I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.
I love comic books and I love anime.
Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
Anime has been good to me. I made and continue to make very little money at it, but the undying, feverish loyalty of the fans of the genre has been such a life-changing influence for me that I wanted to do everything I possibly could to help give something back to them.
I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.
I'm totally addicted to Japanese anime and spend way, way, way too much time watching it.
I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.
I grew up with a lot of monster movies, robot movies, since I was a kid. I love anime movies, like 'Evangelion' and 'Ghost in the Shell.'
The first Nintendo game I ever got was 'Clash at Demonhead.' I got into anime and manga thanks to that Canadian classic, 'Sailor Moon.'
I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that don't always translate to English.