so like - me and my dad basically got into video games and anime at the same time and i was a 90s/early 2000s kid. i watched a lot of pokemon and cardcaptors as a kid and given that whenever i would visit my dad every other weekend, we learned about anime and manga together. we lived really close to my city's japantown, so we'd visit it quite often - we used to rent and buy a lot of anime from the dvd place there (which still exists, even though they don't do rental anymore) so i have huge nostalgia there.
growing up, there was also a lot of games in my household, too - we had pretty much all the consoles at the time: the n64, ps1--and eventually we got the xbox, too. one of the first games that i experienced in full and still remember fondly is final fantasy 7. i still remember crying at the end of disc one tbh. i didn't understand a lot about the game's themes until i was older and decided to play it on my own, but i still have so much fondness there...
i also have a lot of ridiculous stories about how i used to be seen as someone who was pretty !?!? for even having a video game console.
and speaking of nostalgia - i actually spoke on how i went to japan in 2006 recently on a stream and how i went to the ghibli museum and had a lot of experience with the anime culture there which was buckwild... and i also spoke on how like, i had majora's mask and played it when i went overseas in 2007? i think? and spooked myself because i, a dumbass, played it in the wee hours of the night, while it was dark outside, and had link nuke himself with the moon by playing song of double time. i had nightmares for the next couple of days bc of that.
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so like - me and my dad basically got into video games and anime at the same time and i was a 90s/early 2000s kid. i watched a lot of pokemon and cardcaptors as a kid and given that whenever i would visit my dad every other weekend, we learned about anime and manga together. we lived really close to my city's japantown, so we'd visit it quite often - we used to rent and buy a lot of anime from the dvd place there (which still exists, even though they don't do rental anymore) so i have huge nostalgia there.
growing up, there was also a lot of games in my household, too - we had pretty much all the consoles at the time: the n64, ps1--and eventually we got the xbox, too. one of the first games that i experienced in full and still remember fondly is final fantasy 7. i still remember crying at the end of disc one tbh. i didn't understand a lot about the game's themes until i was older and decided to play it on my own, but i still have so much fondness there...
i also have a lot of ridiculous stories about how i used to be seen as someone who was pretty !?!? for even having a video game console.
and speaking of nostalgia - i actually spoke on how i went to japan in 2006 recently on a stream and how i went to the ghibli museum and had a lot of experience with the anime culture there which was buckwild... and i also spoke on how like, i had majora's mask and played it when i went overseas in 2007? i think? and spooked myself because i, a dumbass, played it in the wee hours of the night, while it was dark outside, and had link nuke himself with the moon by playing song of double time. i had nightmares for the next couple of days bc of that.