Anime can invite you into worlds you didn’t know before : NPR

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The cover of the VHS tape informed me it was an anime, so I was video game to instantly enjoy it. My bro and also I– neither people old sufficient for primary school yet– took a seat, and also what played blew our minds.

Instead of animation numbers and also histories, we were dealt with to scenes of the countryside.

This is some docudrama or dramatization– the grownups existed to me!

But it was discourteous to instantly leave the space or shut off the video clip, so under adult pressure, we maintained viewing.

I went to an age where if it had not been an anime, I had not been interested. But the visuals began to attract me in.

And when a van came …