Welcome!!

Hello and welcome to Under the Influence With Anime and Manga.  It has been a long time coming, but I have finally ventured to a blogging website where I can freely express my love for the well known phenomenon known as anime, and it's counterpart, manga.  I am not looking for my blog to be a top rating or viewed blog, just one for myself to look back on in the years to come.  It may seem a bit obsessive to want to keep a blog on my opinions about the countless anime I watch and manga I read, but as I have told many of my friends, anime has given me a reason to love writing.  As an aspiring novelist, the extraordinary stories that come from the Japanese culture inspire me to write as much as I can.  Plus, I cannot help but want to keep some sort of record for this form of entertainment.  I am not embarassed to say it is a huge part of my life, and I never want that to change.  Though there are those, my mother being the main person, who do not understand my love for this form of storytelling, I will never freely turn away from it.

So!  The blog I will be keeping will consist of the crazy, serious, sad, happy, frustrated, opinions, facts and love of anything and everything that has to do with anime or manga.  I will not be posting every day, but when I have a thought, I will be here.  Most of my thoughts will probably occur after I watch an episode of any kind of anime, or if there is a thought provoking conversation between my friends and I, or on one of my haunting grounds in forums.  For now, welcome to Under the Influence, and be on the look out for more to come.  This blog will serve as a great stress releaver! 

PS. Sometimes I may veer off course on other tangents, but never fear, anime will always be near.  (And drugs would be cheaper.)