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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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."I was typically the only Hispanic student in my class. I don't recall having a teacher with a Latin American background in any of our schools. And my parents at the time subscribed to the school of thought that our family needed to assimilate to the dominant culture, to be more American than any other American.
Researching anime titles led me down rabbit holes that challenged those worldviews and exposed me to more.
I started asking What is this and why is this more and more.
I still get captivated by the visual and musical storytelling inherent in anime. But it's the fuller experiences that stick with me, even as an adult — the perspective of a child as a family welcomes a new baby (Mirai); the stories we tell about ourselves aren't always based on hard facts (Millennium Actress); how few people are straight-up villains the way Disney liked to do (Mononoke-hime — yes, go watch it).
Anime films still prompt me to ask — and invite me into worlds I didn't know before."
..."I was typically the only Hispanic student in my class. I don't recall having a teacher with a Latin American background in any of our schools. And my parents at the time subscribed to the school of thought that our family needed to assimilate to the dominant culture, to be more American than any other American.
Researching anime titles led me down rabbit holes that challenged those worldviews and exposed me to more.
I started asking What is this and why is this more and more.
I still get captivated by the visual and musical storytelling inherent in anime. But it's the fuller experiences that stick with me, even as an adult — the perspective of a child as a family welcomes a new baby (Mirai); the stories we tell about ourselves aren't always based on hard facts (Millennium Actress); how few people are straight-up villains the way Disney liked to do (Mononoke-hime — yes, go watch it).
Anime films still prompt me to ask — and invite me into worlds I didn't know before."
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