As we come to the end of another year and enter a new one, I feel it
would be appropriate to look back on my time in the geeky community
and why this year is particularly important to myself, especially
from an emotional standpoint.
I had been watching
Anime during my early childhood, mostly through video tape cassette
recordings sent from relatives in the spiritual Motherland that is
Hong Kong, and after a long gap, got back into watching it when I
started attending University. I am not sure what encouraged me to
return to Anime, but it happened. Until then, however, I felt like I
was only just scratching the surfance of the fandom. At some point, I
caught wind of certain events where fellow Otaku would congregate,
so-called “Anime Conventions”, where geeks would actually be
able to see and speak to each other about various geeky topics in the
same place. It was only after I attended my first Anime Convention
about 12 years ago where I felt I had finally felt like I was a full
blown Anime geek. But there was one thing I felt I was missing out on
but didn’t have the confidence to try.
That being Cosplay.
