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05-15-13, 10:55 AM |
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| Birthday |
October 13, 1986 |
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Berlin, DE |
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chrome.dasaku.net |
| Join Date |
April 14, 2007 |
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Member |
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14,854 |
| Manga List Views |
1,576 |
| Comments |
83 |
| Forum Posts |
178 (Find All) |
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Anime Stats
| Time (Days) |
69.8 |
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| Watching |
7 |
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| Completed |
337 |
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| On Hold |
39 |
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| Dropped |
106 |
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| Plan to Watch |
68 |
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| Total Entries |
557 |
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Anime compatibility with Sasa is:
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Manga Stats
| Time (Days) |
20.1 |
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| Reading |
29 |
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| Completed |
87 |
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| On Hold |
14 |
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| Dropped |
10 |
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| Plan to Read |
14 |
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| Total Entries |
154 |
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Manga compatibility with Sasa is:
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The day I have more friends on MAL than on Facebook, I will kill myself. Until then, I will happily continue watching anime.
Oh, and in case you are a rabid Hidamari fan like Matte: My profile picture is actually just Kino with glasses, not Sae with green hair =P
MAL limits are evil. So, here are the characters who used to be on this list or who I want to have on this list:
- Alice (Aria)
- Kagami (Lucky Star)
- Claes (Gunslinger Girl)
- Osaka (Azumanga Daioh)
- Shimako (Maria-sama ga Miteru)
- Ana (Ichigo Mashimaro)
- Taira (Beck)
- Shana (Shakugan no Shana)
- Horo (Wolf and Spice)
- Serizawa Reira (Nana)
- Carroll, Alice (Aria)
- Shibahime, Tsubasa (Kare Kano)
- Nyanko-sensei (Natsume Yuujinchou)
... More to come?
MAL is also evil in how it doesn't accept doujins. Thus, I'm starting a list of other things I have watched:
- Touhou Doujin Anime Project
Displaying 15 of 84 Comments
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starshinesMonet | 01-05-13, 2:35 AM
I am so happy you made the Artsy club. Arigatou gozaimasu.
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reika | 08-18-12, 5:17 AM
I was re-reading posts from your anime blog and just wanted to say that I miss your writing! I hope you're doing well.
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Matte | 03-13-11, 3:54 AM
I love it here except for, you know, the whole earthquake deal and all..
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Matte | 03-05-11, 7:26 AM
I'm living in japan studying japanese at the moment, and now that I know the language I don't really watch any dramas or animes anymore for some reason. I'm completely stupid like that! :P What about you? Still living in the US?
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Matte | 02-28-11, 10:16 PM
No haven't had any use for them since none of my friends use it, except for you lol. ^^
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Matte | 02-28-11, 3:43 AM
Hey, yeah seriously! Thanks! ^_^
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remote-viewer | 02-27-10, 7:42 PM
I certainly agree that Spirited Away was the decade's best from Ghibli, by far. I really just feel great appreciation for Ponyo because that kind of gorgeously, organically fluid animation is a dying art, yet that movie is so vibrant, in total defiance of the lifeless CG and other blandness that anime has become more and more... I have no problem with the story, either — it's completely adorable without being leery like so much "cute" anime these days. In case you're curious, here's how I rank my favorite Ghibli, in order:
1. Princess Mononoke
2. Nausicaä
3. Spirited Away
4. Laputa: Castle in the Sky
5. Porco Rosso
I guess Nausicaä isn't technically Ghibli, but we'll just ignore that.
Starting a blog mostly interests me because I enjoy writing, and wouldn't mind a tool for flexing that muscle. MAL does seem like it's more conducive to actual discussion, though, while blogs are kind of a self-made podium. I personally value meaningful conversation above all, but (good) "writing" goes on a blog (or, you know, gets published?)... Small readership isn't a problem, either, since blogs seem to be a good forum for expressing esoteric ideas about things, specializing in a particular aesthetic, etc. So, yeah, I should probably start one, haha.
If you remember once you get around to it, I'd love to know how changing your mind about Kaiba worked out...! :)
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remote-viewer | 02-27-10, 12:03 PM
I'd like to urge you to finish Kaiba, then, since it has an enormously satisfying ending — more of an emotional one than a "deep" one, even. I love it because it takes Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis-style aesthetic and creates a dreamlike science fiction world of abstraction. And that's pretty much it, really. Yes, it plays around with the idea of memories being like currency or easily transferable into different bodies, and this is constantly entertaining. There's also a nice little love story in there. Sounds to me like you just read some fairly pretentious things that really turned you off, but the series deserves better than that.
Ponyo was just a simple joy to behold. Nothing special about the story inasmuch it's your basic fairytale love story for children, wondrously imaginative and full of spirit, and a Ghibliesque take on The Little Mermaid, but I didn't mind that at all — its vibrant colors and animation were literally breathtaking, especially when so much anime these days looks utterly drab and soullessly computer-generated.
Anyway, I can certainly appreciate your argument re: Commedia dell’arte.
Cat Soup is surreal and morbidly delightful, and Dead Leaves is like TTGL distilled to gritty madness. It's actually the other way around — I mean, as you know Dead Leaves came first, and TTGL basically ran with that idea and mixed in things from FLCL and Gunbuster/Diebuster... I talked about that a bit in my review, but I imagine I'm preaching to the choir anyway.
... I really ought to get around to starting a blog.
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remote-viewer | 02-27-10, 10:46 AM
I guess Ayakashi aired on TV, so that doesn't really count... but I prefer to think of the Bakeneko arc as a stand-alone OAV, since the rest of Ayakashi is miserable. :P
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remote-viewer | 02-27-10, 10:27 AM
the moeness itself doesn't necessarily make a show bad.
I'm only inclined to disagree with this because I find the moeness to be tired and clichéd pandering at this point. I just started watching Sora no Woto, and I was hoping that it would feel a bit more fresh, subtle, more along the lines of Haibane Renmei... but its characters are very unsubtle "archetypes," which just bores me to tears at this point.
Haruhi has some interesting things going on, yes, but I always feel like it's trying to be clever about being tsundere (with bits of moeblob, yandere, and all that fun stuff). This turns me off, and I end up liking it a lot less than I would if it didn't rely entirely on these "archetypes" to carry its weight.
Why did you dislike Kaiba so much? What is there to possibly hate about it? I'm afraid to ask... I won't react in any sort of horrible way, though, don't worry, haha. I just think it's one of the best things to come out in the last few years, and can't imagine how anyone who enjoys artistic, dreamlike anime could hate it.
Oh, but that is a nice list of movies/OAVs. Let's see, mine...
FLCL
Spirited Away
Mind Game
Dead Leaves
Ponyo
Diary of Tortov Roddle
Cat Soup
Ayakashi (Bakeneko arc only)
Iblard Jikan
Paprika
Honorable mentions for Inaka Isha (A Country Doctor), La Maison en Petits Cubes, Noiseman Sound Insect, Pale Cocoon, Eve no Jikan, a few parts of Genius Party and Amazing Nuts, Howl's Moving Castle, parts of the Animatrix, Diebuster (particularly the second half), etc. Oh, and Utena: Adolescence Apocalypse deserves a mention, since that came out in August of 1999...
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remote-viewer | 02-27-10, 9:49 AM
Most of Ayakashi is pretty bad, except for the last three episodes, which are great, and those are the ones, as you must know, that introduce Kusuriuri of Mononoke. I wholeheartedly recommend it.
Hm, I can understand your complaints about Kemonozume, but they chose to show the climax of their love challenging those in power (instead of social structures, though that had been explored throughout the series already), going for an increasingly psychedelic approach to mirror the fight for freedom, love, and dreams — which apparently lost a lot of people. It was perfect, to me. I like noise, rawness, psychedelia... Kemonozume was like a jazz fusion record that spiraled into free jazz madness. It's one of the best anime I've ever seen, to be honest. Dark, funny, romantically mature, and wildly stylistic in a way that wasn't just "random," but perfectly suited the story and theme. Hardly lame at all, compared to your average moefest.
But... I guess I tend to lean further toward the "artsy" and experimental?
Apologies if I'm coming off as patronizing — I don't mean to, but these are things I feel passionate about, I guess. I got into quite the argument yesterday with someone I usually enjoy talking to on MAL, because I hated Elfen Lied and was very clear about that in my review, to the point that he thought I was trolling because he so strongly disagrees. I think he ended up counter-trolling me a bit, actually...
I'd be very curious about your top 10 or so movies/OAVs, if you're interested in sharing.
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remote-viewer | 02-27-10, 9:21 AM
The day I have more friends on MAL than on Facebook, I will kill myself.
Facebook is laaaame. Doesn't help that my entire family is on it.
Nice tastes here. However, I was looking at your blog's Top 50 of the Decade list, and while it was overall pretty nice (especially with Mushishi so close to the top), I can't say I agree with the absence of Kaiba, Mononoke, FLCL, etc. And it wounds me to see Kemonozume ranked below the likes of Haruhi and Lucky Star. :( And you're the leader of the "Artsy" community — what a shame!
I'm teasing, buuut... if you haven't seen any of those, I humbly recommend them.
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ConcreteBadger | 02-23-10, 10:43 AM
I'm not too bad, thanks! Both Baccano and Durarara are on my to-watch list as of now, but sadly Hiatus Disease and more recently a broken PC have interfered with things a bit lately. Hopefully I'll be getting back to watching and writing stuff as normal in the next couple of weeks!
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um_esper | 11-03-09, 8:05 PM
Hello!
Just letting you know: awesome awesome awesome blog.
Bookmarked!
:P
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