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.
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 out of 381 players
FAQ:
"How's it going?"
My life is consistently mediocre, thanks for asking.
"do you actually like hand shakers and big order"
Yes.
"why"
Yes.
I read you review of Masamune-kun's Revenge... may I say your wall of text sounded to me like if were written by an envying and repressed dude? All your review was no sense to me, probably do you hate this anime because this show rough up fat, ugly and nerd people? And so mistreat you?
Poor guy
red_bird you motherfucker allow comments on your wall so i can give you a medal of honor
you can't just link someone some A+ futa lolis and not expect any thanks for it
Probably a dumb question, but why everybody hates Big Order, haven't seen it yet, all I know is that it's from Mirai Nikki's author. Your review was fun af to read though.
WTF? Where in the hell did these 1000 upvoted reviews.... this is unprecedented trolling. It took me until the next page to find Zeph's review which adds to your point. Yeah MAL system is broken, so it's a false alarm but damn I still think you deserve a spot in the exclusive group.
.... this spam bot is playing 4D chess with me
I forgot to mention it but MAL's current system for reviews needs rectifying. I've been guilty of the speed over substance when it comes to writing. At one point, I remember writing one 2 weeks prior to its final episode. It's counter-intuitive in general as spending 3-4 hours may satisfy ourselves but not for others who are the consumers. It's not a guarantee that the high end reviewers are churning out reviews, it's a bummer when you eventually lose out to one of them, damn you Stark700. It's just part and parcel of the game, the conditions are flawed for newcomers with this change but I started submitting after it came into practice. Sure older reviews are benefited greatly but we do have the sort by recent option which some people are lazy to check in general.
For seasonals, it's a mixture of quality and speed, nothing getting around that.
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Poor guy
you can't just link someone some A+ futa lolis and not expect any thanks for it
> You like Hand Shakers
This is suspicious
I got another funny video for you...
.... this spam bot is playing 4D chess with me
I forgot to mention it but MAL's current system for reviews needs rectifying. I've been guilty of the speed over substance when it comes to writing. At one point, I remember writing one 2 weeks prior to its final episode. It's counter-intuitive in general as spending 3-4 hours may satisfy ourselves but not for others who are the consumers. It's not a guarantee that the high end reviewers are churning out reviews, it's a bummer when you eventually lose out to one of them, damn you Stark700. It's just part and parcel of the game, the conditions are flawed for newcomers with this change but I started submitting after it came into practice. Sure older reviews are benefited greatly but we do have the sort by recent option which some people are lazy to check in general.
For seasonals, it's a mixture of quality and speed, nothing getting around that.
Btw, how are you feeling about the Ballroom anime? Haven't seen it yet but it's definitely piqued my interest.