One winter, I was bored and randomly looked at the new animes that were starting to air. Intrigued by the title of one of them, I decided to watch the first episode. Truth be told, only two things made me watch on after the first episode : the first, was the appearance of one of the main protagonists, a graceful long dark-hair girl, typically the type I admire : good mannered and dignified but capable of terrible fits of anger ^-^ The second was the language: everyone uses keigo, the most formal and difficult level of Japanese, that I'm supposed to know but frankly, I can't use it without making mistakes.
At least for the language part, I decided i had to watch on, because shows using this language are quite rare nowadays, and it wouldn't hurt for me to hear the most of it, and maybe get used to it. Furthermore, even if the show wasn't so far exceptionally addictive, it wasn't bad either : many interesting characters as well as an original concept was the core of the story, which was supported by a nice soundtrack and pretty art, so there wasn't negative points making me reluctant to watch on.
I really didn't think this would become one of my obsessions later. I bought some of the novels after which the anime was made, read some of the mangas that were released alongside the anime, and I'm collecting the drama-cds of the series with eagerness.
This is the kind of story where, every time you'll pick it up again after some time, a different aspect of it will appear as more important to you, according to what you've lived in between, or what your current state of mind is at the moment you read it, a different part of the story or some details will affect you more, or will reveal a different "truth" to you. This makes it interesting to many age. Of course, there is a minimum age required for you to be interested in the primary plot first, and in the kind of characters featured in the story. But you can still grow up quite a bit, re-read it, and get swapped by the story, the protagonists, what they live and how they think, each time seeing it a bit differently, understanding a bit more deeply what is there to see in all of this.
This is the kind of story I'd like to write, though it's difficult. I often notice that these kinds of stories must adopt a writing style that purposefully won't explain too much of the situation, so that some of the feelings and thoughts going on won't appear all at the first reading, and I can't help but put in as much detail I can in important scenes dealing with strong feelings, because I always fear that this very precise thing I want to transmit won't be seen in its entirety, or how I want it to be perceived... Though it might actually be impossible for the readers to see things exactly as we want them to, this makes me all the more worried about giving away enough detail to make the representation of the scene as close to the one I have in mind as possible, leading to possibly very boring passages (we can say all that we want, most people do found Balzac and Zola horribly boring, and that's because of their very long descriptions).
At least for the language part, I decided i had to watch on, because shows using this language are quite rare nowadays, and it wouldn't hurt for me to hear the most of it, and maybe get used to it. Furthermore, even if the show wasn't so far exceptionally addictive, it wasn't bad either : many interesting characters as well as an original concept was the core of the story, which was supported by a nice soundtrack and pretty art, so there wasn't negative points making me reluctant to watch on.
I really didn't think this would become one of my obsessions later. I bought some of the novels after which the anime was made, read some of the mangas that were released alongside the anime, and I'm collecting the drama-cds of the series with eagerness.
This is the kind of story where, every time you'll pick it up again after some time, a different aspect of it will appear as more important to you, according to what you've lived in between, or what your current state of mind is at the moment you read it, a different part of the story or some details will affect you more, or will reveal a different "truth" to you. This makes it interesting to many age. Of course, there is a minimum age required for you to be interested in the primary plot first, and in the kind of characters featured in the story. But you can still grow up quite a bit, re-read it, and get swapped by the story, the protagonists, what they live and how they think, each time seeing it a bit differently, understanding a bit more deeply what is there to see in all of this.
This is the kind of story I'd like to write, though it's difficult. I often notice that these kinds of stories must adopt a writing style that purposefully won't explain too much of the situation, so that some of the feelings and thoughts going on won't appear all at the first reading, and I can't help but put in as much detail I can in important scenes dealing with strong feelings, because I always fear that this very precise thing I want to transmit won't be seen in its entirety, or how I want it to be perceived... Though it might actually be impossible for the readers to see things exactly as we want them to, this makes me all the more worried about giving away enough detail to make the representation of the scene as close to the one I have in mind as possible, leading to possibly very boring passages (we can say all that we want, most people do found Balzac and Zola horribly boring, and that's because of their very long descriptions).
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