OK, Ok, ok so you might have heard the phrase “Gotta catch ’em all” and you might think this blog post is going to be about Pokémon, but surprise IT’S NOT. This blog post is going to be about anime, and yes I think Pokémon is an anime, but I am going to add other anime in the blog post too, like Naruto, Demon Slayer, One Piece, Dragon Ball Z, ect. Well anime is something I have seen a lot of, but there was a time before I knew of anime, and I am going to talk about how I came to like it. So grab your popcorn and drinks and now let’s get started. I was a very little kid when this story starts, my dad loved this anime called Dragon Ball Z and he would show it to my brother a lot, but never me. He said I was to young to watch it but I didn’t really care so I never thought about it too much. Once I was about to turn five my dad figured I could watch some, I didn’t really know what it was, I just thought of it as a dragon that played with a ball. I wasn’t sure what the z was for but as I said I didn’t really think of it that much. When I watched it, oh boy it was really cool but really weird, it was a cartoon but it looked Japanese, I just thought it was really cool. This may be a strange one, but for all of his powers and skills, Goku has only killed two people, I thought he would have killed more people (or villains). Throughout the course of the entire series. As a main character, and the most powerful character, Goku gets into some pretty intense fights on his journey and faces down evil characters on a regular basis. Imagine fighting evil people like Goku does.

So this paragraph is going to be about Demon Slayer. This anime was made in 2019, and it is my favorite anime. A whole bunch of people were talking about this movie from a anime called demon slayer, I didn’t know what it was but I was interested. So when I got back home I searched it up on a anime site, it was a very popular anime so I started watching it. My dad didn’t want me to watch it so I stopped for a bit, then a few months after It was my birthday I asked my dad if he can watch the anime with me and he said yes, so we started watching and finished the first season. Then we watched the movie which was awesome. After a year of waiting the second season came out and we watched the first episode immediately, and I am waiting for the second episode to come out. Some Demon Slayers are cursed with a mark. Tanjiro is the most prominent example of a Demon Slayer who has a mark on his face. However, he isn’t the only one. There are certain things that is required for Demon Slayers in order to procure that mark which involve surviving near-death experiences, wherein their body temperatures and heart rates are below very specific numbers. Which is very cool in my opinion.

Naruto, the second anime I ever watched. Also it’s one of my favorite anime, demon slayer is my first of course. My friends and I created a club just for liking Naruto, I really liked it back then. Don’t get it wrong I still like it but it’s not my favorite anymore. I was Naruto for 2020 Halloween, that was cool. I still try and watch it, but it’s not that interesting from back then. Naruto’s name is based on the food narutomaki, that’s funny Naruto’s name is named after a food. It is a topping for ramen that has a pink or red spiral design in the middle. Narutomaki’s spiral-shaped patterns are supposed to represent the Naruto whirlpools found in the strait (which is a bridge).

I used to watch this anime with my brother, it’s called One Piece. It’s a very old anime, even my dad heard of it when he was a kid, and that says something. I watched it with my brother, and I like it. It was about a pirate wanting to find the One Piece, which makes any pirate the king of pirates. It is a very long anime, it has up to a 1,000 episodes, which is very long. My brother is almost done with the anime, he’s 780 episodes in. That’s a lot of episodes watched. Growing up, Oda the author of One Piece, found inspiration in many of his childhood cartoons and manga. Among his favorites was Vicky the Viking, a 1970s animated television series that piqued his interest in pirate stories. However, in terms of manga, Oda was a big fan of author Akira Toriyama and his work including Dr. Slump and the hugely popular series Dragon Ball, which is one of my favorites.

My Hero Academia is a very good anime. I found out about it from my brother and my dad, I really like the main character, also known as Deku who inherited a power or quirk from a hero called almighty, the number 1 hero. It’s no secret that My Hero Academia was heavily inspired by American superhero comics and movies. The biggest inspiration came from Spider-man. No wonder Deku is so talkative. To Horikoshi (that’s the author), Spider-man is what comes to his mind when thinking of what it truly means to be a hero. To Horikoshi, a hero is someone who helps and brings reassurance to others, Deku does want to be a hero who helps people (the friendly neighborhood hero), which to him is what Spider-man is all about. He built My Hero Academia around this philosophy.
The fact that Spider-man is also a teenager helps fit the school setting of MHA as well.

Thanks for reading this blog. I’ve been wanting to do a blog like this for a while, and I finally did it so make sure to write in the comments of how you liked it. Well see you soon, adios amigos!