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Hello everyone who comes across this profile!

I'm not dead! I still watch anime. I still enjoy it from time to time. I still live in Japan and still like to read, study film, and enjoy the company of friends and family. I am very busy and rarely post or check-in to much social media these days. I work a lot and spend time most of my time out my home.

I am honored that many of you post on my wall continuously to this day, for various reasons. I hope that my ratings and my reviews have served some purpose or sparked some discourse. Many opinions of mine have become more malleable to time and I hope that yours do as well. Anime is fun, and it can be art. Art is interpretive and I have my own evaluation standards on work that I have pieced together and thought about heavily over time. It is the result of much back-and-forth with friends, internet denizens, trolls, 4chan shitposters, educators, and those I respect and those I do not respect. Wherever the insanity of pinning down artistic standard leads any of you, I hope it leads you to a happier and more clear place and allows you to find joy along the way as it has for me.

I wish no one ill-will and take all comments in stride, because often they are really humorous. If you are young and upset with some of my commentary and feel the need to shit-sling, feel free. It doesn't do much and I don't care much to respond other than with a wink these days.

Anyways, peace in love in 2022 and I wish you all well!
Best,
Mike

{My Anime Lists tags are as follows: Story, Animation, Sound, Character, Enjoyment}

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Hey there new people! My name is Mike. I'm a retired review moderator here on MAL and have been a critic and fan of anime for about ten years now. I'm a craft beer fan, film enthusiast, and 社会人. I currently live in Japan. In my free time I also enjoy working out, playing video games, and praising all pizza and burgers. I try to watch a few anime every season and love finding innovative works. I tend to review anime that I feel I have a peculiar or understated opinion on. If you're curious in my approach to reviewing, would like some tips or need to ask a question please feel free to do so. Before you add me as a friend on this site, please let's have some good conversation first.

Please be respectful and I will follow in kind :)

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Anime Stats

Days: 206.2

Mean Score: 4.63

Total Entries1,261
Rewatched44
Episodes12,840

Anime History Last Anime Updates

Spy x Family

Apr 13, 5:25 AM

Watching 1/12 · Scored -

Gin no Saji

Jan 15, 7:37 PM

Completed 11/11 · Scored 5

Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song

Jan 15, 7:32 PM

Completed 13/13 · Scored 5

Manga Stats

Days: 36.3

Mean Score: 4.57

Total Entries217
Reread0
Chapters5,971
Volumes671

Manga History Last Manga Updates

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 8: JoJolion

Jan 15, 4:34 PM

Completed 110/110 · Scored 8

One Piece

Feb 17, 2020 5:00 AM

Reading 971/? · Scored -

Dead Dead Demon's Dededededestruction

Jul 28, 2019 8:33 AM

Reading 62/101 · Scored 9

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DuckCXL May 16, 9:56 PM

funny how you say taht anime is art when your average ratings are below a five. you're not gonna get a girlfriend if you keep on rating everything terrible, just saying. think about why 4chan and other trolls start shitposting about you when you start ruining their favorite anime that you'd probably enjoy as well, or either that you're probably a pessimist who complains about everything. get some help, and get better insight, dude.

Abajur May 15, 10:06 AM

it is okay if you didn't like Koe no Katachi's characters, but complaining that it didn't have an agenda to teach people about disability is very cringe (I know this isn't exactly what you said on your review, but close enough, you probably get (and probably disagree with) my point)

stop judging media by its moral value, media doesn't have to be moral and it certainly doesn't need to have a "positive moral message for the betterment of society" or whatever, when media treats a character like an object it is not """problematic""", it is bad writing, it is not a morally wrong thing, it is just something that doesn't have a certain kind of artistic appeal

note that I don't care that you disliked Koe no Katachi and I am not trying to defend it, I am talking about how you criticized it, I am not saying you should have liked it

(I have my profile comments temporarily disabled, there is a logical reason for that, I can explain if you want to and I'll turn them back on eventually, meanwhile I am happy to hear your reply in a PM if you feel like writing one, I will read it)

Vulpecula1 May 12, 9:57 AM

but as you said art is interpretive so you are absolutely free to interpret it however you want
cheers man

Vulpecula1 May 12, 9:53 AM

dam dude didn't you feel any attatchment to the characters in Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan

Mucho_Bear May 11, 9:12 PM

terrible take on koe no katachi ngl

saekoa May 11, 9:37 AM

I dated a girl for a few years whose parents were both deaf. I even learned sign language over those years. We watched A Silent Voice together with her siblings and parents. Both of her parents loved the movie and were in tears, and even said it would be a great idea for the movie to be shown in classrooms.

Pred8r May 8, 9:49 PM

Your intake on a silent voice is really bad mate I'm not even gonna lie.

But at the same time you have toradora in your favs lmao

It's an easy 8.5/10 if not a 9.

Didn't want to say this but you're def deluded if you think Koe no Katachi is anything under a 7.

SSJYuki May 7, 3:21 AM

'Koe no Katachi is dangerous because it is exploitative'. I am speechless.

NealTenshio May 6, 12:27 PM

These kinds of reviews exhibit one of the main problems of this website and its community mentality. And that problem is that we, who think of ourselves as critical people, are deliberately looking and seeking for what makes an anime bad. We somehow think that those different negative reviews must have some value.. Not only that, those negative reviews help us save time from watching something. And it could be part of the reason why some people who may have not watched something could/would have an increased inclination towards a negative review.
But thinking that way to begin with could be a mistake.
I think I find positive reviews have more potential than the negative reviews, because those are what allow you to see the good in something. Potential is what we should focus on, because that's where growth happens. If I disagree with a positive review, which I often do, at least I know where and what I dislike. But trusting a negative review at face value keeps us from the first step altogether and keeps us in ignorance. The cynical parts of us keep up from watching anime for personal fulfillment or for understanding. The cynical parts of us, that just want to protect us from "bad art", heavily impede on our curiosity and our ability to discover/learn for ourselves. We disrupt our imagination and creativity.

NealTenshio May 6, 12:00 PM

I have a sister who is deaf, and I disagree with your opinion that Koe no Katachi objectifies deafness. I'm not even sure if what you typed was an opinion, or if a monkey was just hitting keys on a keyboard at random.
There are details to the pains and struggles involved with persons with deafness and of those around them, more than what the movie showed but the movie showed some of them. If you are deaf, you're going to be treated differently, negatively, and you're very likely to experience aggressive, persistent bullying. Sorry if you think it's supposed to be sunshine and rainbows. But it's not.

Aadrei May 3, 7:07 AM

To each their own, dude. Stay well

bIackreaper_ May 2, 11:28 PM

your taste in anime is garbage

Stillx2 Apr 27, 3:02 PM

everyone is each to there opinion although your opinion is just bad.....

FonsLikesAnime Apr 27, 9:01 AM

Do you just hate everything ur most used score is prolly 3

shit_and_cum Apr 26, 2:57 AM

Read your silent voice review, you're based AF

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