"Why, huh? I already forgot. I wonder the same thing... when I started to develop the Full-Dive system... no, well before that, I dreamed of nothing but creating that castle, a world that overcome all of our rules and all of our limits. And now I saw someone overcome even the rules of my world... how old was I when I started dreaming of a steel castle floating in the sky? I wanted to get off the ground and fly to that castle. For a long time, that was my only wish. You know what, Kirito-kun... I still believe that in some other world, that castle still exists. (...) I forgot one thing. Congratulations on winning the game, Kirito-kun, Asuna-kun." [AKIHIKO, Kayaba. Sword Art Online, 14th episode. 2012]
There was a time when my profile was a sea of quotes. More than one hundred excerpts flooded this page, immediately transmitting many of the things that I considered profound and impactful in my favorite works. I am, and probably always will be, a quote fanatic. Whether from real thinkers or fictional works that are sometimes just as real, I am always cataloguing, taking notes and reflecting on the phrases that cross my eyes. However, so many quotes crammed my profile that I had to reform it. With the new MyAnimeList mechanic, I am now able to add citations to the works I watch or read. In some cases, they will be from the works themselves. In others, they will be external phrases that tie to the message or to some factor of that work. This distinction matters little. What matters most is that all of them are now on my list of anime and manga. Feel free to dive into the lists and read as much or as little as you like. After all, more than texts in boxes that I could leave, these quotations represent the soul that I see in each work. Especially, I invite you to read my favorites tabs, especially Sword Art Online, Monster, Boogiepop Series, 3-Gatsu no Lion, NHK ni Youkoso! and so many others. And that's all, folks.
Just another fan of anime, manga, light novels and Japanese culture in general.
Yes, I'm brazilian. However, the profile is written in English (insert "sorry for my bad English" meme) to "universalize" the understanding.
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My grade criteria is the same as the MyAnimeList standard. There's nothing special about it. Anime with a score of 5 means an "Ok" experience. Variants below 5 mean "bad" at different scales and which, however, in some cases, do not necessarily represent that I cannot have fun watching. Variants above 5 mean "good" at different scales, too. There was a time when I used a criterion where 6 was the "average" line. However, due to the difficulty of placing animes above 6 of broken notes in the same note range, I reluctantly changed my criteria. Despite this, I know that most people tend to give higher marks and have a displaced criterion of 5, and at one point I was part of that majority. So please, if you have a different grade criteria, don't judge me by a 6, 5 or 4.
About my favorites, animes that feature more than one season are, as a rule, represented by the first season. However, that doesn't necessarily mean that season one is my favorite, it's just a way of representing the franchise itself. There are two exceptions to this system: Psycho-Pass, which is in the favorites only considering its first season; and Sword Art Online. In the case of SAO, it's my favorite anime, franchise, work and anything else. However, my favorite arc in SAO is Alicization, with a big margin for the rest. Still, I decided to represent Ordinal Scale in the favourites, as it is the only part of the work that is not contained in Light Novel and I wanted to represent the franchise as a whole in my profile, so much of a fan that I became it.
My taste is very variable. There aren't many genres that I don't like and even for Battle Shonens or works from the Ecchi and Harem genres, which I don't really like, I give it a try. I don't have a lot of prejudice with most works, even if MyAnimeList's rating is low, and I decide which anime I will see, mostly, via wheeldecide.com. However, my favorite genres by far are Psychological, Thriller and Sci-Fi. Drama, Romance, Mystery and Police are also among my favorites.
I really like works that address the psychological aspect of characters a lot, especially those that contain dense monologues, approaches to memories, specters of human psychology, and characters that contain relevant social illustrations. Particularly, I really like to look for these social representations in what I watch or read and I highly value works that teach me new values or rescue old ones that are important to me. Works like Sword Art Online, Boogiepop Series and Boku dake ga Inai Machi influenced my perception of things in a way that I keep and apply their teachings to this day, which is why they are among my favorites. Also, my favorite moments in anime are usually not action or climax scenes, but rather revelation scenes and foreshadowing connections.
Because of this factor, I often value the message that certain works have to convey more than structure and these particular plot aspects, although I don't discount them. As you can see from the ones listed on the profile, I tend to prefer serious and ambitious works to comedic works. I have no problem with the fact that you, the reader, prefer this style, however I rarely like works that alternate between serious and comedic moments. With rare exceptions, the works I like are either purely serious or purely funny.
About characters, I generally prefer those with remnants of humanity, who make mistakes, have tragic stories and exposure to the psychological. I place (much) more importance on the characters' stories themselves and the social illustrations they compose than on their personalities. Likewise, I generally prefer the show's protagonists and rarely will a supporting character overcome this barrier.
I'm a huge fan of anime openings and endings. Having memorized the letters of more than 100 of them over time and played several quizzes, this is an ongoing memorization effort. However, in addition to the songs, I tend to give even more importance to the imagery symbolisms that are presented in the openings and endings. The ones listed below are sorted by a personal assessment I made, following the criteria of image symbolism, lyric symbolism, music and animation, not just music. However, as we tend to develop greater affection and to analyze more deeply the works we like, it is possible to notice that most of them correspond to my favourites.
I have a hard time summarizing the things I would like to express. I'm extremely wordy, as you can tell from the texts in my list and profile. Much of this behavior, however, is voluntary. Personally, I believe that the main and driving key to understanding things and to information success lies in complexity. Paraphrasing my dear NHK ni Youkoso!, the difficulties of human beings and their social isolation mostly result from suffering and the breach of expectations, guided by the shock of simple, immature and impulsive thinking of humanity with the rationality and complexity of its own creations. Thus, I could describe myself as having the famous "Kei Niitoki syndrome". Sometimes I pore over works and things, noting countless elements, writing analyzes and trying to understand every possible detail. I really can't stand to see something unexplained or deal with dogma, and I'm able to come up with theories to fill that hole if it's still there at the end of the experience.
This taste for challenges and the desire to occupy my head literally all the time with the exercise of thinking led me to choose my profession. I'm currently in my 10th semester of Medicine and am an aspiring Neurosurgeon (no, I watched Monster after choosing the specialty, so there's no inspirational relationship with Kenzou Tenma here, necessarily).
I have a huge dislike for any kind of provocation, lack of humility and densely populated social networks, with disorganized and huge communities like Twitter. In addition, feelings such as exacerbated nostalgia, excessive optimism and actions such as the simplification of events irritate me deeply.
Many of my hobbies involve writing private reviews of works I watch, researching psychology, and sharing only with my friends. This behavior emerged in high school and intensified over time, given my fondness for writing tests. I have always, however, been a huge fan of Mathematics and Natural Science. As you can see, I also really like creating Rankings for things. I've cultivated this hobby since long before the popularization of Tierlists, when I watched Animal Planet: Extreme on television every day. In addition to anime, I also follow football and cheer for Botafogo and play some games, including the competitive side of Pokémon and, mainly, Geoguessr. For a good part of the time, I had the habit of drawing, however this practice was lost over the course of college.
My MBTI is ISTJ-A, which makes me a Logistician. In the past, I had major problems with this personality, not least because I disagree with some of the elements such as the enormous attachment to the rules. However, acceptance started from the moment I found out it was the same MBTI as my beloved Waifu. If today I live in peace with this result, a large part is due to her.
03| "Re:Re" (Asian Kung-fu Generation)
Boku Dake ga Inai Machi [OP1]
02| "Hikaru Nara" (Goose House)
Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso [OP1]
01| "ADAMAS" (LiSA)
Sword Art Online [OP5]
Last update: 07/10/2022
NOTE: Film openings such as "Fanfare" will not be considered in
this ranking. Special openings, such as "Euterpe", specific to one
or two episodes, are also not included. These and other mentions,
however, have a place in my memories.
20| "Swing Heart Direction" (Mikako Komatsu)
Ballroom e Youkoso [E2]
19| "Hitori" (XX:me)
Darling in The FranXX [E4]
18| "Yuki ni Sako Hana" (Kana Hanazawa)
Shinsekai yori [E2]
17| "Pino to Ameri" (Huwie Ishizaki)
Naruto Shippuden [E38]
16| "Akuma no Ko" (Ai Higuchi)
Shingeki no Kyojin [E7]
15| "Fighter" (BUMP OF CHICKEN)
3-Gatsu no Lion [E1]
14| "Whiteout" (Riko Azuka)
Boogiepop wa Warawanai [E1]
13| "Last Theater" (NoisyCell)
Death Parade [E1]
12| "Sora wa Takaku Kaze wa Utau" (Luna Haruna)
Fate/Zero [E2]
09| "Yuugure no Tori" (Shinsei Kamattechan)
Shingeki no Kyojin [E3]
08| "Orion" (Kenshi Yonezu)
3-Gatsu no Lion [E2]
07| "Jigoku no Mon" (ALI PROJECT)
Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom [E1]
06| "Dare ka, Umi wo." (Aimer)
Zankyou no Terror [E1]
05| "Cafune" (Brian the Sun)
3-Gatsu no Lion [E3]
04| "Startear" (Luna Haruna)
Sword Art Online [E3]
03| "Sore wa Chiisana Hikari no You na" (Sayuri)
Boku Dake ga Inai Machi [E1]
02| "Unlasting" (LiSA)
Sword Art Online [E8]
01| "Memoria" (Eir Aoi)
Fate/Zero [OP1]
Last update: 21/11/2022
NOTE: Film endings such as "Sparkle", "Grand Escape", "I Beg You",
"Patema Inverse" and "Uchiage Hanabi" will not be considered in
this ranking. Special endings, such as "Niji no Kanata Ni" and
"Kamado Tanjirou no Uta", specific to one or two episodes, are
also not included. All these and other mentions, however, have a place
in my memories.
It may seem contradictory at first, but it is precisely the way in which she is extremely human that put me on the pedestals of this feeling. When I first saw her, I was an immediate person who barely understood the complexity of the word "judgment." The moment I first faced this painful humanity, I immediately began to rethink my world and the low limits that were my ceiling. From the most melancholy sigh, she drew strength to move forward, walking against her trauma and struggling, curled up in the blanket of herself, against the distortion her being had created. The one who created another of herself, a dissociation, and saw in this simulacra of her own god.
Shino-non is a portrait of humanity facing the virtual. It represents what we most manufacture and unconsciously do when caught up in our routine about digital polygons. The essence of virtuality is the creation of unlimited, ideal worlds and interfaces. And why not ideas of perfection? When a person takes 1000 photos of himself, those 1000 photos will not be the object of ostentation he will announce in front of a megaphone. There will only be five. The five best captures, the ones that will best define your qualities and hide your flaws. Society is an omnipresent jury, and exposing its true nature means opening itself to the judgments of all eyes. However, the real persona is made up of the joining of these thousand photos.
That's why her journey is a mirror of ours. Every day, people essentially project what they consider conveniently good traits and hide the negative ones. Virtual profiles are often collections of this, and it's no exception what I do here, replacing my problematic traits with quotes, rankings, and tributes. Sinon is their virtual "god", the ideal object that became an objective and an example to be pursued. Shino Asada, on the other side of the mirror, is the human being, imperfect and whose psychological is extremely fragile. And so we are.
I love her for scaling my choices and dimensions of the world. I love her for giving me back humanity and rescuing me from the backslidden path I was walking. I feel a deep gratitude for helping me to accept my personality. And most of all, I love her for being human. A dichotomous flower, of great strength and, at the same time, so fragile. After all, it's the imperfections that made her perfect for me.
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