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by DNA » Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:15 pm
Cool topic, I actually read every single post. Right, my turn!
Let's see, I'm 25 now and been watching Dragon Ball since I was a little kid, it started here in Portugal a long time ago, back then it was the hype, EVERYONE was watching it, literally.
I remember my parents just thought of it as another show, my sister watched it and liked Chaozu (this was Dragon Ball era) but really didn't get into it much.
My brother always lived far away from me, but I remember his ex wife mentioning that he couldn't get enough of it. I don't think he's still into it, although he's 40 and still a major gamer. My other sister doesn't really care.
The hype died down eventually and I kept it to myself, but the reruns never stopped, to this day they were still going and people were still watching (I think it stopped recently), but not as much, I carried on buying stuff, my mom bought me some collections (they're both collectors themselves, my parents), she bought me the whole tankobon collection in Portuguese. Gee, now that I think about it... what a super mom.
My dad wasn't really into cartoons at all, only stuff like Popey or Mickey or Goofy. That is until my mom made us sit and watch Mononoke Hime, he was totally impressed by it.
My hype kept down, I found a few friends who shared it, but all of a sudden I found this forum and it went up like crazy. I'm the biggest fan in my circle of friends now, they sometimes come for me for "enlightenment", although sometimes just to make fun of my obsession.
The shit hit the fan when I bought my first collection of gashapons by mistake, I wanted phone straps. Too late, I got hooked up and haven't stopped buying then since. This was a problem with my parents for a while, because they felt I was throwing money away, but I think they eventually accepted it, being collectors themselves they understood that THIS was my collection. Although they are totally right.
So the only thing I don't feel right about is that I don't have any close friends to REALLY talk about Dragon Ball, my closest, bestest friends are into it but not as much as me, so I still have to explain stuff to them, which get's kinda awkward for me because I start feeling like a major geek. One of them deviated to Naruto, One Piece, Bleach and all that. Bastard!
My ex didn't like Dragon Ball at all, and got quite bored when I got carried away, I was just explaining to her why I'm so fascinated with Recoome, she was not amused. She does like Japan stuff, she's majorly into Evangelion, she's got a ton of Rei figures every freaking where.
I think that's about it.
Edit: Oh, I forgot to mention I'm pretty much the only one who watches it in Japanese, I'm definitely the only one who watched the WHOLE series in Japanese, and I'm watching it again.
