Stepping Down

I have seen all the anime I felt I need to. I am done.

 

Before I jump into this, I want to give you some back story. My high school anime club was atypical. I was pretty much forced into the club the end of freshman year and spent the rest of the year hanging out with the senior majority of the club. They graduated that year and we got a new crop of freshman. For the first 5 or so meetings had about 12 people but the numbers quickly dwindled. During my senior year we had at anyone time 6 people there maximum (we got away with 3 once when we had planned something by ourselves). Our president was often sick leaving me in charge as the only other senior. I was not a big anime fan then nor am I now. I enjoyed anime but I didn’t let it consume me. I brought my computer and we’d watch some shows on netflix and I got away with sneaking the Cowboy Bebop movie past the teacher. But the major part was I wold also watch “not anime” on the very slow days. Everyone else would be off talking to friends or playing their own games and I set up the laptop for myself, pushed some desks together as a platform, and projected Akira Kurosawa films to whomever was interested.  This is how I ran the Anime Club back at home. This is different.

 

I was excited for the anime club here now that I’m in college and we aren’t only given an hour. The member that lived in the dorm I am in were also very nice and seemed like cool people. I was totally ready.  

 

This summer was an odd summer for me. I watched more anime than I had at any time prior. I watched Serial Experiments: Lain in two nights, Blue Gender (which I wanted to see after remembering how much the trailer scared me as a young kid) in 3 nights, Elfin Lied in 1 sitting, Akira, FLCL, Ninja Scrolls, Here and There Now and Then in 3 nights, and 3x3 eyes (both short movies) in 3 nights. With the completion of 3x3 eyes, I said to myself, “That’s it. I don’t need to see anything else. I have watched every anime that I wanted to.” This was before the first meeting for the anime club. I still went thinking that maybe they’ll introduce me to something really neat I missed. It’s early to say for sure but I’ve walked out of both meetings before everyone else. I have the same gripe as I had in high school; the president is playing what she wants to see and not asking for suggestions.

 

At this point, I don’t see my self sticking around much more. I’ll go to the first few minutes to see what is planned for the future but I doubt I’l stay for long. Next week they watch Black Butler. This week was Blue Exorcist and last week (the first meeting) was Hetalia. I make a point to look at an episode or the Wikipedia before I decide anything about it. I do not plan to attend the second half of the meeting.  I guess I really have seen every thing I wanted to.