Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-11526603-20150211052759

So I felt like I needed to write this down somewhere, I'm not a fan of diaries or anything but right now it's kind of 12AM and I have a big assignment due for tomorrow morning which I have yet to finish, but I don't feel like I can move on until I've expressed myself in some shape or form. I realize that not a lot of people are going to read this but heck I need to share this before doing anything else. Hopefully someone here will understand where I'm coming from. PS, this has nothing to do with my personal life or anything like that this mainly revolves around the HunterxHunter anime which I have recently finished so here goes:

I have a tendency of getting overly attached to fictional  characters in anime, cartoons, novels, manga, movies, videos games, anything to do with fiction in general, which is why I try to avoid short animes with less than 100 episodes, because it's like you watched 12 episodes of it, you start enjoying the characters then poof, once it ends you never here from them again. I've been told countless times "Oh they'll live in your memory/heart/genitalia/whatever" but I don't feel like that works on me. Once something ends I mostly get sad or depressed. Recently the Naruto manga ended after a 15 year run, I had been into Naruto since 2007, I was about 12 at the time when I started watching the anime and reading the manga, but I didn't feel too sad about the ending since I knew that the franchise was going to continue even long after it ended; new movies, new models, a spin-off and perhaps the'll be a new anime who knows. Characters such as Naruto, Luffy, Goku, Ash Ketchum are practically similar to what characters such as Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny signify to the Western community, so I'm not worried about them ever disappearing from the face of the earth.

But taking an anime such as HunterxHunter for example, which takes after it's manga counterpart with ongoing hiatuses, it makes everyone forget about the fun-loving characters within the franchise such as Gon and Killua. Gon is practically the kid I always wanted to be like during my childhood, and it sucks having to say goodbye to a character like that, at least for me. When a real life person dies, you could always remind yourself, "they'll live on in our hearts/memories", but that doesn't stop you from feeling sad. I know ti sounds ludricous, comparing real life figures to fictional characters, but think about it, Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, Naruto, Goku, all  of these characters have had a way bigger impact than any person ever had on this planet, so shouldn't that be enough to at least qualify them as worthy of crying over?

People always talk bad about fillers, and I agree, some fillers aren't as comparable to the original author's storyline, most of the time I've come to despise fillers actually, but when it does happen, even if it sucks I'm glad that it's there to lenghten the storyline and keep the characters alive.

Anyway back to HunterxHunter, with all of the constant hiatuses, it'll be ages before we get to hear from characters such as Gon and Killua again, it's hard to say farewell, even it's for a while. I could've used the time that I used to type this little article for my assignment, but I felt I needed to get this out of the way first.

Uh yeah, I haven't watched The Last Mission yet, some people have told me that it sucks others told me the complete opposite, whatever the case I want to keep experiencing what little remains to the storyline. I don't want to say goodbye and move on to another anime like usual, I can only hope that time will make me move on. 