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My dream is to one day write reviews that will shock the world and stand above other trite reviews which go on about "character development" and other meaningless buzzwords. I will be the freaking Roger Ebert but with more anime and less boring. If you're wondering why I haven't written many reviews, I'm very busy, okay it takes time to do these things
In the meantime, you can click "more" on my list to see my words of wisdom. (It's next to the "edit" button). You'd probably get more out of that than merely looking at my scores. Despite me autistically explaining my scoring system, I'm not very certain about the scores I give.
Notes on list:
-Reading only refers to ongoing series
-Ongoing series, naturally, have slightly inflated scores compared to the completed section, and are more susceptible to fluctuation
-Some series under "plan to read" are being read currently, it's just that when anime and manga are already completed, I don't watch these on a consistent basis, like I do ever week with 'currently running' series.
-A scoring system from 1-10 is pretty difficult to figure out. Maybe if I get around to it, I'll have a letter system to sort the series into tiers.
Score Guide!: (Currently in progress)
1 - Complete trash.
2 - Bad and boring.
3 - Flawed, but it's not totally that bad.
4 - I might have found it acceptable, but then I decided it was terrible overall.
5 - Mediocres.
6 - Series that are not really bad, technically, but they don't quite stand up to the rest of the stuff above it, or they don't really find something for me to consider special.
7 - Good stuff here which is worth your time to read if you're up to it.
8 - Fantastic stuff, but they're not quite my favourites yet.
9 - My personal favourites.
10 - Best of the best. My real favourites, ones that I can really say I love. The line between 9/10 and 10/10 is quite thin for me.
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All Comments (5) Comments
As far as I know there are no internet cafes in the US and, even if there are, they're nowhere near as prominent in they are in Asian nations. I see your point and I do wholeheartedly agree with that statement though I can also see and understand why some people might argue it's anime (regardless of facts). Regardless, The King's Avatar is on MAL and I doubt they will remove it anytime soon.
I used to see it that way but, as more and more people move to Japan to work on anime and as Japan outsources things like animation to people abroad as they themselves lack the manpower to create the amount of content the community demands, I feel anime is becoming more and more of a global medium.
I do find it ironic and agree that the US has heavily influenced the anime industry and anime itself is becoming a more global medium (I believe Gigguk made a video about anime becoming mainstream where he discusses this point). However, despite it's US backing, anime represents a unique, Asian culture and the original influences from the west have been, for the most part, pushed out or changed. Though new western influences (such as Amazon, Netflix and Crunchyroll) are influencing anime, I believe the culture presented in them is still unique and more Asian than Euro-American. I do believe QZGS is a bit closer to "anime" than shows like Neo-Yokio though since the primary factor in whether something is "anime" or not is the geographical location it originated from and China is much closer to Japan than the US (and therefore also most likely has a bigger economic and cultural impact on them than we do).
Neo Yokoi, despite getting aid from Japanese animation studios, is written by white Americans, not Asians and therefore the cultural divide is very present and I feel that's why Neo Yokio is kept off this site while Chinese and Korean cartoons such as The King's Avatar aren't (though to me, neither of them are anime as anime should be made in Japan but w/e).
Away from the the actual review, your style and perspective really hits home for me.
Like when you say:
"I'm not very certain about the scores I give."
and...
"A critic should not only analyse how good a movie is, but also look at the themes and messages of this movie."
From me; similarity in the first one, and total agreement on the second one. Hell, we have works that we share the exact same score at.
All i'm saying is; i dig your style, and looking forward to talk with you :)