Notice: Five items is too few for "favorites". Ten items would still be too few. If it's rated 10 or 9, then it's in all likelihood a favorite. The actual list reflects whatever it is I'm actively thinking about and enjoying at the moment.
Subdivided list of favorites
Series That I Like For Honestly Good Reasons (Really, I Mean It!):
Are there omissions to this list? Most likely, especially series that haven't finished airing yet, or series that I can't quite figure out a category for without making a category exclusively for them, or overlooked, or whatever. The previous comment of "If it's a 9 or 10, it's most likely a favorite" still stands, so refer to the list if need be.
Yes, I know this is a lot of "favorites"; I find the concept of "favorite" extremely hard to define as, for me, it's highly dependent on mood, recent events, or just what I'm thinking about. If you want lots of fun, ask me what my favorite series is, and then sit back and watch the mental fireworks as I try to wrap my mind around the concept of a single favorite series.. Some of these I might be able to gush more ebulliently with praise than others; this lack of effervescence does not preclude my positive thoughts towards the series.
In conclusion: I have watched entirely too much anime.
[Warning: over-extended simile ahead.]
All words are definitionless, apparently. Meaning is like a herd of cattle travelling across a plain, and writers are like cowboys doing their best to direct the herd's travel and keep the herd coherent by riding around its edges. (Which is why I find it saddening when people begin blog posts by quoting some dictionary: it's like handing your herd over to someone else.) But these cowboys work in teams - meaning's a matter of consent beteween several speakers - so I wouldn't say moe can mean whatever one person wants it to mean. [Insert Wittgenstein on the impossibility of having a private, personal language.] Unles that one person is subtle and persuasive enough to convince everyone else that his or her meaning is superior, but I've never encountered an instance of that. Language is frighteningly democratic - and here's the bit where I would usually spiral off into a jingoistic comparison between the dictionaries of the Académie française and the OED, but I'll spare you for the sake of my own reputation. In short: definitionlessness means people need to talk more about moe, rather than give up.
Anyway: Potemayo. I could suggest that moe and kawaii are hardly mutually exclusive (and both sited in the viewer rather than the object) but as you say. Headaches. And Kugimiya voiced Nene? Well I never . . .
Or it's there as added incentive to pick certain things up. Like Toradora! - definitely going to go through the pleasure of reading that one (as reading is infallibly a pleasure, the question is merely to what degree). The first chapter was promising, so off goes even more of my spare time to doing nothing constructive at all!
Wise and safe gamble keeping rabid fans away, yes. While it's a nice feeling to be admired and prayed to (or so I gather), it's not really beneficient for either persons sense of self-worth. And it's probably annoying too.
There should be some kind of drug which makes it easier to write. I'm slightly stuck on both my topics, and it feels bad having a large gap between one's first post and one's second. The only medicine is sitting down and forcing it out, I guess.
(Writers constipation? Cue ambivalent feelings about eerily accurate term.)
I'm not sure I've ever seen a character whose situation directly mirrors mine in anime, though of course there are always characters who resemble oneself in more general terms. I imagine it's an odd experience. I probably don't watch enough slice-of-life.
What do you think of the idea that Potemayo is an interesting study in moe, as it presents moe characters who are definitely sexually uninteresting, allowing the viewer to untangle moe from simply fancying a character?
[Though I do recall one character within the show having a decidedly physical obsession with the title character - but then it's a story full of unexpectedly excessive characters.]
Interesting . . . it would be very dangerous to disregard accounts of direct experience. Perhaps it's possible to identify with a character's weaknesses, because they resemble one's own, while still mentally placing oneself in a stronger position. But of course I could simply have been wrong about that.
Now that's just about awesome and cryptic enough to use in the future! It even fits in with the Japanese as it really does only have three phonograms there too.
Also, I despair at your blog having mainly posts about things I don't know much of. It leaves me powerless to comment! A horror that is.
Indeed! Sex and related business is human, far too human to dismiss like some kind of delusion or vice. Luckily that's starting to disappear ever so slightly: Baudrillard and Zizek, for instance, have no qualms about talking sex. But then Bausrillard seems to write for the sake of shocking and Zizek is a postmodern Freudian/Lacanian.
Yeah. I also really like how Lelangir and IKnight handled it afterwards. I'm still struggling with formulating a good enough reply to them.
The whole asexualization of academia, and as thus of intellectualism, is a quite sad thing. I mean, there's plenty of macho and hotness to be thrown about in these areas, as in many cases it's just phallos-enlengthening anyway (nothing bad about that). Plus it's really a killer when people take what they do too seriously.
:) I actually like Itazura na Kiss. It was one of the anime I was looking forward to last season and the first episodes were good, then it stagnated and
I started to dislike Naoki (that kiss was evil!). But I was enjoying the last two episodes and hope it will be getting better again.
lol! Yea, Hitohira definitely has a special place in my heart (or was it pants...), and I noticed that 10 you gave it on your list, but I don't think it deserves that score. I'm not sure how to put it, but it could have been a tiny bit better. I'm not saying it was a bad series, I mean, there was alot that I could relate to (me being as shy as Mugi-Choco), but... I don't know, when I compare it to something like Aria or Sketchbook full colorS, I feel it didn't have that "umph!", feelin' me dawg? =3
(oh btw, I also noticed you watched Asatte no Houkou, which is also a very good anime, but once again, I don't think that deserves a 10 either. They left us hanging on the "loli with the glasses x brother" story... wait... or was it the "Sister x Brother" relationship they had to work on... or the "Sister x Childhood Friend"... man, its been so long I forgot! If only it were a few episodes more... D: but yea, I really enjoyed that one too)
Wha! Dating? Are you hitting on me or something? XD
Well, I don't only look at the compatibility list. For me, its more important the anime list and the scoring. I just find the compatibility part funny cause... it almost feels like this is a "dating" site! O_O
Hajime no Ippo was legit! Although its not on my Top 5, I'd say its very high up there on my list! *sniff* Ah, poor Geneon....OH WELL! *waits til Hajime no Ippo goes Blue Ray so I can download that shi!* (... It would be pretty cool to see that Sendo and Ippo match HD ;_; ) (and I somewhat doubt its going blue ray D: )
Sorry, "LOL logic" got stuck ever since I read lupus post on THAT blog. What I meant was, that there are a lot of blogs and forum posts where people complain about the ridiculous premise of Toshokan sensou. Especially that a government wouldn't pass two acts that leads to a war inside the country.
What I like about Toshokan Sensou is the Doujou Kasahara relationship and the gernre mix which reminds me of Full Metal Panic!. The topic censorship is interesting. (It made me look up if we have censorship in my country, we do what I didn't knew ) And yes, it's well written. I hope too to see the novels in a language I can read.
Toshokan Sensou deserves more love. What bothers me the most is when people only see the "LOL logic" and don't look further.
They really miss out on one of the best anime this spring.
Noe is indeed awesome!!! lol, I think I did the same thing when I first saw the 4-koma (in fact, I usually do that for anything that interests me, like a youtube video, or stalking someones blog =D) TABS PWN!!!
Hmm, we're pretty high on the compatibility! Wanna be friends? XD
(btw, Ranka Lee is awesome too! For me, shes taken over as the new MOE!!!)
