Anime can invite you into worlds you didn't know before. It does for me
Cartoons like My Neighbor Totoro and Dragon Ball Z introduced me to anime — and started an ongoing love for the artform and its stories that explore what it means to be human.
The cover of the VHS tape told me it was a cartoon, so I was game to immediately watch it. My brother and I — neither of us old enough for elementary school yet — sat down, and what played blew our minds.
Instead of cartoon figures and backgrounds, we were treated to scenes of the countryside.
This is some documentary or drama — the adults lied to me!
But it was rude to immediately leave the
