User blog comment:OnePieceNation/Your anime History, with Hunter X Hunter highlighted./@comment-3125914-20130817153133

As a child I enjoyed watching different cartoons on TV and coincidentally, the ones which were in fact anime were my favorites. examples include Sailor Moon, Sonic X and Shaman King. I was also found of those which had anime-like animation (Teen Titans for example). However, back then I had no idea what anime meant, until I turned 11 years old. While still having an obsession for Shaman King, I stumbled into the term "anime" while searching for information about it on the internet. I didn't give it much attention at first, but then I found out that 2 of my classmates liked it as well and they were also watching other anime. Thanks to them I ended up checking out an anime only channel, which starts its broadcast at 8 pm. I started watching Tokyo Mew Mew and Kaleido Star. Even though I found them enjoyable, they didn't convince me to become an anime fan. Later, they started broadcasting Inuyasha. It was the most amazing thing I've seen, something that could equal or even surpass my addiction to Shaman King. Whenever I thought about the word "anime", Inuyasha popped up in my mind. Thanks to it, I decided to watch more and more. I continued watching that channel in the evening and found out more interesting titles, such as Kiddy Grade, Kamichu (though it was mostly childish) and Yu Yu Hakusho, the later becoming one of my all time favorites. I also started checking out anime communities and so I found out about other series I could try. Thus I started watching anime online. Eventually I stopped watching that channel because using the internet is way more convenient. As for Hunter x Hunter, well I got into it recently. Being in my last year of high school, with lots of exams approaching, I didn't have much time for anime. I wanted to re-watch Yu Yu Hakusho however. After finishing it, I remembered that I heard about an anime which had the same author. It was on my "Plan to watch" list and I decided to start it during the spring holiday. And so I did. I started with the 1999 series at the beginning of April (2013) and completed it in 5 days. I enjoyed it a lot, but I was disappointed that it ended all of a sudden. On the same day I discovered the OVAs. Since it was during the holiday, I had no problem watching the first OVA on that day and during the next day I finished the Greed Island related ones. After that I started the 2011 remake, and I was disappointed to see what many scenes were skipped. It felt completely rushed to me. Though, I still enjoyed it for cutting out the filler episodes. I caught up with it in a week, right before the Chimera Ant Arc started. I didn't check out the manga yet, but I plan on doing so one day.