Going Psycho

I'm really not sure how it started, but I bet it's when I saw the OVA series of Samurai X that I discovered my love for gory and psychotic animes and mangas.

The series itself has very graphic images but the psychotic side of it wasn't even very obvious. I later found it mildly insane when I watched it again and finally got the essence of the story deeper than the first time I saw it.

But it was only a few years later that I found how interesting the psychotic mangas and animes were when I found the Taiwan TV drama "MARS" and then read the manga of it by Fuyumi Soryo. It's romantic and heroic in a very dark sense with obvious hints of violence and psychopathy. I think because of that flow in the story I was very much interested of it.

Then I remembered "School Days". It was mentioned to me a year ago by my chatmate from Portugal (who happens to be a great guitarist on YouTube and fan of animes) that a recent anime craze made Japan a little tense and it was because of this anime, "School Days".

It's very highschool-ish, which is a little downfall for me because I've kinda outgrown that part of me, and very cute that at the first few episodes of the anime and manga I was waiting for a little miracle turn of the story.

In the manga, the psychotic part was surprising because my fave heroine died. In the anime, it was very much insane. It wasn't even short-lived unlike from the manga. It's more sick and I pretty much enjoyed it.

I mentioned my euphoria with "MARS" and "School Days" to a few people and that's when I realized that I wasn't flowing with normal genre of anime/manga that people generally look into. That's when I realized that I am into everyday-life psychotic animes/mangas. Evidence of my love for it is my addictiveness with "Mars" and even making a new sig inspired from "School Days".

I don't even know if indulging to psychotic manga/anime is bad for me. Honestly, I am really enjoying reading and watching them that I find hentai nowadays a little boring. It's funny and weird. A new side of me opens and I don't even know if I am going psycho because of this.

I certainly do not have psychotic urges (except for the fact that I find the idea of killing my ex-boyfriends with a butcher's blade very tempting), but I smile whenever I think back of the stories I've read and watched.

Right now, I just finished the first book of "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Himatsubushi" and I plan to read the others as well. A few people suggested me to read "Elfen Lied" but I got bored (I'm really sorry but I really was. I even find it a bit dull and the story kinda stalls for some reason).

I also just finished "Yellow Hearts" which is very adult (the hentai feel is almost as if the manga is really hentai but it wasn't) and the psychotic side of the series is not obvious. I still enjoyed reading it though because it involves a rock band, people connections (like she was the ex of this guy who happened to be the killer of her boyfriend now, etc., etc., etc...--that kind of connection) and uhm hentai. LOL! I thought it was really pure psycho manga when I clicked it. I was wrong but I still enjoyed it.

This new side of me is very challenging but enjoyable. I'm waiting to find out how much I could take psycho anime/manga. For now, I read and watch on.