I'm Dave, I'm an 18 year old guy living in London. I love sports, music, anime, manga, learning Japanese, martial arts and several other things which I'm too lazy to write here. If you wanna know about me then try here:
Pokémon (Possibly) the first anime I watched
I was very late when starting to watch this compared with everyone at my primary school, at first I shunned it, then accepted it and loved it. Looking back on it now, it wasn't anything special.
Bamboo Blade First anime I watched on my computer
Thanks to Henry for pointing this anime out to me, and to Yingke for getting me back into anime after so long, this anime stopped me revising for my A2 exams and got me hooked on anime once again, forcing me to join MAL.
Neon Genesis Evangelion First anime I watched subbed
My opinions on subs and dubs still vary to this day, I've watched NGE with both and it's a very good anime either way. Despite what many people seem to think, I think dubs can beat subs in some cases.
Sailor Moon First real shoujo anime I watched
Even if it is embarassing to say, I really liked this anime, enjoyed it despite it being repetitive and girly, although I was quite a bit younger at the time.
Dragonball Z First real shounen anime I watched
Repetitive, drawn out, long ... well yup, that's DBZ for ya, but it was still awesome at the time. At the time of watching it was without doubt my favourite show, one that I'll remember for sure.
Shin-chan First anime I dropped
Argh, this was as bad as Spongebob Squarepants, the supposed comedy was awful, the main character was annoying. Dropped this with very good reasoning I feel.
Excel Saga First totally random anime I watched
... and a surprisingly good one at that, always good for a laugh. Crazy characters, ridiculously fast talking and a total lack of plot for a large part of the anime.
Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children First anime I watched that was taken from/ related to a game
If you know me you will know I love the FF gaming series, there was only one way my opinion was ever really going to go with this anime. I loved it, seeing some of my favourite characters in an anime was just brilliant. How could they have improved it? Made it about FFVIII of course!
Strawberry Panic First yuri anime I watched
This was a surprisingly good anime, it exceeded my expectations and had me feeling for the characters before long. I'm yet to watch another yuri anime, but if this is anything to go by then they should be good.
Outlaw Star Damn, now this is anime at it's very best
I watched this anime on the old CNX channel on sky and what can I say? I loved it from episode 1, it's my favourite anime ever, I've re-watched it about 10 times and I can't see anything beating it. Regardless of what people say this was NOT a rip-off of Cowboy Bebop, it was released before it, is totally different, and is better than it too!
Puni Puni Poemi First anime to finish in one sitting
Very, very short anime with only 2 episodes but hilariously random while it lasts. Since this is an OVA I'm not sure if it qualifys as anime being watched in one sitting, if not then Air is listed below as my first full anime in one sitting
Air (Possibly) the most emotional anime I've watched & first full anime watched in one sitting
Years ago the tenchi series and other animes I'd watched had me feeling very strongly for the characters and even feeling quite choked. Even so, I'm not sure they matched up to this in making me feel emotional, I have never been so close to crying whilst watching an anime. It really was an excellent anime.
Escaflowne First anime with mecha
Sure, this anime wasn't just about mecha, it had it's emotional points, it's funny points and cool points, all in all an excellent anime ... and yup, the mecha scenes were pretty damn cool too. Brilliant anime. Unlike a certain other mecha anime ...
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Most overrated anime
Ok, I know next to no-one will agree with me in my thinking this anime was really overrated. Everything it was praised for was done elsewhere, and done better at that! Sure the anime was good, but not the complete masterpiece it was made out to be, for me it was above average, but nothing more. The art style I felt was poor for it's time and the fight scenes were repetitive and reminded me of a typical anime aimed at pre-teen guys. That said I DO NOT hate Gurren Lagann, I just hate the fact that it's praised for being something it's not.
Azumanga Daioh First anime I watched after reading the manga
Funny anime, a little weird at times but still good for a laugh, I have to say the manga was better though.
Mushishi Most mysterious anime
This was one anime that kept me interested from start to finish, the whole idea of it was totally unique and great idea for an anime. Every episode was interesting and mysterious!
Death Note Most interesting anime
Death Note's storyline was one that pulled you in and didn't let you go from the beginning, following Light and wondering how he was going to react to L's actions made it a really entertaining anime. Nothing short of an excellent storyline, there was very little to fault.
Aria the Animation Most boring anime
Whilst Aria the Animation was fairly boring at times, the Natural and Origination were different, this series got better each season. Despite being very boring at points, I can definately say Aria the Animation wasn't the worst anime I've ever watched, in fact at times it surprised me by being more entertaining than I thought it was going to be. Overall far from the worst anime I've ever seen, but also far from the best anime I've ever seen.
Elfen Lied Anime with the most (non-comical) bloodshed
This anime was really interesting despite the excessive bloodshed and murder at the beginning of the anime and well, more or less every other episode. Glad I checked this one out.
Minami-ke First anime with a trap
I still didn't know what a trap was until after I'd finished Minami-ke ~Okawari~, even so this was a good anime which was quite funny and enjoyable. I'm glad it didn't have any excessively strange traps.
Kanokon (Probably) the anime I've watched with the most ecchi
I was surprised just how far the anime went by about episode 2. You want ecchi? Well this anime gives it to you without holding back! Even in the episode that creates an anti-ecchi atmosphere you get it! ... With the extreme ecchi appeal of the anime, you'd think it was really average, but I still thought it was pretty good, wasn't as average as I was first expecting.
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Parallel Works (Easily) the worst anime I've completed
Only reason I didn't drop this was because it was so short, the entire 8 episodes lasted around half an hour. Below average music, random and pointless scenes yep, this had all those let downs and more. Not a single event was explained nor was a single event even remotely entertaining. My conclusion and overall opinion: avoid this, no seriously don't bother watching it, it's a total WASTE of half an hour of your life!
also TLR is pretty enjoyable, but there were way too many filler episodes to fill the 24 episode series lol. the main story is pretty good, and the echiness also made me rofl thats why i enjoy it.
but seriously you have be watching season 2 to understand why i say it is epic. the collecting "jewel seeds" is not as good as the mission they do in the second season.
Blah, the green eyed monster is rearing it's ugly head once again.
I'm pretty sure that I was the first one out of you, Henry, Richard and I to want to watch Nanoha. It might even have been me who asked Henry to get it. Yet all three of you are waaay ahead of me in terms of watching it. I haven't even got round to starting it yet.
Blah, just ranting here. Well it is my fault I guess for leaving work to the last minute again.
Wow, your To-LOVE-ru is fluctuating more than Toradora for me! From 3 to 8 and back to 4 lol! The reason I switched from per episode rating to a running average graph was that it is a lot clearer. There are just too many overlaps in a per episode graph. And what's MGLN btw?
Lol, well you did say that I might like the new Slipknot album. It's ok, I was listening to it when I was feeling down. I have their older stuff but I suspect it's too heavy for me.
The running is made in excel. I just give each episode a score and it calculates the average so far and plots it. Of course, I have to manually update the image every time which is annoying.
I guess it's good not to expect too much for sequels but I just think of all the good points about the prequel and expect them unchanged in the sequel. Again this is due to my dislike of change (remember when lastfm changed). So yea specifics in Kai I wanted weren't there. Hell, the animation wasn't even any better. I put up with it in the first season just because of the insanity.
I don't think the name really matters for the genie thing lol. I'm surprised you got such a low success rate. For me, it's normally about a half. And I always just enter a random string of characters for my name. I have been feeding it quite a lot with Aria and Marimite characters. Hopefully he can guess them correctly now.
