So, here I am lying in bed late in the middle of the night, unable to sleep with a million thoughts and emotions running through my head. Most of these thoughts and emotions were brought forth by my experience of an anime, Charlotte.
For anime fans who have not watched this anime before, I heavily recommend that you check it out. There are only 13 episodes in the series and I managed to absorb it all in one night.
The anime is about the main character, Otosaka Yuu, who has the ability to possess another person for up to 5 seconds. For years, he has been using his ability to cheat his way through life, even enabling him to enrol in a prestigious high school.
The anime's plot starts when Tomori Nao, another individual with special powers, catches Yuu using his powers. She makes him join the Hoshi-no-Umi Academy, a school founded to protect students with supernatural abilities. Yuu is then forced to join the student council of the school whose goal is to track down abusers of these supernatural powers.
This anime series is a heart wrenching one and it played my heartstrings like an instrument. The ending, in particular, was such a touching and romantic one. I will not spoil any more of the anime's plot or ending for any one of you. However, I will mention that the series has left me questioning myself on many of my choices and decisions in life. As I am typing this right now, I have only just finished bawling away and wiped my tears dry. I have felt an enormous amount of sorrow and regret in the last few hours.
My sadness comes from the plight of the characters in the story and feeling and emphathising with their emotional roller coasters. I regret how I was not able to make the same decisions and choices as Yuu had done in the anime for his siblings and the sacrifices he had made for the people that he loves around him. I regret how I had not treated my family, and brother especially, and shown them my love in the most ideal way.
Somehow, writing away at this blog helps me to resolve some of the feelings that I had within me. This post serves me in more ways than one. It helps me recommend a spectacularly produced anime to anime lovers reading my blog while enabling me to put some of my deepest emotions into words. It is a form of resolution to me, I guess.
