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Hi. You can call me "Ian" or "Nintendo". Either is fine.

Welcome to my profile. I have been an anime fan for over seven years as of 2020, but haven't watched it as much the past the past three years. I used to watch a bit of it when I was younger, but it was only stuff like Pokémon and the occasional Ghibli movie. I slowly got more interested it when watching the Funimation channel in either the late 00s or very early 10s (not completely sure). Anyway, I started to get really into it around 2012, and I was obsessed from 2013-2015, during my middle school and high school years. However, my life started to take a downturn around 2016. I got busy as hell and my life became a mess in more ways than one, but I've managed to hold it together (with a lot of bumps in the road)... Anyway, I haven't abandoned the medium and am still trying to get back into it at a more consistent pace. During the latter half of 2019, I began to watch it at a more consistent pace. I still don't watch nearly as much as I did in the first half of the 10s, but it's the most I've been watching it in a few years. I finally finished Blood+, an anime I started in late 2015, in the fall of 2019. This was a huge weight of my shoulders, and now I am just trying to keep watching anime. My on-hold list is massive, and there tons of second and third seasons of shows I love I haven't seen yet, but at least I've been watching anime, as I still have a love for it. 2020 has been a huge year for me when it comes to anime as I've watched more anime than I have in several years. I finally feel motivated again and I'm finding the time to watch it pretty consistently. I'm so happy to have anime back in my life. It was one of the brightest lights in my life from 2013-2016. I've also been trying to consistently read manga and LNs for over seven years now, and it continues to be a struggle. Reading in general has always been (due to a noisy household, busy life, and poor attention span), so I'm trying to change that as well.

I'm currently trying to learn Japanese. Hopefully I can one day update this profile description to say I am fluent in Japanese, but we'll have to see how that goes. As for the rest of my hobbies, I love video games, sports (especially baseball), and music. I've been playing video games since I was little and will never stop. I've been playing Nintendo games since I was small and I got into PS4 a few years ago. As for baseball, I've been a passionate Philadelphia Phillies fan my whole life. And music? Well, I'm certainly no music snob. I surprisingly got really into pop music in college. So sadly, I can't recommend to you some unknown indie band. Never thought I would love pop music, but I do. Despite that, I follow specific artists and listen to full albums, so I don't just listen to anything that plays on the radio (it's not like I like everything). Pop is a surprisingly expansive genre, and not every pop artist is popular. Ariana Grande, Tove Lo, MARINA, Charli XCX, Dua Lipa, Tinashe, The Weeknd, and Post Malone are some of my favorites, but I'm always discovering someone new. I also like several alternative and pop rock bands. I grew up on alternative rock, so some bands in this genre evoke great nostalgia within me. I haven't discovered many new artists in the genre that I like, but I still listen to my favorites: U2, Coldplay, Imagine Dragons, OneRepublic... just to name a few. Recently I've started to listen to some artists from Japan (more than just OPs and EDs: full discographies) and Korea. For J-Pop, I've become a big fan of Reol, Rei Yasuda, and Maaya Sakamoto, among others. For K-Pop, I like BLACKPINK (G)I-DLE, TWICE, Dreamcatcher, Everglow, ITZY, Sunmi, YUKIKA, IU, and many others. The list keeps on growing. I started trying out a ton of new artists from Japan and Korea in 2020 and will continue to do so as I am finding a lot of music that I love. I also starting getting into K-Dramas last year, so Korea really seems to have become a big part of my life!

Early on I watched a few series in dub, including several Ghibli movies, but since mid-to-late 2013 I've watched everything in sub. A few more Ghilbli movies were probably watched in sub since then, but even those I would watch in sub now. I read manga and light novels in an English translation. I buy both in physical copies and read the official translation if available. I do the same with visual novels and videos games, of course. If I become fluent in Japanese, I will start reading in the original language, but I'm a far way out from that.

I don't know the exact watch date of every anime I saw in my first few years. I got more consistent with adding that later on. If there is no watch date listed, I probably watched in 2013 or 2014. Maybe 2015 or 2016. I plan to add estimates at some point.

My rating system has become more simplified over the years. I basically have a word or two, or a phrase, that represents each score: 10=amazing, 9=great, 8=very good, 7=good, 6=decent, 5=mediocre, 4=bad, 3=really bad, 2=horrible, 1=a dumpster fire from beginning to end. Whichever of these words feels is most comfortable to describe an anime is the score I give it. I have a hard time scoring things, so sometimes I will go back and change a score. I also have a bit of a recency bias. I am more strict when going back and reviewing my scores, so if I haven't done that in awhile, some of the shows I have seen recently may be better scored than older anime even though I enjoyed them just as much when watching. Most short specials will have lukewarm reviews. Unless they do something interesting or unique, they won't have beyond a 7. As for recap episodes, higher scores will be awarded for being succinct, unique, or adding some new content. But a 50 minute recap for the first three episodes of a show? Yeah, that's gonna be a low score. Overall, I enjoy most anime. So 7's, 8's, and 9's are much more common than 4's, 3's, and 2's.

I'm not super critical, but I still have my opinions. I don't flame shows though so if you love something I gave a 4, then that's great. I'm glad others could see something great in it. I will watch basically any type of anime, but I have become more selective in recent years since I don't have a lot of time to watch stuff anymore (and when I do have time, I often feel like doing something else). I also have like six million shows on hold. I hope to get to them one day... but I've accepted that some will stay there for a very long time (hopefully not forever). There may be a couple potential 10/10's on there. If so, hopefully I get to those. But for now, I just watch what I feel like. I also don't really drop shows. I don't have a rule that I CAN'T drop anything, but I like to power through even the pretty bad stuff so I can have a full opinion on it. But if I ever start watching a 2/10 100+ episode anime, I won't torture myself.

If you are wondering why there are numbers in the tags for anime in the "Watching" category in my list, that is for personal use. I'll explain in detail, so skip the following paragraph if you don't care:

Since mid-2020 I have been categorizing anime I am watching in different categories. I usually watch three anime at a time, though sometimes I will add a fourth or fifth if there are airing anime I want to watch. Category 1 is for finishing anime I put on hold back in the day or for watching sequels that I never got to for anime I watched before 2020, as that is the year I started watching anime consistently again after barely watching it from 2017 through 2019. Category 2 is for shows I want to watch that are completely new to me (not a sequel to anything I have seen). Category 3 is for anything that could fit into Category 1 or 2, but also for sequels from anime I started in 2020 or later (I don't usually go right to the next season and instead save it for a few months later). I always watch at least three shows at once, so Categories 1-3 are always used. Categories 4 and 5 are for airing anime, and are not always used. The second number for each tag (e.g.: the 1 in "2-1") just means it is the anime in that category I am watching at the moment. Anime in my "Plan to Watch" are queued based off what I will watch next. So "2-2" is the anime I will watch in Category 2 after finishing "2-1". "2-3 is the one I will watch after "2-2". When "2-1", gets finished, I erase the tag for it and "2-2" becomes "2-1", "2-3" becomes "2-2", and so on. On my "Plan to Watch", I also mark things as "New" or "Related", and I sometimes add a "PTW" tag. "New" just means that it is a series I have not started yet, "Related" means it is something I have not seen yet from a series I have watched before, and "PTW" is just an informal tag to distinguish it from other titles I am interested in and to say that I plan to watch it in the near future, but I don't want to add it to my number queue yet for whatever reason (such as not being fully committed to the idea of watching it soon, or it is an airing show that might not time up with the numbered queue). Not sure if anyone gives a flying fuck about my tag system, and who knows if anyone will find it worth reading this whole paragraph, but I figured I'd explain if someone was wondering what the number tags were for.

I accept all friend requests and try to be friendly to everyone. Just don't be rude and we should get along fine.

I have a VNDB account, but haven't played a lot of visual novels: http://vndb.org/u58882/list. Hopefully I can get the ball rolling for VNs and manga/LNs sooner rather than later.

If you play video games, too and want to add me on something...

3DS Friend Code: 1118-0241-9851 (Message or post a comment on my profile with yours if you want to be friends.)
Switch Friend Code: 2956-1923-0300 (As with the 3DS, send me yours as well).
Nintendo Network ID: NinFan204
Playstation Network ID: NintendoFan204
League of Legend's Summoners Name: Nintendofan204 (Haven't played in a long time, but I'll leave it up).

Talk to me often and I will gladly give you my Discord.

That is all.