(this was taken 2 years back; a freaking MM factory cake and that Mamimi’s lemon squash canned drink) 監督の鶴巻 和哉’s 52nd BIRTHDAY!!! Today is one of my favourite anime directors of all time’s birthday.

Happy 52nd Birthday King Kazuya!!! Today would be a great day to talk about how his works and the company he works on have greatly impacted me. My brother once told me at 14 when I saw him watching Evangelion (episode 9 at that, when Asuka appears), “You won’t enjoy this anime. It’s all about robots. Japanese for some reason are into this.” And then in November 2011, I randomly typed in “Cute Anime Boys” LOLOL. It was a school holiday so what else was I supposed to do right? And one of them was Naota.

It was a picture of him in Episode 1 with the towel around his neck as he enters his room and sees Haruko. I was like “Goddamn this art is good. And the title is ‘FoolyCooly’ or ‘FLCL’? Okay that’s pretty cool. Gotta check this out.” I gave it a go.

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I thought this was going to be a great slice of life anime. I was already picturing his older brother returning and more drama arises.

But then, that famous manga scene appeared, and it was too much for me to handle. My Japanese was even weaker than now, and they were speaking so fast and about topics I was not too familiar with. I finally gave up right there.

I thought to myself, “Oh, this isn’t a serious anime after all. It was just a prank in the beginning.” But I still couldn’t stop thinking about Naota.

Sinopsis I Can Hear Your Voice: Serial ini merupakan kombinasi dari drama hukum dan asmara dengan unsur-unsur fantasi dan komedi. Hidupnya berubah ketika dia bertemu Park Soo – ha ( Lee Jong – suk ), seorang anak SMA dengan kemampuan istimewanya yang dapat membaca pikiran orang lain dengan melihat mata mereka, dan ia menjadi rekan kerja Cha Gwan – Woo ( Yoon Sang- hyun )seorang mantan polisi yang berhasrat menjadi pembela umum, dia ceria dan idealis, meskipun sedikit konyol. Setelah mengatasi kemiskinan dan masa kecil yang sulit, Jang Hye – sung ( Lee Bo -young ) menjadi seorang pengacara, khususnya pembela umum, tetapi dia pragmatis, mementingkan dirinya sendiri dan payah. Soo – ha memperoleh kemampuan membaca pikiran setelah menyaksikan ayahnya dibunuh sepuluh tahun yang lalu.

I really like his appearance and personality and voice. But instead of rewatching, I decided to just google up his images a couple of months later. And then I saw that one picture of him (oh what an idiot I can just add his picture here yeah WordPress allows you to add media not just on the top) of him with his hoodie on smiling cheekily. Now I know Naota isn’t that sort of person. He’s an overly serious, rather stuck up and somewhat sadistic kiddo.

He’s NEVER acted this way. Just what happened to make him like this?

I got curious. I wanted to know more. But since that manga scene was too much for my brain to process, I decided to watch the anime backwards, yes, starting with the final episode. And what a joke another manga scene?

“What the shit was I here? I thought I watched episode 1 before? Ah man don’t tell me there is a freaking manga scene every damn episode. But wait a second, it’s a bit different. Ohhhh okay~ Now that I think about it I know certain animes that use the same technique.

The first and last episodes ‘share the same scenes.’ ” But then I heard the song “Funny Bunny” when this title screen came, and guys. That song was stuck in my head for a year straight. I wouldn’t shut up about it with almost everybody I meet. I started recommending the anime to everybody.