There is no light currently and of course there is no Internet. I am writing this in LibreOffice Writer. Since there is no Internet and I don’t want to sleep right now (it’s 10:25 btw), I thought why not write something down. So, today I thought about writing about anime. One of my few interests.
Anime. Japanese animations. I have been watching anime for about 4 years now. I started it during the lockdown of COVID-19. I was introduced to anime by one of my relatives. He was watching Naruto back then and he told me to watch it as well. I had no idea what anime was back then. I knew or at least had heard about Naruto but didn’t know it was an anime. I thought it was a cartoon.
That day, I watched maybe 5 episodes of Naruto and I WAS HOOKED. I watched the first five or so episodes on Netflix. Then I had to leave and before leaving, I asked him from where should I watch Naruto because I didn’t have Netflix. He told me about a website from where I could watch anime illegally. That website was kissanime. Then when I went back to my place, I didn’t continue watching right then. It was still day and I had guests living with us because they were “locked” due to the lockdown.
I continued watching only during the evenings. I would start to watch it from evening to night. I could not watch it much while the guests were there but I after they went back, I watched it a lot. That’s because after the guests left, I got a room in which I could sleep alone. That means, there would be no one stopping me from watching anime all night long. That’s where the fun began. I would kinda code for a bit, like HTML and CSS. And after that, I would start watching Naruto. I would watch it till past midnight.
Around that time, I had discovered a great thing about my laptop. Previously, I had Windows 8.1. That was my first operating system. But one day, during an update, it crashed causing the whole system to be corrupted. Then I had to take it to a shop where the guy installed Windows 7. I asked him to install Windows 10 but he told me that Windows 10 had a lot of bugs and would cause me problems. I thought that was true back then because I had no idea. And after he installed Windows 7, seems like he didn’t install some of the drivers, which I had no idea for years. Like I was using my laptop without having any idea that we also have to install drivers on a laptop. This problem could have been fixed if I had checked for updates but I was too scared to even try to update my laptop after the update of Windows 8 crashed. The guy in the shop had told me to not update ever again.
There were many features which were blocked because of lack of drivers. Like I could not change the brightness, it would always be at max. I could not put my laptop in sleep mode. I could not use the Aero theme of Windows 7, that was the best theme Windows 7 had and I could not use it. High quality videos would not play properly, it would glitch a lot and it was not watchable. I think there were other issues too but I cannot remember then right now.
But one day, I somehow found a software which would find missing drivers and install them for you. I think it is called Driver Hub or something. I have used it on a school computer as well, where I installed missing drivers on that computer. Anyways, after I found that software, I ran it and it downloaded the drivers. I didn’t know those were drivers. In fact, I had no idea what that software was downloading. I blindly trusted it. After downloading, it asked me to restart my laptop. While restarting, I saw on the screen something like, “Installing updates 1/3.” I WAS SCARED AF. I had always been scared of updates because one had corrupted my whole system. I was panicking. But I calmed down. I knew updates were not harmful but I was just too scared.
After sometime, the updates were over. The laptop restarted. And an animation played. AN ANIMATION PLAYED. That had never happened. It was a simple fade in animation that happens after the lock screen on Windows 7. I had, never in my life, seen that in my laptop. It just could not show the animations because of the missing drivers. After that, I noticed the task bar. It was kinda transparent, like a glass. THE AERO THEME!!!!!!!! I was so excited, so excited, I just cannot express it. I still remember that moment. I clicked on the Start Menu, it was different. I also noticed that the sleep mode was not clickable, before it would be grayed out. I tried the sleep mode for the first time. I did not know my power button blinked during sleep mode. I also came to know about the hibernation mode. I learned a lot of stuff after I installed my drivers. I went to Windows Update and checked for updates. There were some updates. I constantly kept on updating from that point. I think Windows 7 was still supported back then. I am not sure or maybe it was something like, you will only receive this update if you already have this update. I don’t know.
I was talking about anime and the flow took me to a different topic. Anyways, just imagine my excitement when my laptop had gone through that change and I was introduced to Naruto. I still remember the episode just before the Sound village attacked the leaf village during the Chunin Exams. I had to sleep right after that episode and I could remember I was so excited to see the next episode. I was ……………. I don’t know. It was just too much of excitement. After that I continuously watched Naruto. Sometimes there would be a few days gap but for most of the time, I consistently watched Naruto. And as time went on, I just could not believe that I completed Naruto. I made a mistake though. I did not know that I had to watch the last movie before finishing the series. Right now, I am confused it I watched it before finishing the series or after. Even if I had watched it before finishing the series, I had watched it too early. I had thought that it was just like other Naruto movies which had no direct connection with the main series but it was different.
After Naruto, I also watched Boruto (by Naruto, I mean both Naruto and Naruto Shippuden). I was told by a lot of people to not watch Boruto but I watched it. I might not be as good as Naruto but it is still watchable and as now, I have heard that the manga has become amazing. I really want to watch Boruto but it seems like the next part is not being released anytime soon.
After that, I lost the track of in what order I watched anime. Even after Boruto, I have watched a lot of anime and I have the list of all the anime I have watched but I just don’t remember the order in which I watched anime. But I can say this for sure that after Boruto, most of the anime which I watched were romance anime and that is the genre which I have watched the most.
The electricity came back a while ago and I tried continuing this in Blogger but the formatting gave me some trouble and I continued it on LibreOffice Writer.
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