A plebeian, a tramp, an ignoble savage with an awful taste in anime. I talk about things, most formally in reviews and my blog. Want to strike up a conversation? Shower me with compliments? Leave feedback? (while showering me with compliments) Drop a comment below. Responses will be prompt and unsatisfying!
Fan fiction/doujins?! Aww, damn. I'm expecting to see some hardcore hentai action involving Shinobu and I'll love gasp in awe audacity to see what you've done with such a pure character! I would pay big money to see it would de-friend you immediately and never speak to you again if you even think about doing such a thing lolokay, you're like my first friend on this site, that wouldn't happen.!
I can relate... kind of. Toradora is the only anime (that has been recorded) that I have ever re-watched. Though I didn't like it as much as I did the first time, it still just sticks to me, 'cause I'm an emotional fella, y'know? I also thought about changing the rating I gave it to suffice for my gained experience, but I felt that I should let every title I watched during the Summer of Anime keep their ratings just for the sake of nostalgia and personal pride.
And back to Toradora, at first I had believed that the drama was overwhelming, but when I re-watched it, it never bothered me. I think it may be because I love the characters so much and I feel that they've been developed enough throughout the series to get away with it. It just never made me cringe. The ending is still a big "Eh..." in my mind, though.
Baka-Test is another title I plan on re-watching. Based on the first time I saw it (4th anime), I didn't know what the Hell I was supposed to find wrong with it because the animation was so pretty! It's also one of the few anime to make me laugh more than once. Believe me, this is an accomplishment, I just don't find anime very funny (Thank God for Binbougami ga!). Though, I've been reading the light novels for the Baka-Test series since... December? At that point, my credibility for identifying good and bad anime was just starting to bloom, and up 'til now, I've noticed that that series is very generous with the plot conveniences. I'll just have to re-watch to see how badly it turns out. Hopefully it won't completely destroy everything I've known about the anime, but Toradora went well, so I don't see that being likely.
In other news, Attack on Titan is ranked Eighth (Last I checked) overall on MAL. Any comments on that, now that we're just getting into the halfway mark? And please don't send me to your blog. Not to be a burden, but I'd rather not explore beyond this site for anime criticisms. I get enough of that from promoticonfan.
"It's shows like Hanasaku Iroha (and Denpa Onna) that encourage me to check out average-rated shows."
Checks Hanasaku Iroha on MAL. Ranked #399.
wut.
But yes, that wall was fairly impressive, however, not as impressive once you realize most of it was copy/pasted from the comments section in your anime list (Think I don't read those?). Although, if that wasn't copy/pasted from the comment section in your anime list, then you have quite the memory on you. Still, I appreciate the effort and the overall critical breakdown of the show. And in regards to your "If I watched this when I was an anime newbie, it'd probably be one of my favorite series.", Hanasaku Iroha was my 15th series (In terms of anime recorded), so I guess some of my inexperience had a role with how much a loved the series, forever trapping me in a prison of love for the series, along with other particularly overrated titles.
After finishing, you and I are going to have to have a serious discussion about this, young man. And by "serious discussion", I mean I'll go fangirl over how much the series means to me while you point out all of its flaws and look at me in disgust. It may go something like that.
On another note, our anime compatibility just dropped from Very High to High. I hate MAL. Fuck you, MAL.
I just like to keep things simple in computers. Plus I'm not much of a programmer so I have no clue what language you're speaking to me.
RYM? Cool! I prefer Avant-Garde Jazz such as Ornette Coleman myself.
Oh yes, Maou-sama is another favorite of mine. Almost every character in that show is entertaining and filled with heart. Let's hope to see a second season when it ends.
I'm kind of excited for next season for the new sequels for some of the shows I like such as TWGOK s3, Highschool DxD s2, and Ro Kyu Bu SS. Monogatari season 2 I can't watch because I haven't watched Nisemongatari since I never liked Bakemonogatari. Neptunia anime looks like fun, can't wait to have discussions with Veronin about that. Blood Lad looks pretty interesting. Danganronpa seems like a nice Battle Royale rip off. And Watashi ga Motenai is getting an anime adaptation which looks pretty cool.
Ugh, I can't stand Linux. Maybe it's because I'm just used to Windows but I couldn't get into it when I tried it out at my computer program in school. What music have you been listening to? Shave your face I assume, or are you shaving near the land down under?
I don't know what you mean by plain but I assume you mean that there's not a whole lot of stuff going on. Honestly I enjoy the fact that it's not a mecha anime so focused on action, since the recent ones we've been having were/are crap. Hm, I never thought of HenNeko and Yahari with each other that way. Aku no Hana on the other hand, if you want me to clarify for you, is not terrible but it seemed like a good idea on paper but it's execution was just not on par on what it intended. I appreciate the experimentation on styles that they wanted to make but you have to give me something more than the fact that your anime is not another moe-ifed show out there.
Mikasa is good too but Amy just breathes Gargantia with so much life and character to it. I can't really explain why I feel that way, I guess that's why love is such a mysterious thing.~ I don't really see the point of writing about individual episodes. I like to let my readers know my feelings on the show overall as a mystery until I finish it.
I don't know. I might post Squid Girl on there but I don't know if I can handle the pressure of trolls trying to down voting it because they can't handle criticism. I could always just block them anyway so yeah I might. I might not be like most analytical critics like Unfaithful and DDK but I approach reviewing in a down to earth way like say Stark does, at least from my perspective.
Too late.~ By the way are you excited for the new Monogatari season?
>not liking school festival haunted house Hitago
>hatoring on ED theme Hitago
>overrating the Hitago that is pretty poor aside from the falling stationary
nil- confirmed for no taste in Hitagos.
One thing that bothers me about all Hitago figs is that none of them get her skirt length right. I guess emphasizing that ZR is 2important.
I know close to nothing about sneakers, but from my brief run-ins with sneakerhead culture, I would say that Phil was very lucky if that pair only cost him 80 dolla. yeezy_imitation_budget.xls is a document with a lot of large numbers in it—a cursory look at ebay reveals that Nike Air Yeezys, for example, are four figure foot-coverings.
Streetwear/hypebeast culture is fucken dumb. #justsayin
The only Hitago in that image that approaches streetwear levels of price gougery is the rightmost one, which is an Ichiban Kuji Double Chance Prize figure, meaning that it was extremely difficult to obtain (you had to win some lottery thing twice or something), had an extremely limited run, and is extremely expensive now on second-hand sites—one was sold two years ago on Yahoo Japan for more than 125k yen. It is the only scale Hitago with her hair up like that, so I can kinda see where the buyer is coming from...
I-I'm sure that someone will eventually release a scale figure of short haired Hitago and I'll probably buy that to ease the pain. ;_;
I kinda wanna buy a bunch of these and hit 20f, but I'm not sure if that would be a wise decision, financially.
I've been watching a lot of the current shows and some old ones as well. The ones that are giving me positive feelings are Maou-sama, Gargantia, HenNeko, Yahari, and Titan. Things are looking pretty good this year in anime in my opinion. I know you probably have a different opinion, so feel free to express your thoughts on the matter as well.
Yuki is no longer my number one Waifu, Amy from Gargantia has made my heart melt on multiple occasions. But I'm a polymonogamous in waifu culture so it's not like I'm being unfaithful like most people are.
Yeah I just did it for the hell of it to express my opinion on anime and music. Sure I don't mind if you look at it. On the other hand, you've been slacking on blogging you lazy bum. :P
Nil-! And here I thought you were intentionally avoiding me... Pessimism is a beautiful thing, huh? Well, I'm looking forward to Kazumonogatari or whatever it's called. Wanna know why? 'Cause it's totally not because of Shinobu. Oh, wait. Shinobu. Mmm.
But seriously, I'm a fan of Isin Nisio's works. With my overflowing love for Katanagatari and my steadily rising interest in Medaka Box, his works just do it for me. So whenever something of his screams "NEW" and "EXCITING," I'm already on the bandwagon.
I'm also looking forward to the new season of TWGOK. I watched the first two seasons back when I first started my (serious) anime watching career and had always felt a longing feeling of "I wanna watch more of this shit." And with that whole OVA setting up a new character for ze main character to impose his non-interest in, the hijinks that will ensue will be sure to annoy entertain me!
Hrmm. Anything else I wanna add to this comment? Ah, well, I guess I've been getting more and more into manga as of recently, so much so that I've stopped watching anime completely (except the on-going ones). Kisswood was a nice read, and Nana to Kaoru is becoming a bit of a guilty pleasure for an innocent-hearted citizen such as myself. S&M&Sexual innuendos? Oh my. I wish you good luck with your exams and finals and whatever plagues your educational institution forces upon you at this time of year. Happy trails!
My first fudgy MAL comments argument! (deleterious would be the more appropriate adjective, if it didn't sound so pretentious) What a joyous occasion. Had to guestimate some of the times +/-10 minutes, since MAL loves relative numbers and my "opponent" like the deletions.
nil- | 05-11-13, 10:01 PM
Let's dissect your latest reply for example. "Every argument you've made beyond your initial retort boils down to some variation of, 'you just don't get it.'" N-no. In my third reply for example, I offered the statistical viewpoint, where your arguments become tantamount to throwing away any distribution unequivalent to yours. That's clearly an argument that boils down to some variation of "you don't get it", right?
"I understand where you are coming from and I've stated why I disagree." Again, no, as I've repeated manifold, you don't understand where I am coming from. Your preceding (and as I've just shown, wantonly incorrect) sentence reconfirms the fact you keep misinterpreting everything. Little potential for an argument can be made when the so-called opponent keeps lying through his teeth.
"You on the other hand perceive this as a battle of comprehension. Rather than justifying your stance you attempt to discredit mine while attacking my sensibility." Again, no, I've offered multiple reasons, and yet your self-centeredness keeps concentrating your attention span towards the sly jabs rather than any of the actual arguments. Since my stances seem to come in one ear and out the other, I could just stick with the statistical one. It's unbiased and unemotional in any way. The fact that you view anything with a different mean or standard deviation from yours is exacerbating on so many levels, and it's a fundamental concept that if you can't agree on, then nothing else can convince you.
"It's also impossible to appropriately respond to your points when you continuously edit your comments." Again, as you failed to receive the notion of MAL rating calculations, you've failed to understand how MAL comments work. You're given like 5 minutes to revise comments and are barred from doing anymore. There is no implication whatsoever that I'm hiding false pretenses after reading your replies. The fact that you would even remark on such a thing only substantiates my own arguments.
"Clearly this is a waste of my time." Yes, I would advise you to learn elementary statistics before you hop into another "my rating scale vs yours" debate. They're bound to fail if you don't know the simple concept of a different mean and deviation. But whatever, I never intended to convince you when coming into this so called argument. It was clear from the start that you would continue to warp my viewpoint and bash whatever sensibly ridden message is left. As I've had my fun with the trash talk and wordplay, the premise is starting to lose its fun. I'll just delete your comments from now on. Was a nice chat!
Every argument you've made beyond your initial retort boils down to some variation of, "you just don't get it." I understand where you are coming from and I've stated why I disagree. You on the other hand perceive this as a battle of comprehension. Rather than justifying your stance you attempt to discredit mine while attacking my sensibility.
It's also impossible to appropriately respond to your points when you continuously edit your comments. Clearly this is a waste of my time.
nil- | 05-11-13, 9:04 PM
A swing and a miss. Again, you keep making sorely misguided preconceptions. The fact that you think that poorly rendered summary "just about sums up how you and I approach anime differently" reconfirms the self-centered way you view anime. But of course you won't understand, because you don't seek to understand. You're merely evangelizing your unwieldy life lessons.
Taking a statistical viewpoint, it's simply a different normal distribution. Somehow a distinct distribution (precluded under a distinct mean and distinct standard deviation) beguiles you. If I normalized everything to a 7 as you somehow believe is the "proper" way to rate a show, then I'd be sorely ridding the potential of 4-5 extra numbers. You may as well truncate your 5-10 rating scale down to 1-5, but that is of course my personal opinion. Yet, you somehow believe any distribution different from yours is bad? (Another religion joke goes here.)
How in the world can my perspective baffle you? My stance is a logical one, that I'm sure the majority of the world shares. I believe that you shouldn't rate or review a 150+ episode series based on public opinion, its genre, and/or the viewing of a single episode. You on the other hand think that is perfectly acceptable.
Let me just sum up our stances on this:
- You think watching a bad anime is enjoyable. I do not.
- You think rating shows with little experience—or none, because hearsay is enough for you—watching it is perfectly acceptable. I think that's asinine.
- You think that NOT watching a genre you dislike harms the ratings, more so than watching it and giving it a bad rating. I can't even find the logic behind that.
That just about sums up how you and I approach anime differently. Also, from the looks of your IMDb scores you apply this methodology to movies as well. I wouldn't be surprised if you reviewed an entire novel based solely on its cover art, or preface.
nil- | 05-11-13, 09:00 PM
That my friend is no tirade. Please don't be so self-centered. :X You also keep going off the paradigm (if it was even so established!) that watching anything <=5 is somehow an unenjoyable experience. You're too deluded into thinking your perspective is the only perspective, and--quite plainly--that baffles me.
Yes, you did fail to see the point. Nowhere on my ratings (or on this site) does it indicate that I "hate" a show, let alone a particular type of show. Why do you keep associating ratings with emotional blunder? E.g. while others would go so far as to call something like SAO a parasite infesting the world's superficial viewpoint, I merely think it's bad (well, that is a litote, but I care little about say the industry ramifications as do others). But do I hate it? N-No. Bad anime deserves a bad rating; that's all there is to it. No angst required, and almost certainly a tautology that apparently haunts your understanding. If you want, we could always center our discussion towards a specific show, rather than have you making sweeping generalizations and assumptions.
Now, if you took my last post personally, I can be self-assured in my sleep that you'll take this one in the same lovable vein (appropriately so, I hope). But no worries. Like I love my "Average-to-Bad" anime, I love my Fool[ish] banter.
"It's easy to predict where a long-running shounen will go, and I could've predicted the very same ratings without even needing to watch a single episode (from hearsay, synopses, or otherwise)."
Thank you for that. It also made my day as well, so I suppose we are even now.
"Claiming to not watch a show simply because you 'dislike the genre' is exactly what 'disproportionately skew(s) ratings on this site' in the first place."
I also fail to see how my avoiding an entire genre I dislike affects the rating scale. Unless you are implying that my assuredly negative rating should be present, so the lack of it boosts the rating? If so you really are deluded. Unlike you I do not force myself into unenjoyable situations. For example; I dislike ultra gore/gross out movies like The Human Centipede, so I wouldn't waste my time watching it. I don't need to go through the unpalatable experience and tank the rating to know that beforehand. It is similar to your hatred of shounen anime, but more reasonable in the sense that I don't foolishly presume to know the quality or direction said content will take. I just know that I won't like it. There's no reason to weigh in and discourage others to see it that do like the genre.
Thanks for linking that ranking formula, although just the link without the tirade would have been sufficient to make your point. I've actually looked at that link in the past and it was in either a more longwinded format, or a complete different formula altogether. None of which changes the fact that your pompous way of rating shows irritates me. But hey, you are right; it is your list so you can do whatever you want. Just like I can critique and fervently disagree with your opinions as I see fit.
If you were knowledgeable enough to take a peek at how they're calculated, you need to view at least a fifth of the episode count in order for a rating to be included. At the point in which I dropped scores on their premieres, these are primarily--which is a euphemism for "obviously"--judgment calls on my part. It's easy to predict where a long-running shounen will go, and I could've predicted the very same ratings without even needing to watch a single episode (from hearsay, synopses, or otherwise). Why does it concern others like you what my personal opinions are on premiere-dropping, when it affects no one? Sure, watching a dropped show to its completion may affect my rating +/- some minor standard deviation, but I.. just don't want to. Claiming to not watch a show simply because you " dislike the genre" is exactly what "disproportionately skew(s) ratings on this site" in the first place.
As for the PTW list, those aren't real ratings. Since they don't affect MAL distributions nor they do they hold any regard within the MAL compatibility calculations, I use them as place-holders for another way to sort my list. Gasp! In my worldview, I'm applying a 1-5 scale based on a rough sketch of the chronology of the list; because clearly all pre-2000 series are the scourge of anime. It's something I don't mention anywhere, e.g., nor in my profile, but it doesn't really affect anyone else. After all, it's called My Anime List for a reason.
Anyways, happy to meet another misinformed person. No offenses intended, but you made my day. :)
I always am perplexed when I stumble upon an anime list like yours. Ones where 1/3rd or more of the shows listed are rated very poorly. It must be unbearable for you to watch anime if you think well over half of the shows are Average-to-Bad in quality.
127 of your completed and dropped shows are rated 4 or below, with an additional 77 that are rated 5. This means that over half of your list isn't above average, let alone fine or even good. What makes matters worse is you are of the belief that watching 1-2 episodes of an anime is enough to responsibly review the ENTIRE series/season. Doing so is no different than watching the first couple of minutes of a movie and then writing a review, or the first chapter of a novel for that matter.
How can you seriously say that watching 1/206 episodes (Hitman Reborn), 5/153 (Dragon Ball), 10/~400+ episodes (Naruto Shippuuden), 1/175 (Fairy Tail), or 1/103 was enough to rate them? There is a clear pattern with those ratings since they are all similar fighting anime that run long.
If you simply dislike the genre you shouldn't even bother watching them. Rather than feigning as though you are informed, then simply bombing the ratings out of spite or ignorance.
Lastly, when I glance at your plan to watch anime the I have to come to one of two conclusions:
1.) You rate anime before you even watch them.
or
2.) You rate them in the order of priority for you to see them, with 5 being watch first and 1/unrated being watch last.
Either way that's pretty ridiculous. Rating shows that you haven't watched—for whatever reason—still influences the average for the site. It's irresponsible users like yourself that disproportionately skew the ratings on this site.
I haven't spoken to you in almost a month! And here I'm supposed to be your buddy. I'm truly a terrible person. Please forgive me!
How are you enjoying the Spring season so far? Anything worth noting? Is Attack on Titan really worth the SAO-like hype? Is Aku no Hana's animation enough to make your dog sick? Are the Oreimo/Nyaruko-san sequels as good as the first season? Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?!
