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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: 225.2
Mean Score: 6.81
- Total Entries2,054
- Rewatched83
- Episodes15,014
Manga Stats
Days: 16.8
Mean Score: 6.17
- Total Entries231
- Reread2
- Chapters2,117
- Volumes333
All Comments (6727) Comments
I'm jealous you could make a big change like that in your life. Can't wait to have the financial security to relocate.
Oh, you know, same old shit on my end. Nerves healed up in my arms on their own the docs were fucking me around to different specialists so damn long, and a few months of physical therapy got me functional again. Not 100% (you can sympathize, given your own injuries) but I can lift again and do basic shit without pain (though now my hip seems to be fucking with me from doing squats, haha. Always something).
Not so much luck with the stomach problems. They scoped me, had me eat radioactive eggs and xrayed me every hour, five times, and then just gave up. They don't want to operate on the hernia, because it's more profitable to shovel pills down my throat to no effect the rest of my life.
After enough of them don't do anything, maybe they'll start considering actual treatment, but I have to stick to doctor's orders until they exhaust all their pharmaceuticals.
As for crazy women, you know me. I'm like honey to those fuckers. God knows I have no interest in the sane ones, hahaha. That business woman who went back to the baby-daddy and then lost her mind was actually popping up once a month for over a year, just to set me back every time things were good. I've actually given up a couple relationships for prioritizing her friendship.
I finally blocked her just a couple weeks ago, because she's gone waaaay overboard. A few months ago she developed an obsession with psychedelic drugs and was always going on about DMT and wanting to have a drug-induced mystical experience (she was too afraid to leave the guy who makes her miserable, so she started looking for new escapes, entrenching my damn hero savior mentor moron complex), so I think she fucked her brain to the point there's no hope of her becoming sane again. No hope means no reason to put up with it anymore.
Good riddance.
But you know how I am about kids, and I adored them even before we talked about me moving to be a father to them. I honestly miss the kids more than her. It breaks my heart to think I'm abandoning them to that fuckin' nut more than it does to realize such an amazing woman has degenerated into such a fuckin' nut. But at least it's finally behind me.
Still working in sporadic bouts of productivity (which should be more consistent now that that human fucking cancer is gone), but I've been laying off the agent hunt due to already being stressed, so can't send you any autographed works yet. But you catch me at a good time, since I'm finally getting back on track.
God I heard so much about god about Persona, allways thinking "You need to check it out", then looking onto MAL and Steam realising "You don't have enougth free time..."
I really appreciate people who still think with their own mind, insted of just running with every new trend and doing their own thing. Most of my generation feels kinda boring to me. Everyone just wants to fit in and doesn't want to risk to be different, because people don't want to be outsiders. It kinda seams sad to me. Maybe I also over-dramatice this and it isn't so bad, I honestly don't know much people and trends xD
Let me guess, you're more a Final Fantasy player?
I honestly thought that when you watch Anime as parent, your kids get kinda into it (at lest stuff like Naruto or Kimi ni Todoke - stuff which kids can relatively easily understand), well proven me wrong. Probably can't really talk about this kind of thing much with my 20 years xD.
Well this makes sense with 2 kids.
Ok, I get where this is comming from, adding friends without interacting with them, doesn't serve any purpose. I love when I can talk to people about Anime and Manga, because I don't have much friends watching them... guess MAL isn't the best side for this after all xD
First: Why exacly did you drop Kenpuu Denki Berserk and Aku no Hana? I mean you watched so much and even clearly say, you finish stuff even if you don't like it. It seems a bit weird to me to give up a "perfect" no drop polocy with +2k Anime.
Second: You don't like rewatching stuff you like more often?
Third: With "Girls like a little foreplay" - I get what you mean, but I honestly would like to know what reference you mean xD
Thank for an eventuall answer in advance! :D
Long time no see.
That post was heart warming. Enough so to raise the dead, haha.
Hope your own year's been more productive than mine.
Are you an official New Zealander yet?
Well was just checking out my anime viewing habits and it's interesting to compare this year to previous years. As for Overlord, it's worth checking out, you would like to see a ruthless protagonist for once. Don't see them much in that kind of anime.
Well of the anime I've watched, the most recent 2 have disappointed me for the same reason... their presentation. Both Overlord 3 & Full Metal Panic 4 have a ton of jarring CG and their general visual presentation is middling at best. Turning what should be fantastic anime of the season, into a pretty enjoyable romp.
I've been meaning to check out Hanebado as well but can't get in the mood.