"Fourteen years have passed since I was born. It's already been fourteen years. It's been fourteen years since I was born, and nothing exciting has happened to me. But, then again, I don't get the feeling that anything ever will happen. My life just sucks!".
My innermost feelings coming out from the t.v. expressed better than i could by a "cartoon" character. My first time wasn't with this show though,no not even close. My first time was actually with the old toonami and kids wb shows like dbz, digimon, pokemon and yes, even sailor moon. Even a few years after that i tuned in to [adult swim] from time to time on late nights when i couldn't sleep. I would turn on my t.v. and put the volume down so that my parents wouldn't hear it me watching "cartoons" at 2-3 in the morning. In all honesty i didn't even really pay attention to the shows they passed, for me it was just background noise to put me to sleep but one night for some reason i just decided to listen to the actual conversation of a young boy with a metal arm and the old man.It caught my attention and made me wonder "why is his arm metal and why is there a giant suit of armor outside" little by little the show drew me in but not enough to keep me awake.



I soon fell asleep and forgot about the show. a few weeks passed by and my nightly routine continued. I'd turn on the t.v. and and fall asleep watching some weird show but this time was different. It was a saturday night and i had no plans to go out so i decided i would see if they were showing any interesting cartoons that night. I belive it was 11 p.m. when i changed the channel and i was greeted by the usual disclaimer ran by [as], however the disclaimer was followed by a new bump, "one day we will all have mecha." or something like that. Turns out that they were airing a new show that night. Huh, lucky me, I get to watch a show from the beginning. As i watched the opening theme, a catchy pop song in a weird language with amazing visual animation , I grew even more entertained and stunned that such a thing exist. To me cartoons were alway just mindless entertainment that had no plot, but this show was different. Stoner's opening line completly won me over along with the fact that I was watching GIANT ROBOTS HOVERBOARDING!!!!!!!.



The entire episode i literally stood in front of my t.v. refusing to miss even a second of this amazing new wonder that i just discovered. It was like crack. I could not get enough of this show. For the next couple of months i would make sure i was home saturdays at 11 and stay in my room watching this show. Every now and then i would watch e7 on [as] website the day before it aired and soon i even joined my first message boards.



Soon i could no longer wait an entire week to watch this marvel that was E7, so one [as] forum user suggested i check out youtube, and i did. In one week i saw nearly all the episodes but i still tuned in to watch the eps in english so i could contribute to the flame wars of "dub v.s. sub" boards. Along with the show i also checked out these things called amv's. It amazed me how well American songs fit in with a Japanese show. Because of the amv's i soon got into rock, not just j-rock but also American rock, a genre i used to hate with a passion (I grew up in the bronx, so all i was exposed to was hip hop and reggeton.) This to me was the exciting thing in my life but i still felt like Renton in the beginning of the show "It's been fourteen years since I was born, and nothing exciting has happened to me. But, then again, I don't get the feeling that anything ever will happen. My life just sucks!". Unfortunately it didn't stay that way for long. Unlike Renton, I didnt have a giant robot piloted by a cute girl fall from the sky and destroy my house however, like Renton i was left homeless. My father had walked out on my family not too long before my family got evicted from our apartment and my mother lost her job around the same time.



I was just 2 weeks into my freshman year of high school when all this happened and it sucked. I feel a little guilty saying this but i was more concerned about when i would be able to watch the show again then when the situation at hand would get better. Ill skip the rest of my sad story and continue with my love for E7. Watching Renton grow up and mature felt almost as i was watching myself grow up and mature, especially considering the fact that when the show started we were both 14, we both faced the harsh reality of how cold the world can be and in the end triumphed over all the obstacles life through at us
and got the girl. (okay so maybe not the last part, but you get the point). I can honestly say that Eureka seveN changed my life. If i hadn't watched this show i would be bitter about the shitty cards life has handed me, but because of it i feel i can embrace all the struggles i go through and know that things could always be worse. After all i could be some white-haired, military phsyco trying to destroy the world through two weird-hair-colored girls.



I hope you guys enjoyed my first time.I originally wasn't gonna do this, but considering the fact that the Eureka seveN movie is coming to theaters in 3 days i figured this would be pretty appropriate. Also it seems this post is full of first, because this is the first time i have ever blogged, ever, about anything, and it was once again thanks to E7.

Edit: sorry 'bout the pics being to big, just right click it and open it in another tab or window