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* Avatar: Kento Miura from Kimi ni Todoke 2nd Season

* General About Me: I'm just your average thirtysomething underemployed basement-dwelling hardcore anime nerd, who seeks shelter from the terrible job market in the informal economy / family business. No benefits, but plenty of free time for anime watching, discussion, and subbing. I'm active in the fringes of the fansubbing scene, mainly working on re-releases as ReDone-Subs, Magical Girl anime as Pretty Cure Splash Subs, and some miscellaneous work on DVD/Blu-Ray specials for other groups and old/obscure OVAs.

The first anime I "knew was anime" was Sailor Moon when it aired on US TV in the late 90s, and while I didn't get into the fandom until 2003, SM has left me predisposed to enjoy anime outside of my target age and gender range ever since. Love Hina was the first anime I got into while "in the fandom," and was also the my first manga.

(a little more about me)

* Anime-Related Things I Believe:

** Those who claim to love anime should support the global anime industry by purchasing or watching legitimate streams of at least some of the titles they like. Though as a fansub producer and consumer I cannot morally condemn piracy, I have backed up my pro-industry standpoint through my collection.

** English dubs are not "evil," and while there are a few with overly bad acting or extreme censorship, most are pretty much the same show in a different language. It is not wrong to prefer them, though exclusively limiting oneself to dubs means missing out on many undubbed titles both old and new.

** Liberal subs (and dubs) are more enjoyable than literal translations that seek to preserve every little facet of the Japanese original. Cutting out verbal chaff, changing names to "you" (where expected in English), and re-ordering elements will make English translations flow better in, well, English. If something can be translated concisely and non-lamely, it should be translated, not given the "TL note: Keikaku means plan" treatment. Honorifics and other titles can be retained in an otherwise liberal script with no ill effects.

** Anime from nearly any era have something to offer; if you avoid a given title based on an arbitrary age cutoff, you are needlessly limiting yourself and missing out, particularly if you don't like the types of anime currently being made. Any technical/display issues with older anime can be solved by obtaining an old 4:3 screen as a backup viewing device.

** While I enjoy many genres of anime, I appreciate and defend modern trends of anime such as moe, slice-of-life, general cuteness, fanservice, and harems. Given that many Western viewers decided go on "anime welfare" and allow Japanese otakus' purchases to subsidize their illegitimate anime consumption, there should be no complaints that studios have moved to cater to Japanese fans' tastes. There are plenty of older anime that do not follow modern trends; it's viewers' own fault if they avoid these older titles based on arbitrary age cutoffs.

** While I do not subscribe to the "3D = pig disgusting" mindset, I generally prefer 2D girls. Due to my employment/living situation and insufficient romantic experience, I feel that actual relationships with 3D women are just as impossible as relationships with 2D women. Given that equivalency, why not 2D?

** I do add hentai to my list. This isn't a dating site, and I'm not looking to impress or avoid offending women by maintaining some illusion of purity. Besides, if anyone's going to judge an adult heterosexual male for having interest in representations of sex and female nudity, I don't really care about their opinion anyway. I know I am not a "creep" (whatever that means these days), and I do not flirt with, hit on, sexually harass, or stalk women IRL or online. (Why do that when I've got 2D?)

Maximum score given to hentai is 8.

As this graph will attest, I don't believe in Sturgeon's Law -- why should one elitist/unpleasable hater with a scary-fish-sounding name get to decide that 90% of everything is junk? I also don't believe, as certain reviewers do, that there has to be a gulf between things I like and things I dislike. Rather, I believe in a spectrum of quality distributed across a somewhat skewed Bell Curve.

Any other questions? Feel free to comment or send a PM. Anti-industry saboteurs can go right ahead and get wrecked, though.

Statistics

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Days: 513.8

Mean Score: 6.32

Total Entries4,205
Rewatched593
Episodes33,831

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Angel

Jul 21, 8:41 PM

Completed 1/1 · Scored -

Date A Live III

Jul 20, 11:25 AM

Watching 8/12 · Scored -

New Game!!

Jul 20, 11:25 AM

Completed 12/12 · Scored -

All Manga Stats Manga Stats

Days: 28.6

Mean Score: 6.81

Total Entries47
Reread18
Chapters2,368
Volumes360

Manga History Last Manga Updates

Kiss x Sis

Jul 21, 12:54 PM

Reading 106/156 · Scored 7

Love So Life

Jan 21, 2023 12:12 AM

Reading 6/111 · Scored 6

Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai

Jan 7, 2023 6:18 PM

Reading 89/271 · Scored 7

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ggultra2764 Jul 20, 5:10 PM

Happy birthday!

SurgingSoulZX Jun 23, 5:14 PM

Hello, Puni Puni Poemii and Mondaji’s (OVA version) has added the ecchi tag.

You should add Fire Force, Eden’s Zero, Mondaji, Magical Warfare, BTOOM!, Another World in My Smartphone, The Idaten Only Knows Peace, Dai-Shogun, Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere, A Certain Magical Index, Air Master, Symphogear, Prism Ark, Voogie’s Angel, Demonbane, Speed Grapher, Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne, Cautious Hero, Clockwork Planet, Taboo Tattoo, Devil Hunter Yokho, Dusk Maiden of Amnesia, Dog Days, Outbreak Company, Love Tryant, Oda Nobuna no Yabou, Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor, Hyperdimension Neptunia, Dance in the Vampire Bund, Dirty Pair, Blood Lad, High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even In Another World, Magical-Girl Specs Ops Asuka, Arifueta, Cross Ange, Battle Girls: Time Paradox, The Island of Giant Insects, Ange Vierge, Battle Arena Toushinden, and Kiddy Grade etc.

These mentioned entries are recommended to be included in your list of anime that incorporated some elements of ecchi despite not being labeled under the genre known as “Ecchi”.

Useless_Hero Apr 1, 11:14 PM

Please accept friend request

Useless_Hero Mar 21, 9:48 AM

Very nicely written 'about me' page!

StewedBeefHaunch Jan 5, 5:04 PM

Nice favorite characters. Good to see Mizore representation in the year 2024.

Churu churu paya paya.

Coaghim Dec 12, 2023 6:25 PM

Thx 4 your hard work making subs! Y me gusta tu perfil, con un par de cojones!

ColourWheel Dec 1, 2023 9:59 PM

Hello there. Thanks for accepting my request.

Reading the User comment below mine, You could if you wanted to now officially add Goblin Slayer II to your Ecchi stack list judging by the precedent that your entries have established. lol

GreyStoneFlinger Sep 24, 2023 4:21 PM

Your “Contains Ecchi, but not Tagged Ecchi” interest stacks are lifesavers! Now I’m more aware of what titles to avoid.

As for further entries you could add to your stacks:

Lycoris Recoil (entire episode dedicated to panties)
Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro (pantyshots and nipple jokes)
Henkei Shoujo (pantyshots)
Dawn Fall (existing)
Gabriel Dropout (pantyshots and breast jokes)
Release the Spyce (abuse)
Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii desu kara (pantyshots and crude jokes)
Kaiju Girls Black
Teekyu (pantyshots)

eblf2013 Sep 13, 2023 8:44 PM

Hello, an update, I requested for ecchi tag in Yuri Kuma Arashi and it was accepted.

IdeDial Jul 8, 2023 12:02 PM

You should add the Magical Canan TV anime to your untagged ecchi list. It has TONS of fanservice and ecchi since it was based on a hentai.

eblf2013 Jul 7, 2023 8:17 PM

Hi man, looking at your untagged ecchi stack I would like to contribute.
https://myanimelist.net/anime/26165/Yuri_Kuma_Arashi - Tagged with 2 stars as Ecchi in anidb. Nudity is frequent and it even contains sex.
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3974/Tetsuwan_Birdy_Decode - While the Ecchi tag is scratched in anidb, Birdy's suit could be questionable, also, fanservice.
https://myanimelist.net/anime/6702/Fairy_Tail - LOTS of fanservice compared to most battle shonen. One chapter literally is just Ecchi. Tagged with 1.5 stars with Ecchi in AniDB.
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38753/Araburu_Kisetsu_no_Otome-domo_yo - Girls reading erotica aloud, sexting, a dude is caught masturbating while watching porn, an almost-sex scene.Tagged 0.5 stars in AniDB
https://myanimelist.net/anime/441/Shoujo_Kakumei_Utena__Adolescence_Mokushiroku - Frequent nudity.
https://myanimelist.net/anime/35507/Youkoso_Jitsuryoku_Shijou_Shugi_no_Kyoushitsu_e - Tagged 1.5 stars, frequent fanservice
https://myanimelist.net/anime/34537/Yoru_wa_Mijikashi_Arukeyo_Otome - Tagged 2 stars as ecchi in anidb.

dantenebris Jun 7, 2023 1:51 AM

I thank you very much for sharing those names with me.
Being honest, I created the list so as not to forget this curious detail that occurs in the animes I've seen.
I'll have to watch those animes before adding them to the stack.

mdo7 Feb 12, 2023 8:48 AM

Hey Zalis, Heads up. There seem to be a lost anime that just been found (courtesy of Kineko Video), the worse part is that this found "lost" anime that Kineko Video got doesn't seem to have a ANN encyclopedia entry. Here's the missing anime in question:

and I can't seem to find anything on ANN encyclopedia forum about requesting/submitting for a entry to encyclopedia for lost anime that isn't on ANN encyclopedia. Uh, so how does a ANN user want to submit a request or some sort of process for adding a entry for a lost anime?

Bernex7 Jul 9, 2022 1:47 PM

Thank you so much for the presentation about VN 😊

ggultra2764 Apr 28, 2022 5:49 PM

Thank you for responding to the friend request. I've mainly been on here to track what I've seen for anime over the years and occasionally post some of my reviews. But haven't until just recently made more of an effort to post on here in the forums.

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