Not gonna be posting reviews here anymore; for details about that, click here. It also answers many burning questions about my reviews for Hand Shakers and Big Order.
MAL thinks everyone should be allowed to give scores to anime. How lame. It's apparently a "big problem" if I give Big Order a 10, even though it's objective that Big Order is the greatest anime ever created. Well, have no fear lads. I have a solution to avoiding the fucking up of your almighty MAL scores. It's called: Making a bunch of dumb tags and then tiering them by my level of enjoyment.
Anime with multiple seasons will just be combined in one tag if they belong in the same tier. (i.e. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
Smaller tags indicate anime shorts, tags with golden borders are for movies. Specials and extra episodes and the like aren't considered for this list; they'd more-or-less fall into the same tier as their counterparts anyway.
The font is Pokemon Emerald. Because people asked.
Fennekin Tier = Favorites. I had the time of my life watching them, and I've crammed any of these shows down my friends' throats multiple times. Watching any of them put a big, dumb grin on my face more often than not, and I find myself coming back to watch pieces of them every now and then. FUCKING. WATCH THESE. Braixen Tier = These are pretty goddamn rad, and I had a great time watching them. I was excited the whole way through and would certainly put in a good word for them, even if they're not all must-watches or particularly significant. Recommended. Ninetales Tier = I had a decent time with these animays. Sometimes I was bored, sometimes I had fun. An overall positive experience but with some notable downtime. Any strong emotions I had were in only short bursts. At the very least, they're enjoyable. Sorta recommended. Delphox Tier = This is where I start disliking stuff. While not horrible, I wouldn't go out of my way to come back to most of them, and I'd need some serious convincing to watch more. At best, they're fun to make fun of. But, all things considered, they are still... watchable. Barely recommended. Greninja Tier = I'd rather hose my eyes with chlorine for a few hours than watch some of these again. Whether I literally fell asleep in my chair, slammed my face into a pillow, or just generally wanted my lifespan to decrease, these are shows that I unquestionably dislike and generally wish death upon. Not recommended.
"lucks y dont u jus maek a pastebin"
Because that's boring.
Tuturu, motherfuckers.
I have several names. The truest is Lux. But if you just wanna call me Mozilla or Fennekin or some variant of those, I don't mind.
I am both more and less mature than I appear.
4.07.16 - 50th anime: Oshiete! Galko-chan 11.17.16 - 100th anime: Nichijou* 2.24.17 - 150th anime: Toradora! maybe now that i have three digits people will take me more seriously
*after this point, i started including OVA's and specials
what are numbers, this graph looks terrible
Because apparently quotation marks break spoiler tags.
I am both more and less mature than I appear.
Throughout much of my life, I've watched anime here and there, from the original Pokemon to the classic Toonami, up until 2015 when I started watching seasonal anime. But it wasn't really until last year when I actually got into it. I simply thought that I wasn't watching many anime even though I claimed to be a fan (and was already trying to review them), so I sat down, made a list of ten shows I would watch from the season, and I still do it today. The best part is that Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu came out at that time and made it entirely worth it.
Anyway, that's why I have mostly new shit that no one likes on my list. For older anime, I try to watch anything that's similar to the current seasonal anime, whether it's in tone or just by the same director.
I'm not sure if I have any preferences, aside from whatever the fuck Key does and those stupid light novel battle harems that come out every season. (Where's my special snowflake award?) I'll only drop something if I feel like I have nothing to say about it. This usually applies to really shitty anime that only five people are watching. Or, I'll drop it if I get through a cour and don't like it enough to care about how it ends.
I don't do much else, though. I work a full-time job stocking shelves at a grocery store (it's boring but I work alone and get to listen to music so it's satisfying for me) and watch baseball whenever the season's on. Of course, I play a lot of Pokemon as well. You have three guesses to name my favorite. I used to be a drummer, so I still have this huge lingering interest in music even though I don't listen to a whole lot anymore.
Oh, I also write obnoxious anime reviews and say the word "fuck" a lot.
Although I believe I have some interesting things to say, my main objective as a reviewer is to be entertaining. Because I understand that every anime has its fair share of love and hatred. An opinion will be agreed and disagreed upon widely, but if I can entertain both sides, then everyone can get something in the end.
Unfortunately, my reviews aren't as good as they could be because it's hard to express yourself in plain text. Not to mention that the review system on MAL about as functional as a suspending bridge made of saltine crackers, forcing me to work on deadlines just to be noticed. Someday soon, I would like to move on to videos where I can be more free with my work and get fucked by copyright instead.
But aside from all that, I would like to understand the anime itself and why people would want to watch it. I haven't done this very well yet... But it's something I think about. Understanding the authorial intent of something is very important to me, because if I criticize something for doing exactly what it meant to do... that just makes me look like a cunt. There are dozens of anime coming out each season and I watch 10-20 of them, so having different objectives for each anime is important.
You may notice that, at the bottom of my reviews, I say "Score Range" or something. That just means I gave it a specific score, but I can see myself changing it to somewhere else within that range. Some of my reviews probably don't have the same score they have on my list right now.
My main influences are Mr. Plinkett, Yahtzee Crowshaw, Demolition D, A Dose of Buckley, The Pro Crastinators, Cr1TiKaL, Dunkey, George Carlin, Anthony Fantano (the music reviewer, not the increasingly unfunny ironic shitlord) and anything around me.
10 = pretty good
9 = pretty good
8 = pretty okay
7 = i don't actually have a scale
I don't find scores to be very important, and I often update them, so I don't have specific definitions. 10 is for anything that I love so much that I overlook whatever minor flaws they may have, and 1 is something so horrible that there is absolutely no reason to watch it. Everything else is just in between.
Most shorts and OVAs and specials and the like won't be rated; comparing them to full shows is pretty ridiculous considering that their intent is far different.
One time some dude named Kevin invited me to a club, and for some reason I was actually somewhat interested in it.
Flash forward to a few months later, some other dude named Memo asked me to join this trivia contest they were doing.
Somehow I did well enough to get selected as a backup finalist for a live competition, and despite that I ended up winning the entire thing. Because of course that would happen.
Anyway I got these cool tags out of it.
Also every two seasons there's this thing called the Fantasy Anime League: out of 269 players out of 450 players
FAQ:
"do you actually like hand shakers and big order"
Yes.
"why"
Yes.
The truth is spoken. Basically confirmed people prefer Trump and cute maid dragons. Feels bad that Nichijoint was more popular in the West, guess we like deer wrestling and talking cats more.
Yeah she was a bit likable, she had some decent comic relief moments. Honestly anything that moved and had a soul was better than Adagaki though lol. I understand they wanted to make it that she wasn't really a villain and just a tsundere to the max, but the shit she did wasn't really forgivable. Initially the show had potential to pull off an interesting revenge plot too, oh well.
No prob, keep doing what you do. I dig the Nichijou favorite btw, Kyoani always makes moe stuff over a season 2 :/
Yo just wanted to say I really enjoyed the Masamune-kun review. Your witty, unfiltered remarks made it a fun read.
I picked it up similarly when it was airing for the interesting revenge plot and then kinda lost interest. I was going to finish it up today but finished episode 8 and was like eh. Classic side girl vanishes and now main guy feels bad and gotta hunt her booty down, and she's also sick so even worse!!!1!!1!
Then I read your review and confirmed that the last 4 episodes were trash, so thanks for saving me the time lol. Cheers to shitty romcoms.
You have no obligation as a club member. You don't even have to send me your reviews if you don't feel like it, I'll just be using your reviews once in a while for aggregation. However, if you do want to send me specific reviews you really like, be sure to do so! Feel free to join as well!
Also, there's no problem if you have no plans to write beyond what you've already written, that's completely fine.
Greetings! I've recently just started a club with a very specific purpose and I was wondering if you were interested in joining and/or if I could use some of your reviews for it
The purpose of this club is to try and create a community of talented writers who would like to make a more reliable scoring system than the one currently provided by MyAnimeList. Instead of a show being scored by a hundred thousand no-names, we would have the scores for a show coming from well-written reviews by anyone who is willing to participate. All of these reviews will be able to be accessed through our forums, so the mean score for each show will be more personal, since you'll know who's contributing and who isn't, and you can read what everyone thinks.
If you're still not entirely sure if this club is for you, you can go HERE for more details
If you’re not particularly interested in joining, I would like to know if I can have permission to use some of your reviews for the aggregation.
The club is still relatively new, so things aren’t too official or polished yet.
Sadly that's how it is man. I believe Eromanga's goal from the beginning was to get a tight hold on its niche audience and take the most advantage of it as they can possibly can. The fact that it pretends to being a more serious show with the forced drama really makes me scratch my head though.
Actually I'm very familiar with Digibro. He's one of my favorite anime YouTubers and one of the select few I actually enjoy to listen to whenever I can. I was familiar that he was making videos about Eromanga but I wasn't really catching up to them. I went back to hear what they had to say and I was surprised to know that they speak a lot about the things I mention in my review. Digi and Guy do a much better job expressing how they feel about it though; they are veterans after all. I'm happy I'm not the only one who thinks the way I do about the show, and seeing them share so many of my thoughts in similar ways is cool to see. And you're right, I think it is better to listen to them instead of watching the thing, at least it's funnier than Eromanga's jokes. >_<
Thank you so much for the positive feedback. And yeah, I watched a lot of anime when I was a kid (stuff like Yu-gi-oh, Dragon Ball, and other shounen game/battle shows) but eventually passed on like one normally does with childhood hobbies. I've always been a pretty social guy and was influenced to hating anime for being either childish or weird "sexual cartoons". Interesting enough, I somehow someway started discovering it again while finding some "feel good romance shows" and with some recs from a friend. Fast forward a year and anime has changed me and made me eat my words.
Also I hate that elitist mindset because there have been plenty of masterpieces in the recent years and there are always the rare gems in every season. Sure, sometimes the gems get overshadowed by the mediocre shows, but one must learn to avoid the trash and search for the good stuff. If they can't find anything good then they're not looking hard enough.
Because of my past mentality of anime being weird sexual cartoons, that past anger came back to me while watching Eromanga Sensei. I just think that Eromanga embodies everything wrong that makes the industry have such a bad reputation, and seeing it growing in popularity in such a scale made me genuinely upset. The points I made aren't anything special or new, but they were things that I had on the back of my mind and were eating my soul. I expected a lot of fans ripping my apart, but I've only gotten positive comments like yours; these at least restored my faith in the community and that there is still sane anime fans out there.
Again, thanks for the comment and I'm glad you liked it.
And I think I'm far away from being a true veteran about these Chinese cartoons, but I'll keep trying. ^^
God damn.
I'm gonna give you props for your Masamune review, in addition to the two that launched you two stardom: Big Order and Hand Shakers (I also appreciate your blog post about why you're flying the coop).
If you would be so kind, allow me to add you to my list of MAL friends so that this humble fan might keep up on your YT reviews.
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No prob, keep doing what you do. I dig the Nichijou favorite btw, Kyoani always makes moe stuff over a season 2 :/
I picked it up similarly when it was airing for the interesting revenge plot and then kinda lost interest. I was going to finish it up today but finished episode 8 and was like eh. Classic side girl vanishes and now main guy feels bad and gotta hunt her booty down, and she's also sick so even worse!!!1!!1!
Then I read your review and confirmed that the last 4 episodes were trash, so thanks for saving me the time lol. Cheers to shitty romcoms.
You can find it here: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1611886
If you want anything to be changed (the quote or your score), be sure to let me know.
I'll get to work on you re:zero review right now, thanks for submitting!
Also, there's no problem if you have no plans to write beyond what you've already written, that's completely fine.
Thanks for (maybe) joining!
The purpose of this club is to try and create a community of talented writers who would like to make a more reliable scoring system than the one currently provided by MyAnimeList. Instead of a show being scored by a hundred thousand no-names, we would have the scores for a show coming from well-written reviews by anyone who is willing to participate. All of these reviews will be able to be accessed through our forums, so the mean score for each show will be more personal, since you'll know who's contributing and who isn't, and you can read what everyone thinks.
If you're still not entirely sure if this club is for you, you can go HERE for more details
If you’re not particularly interested in joining, I would like to know if I can have permission to use some of your reviews for the aggregation.
The club is still relatively new, so things aren’t too official or polished yet.
Actually I'm very familiar with Digibro. He's one of my favorite anime YouTubers and one of the select few I actually enjoy to listen to whenever I can. I was familiar that he was making videos about Eromanga but I wasn't really catching up to them. I went back to hear what they had to say and I was surprised to know that they speak a lot about the things I mention in my review. Digi and Guy do a much better job expressing how they feel about it though; they are veterans after all. I'm happy I'm not the only one who thinks the way I do about the show, and seeing them share so many of my thoughts in similar ways is cool to see. And you're right, I think it is better to listen to them instead of watching the thing, at least it's funnier than Eromanga's jokes. >_<
Also I hate that elitist mindset because there have been plenty of masterpieces in the recent years and there are always the rare gems in every season. Sure, sometimes the gems get overshadowed by the mediocre shows, but one must learn to avoid the trash and search for the good stuff. If they can't find anything good then they're not looking hard enough.
Because of my past mentality of anime being weird sexual cartoons, that past anger came back to me while watching Eromanga Sensei. I just think that Eromanga embodies everything wrong that makes the industry have such a bad reputation, and seeing it growing in popularity in such a scale made me genuinely upset. The points I made aren't anything special or new, but they were things that I had on the back of my mind and were eating my soul. I expected a lot of fans ripping my apart, but I've only gotten positive comments like yours; these at least restored my faith in the community and that there is still sane anime fans out there.
Again, thanks for the comment and I'm glad you liked it.
And I think I'm far away from being a true veteran about these Chinese cartoons, but I'll keep trying. ^^
I'm gonna give you props for your Masamune review, in addition to the two that launched you two stardom: Big Order and Hand Shakers (I also appreciate your blog post about why you're flying the coop).
If you would be so kind, allow me to add you to my list of MAL friends so that this humble fan might keep up on your YT reviews.
GodspeedKonoSuba...
And what anime do you Think Is the Monty Python of Anime?
For me, it's Nichijou.