My Blogging for 2021
Today I’ve finished the second anime of the ones I wanted to get back to review and just try to reflect and see how much my tastes and thoughts have changed in the past fifteen years. I even took notes on the second series just to remember my thoughts sometimes so I could include it after watching it all to the end.
I don’t have the energy though to get into the second review today. Too much other stuff in my mind and need a moment to reflect on this. I basically saw 26 episodes in less than 72 hours and watching/reading any form of media under these intense circumstances always lead to an emotional overflow that might affect the outcome of a review for me.
But I felt like writing something, and I like that my instinct to blog again in the evening while my brain is winding down is returning!
So I wanted just to brush lightly over my plans for my blog, to do that I want to go back a bit.
My blog stopped working like 2-3 years ago, or maybe longer, when they changed the PHP version on the servers it was hosted on. I never had the energy or interest to revive it and when I tried I just saw a mountain of work so I refrained from it feeling that my need to reflect outward were still tied to the negative emotions of a previous relationship that is also the cause to why I stopped in the first place. But last summer (2020) I got so much thoughts in my head and taking my super long walks (about 20-30 km) in the middle of the night resolved my issues too slowly. Not to mention it exhausted me.
So I tried to fix the blog. And lo and behold, I fixed it! I had to abandon my favorite theme (K2) and had to spend like 4-5 h in finding a theme that would make me feel comfortable and relaxed with the blog. And then I tried to muster to write again. The same day I fixed it something emotionally horrible happened and I lost all will to do anything else for a while. I tried again a month later but it didn’t take. Too much was going on and it got stuck there in the back of my mind. I have a half-finished review about the Netflix series Dark, but lost most of my thoughts and will to write it down so it’s still just a draft today.
Anyhow then just about a month or so ago I tried to watch some new anime and it was so horrible, every single episode I tried to get into was soooo bad. And just a day or something after when I talked to people everyone LIKED these horrible anime (might be over exaggerating but still). And I started to believe maybe I don’t like anime anymore? Maybe it was just a “phase” and it’s over now. I gone through it and on to the next thing (Japan freak). I couldn’t accept this since I still feel that the fundamental things for me about anime is still true.
So I made a personal commitment. I were to get back into my anime storage, and list all the anime I loved back when I was younger (Anime released before 2005) and see if these anime series still were good or if I had changed. Here is that list, and this list is ranked from what i liked WORST to what I liked the best.
- Karas
- Berserk
- Hellsing (Started today)
- S-cry-ed
- Monster
- My-Hime (FINISHED)
- dot hack Sign
- Gundam Wing
- Serial Experiments Lain
- Now and then here and there
- BECK
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Rozen Maiden
- Noir
- Juuni Kokki
- Scrapped Princess
- Cowboy Bebop
- 3X3 Eyes
- Wolf’s Rain
- Witch Hunter Robin
So most likely most of my posts this year will revolve around the anime above. Together I think they have about 540 episodes á 20 minutes so say circa 180 hours of anime. It is quite a lot. And so far I’ve done about 10h of this. Sooo, let’s see when I’m done with it all. Not to mention that I might also watch adjoining series and movies I haven’t watched to some of these. Like Cowboy Bebop I’ve never seen the movies, and to Rozen Maiden I kind of like all of them (Rozen Maiden, Rozen Maiden:Overture and Rozen Maiden: Träumend). And when it comes to Neon Genesis Evangelion I might also add the movies and the new movies. Time will tell.
Other possible things I might want to get into is Attack on Titan. This IS planned to start a complete rewatch as soon as the Final Season is finished. With that overwith I will focus on watching it all from beginning to end and read all the manga as well to compare it. I will do first the Anime then the Manga.
Outside of Anime I’ve finally gotten over a big hurdle with my game. So I might go back to writing rules updates and discussions about it here. Not to mention I might if these urges reoccur write short stories that comes to mind.
One thing I know though is that I won’t force myself to write. That will probably kill my will to do this again. I remember that it all started with me just wanting to write in the evenings and then it became every evening, and very seldom did it feel like I “MUST” write tonight. Sometimes when I wrote more than one post a day, I split them up over other empty days, but I never forced myself. It was a pleasure and I hope it will return to be that again.
Well, well, lost my steam now since I started watching a live stream on YouTube, but now I think I’ll jump back into Hellsing, before ending this week.
Good night everyone!
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