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Virginia |
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superfani.com |
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April 10, 2008 |
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Your anime compatibility with Pontifus is:
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I'm also here and here.
On Scoring
Some people here judge things based on objective artistic merit -- or, at least, as objective as artistic merit can get. Others score according to awesome factor. Some hand out 10s liberally, while others don't hand out 10s at all. I'm somewhere in the middle of all that. Quite simply, my scores reflect how much I like a particular show, movie, manga, or novel in the context of what it is -- that is, rather than try to compare the Shana novels to the works of Oscar Wilde, I take them at face value.
To be specific:
10: This is what I might describe as brilliant, or the best example of its form. It may not be perfect, but it's about as close as I think anything can get, and sets the bar for everything else. To earn a 10, a show has to do more than simply be a good show; it has to resonate with me in some way, whether by engaging my worldview and values or consistently employing the kinds of storytelling methods that just work for me. The downside to picking my favorites for highly personal reasons is that, as adamantly as I recommend them, you should take everything I say about them with a grain of salt; it goes without saying that this sort of resonance is finicky.
9: These almost meet the requirements for a 10, but fall short in some area. As they're on the cusp of the 10 rating, I may watch some of these again and decide they deserve to be bumped up a point, and, in any case, I highly recommend them.
8: While generally not especially mind-blowing, 8s are highly polished and absolutely worth the time spent watching or reading them. This is just about where my must-watch/must-read zone cuts off.
7: These are alright, and I'm generally happy to have experienced them from start to finish, but I can't recommend them to everyone. If your tastes are similar to mine, you might get as much out of them as I did, and if your tastes are fairly different, it's completely hit or miss.
6-4: This would be the mediocre range. It's hard for me to differentiate between 6, 5, and 4; it depends on what kind of mood I'm in at the time, really, and anything I rate with one of these numbers may go up or down at some point (usually down), though it'll almost certainly remain within the 6-4 range.
3: 3s are just pretty damn bad. They aren't exactly travesties, but I'd recommend that you stay away from them unless your preferences are considerably different from mine.
2: The world would be a little better if these didn't exist. I can't say much more about them than that.
1: I've never been able to finish something I might rate a 1, and I don't rate anything I haven't finished. Hell, I often drop series I'd probably place in the mediocre range, so the odds of you ever seeing a 1 in my list are close to nonexistent. If a 1 does appear, know that this stain on the pages of humanity is comparable in vility only to nuclear bombs and the Holocaust, and that whoever is responsible for its creation should be America's next target in the War On Terror™.
Displaying 15 of 47 Comments
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Lelangir | 10-04-08, 12:43 PM
Oh, and I'm wondering if there's some kind of way I can configure a sigfeed thing that displays my spatially-disparate posts..hmmm...
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Lelangir | 10-04-08, 12:40 PM
First impressions of tora dora? Well, it's pretty typical, I'd say. Tsundere-loli-esque mismatch with screwed up love square; the male lead is bleah too, as well as his "mother" (did he really come out of that vagina?).
Though it's pretty entertaining.
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zzeroparticle | 09-24-08, 11:57 PM
Hey Pontifus, thanks for that friend request. I'm glad that you've found my site to be useful and hopefully I can expand it beyond what it currently is now. In any event, if you have any feedback and/or suggestions, let me know! I'll also add Super Fanicom to my list of links as well.
Thanks again!
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soratoyuki | 08-31-08, 4:42 PM
Code Geass R2: Episode 21.
Kururugi Suzaku is vindicated, and becomes... fabulous. You have no reason to not watch it now.
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soratoyuki | 08-29-08, 4:01 AM
So.... Who the hell are Yuko and Yu?
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soratoyuki | 08-16-08, 3:51 PM
ef finally picked up for me around episodes 5 and 6, by the way.
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Derailed | 08-16-08, 3:33 PM
I enjoyed reading your review of Zero. Unfortunately I haven't seen Shana, so I'll be sure to check out both sometime soon.
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Leuconoe | 08-07-08, 5:31 AM
Obviously that's because of all the inherent flaws in the slice-of-life genre, contrasted against the inherent elements of win in mecha. Anyone who likes slife is obviously PART OF A CONSPIRACY. Obviously.
Speaking seriously, I see what you mean about turning to a more mainstream Gundam after Turn-A. I hope you've read all the rumours that Tomino was trying to get his own series cancelled, and are forewarned about Victory, as it's at the opposite end of the Tomino Depression Scale from Turn-A.
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Leuconoe | 08-06-08, 12:54 PM
So . . . why Victory Gundam? I imagine you don't have a secret love for beamcopters, or anything.
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soratoyuki | 07-21-08, 10:11 AM
That is pretty lame, actually.
Thank God anime doesn't exist in a vacuum, where these strange facets of anime reality exist indepndently and objectively to be laughed at by even 12 year old prepubescent Naruto cosplayers, and instead exist is a universe of suspended disbelief.
And enjoy your caffeine.
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soratoyuki | 07-21-08, 9:45 AM
Why are you awake?
And, I know what anterograde amnesia is. It's just... lame. wtf kind of plot twist is next. That's worse than being an immortal witch that makes contracts with people in return for some kind of supernatual powers.
BTW - Code Geass R2... very odd.
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soratoyuki | 07-21-08, 9:36 AM
Am I the only one that didn't think Azumanga Daioh was funny?
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Kaiserpingvin | 07-20-08, 6:58 PM
Well, I doubt we'll ever play for anyone else. Maybe not even together. But I might play something grindcore on my piano solo: possibly fusing it with jazz.
Also, deeply sorry for my tardiness with that post! I might be forced to have a monthly schedule on the blog for a while; get used with it (which is a ridiculous argument as you got straight into it, so either you're talented or I am the opposite).
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Kaiserpingvin | 07-18-08, 2:51 AM
That's a great name for a band! Did you play indie perchance?
I'm technically also in a band: we've never played together, but we like joking about doing it. We're Nerd Nation, and we play (or rather, will eventually play) grindcore. Not out of any particular like for the genre, but because that's probably all we can pull off.
Oh, and drums are also cool. Both my brother and father plays them and I've grown up in a house with at least two drum sets in it at any given moment.
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