That is the noise in my head that I made when my life made one more step to completion. Today I bought Bakuman vol. 1. I cannot tell you guys how beyong excited I am about it. BUT I'MMA TRY ANYWAY!!! So like story time~
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I've always been an anime fan. Just always have. From things like Samurai Pizza Cats to Flint the time Detective to Outlaw Star to Rurouni Kenshin and so on an so forth. But that was my past, as I grew older I grew farther away from anime. For a while I became particularlly attached to manga, but in time even that began to fade. I was considering myself less and less of an anime/manga. I found myself vanishing into the distance. I would watch the occassional anime. Read some mangas that I liked. And look at art, but it was all rather half-hearted. One day I was browsing through one of my favourite artist on dA. They often posted spoilers for Naruto. Eventually I got curious enough to search out and read these myself. (Note: I was never a really big fan of Naruto. I liked it at the beginning but then it became too much. But I also had a love-hate sorta relationship with it. Loving it at one time, hating it the next, only for the pattern to repeat). And that's when I discovered onemanga.com.

I'll admit it. I read mangas online. But never ones I owned. I don't know. I was a stickiler for it. Tough I do think I might've read some of DNAngel... But only because I couldn't get my hands on a copy of the last couple of mangas. What started it all for me was onemanga and Naruto. I would read the newest chapters every so often, not really caring to keep tract. Sometimes when I was bored, I would hit random manga, and read... well random manga. Some where interesting some were not. Now I can't remember if it was through random manga, or from seeing update after udate for it, but I eventually stumbled onto Bakuman. At first it was nothing new, just another manga. But I was younger then, foolish.

The first chapter wasn't that big a deal too me. Rather boring in fact. I almost stopped reading it. But something compelled me to read it more. Perhaps it would get better in time. I hadn't even given it a chance. A month passed and I tried reading it again. I skipped the first chapter barely recalling what had happened.... And that was it. I was taken away. There was something about the characters. I could relate. And not on just a shallow "oh hey I act like that sometimes" kind of thing. No, it was much more than that. Their struggles became my struggles. Everytime the succeeded I succeeded. And when they failed I would cheer knowing that their determination would pull them through. They became the type of persons I wanted to be. they followed their dreams and never gave up, a common theme in manga. But here, in this story, it resonated in me. I was swept away.

I'll admit that it wasn't always rainbows and butterflies. Like I said the first chapter was kind of lackluster when I first read it. And the Tanto arc was torturous. And I'm not always a fan of the pairings.... But it always brings me back. There's always somehting there to make up even for the parts I don't like. Takagi and Kiyoshi (is that her name haha) totally destoryed any chance of Takagi and Aoki Ko(oh gosh I forget their names all the time~! That's right though, yes?) But this was made up with Hatz(I srsly don't know his name. the guy with the white hat) and Aoki Ko. Heck even Himamura obsessing over her made up for it.
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Well as much as I would ove to continue to talk about Bakuman... I'ma go ahead and read vol 1 and then I'm going to sleep. I'm sorry you all have to put up with my fangirling. Haha, but I srsly haven't fangirl'd in a while~