I was just a toddler when I first got introduced to anime. I would wake during the wee hours of the morning to catch them on old school Sci-fi, and it grew into a healthy addiction by the time I was a teen. I have drawn anime for what seems like most of my life and while over the years I gradually tapered off in pursuit of other art styles & mediums of expression, it remains to this day as my primary 'doodle' style, and it's easy to see why.
Anime is in my opinion, a beautiful balance of giving more than enough with seemingly very little. The style is often light and lacking in extensive detail (not all of course, but a vast majority) and compensates for this in its almost unnatural ability to capture emotions, movement and the literal FEEL of the story being told.
Exhibit A - the visual representation of why I am such a beast at fighting games.
Anime taught me more about the real demons in this world than anything else. Not even my parents dared tread on these topics -
war & famine (Grave of the Fireflies - by Studio Ghibli)
heartbreak & teen suicide (Colourful - based on the novel by Eto Mori)
even betrayal & friendship (Akira - by Katsuhiro Otomo)
Yet anime tells these stories with ease and encourages us to do our best in the midst of turmoil. It has shown me how to be brave in the face of adversity and how to gather inner strength for a worthy cause.
Truly, without anime I would not be even a fraction of the artist that I am today. I would probably still be an artist, but a real lame one by comparison.
So the next time some uncultured swine tells you some nonsense like
"you still watching them cartoons?"
be sure to-
PUNCH THEM IN THE FACE.
HARD.
BECAUSE THAT KIND OF IGNORANCE SHOULD NOT EXIST IN THIS WORLD. đ
Thanks for indulging me with my anime fan-girling and until next time fellow Steemians,
Peace!
All the illustrations (with the exception of the pics that were included for the movie references) are original and were done by moi
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