Still casting around for new manga to start reading, I followed up on a title that had managed to catch my eye a little while ago and was able to read the first two volumes of My Lovesick Life as a ’90s Otaku in rapid succession. The decade in the title could have got my attention most of all. In the first half of my own 1990s, I was sorting out just what anime and manga were (for all that I saw almost nothing of either of them in those years); in the second half of the decade, I went off to university and joined the anime club there (and, before the decade was out, did manage to buy a first few “pre-unflipped” manga collections). Knowing a bit of what things were like over here, I was interested in a presentation of something of what things were like over there.
( When otaku were outcasts )
( When otaku were outcasts )