Strobe Edge

I haven't felt so attached to a manga for such a long time but this kept me up way past my bedtime and I really wanted to have a nice long sleep but somehow the storyline made me want to keep on going.

Maybe it's because I can somewhat relate to it, it's almost like my current situation or should I say, a situation that I went through recently?

This manga, 'Strobe Edge' by Sakisaka Io really gets me thinking.

Not only on the whole relationship thing though, also goal-wise.

Reading the manga makes me realise that I really do want to be a mangaka, someone who's able to make the reader forget reality for awhile and to leave their worries at the door and to just touch these people's hearts and evoke emotion from them.

Maybe I have always been subconscious of this dream of mine.

I've been keeping drawing references from mangas ever since I got this laptop and I don't even know why I started doing so. I just knew that I liked what I saw and I wanted to make a collection of them.

When I saw my roommate compiling pictures and reading books and drawing sketches of buildings and making small models, I realised that I was just the same as her.

I'm always drawing and sketching characters, observing the people around me, eager to listen to people's stories and experiences and eager to relate them together, and always reading a lot of mangas, always dreaming etc.

Before I realised it, I actually became someone who dreams to go to Japan and experience the culture there, like Japan is a shrine or something.

Is this what passion is?

I know with all my heart that I am not extremely talented in drawing or phrasing words or even conveying stories but I really want to try and do this. Really.

So for now I will continue to work hard at my studies but I will continue to pursue my true dreams as well.

Wish me luck. :)