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When I was 14 years old I went to my cousins& #39; house one time and they& #39;d rented three anime. This was the & #39;00s, and anime was like "cool" but wasn& #39;t quite socially acceptable to be a weeb.
At this point my entire exposure to anime was like, Pokémon, Digimon, and packaging at the Asian grocery. My cousins told me this was like, more "grown up"; they& #39;d gotten Ninja Scroll, Princess Mononoke, and an Evangelion Episode.
I was a dweeb and terrified of breaking rules (and also kind of averse to sex and violence), so I hid in the basement for Ninja Scroll, but by the time it wasn& #39;t quite over I decided I was gonna get over myself, so I came up just in time for Princess Mononoke.
I was in love. Immediately.
I was completely fucking entranced.
I was completely fucking entranced.
And then I saw San spit blood out of her mouth, and something clicked very deeply inside me.
I thought, "That& #39;s me."
"That& #39;s what being a woman is, that moment, and I& #39;m that."
I remember crying a little for most of the rest of the movie. All the moments I& #39;d spent as a little girl, confused and dysphoric, not knowing what was happening, suddenly made sense.
"That& #39;s what being a woman is, that moment, and I& #39;m that."
I remember crying a little for most of the rest of the movie. All the moments I& #39;d spent as a little girl, confused and dysphoric, not knowing what was happening, suddenly made sense.
About a week later I went home and googled something like "How do I become a girl?" I found a small website run by a trans woman that talked about hormone therapy. I cried myself to sleep for weeks.
Fun Facts, the Evangelion Episode, which I also stuck around for was 16, the one with Leliel, where the references to LCL smelling like blood and Shinji introspecting about his mother are particularly prominent, as I recall. You know just for deep association bonus points.
I got really into GitS after that. It& #39;s kind of shocking I didn& #39;t wind up being more of a weeb, really.
I know this shit probably sounds like a weird joke but I broke down crying writing this thread 
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