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 I guess its time to write something really about me this time :) I have been married for 13 years and have a daughter who is 9 and a son, 4. My first exposure to anime was way back in the 80s when I saw reruns of a show called Space Battleship Yamato when my family was vacationing in Asia. I didn't understand anything that was being said but I remember how it captivated me. Later on as a teenager I saw shows like Sailor Moon and Magic Knight Rayearth and other shows that honestly didn't make a big enough impression to remember their names. I would have considered myself a very casual fan. I have always enjoyed to read comics and manga. Several years ago I started watching anime again, I saw Elfen Lied and later saw the entire Magic Knight series I had never seen all of before. It was from those shows my interest grew even more. Then I started picking up other shows until I saw Shakugan no Shana and everything changed. With that show I became a burgeoning anime fan that has launched me into this current obsession! A friend introduced me to MAL, giving me an outlet for some of my thoughts. I really enjoy sharing my list with others and talking about the shows I have seen and getting ideas from others about what to watch next. I love to chatting about anime and manga so feel free to leave a comment or PM! I enjoy chatting on MSN too so feel free to ask me to add you once we know each other better. My avatar is fanart from Full Metal Panic, no I didn't draw it and I don't know who did. And no, don't go into your viewing of that series expecting to see pictured scene. Ok.. so you can stop asking now right? Your PMs will be ignored if you ask me. Sorry you could figure it out yourself if you spent 30 seconds looking at my profile. It's only all over my profile. That wasn't so hard was it? My favorite genre would be fantasy and supernatural. Be in a modern setting like Shakugan no Shana or a more classical magic world like in Scrapped Princess or even Zero no Tsukaima. However I really am open to watching things from all genres. I do have a bit of a weakness for guilty pleasures such as echii comedies. Anime romances tend to always disappoint me as they almost never end satisfyingly for me. I think the Japanese may have some issues with expressing their feelings to one another. I do enjoy yuri stories as well, particularly in manga but I don't care for yaoi which may seem odd because I am not a lesbian. I think that's because one of my main dislikes is bishounen's. I really hate pretty boys who don't look like men. I don't care for hentai either, though I will watch it now and then mainly because so many are hilariously bad. I have also found love writing reviews on the shows I have seen. I enjoy getting feedback so if you read one of my reviews and either liked or didn't like it feel free to let me know what you think to! If you want to disagree at least have the stones to do it from a non-troll account and try to make some sense. I don't mind having discussions or debates about my reviews, ratings, or opinions but if you think your going to change my mind, don't bother wasting your time. I have little patience for children who regard their opinions as facts. My criteria for judging may be a little different from others so let me explain how I rate things. I don't follow or agree with MAL's score designations, such as a 5 being an average show. Also I do not believe in perfection nor do I think it can be achieved. While I think I am hard to get a "10" score out of I will give them. "10" does not mean perfection as some on this site seem to think it does. It is merely the highest score allowed in it's scoring system. Don't chase perfection, you will only end up bitter and disappointed. I also do not rate equally either or try to be objective. Ratings are a form of opinion and by definition can't be objective. I don't think that I need to score a show a certain way because of how I felt about another similar series. My ratings reflect my opinion of an anime at the time in which I viewed it. Additionally I don't revisit my scores later either. While I understand my tastes have changed over the years and I know that certain series, if I had watched them today, would not receive as high (or possibly low) of scores as I gave them. My ratings reflect my feeling on a show at the time I watched it. My enjoyment level can trump a great number of flaws and raise my score higher than the more tangible technical elements may merit. Additionally my lack of enjoyment will cause me to rate something lower for the same reasons. Don't bother arguing with me about my ratings or this system because I really don't care about yours or what you think of mine. My opinions are mine alone! 10 Exceptional and highly enjoyable 9 Great 8 Good to Very Good 7 Average to slightly above average, contains significant flaws or doesn't set itself apart from other shows 6 Average to below average. Similar to a 7 rating but has major issues I didn't like 5 Barely watchable, kept my interest and that's about it 4 Dreadfully bad, sometimes they have one or two redeeming qualities but are mostly forgettable 3 Painful to watch 2 Just kill me now 1 /slits wrists and because I don't have a 0 My anime rating distribution 10 - ███░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ - 026 *(2%) 09 - ████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ - 138 (10%) 08 - ████████████████████████░░░░░░ - 297 (22%) 07 - ██████████████████████████████ - 374 (27%) 06 - █████████████████████░░░░░░░░░ - 259 (19%) 05 - █████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ - 155 (11%) 04 - █████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ - 055 *(4%) 03 - ███░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ - 030 *(2%) 02 - ██░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ - 017 *(1%) 01 - █░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ - 012 *(1%) rated anime: 1363; mean score: 6.74 (generated with MALgraph on Oct 26th, 2011) Apparently some of you do not understand what a review is and that it is a work of criticism and not supposed to be devoid of opinions. I guess I have to define it for those of you on the short bus. review n review [rəˈvjuː] 1 a written report on a book, play etc giving the writer's opinion of it. source: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/review If you want objectivity read the encyclopedia. I tend to not drop shows either even if they are bad. I'm either a masochist or I just don't like leaving things unfinished. I am here to make new friends but I will not accept random friend or club invites. Try to chat me up a bit before asking. :P Girls like a little foreplay. For those of you who don't grasp this reference, that means we have to have shared at least a couple of meaningful conversations.    Don't know what some of them are? [spoiler]From Left to Right, Top Down 1. Shakugan no Shana (Season 1 and 2) 2. Full Metal Panic! (and FUMOFFU!) 3. Nodame Cantabile 4. Lucky Star 5. Seto no Hanayome 6. Kimi ni Todake 7. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya 8. Zero no Tsukaima (I liked all three seasons but 1 is the best) 9. Shugo Chara! 10. Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu 11. ef - a tale of memories 12. Black Lagoon (I include Second Barrage as one story though I found the 2nd better) 13. Read or Die OVA 14. School Rumble (Season 1 - it got worse as it went on) 15. Ga-Rei Zero 16. Toradora! 17. Natsu no Arashi! 18. Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha 19. Clannad 20. Blood+   Don't know who some of them are?[spoiler] From Left to Right, Top Down 1. Kaname Chidori - Full Metal Panic! 2. Shana - Shakugan no Shana 3. Amu Hinamori - Shugo Chara! 4. Sawako Kuronuma - Kimi ni Todoke 5. Tsukushi Makino - Hana Yori Dango 6. Sousuke Sagara - Full Metal Panic! 7. Noda Megumi - Nodame Cantabile 8. Yakumo Tsukamoto - School Rumble 9. Chiaki Shinichi - Nodame Cantabile 10. Wilhelmina Carmel - Shakugan no Shana 11. Tomoya Okazaki - Clannad 12. Akari Mizynashi - Aria 13. Revy - Black Lagoon 14. Michishio Nagasumi - Seto no Hanayome (in GAR mode!) 15. Nagisa Furukawa-Okazaki - Clannad 16. Fate Testarossa - Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha 17. Yomiko Readman - Read or Die 18. Konata Izumi - Lucky Star 19. Haruhi Suzumiya - Melancholy of ... (Really you needed help with this?) 20. Louise de la Valliere - Zero no Tsukaima  [/center]  I'm not that active in clubs, but these are a few of the ones I am in. This list is more for my own personal navigation than anything else.         My anime list design was done by my friend [url=http://myanimelist.net/profile/spineslayer]spineslayer.[/url] |
Statistics
Anime Stats
Days: 213.0
Mean Score: 6.80
- Total Entries1,992
- Rewatched72
- Episodes14,217
Manga Stats
Days: 16.0
Mean Score: 6.17
- Total Entries231
- Reread2
- Chapters2,059
- Volumes318
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On another note, I found there are some history buffs who have been obsessing over little details in Youjo Senki. Reminded me of a similar occasion, with the 2015 anime Junketsu no Maria that I seemed to not have enjoyed.
On the other hand, what I can say about Demi-chan and Youjo Senki is that you should not judge a book by its cover. Because I doubt those shows are anything that you think they are going be. I didn't expect much from Demi-chan and it's decapitated girl, but it ended up be such a down-to-earth show that brought up issues that I've seen never brought up in any other monster girl show, so far. As for Youjo Senki, I was also ridiculing the duck-face look of the protagonist when I saw the promos... and then I watched the show... and now Tanya is one of my all time favourite characters.
Personally I don't find the incest in Eromanga or OreImo disturbing. More the fact that we can get an idea of what this particular author constantly thinks about.
We as for what I'd recommend. I'm currently enjoying Attack on Titan season 2, which I'm surprised you haven't watched yet. There was the 4 episode Castevania anime that came out on Netflix, which turned out to be a surprise hit. Demi-chan wa Kataritai and Youjo Senki, were also surprisingly good ones from previous seasons that you should've watched, instead of the crap like Minami Kamakura Koukou Joshi Jitensha-bu. And if you're in the mood for some light-hearted romance, that actually goes somewhere, then check out Tsuki ga Kirei.
BTW... Are you watching anime still?
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Personally, I think we should have just kept Reagan as long as possible.
While I'm not political, and I'm quite "anti-left" I'd probably identify more as centrist. I do believe in equal rights, but I also believe in rights being earned. This is where I stand apart from capitalism, as it is often influenced by privilege--some are born lucky, some aren't. But taking away what somebody has earned just to give to somebody who hasn't isn't any better.
+100 for the rant, haha.
Nailed it.
"Meh. I am just tired of the world. I want to move, but I just don't now where to go. Or even if I should."
Shit, now you sound like me. Don't go turning bitter nihilistic misanthropist on me. I'll feel like a bad influence. :D
Actually, I avoid that stuff anymore because it just makes me roll my eyes.
All these major problems, but everybody focuses on their first world problems. As you said, terrorism and such, but everybody's worried about SJW shit and what Trump ate for breakfast.
It's all bread and circuses aimed at entertainment. I'd rather not know anything and be less ignorant than those who buy into whatever story has a sensationalized liberal spin on it and take it for objective truth.
"Hitler murdered millions of people. All Trump has done is talk about grabbing a woman by the pussy."
I laughed at that! :D
I still can't believe how worked up people got over that. If it was Hillary saying you gotta grab a man by the balls, she'd be some kind of feminist idol and it would be on pro-Hillary billboards all across the nation.
Political correctness really just seeks to neuter everybody.
And it was the same with Bush. Yeah, the war was terribly mismanaged at first, that's the majority of what people had against him--war. Because war is bad mm'kay. Everybody wants to sit in their ivory towers and think about how the system that provides them their meals functions.
And Obama fucked up our healthcare, but everybody loves him just for being a black democrat. That seems to be how it goes. Republican=bad, no matter what they do. Democrat=good, no matter what they do.
There's no objectivity in seeing the shades of gray on both sides of the spectrum.
I don't know. We have a history of breaking government chains in America, but the way the class divide from capitalist darwinism seems to be going, I can see those dystopian fictions where everything is run by conglomerates eventually coming true. Not anytime soon, of course. But everything is run by the allmighty dollar, and it doesn't take much for the haves to start exploiting the have nots to excess.
"Japanese companies have some of the scummiest and sleaziest business practices. "
That extends to animation studios, too. I remember Master linking me some article about an animator who was worked to some insane degree (I forget how many hours a week, but it was literally unbelievable) until he died.
At least in America we have better labor laws.
That's also the irony in him tweeting his own opinions of things to circumvent the media--sure, he's unreliable, but so is the media he's circumventing. I remember people making fun of his complaint the media never uses flattering images of him. It sounds petty, but I realized that years ago--a politician being reported on by a source that favors them, they use a flattering picture, someone they oppose, a candid pic of them in the middle of yelling, or making some strange expression, so it gives the subliminal sense of discrediting them even before reading the article.
That said, I don't like any politicians just as I don't like any media. The whole damn system is corrupt. I don't think we need to simply impeach Trump for a better America, I think we need to rebuild the whole damn infrastructure from the ground up.
I use the term "college kid" but that's because most of them are. I was an adult as a teenager, but when I was 22, I had a subordinate at work who was 38 I referred to as a kid. But that's the problem with today's coddling middle class system--people are encouraged to be overgrown children pretty much the rest of their damn lives.
In other words, I agree with everything you just said--including that your 11 year old is probably more mature than most of the "kids" you'll find on MAL.
Oh, it's not just SEGA and Squeenix. Konami has done some pretty stupid shit too, and letting Kojima go, their greatest creative mind who has a lot of fan support worldwide... it showed they weren't even in touch with their fanbase. Evidently they've fucked up a bunch of other franchises, too, but not anything I'm familiar with, so all I've heard are woes in reviews and such.
Really, I think the way the big Umbrella publishers are going, indie devs are the wave of the future. All the best games I've played lately are from indie developers, or small developers who still have creative control of their work.
Makes me think I will be better off self publishing--if some suit tells me to rewrite my books to be more like Twilight or 50 Shades of Gray, I won't burn the manuscript; I'll burn the fucking editor.
I resell games I don't plan to replay, so I'm usually renting them anyway, just for more money (buy at 50 and get 20 back a couple weeks later). And yeah, renting for 20 vs buying for 30, buying is obviously smarter, but since it's for a subscription and not per game, I see it more like renting X number of games vs buying each one for 30. The games featured that caught my eye are DLC only ones I'd delete after playing that are only like 10 hours long anyway. I tend to value a game as 1 hour = 1$ for value. I usually exploit Game Stops return policy to get a refund on anything I beat in two days anyway.
I'd say more realistic than cynical. I don't trust anything either, haha. But that's why my own personality quirk is that if I'm asserting something, I usually gather the intel first, otherwise I just admit it's merely a possibility.
Social media and cultural bias have fed so much fire to actual media, everything's just a rumormill these days.
Haha. Should have known you'd judge the guys in FFXV for being too metrosexual. I admit, I thought the same, but you know I judge by the characters first... which I also have no faith in. The game is entirely geared to a budy-buddy bonding road trip adventure.
I admit, I actually considered that PS Now just to squeeze out some shorter games I don't want to buy. I only play most games once, anyway, so if I can pay $20 to play three or four games that would cost me $30 a piece to purchase, I think it's a fair trade.
It's certainly not something I'd keep a regular subscription for.
Actually, what pisses me off is PS+. One of the advantages over Xbox was free multiplayer. Since I don't usually play multiplayer games, that's not an issue... except the "free" games they release every month have a fucking catch. I got a few games from the two months I did have a subscription, and when you let it lapse--THEY DEACTIVATE!
Part of the reason I even subscribed was to get them (so they weren't really free), and now they're locked and unplayable.
Fucking bullshit. They're still on my hard drive, but cannot be accessed, and evidently can't be reactivated once the subscription laps. I know it's to make sure I stay subscribed, instead it just ensures I never will again.
"Your old. I am still a soft supple flower in the prime of life with tight skin and and firm breasts."
Provide evidence or I call bullshit. ;)