How varied is your favorite anime?
| Your taste isn't really that strange to me. All of your top 10s are among the most popular shows (except Princess Tutu) I also can't judge myself having a varied taste or not but I try to have a varied taste |
| I guess I have a somewhat varied taste in anime... If you take a look at my actual anime (and manga) list, you'd be surprised with some of the stuff I've watched in there. I mean you can clearly see my love of fantasy (especially magical girl) and shoujo series in both my anime and manga lists, but you can also see some super obscure/old titles in there or even stuff that you wouldn't expect from a huge magical girl fan. For example, people who have visited my list have been surprised by my rating for Dragon Ball Super: Broly lol I wouldn't say it's as varied as yours though, you've clearly watched more anime and from all over the place—I'm impressed, gg right there.  |
Fario-PJan 14, 2020 8:21 PM
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| I watch a lot of types of anime, but in terms of my favourites the majority of them are cute stuff. |
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| My favourites varies from cute stuff to something like Jojo and Vinland.... |
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| The main thing with my favorites is that comedy is always a very common theme amongst them. If it starts getting into higher rated series it starts to split a bit and if I focus on shows I generally enjoy then it can be very broad. |
| My taste is mostly just about characters so that leaves a looooooooooooooot of genres in my range. xD Definitely big on tear-jerkers though...and magical girls. |
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| ehhhhhhhh....? i like a lot of different genres but also know what i DON'T like.... so my anime tend to fall into several different categories.... |
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| I don't care about the genres, I can and I prefer to enjoy different things. |
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| You are a fucking casual. That's what. |
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| I don't think it's strange at all. Liking one genre doesn't mean you can't appreciate the aspects of another, they're not mutually exclusive. In fact I think it's rarer to have people who exclusively watch and only enjoy a certain genre? Besides using different types of genres as a gauge of "taste"/variety, there's also other ways to see it e.g. art style, production studio, whether it's a manga adaptation, voice actors etc. So of course just going by genre alone, placing some titles together as favourites may seem weird, but they may also have similarities in some other way that's just less obvious. |
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| I love almost all genre of anime except perhaps mecha. And ecchi is something I dont look for but can sometimes enjoy with its comedy. I dont really have a strange taste in anime. I just actively seek horror anime every chance I get bc when that shit is good it is my absolute jam. Unfortunately....its usually a miss for me honestly. |
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| I like everything from Miru tights to Yu Yu Hakusho to Damekko Doubutsu. I don't even think I consider myself to have "taste" because that would mean that there are certain anime I don't like, and there really isn't a type of anime I wouldn't watch/end up liking. I will admit it now though that I don't watch yaoi/shounen ai. Not because I don't want to, but because I've never really randomly watched one. And I do plan to watch some when I free up time! |
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| I don’t know. I know I watch way too much Nadia, but I think I’m not the right person to answer this question. |
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| Well my favorite genre are action,sci-fi/mecha,adventure,supernatural,fantasy and ecchi (not necessarily in that order),and my favorites are a mix of said genre. So, you tell me if my taste in anime is strange. |
| Most of the anime that I have in my faves are battle shounen anime they are the type of anime I love. I have however loved other anime and rated those 8-9 and a lot of them are romance anime. |
| I can certainly relate to this feeling because all of the anime i have in my favourites are completely different from each other.To be frank,don't like limiting myself to one genre because i stumbled upon most of my favourite anime by chance. I have animes that are battle shounen,shounen ai,psychological,magical girl,kids anime,slice of life all lumped in together in my favourites(and that´s not even counting all of the sub-genres)and i like each of them for different reasons.I think more than anything based on genre,my preference in anime is based more on execution. |
SummerynJan 15, 2020 12:16 AM
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| i watch love live, but at the same time neon genesis evangelion |
| I can't accurately discern the similarities and differences in mine aside from the fact that there's 70% actions and all of them leaning more to fantasy settings so I'll go for option 3. For manga, I give up, I can't tell. Op?? For characters, they're all tragic heroes. Op4 For people, its either a singer or a writer. Op5 |
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| For me, i don't necessarily have a particular taste. Usually what draws me into something is the characters/i strongly connected to them or got a lot of meaning out of it. Since you can have strong characters in most genres, there's a lot of vary. i grew up with shounen, and then a bit later focused on shoujo. but i dont consider myself a Fan of battle shounen or shoujo romance its just a vast demographic with plenty of good apples. Hit or miss! like anything else. If not that then the atmosphere, something that felt to me had a really strong tone and vibe uniquely to that series, or just from an artistic standpoint. But most of the time i just love good characters! |
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| You are such a standard MAL user, what is supposed to be the strange part? Not sure why you even mention shounen-tards: those only watch and value battle shounens. They ignore the rest and you obviously don't do that. About the varied part. Not sure there should be standards about that - only if you are some sort of journalist or reviewer. Your list looks varied enough for conversations on many themes. About mine - I don't really care. |
| My taste covers a lot of different genres, so I am varied in that sense, but I still stick with what I like and rarely branch outside of that. My top 10 are all over the place. There's shounen, shoujo, senien, and even josei. There's psychological thrillers and comedy. There's action and slice of life. There's shoujo ai and shounen ai, and then there are ones with no romance whatsoever. I could possibly lump a few together: Serious, psychological: Shinsekai Yori Death Note Shounen ai (even though these three have nothing in common outside of that): Sukisho Junjou Romantica Vassalord Action + Fantasy: 07 Ghost Nabari no ou Even these lumps are really a stretch. I have a problem putting Junjou Romantica and Vassalord in the same category... one is a cute romantic comedy and the other is dark and serious. A few (not many) people have told me they cannot seem to figure out my taste going by my favorites. But there is a pattern to my chaos. I know what I like, and that can be seen on my profile. But I will copy and paste in a spoiler: Genres not mentioned in my "like/dislike" list are neutral. I seem to actually have a lot of action anime on my list (and three of my favorite anime have action as a genre), but I never watch anime for the action. In fact, while action is a neutral genre for me in anime, it is actually one of the genres I hate the most in movies. So, I really don't know how "varied" my taste can really be seen as. Clearly there's a lot of different genres I like, and they seem to go from one end from the other, but is it really that varied when I'm so specific about it? I won't just watch whatever. Sorry for writing a novel. I found this topic interesting, and it was fun to think about :) |
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| I genuinely don't see anything strange. These are not unknown titles and I can't say they're so drastically different from one another. It's normal people are fond of several genres at the time, be they polar opposites or tightly knotted. |
TheKawaiiToon said: operationvalkyri said: There are many ways to slice the data on your favourites. Popularity wise, genre wise, demographic wise, even art style or animation wise. While yes, most of them have comedy and fantasy elements. I'd say they are very different in terms of impact, popularity and tone of the series. Kaiser-chan said: You are a fucking casual. That's what. *looks and has SAO in favorites* Not as casual as yours at least. I'm ok with your taste but still. Lol that again. Back to topic: Since I have watched anime for like over 20 years now and consumed media, I have a very good idea of what I like. I might watch different genres, but still. When I talked to others and looked through MAL profiles, I found out that quite many older girls / (younger) women share tastes similar to mine. That was a quite remarkable pattern and high % of shared and similar rated anime I saw there. Not the same, but with similar patterns like @Kiyomice two above me and you too @TheKawaiiToon lol So I really would say my taste is very "feminine" overall, although it's not about pink magical girl series or anything. The colors of the Pretty Cure-series etc are too flashing for me, I just don't like them. I'm also not fond of the typical Shoujo styles, especially the older ones. TheKawaiiToon said: is as varied as mine, or do you mostly stick to having favorites from one type of anime (eg only has battle shounen in favorites)? Funnily yes, both answers are yes lol Still, most of my favorites are shounen. I made a screenshot to see that and underlined all battle & adventure shounen & seinen and characters from there purple, other shounen and seinen blue and all shoujo & josei pink. Although there is so much of them, we all know for example Pandora Hearts has a huge female fanbase haha. I care much about development and character interactions and relationships, family themes, friendship themes if done right, stuff about communication, overcoming traumata, making huge mistakes in life etc. and very much coming of age-stories or life-time drama too and stuff about sexuality and so on. And stuff that heavy relies on feelings. Although I rarely care about too philosophical themes, if they are too detached to their characters and humans in general, but I like to see more insightful things about war, racism and so on. Something that is more attached to society and humans than some other philosophical themes. Someone tried to get me interested about cyborgs and so on, but I really don't like too much techstuff, although Ghost in the Shell was pretty good, but Cyberpunk is just not mine. In general: - Dark Fantasy, also the darker types of shounen with more intruiging characters and settings that interest me. Rarely horror tho. - Everything with a new concept about settings and world buildings to me too. - High fantasy in medieval age and adventure fantasy, although they are a big hit or miss most times. 12 Kingdoms? Great. Another super generic isekai setting with generic medieval age? No. Doesn't have to be european either. - Mythology stuff, just because I like these. Mythology all over the world is great, but I especially like Japan mythology and for aesthetics I love kimono and so on. - Some types of romance or hinted couples, more adult romances too. Or stuff like Scum's Wish, which is pretty much more realistic. - Some Slice of Life, especially if mixed with fantasy. - LGBT characters that are much more humanized than in your standard BL or GL give me life lol - Steampunk-ish settings, just because I really like them. |
removed-userJan 15, 2020 5:00 AM
| Nothing strange about it though. Taste is taste. You might be a bit broad in preferences, others might not be. |
| My top 5 is: - Angel Beats! - Code Geass - Madoka Magica - Free! Eternal Summer - Yuri on Ice! I think those make some sense. There is bit of disparity between Free! + Yuri on Ice! against the rest since both are focused on normal life. But three others make sense together to me as do Free! And Yuri on Ice together. I'm not sure what my top 10 is. But I guess i could add Mob Psycho and Hinamatsuri there at least. I think they still fit in with the rest. |
| I didn't expect what this was actually about. I'd say my taste is stranger than yours, OP, since your faves are all popular/well-known shows while mine are sometimes obscure as hell, but by your criterion for "strangeness" mine is less strange, since my favorites tend to be of my favored setting genres, fantasy and sci-fi. |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| >Tutu >really unpopular and obscure topkek |
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| Refined taste I know what I like .Pure lesbian females! So Yuri CGDGT Idols magical girl or anything with females only that have some Yuri vibes! I dont like anime males so I often stick to the ones with females who have no interest in males!! Sometimes I do exceptions if it have something interesting But I dont watch that much anime everyday. Maybe a couple of episodes a day! So the bigger part are the once I really like!! With my pure lesbians!!! They are so fucking cute!!!  |
Yuri-CrusaderJan 15, 2020 5:25 AM
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| I dont really have a distinct taste, a show needs to have depth and multiple well executed layers and its a good contender to be one of my favorites. So all shows in my favorites differ pretty much from one another, if we talk surface settings but what i think they all have in common is depth, very many genres are at least 1 time in my favorites. I have a g rated series, Berserk and a furry show on there... I dont really think your taste is that strange, most are pretty popular shows. |
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| Yeah I've got a varied taste. I watch anything and everything. |
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| I'm really into yaoi/yuri and dementia, so I guess I have weird taste |
| my favorites are usually action series especially hyper energetic ones bonus points if they are motivational since my life is boring so i need a dose of excitement |
| Just give me all the Slice of Life Anime! |
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| I love weird, slowass mystery thrillers. BUT also mid-2000s shoujo romance bullshit. I'll give really anything a shot, even if I know I won't like it (slice of life shows, beware). |
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| I love drama works. One can hardly proclaim that a strange taste. OP your taste is that of an "anime favorites starter pack" |
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| I guess my taste is quite varied. Monster, Hunter x Hunter, Bakemonogatari and NGE are in my top 10 |
| U're no weird, ur taste is common nothing special, all of ur like basically based on smart ikemen, psychological stuff & heavy drama Compared with me, myself also confused to considered my favorites whether include in a lot of variety or restricted on certain genre If looks carefully, i choosed my favorites usually coz : 1 the show had been ended 2 great conclusion regardless sad, good, sweet, or tragic ending 3 great insert song 4 have momentable scene But while categorized i have fews anime plot that is : 1 About Endless Scramble consists of Code Geass, Tengen Toppa Gurren Langan, Texhnolyze, Zegapain 2 About favor people consists of Clannad, Ansatsu Kyoushitsu, Angel Beats, Kobato 3 About fun nonsencial family like Seto no Hanayome But dis weird coz too much ascpect not yet mentioned from what we said before, so literally dis thread isnt accurate coz after all taste is a subjectivity absolute by everyone until there is clear border in size it, like Most Popular, Rank list, etc |
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| Title of the thread and the poll question are a little different. Someone can have a highly varied favourites list without it being all that strange. For me, I'd say my favourites are quite varied, but not strange. Sora Yori mo Tooi Basho Girls Last Tour Monogatari Series (Bake in list but it's a stand in for the whole series) Shinsekai Yori Ergo Proxy Non Non Biyori Kaguya-sama Clannad Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai (this is the only strange one, it's not a very highly regarded show, most people just thought it was generic harem trash) So in terms of genre, there's comedy, drama, sci-fi, fantasy, harem, romance, SOL, ecchi and more if one starts to really reach. |
| “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” -Friedrich Nietzsche Aggregate scoring is bad for the anime fandom |
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