This is for the challenge How it All Started
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When I was nine, my mother brought home a pack of pokemon cards that she had seen at the convenience store, asking my brother and I if we was interested in it. We took the pack disinterestedly. Neither one of us had ever heard of pokemon before. Opening the pack and looking at the cards, we laughed upon seeing the crazy creatures displayed on the front of the cards.
Throwing them in my room, I didn't look at them much after that. Coincidentally, at school the next day, a few of the boys had been talking about the show Pokemon, which piqued my interest. You mean, it wasn't just some lame cartoon for little kids? Curious, I turned on the tv to the afternoon showing of Pokemon and was instantly hooked. Sure, it was a bit weird, but that was what made it so special.
My parents didn't really approve with how obsessive I was about it. I had wasted all of my allowance buying the cards and collecting as many as I could. I had become quite good at conning my younger brother out of his better cards, and to this day, I still have a trapper full of the cards. I have every pokemon card up until I quit watching the show.
After awhile, my younger brother made me sit through an episode of Yugioh, and wouldn't you know it, I fell in love with it too! Soon, though, the kids in my class didn't watch those shows anymore, and I was ridiculed for it, so as the years went by, I hid the fact that I secretly loved Ash and Kaiba.
When I was in junior high, my cousin mentioned an anime she watched late at night called Inuyasha. When I went home, I had forgotten the name of the show and so continued on with my life. That is, until a few months later when I was looking through the guide on the TV and saw Inuyasha. I recorded it so i could watch it later. The first episode I watched was the one with the Soul Piper. Probably not the best episode to come in on, but I didn't mind it so much, and I tried to get my brother to watch it as well, but he refused.
Content to be the only one to watch it, I was hooked. It was so funny and just a great anime. Finally, though, my brother came around and began watching it as well.
However, my parents still didn't approve of my watching cartoons at such an older age, so I was reduced to not talking about it so much around them. If I knew then what I knew now, it wouldn't matter. I still would have watched the same anime as they were just too good for my generation.
