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I am also doing good. Had some big changes in my life recently with becoming a father. Other than that not much has changed :)

Hi there devinder! How are you doing? Its been a while since we last talked.

I saw we talked about "The vision of Escaflowne" last time... I actually recently rewatched the series, so I could give you a better answer to your question if you are still interested ^^

Also saw you watched Frieren and the ending of Attack on Titan. What did you think of it? You think Frieren will stay at the top of the rankings?

really well written my dress up darling manga review 😎

Sorry for the late reply, was a little busy last week. Mononoke definitely reminded me of Mushishi, but instead of being relaxing I guess it wanted to be a bit unnerving. I think that in combination with having this characterless main protagonist didn’t really work for me. I mostly liked the reveals of the mystery (like the ending with the journalist, the incense story and also the part with the fish demon) but the build-up felt a little sluggish. And having almost a shounen-est fighting sequence at the end of each chapter was very out of place in my opinion.

I never heard about the planned number of episode for Escaflowne before. It’s been ages since I watched it and I will probably come back to your question after rewatching it but as far as I remember it didn’t feel fast paced at the end.

It kinda felt like with HP this focusing on being more mature maybe started with the third movie and the actors getting more in the teenager years. I think the things that I don’t like about the later movies is the flip flopping between wanting to be mature and having a comedic side to it, or for example in the 6th movie, the romantic comedy side. But I guess If you take HP too serious you find yourself confronted with many issues, such as 1-dimensional villains and questionable world building (mostly from the books, with justifying slavery and those sorts of things).

I mostly don’t spend hours at a time playing games and watching anime or movies either, but rather separated chunks. I think anime with its ~20 min format is quite good for that.

Its ok if you take a little longer to reply, I also am sometimes busy and cant reply very soon. Take your time^^

I would say I am more into anime and manga again because of some random spark in interest^^ I kinda set my goal to finish most of the series that I had on my watch list and some that I had dropped (and many people regard as classics, I guess), but let’s see how long my motivation lasts. I can already see that I am quite bored with the 2 last anime I started, “Mononoke” and “Carole and Tuesday”.

I also definitely want to rewatch some of my old favorites, especially “Escaflowne” (which is in my opinion one of the most underrated gems out there) and “12 Kingdoms” (which I only have seen once so far and I forgot it a little bit)…. So I guess the rather old isekais^^ I am actually not a big fan of the isekai genre, but those two I remember fondly.

With the HP movies I actually liked a few of the later ones and disliked some of the earlier ones. I mean the first movie is probably the best but after that one I would already put 7.1 and 5 (I don’t understand why many people disliked 7.1, I really found it refreshing that they went away from the Hogwarts school theme and made something new). And I don’t understand why people liked the third one so much, it was average for me. But I guess number 6 and the final one were a bit lackluster.

I have been watching stuff in higher speed for quite some time now, especially Youtube videos, but not everything, movies and TV shows I didn’t normally increase the speed. With anime I recently started to do it more. And there were some shows where I still enjoyed the experience, reduced the speed and rewatched some scenes, such as “Welcome to the NHK”.

I guess I caught up now a little on more recent shows, but everything I watched was just ok, nothing really special amongst them. The only thing that looks promising is the new Vinland saga season, but I will have to see how it develops. Did any anime come out recently that you enjoyed? I still have to watch some more shows that look a little interesting though, such as the chainsaw man anime. I remember you recommended me the manga. If I like the anime I will give it a try afterwards. :P

When I watched Wednesday I didn’t really have anything else to watch and since I never saw anything from the Adams family before I was a little interested. The mystery elements of the show kept me hooked, even if the ending was a little predictable.

I don’t really have all too much to say to Ragnaroks ending. It just felt generic and Marvel-movie like, without any interesting plot or character development.

I played Kingdom come deliverance back when it came out 5 years ago for the first time. It had some bugs but I didn’t mind most of them too much. Now I play it again since its been so long and I wanted to see what content they added or if the game changed. I also play a different difficulty, which alters the gameplay a bit.

Hollow knight and Undertale I have played. Hollow knight I really enjoyed a lot, Undertale was nice but I think it is a little overhyped. I have never heard about Rogue Legacy before. Is it good?

I guess I could recommend a tone of Indie games for you if you haven’t played many, since there are a lot of good ones out there. If you like Hollow knight for example, I can recommend Ori and the blind forest (Its sequel Ori and the will of the wisps is even better). Other 2D side scroller which I can recommend are Cuphead and Katana Zero. Also if you like platformes, games like Celeste and SuperMeatboy are very good, although a bit challenging. If you want something more story driven, maybe "A plague tale: innocent" and maybe Soma (if you like horror). And for something completely unique I would check out “Papers Please” or “Disco Elysium”, at least for me they were something I never saw anywhere else. I guess nowadays some indie games are on par with triple A ones when it comes to graphic so its sometimes difficult to tell what is an indie game^^, I also still have many indie games on my to-play list, so i will keep you updated when I find a gem.

What do you think about the new Hogwards legacy game? Interested in it? For me I will probably be waiting for a sale before I buy it, but it looks nice.

I remember I really loved Clannad the first time I watched it. It was probably the most emotional show for me and I like the soundtrack. Later it got a lower and lower score from me until the point that I thought its drama is rather forced and manipulative. In retrospect I think that I must have done at least some things right and you can probably say that every show is to some degree is manipulative since it tries to convey a certain emotion (be it fear, excitement, sadness etc.)

The topic of scoring and normal distributions is quite fascinating to me. If you, for example, take the scores of all MAL users, I bet that when you average over them you won’t get a normal distribution but something that is more skewed towards the higher scores. Now does that mean human scoring is not normally distributed but biased and therefore forcing a bell curve is also unnatural or maybe you can try to remove some of your biases by forcing a bell curve? I don’t really have a good answer to that.

Yeah I guess the thing with shows that get better later is, the ratio of good to bad and the question if it is worth it. For example, suffering through 3 boring episodes to get 100 good ones later is something I would do, but of course the question is how reliable is it that those 100 will really be good. If I can trust the source, it’s a different thing, than the opinion of the majority of MAL and youtube users (because I can’t trust them). Also there are other options, like if the first half is bad and the rest is good you can also watch just a summary of the first half and start with the second one, or what I recently do a lot is speeding up the shows. I normally watch everything now with 1.5x speed, if I get bored I speed up to 2x if it becomes more interesting I watch it normally. Maybe my attention span became shorter because of the internet or because I get older, but this method works for me now^^

My favourite moment in Welcome to the NHK was when he lied to his mother about having a job and a girlfriend and then when she believed him we was thinking: “Why do you have to believe everything I said so easily? Why are you so happy for me?”. That’s when I really thought, that this show has some great character moments. The whole episode was probably my favourite.

Since I don’t own any play station I watched the full story of God of war ragnarök with some of the fights on youtube (it was a 15 hours video I believe). I really liked the portrayal of Odin, however I didn’t like the ending. Have you already seen the ending? I don’t want to spoiler you and discuss the ending when you haven’t finished it yet.

For me I recently bought a lot of small indi games, which I still have many to complete. Games such as Minimetro, Tokyo42, path of giants, last campfire, etc. But the one that stuck out most so far and that I spend the longest on is Babaisyou. A very neat puzzle game that gets very hard very soon. I already spend like 40 hours into it, more than any other puzzle game so far. Other than that I am playing my second playthrough of Kingdom Comes Deliverance. I don’t remember if we have talked about this game yet.

I actually haven’t seen any of the recent movie. The only thing recent I watched was the TV show House of the dragon, which I really enjoyed (especially the first half). That one actually got me into Kingdom come again and also into watching anime. I also watched the new TV show Wednesday, which I fairly liked. Movies I only have seen some old movies recently. One that I just recently found was the 1991 drama “Swing kids” which plays during nazi Germany time and deals with indoctrination. I have a few recent movies on my list to watch but haven’t gotten around to watch them, such as the new “All quiet on the western front” movie, Glass Onion and the new Hellraiser movie.

Yeah life has been quite constant for me recently, with work, movies, games and so on.

I think the largest changes to the rating I gave to “Erased” and “Planets”, both shows I dropped before (and gave them a 2) but now I finished them and upgraded them to a 6. I also upgraded both seasons of Clannad since I found my rating a little too harsh (it was 4 before now I also gave it a 6). Other than that I mostly did small changes, especially trying to give shows which I gave a 1 a higher score. It’s a slow process but eventually I want to model my ratings after a nice bell curve. However, all the shows which I dropped after 1 episode and gave a 1 drag my ratings down a bit^^. My philosophy always was that even if I watch just 1 episode, if the show can’t keep my interest it should get a low rating. I still kinda stand by that even though I also can understand the other perspective that you should finish a show first or at least have seen a large portion of it before rating it. What is your opinion on that?

But with overhaul I also meant that I changed the design of my list from the very old design to a flashy one where you can see the pictures of the shows :) (it makes it slower to load the list however which is a bummer)

I also recently finished “Welcome to the NHK” after having it on hold for more than 5 years (I think). Now I found it quite nice and funny with interesting characters. I wonder why I couldn’t get into it the last time. The ending was maybe a little bit underwhelming in my opinion but I need to think about it more. Now I am currently reading the manga and I am thinking of getting the novel. I heard that the anime follows the novel more closely than the manga, what do you think?

What games are you playing currently? I am also currently playing some games on the side.

Hi, how are you doing?
I recently became more active on MAL again and watched some more anime.

Also did a very needed overhaul of my anime and manga list and trying to slowly adjust my ratings and actually finish off some series which I had on hold and even dropped.

What have you been up to?

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You don't like being propelled to the top because of confusing reactions with a review against the circlejerk? That was the only relevant change haha People are not alting anymore because of the transparency change tho

I didn't stop listening Kanye, I don't conflict consuming artists who say or think stupid shit, otherwise Kanye wouldn't be on my list since 10 years ago. Well, I'm also aware that he is profoundly mentally ill so his current deteriorated brain mush has nothing to do with the music that I used to listen before

when will u do another bomb review