Hi Guys! It's been way too long; I've been busy with all of my coursework and GCSE's... and way too much H-work. You know how it is. Anyway, I wanted to take a shot at another story, I've been reading a lot lately an' I've decided that my stories aren't as good as they could be, so here we go ^^
Jump an' Manga
By Roxie
Anime. A simple enough word, a wide range of types, a great many hours wasted. Said in the right way, anime can shape a person's future, make dreams come true, bring fantasies (no matter how sick) to life. You don't believe me do you? In fact, you're probably wondering what I'm talking about, right. But that's another story, so I'm just gonn'a continue. The thing about anime is that it's hard to find, especially these days, our computers and electricity don't work as well as they used to. I think it had something to do with the earth splitting, it was quite an event apparently, obviously I wasn't alive at the time it happened, but the story goes that the entire planet was hit by a meteorite, there was a string of gigantic earthquakes, and then the planet literally split in half. We lost one half of Earth to space, and our heat dissipated really quickly, in fact, if the sun burns out we're as good as dead. Nice thought isn't it? But let me tell you, standing on the edge of the world and peering into deep space, it's amazing! And I get to see it every day, just by looking out of my window and past the golden stretch of sand... Oh, anime right? I was talking about anime... we'll, since anime was a huge hit before the world fell apart, we decided to preserve as much of the other half of the planet as we could and, since we lost Japan, anime and manga are the only things we have as reminders of what our world was once like. Which brings me to the topic of manga; I'm addicted, hands up, its good stuff. Anime is scarce now, but the plot lines were kept within manga, so it's practically the same thing. I have over a hundred different manga in our shop, they sell like crazy and we're always getting a horde of costumers. But, when they all leave and we close up for the night, I often take the leftovers back to my house and surround myself with the wonderful fantasies of the Japanese people. By the way, my name is Mikami Karazuki, Mimi for short... well; my actual name is number 983, but that sucks if you ask me, how come every new child born is given a bloody number until she (or he) turns 16? And even then we don't get a choice in our name! I know that our population is small and that we need to catalogue our people for safety reasons and whatever, but seriously, it sucks. So I call myself Mimi, not around the adults of course, but around my friends, they hate the number system as much as I do. My name however, comes from a manga I read back when I was 6, so it's not a very appropriate name for my country, which by the way, is England. Yep, all hale the English, survivors till the end! Which, is kinda true in a weird way, seeing as we only just survived, one inch more and we would be drifting in space right about now, see, the Earth split right next to Scarborough (my home town) and cracked in a sort of curve through France and the south pole, we lost everyone: from Russia and Italy, to China and Japan. Even after that, the half of France that survived have gone crazy, they started killing each other and resorting to violence, in fact, only the U.S.A and Canada have managed to stabilise their communities, we're sort of there, but Scotland refuses to co-operate with our government and they've begun to resort to cannibalism now that food sources are low, not to mention that all our water has nearly dried up. We don't get rain anymore, and there are no clouds in the sky... I wonder what rain looks like, I've only seen the sketches in my manga, long lines of blue and white, and clouds, what do they look like? Are they pink like in Inuyasha? Or white like in Magikano? Maybe there both, or maybe there a different colour all together... I wish I could find out, but that's impossible, we're doomed to die. We know our planet will fall soon, the sun is beginning to die, we can see it getting dimmer as the days pass, and I know that all the animals have vanished, even the insects are dead... we were doomed when those scientists tested that machine, that small spark of a black hole they created, attracting that meteor like a penny to a magnet... we were doomed since the year 2012.