My name is Rafaël De Jongh and I am a Belgian Web Developer & 3D artist.
My passion in life is to develop and design websites, to always search for a new challenge and keep the focus user centered.
I started developing websites from a young age, each time facing a new challenge to achieve something new and exciting.
Experimenting with lots of different code & programming languages made me learn a lot in all these years to what I know today.
Besides that I love my hobby which is Game Development where I am specialized in creating 2D Textures for 3D models.
My main goal in life is to become a Full Stack Web Developer and keep Game Development as my hobby.
At the present time I am studying in college to get my professional bachelor degree in Cross Media Development,
besides that I mostly spend my time on a known game modding community called Gamebanana.
Currently I am searching for a job in the Web Developing sector, but would love a position in the Game Developing sector as well.
Besides Game Modification I also love to watch Anime! I'm fairly new to anime as I've only started watching in 2012, although until now I've seen a range of different anime that I know what I love and how I rate my anime!
- Detective/Case Solving
- Science Fiction
- Supernatural
- Comedy/Random Humor
- Harem
- Slice of Life
- Drama
- Romance
For those who would like some of my peprsonal recommendations, you can find them in this handy pastebin list: http://pastebin.com/ihsUs3ns
That aside, I made my own set of rules when watching anime:
- To not drop any anime at all, even if it is completely horrible!
- Try to watch every special, ova or other related entree from the main series to properly finish the whole franchise!
- Try to comment on every episode and provide my thought with each episode, to then give a review if the series is really worth it!
- To give proper recommendations to anime that are actually alike, and not vaguely similar.
With that I also have a personal and quite specific rating system that measures the anime on the following points:
1. Story Development - How well does the story develop from the beginning to the end?
2. Character Development - How well do the characters develop within the story?
3. Episodic Pacing - Is the episode pacing decent? Does it keep the viewers attention?
4. Story Pacing - Does the pacing of the story/plot follow up with the development of the characters?
5. Art - Is the Art decent compared with other series created from the same year?
6. Animation - Is the animation properly executed and does it combine properly with the art/cgi?
7. Audio - How well is the voice cast, the audio effects and the soundtrack (OST)?
7.1 English Dubs - Does the English voice cast capture the atmosphere of the anime correctly like the Japanese cast does or is it even better than the Japanese cast (Questionable)?
8. Personal Experience - How did I experience it? Was the theme and story properly expressed to the viewer (me)? (Biased rating criteria)
Each anime serie that I start gets an average rating of 5/10, where I then evaluate per episode if it actually gets better or not, following the above 8 guidelines.
A score below 5/10 means it is pretty much drop worthy for me, but as it conflicts with one of my own set rules "To not drop anything" I therefore tend to speed up the anime or cross watch the anime with another series to prevent me from actually losing too much interest that I put it on a Permanent Hold (in a limbo state).
From what I’ve discovered, people dislike it for two distinct reasons. Either they dislike Victorique’s character because of her tsundere attitude (despite it making a lot more sense as the story progresses and is well written) or the differences between that and the novel. The anime does differ from the novel in a lot of areas, though I don’t think the decisions made in the anime were inherently bad. There’s also a few that don’t like the rushed nature of the mysteries, though I’d say that’s probably the only fair critique that I can understand since the pacing isn’t the best.
I’ve been meaning to read the manga, though I’ve heard it doesn’t differ much from the anime. I could be wrong, however. As far as I know about Red and onwards, only the first few chapters were fan-translated and nothing more. It’s a little disappointing, though with anime being as niche as it is, it doesn’t surprise me that Japanese novels don’t get translated much either. I think it's more a shame that Dantalian no Shoka didn't get a sequel considering how well it built its atmosphere. I'm assuming you've seen it since Dalian is in your favourites.
I like MAL design, in many years got used to it, I came from anime planet which is lack in titles and info. I just hope they fix current issues :/
What is it U dont like about MAL (ignoring currently broken server) ?
Thanks for info, seems like Dena keep screwing stuffs, this is a hostile move against 3rd party developers, Pocket MAL and MALClient no longer work and a lot of people can't get back into their account.
Well it's best to wait and see what happens for now if you came up with solution plz do tell me, this does sound pretty bad, guess it's time to reimport my list to alternative websites.
I'm watching Naruto as of lately and you were always the person above me posting sth on the forums so I stumbled on your profile and saw you are also from Belgium. It seems you watched a lot of anime…so I think its interesting if I can consult your anime list from time to time!
Niice to hear that your list is really well done, It is no exaggeration to say that your list is one of best i have used here on mal
ok thanks for info btw just checked again after i come home and it's working fine, did you do something? should i change to malcat so problem don't happen again .
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I’ve been meaning to read the manga, though I’ve heard it doesn’t differ much from the anime. I could be wrong, however. As far as I know about Red and onwards, only the first few chapters were fan-translated and nothing more. It’s a little disappointing, though with anime being as niche as it is, it doesn’t surprise me that Japanese novels don’t get translated much either. I think it's more a shame that Dantalian no Shoka didn't get a sequel considering how well it built its atmosphere. I'm assuming you've seen it since Dalian is in your favourites.
What is it U dont like about MAL (ignoring currently broken server) ?
Well it's best to wait and see what happens for now if you came up with solution plz do tell me, this does sound pretty bad, guess it's time to reimport my list to alternative websites.
I'm watching Naruto as of lately and you were always the person above me posting sth on the forums so I stumbled on your profile and saw you are also from Belgium. It seems you watched a lot of anime…so I think its interesting if I can consult your anime list from time to time!
Groeten!
ok thanks for info btw just checked again after i come home and it's working fine, did you do something? should i change to malcat so problem don't happen again .