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I'm just some guy that loves anime, manga, and video games. I also really got into movies when I got my part-time job at a movie theater in very late August 2012. I really like learning more about how anime works, the production, the history of the industry, and over time, got more interested in the actual animation in anime. My Sakugabooru favorites can be found here.

I got into anime in November 2008 when I was 14 and in the 8th grade. I had watched anime very casually when I caught it on TV since I was a kid on places like Kids WB, Cartoon Network and their Toonami programming block. When Toonami got cancelled, I became rather sad and frustrated at the cancellation of the programming block in September 2008. Soon after I kept hearing talk about this anime called Bleach and tried it on [adult swim] starting with Episode 87. I later went back and quickly got through Episodes 1-86.

I quickly fell in love with Bleach which ended up becoming my gateway anime, and I still love it to this day. Though I don't think as well about the overall quality of it back when I was newer to the anime fandom. I started watching more and more anime on [adult swim] such as Code Geass, Death Note, Cowboy Bebop, The Big O II, InuYasha, Fullmetal Alchemist, and later started to get into more shows not on [adult swim] like Suzuka, Shakugan no Shana, Karin, Lucky*Star, School Rumble, and quickly ended up becoming an otaku. Anime is now my biggest passion, surpassing video games which for the longest time was my biggest passion.

Waifu: Yukina Himeragi | Collections: Anime Blu-rays | Anime DVDs | Manga | Figures | Video Games

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How I Rate Anime and Manga:

10. Masterpiece
9. Excellent/Amazing
8. Very good/Fairly good
7. Good
6. Decent
5. Mediocre
4. Bad
3. Really bad
2. How can one make something this bad?
1. Bad beyond belief, completely incompetent.

Note: I don't rate based off of purely enjoyment as I've found that "Enjoyable≠Good" and "Not enjoyable≠Bad". Of course I usually enjoy good shows, and find nothing but pain through the bad. My scores are based off of how I feel the quality of the show is overall. My enjoyment score is fairly close to the overall the majority of the time. Also, I do not take art, animation, or sound into my scoring much as I tend to value characters and story more. You can have fantastic visuals, but if there's nothing helping to support that, the show usually falls apart. I score based off of story + character, then divide that by 2. Ex: Hyouka Story: 6/10 Character: 8/10 Overall: 7/10

Note 2: Everything I have in "Plan to Watch" isn't everything I want to watch. The mostly complete list of that can be found on my AniDB list. Specials attached to a TV series won't be found in this section as AniDB puts them under the actual show and will separate them from the main episode count. Also, I have rewatched anime before, I just don't track that here on MAL as I'm curious about my initial time investment. I will have a blog entry in the future showing what I've rewatched. My rewatches are currently only tracked on my Anime-Planet list.

Feel free to ask me what I thought about a show if the score isn't enough for you. You can also look here for shows I feel are bad/mediocre that I at least decently liked.

Statistics

All Anime Stats Anime Stats

Days: 350.9

Mean Score: 5.74

Total Entries4,283
Rewatched0
Episodes21,840

Anime History Last Anime Updates

Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei 3rd Season

Yesterday, 9:59 PM

Watching 1/13 · Scored 4

Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED Destiny Special Edition

Yesterday, 5:49 AM

Plan to Watch · Scored -

Chainsaw Man

Yesterday, 3:16 AM

Watching 3/12 · Scored 5

All Manga Stats Manga Stats

Days: 11.5

Mean Score: 6.94

Total Entries343
Reread0
Chapters1,462
Volumes122

Manga History Last Manga Updates

Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu

Feb 25, 1:57 PM

Plan to Read · Scored -

NieA Under 7

Feb 11, 5:11 AM

Plan to Read · Scored -

Date A Live

Feb 3, 9:54 PM

Reading 1/146 · Scored 6

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Shizuna Jul 4, 2023 6:54 AM

Cool blogs. Also nice characters.

EfhhRacso Jun 16, 2023 5:26 AM

I see I see, thanks a lot!
I agree that the recent animes are usually getting worse, this is why I tend to only watch anime that I think may be good

"Also I see your ratings don't collapse after 2012 as mine do. ", it's probably because I've seen most anime from these years, hence I get both the perfect ones here and the absolute hot garbage that most people watched. And tbh, I haven't seen much older anime.
Though you could still see a declining slope for ratings on my graph, it's not as clearly visible as yours, but most anime that came out recently are either just not my taste, or I usually just watch more garbage than finishing good shows.

'If you've read the light novels, it enhances one's enjoyment of the anime, but that's a sign of a bad adaptation." I have to agree, the reason why I gave COTE a 2 is because of that reason, I will look into STB LN, thanks a lot!

SilverCrono May 28, 2023 7:18 PM

Bro we have the same birthday! Spend it well have fun hope you've curated better taste in animu over the years ROFL

EfhhRacso May 27, 2023 5:53 AM

I was looking through some random reviews and profiles until I stumbled on your account, at first, I definitely wasn't impressed, since except for the waifus, I didn't like STB that much, but then I looked at the "Affinity score", over 50%, that's insane.

I looked into it more and realized, wow, I like this person's taste,

since the scores I've given are pretty similar to yours, I am just curious if there are any shows that you would recommend, thanks a lot for reading this over-the-top message that doesn't need to be this long.

AnimeSoap Dec 2, 2021 8:38 PM

Would you happen to know what the most problematic discs were? I have multiple releases from that time frame which I rather not rebuy.
Good to know Joel McCray's track record is much better, I wonder, was he the one who botched the first release of Votoms?
I was actually just looking at the that set the other day on ebay and was wondering just what the Japanese bonus disc contained, it's a pretty slick release.
Recently bought the stand alone Honneamise Gunbuster & Diebuster releases and was surprised that even the shrink wrap was of quality, 13 years later and none of that weird sticking on the case you get with a lot of releases these days. Can't wait to have the OVAs on blu-ray though, they really suffer in movie format.

AnimeSoap Nov 27, 2021 4:46 PM

Hey! Found you on bluray.com dropping a lot of knowledge on the bluray quality thread.
I only recently started caring more in depth about the technical and quality aspects of home video releases but have been collecting for a while now so a lot of your posts have been pretty informative.
Do you prefer David Williams or John McCray's BD authoring in sentai releases?
Also, I saw you own both releases of Gunbuster the movie, any difference between releases?

Alan-81 Oct 23, 2021 1:19 PM

Thanks 🙏 I didn’t know that! Having only watched the anime up to and inc season four. IMO her eyes are more beautiful 🤩 in her anime golden brown colouring… but either way she is still #bestgirl in her “over watch” roll. Personally I liked Yuiri Haba more, but unfortunately she only gets a supporting role 😢

Alan-81 Oct 20, 2021 9:12 AM

Saw your appreciation for the E7 original that I just finished watching 50 eps over three days ✅ then saw your avatar? Instantly thought of my “first” fav anime STB? “No Senpai, this is our fight” but her eyes are different so who was is / she? Your 2nd fav character is the protective overwatch goddess herself Yukina 🙏 so I know you are a man of good taste 👍 thanks for your review and recommendations much appreciated…

Zalis Apr 10, 2021 7:40 PM

Haha, I should've known it'd be a lot. I'll start in on the screenshots/scans/pictures at some point -- I don't have a BD drive, so I'd have to either take pictures of my TV, or of course just enter the information myself. And unfortunately, the Yamibou and Juden-chan BDs don't work properly on my player, so I can't get any info off them for now. I did verify that Yamibou worked on my sister's PS4, so they're not completely defective; just Media-Blasters stuff being janky, as the Ladies vs. Butlers and Yosuga no Sora discs worked fine. But I can answer a few more questions:

ADV Thinpacks - the ones I have that re-use the singles with extras are Gantz S1-2, Noir, and RahXephon. Afaik Full Metal Panic! S1 also re-used singles for the thinpack. All the others (Eden's Bowy, Final Fantasy Unlimited, Kaleido Star S1-2, Kino's Journey, Nuku Nuku TV/Dash, Petite Princess Yucie, Wedding Peach S1-2, and Yumeria) have extras removed.

Aquarion - this did go from 5 discs to 4; I remember when the collection came out, it was really the first time a 2-cour series had been released in 1-cour sets instead of singles, and Funi must've decided that the numbers worked out to use 2 DVDs instead of 3 between the releases of parts 1 and 2.
Boys Be - Couldn't find any booklet credits.
FLCL - no disc credit screen, but there actually is an "Additional Post-Production By FUNimation" line in the credit rolls; Funi clearly did new ones instead of re-using Synch-Point's.
Happy Lesson OVA - There was an 11-month gap between the Japanese releases of eps 3 and 4, and ADV must've negotiated the licenses when Vol. 4 wasn't on the horizon. So the ADV release only includes eps 1-3, and eps 4-5 were never dubbed or officially released in English. I was actually the one who put together fansubs for those last 2 episodes.
Karin - surprisingly, this does have disc credit screens and English production staff in the credit rolls.
Kimikiss - this does have black screen credit rolls.
PaniPoni Dash - The credit rolls for eps 1-5 credit John Ledford and Joey Goubeaud as executive producers, no Mark Williams.
Princess Tutu - Chris Lapp is credited for "Logo Design" and "Packaging and DVD Graphics" on vol. 1, though only on the "dark" side. Bridgett Bradford is credited for Packaging and DVD Graphics on both sides. Lapp does not appear on any other volume. The other credits for Bradford and Fumiko Chino are accurate on the ANN page.
Saiyuki - The double barrel collections use new discs, as they keep the single-volume subtitles like "The Journey Begins," but have "Double Barrel Collection #" printed on them as well.
Sacred Blacksmith - Steve Simmons is credited for translation.
Shrine of the Morning Mist -- did not see any translator credits when I checked ep 01.
Sorcerer Hunters -- Commentaries don't appear to be present. I don't know that I've ever seen ADV commentaries make it into license rescues; Discotek's Dragon Half didn't have them either.

Zalis Apr 4, 2021 8:03 PM

I checked all 4 discs of Funimation's Anime Classics version of Peacemaker Kurogane, but none of them had the typical Funimation "end of title" credits screen. The episodes just have the ADV staff credits, albeit redone in "paged" style instead of the usual ADV scrolling credits. No Funimation disc production or graphic design credits on the outer packaging, either. If there's ever any credits or cover images you want to see from anything in my collection ( https://animenewsnetwork.com/MyAnime/collection.php?user=Zalis116&categ=5 ), let me know and I'll get them posted for you. Thanks for everything you do for the ANN encyclopedia.

Vetmi Mar 5, 2021 7:07 AM

"No Senpai, this is our fight"

JustElectrify Jul 7, 2020 3:47 PM

came from twitter!

Zalis Jun 29, 2020 12:58 AM

One day I'll get on Twitter to answer more directly, but:
Other ADV artboxes that used cardboard rather than chipboard include Azumanga Daioh, Cromartie High School, DN Angel, Gasaraki (collection only; no "Vol X + Artbox" release), King of Bandit Jing, Prétear, Sister Princess, Super Gals! S1, and Zaion ~ i wish you were here.
Cromartie HS in March '05 was the last cardboard box ADV release I know of, unless something like Gilgamesh or Getbackers or Samurai Gun went that route. The Sojitz titles that did Vol. 2 + Artbox were all chipboard, afaik. Of course, ADV's official descriptions found on ANN always mention the "high-quality artbox," no matter what type of artbox was actually used.

WindexMan Jun 10, 2020 12:37 AM

I found you cause I like wandering around dark and suspicious places at night

ShojoSamurai Jun 9, 2020 5:42 AM

belated...

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