Nostalgia and Letting Go

I am a huge fan of Japanese anime, and books that I wrote like The Mustard Prince in the Condiment Kingdom are inspired by anime. My friends and I have been watching anime titles that we watched when we first started getting into the platform, and the amount of care put into those past titles contrasts with what looks like a quick money-grab of today. From background animation to just having memorable characters, I feel that anime back then had more soul than much of the stuff out now.

I also watched Disney’s Christopher Robin, and I liked it. There was a huge sense of nostalgia along with humor in a story with similarities to Hook. I can relate to the idea of someone growing up and casting aside things from one’s childhood only to revisit them when that person becomes an adult. Writing fantasy has been something that is full-circle for me, as I am now writing stories using stories from my childhood and growing up to create something new. 

I think that there is something about nostalgia and being an adult that’s important. For me with writing, I don’t really want to totally let go of the child-like self, so writing kind of preserves that, and I think that various media has that same effect. We yearn for something to hold on to that’s relevant and memorable.