I’m not too proud to admit it. Like the rest of 61FPS’ glorious staff of roustabouts, I am more than willing to reveal to you my most terrible and embarrassing secrets. For example, as a teenager, I was an absolute whore for anime. You name it, I’d watch it or read it. In 1997, anime and manga still seemed edgy and outside of the mainstream to me, to the point that I thought most anything even remotely associated with the broader cultural medium was cool as hell. This is how you end up with Sailor Moon wallscrolls on your wall and Tenchi Muyo dolls on your shelf. Yeah.
Thankfully, for both me and my sex life, this obsession is something I’ve grown out of. Mostly. A lot of my posts on this blog seem to indicate that old habits die hard. Every now and again, something will pop up and get the old juices flowing, and it’s almost always something I was interested in as a teenager that is finally getting localized for the West. The nerdy freak inside me is stirring, because it looks like a Sakura Wars game is finally, after some thirteen years, coming out in the United States.
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