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For reasons I'll publish a phost about
another day I am super clean right now, I haven't had a drink or a pill and
only minimal caffeine for a week so am finding dealing with some life things
to be very different and difficult. We roll up and find the club and I'm
already awkward as fuck from being out of my element and talking to new people
and that's being amplified by my current chemical situation and that in turn
sets off genuine anxiety in me. Even after we greet some people, find out
where we're supposed to be and find a place in the theatre to settle in my
stomach is sour and my head is a mess of stress-noise and all I want to do is
turn into smoke and slip out through the air vents.
Things got started and the organiser went over what we're watching. The
event was hyped as a "mystery anime" screening, so no one knew what we were
watching until the day. He announced it was "an old one" and in that moment
I'll confess I did get a bit excited because old anime is good anime but then
in the next moment he mentioned it was from 2012 and, I'll tell you, I felt
real fucking old haha. 2012 is not "back in the day" holy shit.
Then the icing on the cake: the anime we were watching was Daily Lives of
High School Boys.
There are a few titles that have stuck with me as being so dumb that for a
while they put me off anime entirely and one of those is Daily Lives of High
School Boys. I remember it being reasonably popular and hyped when it was
released and I very patiently gave it a watch but didn't get it at all. It's
dumb random humor with very little smarts or substance, just yelling and
flapping around. I hated it then and I hate it now, although this time around
I did recognise Yukana's voice in the high school girls bit, I didn't pick up
on that the first time I watched it.
Most of the crowd seemed to like it, although most of the time I genuinely
couldn't figure out what they were laughing at. One guy in an I [heart] Anime
tshirt couldn't stomach it and bounced after half an episode. I feel ya,
homeboy.
In the end we managed to stick it out until the intermission and then
decided enough-is-enough and just went for a walk in the early-Spring sun
instead.
The group itself was about what you'd expect: a couple quirky types, a
handful of quiet "just here to watch the show" types and a few rowdy social-
but-awkward types, they did all seem pretty nice though and were really
welcoming. We suspect the group that parked in front of us in the theatre were
the "in-crowd".
In the interest of giving things a proper try and because I know that this
experience is probably colored by my current headstate, we plan to attend the
next couple meetups too and see how things go but as a first outing this
didn't go so well. Not a bad experience, mind, just not the hook back into
anime fandom I was looking for.
Next weekend is Melbourne's smaller anime convention so that'll keep the
ball rolling. It's also the one time a year I link up with other Melbourne
doll people so stay tuned for me pissing on about that. Later, gaters.
