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}
Profile permanently under construction due to Photobucket's new $399/per year image hosting fee.
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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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)
cheers man
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.
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.
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.