I did not read Eldest today and Brisingr is coming on its way on the 20th. Nah, too lazy to read and all I did was to watch whole day. I did not take Maki for a bath (which gives me back pain always) but staying on bed for the whole day doing nothing and reading English subs and making yourself into the thing that you're watching is also a pain in the neck.

I don't know what's happening to me, but isn't it too ironic that the more I'm getting older, the more I'm hooked onto this anime stuffs? Am I growing the other way around?

For previous months that I have been hooked to Japanese stuffs, it gets really harder and harder to separate myself away from them that I need to replay them several times until I get so fed up. I am purchasing OVAs that before I seem to care less. I am buying mangas of those I feel like reading. I am indulging myself to study the basic Nihon. I am getting giddy about 'what would it be if I were in Japan?' I am becoming so much of an otaku. This is killing me. Grin*

Anyway, I started the first episode of Bokura Ga Ita (僕等がいた) last night before I tucked myself to bed. At first, I was hesitant on watching it after the action-packed live action series of GTO (グレート・ティーチャー・オニズカ) (knowing that this is some love story), but I did nevertheless. This morning, I continued watching it and got really hooked on it that I did not take lunch or eat dinner just to finish the whole 26 episodes. This anime was really different with the usual monster-inflicted society and heroes coming to save the world, robots talking and communicating with humans, dogs and cats talking and transforming to something that has superpower, outer space that serves right as an alternative to Earth if it wears out, and sometimes out-of-the-ordinary sound and visual effects.

This was one of those that could actually happen in real life - falling in and out of love, second chances, moving on, keeping the faith, and anything goes that caters for those hopeless romantic people. Though the story revolves around the life of a fifteen-year-old lass, Nana and her relationship with Yano, the plot of the story is somewhat targetting not just for teenagers but for adults as well - no wonder why the manga and the anime continued to be high-ranked and awarded and loved by asian and foreign audience 'til now.

All the 'firsts' were really memorable and brings back everything as if they're just happening right in front of your eyes - first love, first kiss, first holding hands, first intimacy, first movie together, first tears, first fight, and first farewells. Times like that would sometimes make you smile remembering and making you cry as well. Everything was just like new, everything was perfect, everything was what you hoped it to be - yet there's always an end to everything, and sometimes that end wasn't yet the conclusion of it all; that there's more and there's yet to come.

The anime ended in a cliffhanger, while Yano leaved for Tokyo and left Nana behind. This last episode was one of the episode that really made me cry - add to it the OST that really suited the OVA well (I hate goodbyes! Sobs*).

Since the manga is still ongoing, of course there's always hope for the Chapter 2 anime of Bokura ga Ita but still out of sight. I just hope, despite everything that they've been through, Nana and Yano would still be the one for each other. (See, I am that hooked into these stuffs that it adds up to my problems thinking of the possible ending for it! Nah, this is bad!)

Well, if you opt to some tearjerker drama and opening up your tear ducts, this anime sure would suit you - even though you've been in love or not. Anyway, one way or another, we would all feel this thing if the right love comes. (Nah, I am getting mushy here! Waaahh, am I needing love again?? Hehe)

Perhaps soon, we would be saying to ourselves... Yes, we were there and we have been there...