Adult Swim

Ichigo

When I was working a second shift job (4pm to 12am) I found it was easier for me to stay up all night and sleep during the day.  In doing so I played a lot of video games, drank a lot of Mountain Dew, got super fatter (true, even though not a proper phrase), and watched a lot of Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network. 

I had my staples that I thoroughly enjoyed, Aqua Teen Hunger Force (back when it was good), Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job (Renaissance men and subject of a future blog), Robot Chicken, etc.

What I didn't like at first was all the weird Anime programs that got re-dubbed in English.  Full Metal Alchemist, Bleach, and Inuyasha, just to name a few.  When these program would come on I would switch to playing video games.  They were not interesting to me, and most of all confusing.  (Inuyasha is a half demon that falls in love with a teenage girl, if that's not weird enough then watch Full Metal Alchemist where two young brothers {Edward is missing an arm that was replaced by another teenager with metal Auto-mail, and Alric is a disembodied soul in a suite of armor} try to bring their dead mother back with equivalent exchange.)  Weird huh?

Yet one fateful night I realized that these programs were confusing because I did not watch them from the beginning, I knew nothing of the back story.  It just so happened that Adult Swim cycled all these Anime's in loops starting over after a while, and I caught the very first episode of Bleach and I was hooked.

 I got into the characters and fell in love with the story and especially the swords, each with unique capabilities weakness and other mess.  I highly recommend Bleach and Full Metal Alchemist, they are corny and times but they are addictive.