extremist American internet radio personality, the early days of cracky-chan, the day when first rendition of niconico medley was posted up, and all that.
Nowadays I don’t seem to follow all that anymore. I don’t visit gensokyo.org, I don’t really practice all my touhou games on a daily basis like I used to, I don’t follow 4-6 animes at a time anymore. I don’t go all out on downloading every single mmorpg out there and test each of them.
It’s all those thoughts which I got myself thinking ‘am I mentally aging rapidly?’
Let’s put in abit of data (note that it may not be entirely accurate):
Kevyn @ 2005
Anime downloads per day: 1-12 episodes
Anime series followed simultaneously: 1-6
Touhou activity: Daily
Kevyn @ 2009
Anime downloads per day: 0-4 episodes
Anime series followed simultaneously: 0-3
Touhou activity: Weekly/Fortnightly
Even based on 3 different data alone you’ll see that I’ve greatly slowed down in these areas within 4 years time, almost to a grinding halt if you may call it. My interest in anime I just about as strong as when I started following my first series, but I just don’t know why something’s stopping me from watching them. Perhaps its my assignment load. I’ve just realised that my anime watching frequency dropped a lot when I started working as a trainee.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not going to forcefully bring myself with follow a bunch of animes. Perhaps my interests have shifted to manga instead. I find my manga reading had increase gradually during that period of 4 years as well.
Perhaps it’s the raw, unfiltered story-telling and visual value which the manga-ka presents itself towards their readers without going through the frequently watered down anime productions of today. I find myself wanting to read only the original story-line.
I just hope my mental aging won’t continue to be that bad or else one day you’ll find me getting all amused by looking the cracks of a wall.
I’m really tired so this entry is probably going to have retarded amounts of grammatical errors. Sorry for that.
I will recommend a few mangas in the next upcoming posts. Stay tuned and good night.