SASO 2017 Icebreaker: Voice/Text Meme

[referees]

Interested in being a part of SASO, but don’t know anyone else who might be participating? Feel like making some new friends who love sports anime just as much as you do? If your answer to either of those questions was “yes,” then we’ve got a meme for you to play in!

To participate, answer any or all of the questions below, either by typing them out into a comment to this post, or by recording your answer and uploading it onto a website like Vocaroo or SoundCloud and then pasting it into a comment to this post. You’re free to answer questions in any way you like, however we ask that you keep your answers appropriate for all ages.

1. What should we call you?
2. What got you into sports anime?
3. What do you love about your favorite sports anime?
4. Which sports anime moment got you right in the feels?
5. Have you found a relatable favorite in a sports anime? Who?
6. What series do you find it difficult/easy to make content for? Why?
7. Similarly, what series do you like to consume content from? Why?
8. Lastly, let your fellow SASOers know where they can find you if they want to chat with you!

Once you’ve left a comment with your answers, go check out and reply to your fellow anime fans! Who knows, maybe you’ll find someone who gets just as emotional over that one episode of Haikyuu as you do? We sure hope you do, and we hope you’ll stay tuned throughout the next few weeks for more icebreaker games! (This round ends on May 5.)

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[kitaiichis]

what should we call you?
hi hi, call me andrea! o/

what got you into sports anime?
once upon a time--circa 2013, i think? woah--a friend linked me to the pv for free!s1, and it seemed like a good, fun time until suddenly i was already six episodes in and lying on the floor, wondering what to do with all these [vague hand gestures] feelings, lol. i've been drifting from series to series ever since c:

what do you love about your favourite sports anime?
but which is My Favourite Sports Anime? i'm like that person who stumbles into a series and accidentally adopts 50 new children, oops. that said, i really, truly adore daiya--baseball is so fun to watch for me, and i love the emphasis on personal and interpersonal growth among the characters, and how one feeds into the other, while never fully distancing from the sport. honourable mention to yoi, however, because i've been keeping up with irl figure skating for years and i'm so glad this show exists, tbh.

which sports anime moment got you right in the feels?
When Miyuki Kazuya Smiles, Laughs, Breathes, Exists....but real talk, my heart still does the clenchy thing when miyuki goes home for winter break and does the not-talky thing with his dad before heading into their apartment and seeing sushi with two pairs of chopsticks waiting....clenches fists, clenches heart,

have you found a relatable favourite in a sports anime? who?
yuuri & victor from yoi: yuuri's struggles trying to negotiate between his ambitions and his anxieties/self-doubts, and victor's bright performative tendencies, that clash between how you feel vs. how you're expected to be seen? anyway lowkey (high-key) every episode of yoi made me Super Emo

what series do you find it difficult/easy to make content for? why?
recently i'm struggling to make, uh, any content o o p s (hoping saso will help me boot my butt gently back into gear lmao). interestingly, yoi, particularly victor/yuuri, is the only series i've really felt challenged trying to write content for? myb because i'm so satisfied with how actual canon went down, that i feel i don't have much to contribute. writing for smaller fandoms/less prolific ships is v satisfying for me, though, in that Be The Change You Wish To See kinda way!

that said, i've written for: daiya, hq, ballroom e youkoso; some oofuri, & knb

similarly, what series do you like to consume content from? why?
i'll read pretty much anything! funnily enough tho, for someone who finds it hard writing for yoi i've spent SO much time in the tag recently, lmao.

where you can find me:
twitter is pretty much your best bet!! you can find me there on kaoruindous and intimacies (my remade account with not much on it, you can find most of last year's saso stuff and other fic on commovente)

[dynamite]

hi Andrea!! I love love love your writing so much, and it's so nice to see you back this year. I totally feel you about the struggle to make content, so I hope SASO gives you the push you need! (it definitely frees me from creative performance jitters, so I hope it's the same for you)

[kitaiichis]

hiya!! and thanks, it's good to be back in the saso depths haha :D i def felt it was easier making content for saso--less limiting or strict with myself?--and i'm so excited to write more stuff this year too!!