Ah, this is kind of a long topic to me, honestly I can find gold in any existing genre, even the ones that aren't really my thing. That applies to games, books, music, everything really. I don't like limiting my tastes to a single bubble of entertainment when I know there could be fantastic stuff just waiting for me to discover them outside of it tbh haha
My favorite genre is mystery, particularly the murder mystery subgenre, but you won't necessarily find many with great scores from me, as because of that, I also got a bigger undertanding of what makes a great one as time passed, so, it's likely that mystery is the genre I'm most critical and attentive for, therefore being just natural that few would be at the top as exemplary haha
I also don't like elitism of any sort, as prejudice against shounen or shoujo just because of the demographic's usual tropes (as well as various genres) is usually very generalized and cheap, tropes are tools after all, it depends on how well you may use even overused ones. Black Clover for one is definitely filled to the brim with those, but use them in such a passionate and fun way, at times very cleverly so, that I can't help but consider it to be unique own its own regards of using otherwise generic elements of a tired genre (Battle Shounen). You can see the extreme opposite in another passionate, yet very lazy story, such as Fairy Tail, that pains me how much potential is ruined and/or wasted otherwise (Mashima is a very competent writer in those regards btw, but it's hard to explain that after FT lol).
Elitism is usually blind and condescending, pretentiously trying to enforce some sort of superior intellect from your part towards others that don't share your fabricated standards of quality of what should be "objectively" good. It goes completely against my own analytical philosophy, I don't like following an illusion of superior taste as my standard for an overview in quality, because they disconsider said overview with prejudice in the first place: there's no one as ignorant and poorly judging as otaku snobs overall, I'd rather have a newcomer's criticism or overpraised as more valid due to inexperience, they are at least justified :v
So yeah, do consider my explanation on ratings for a more insightful reasoning on why I separate things so specifically. Variety is nothing more than the final result of that, and my own despise for people secluding each other's preference so binarily lately (especially with mainstream stuff, c'mon, popular things being bad because they are popular is just ridiculous, it's honestly pointless, and usually they have zero arguing skills to justify such takes, so I end up realizing too late I'm wasting my time and just abandon the convo altogether).
TL:DR, I try to suck less than those people and be as unbiased and fair with my overviews of a given content as possible, and maybe convince people to do the same eventually, even losing fear and/or shame in putting non-10/10s works that they love the most dearly in their favorites like I usually do too. And judging by my friend list, I think it's going pretty well in that regard <3
Hopefully this sort of thing will be less toxic as time goes on, and people get to be more like themselves and proud of what they like the most, beingm more aware of pros and cons while at it.
Glad to hear that, even though what I released is little compared to what's on my PC.
That's a work in progress, I halted it to help with One Pace, and I paused One Pace to help myself, as real life is screwing with me hue
I was preparing a batch with the first four arcs, don't expect it to be out any time soon, but it will come out eventually!
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My favorite genre is mystery, particularly the murder mystery subgenre, but you won't necessarily find many with great scores from me, as because of that, I also got a bigger undertanding of what makes a great one as time passed, so, it's likely that mystery is the genre I'm most critical and attentive for, therefore being just natural that few would be at the top as exemplary haha
I also don't like elitism of any sort, as prejudice against shounen or shoujo just because of the demographic's usual tropes (as well as various genres) is usually very generalized and cheap, tropes are tools after all, it depends on how well you may use even overused ones. Black Clover for one is definitely filled to the brim with those, but use them in such a passionate and fun way, at times very cleverly so, that I can't help but consider it to be unique own its own regards of using otherwise generic elements of a tired genre (Battle Shounen). You can see the extreme opposite in another passionate, yet very lazy story, such as Fairy Tail, that pains me how much potential is ruined and/or wasted otherwise (Mashima is a very competent writer in those regards btw, but it's hard to explain that after FT lol).
Elitism is usually blind and condescending, pretentiously trying to enforce some sort of superior intellect from your part towards others that don't share your fabricated standards of quality of what should be "objectively" good. It goes completely against my own analytical philosophy, I don't like following an illusion of superior taste as my standard for an overview in quality, because they disconsider said overview with prejudice in the first place: there's no one as ignorant and poorly judging as otaku snobs overall, I'd rather have a newcomer's criticism or overpraised as more valid due to inexperience, they are at least justified :v
So yeah, do consider my explanation on ratings for a more insightful reasoning on why I separate things so specifically. Variety is nothing more than the final result of that, and my own despise for people secluding each other's preference so binarily lately (especially with mainstream stuff, c'mon, popular things being bad because they are popular is just ridiculous, it's honestly pointless, and usually they have zero arguing skills to justify such takes, so I end up realizing too late I'm wasting my time and just abandon the convo altogether).
TL:DR, I try to suck less than those people and be as unbiased and fair with my overviews of a given content as possible, and maybe convince people to do the same eventually, even losing fear and/or shame in putting non-10/10s works that they love the most dearly in their favorites like I usually do too. And judging by my friend list, I think it's going pretty well in that regard <3
Hopefully this sort of thing will be less toxic as time goes on, and people get to be more like themselves and proud of what they like the most, beingm more aware of pros and cons while at it.
That's a work in progress, I halted it to help with One Pace, and I paused One Pace to help myself, as real life is screwing with me hue
I was preparing a batch with the first four arcs, don't expect it to be out any time soon, but it will come out eventually!