Discovering my artistic side, and love for Japanese animation/comics really gave me a sense of belonging to some degree. I feel good every time I finish an anime series or finish reading a manga until the end, it's like a sense of accomplishment every time I finish them and move on to the next. But if it wasn't for drawing I would have never taken the interest as much as I did. Drawing anime just increased my desire to watch and read it. And I know a lot of people may think that anime isn't fulfilling, but to me it is, for me it really gets me familiarized with how each character lives their life, what hardships and struggles they go through, and how they overcome those problems. A good anime movie that I really liked was The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. My avatar actually comes from one of the male leads in the movie (Chiaki.) It's about leaping through time, as the name encases, but is realistic life-style wise in many ways. It's just fun to watch these characters living out ordinary to unique lives the way real people do every day. Except what really gets me into the characters in an anime is their personalities, and how they function socially. I know they are only animated characters, but they really give off a human feel as they are inspired from humanity.
