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My Experience with Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid

Let me take you back into my life back in around 2017 where I was still bored with my life since entering high school. I was doing well but part of me doesn't have any pulse to do anything worthwhile, even with holidays and countless of festivals I've been to didn't even give me the pleasure of happiness that I seek since 2016 aka one of the best year of my life. Also this was around the time where I met new friends and most of them are anime fans and I really took an interest with the genre since one of my influence Chris Stuckmann gave "Your Name" the rating of A+, so while I've tried to watch some anime like Erased and My Hero Academia, it didn't interested me as much as some movies and western cartoons at the time. But then something happened and that's when in one faithful day me and my friends watch episode 8-10 of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid while we wait for the time to come home.

At first when I saw this anime at twitter I thought it was cute enough and this one character Kanna Kamui is one of the best looking design in animation but I've never thought I'll be watching it anytime soon, but my friends are watching it so why not take a look at it. On episode 8 we got two parts stories, one involving cooking battles between Kobayashi and Tohru and the appearance of Elma. 



The first part isn't that great, they could've been more great jokes here and there but as it is this bit is fine. But then when Elma came in I was intrigued with the concept of this anime, mainly dragons living in human worlds and being personified as a person. I know that this anime would be slice of life but I don't know why this got to me. The characters have great chemistry, the jokes are funny and even the writing of this anime is top notch with Kobayashi remained one of the best main character in anime ever. After I watched that episode I was surprised by how much I love that show and more importantly I felt really happy again and especially watching it with my friends. Probably one of the best thing I've done in high school and when I got home I'm watching the whole series while I wait until dawn for my fasting to ended that day. 

This show might worked for me that day because of the simplicity. Before this I've watched a lot of heavy stuff, Adventure Time Island miniseries, Steven Universe and the Lars arc and how he died and got resurrected. some heavy movies like Pulp Fiction and Rush. At that point I became kinda bothered by how unfun and dower some of these stuff are. And so this slice of life anime with dragon as a maid and Kanna Kamui being all cute and lesbian is what I really need at that time. And after I've finished it I seek out other anime, mostly Slice of Life stuff like K-ON which is my favorite anime right now, sometimes I venture a bit into classic stuff like Spirited Away, Cowboy Bebop and Akira which was awesome. Flash-forward to now and I'm almost a year watching anime regularly is surreal to me. All thanks to an anime about dragon being personified living together with little fanservice.

So yea a bit of unusual blog this time because this month will be one year of me being an anime fans and that does ring specials to me and also to fill this month since my absence during test week so might as well do this.

Anyways I hope you guys like this and I might wanna do something with this month who knows, maybe KyoAni week? We'll see.



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