My asian obsession story

If you havent noticed im kind of an Asian freak, like otaku but with all of asia pretty much. So I thought it would be nice to take a journey through the time line of my hobby. Lets reminisce shall we...

It all started when I was a young kid. My grandpa was full japanese and his mother (my great-grandmother) was an immigrant from the old plantation days of Hawaii. As a kid i would spend more time at my grandpa's house then my own. This was where i was first introduced to my asian culture. Whenever i was there i would always watch this show Crayon Shin-Chan with my grandpa. i guess you could say that was my first anime, from crayon shin-chan i started watching kikaida along with other asian influenced shows like power rangers. at the time there wasnt alot of asian presence in the media so i settled for whatever was on kiku. i was amazed that people could communicate in a language other than english (keep in mind i was still 4). that was when i began getting interested in learning other languages.

Sixth grade is when i started getting serious about my hobby. before i just watched whatever was on, but that was before i met paula shiraki. she was a grade above me and i thought she was kind of a weird kid when i first saw her. it wasnt long before i started hanging out with her and her crew and they are the ones who introduced me to manga. i never knew these existed, books and comics of the same show i watch on tv. Dragon Ball Z, Knights of the Zodiac, Sailor Moon, Yu Yu Hakusho the list goes on and on. As my obsession grew and grew i met more people who had the same niche as i did, actually my first girlfriend i met through a friend and we hit it off because we both had the same hobbies. Kinda Nerdy but it works.

As Manga and Anime got more and more poular my intrest for it waned. i didnt like being part of a majority, honestly i still hate it. Paula and the rest of my friends felt the same. It was a normal day in the morning... meet up in the cafeteria hang out all that fun stuff. but then something caught my ear, they had been listening to something i had never heard before. The guitar was incredible unlike anything in our country at the time, then i listened further. The song was not in english... rather it was in japanese. At the time i didnt know it but this small discovery would change me forever.