CrowOuttaHell
Skull-Faced Writer
If you're like me, we've all had those moments. One day you're declaring that you don't like this certain thing, you hate this certain thing, you refuse to listen to this certain music/song, you don't wanna see this character anymore...and then the next day you're suddenly looking up fanart, or looking up songs, or downloading albums, or collecting this thing; you get the deal. What are some things that you used to hate that you can now enjoy?
Personally, I have a few of my own.
- J-Pop - Didn't like the genre or the sound before, save for a few like GARNiDELiA and Koda Kumi. Never used to follow idol music either because of how shady the industry can get sometimes. Eventually though, I ended up following Pyxis (an idol duo formed by two voice actresses) due to both of them being in a series I follow, and I ended up thinking that it didn't sound that bad. Wouldn't blare it in public because of how much foreign songs are looked down upon where I live, but I can enjoy J-Pop in my own time. I still regularly listen to Miku Ito's PopSkip album admittedly.
- J-Rap - I didn't exactly hate J-Rap, but I did denounce all forms of rap in general when I was young. If you follow the Utaite scene (online Japanese singers), the first Japanese rapper I really liked was nqrse. What really cemented my decision to start giving J-Rap a chance was the Hypnosis Microphone series, which is all about voice actors participating in rap battles. I find that it's a lot less vulgar and extreme than some rap songs in the West. I've started branching out from just Utaite and HypMic to try and give actual Japanese rappers a chance and I can personally recommend KEN THE 390 if anyone wants to look into the genre.
- Happy-go-lucky characters - I personally blame this character. When I used to be an edgy roleplayer I had a sort of distaste for characters that were always so happy without having any sort of tragic backstory behind them as to why they act happy. But then after a while I realized that they're usually the characters that can, you know-- interact. Plus, it's always nice to have a happy-go-lucky friend IRL. They're easy to enjoy on their own without looking far too deep into their psyche or their backstory and I think that's a plus.
- Characters that are out of your comfort zone - When I was a kid, I absolutely only portrayed smug rich kids as evil people who needed to be taken down a peg by the underdog protagonist. Years later, I did make a smug rich protagonist instead and found that it's very, very fun to write her and the fact that she has a different backstory than the underdog characters I used to write that she can also do a lot more, like take part in business and be more on the professional side. Same goes for characters who are evil for the sake of evil. Not every villain needs to be redeemable.
Those are just a few of my own that I can name off the top of my head. What about yours?
Personally, I have a few of my own.
- J-Pop - Didn't like the genre or the sound before, save for a few like GARNiDELiA and Koda Kumi. Never used to follow idol music either because of how shady the industry can get sometimes. Eventually though, I ended up following Pyxis (an idol duo formed by two voice actresses) due to both of them being in a series I follow, and I ended up thinking that it didn't sound that bad. Wouldn't blare it in public because of how much foreign songs are looked down upon where I live, but I can enjoy J-Pop in my own time. I still regularly listen to Miku Ito's PopSkip album admittedly.
- J-Rap - I didn't exactly hate J-Rap, but I did denounce all forms of rap in general when I was young. If you follow the Utaite scene (online Japanese singers), the first Japanese rapper I really liked was nqrse. What really cemented my decision to start giving J-Rap a chance was the Hypnosis Microphone series, which is all about voice actors participating in rap battles. I find that it's a lot less vulgar and extreme than some rap songs in the West. I've started branching out from just Utaite and HypMic to try and give actual Japanese rappers a chance and I can personally recommend KEN THE 390 if anyone wants to look into the genre.
- Happy-go-lucky characters - I personally blame this character. When I used to be an edgy roleplayer I had a sort of distaste for characters that were always so happy without having any sort of tragic backstory behind them as to why they act happy. But then after a while I realized that they're usually the characters that can, you know-- interact. Plus, it's always nice to have a happy-go-lucky friend IRL. They're easy to enjoy on their own without looking far too deep into their psyche or their backstory and I think that's a plus.
- Characters that are out of your comfort zone - When I was a kid, I absolutely only portrayed smug rich kids as evil people who needed to be taken down a peg by the underdog protagonist. Years later, I did make a smug rich protagonist instead and found that it's very, very fun to write her and the fact that she has a different backstory than the underdog characters I used to write that she can also do a lot more, like take part in business and be more on the professional side. Same goes for characters who are evil for the sake of evil. Not every villain needs to be redeemable.
Those are just a few of my own that I can name off the top of my head. What about yours?
Any reason why you started liking it? 
