Private Entry
November 4th, 2025
Thoughts about Seasonal Anime.
Anime Relations: Kodoku no Gourmet
I think media, every sort of entertainment it's attached to their history. I think this is something obvious and I don't see how any person could disagree. It's gonna sound crazy but I think Japan thanks to WW2 is the reason why I like anime so much. What I mean is that they treat themes I enjoy a lot. I don't wanna be reduccionist and say all is thanks to this but it seems that critical points in history mould how this works are gonna be. All the history of Japan is very interesting, from things as epic as honor, wars, and economic bubbles. All this things have made Japan what it is, and also it has made authors (mangakas) create things like Tezuka mentality with a lot of anti-war message. This isn't only Tezuka but also seen in many other anime. To say an example just watch any 70s-80s mecha anime. Then there was the economic bubble, 80s-90s anime feels a bit with hope, there are serious topics aswell but it's filled with creativity and great shows, the incredible amount of OVAs with an absurd animation are a great example. 70s and 80s start are also with imagination but in other aspects. Then the economic bubble finally bursted and then a lot of sad and contemplative anime, to give a clear and legendary is Evangelion. 2000s anime isn't that sad, we have some reflective anime aswell like idk Casshern Sins but definetely "shonen", they have this shonen aspect in a way. And 2010s is also creative and overall happy cool and more shonen style. We could say the formula was creating. Well I am sure someone have already said this (I guess) and in a much better way probably. So I am not gonna develop much more into the history about.
And anime nowadays, the times have dissipated in a way, and anime has westernized and come to a much more broad public, this isn't exactly 2020s, is a little bit in between I think of 2015s or later, well there is always exceptions but I am trying to talk about the average feel I have about different times. What I mean with times have dissipated is that nothing that historically hard has occured to change the overall colective people feelings (We could mention COVID but that feels like wild card). So what do we have now (rather since the 2012 to now to give a date), cotidianity, and our boring lifes wanting to be entertained. So who tries to fill that gaps, hobbys, things like anime are there and they became extremely popular. What I mean is anime always was there to entertain but nowadays the industry is much more systematized. The industry is a company, and what do company want: MONEY (obviously). Before we had a lot of cases of studios/companies going broke over certain projects, or doing not that smart decisions in terms of money. Now I am not saying there isn't risks made, or if they exist, they have a lot of protections and they aren't that hard of a gamble, take for example Ufotable big productions that take their time. But anime now isn't only Ufotable, practically all of studios now make anime to cash in money with low risks. So creativity isn't potenciated. They search for usual authors (not really bad) and usual topics that have worked (really bad). I am not talking about the obvious case of Isekai's, or anime of magic and fantasy. I am talking about the many romcoms, highscool romances and hypershonen. What I am trying to say is nowadays when I look at the seasonal anime I feel that I have all ready watched or know like 80% of the anime that is there. As I have all ready mentioned there are many exceptions, but I am talking about the majority. All what I have talked here isn't really in favor of any style, it's just a diagnose I have perceived and wanted to talk about it. Now I will talk about my opinion about all this.
I kinda care but at the same time not. I am part of the anime community in some way, as my algorythms of social media are infested with anime, and also I have friends that watch anime. Though I don't really interact that much to be honest, don't make a lot of forum posts here, nor review that much. So I think I could simply just ignore all this anime, but at the same time I am bombarded with information on shows that are supposedly great. So I give them a chance, some of them I finish them a lot of them I have dropped them. My main point is that even though there are exception the majority of them are just meh, or to be good with them, fine, but never incredible and the reason I started wathing anime. I feel I am nice with ratings and not harsh, but I also try to portray my real feelings towards them, not necessarily enjoyment, but just how much I apreciate them in some way. So I am really surpised when I entered my list, and checked the rating based on Air Date and see that practically the 7 rating (good) was exceeded in the final epoque I talked about. In fact I am surprised because many of this anime are incredibly well rated, Frieren is the anime that mostly surprise me how fast it took the first place in this site. I don't wanna be that typical "Make Anime Great Again" bring back cel animation again and shit like that. But personally I like more old anime, and I am not saying old like Ideon, Captain Harlock, etc. I am talking about even 2000s to 2012. Mostly 90s and 80s but I tend to like a lot till 2012. I think it's because of the less creativeness industry now is inderectively wanting. But idk, I just saw my list and was surprised because of how "low" my score was towards recent anime. And also the reason I checked my list was because of this thought of new anime is making me tired. I love this media and I am mostly watching old stuff now. I don't know if anime will ever change and come back to creativeness as it was. And I am not saying creativeness is dead, we have Fukumoto for example (though I don't really feel that much hype) as we could say he haves originality in some aspects.
Yeah mostly that, I am tired of new anime.
note: hypershonen is the term I camed to describe some anime that make me feel they are like a shonen, but they only want to exploit the strong emotions of it, not really have a message or tell an story with some thematic and well creative. They use all ready proven stuff that generate emotions and create stuff like Solo Leveling as a great example, well korean manhwas and a lot of chinese anime. This in terms of shonen, cause romcom also suffers a lot from this. I could also kinda put here Dandadan, but not really as that it's creative in some ways, it's still kinda generic, but it's fun and haves a different style.
I don't think this is something new, I think Hollywood also suffered and suffers this. But as I said there is always old movies and stuff like that.
Keep in mind my main language isn't English and I like to write in this language to improve it haha. So I am sorry for writing this as an stream of conciousness, it may have many errors.
If you found this and disagree with me pls comment and tell me why, I will not like this to be an echo chamber haha and I also would like to talk about this. I say this even though I don't interact that much in MAL haha, so I doubt anyone is gonna read this haha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt6XXfcdVY0
And anime nowadays, the times have dissipated in a way, and anime has westernized and come to a much more broad public, this isn't exactly 2020s, is a little bit in between I think of 2015s or later, well there is always exceptions but I am trying to talk about the average feel I have about different times. What I mean with times have dissipated is that nothing that historically hard has occured to change the overall colective people feelings (We could mention COVID but that feels like wild card). So what do we have now (rather since the 2012 to now to give a date), cotidianity, and our boring lifes wanting to be entertained. So who tries to fill that gaps, hobbys, things like anime are there and they became extremely popular. What I mean is anime always was there to entertain but nowadays the industry is much more systematized. The industry is a company, and what do company want: MONEY (obviously). Before we had a lot of cases of studios/companies going broke over certain projects, or doing not that smart decisions in terms of money. Now I am not saying there isn't risks made, or if they exist, they have a lot of protections and they aren't that hard of a gamble, take for example Ufotable big productions that take their time. But anime now isn't only Ufotable, practically all of studios now make anime to cash in money with low risks. So creativity isn't potenciated. They search for usual authors (not really bad) and usual topics that have worked (really bad). I am not talking about the obvious case of Isekai's, or anime of magic and fantasy. I am talking about the many romcoms, highscool romances and hypershonen. What I am trying to say is nowadays when I look at the seasonal anime I feel that I have all ready watched or know like 80% of the anime that is there. As I have all ready mentioned there are many exceptions, but I am talking about the majority. All what I have talked here isn't really in favor of any style, it's just a diagnose I have perceived and wanted to talk about it. Now I will talk about my opinion about all this.
I kinda care but at the same time not. I am part of the anime community in some way, as my algorythms of social media are infested with anime, and also I have friends that watch anime. Though I don't really interact that much to be honest, don't make a lot of forum posts here, nor review that much. So I think I could simply just ignore all this anime, but at the same time I am bombarded with information on shows that are supposedly great. So I give them a chance, some of them I finish them a lot of them I have dropped them. My main point is that even though there are exception the majority of them are just meh, or to be good with them, fine, but never incredible and the reason I started wathing anime. I feel I am nice with ratings and not harsh, but I also try to portray my real feelings towards them, not necessarily enjoyment, but just how much I apreciate them in some way. So I am really surpised when I entered my list, and checked the rating based on Air Date and see that practically the 7 rating (good) was exceeded in the final epoque I talked about. In fact I am surprised because many of this anime are incredibly well rated, Frieren is the anime that mostly surprise me how fast it took the first place in this site. I don't wanna be that typical "Make Anime Great Again" bring back cel animation again and shit like that. But personally I like more old anime, and I am not saying old like Ideon, Captain Harlock, etc. I am talking about even 2000s to 2012. Mostly 90s and 80s but I tend to like a lot till 2012. I think it's because of the less creativeness industry now is inderectively wanting. But idk, I just saw my list and was surprised because of how "low" my score was towards recent anime. And also the reason I checked my list was because of this thought of new anime is making me tired. I love this media and I am mostly watching old stuff now. I don't know if anime will ever change and come back to creativeness as it was. And I am not saying creativeness is dead, we have Fukumoto for example (though I don't really feel that much hype) as we could say he haves originality in some aspects.
Yeah mostly that, I am tired of new anime.
note: hypershonen is the term I camed to describe some anime that make me feel they are like a shonen, but they only want to exploit the strong emotions of it, not really have a message or tell an story with some thematic and well creative. They use all ready proven stuff that generate emotions and create stuff like Solo Leveling as a great example, well korean manhwas and a lot of chinese anime. This in terms of shonen, cause romcom also suffers a lot from this. I could also kinda put here Dandadan, but not really as that it's creative in some ways, it's still kinda generic, but it's fun and haves a different style.
I don't think this is something new, I think Hollywood also suffered and suffers this. But as I said there is always old movies and stuff like that.
Keep in mind my main language isn't English and I like to write in this language to improve it haha. So I am sorry for writing this as an stream of conciousness, it may have many errors.
If you found this and disagree with me pls comment and tell me why, I will not like this to be an echo chamber haha and I also would like to talk about this. I say this even though I don't interact that much in MAL haha, so I doubt anyone is gonna read this haha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt6XXfcdVY0
Posted by lorextreme | Nov 4, 5:18 PM | 0 comments
Private Entry
September 12th, 2025
Blue Blazes (TV)
Anime Relations: Daicon Opening Animations
A lot of people don't like this TV shows, I get it, but at least watch the opening from this show.
Posted by lorextreme | Sep 12, 7:23 PM | 1 comments
September 11th, 2025
Come back for Ideon and future plans
Anime Relations: Densetsu Kyojin Ideon
Well it wasn’t 2 weeks, it was a month more.
Honestly I thought it would be a lot less, I remember in Densha Otoko they said something about being Otaku is just part of someone self and you can’t quit for some external reason. And for me that’s why I thought it would be a lot less cause I did it for no particular reason. Or may be recalling it the reason could be just exhaustion of horrible series, I finished Higashi no Eden and loved it and thought I just had left trash generic season series. Or something like that can’t really know, loneliness was part? Kinda not really it was just like the point of wtf I am doing, like consuming this trash, for really no reason apart of just trying to relax my brain, cause that was like the routine, doing mental work (studying, etc), my brain having a headache kinda, for relaxing, any anime.
I want to say that this is just overthinking the reason, cause it doesn’t matter to me that much, a more accurate way of seeing it is that simply I am not that hyped for this and I want to quit it, but I am so attached to doing it, as I said routine, if I just do it lightly it would have no effect. So I lasted more than a month and I honestly thing it could be a lot more, I came back cause I am going to have a week off and it will be very boring to not do something like watch a series, cause vacations days feels so long (and end so sudden haha).
So yeah I guess I will keep updating my list, just left often, cause I am not gonna watch shit, or at least drop them faster haha. And honestly I don’t even know if it would be that often, cause the only series I am hyped to end is finish all Leiji Matsumoto media (I have practically watched all Harlock by now, even Gun Frontier) and Ideon.
And yeah Ideon is the reason I came back, it seemed so good, the opening is so 80s I I just got hyped and watched the first episode, and with that incredible episode I broke my streak (Cause I just started the week off so I didn’t really have nothing to do).
And yeah nothing deep, I like having a blog and reading my stuff back, I had a diary back when I was a kid, I remember I wrote like 20 pages in a day, writing all day, I like that, what I not like is that I lost it, and being dependent of external pages.
The second is the most important, cause of not having the freedom of just put everything the way I want and also trashy sites that are just the best we have at this moment, this doesn’t go for MAL, you can put anything in the notes you want, this goes for freaking Goodreads, that deleted one entry I made and didn’t even let me know or left me a copy, I am grateful I had that entry saved but now I hate that site.
So now I want to add a generic tag (I already have seasonal, and that is kinda similar but not really). Lower the score of some anime (I changed my view of “yeah they were kinda fine… 6, no, 6 is fine, positive, some of the anime I have like 5 are stuff I don’t like or are meh). And also create my own blog, I noticed GitHub pages let you have free pages (oversimplification), well that is my objective, but not having a computer right now makes it hard to achieve it.
And yeah that, since the last blog post I haven’t opened MAL, it wasn’t that long.
Honestly I thought it would be a lot less, I remember in Densha Otoko they said something about being Otaku is just part of someone self and you can’t quit for some external reason. And for me that’s why I thought it would be a lot less cause I did it for no particular reason. Or may be recalling it the reason could be just exhaustion of horrible series, I finished Higashi no Eden and loved it and thought I just had left trash generic season series. Or something like that can’t really know, loneliness was part? Kinda not really it was just like the point of wtf I am doing, like consuming this trash, for really no reason apart of just trying to relax my brain, cause that was like the routine, doing mental work (studying, etc), my brain having a headache kinda, for relaxing, any anime.
I want to say that this is just overthinking the reason, cause it doesn’t matter to me that much, a more accurate way of seeing it is that simply I am not that hyped for this and I want to quit it, but I am so attached to doing it, as I said routine, if I just do it lightly it would have no effect. So I lasted more than a month and I honestly thing it could be a lot more, I came back cause I am going to have a week off and it will be very boring to not do something like watch a series, cause vacations days feels so long (and end so sudden haha).
So yeah I guess I will keep updating my list, just left often, cause I am not gonna watch shit, or at least drop them faster haha. And honestly I don’t even know if it would be that often, cause the only series I am hyped to end is finish all Leiji Matsumoto media (I have practically watched all Harlock by now, even Gun Frontier) and Ideon.
And yeah Ideon is the reason I came back, it seemed so good, the opening is so 80s I I just got hyped and watched the first episode, and with that incredible episode I broke my streak (Cause I just started the week off so I didn’t really have nothing to do).
And yeah nothing deep, I like having a blog and reading my stuff back, I had a diary back when I was a kid, I remember I wrote like 20 pages in a day, writing all day, I like that, what I not like is that I lost it, and being dependent of external pages.
The second is the most important, cause of not having the freedom of just put everything the way I want and also trashy sites that are just the best we have at this moment, this doesn’t go for MAL, you can put anything in the notes you want, this goes for freaking Goodreads, that deleted one entry I made and didn’t even let me know or left me a copy, I am grateful I had that entry saved but now I hate that site.
So now I want to add a generic tag (I already have seasonal, and that is kinda similar but not really). Lower the score of some anime (I changed my view of “yeah they were kinda fine… 6, no, 6 is fine, positive, some of the anime I have like 5 are stuff I don’t like or are meh). And also create my own blog, I noticed GitHub pages let you have free pages (oversimplification), well that is my objective, but not having a computer right now makes it hard to achieve it.
And yeah that, since the last blog post I haven’t opened MAL, it wasn’t that long.
Posted by lorextreme | Sep 11, 5:00 PM | 0 comments
July 26th, 2025
Change (I am going AFK of this site)
Anime Relations: Touhai Densetsu Akagi: Yami ni Maiorita Tensai, Otaku no Video
Well basically I would summary it in I have been through an Otaku no Video episode 1... well without the otaku group, just me, and well I lost a lot? Kinda not really, idk what to do, and I don't want anime to be my 100% leisure, I use to go and hang out but because of changes now I haven't talked to anyone apart of my brother and family in many a long time (well apart of a quick chat), I guess humans are sociable, I used to think I wasn't but I guess loneliness hit us all, I thought for me not. Not the cause of my change but I recently watched Gran Torino again and made me think of wtf I have been doing, and I don't think anime is bad, but I guess this chinese phrase would summary it "物極必反" (nothing to deep I just took it out of Karate Kid 2010 XD), but I mean it's not all I do, but it's a major thing that I do, and I think if I keep it like this it will keep eating me, or something like that, I am gonna experiment doing other things, anime is a big part of the stuff I have (all my algorithms are infected in some way) so I guess it's not like I will not be updating my list with PTW, or atleast I am gonna finish the final ending in Saya no Uta, and it's not like I don't wanna watch anime but it's got to a point I am not motivated towards it (kinda contradictory but you get my point).
I had this folder of anime I wanted to watch (really wanted to), and difficult media to have in good quality, but I guess I am just gonna delete it all, atleast to force me to do other stuff, 288GB or more (not a lot but my storage it's like 70% consumed by this), atleast I saved storage cause some of this I just had the torrents file to then download, so I am gonna just mention all if I come back.
I don't even know why I write, this, or why I wrote at all in MAL, I always think it's for having a better level of english (cause I got C1 but writing was the lowest graded so far, reading saved me so hard), so when I started to write I didn't know what to talk about so I just did an stream of conciousness I guess it's called, for the old anime before I did this I just wrote a paragraph with what I remember, and now I am kinda doing per episodes. I am doing the same now XDD, just going to what's in my mind. I guess that's why because my profile isn't even that public (not because I don't want to, I have all in public, but I am not that interested in reviews and forum stuff), my reviews were to say something I guess it wasn't said all ready, or forum posts to ask things and just say another point of view. But I am not that active, so I guess nobody would read this, that's why I wonder why I am writing this, I am supposing it's for the habit as I just mentioned, but it also may be to record my feelings and thoughts, or to make this statement stronger, I guess...
Anyways I like anime and as my profile says japanese media and I don't even know why, so I guess I will come back, but I guess only time will say it. I was gonna write a date but blog post have one so I will create another forum post if I ever come back, but if many years pass and this statement is the final thing in my profile, well something happened to me XD. The only bad thing I suppose can happen is writing all this to then something like Densha Otoko when he quited being otaku happening to me (he had to recover all of his stuff again after practically nothing of time passed).
I had this folder of anime I wanted to watch (really wanted to), and difficult media to have in good quality, but I guess I am just gonna delete it all, atleast to force me to do other stuff, 288GB or more (not a lot but my storage it's like 70% consumed by this), atleast I saved storage cause some of this I just had the torrents file to then download, so I am gonna just mention all if I come back.
I don't even know why I write, this, or why I wrote at all in MAL, I always think it's for having a better level of english (cause I got C1 but writing was the lowest graded so far, reading saved me so hard), so when I started to write I didn't know what to talk about so I just did an stream of conciousness I guess it's called, for the old anime before I did this I just wrote a paragraph with what I remember, and now I am kinda doing per episodes. I am doing the same now XDD, just going to what's in my mind. I guess that's why because my profile isn't even that public (not because I don't want to, I have all in public, but I am not that interested in reviews and forum stuff), my reviews were to say something I guess it wasn't said all ready, or forum posts to ask things and just say another point of view. But I am not that active, so I guess nobody would read this, that's why I wonder why I am writing this, I am supposing it's for the habit as I just mentioned, but it also may be to record my feelings and thoughts, or to make this statement stronger, I guess...
Anyways I like anime and as my profile says japanese media and I don't even know why, so I guess I will come back, but I guess only time will say it. I was gonna write a date but blog post have one so I will create another forum post if I ever come back, but if many years pass and this statement is the final thing in my profile, well something happened to me XD. The only bad thing I suppose can happen is writing all this to then something like Densha Otoko when he quited being otaku happening to me (he had to recover all of his stuff again after practically nothing of time passed).
Posted by lorextreme | Jul 26, 12:03 AM | 1 comments