I am an amateur anime reviewer, as well as an animation enthusiast. I currently work as a writer for Anime Maru. I also like to do makeshift TV ratings for the anime I watch. I started watching anime on Toonami and Adult Swim when I was younger, and now I am a huge fan of the medium. I used to partake in writing for the now defunct Toonami United. I make videos analyzing anime now on YouTube.
As far as my scoring goes, I just follow MAL's rankings. There's a math to how I score things, but I won't get into it here. I used to score based on how much I liked a show; however, it grew to be a pain ranking my tops based on scores. So, some shows may have high scores, but I might not like them as much as shows I have given lower scores to. Keep that in mind.
From left to right (starting from the top): Wolf's Rain, Cowboy Bebop, Fullmetal Alchemist, Concrete Revolutio, Ergo Proxy, Trigun, Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu, The Melody of Oblivion, .hack//Sign, Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, Welcome to the NHK, Blood Blockade Battlefront, Toradora!, Space Dandy, Ping Pong, Eureka Seven, The Eccentric Family, Madoka Magica, Barakamon, Occultic;Nine, Humanity Has Declined, FLCL, Un-Go, Neo Ranga, The Big O, Yu Yu Hakusho, Video Girl Ai, World Conquest Zvezda Plot, Mahoromatic, Kure-nai, s-CRY-ed, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, Skull Man, Outbreak Company, Detective Conan, Touka Gettan
I understand it can't be perfect and it doesn't need to be in the first place, but disregarding how rushed they were and whatever anything else is, the actual direction of the series and the way they decide to do certain scenes blows my mind with how awkward and random they seem. It feels to me like Ishihama never played or saw much of the game at all.
That's unfortunate but when they're having to condense a 90+ hour game and they can't capture the essence of the game or the characters but instead make them seem like underdeveloped idiots, maybe they shouldn't have adapted it if that's all they had to work with.. I've beaten the game 4 times and for as much as it means to me the anime disappoints me greatly. I can be understanding but it doesn't make it any better of an anime when so many other anime with busier work schedules and smaller budgets make something good out of it
I can see some Genocyber as well. That name thing is pretty weird. I doubt we'll ever figure out why that is, but it's fun piecing together everything he worked on. Also, he wrote on LOVE HINA WTF?!
Speaking of uber-violent anime, you just completed Shoujo Tsubaki; isn't that the anime that one guy made because he couldn't get a studio to do it?
It's funny you mention you mention his OVA days, because Aikawa previously collaborated with Hirano on Dangaioh, Zeorymer and the OG Vampire Princess Miyu OVA's. Heck, Rouran credits him as "Noburo Aikawa", the name he used for most of the 80's to 90's ). So in that regard, Rouran could be seen as one last hurrah to those OVA days. I can certainly see the Iczer comparison, mostly in Rouran's design. The character designer also did the designs for Slayers, so I can see some of that too.
That is one interesting article. Definitely long, but what I've read so far is really damn cool. The sekaiki description seems to fit Rouran thus far pretty damn well.
Yo man, started watching Kikou Sennyo Rouran and it is pretty friggin weird. Even for Aikawa this seems pretty damn out there. Giant robots fighting occult monsters with conspiracies and out-there concepts galore. It's gonna be an interesting ride though, I'm certain of that.
I'm. Fucking. Done. With new anime. Recently I watched In This Corner in the World...WAY better than all the new anime I've been watching when I started seasonal anime in 2016.
So I'm sticking to older stuff.
Damn. To be 2 years YOUNGER than me you sure have a deeper voice lol.
Nice Vids Man. I Really liked you BNHA Analysis Video "I Used to Like MHA". I Realize someof the Faults by Studio Bones but For a Shonen It isn't that bad. The Manga Covers things a bit better and IMO The art is WAY BETTER. I reccommend you go read it. If you want to start where the anime ended in Season 2 Start from Chapter 70 of the manga. The parts after S3 get way darker in themes so You might like it more.
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Speaking of uber-violent anime, you just completed Shoujo Tsubaki; isn't that the anime that one guy made because he couldn't get a studio to do it?
That is one interesting article. Definitely long, but what I've read so far is really damn cool. The sekaiki description seems to fit Rouran thus far pretty damn well.
While you had issues with MHA I had issues with Food Wars LOL
https://phantomkurata.wordpress.com/2018/04/28/i-use-to-like-food-wars-the-problem-with-food-wars/
So I'm sticking to older stuff.
Nice Vids Man. I Really liked you BNHA Analysis Video "I Used to Like MHA". I Realize someof the Faults by Studio Bones but For a Shonen It isn't that bad. The Manga Covers things a bit better and IMO The art is WAY BETTER. I reccommend you go read it. If you want to start where the anime ended in Season 2 Start from Chapter 70 of the manga. The parts after S3 get way darker in themes so You might like it more.