Thread:Ragnarok6354/@comment-29270805-20151202124601/@comment-11148831-20151222042611

Great. 'u'

Agreed. Rin's voice has always been good.

Ah, this would be a little lengthy but I hope that's okay.

Well, I didn't care about studying when I was in high school. I was getting good grades without doing it anyway. I always binged-watched anime every chance I got. I only do online streaming, see. I watched anime regardless of genre. My only criteria were good art and interesting plot (though, comedy and school life genres were plus points). Then some time last April 2013, I came across this title and this was the image. I thought the art was decent, so I bookmarked it, though it wasn't really in my priority list at the time.

One day, I saw my sister watching anime, something she haven't really done in ages, and I got curious. Asked her what the anime was (didn't really recognize the art). I watched with her for a few minutes and then she told me, "I'm sure you'll like Umi". I raised a brow, of course. I didn't even know the characters. After that, I thought, "since I got to watch some of it anyway, why not finish it". This was in late May 2013, btw. Yes, I put it off for almost two months.

After I finished the series, my sister introduced me to their previous PVs and she's started memorizing the information about these girls, like their seiyuus, favorite food, height, etc. She hasn't done that ever in her life. I haven't either. The closest to this that I've ever done before was memorizing K-ON girls' seiyuus and buying bass to play K-ON songs. And yes, she was right. Umi became my favorite and Maki was second.

Eventually, my sister and I got into this franchise more and more. We came across this wikia. My sister didn't think of helping, but I did, especially since I have experience in video editing. I then started uploading lyric videos in YouTube and uploading them in the video sections of the pages here. The very first video I uploaded was Himitsu to Hanazono. This was still June 2013 (see, my profile, I joined June 22, 2013). Some time after, we discovered SIF as well.

In August 2013, our younger sister had the chance to compete in a math contest and go to Singapore. I knew SG had stores that sell Love Live! stuff so we told her (and mom) to look out for them, bring one or two home for us if possible. When they came back, they had bought the first volume of the manga. We were super happy, even though we couldn't understand everything. I've only started slowly studying Japanese by myself since I got into Love Live! after all.

We then started to become active in going to anime conventions just to search for Love Live! merchandise. The first convention we went to after Love Live! didn't have any LL merchandise. The second one had, but we could only find postcards worth 20PHP, iirc. We didn't care if it wasn't official. It was Love Live!! We still have those postcards with us, btw. When I was no longer satisfied with the merchandise here, I started looking through online stores. In February 2014, I got myself a prepaid card that would allow me to buy online.

The very first merchandises we bought (mostly paid with my money though, sister only shared a little, heh) were the volume 2 of the manga, seiyuu paradise vol.18, the first anthology comic, and Eri's School idol diary. This was the first time we experienced how bad Philippines' tax system was. Not gonna go into detail. Anyway, stuff happened, we bought more and more goods online and I went broke. Lol.

Anyway, tl;dr. My sister kind of introduced me to this franchise and I started being a fan of this franchise, June 2013. :P

My favorite is still Umi but my second now is Eri, btw. OTPs got in the way. Hehe ;P