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Hi, my name is Nijaskan (not really Nijaskan, it’s a made-up name). I’m 30+ years old, maybe a bit too old for this, right? I used to watch anime as a kid on TV, from the late ’90s to the mid-2000s. A lot of them were those infamous 4Kids Entertainment versions. I loved Dragon Ball Z, Pokémon, Saint Seiya, Digimon, and Yu-Gi-Oh. My first contact with manga was around that time too, with an issue of Fushigi Yugi that I found weird and didn’t continue reading, and I also read some Ragnarok manhwa. After that, I had a long hiatus from anime and manga (though I did watch Trigun during that time). Back then, I spent my free time playing sports with friends or gaming. I thought about downloading anime or reading manga, but my internet was terrible, and I didn’t know where to find what I wanted. I got back into anime in 2012 when a high school friend recommended Another, Elfen Lied, and SAO, and I liked them. Around that time, I started collecting Dragon Ball manga. But as a teenager, I was more into video games and music, so I didn’t watch or read much beyond those. As an adult in 2015, I was part of online forums where users always talked about anime, and I wanted to join in. I was also dealing with depression, and those forums were basically my only socialization. So, I asked for recommendations for more mature or different stuff from the battle shounen I used to watch and started binging them one by one. The first ones I watched were Cowboy Bebop, Evangelion, and Black Lagoon, plus all the well-known Studio Ghibli films (the only one I’d seen as a kid was Spirited Away). I was blown away and just wanted to see more and more. After watching a bunch, I created this MyAnimeList account in 2016 to keep track of what I’d seen. In the early years, I binged a ton of episodes. But my pace has naturally slowed down, and now I watch at a much calmer rate. I probably won’t finish my backlog before I die since I don’t focus my free time on anime and manga like I did from 2016 to 2019. I also enjoy gaming, watching Western cartoons, and movies. There are things from 2019, 2020, and 2021 I marked to watch when they were new, and I still haven’t started them. Besides splitting my time with other hobbies, I’m pretty disorganized and deal with chronic anxiety, which slows down my anime consumption. In 2019, I got back into collecting manga. My first purchase was Ghost in the Shell, followed by Gunnm: Battle Angel Alita, and I’m still picking up some titles today. Most of the manga I read comes from my physical collection because staring at scans on a computer screen fries my eyes. Maybe that’s another reason I don’t read as much manga as I’d like? Could be.

So, what do I like in anime and manga? I enjoy both violent, epic fighting series like Hokuto no Ken and cute, funny, relaxing moe stuff like Yuru Yuri. I’m also into isekai, sci-fi, and stories about slaying demons.