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I do not distinguish between high and low culture. I take all forms of expression seriously.
I follow a simple 3 star rating system:
10 - Watch it.
5 - It's not like I think it's half as good as anime I rate with a 10 -- my 5 rating just means that I liked it enough to finish it, but would not recommend it to friends.
1 - Don't.
Anime costs time. People are often fooled into buying things from too much information; the optimal method to avoid this is to make a system that makes it efficient to decide among too many choices. Thus the criteria should be as minimal as possible: Whether it is a masterpiece or a guilty fetish, in the end it is either you invested hours of your life on it or you didn't.
Good or bad, it has become part of your life. And whether or not you want to share that part of your life to others is up to you.
If you were my friend, I'd definitely want to share whatever experiences you have had, good or bad.
I created this account out of soul-crushing loneliness.
Fans of Shunji Iwai, Hideaki Anno, Yoshiki Sakurai, Takehiko Inoue, Naoki Urasawa, Yoko Kanno, Shiro Sagisu, Joe Hisaishi, Taro Iwashiro, Taku Iwasaki, Shinichiro Watanabe, Kenji Kamiyama, Hayao Miyazaki, Mamoru Oshii, and Metal are instant blood brothers of mine.
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Unless you'd like for me to push the whole Puppet Master routine a bit further. Which I can do!
Anyway, excluding Jung for now (where did you get the word "imagos" from anyway? I don't remember Jung ever using it) I'm just going to get straight in: for one Anno never uses Lacanian terminology in eva and we don't have any indication that he ever read Lacan. Anno never underwent any kind of therapy while doing NGE and thus the notion that Anno based anything on his Gestalt psychotherapy sessions is simply false. Despite what wiki claims there isn't even allusion to Gestalt psychotherapy in ep 15 (platinum booklet explains the bit often falsely considered as Gestalt psycholog reference).
I quite like your selection for "greatest works of art" - it's deepy personal but pretty reasonable nonetheless. 2001 definitively ranks among the greatest films ever made and of course I agree with inclusion of eva. As for Tool I'm not huge fan of them and I haven't read House of Leaves. I'm drowning in unread stuff I own as it is...
I absolutely love Shiki Jitsu and it's one film that gets better with each viewing, in my experience. One day I might try to make comprehensive cinematic analysis of it but who knows when I have time and will for that.
Oh, and if you're picking shows from my MAL ratings be warned - the ratings can be a bit eclectic at times. For example my 10/10 rating for Kare Kano is basically for the first 18 eps directed by Anno. Afterwards show turns into shit etc.
Did you watch Hausu? Now that is a frakking mindblower.
http://rateyourmusic.com/film/%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B9/
Plus my rank is now 9.
How else would he get 500 helpful votes in one day.
Pass the word dude. He's fucked himself.
And so you know, slardyblardfarst will be deleted by the admins as I've already let them know about this account.
I don't have time to reply you properly but figured out you might be interested in Fractale:
http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=280228&show=0#post1
Well, comedy is very subjective thing and as such hard to judge - especially since in anime we're dealing with comedy from a very different country it can be very patchy to find stuff one likes actually funny - at least untill one is so immersed in the products of this foreign culture getting the important cultural tones is easier. I don't actually focus on comedy shows much (well, I used to be a deepfag but nowadays I can't claim to have any sort of overbearing taste that leads me to pick up shows with X elements and ignore ones with Z) and so I usually pick only highly reverred ones which in my case has been good. Obviously new shows expections but given that I've watched anime live only for a one year I haven't have long experience in this. I found Arakawa unfunny and dropped it but Squid Girl won me over.
As a matter of fact I've seen Lily Chou Chou year or two ago. Fantastic film and propably my favourite japanese (live action) film from last decade right after Anno's Shiki Jitsu and Sion Sono's Love Exposure.
As for Stand Alone Complex, you might notice it's on my "on hold" list alongside with Monster right now. They've been there for quite a while now and I try to get to them some day in spring. With currently airing shows plus Zeta Gundam and couple of others ((like random OVA boom shit I watch every now and then) I have my plate full.
ps. Eva is Jungian-Existentialist Mazinger Z x Ideon, not Lacanian. :P
Yes, but I didn't blow it out of proportions... it was merely a suggestion...
You mean anime-planet... yeah as far as recommendations go I consider it far superior to MAL... but its no longer that useful to me... perhaps I've seen more anime than most and thats why...
The controversy? So you are actually into such discussions huh... and have you met that many special people here?
And I am more into execution than originality, I think that original is next to inexistant anyway... there is no parthenogenesis in art as they say... which is why I like GTO but kinda dislike golden boy... simple no?
Also that is correct, after-the-fact critical reminiscence makes you feel differently than you did when experiencing sth... but what is your point? That you can't convey anything with precision afterwards? Well blame our brains for being unable to be hotwired with each other... :P
And aren't japenese smileys vertical? Like this: ^_^
And the foppery goes first. :P
Indeed you have... again its natural... and its not that I care all that much... I have long given up on seeing people actually using rankings in a reasonable manner... its just that most are idiots who do whatever... you tried to rationalize what you were doing and that got me interested...
It seems I still don't get that parentheses thing... anyway...
Friends? Otaku culture? You are taking this a bit too far... you would recommend to them what is good... then they would watch sth in accordance with the time they have... don't try to organize their own time, thats beyond your juristriction.... and besides thats why you need more than 3... 10 is what you recommend, 7 what you loved but don't recommend, 5 what you just barely watched... and so on the division goes...
Anyway... if you want to revise it, revise it... lets see what you come up with this time. :P
I do rank anime in my head, and to be honest my simple rating system is just an excuse for my laziness -- convenience for others is secondary, if I ever considered that at all. I signed up for MAL out of whim (and foppery, haha; LotGH reference right there) and I ended up spending more time than expected.
If I were to choose between which anime I should save from my burning house, I would definitely have priorities. And indeed there are a few anime I wish I made.
I only recently realized that there were still people (like you) who care, and that I am shaming their serious efforts with my half-assed excuses.
And yes, it would be troublesome to write reviews; but my point remains that my rating system (you can consider it as a 3 star system, as opposed to the 1-10 scale) accomplishes its intended utility. And nobody would ever reasonably say that a rating system can substitute a critical review.
As for the anime I rated with a 1, especially Death Note and Aoi Blink, yes I completed them. It's a warning so as not to let others repeat the same mistake I've had. Well, it's not like I finished Aoi Blink on purpose; it used to be the show on TV when I got home from school and I remember swearing how a show for kids shouldn't be a show for retards. Death Note, I confess, was a favorite of a crush so I LOL tortured myself to finish it... but it felt like a story about geniuses written by someone above-average.
And, dude, you're confusing my words. I said, "I'm supposed to put... parentheses"!
And "not recommending" means that I liked it, but I believe in the balance between reality and phantasy. I have friends and family who have very little time to invest on an encyclopedic knowledge of otaku culture. And it's just realistic to say that recommending anime series with more than a hundred episodes to someone you care about is overkill.
As an otaku I don't mind spending my time on anime... but this is something I hate about myself and I don't want others to do the same unless they don't have any other choice.
This is why, as much as I liked Angel's Egg and Legend of the Galactic Heroes and Rurouni Kenshin TV, I couldn't recommend them to someone else... so I could only rate them a 5, no matter how painful that is to me.
Thanks for the concern, really. This weekend I'll probably revise it.
What reviews? Writing a review for every single anime you watch is IMO far more troublesome than a more complicated rating system...
Parentheses? Why? I don't remember it being in parentheses before... oh well...
Rigidly defined? Remind me wasn't 5 supposed to be sth you managed to watch but you aren't recommending? Then what is 1? Sth you couldn't watch? Then how come I see 1s in your completed list? Those might be only two... but still...
And besides whats the cutoff point of recommending and not recommending? And would you recommend all your 10s equally? I don't think so... some would more strongly recommended than others... its only natural...
Actually there are always complicated reasons for why I've given sth a 4 and not a 5... as a rule of a thumb I use this "did it at any point seriously annoy me? yes=4, no=5"... while 3 and 4 also has its reasons... anyway... as I said to each his own...
You have to see it, it's a love/hate anime, but since you like Mamoru Oshii, and Sky Crawlers is a very Oshiiesque movie, you may be one of the "love it" guys.
Hanada seems like a cool show, are you enjoying it?
Of course what each anime means to me is different than others. And that is the point of expounding this meaning in the reviews and not by numerical rating.
I'm supposed to put "pidgeonhole principle" in parentheses LOL but I never thought I'd use it after a long while.
And in a simpler scale, there would be no error because each criterion is rigidly defined.
If I asked you what is the difference between 3 and 4 in your system, or 4 and 5, you yourself can be easily confused whether one was either. If you asked me what the difference between 10 and 5 is, then my simple answer is that I completed both anime but the 5 is something I wouldn't recommend and the 10 is something you have to watch if you call yourself my friend (: