You struggle to simply watch anime and to just enjoy what you’re seeing.
You’re too busy taking notes in order to analyze, criticize, defend.
You have less and less time devoted to actually watching anime.
You have to schedule out posts and come up with ideas to appease others.
You dread the possibility that your blogging friends will someday quit for good.
You’ve already seen some disappear because of work and because of school.
You feel pressured to interact with others and read their content.
You’re happy to do so with some, but for others it’s an unrequited interest.
You constantly compare yourself to others and their accomplishments.
You want to congratulate them, but you feel pathetic looking at yourself.
You spend so much time and effort writing posts about your favorite shows.
You try not to cry when the number of views is less than the number of likes.
You come to terms over how your tastes don’t match with that of others.
You tell yourself that this is okay and that you don’t feel alone or isolated.
You fall in love with fictional characters with imaginary personalities.
You know this’ll make reaching the conclusion more bitter, but you can’t stop.
You know all of this.
But you wouldn’t trade it for the world.
I didn’t realise how wide and expansive the world of anime and manga is. I have only started to scratch the surface. You have a pretty cool blog going on and have made sure to follow to read more.
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Ah, it’s a pretty wild world. But thank you for following me.
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You are welcome. Do drop by my blog as well and follow if you liked.
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Ha isnt that the truth lol
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I don’t just review anime, yet that post is relatable on so many levels. Hahaha! Couldn’t have said it better myself.
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Well, thanks!
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You’re certainly most welcome.
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Nailed it. 👌
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What a great post. Even though I don’t blog exclusively about anime, pretty much all of these points are spot on, and very relatable indeed. If there is one thing I definitely know for sure as well, I would not want to trade this one in for the world either 😀
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I’m glad you think so. Also glad to know you wouldn’t have it any other way, either.
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Like a lot of the comments here, this was very, very accurate. Really nice post!! 😀
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Haha, thanks!
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Remy for aniblogger president 2k18
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Find someone else who is more emotionally stable and consistent.
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Ah. There you go again with the understating yourself!
Would you rather be a hero who gets every little help from his friends?
Because I’ll be in the bandwagon for that.
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I second that motion, do we have a third?
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Motion overruled!
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Haha😂😂😂
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This is so true!
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Remy it’s about time that you should start writing a book about blogging anime, you’ll really teach, inspire and educate anibloggers & misinformed non-anibeings alike. :’)
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Ask someone more successful than me! I’m not qualified. But thank you.
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It’s a stressful, but fun existence
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Definitely wouldn’t trade it for the world. Thanks for sharing this, it was fantastic.
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It’s precious for sure. Thank you.
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A-fucking-men.
Feel all of this my man.
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Ah, I’m still surprised this got any traction since I just punched it out willy nilly, but thank you.
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Really engaging post. Haha I would say that a lot of these points are really relatable.
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Well, that’s good to know. Thanks.
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Are you ready for the inevitable day when I leave the anime blogging community? Jokes aside, I know the feeling of being an anime blogger. I plan things out in advance, but I also enjoy shows as I watch them. Finally, yes, I did fall in love with an idea of a character in Miho Nishizumi.
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Oh no!
Mmm that’s good to know. At least you avoided a few pitfalls.
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This is frighteningly accurate! Amazing post I love this!
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I’m glad you like it.
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Damm Remy. Damn.
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I forgot the filter, oops.
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That was an amazed “damm”….
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I know and thank you.
I was just acknowledging that I usually don’t keep my blog posts “raw and real” like this. But perhaps I should reconsider due to the reception.
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