I'm just a regular person, I'm currently a student. My sign is Pisces, and I'm a mix of INFP and INTP. I'm 23 years old, and I watch anime since, maybe, year 2011. However I only seriously started watching anime in 2012. Anime that made me do it was Vampire Knight. It was the first anime that I looked up online to watch and therefore that truly hooked me up on it. Until then I was just watching some things on TV station Animax and some Naruto when I was little. Since then I started watching random series that I got interested in. It was a few years later, maybe around 2014, that I seriously started to watch ongoing series too. Since then I watch some every season, sans a few seasons when I was exceptionally busy or hooked up on some game through the whole season. In between I also watch some older shows that I'm interested in when I have the time. As you can see from my list I'm not much of a manga guy, but I read some. Mostly if anime ends with cliffhanger and I want to see how the story continues or if I really like it and I want to read the source material. I also read light novels in similar fashion.
First manga I have read was Hana to Akuma and as such I have a very special affection to it. It is also one of the best mangas I have ever read. It was also maybe around 2012. There is also a little story tied to it. Back then I have started to read it translated in my mother tongue, but after several chapters there was no translation. I didn't know much English at the time, but since I couldn't wait I read the whole thing in English, translating parts I did not understand with Google translate. At first that was nearly every sentence, but later it was less and less. Still, it was about 40 minutes per chapter back in the day. That's how I learned quite a bit of English that I know. Now that I remember it, I kinda can't believe I did that :D
As I only joined MAL quite a while after I started my list may be somewhat inaccurate, meaning some shows that I may have seen that weren't very memorable might be missing and some on-hold/dropped shows may have slightly inaccurate number of episodes seen. But I believe that it is in spite of it very accurate, as I did my best to make it so. This situation is a bit worse with my manga list because some of my early mangas are missing.
My taste in anime is quite wide, although I'm not fan of Harems and School Romances too much recently. I still enjoy a good Harem, but I started to dislike anime that focus too much only on that aspect of the show. I used to watch quite a few Harems when I was new to anime though. I can also enjoy a good School Romance, but most are disappointing due to the lack of romance progression or overuse of tropes that I mostly find annoying.
Genres I really like are Slice of Life (and especially Iyashikei), Historical (mainly shows taking place in medieval Europe or Japan, or shows taking place in 19th-early 20th century), Mecha, Psychological, Fantasy and Seinens and Shoujo of all kinds. I'm also fan of Moe, though I generally consider it a good addition to some of the genres mentioned above rather than something I would watch show for only.
As you may have noticed my average rating is fairly high. I think that is mostly because I drop shows that I consider bad very early, mostly upholding 3 episodes rule, in which case I do not rate them, and often I won't even add them to dropped list. Mostly only shows that I watched for quite a bit, and just then I decided to drop them, would be there. However it is somewhat random if I add a show there or not. As such I mostly rate show if I finished it, in which case I had to like it at least somewhat. That is generally because I don't think I'm entitled to judge a show few episodes in, nor do I want to waste my time watching something that I don't like. I'm not an completionist.
I rate shows by several criteria, mainly my personal enjoyment, and then some other characteristics like animation, directing, characters and the like if they stand out a lot. Another big part of rating is memorability. If I remember particular show for a long time after I finished it, I may up it's rating a bit compared to what I gave it right after finishing it. Or on the opposite, if I forgot about it really fast, I may decrease the rating. Therefore I sometimes go through my list, and change rankings on some shows accordingly.
Basing my rating mostly on enjoyment is based on assumption that most important aspects of show are already included in my enjoyment of it, and unless they are really good or bad they do not need to be considered separately,
On-hold shows are shows that I watched as ongoing, and I did not have enough time that season, so I never finished them while they were airing and I do not feel like finishing them right now, or I don't have time for more than current season ongoings. There are also shows I stopped watching for some reason and never got around to it since.
Plan to watch list is filled with shows that I somehow heard of, or discovered in some other way, and that I thought are interesting and I would like to see them. Though I do not necessarily watch only shows from that list when I decide to watch some non-ongoing show. What I watch is quite heavily influenced by my mood, so if nothing on that list picks my attention, I may find something else to watch instead. Still, I hope I someday watch everything that's currently there and more.
I keep my favorites in order, most favorite on top, though differences in how much I like them are in most cases rather slight.
My waifu for the longest time is Illyasviel von Einzbern in any and all of her forms and I think that's not going to change anytime soon, if ever. My most notable former waifus are Kurumi from DAL and Hanako from game Katawa Shoujo. I had few other waifus, but none of them remained on that position for long enough to mention them.
I have also developed a revolutionary new scoring system using my waifu! :^) I came to the conclusion that it's the most perfect and accurate way to score, the numerical system as well as all other systems pale in comparison. That's obvious as there is nothing more perfect than my waifu, she is obviously better than any way to score including using your waifu :^) One day I'm sure that this system will be applied far and wide across the entire MAL as it is no doubt the way of the future. If you would like to behold this system please check out my list.
If you would like to talk to me, I'm always open for some talk. You can also ask me for recommendation, if by any chance you think we have similar taste, or recommend some show to me.
I think I have written quite enough about myself, so I will end it here. I applaud anyone who have read this little rant of mine until here. Maybe I will revisit this text at some point, I'm still new to this kind of thing and so I'm not sure if it's good. If you have any advice, or feedback, feel free to tell me ^_^
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Hello again, random stranger. Sorry for replying 3 years late.
I'm sad to see Yuru Camp did not end up in your favourites but hey, we all have different tastes. How did you end up liking it?
Yup it's in my favs, I love it to death. S2 was great as well.
My reasons for liking it - I'm not a reviewer so I don't tend to analyze shows and get into the nitty gritty, but I just ended up really liking it, it felt extremely comfy. Well produced, good pacing, cute and funny, and so soothing. Yeah it made me want to try (winter) camping as well.
Until I remembered I have actually tried it before... I'll end it there. I prefer just watching the show and being comfy lol.
Oooh that thing you said about watching 1 ep a day before going to sleep because it's calming hit home. I have this weird thing about a few of my favourite shows, I feel some of them are great to watch before going to sleep so they're like a late evening show, and a few others are great as a morning show if I can squeeze in an ep in the morning before anything else (or otherwise in the weekend).
The favourites were the Natsume Yuujinchou series to watch in the evenings, it can be a bit melancholy but felt nice for closing off long tiresome days. And then an ep of the Aria trilogy in the morning, just for it being fresh and positive and giving you a good start. Haha.
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I'm sad to see Yuru Camp did not end up in your favourites but hey, we all have different tastes. How did you end up liking it?
Yup it's in my favs, I love it to death. S2 was great as well.
My reasons for liking it - I'm not a reviewer so I don't tend to analyze shows and get into the nitty gritty, but I just ended up really liking it, it felt extremely comfy. Well produced, good pacing, cute and funny, and so soothing. Yeah it made me want to try (winter) camping as well.
Until I remembered I have actually tried it before... I'll end it there. I prefer just watching the show and being comfy lol.
Oooh that thing you said about watching 1 ep a day before going to sleep because it's calming hit home. I have this weird thing about a few of my favourite shows, I feel some of them are great to watch before going to sleep so they're like a late evening show, and a few others are great as a morning show if I can squeeze in an ep in the morning before anything else (or otherwise in the weekend).
The favourites were the Natsume Yuujinchou series to watch in the evenings, it can be a bit melancholy but felt nice for closing off long tiresome days. And then an ep of the Aria trilogy in the morning, just for it being fresh and positive and giving you a good start. Haha.
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