One morning, I woke up from a very exciting dream. In that dream, I was happily cheering for Karasuno High School Volleyball club as they were trying to beat Shiratorizawa during their final match before the Nationals. I was ecstatic when they won! The dream was so lucid I could feel the warmth and energy as everyone from our side of the court celebrated. But then, it was time to wake up...
I got out of bed and did my daily morning routine before finally turning towards my PC to get ready for the day when I suddenly felt myself being sucked into my PC until I felt unconscious. The moment I woke up, I was in an entirely different world.
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"Where am I?" I asked myself but when I looked at the surroundings, I somehow got a vague idea of where I was. The place was mystical. It was like my world, but better. The place was more colorful and detailed. It just felt so surreal.
I got back into my senses when I heard someone welcoming me to this new world. That robotic type of voice asked me to customize my character and to choose my traits, skills and so on. It was oddly familiar. It was as if I was asked to create my game character, however, it was different. I was experiencing it first hand. I was the character.
"Wait... is this Sword Art Online?"... but I don't remember wearing the nerve gear.
Have I been isekai-d? ... but there was no "truck-kun".
Despite all these questions, I continued and customized myself the way I wanted it to be. Shortly after, I was transported to the continuation of my dream before I woke up that morning.
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I hope you enjoyed the short story above.
I am a huge fan of sports anime. I have watched and rewatched loads of them, so if given the chance to be an anime character, I'd really love to be someone who has the ability to traverse one anime to another, especially sports anime ones but it's not limited to just that.
The setting would be like this...
In my own anime world, I am an ordinary otaku girl who is bubbly yet introverted. (This is typically me in real life) I live an ordinary plain life with my family, but I have a secret I couldn't tell anyone and that is the ability to transport from one anime world to another.
In order to escape my boring life, I get the chance to explore other anime worlds. It's like a cross-over of my slice of life anime and the anime of my choice. Also, each time I travel, I can become someone who I want to be and the characters in that particular world would automatically register my existence in their brain, so it's just as if I have always been there.
Take for example, in one of the episodes of my anime, I decided to go to Haikyuu! Whenever I travel to their world, I'd be registered as a manager of Nekoma volleyball team (because they don't have one in the real anime). And of course, since I'm the protagonist, the setting would be in my point of view.
Then in another episode, I'd travel to the world of One Piece. Then, I'd be one of Zoro's friends and I'll be telling the strawhats the story behind Zoro's zero sense of direction.
It's not only me who's leaving an impact on the cross-over anime characters, but in the end of every episode, I'd learn something from them which will eventually change my views in life. My then boring life would slowly see the light thus leading to my own character development.
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I know it might sound cliche... boring, even! However, I just want to explore as many worlds as possible and become as many characters as I can. I mean, wouldn't it be amazing to experience living in various anime worlds? Let me narrate a scene in my anime below. :)
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It was my day off from work and as usual there isn't anything exciting to do. Well, my introverted self is keeping me from going out with my friends that I even lied about working today just to decline their invitation. I don't know, I just don't feel like spending time with people these days. And by people, I mean people from my own world. However, traveling to another world and becoming an entirely different person is another story.
From my bowl of crystals, I took out a piece and transported myself to the world of Inazuma Eleven. Upon arriving in that world, I transformed into one of the players of Raimon soccer club and I see myself training with the other club members. We were challenging a new hisatsu as preparation for the football frontier. After practice, we went to coach Hibiki's ramen shop to eat together and plan out other things for our club.
"Ahh... it really is amazing to spend time with you guys. Even the most challenging things become easy!" Endou exclaimed.
"Why are you being dramatic, captain? Is it because of the ramen?" Kabeyama jokingly asked, "but really. I'd have to agree. I'm grateful to have friends like you." he continued before continuing to eat his ramen. "Aaaaaahhhhhhhhh", he shouted while spitting fire all of a sudden.
We all looked at Kogure who is sheepishly laughing with a bottle of tabasco on his hand like the usual. It's expected of the resident prankster. We all went our own ways after spending a couple more hours together.
Spending time with them as a part of a team, I realized how simple things like eating out with friends can strengthen our bonds and make our lives easier because we are aware of the undying support that we had.
I chanted the usual phrase and was then brought back to my own world. I immediately contacted my friends and asked them out simply to hangout at some cafe or do some shopping together.
"Ohh.. it's a miracle for you to invite us out first. What did you eat?" They facetiously asked.
I just smiled at them and answered, "Nothing special. Just some ramen with lots of tabasco! Let's go!"
By the way, this is my entry for OCD Community Boost Contest S2 #3: Highlighting The Anime Realm. Simply click it to check out the original post. :) Thanks for reading. :)