Major Inspiration Source, Huh?

In this particular blog post, I am going to elaborate on those that have inspired me to traverse this path I am currently taking in AIT. I have TONS of inspirations, but mostly are inspired by the modern Japanese culture if that isn't obvious enough to you all by now.

I have always been torn apart between two main career branches. One is of course to animate, and one is to study literature. The causes of this particular conflict are basically:

Passion: Art-ing>Writing

Talent: Art-ing<Writing

And the reason why I am here now instead of some English university somewhere else is most likely because of this PC-adapted-to-anime-adapted-to-manga--adapted-to-novels-ported-to-DS-and-PS2-and-has-PS2-and-PSP-spin-off-games-and-spawns-off-frigging-mahjong-machines visual novel called 'Higurashi no Naku Koro ni' or 'When Cicadas Cry'. And no, it's not a graphic novel.

Basically here's a screenshot of what it's like in software.

It's a famous horror visual novel in Japan, and is actually one of my favorite pieces of literature ever.  It has this really, really strong yet unpredictable story and will get you emotionally involved ( read: play with your feelings) with the whole thing. It'll live on ( read: haunt) with you for the rest of your life. Basically, generally good anime or manga tend to move me the most.

Wait, why am I talking about writing now, you ask?

Well, it's because I find the addition of these minimal graphics to the work to be much more effective and interesting rather than novels without any imagery, yet I can still employ my usual use of pretty foxy linguistics.

Basically, it made me realize that my ideal dream is not to just illustrate or write. It's to compose something by illustrating and writing it myself. I want to either animate or design a visual novel, or even open up a commercial studio specializing in these two and produce things that will blow away people. I want to always be heavily involved in both illustrating and writing, and since I suffer from a  major lack of talent in the arts, I believe I need to be educated severely in this aspect to ascertain if I really have what it takes to  pursue this as a main or secondary career path.

So that's why I'm here and that's why I'm typing this post.