Phemt's Blog

Mar 30, 2018 6:33 AM
Anime Relations: Mononoke
• I'm a hopeless INTP
• Chaotic Neutral
• D@rk Lord
• Triple A: Awkward And Anxious


“Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I oft have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
J.R.R. Tolkien

💡 Interests:
"The electric street-lamp may indeed be ignored, simply because it is so insignificant and transient. Fairy-stories, at any rate, have many more permanent and fundamental things to talk about. Lightning, for example."
J.R.R. Tolkien


Middle Ages and history in general
Mythology and folklore
Videogames
Tolkien
Books

♫ Music:
“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
Albert Schweitzer


Black metal
Folk
Screamo/Hardcore/Post-hardcore
Deathcore
New Retro Wave
Post-rock
Classical
Dark
Gothic
EBM/Synthpop/Futurepop
Soundtracks
Ambient
J-rock/Visual kei
K-pop

✠ Anime & Manga I like
“Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
Neil Gaiman


Supernatural: I love stories where folklore, religion and spirits have a deep impact on the everyday life of the protagonists and we are introduced to a new perspective of a culture.
Examples: Natsume Yuujinchou, Mushishi, Mononoke, Bakemonogatari, Fate/Series

Drama: be it a romantic anime or a story about a family's struggles, feels are what I'm looking for. I gain a masochistic pleasure from crying, it's like a catharsis.
Examples: Clannad, 3-gatsu no Lion, A Silent Voice

Sci-fi: I'm interested in stories where war and technology have a deep impact on the environment, on politics and on the main characters.
Examples: Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Gundam Unicorn, Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, Gundam 00, Jin-rou
I love when the story gives a religious/existential/philosophical/nihilistic/symbolic/weird key to interpretation.
Examples: Evangelion, Texhnolyze, Ghost in the Shell, The Sky Crawlers, Kaiba, Tsutomu Nihei's works

Josei: this genre has a lot to say and hides so many underrated stories, expecially about historical settings. I need to read/watch more of it.
Examples: Sakamichi no Apollon, Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu, Kuragehime

Shoujo: an awkward female MC? A boy too hot for this world? A love triangle where we route for the losing side? If your story has all these cliches, count me in! Still, romanticization of abusive male protagonists and overly submissive girls is a big nope.
Examples: Orange, My Little Monster, Something About Us

Slice of Life: watching a dude dozing off, a witch learning to cook or a girl living in the countryside has never been so deep and exciting.
Examples: Tanaka-kun is Always Listless, Kimi to Boku, Omohide Poroporo, Hanasaku Iroha
If the story has deep psychological themes it's even better.
Examples: Haibane Renmei, Inio Asano's works, The Tatami Galaxy

Sports: I've only recently started watching spokon and damn I love how they explore each character's personality.
Examples: Ping Pong The Animation, Haikyuu, Yuri on Ice, Welcome to the Ballroom, Chihayafuru

“To be neutral does not mean to be indifferent or insensitive. You don't have to kill your feelings. It's enough to kill hatred within yourself.”
Andrzej Sapkowski
Posted by Phemt | Mar 30, 2018 6:33 AM | 1 comments
It’s time to ditch the text file.
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