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- BirthdayDec 24, 1998
- LocationRussia, Saint Petersburg
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Days: 63.4
Mean Score:
5.30
- Total Entries1,157
- Rewatched175
- Episodes4,087
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Days: 1.9
Mean Score:
5.33
- Total Entries17
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- Chapters341
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How's the new year treating you? You doing OK?
We finally have a "real" winter in Stockholm (well, not quite, but kind of). It's so fucking beautiful when everything is covered in white.
I was born in the north so I kind of expect more snow and cold weather. And as far as I can remember we used to have it down here too, what fucks me up is I have a bad memory so I don't really remember the weather from past winters but I have the distinct feeling it used to be more "real winter" than it has been later years.. global warming or just a fluke?
l'art pour l'art: yeah exactly. I think one of the unique charm of art is that it helps us to look at things with an intensified attention, which is something enjoyable at it own right. Apart from being a formalist I do like good anime drama too. But good anime scriptwriter is such a rarity, so recently I rarely watch anime expecting a good, engrossing plot..
I guess it was quite hard to get yourself immersed in the OVA if you had to pause every 10mins because of the internet.. If you're considering giving it another try, that would be great! But if you aren't very interested in the aesthetics, that's cool too. Arthouse taste is supposed to be highly idiosyncratic. Do share with me if you have any arthouse you like! :)
As for Revue Starlight, personally I simply love the flamboyantly choreographed stage-fights. Plot-wise it is a meh. (Seriously the anime industry is running out of good scriptwritters.) The slice of life element and the characters are cute and okay but nothing that would change your opionion of the show. It reminds me of Seijun Suzuki who was a Japanese New Wave film director who played all kinds of bold artistic experimentations on the trashy b-movie projects that his studio assigned to him (which eventually gets him expelled because of the financial disaster he has caused, lol.) To me Revue Starlight is one of the few anime that fall in the campy middle ground between lowbrow and highbrow, unapolegetically over-the-top and self-confident enough to not protect itself with any sense of irony, which can be a really good thing or a really bad thing depending on your taste.
Btw I see you have recently just watched Koushoku Ichidai Otoko. What do you think about it?
Did you have a nice christmas/new year? Or total corona isolation?
Chinese animu is very difficult category, even growing up as Chinese I was more exposed to Japanese anime, there was minimal Chinese animation and it's definitely no competition to the Japanese ones. Recent ones that really got me is Scissor 7. The only one I can think of when you mention "old ones" is Da Er Duo Tutu pftthahahah whether this have held up with time I do not know, but I do know I loved this as a kid. Since Chinese animus are on the rise, might be worth writing an "insightful" compile blog post about it huh.
I didn't think anyone will ever visit my profile, guess I'll start adding favourites from now on
Btw I no longer check my MAL regularly because of other things that preoccupies me recently. I hope you won't mind if my replies are gonna be somewhat irregular.
Does it look like you will be getting a white christmas in Saint Petersburg?
I guess I'll have to give On-Gaku a try, doesn't really look like something i feel like trying but a passion project created almost single handedly by one guy (like one of the reviews said) sounds interesting.
I just finished Golden Kamuy and it was great. I took too long breaks inbetween episodes so a few times when I got back into it i had forgotten some parts and was kind of lost so I regret that, but still ended up really liking it.
About Barakamon and Usagi Drop all I can tell you is i really liked them both when i watched them. I'd like to recommend you pick up Barakamon but I can also imagine it's not for everyone.
About my scores all they really say is what I thought of a particular at the time I watched it, I think myself that some of the scores don't make sense when compared to others shows which kind of bugged me before but it doesn't feel worth it going through everything again so whatever :)
I just went through our conversation history and smiled (or smirked?) about it again. One point - if you ever have recommendations for me or just want to tell me about shows you like, please feel free to do that and don't hold back or mind the shows i already watched. I noticed you talked about several shows that I already watched or had started watching earlier but that doesn't really matter.
I enjoy hearing other peoples opinion of the shows and also I'm kind of an extreme "re-watcher". It started off with me just rewatching favourite shows but now often when i try to think of new stuff to watch i fall back to "why watch a bunch of crap to try and find a gem when I can rewatch something i know I like".
Also I don't know if I asked you about this before but from your name I assumed you're from Finland, but on your profile it says you live in St. Petersburg, what gives? :o
How are you finding the current season, any shows you like? Or anything youre looking forward to from the coming season?
I also have a personal tale to tell of how I came to really like Mushishi but it involves some semi-finnish rituals so I'll await you're reply about that (lol)
(I tried to look it up right now but one of my 4TB harddrives full of anime crashed recently and I can't find Natsume so it might have been on that one, I'm kind of panicking).
If you didn't like it that's fine though, everyone has different tastes. I wouldn't want you to force yourself or anything. If it's the worst show you ever saw I'd rather you tell me that than pretend you like it :) I already know it's not a show for everyone. I also think I happened to watch it at a time when it resonated with me the most.
Yeah I'm excited for the new show, it's not a new season though which I would have prefered but something is better than nothing.
I can't help from thinking back when I got into anime, I found all these new super favourites and they were all from like 3-5-10-15 years ago and I kind of thought i missed the golden age of anime and there wasn't a chance in hell they'd ever get sequels. Now they all did! (Kind of)
Sick.
So tell me more about your favourite shows (I think you already did but how did you get into them/what do you like about them)
Yeah I'm watching Golden Kamuy as well. I remember really liking it from the start, but I forgot lots of stuff from S1/S2 by now so I feel somewhat lost when watching S3.
I LOVED Usagi Drop but damn, I think you have the same info as me regarding the manga, seems it turns weird and uncomfortable (no spoilers, I haven't even read it myself).
I remember when I started watching anime though, I was uncomfortable with some things and I also actually despised alot of the normal tropes from the start. Now I grew to enjoy some of them (like tsundere) but can't help but feel somewhat corrupted (this has nothing to do with Usagi Drop manga).
Couldn't see Natsume in your favourites so I was about to haze you for not watching it yet but you actually did, seems you didn't like it :( too bad. I'm kind of sad about that. Everyone has different tastes though which is completely normal (damn you for not liking it!) :)