Still working out the kinks with episode count and total time.
Welcome to Digital Boy's Euphoric Field! Enjoy!
CAVEAT EMPTOR - TO ALL WHO ENTER HERE
Digital Boy here. If you can't tell, I am a hardcore otaku. I started watching anime in 2003, but was only watching localized anime (albeit more than most people). I fazed out of anime at that time and was reintroduced to it in the early months of 2007. Within a year and a half I consumed more than 70 days worth of anime, which is about the amount many fans consume over a period of eight to ten years. I have no particular genre that I like or dislike too much more than others. It is almost difficult for me to outright dislike an anime, if only because I drop most things that I know I won't like very early on. I am a collector, and currently own over 100 DVDs and an equal amount of manga volumes, though I don't consider this to be a particularly large collection and intend to expand it once I get a job. I own a few figures, a number of artbooks and doujins (mostly works of Yoshitoshi ABe), and a dakimakura or two. Most of my time is spent on the internet. I am a senior in high school currently pursuing a career as a director. I am 17 as of 8/8/08. I am freakishly obsessed with lists.
Some info on my profile: Yes this is a lot of information. It used to be even more, but there were some useless and outdated things so I changed it. There is a lot of profanity ahead. I am known for having a fowl mouth. My on hold list is just my watching list with shows I haven't seen an episode of in 3 months or more. I am not totally opposed to picking up shows I dropped. You'll notice I've completed less than half of my total anime, and if you look more closely you'll see that at least 50 of my completed anime are either short ONAs, OVAs, or music videos, and a lot of the anime I have dropped or on hold I have only watched one or two episodes of. I also have a hard time watching shows over 50 episodes long. I like to think that I am completely unpretentious, but I am easily mistaken for an elitist because I am easily annoyed.
I rewatch a lot of individual episodes of anime. Therefor, I have to list more episodes than there are in the series. That's why I've got stuff like '19/14' for Haruhi.
There are a number of anime that I love which are absent on the list because I haven't seen the show in a particularly long time.
Eureka Seven - Of all the anime I’ve seen, this is the most well-constructed in every way, and no other show has made me care about everything in it so much. Every character is memorable, and Renton and Eureka are spectacular. Possibly the only show that I can’t say anything negative about. I never wanted it to end, though the ending was beautiful.
End of Evangelion - Hideaki Anno and GAINAX's magnum opus. Aside from some slowness at the start, the movie is perfect in every way. Nothing else matches up to the insane imagery, wicked symbolism, and riveting psychological dialog. Contains some of the most legendary and well-animated segments in anime history, as well as what is commonly considered the greatest anime fight. The movie is a true legend and classic, untouchable by anything else.
ef - a tale of memories
Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann
Serial Experiments Lain
Baccano! + OVA
FLCL
Kure-nai
Hidamari Sketch
Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight
NHK ni Youkoso!
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Lucky Star
Earth Maiden Arjuna
Martian Successor Nadesico
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Otaku no Video
Simoun
Casshern Sins
Honey and Clover
Maria-sama ga Miteru + ~Haru~ + 3rd + DVD Specials
Akira
Black Lagoon + The Second Barrage
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni + Kai
Kamichu! + DVD Specials
Spice and Wolf
Red Garden
Texhnolyze
The SoulTaker
The Legend of Black Heaven
I am about as passionate about music as I am about anime. I listen to a great variety of genres, multiplied twenty-fold if you use sub-genre classification. My favorite genres mostly fall under the insanely broad cover term 'metal' though I've been known to enjoy any kind of music, right down to anime songs and jazz instrumentals. It would be much too difficult to list my favorite bands, though, because it would leave out too many songs that are the only ones by a band that I like. It would also be too difficult to list favorite songs since I'm still perfecting my rating method for that. So instead I'm just going to list my favorite albums.
Band - Album
Top Tier
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Ensiferum - Self Titled
The Delgados - Hate
The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Ocean & The Sun
Ye Olde Relic - The Seasons
Dredg - Leitmotif
The Protomen - Self Titled
Fall of Troy - Doppleganger
Foxy Shazam - Introducing
Shabutie - The Penelope EP
High Tier
Subterranean Masquerade - Suspended Animation Dreams
Agalloch - Pale Folklore
Ayreon - The Human Equation
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Coheed and Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade
The Mars Volta - Amputechture
Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo
Pearls and Brass - The Indian Tower
Middle Tier
Agalloch - The Mantle
Isis - Oceanic
Opeth - Watershed
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage
Opeth - Damnation
Witchcraft - Self Titled
Krallice - Self Titled
The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Tiger and the Duke
Low Tier
Mirrorthrone - Carriers of Dust
Dream Theater - Train of Thought
Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum
Yoshino Yuuji - Spice and Wolf OST
Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
Oskoreien - Demo 2008
I don't read much manga and I honestly have a hard time keeping track of it. This is an incomplete list just here for those who might be interested.
Light Novels - I actually like this first pick more than any single anime, and the second more than most (including it's own.)
Boogiepop and Others - IMO, the greatest thing ever written. It's got an outlook on society and the world that resonates deeply with me and it's style is everything I could want. Read it around 10 times so far.
Welcome to the NHK - The novel is definitely the best iteration of the series, having the most realistic happenings and strongest portrayal of the series' worldview.
Faust - A compilation magazine, actually, full of all the coolest things ever. My favorite story to be published in the english version of this is Drill Hole in My Brain, which is a headfuck like you've never read before.
Live Action Movies
The Fountain The Dark Knight The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Gozu Pulp Fiction
My Favorite Characters
Originally was a top 100 list but it was too hard to alter. My top 10 on the left is perfectly accurate, but these are characters I felt deserved special note.
Claire “Rail Tracer” “Vino” Stanfield - Baccano! - He’s motherfucking god. Literally. You are all a part of his dream. Why do I like Rail Tracer so goddamn much? The kind of self-confidence that makes you INVINCIBLE.
Lain Iwakura - Serial Experiments Lain - Much as i’d like to say “Mai Waifu <3″ and get this over with, something needs to be said here. Rewatching Lain, you continually find out new things about her. Lain is one fucked up girl. She’s unsociable, a little mentally unstable, and can only be herself on the internet. She’s lonely, acts sometimes on emotion before giving it total thought, and she’s scared shitless of being confronted outside her comfort zone. Indeed, she is no where near perfect. And to make matters worse, she goes through absolute hell. This show was downright hard to watch at times knowing I couldn’t reach through the screen to comfort her. Lain is my ultimate object of 2D love.
Kyousuke Tsutsuni - ef ~a tale of memories~ - This is a man who understands what he has to do. He knows who he is, what he wants to do, and he’s going to do it. You’re either with him or not - he doesn’t need to held back. This guy is why I chose Euphoric Field as my blog title.
Nobue Ito - Ichigo Mashimaro - This is my moe.
Henrietta - Gunslinger Girl - I can’t even look at her without some kind of emotion running through me. It’s not sadness, not melancholy, not longing - an indescribably emotion. You don’t even know what to do,or what you want for her. Her life is fucked up on the grandest fucking scale to the point that you can’t even predict or help it. Maybe that’s it - helplessness.
Satou Tatsuhiro - Welcome to the NHK - Hits really fucking close to home. I have said that a lot of characters on this list are ones I identify with, but they are all fiction. If I identify with them, it’s only because I can find certain things to tie us together. However, if there was one character who thinks exactly the same way as me, it is Satou. For all intents and purposes, i AM Satou Tatsuhiro.
Shinji Ikari - Neon Genesis Evangelion - This was me back when I was 14 and “so fucked up”.
Haruhi Suzumiya - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - I identify with her - brazen, unforgiving, selfish, but kind of wishes things were different - always searching for something out there to majorly change her world. She isn’t content to sit around and wait. She has overwhelming confidence and the power to make things happen - anyone who dislikes her doesn’t know their own potential. She is one who breaks the mold and is misunderstood, but doesn’t really give a fuck.
Mayuko Chigasaki - Niea_7 - This is one of, if not THE realest character I’ve seen in an anime. I’ve felt exactly how she feels - at many times it’s a feeling that can’t be put into words which the show makes a successful effort to express. If you’ve ever had doubts about your future and your present, you can identify with her.
Guts - Berserk - I can’t say much about the story of Berserk since it’s been pretty uninspired for the 13 eps I’ve watched, but Guts is a character who definitely grows in an interesting way thanks to Griffith. In his teens, all he cared about is survival and threw his sword around for just that, however as he continues his journey, he starts to look for more meaning in his life. He reminds me of my cousin (who is a HUGE berserk fan, too) with his quiet intensity.
My Favorite Quotes
List to be endlessly expanded.
By Me
"Communicating with the presence of eternity in the soul of the earth"
Anime Related
"The time you spend chasing after your dreams make up a part of your dreams! YOU GET TO BURNING!" - Nadesico OP
"Now, I'd like to have a fun and sad talk. Fun, the opposite of sadness. In other words, heaven and hell - love and peace. LOVE AND PEACE!" - Graham = Baccano!
(Everything shouted by Kamina or Simon in Gurren Lagann)
"Shiori, why were we born as separate beings?" - Sei, Marimite
”That’s a bad habit of a white person. They only believe in what they see.”
“What, do you want me to put something yellow in my living room?”
“Yes.”
-Exchange from Rahxephon
"THANK YOU, FUCK YOU, A HERO IS BORN" - Ladd - Baccano
"You will cry tears of scarlet" - Vincent, Coeboy Bebop
"My father never even hit me!" - Amuro, Gundam
"No matter where we are... we are always connected!" - Lain
I dislike repeating myself. I said I'll read it completly after I finish Casshern.
Maybe I'll learn something from it that could improve my technique concerning reviews.
Very nice review on Casshern Sins from what I've glanced at. I have yet to read it all after I actually finish the anime.
But seriously, next time, less tl;dr.
