Otaku. Introduced to anime in 1966...Marine Boy, Astro Boy, Tobor the Eighth Man, Gigantor, Kimba the White Lion and Speed Racer. We were...anime and I...separated for decades until a fellow comic book street dealer gave me Vampire hunter D, IcZer One and The Trunks Special on one VHS tape. I didn't stand a chance.
I am a binge watcher. Months or years will pass by with no anime...and then...for the next few years...its just anime. I don't mean watching a series in a few days. I mean watching 20 to 30 series back to back for months on end. I'm almost due again. One of my anime cornerstones is the Korean drawn classics...Wicked City, Demon City Shinjuku. Wind Ninja Chronicles, Goku Midnight Eye, Cobra and the delicious Cyber City Oedo 808. These I can revisit over and over. Grave of the Fireflies left me ragged. Saikano is a head shaking piece of work. Of course I am a Ghibli fan....Miyazaki is the bomb....with Laputa probably my fav. Which brings me to now. Spirited Away and Stein's Gate are loaded and ready to fire when I begin again.
As you can tell my ass is old. I stopped regular movie going after the last Gojira. Free movie tickets I will use once in a blue moon and outside of sci fi (I am a Babylon 5 fan.) I stay away from Hollywood. Sci fi tv series yes...but anime is my bread and butter. Good article. Later. Arigato gozaimasu.