Diary of a Japanese Girl: Life with the Heffleys

Chapter Nine: Seven Years Later

After seven years, I couldn't believe I had been living with the Heffleys for this long. My obsession of anime continued and by the time I turned thirteen, I had watched dozens of different shows and finally learned to speak English fluently.

After I finished Sailor Moon, I began to watch Pokémon and Fairy Tail. Four years later when I was ten, I moved onto more advanced anime such as Soul Eater, and three more years later I watched Attack on Titan and Black Butler when I was thirteen.

As I got older so did the Heffleys, but Greg and I were still sharing a room; Greg was now eighteen while Rodrick was twenty-three and Manny was around ten.

For the past few years, Rowley visited us for sleepovers instead of having us come over there. Even at their age now, Greg and Rowley still did sleepovers just like they used to.

By that time, anime wasn't the only thing I liked... I also became a huge fan of Vocaloid! I had a new poster for that too and I even begged Susan and Frank to take me to see Hatsune Miku when she was going to perform in Boston that year.
"Don't get your hopes up, Yukiko. I've never been to a concert before." said Greg after I asked his parents for like the millionth time.

Even with the Sailor Moon and Vocaloid posters, I wanted to get more; unfortunately, Greg did not want me to clutter his walls anymore. So, I stuck to just two...

END OF CHAPTER 9

Last publish date before 2020 edits: June 9, 2016.

The original title of this chapter was "Seven Years of Anime"

Okay so that was chapter nine.

I went my first Miku Expo concert on May 6th, 2016, and over that weekend I found some things on Amazon, one was the Vocaloid poster scroll that arrived a month after the concert.

So, this chapter and the next chapter will be about Yukiko's life as a teenager.

Okay, that is all for now!

Sayonara

The next chapter will be the last...

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