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Dear CataOrShane,

I read in your previous post that you think figurines are cool, Valeria looks like a life-sized barbie doll and looks don't say anything about personality. Please take a look at the photo attached:

haha, so yeah, maybe looks don't say much about personality but I think they do influence most people’s personality quite a bit. And a person adept at identifying these influences can conclude a few things based on the person's looks, gait and speech. They may be wrong, they may be correct. We all know it's easy to stereotype but one must also always remember that stereotypes do not originate from thin air or a person's random imaginations. Hence, my point is, the thumb rule remains, the human brain is designed to classify things quickly. Nowadays, no one has time to be patient enough to really understand someone's personality, especially a stranger or an acquaintance.

Ah, the husky looks good only because of its slight resemblance to wolves and heavy fur. Rest are all ugly. Where I live, people like the smaller (poodles), enlarged (the ones with a disproportionate torso), other fancy ones, etc. and I always find them extremely silly. The cats in comparison are nice, fat, furry and smart (I wish I could befriend a new cat). Watch this video here:



Your MAL friend,
Volturnus

I like how users define their own rating systems. Is 7=good and 4=bad really so difficult to understand and accept? Huh, I'd say Reinhard was more or less a boy before he reached the top and Yang was always a man. But, oh well... Maybe, you'll understand what a real man is like later. It's not about adrenaline and taking decisions quickly to avoid blunders. A real man does not let such a situation arrive in the first place and whenever it does, their experience pays and they know how to make the most of any given situation without thinking rashly as in a 'do or die situation'. It's never like 'Oh! I'm not quite sure but it seems like it's a do or die situation, so what I should do is 'kill the enemy' instead of dying'. This kind of thinking is just stupid, if you ask me. I don't see why killing someone else for an imagined situation and concluding that it's the only solution to all problems without thinking ahead is in any way, sane thinking (thinking is so boring, just put your hands up and say, killing is the only option we have). This kind of ideology is so prevalent among terrorists and I strongly dislike terrorism and bloody revolutions. You might say a billion times that Yang and Julian were pansies but that doesn't change the fact, that in the show, Yang still sacrificed many lives in war, for example, protecting Iserlhon and/or re-capturing it. It's really sad when users can't see how witty Yang is in minimizing losses and still, reaching the objective.
Mecha in LoGH, please? There was hardly any mecha in LoGH. I can't see how you can compare Gundam with LoGH, especially the mecha aspect. Mecha was never the focus of LoGH, unlike Gundam. People were not fighting in robots which resembled a human body structure. Why not compare Gundam with Full Metal Panic?
I do confess that I'm quite pleased that you won't recommend LoGH to anyone or re-watch it. That's really nice because it might save users' time a lot who'd rather invest it in some other shows. Nowadays, I don't recommend LoGH to anyone either. It's just like any other Chinese cartoon but with some German names here and there to make it look authentic, so why bother wasting time watching 110 episodes of the same thing when you can get better animation in Death Note and better mechas in Code Geass or Gundam and better story in Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika (+ with cute girls)? Note that the sum total of one show from each category would be equal to 102 and that's less than 110 episodes of boring space opera and what's more is you get 'the best' from each genre instead of a long winding story featuring a 'supposedly' and obviously wrong futuristic setting.

I meant Full Metal Alchemist when I was comparing it with One Piece, but it's okay.

edit: by the way, how did you like the song I linked?

Firstly, love is itself a make-believe obsession. Secondly, Nanami is pitiful in that she doesn't see how her brother manipulates and encourages insecurity in her by flirting with other girls in her presence and then being nice enough to Nanami and making her fall for his masquerade as well (a remarkable feat!). And later, he leaks more doubts in her head by hinting that they might not be related by blood or something like that. But hey, that's what love is all about, isn't it?

Yes, fruits... train hard and eat fruits. You're a fan of Hajime no Ippo, right? To me, the kind of (hard) training and friendship in Hajime no Ippo is much more likable than in OP, although both are meant for the same demographics and are both fairly fictional. hmm... hajime no ippo reminds me that I was interested in this show called 'Ashita no Joe', might give it a try some day.
If I remember correctly, Luffy wasn't even Ace's brother. I find it hard to digest his struggle to cope with his unrelated brother's death when I'm only given a single (or was it two?) heartwarming chapter from their past, way back when they were kids. That too, ill-timed and cheap. To be honest, I'd have liked it more if a crew member was killed. But I bet all the teenagers were humming that song from Linkin Park when they read those chapters... what was it called?... 'in the end', I think.
I have a link to an interesting article from bbc to illustrate this effect: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120810-olympic-lessons-in-regret Read the first three paragraphs (tl;dr version) of the latter part titled 'Haunted by the past'. The study from which this has been collected is linked on bbc's page as well and if you're interested in reading the entire paper (quite a nice one), with other experiments and findings of the study, click here.

Well, you should've have just come to my profile, clicked on 'MY FAVOURITE ANIME', and then the characters list. But really, Reinhard's name being harder is a bad excuse. Don't you remember those scenes in which Kircheis leaned towards a seated Reinhard and spoke to him in a mild tone always referring to him as Reinhard(o)-sama? How can you forget that or find it hard? Women love that!

Oh, you flatter me with your words! I always find exchanging comments a pleasant activity.

Nanami was ridiculous, meant to be funny. A side character of sorts but ok, I take it that you didn't enjoy the insane comedy. The same thing could be said about School Rumble's lead protagonist, but no, we all like him nonetheless. I wonder, why? Because, he's not female? It's a universal truth that all males are idiots, no? And when male protagonists are being sensible and sure-footed, we should ask them ‘to grow balls’? Yes, that's the way!
The repeated fights, I wouldn't call a plot-formula, since the real plot was brewing somewhere else, it was just repetitive and added unnecessary length (most of the time), like you said. But, you cannot deny that Utena had a hint of originality in its own way of deconstructing the shoujo genre. Apart from that, there were many symbolic references in each episode. Many users re-watch anime and the symbolism boosts the rewatch value for them and makes the show a bit more worthwhile even for normal users. And yes the ost, I listened to it a few days ago and I think it's worth listening to. For the formula-part, almost all anime are formulaic in that sense, most are ripped off from other sources anyway. For example, one piece, it's just the same thing as others of its genres, an endless adventure with predictable and cheap plot twists. Oh wow, first time a character is dead in one piece so I should feel sad for him because all the other characters are sad and he had awesome powers, but no one really knows anything significant about that character anyway. Hardly any focus in more than 50 volumes of the manga. I was baffled when I read that bit but no, it keeps getting crazier. A time skip, everyone has been training soo hard that they have new powers, have learnt new things (read: new finishing moves! yipee~) and *gasps* are more intelligent than before (read: grown-ups like me). And then, these are our new allies and oh-look-they-have-such-awesome-super-powers and are sooo mysterious, what with hidden pasts and unknown relationships to the lead cast and all! Waaah~ One Piece is getting all the more better wohoo~
Even Hokuto no Ken is miles ahead of One Piece, which is an obvious inspiration for the latter.

Ah, it's good to know that you like Reinhard, but it's sad to learn that you couldn't remember his name... Yang is a great character and better too, you remembered his name! You just need to accept it, your conscience knows it too!

If a person starts taking everything seriously, their life will be quite a complex thing what with assimilating and exploring so many ideas from so many different people. Just imagine: every opinion, idea, suggestion or ideology is a sort of a constraint, it makes a huge maze, and getting out of the maze or more optimistically, finding a way out is the ultimate feasible solution! It can be done, though and I do believe that we (humans) are progressing towards it. Might take many years.... ach, I wish I could live forever! Maybe... living forever might be the ultimate solution? it has been such an enigmatic idea for centuries, who knows...
Now, it's time to register for a brain scan, haha.

Oh, you still carry your notebook? Nice!

Oh, I see. 749 is a long way to go.... don't forget to drop me a message when you reach it!

It's easy. Go to your stylesheet/source-code, just Ctrl+F and look for 'font-size'. Change the values wherever it's greater than 14px.

Oh, come on, you can't be serious... Yang Wenli is boring and uninteresting? He's such a well-rounded and brilliant character (and certainly one of my favourites). Does every character have to be fabulous to be likable? Julian, not that good compared to the rest, but still not an unworthy addition to the story. It's so much better to have a mediocre character like him in the story than some stereotyped nerd, psycho, or similar side characters with unbelievable idiosyncrasies.

haha, of course, there's no reason to be mad or sad. But yes, one day, I hope to complete that list, so wish me luck! Also, no new gems found yet? You had my word, it will have top priority.
By the way, I just noticed that you've watched twice as much anime as I have! That's pretty awesome, in my opinion.

I agree with you on Utena and Anthy. There's a lot of comedy in the show, exaggerated, but still, it does the trick. I always found Nanami's hysteria humorous.
Oh, I didn't know Utena's seiyuu passed away recently. May her soul rest in peace. I may have not heard many of her roles, but Utena's voiceover was pretty good.

Some time ago, I watched a show called 'Ace o Nerae', an old show about tennis featuring female protagonists. Although, it had many shortcomings and there was nothing new or outstanding in it, there was a strange nostalgic feeling to it that made it so much more enjoyable than it should have been to the logical mind. You must give it a try if you ever feel like watching a sports shoujo anime.