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Personal First - I'm wondering if it's common to have a Post-Anime-Depression?

When I finished reading the Harry Potter Series (which I loved) & knew that was it, it was over, there will not be any more books, I was pretty down & depressed for about a week.

As stupid as this is for me to admit, I just finished all 4 seasons of Marmalade Boy & wow I'm very depressed. I want more. I love Miki & Yuu and want to watch them live happily together.

I've had my doubts about Anime (hubby loves them) always thought they were just adult cartoons & didn't think I'd get into any, but... here I am joined an Anime message board, searching youtube for videos of animes and voice actors and such.

I want more Miki & Yuu...

At least for me, I think the reason is that it happens is those books/shows manage to blur the lines of reality, at least as far as emotions go. So I get wrapped up in these characters and storylines and when they are suddenly wrenched away from me... it is like losing a friend.

TheTheory wrote:

At least for me, I think the reason is that it happens is those books/shows manage to blur the lines of reality, at least as far as emotions go. So I get wrapped up in these characters and storylines and when they are suddenly wrenched away from me... it is like losing a friend.

Thank you. I think that is a great way to put it. I'm also glad to know it's common for people to really get wrapped up into stories.

I do wonder what the first BL anime to make it to America was. Was it FAKE? That's the oldest one I recall seeing on shelves.

I cried when watching the Pokemon episode where spoiler[Ash wants to leave Pikachu with the other Pikachus in the forest.] OMG So sad!

... or "first American anime hit." (Was it Gundam or DBZ, anyway? Who has a head for numbers, here?)

First time you cried: Heh, actually I'm not very well known for crying while watching a movie, series, ect. Not to say I'm to "manly" to cry or anything (), in fact I've cried plenty of times before, but just never really during any form of media or anything. Although I will say I have felt an overwhelming amount of emotional power from tons of things before, in moments I'd say I probably would have cried had I been much of a crier for these things. As for the first time it happened? Actually, someone beat me to it.

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I cried when watching the Pokemon episode where spoiler[Ash wants to leave Pikachu with the other Pikachus in the forest.] OMG So sad!

Oh man, I swear that episode had me depressed for such a long time after that! ........ In fact other than the spoiler[Nina episode] in FMA I think that's the only time I've ever been that overwhelmed with emotion..... Probably because I hadn't had a full grasp yet of just how vast anime is in that level of the tearjerker department. I'm sure if I'd watched something like, say, Elfen Lied at that time I would have been traumatized for life........

First purchase: I actually bought some VHS tapes of the original Dragonball (back when pioneer still had it) at a nearby comics & cards store when it was still in business for my very first purchase, but my very first real purchase from an actual video/DVD retailer would have to have been the Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz DVD from our old and late Suncoast. I was just there out of curiosity once since I knew it sold anime, and when I was taking a brief look at that DVD and given my enormous love for GW it said on the back that the DVD contained not only the OVA but the movie version as well, so I felt like I just HAD to get it!

First time sharing it with friends: I don't know how much the whole Pokemon Trading Card craze comes into account here where me and my friends would bring all our cards to school and trade, sell, and play the actual game (and get very much picked upon for such activity as well ), but other than that I'd say it's very much within the realm of Gundam. I remember I used to tape GW uncut at night and me and my best friend would trade it back and fourth. That and he also bought Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket VHSs from the aforementioned cards & comics store that he used to let me borrow as well. In fact one could say that War in the Pocket would be my very first UC Gundam series. I'd also say that it came to be very, very close to one of the first times I (would-be) cried during a series as well. Such a sad series....... but OH GOODNESS is it good!

First time being shocked at the content in anime: Actually, technically would be DBZ. That series I swear got so violent at times I was surprised this was being shown to children, on daytime TV no less! I didn't care though, DBZ has always been awesome anyways. Also in all actuality DBZ also I think led me to some of my first online experiences with anime, in which I found out quite a bit about how much even more content existed in the uncut version, which at the time was even more shocking to me! As far as finding out how truly R-rated anime can get sometimes, that actually didn't come from any series in particular. That came from when I was about 13 years old and my freind of the same age was talking to me about some of the R-rated content he'd seen in other series out there. Though if I were ever to remember exactly the scenes he was talking about I might actually be able to point out what series he was talking about, sadly enough....... But if we were to name a specific series, I'd say when I came to find it out for myself would've probably had to have been Princess Mononoke on Starz, when I was about that same age. I had heard certain things but it only being PG-13 I was kind of shocked that it was as violent/coarse as it was......

First fansubed series: No question is Bleach, but Naruto came not too long after. That one you could give thanks to my 2 college friends who through such means, as well as other means, pretty much helped me open the door to the wider and more vast world of anime outside of Cartoon Network/other american TV networks that ran anime.

First introduction to manga: I'd say it was either the US Jump mag or the first time I started reading Naruto from the beginning, which both pretty much were my first intro into what would eventually become my #1 all time favorite series. Oh my goodness is that one heck of a nostalgic memory!

First time realizing there was "more" to anime: Once again, Princess Mononoke. I almost want to say Gundam Wing, or even Outlaw Star for that matter since, but it truly was Princess Monononke, even if I'd never see anything else of it's caliber for a good 'nother while.

First time getting into the more "mature" series out there: It was on one fatful night in which I had cried myself to sleep (that's another story......) and then woke up at like, 2 or 3 A.M. I started channel surfing and found Adult Swim on CN, knowing that I'd heard about it somewhere else before. The show was Trigun, and I was hooked immediately, and finally decided to start taping it every night. I've been taping Adult Swim every night since.

First shounen experience: I almost want to say Dragonball, but I don't think that counts considering I had no clue what shounen eve was at the time. So in that case it'd definitely have to be both Yu Yu Hakusho and Rurouni Kenshin at the same time. I noted how similar both seemed to be to Dragonball in a lot of ways, which made me research it a little more and eventually found out that such a genre existed. Needless to say I've been an enormous shounen fan ever since, although since both also had a part in leading me to Naruto as well, I honestly have to say that Naruto played a huge part in my love for shounen as well.