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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: 216.0
Mean Score: 6.80
- Total Entries2,005
- Rewatched75
- Episodes14,385
Manga Stats
Days: 16.0
Mean Score: 6.17
- Total Entries231
- Reread2
- Chapters2,059
- Volumes318
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There's a lot of cute short manga getting anime adaptations next year, though. I'm currently reading Colors that's like if Calvin & Hobbes were three cute girls, Takagi-san and Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou. 2018 is looking so sweet so far, I gotta watch out for diabetes.
P.S. love your reviews!!
The specialists available to me on this fucking Obamacare bullshit aren't exactly special, so a sugarmama is really what I need right now, haha.
The hardest part, for me, is we were best friends--sex and affection can be easily replaced, but it's the conversations I was trying to hold onto.
Thank god you and I never got freaky. We can still hold a conversation without you freaking out over your feelings, haha. Don't think any woman has survived me this long.
I actually liked Kimi no Na wa, as I was expecting it to be terribly overrated. I'm disappointed in most of Shinkai's work, where this was an 8.5 for me. (think I rounded it up to a 9 on my list). The story was interesting and seemed fresh to me, it pulled a few surprises I really didn't see coming (despite some contrivances), and I actually cared about the main characters (even if nobody else). So it's not the second coming of Jesus some people make it out to be, but it was more enjoyable than all the mediocre crap I'm beyond sick of. (more into American TV lately--watching Hannibal and catching up on TWD)
Are you watching Tsurezure Children?
It's a currently airing half-length (12min per ep) romantic comedy based on a 4koma about a handful of teenager couples doing cute couple things.
The synopsis makes it look like some dumb seasonal rom-com but it's pretty original and isn't filled with the usual cringe-worthy tropes. I actually started watching because of the staff involved in its production. Most of the female seiyuu cast did Love Lab together and I loved their chemistry, it is the first series Kaneko Hiraku (director) is leading that isn't some dumb ecchi, and Tenmon is doing the soundtrack (after years without composing for TV series).
You should give it a try if you haven't already. Guess it fits your style :)
:P
"Sorry about your summer. What happened? Health or... I am almost afraid to ask. You better had not done something dumb though. I would have to thrash you."
Thrash away, haha. :P
Well, the health issues compounded on the life issues. I was already at my stress threshold. Still haven't gotten my surgeries, everything's been so hectic, and there's really nobody I can rely on.
Things with that woman who I agreed to move to Canada to help raise her kids just got really fucking crazy and I had to finally chase her off; brutally enough I felt like shit about it... and then had a mod remove the alt account she created on the ENTJ forum, presumably to stalk me. Sad thing is, BPD aside, she's the smartest woman I've ever met (152 IQ) and has my exact sense of humor, so I still miss the batshitcrazy rascal, haha.
Teaching my rabbit to do the Monty Python thing just to be safe.
So how was your summer? Hopefully drama-free.
Oh damn, moving so far sounds like an adventure. I can understand not wanting to separate your kids from what they're used to, but they're still young enough they probably haven't made any serious connections yet. (not many people actually still have friends from that age as adults, we change so much in our teens) If you think it would provide a better environment for them, I say go for it.
Haven't watched much anime--they made a second season of Shingeki no Kyojin after four years. How fucking often does that happen? Took over two decades for Berserk. What next, they finally going to finish Pandora Hearts?
Probably the only thing of note I've seen was Kimi no Na wa; I expected it to be as overrated as everything by Shinkai, but it was actually pretty good.
"You know what makes my head really explode? The moving away trope at the end of romance anime. I literally want to stab any author who uses this in their story in the throat."
But it's fairly common in Japan, and you've said you'd never do a long distance relationship, so you should be more sympathetic to it. :P But then, I don't watch many romances for it to have annoyed me yet. Would you prefer if a relationship is dissolved by amnesia? :D (actually, I think they did that in Ef, didn't they?)
Hah! I think I mentioned the non-binary thing to you once like a year ago, as I'd seen it on a couple profiles. I'm so old I had to look it up at the time. Seriously, it sounds like something an android would say. Far as I'm concerned, they should have male, female, and maybe hermaphrodite so the lucky kids who get peanut butter and chocolate don't have to pick a side. Or just leave it fucking blank if you don't want people knowing what you are, but made-up genders because you don't associate with your organs is fucking retarded. I don't associate with my liver. Gonna start referring to my race as non-mamallian so I don't get lumped in with humans.
Oh, that explains it. There's a lot of broken links of Photobucket in your profile and list so is hard to read anything there. I have a very simple profile so I don't have that type of problems lol.
I see. I try to not use high scores that often, that said I don't use the full scale either. But I get what you say, the more you watch the harsher you become. Maybe because you start to see the repeating tropes so much you don't enjoy them (if you ever did) and shows start to not impress you that much.
"I think its an e-penis thing. Look mine is bigger than yours"
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I can totally get that. I've never had too much time to watch anime or western shows for that matter, so I try to pick up things that I think I'll like or I'm st least curious about them.
"Besides I like mine small so I can actually find peoples profiles on my friend list."
Ditto!
Dunno about MAL's limits on messages or friend requests. Haha. Hell will freeze over when I'll learn to know of these stats by myself 😂
Maybe ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I kept getting random requests too, despite putting a disclaimer that I won't accept them. So...... I took off the friend request option as a massive FUCK YOU to everybody who didn't bother going thru my profile.
Yeah, I did read your rating scale but as you said not many are consistent with them, so I was just trying to understand it better. I do get where you're coming from, your mean makes sense considering you use 6 as the 'average' score. My question was more about what you said, that most users consider ratings below 5 too harsh to give to a show, even if they didn't like it. Can't say I don't understand, as I was like that until my recent rescore, in which I wanted to stand out those few shows I consider above the rest. Of course that was easier on my case because I don't have many entries but it's still a hassle. In my opinion most works in any media are average and just a few stand out, so using 5 as the middle point a range from 4.5 (harsh) to 6.5 (soft) mean would be ideal.