Here’s how it happened. I haven’t seen much in the way of anime and my knowledge was limited. I do, however, collect dolls. One of the dolls I got (because I liked how it looked) happened to be based off of a character from Black Butler. Someone on Flickr commented, asking me if I liked Black Butler. I explained that I had never seen it and just wanted the doll. They told me what it was about and I (being me) protested that I doubted very much I would be interested in it. I read about it. Continued to protest that I doubted very much that I would be interested but I might give it a shot.
So I downloaded (egads, yes) the first season and just sort of left it sitting there for awhile. Then I knew I was going to Virginia and that chances were fairly high that I would be looking for something to do later at night so I copied the Black Butler episodes to my hard drive and off I flew. And then I settled into bed the second night I was in Virginia and put my headphones on and I started the first episode. Well, this isn’t too bad, I thought, I’ll watch another.
And then another and another, I was fascinated. I was hooked. Black Butler became the most amazing this I had ever seen. Ok maybe I’m exaggerating a little but I fell in love. (And just so you know I have purchased both dvds for season 1 – something I never would have done had I not downloaded it and watched it for free first.) Again, me being me, I started to research this fantastic discovery of mine. I wanted more!
This was November 2011. This is when I discovered anime and manga (not that I didn’t know it existed, I certainly did) and that it contained a genre that may as well have been made specifically for me. Yaoi. I am not embarrassed to say that I love this genre. And no Black Butler is not yaoi, it was the key that unlocked the door to something I never would have found had I not bought that doll and posted that picture and had that one girl not commented on that picture. Fate was working for me.
I’ve been wanting to share my thoughts on the manga I’ve read and the anime I’ve watched but I hadn’t wanted to do it here. I thought I could create a new page and write entries under that but it doesn’t look like Word Press functions like that. Maybe I’ll just put the reviews behind click-throughs. Mostly I wanted to write my thoughts because my friends aren’t into this stuff and I have no one to talk about it with like I would with tv shows or movies or other books I may have read. It seems funny really discovering this now as an adult of however many years but I’m not complaining. It just means I’m old enough to legally buy the manga I want to read! HA.
