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ME :

Hi, my name is ProfZex, also called Tenjou Utena or more familiarly "Tenjo". I am French and a literature student, originally to be a bookseller, now to teach French. Passionate about animes since 2015, this is my main interest in life and I aim for a fairly complete knowledge of the medium. I also love Visual Novels, and I'm starting to take an interest in series but I would probably just do the classics and some specific stuff. Rather no-life by nature, I spend my life on Discord but I'm open to IRLs. Discord : Tenjô Utena#7928

MY VISION OF ANIMATION :

I'm particularly fond of 2000s anime. I am quite dissatisfied with the medium in its current state, and particularly with its audience. The omnipresence of works for teenagers, lazy fantasy works (thank you Light Novels) and especially the cult of waifus that I observe among the vast majority of the current public and newcomers is for me incredibly negative for the future of the medium. We still obviously find ambitious works like Heike Monogatari or Odd Taxi, but these are exceptions, and when I see the Later tab on MAL, nothing almost hyped me apart from sequels. In this sense, I am quite critical and elitist with the newcomers, their blatant lack of curiosity and their tendency to stay on the surface of works and to watch animation as entertainment, which is antagonistic with the passion that I have been developing since now 6 years.

To me, animation obviously has an entertaining side but it is above all a form of culture, an art in itself, and I think that as an art, animation may have excellent productions and always more beautiful animations, I really regret works like Oniisama E, Princess Tutu, Penguindrum or RahXephon, very differents from the current feeling, but which are more what make that for me, it is the most powerful medium, beyond to do beautiful things with beautiful fights etc. I would love to someday find a way to promote the side of animation that fascinates me, but I lose faith with each new seasonal hype. Yes I am completely in the judgment but I assume, I dislike the globality of the modern anime community and their tendency to just go into ecstasies over pretty action or pretty girls.

MY TASTES :

I can like anything, but I tend to prefer sensitivity or psychology above all else. I am extremely accommodating with the edgys works and I would like to push the old shoujos more deeply. What tends to displease me is when I don't get hooked on comedy and it takes over what's going on in my appreciation like in Kimetsu no Yaiba or Hajime no Ippo, and women sexualization. But in general, I am quite easy to convince.