Misao's introduction
Name: MisaoFan
Birthday: March 23
Languages I speak (in order of experience): French, English, Japanese
Favorite things: animanga, drawing, art, cats, East Asian culture, music, vegetarian food, doing research on topics that interests me, appreciation of less popular, low-rated and/or low-received media content, travel, ecology, fashion, architecture, bathing culture (both in IRL and in animanga), color theory, my own pace
Favorite color: pink
Favorite genres: action, science fantasy, mahō shōjo, battle harem, urban fantasy, adventure, science fiction, parody (especially ones that poke fun of other animanga), historical fantasy
Basically pretty much anything that both contains action and fantasy/sci-fi elements (magic, superpowers, time travel etc.) get my attention at first sight.
Least favorite genres: anything with romance as the major focus (het or gay), hentai, horror
Please talk to me with care, and I'd like it even more if our anime tastes are similar!
List of favorite anime that significantly influenced me
Cardcaptor Sakura (my first anime ever)
Excel Saga
Hunter X Hunter
Naruto (OG only)
Negima (only read some of the manga and anime, but I will eventually plan on reading the whole manga someday)
Koihime Musō
Asura Cryin'
The Qwaser of Stigmata (my first seasonal ever as it aired)
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere
Symphogear
Psycho-Pass
Magica Wars/Mahou Shoujo Taisen
Izetta the Last Witch
All Comments (32) Comments
By the way,
> it's surprised that no one in the anime community is looked down
Not really, there's still some hate and discrimination towards the anime community, albeit not really extreme. And I think one of the reason for that is because either TV channels broadcast anime with questionable content, or some cosplayers appear at conventions in suggestive poses => the news and media picking up on that => people hating on them, citing "thuần phong mỹ tục" ("cultural value" in English I think)
> By the way what do you think of it? How was the censorship level in localized stuff they published and is the editing of content the same as Japanese censoring?
Since some point in the past (2014/2015), I noticed an explosion in the number of anime and anime-related IP being licensed for use in Vietnam. So I think this is a sign that the government/ has finally backed down and eased up on the restrictions *a lot*, to the point that I'm taken aback by that.
For example, now I can buy a volume of Date A Live that comes with this suggestive phone dock (https://www.fahasa.com/date-a-live-tap-1-qua-tang-gia-do-dien-thoai-doc-quyen-so-luong-co-han.html). Or I can buy a volume of Prison School, which you already know is an ecchi manga. Or I can finally get a change to see popular anime movies on the big screen. Your Name, A Silent Voice, SAO Ordinal Scale, Hirune Hime, I've seen them all. And there aren't any censorship as far as I know. For example, in Your Name, there's the scene of Mitsuha in her underwear. That scene should've been blurred/entirely cut out per the old restrictions but it didn't happen.
By the way,
> it's surprised that no one in the anime community is looked down
Not really, there's still some hate and discrimination towards the anime community, albeit not really extreme. And I think one of the reason for that is because either TV channels broadcast anime with questionable content, or some cosplayers appear at conventions in suggestive poses => the news and media picking up on that => people hating on them, citing "thuần phong mỹ tục" ("cultural value" in English I think)
> By the way what do you think of it? How was the censorship level in localized stuff they published and is the editing of content the same as Japanese censoring?
Since some point in the past (2014/2015), I noticed an explosion in the number of anime and anime-related IP being licensed for use in Vietnam. So I think this is a sign that the government/ has finally backed down and eased up on the restrictions *a lot*, to the point that I'm taken aback by that.
For example, now I can buy a volume of Date A Live that comes with this suggestive phone dock (https://www.fahasa.com/date-a-live-tap-1-qua-tang-gia-do-dien-thoai-doc-quyen-so-luong-co-han.html). Or I can buy a volume of Prison School, which you already know is an ecchi manga. Or I can finally get a change to see popular anime movies on the big screen. Your Name, A Silent Voice, SAO: Ordinal Scale, Hirune Hime, I've seen them all. And there aren't any censorship as far as I know. For example, in Your Name, there's the scene of Mitsuha in her underwear. That scene should've been blurred/entirely cut out per the old restrictions but it didn't happen.
As for Argevollen, I actually rather liked that show, it wasn't amazing but it was passable and had pretty good CG. It was pretty forgettable, but it was never a chore to watch and was generally pretty ok. It had to compete with the awesome first season of a show that was collectively worse than it, Aldnoah.Zero. It was a pretty good show nonetheless.
Ya I'm good check out my list now it's godlike
Yeah, I take it you're the one who wrote the review on polyphoni.ca? Great stuff, yeah; I was honestly really surprised by that show, lmao.
I'm kind of working on a draft review of the new Symphogear anime, I'm honestly surprised at how tough getting this stuff together cohesively gets to be. Trying to format it as a primer for the series, because it's one of those that unless you're like me who really can watch just about anything and enjoy it, you kind of have to be in the right mindset for, since it does get pretty stupid. It's just entertaining campiness, lol.
Not to mention it's been a couple of years since I last regularly reviewed stuff. heh.