At the same time, I was fascinated with weirdness. I have a VHS copy of the first three episodes of Rayearth that I watched so many times, the tape can barely run at all (I watched the first episode again on Hulu and was so happy to see that Umi is basically that guy from The Langoliers: 'I have a very important fencing match in a week!'). Magical girl shows were my bread and butter, entranced with Sailor Moon, which naturally led me to Card Captor Sakura and Magic Knight Rayearth, both by CLAMP. You can imagine my surprise when I realized that I was reading this volume because I enjoyed it. The last ten years of my life have been spent making fun of X. For one, you read it at your own pace, as opposed to the pace set by moving pictures. There's something a little less paralyzing about a book. I see the feathers, the sakura petals, the gears, and I think, I can't do this. I've had problems with revisiting the X anime. Well, what happened at work, we received a shipment of the entire X manga collection, republished in a 3-in-1 omnibus by Viz. But in some way, I felt like that was cheating - if there's anything I still love from CLAMP, it's Seishirou. But perhaps one of the biggest surprises for me was returning to the Tokyo Babylon OAV I owned and discovering that I liked it. Evangelion, in particular, has transformed me into a follower who now owns Hello Kitty keychains with said Sanrio mascot dressed up as Rei, Asuka, and Kaworu. Discovering works like Neon Genesis Evangelion and Xenosaga, ones that I had avoided and insisted I didn't like, to find that I adored them. Revisiting works like RahXephon and Galaxy Express 999 to discover my love for them had strengthened over the years. I've had a lot of surprises here on An Analogy is a Signpost.

Tokyo Babylon Omnibus 1 by CLAMP