Dec 30 2008
I Think You Just Broke My Brain
If you’re an anime fan, there’s a good chance that you have one those friends. The friend that doesn’t actually have any interest in anime but you know that if you just found the right title, they could be swayed. Naturally, I have a friend that fits that description. When it comes to anime, her and I are on two different planets and there’s nothing wrong with that but no matter how long I’ve known her, I’ve always wanted to sway her over. Not for any real reason, mostly just for the challenge.
My first attempt at getting her into anime was with the series ‘Higurashi no koko ni’ (released in the US as ‘When They Cry’). This is one of my favorite horror series of all time and I really thought that the psychological aspect of this series would be right up her alley. Instead she couldn’t past the early cute stages between Keiichi and Mion. ‘It’s the eyes,’ she would later confide in me.
Over the months, certain progress has been made. She’s grown to enjoy bishie art work and she thinks yaoi is one of the greatest inventions known to man. Not quite the victory that I was hoping for but certainly enough to call it a half win.
Fast forwarding a few months though brings us to yesterday when I got an IM from this friend. So, there I was sitting in front of my laptop just kind of getting some work done when suddenly a message appears on my screen. It is from my friend and contains a link along with the message ‘whoever made this obviously owns cats.’ My curiosity piqued, I clicked the link and proceed to fall to the floor.
She found an anime. An anime that she enjoys and finds entertaining enough to watch more than one episode of.
It was ‘Chii’s Sweet Home’.
The impossibly cute series aimed at children about a kitten with three minute episodes. For months I racked my brain trying to find the proper adult series for her and THIS is what it took in the end. It took me ten minutes to form a reaction to this but when I did all I could say was ‘I think you just broke my brain.’
