Anime Portal; take your pick!
- I.O.N
- May 21, 2016
- 3 min read
If A Portal Opened Offering to Take Me to ANY Anime World, Which Would It Be??
This question has popped up to many otaku in one way or another. There are countless anime that we watch, all set in their fictional worlds, whether it be a world filled with magicians and mages, ninjas and kunoichi or homicidal cannibalistic giants and freedom fighters.
I'd love to say every world has its perks but for some of these, that's not really the case, unless you have a death wish. If you're in Naruto, unless you're part of the main team, chances of you dying fighting some crazy powerful Nuke-nin (Rogue ninja), are high. The way Bleach manga is heading, anyone could end up dying and because most of the characters are technically already dead, that's IT. With Tokyo Ghoul, you can either be a human, hunted by Ghouls for food orrrr a Ghoul hunted/disliked by humans and living in hiding. Basically Lose/Lose(on a side note, you can't taste human food if you're a ghoul and since food is my second love after anime/manga/manhwa/comics/sci-fi/etc, that wouldn't work for me). With Shingeki no Kyojin(SNK)/ Attack on Titan, everyone BUT Eren, Mikasa, Armin and Levi have a chance of dying in every chapter but this does make for lots of entertaining hold-your-breath moments, but you also might die from a heart attack or descend into a semi-depressed state so....make of that what you will.
Manhwa, however, seems safer than manga I must say. In Black Haze, Kubera and Soul Cartel, I haven't really lost any of my favourite characters 'permanently' so I'm pretty satisfied- and I make a point of saying 'favourite' because regardless of if you're a main character or a fill-in, if I don't like you, your death means jack-squat to me.
My manga series though...let's just say I've been THIS close to having to be interned in a psych ward because of the emotional tribulations these shows have put me through and YET I go back for more every week (or month depending on publication frequency). Funny enough, I think I'm the only one STUPID enough to actually want to still have a chance at living in every single one of these worlds. I guess I'm that idiot with the death wish I mentioned earlier...What does that tell you. MANGA/ANIME IS AMAZINGG!
But it's obvious that this has become a stream of consciousness post instead of short and concise like it should be. Oh well. Back to the main question: Which Anime world would I choose to live in??
Honestly, I'd pick Fairy Tail in a heartbeat.
Let me explain why and I'll sum it up in 3 points:
1) Like in most manga/anime, I'd have some special supernatural ability and live life as a mage ( and not the ones with pointy hats and wands) which will make life that much more fun.
2) The concept of guilds are awesome- basically they're like sororities/frats, but get paid to do special jobs and the family bond shared in the guild seems more solid than sororities/frats, IDK why but it does.
*PLUS they're destructive- they destroy the guild hall and half the city almost every week and repeatedly pick magical beef with friends...do I even need to continue? Basically, I love it because they're all whackjobs, like me.
3)No one dies in Fairy Tail...well at least not the good guys. Anyone who is dead was dead before the main storyline started so it's the one show that doesn't having me screaming at my laptop (well it does have me screaming but not out of angst, genuine despair and grief, which is what I actually feel when I lose a beloved character).
Fairy Tail all the way!
Which Anime would you go to??
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