Indirect Recommendation

To the seventh(?) grader who wore an Attack On Titan survey corps cosply jacket to school every day,

It took a few years, but thanks for the show recommendation. When I was searching for new anime to watch, your glorious beige coat with that winged symbol reminded me of a series that had shaped many of my classmates back in middle school. Having been wary of blood and gore, I used to avoid shows like AOT, but finally decided to tackle it a few months ago. Since then, I've been shocked by how a twelve-year-old such as yourself could have emotionally carried yourself through homework while watching that (and playing DDLC and FNAF, and reading Creepypastas and SCP foundation, and listening to "emo" music and Hamilton-), but here we are. While the posts that you and your fellow fans tricked me into believing that Eren x Levi was a canon ship and not weird in any way (until I found the fifteen-year age difference...), you introduced me to an interesting anime that remains in my top five.

Props to you wearing that jacket and screaming about titans in the hallways, something that I myself will only have the dignity to mentally experience in high school. Had you not done so, I would be rewatching FMA: Brotherhood for the tenth time as we speak (a good choice, but new experiences are better). As I write this, I'm listening to the second season's opening and nervously wondering what will be in store for the fourth.

Thanks once again for the tears,

- a stan of a ton of dead(?) characters