Your intro as well as mine!

I first started watching anime because it was recommended to me by my friend Zack. I was already out of high school and got to witness the stigmas attached to watching anime first hand during my time there. People ranging from the overly obsessed, to the socially repressed types that spend all day in Japanese class.  I approached it carefully to say the least when I started. Growing of the tired of all of our so called "reality" programming here in America I decided I would fire up Zack's recommendation (Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood).

 I was quite captivated, it was all the action I wanted in a show, with a great plot to complement it. Things were going well and Zack and I discussed the first few episodes over Skype. I told Zack that I liked how I didn't have to put up with any bad acting, or weak filler episodes, and rattled off praises about the show in general. I went back to watching, starting to rethink my negative connotations toward it. That is of course until I reached episode 4. Now I don't know if it was how creepy this episode was or the stylized humor scenes, but it bugged me. I stopped watching for about a month until my friend Zack asked me what I thought of FMA: B. I had to tell him that I had stopped. Exasperated he brought up some plot point that sounded really interesting that I had missed (I’m leaving it out for sake of spoilers). Long story short both Zack and FMA: B hooked me into anime from there and I haven’t looked back.

Now that I’ve offered a little insight into my past; just where am I going with all this? Well fast forward to a little over a year since my story. I am still very much into anime, having watched about 40 different series. However I realized while discussing anime with my friends, that I enjoy that almost as much as watching it. So I decided that I should manifest that into other forms of media and offer useful commentary on anime. A month ago I started co-hosting a podcast about anime @banzaibeat and my latest project is this blog. I may also be expanding to YouTube and twitter. What can you expect to see on this blog? You know that’s a really good question, I’m sure I will be doing show and/or episode reviews as well as offering just some general commentary, beyond that we will have to see. I will try to post to this blog every day, and will keep you updated with the other mediums of media I offer.