If you're interested to read a long introduction of why I have come to love anime then by all means, click the spoiler button below:
Josei is amazing ahh. it's sorta sad that it's a very under-rated genre but perhaps it's only under-rated because it's so good? darou?
I find I'll watch any series with a rating of >7. Why i do this to my life and my free time, I'll never know. I'm kidding. It's what I do when I get superbly uncreative with my time haha.
random fav k-pop videos just for posterity:
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An irregular. I watch anime that has either joesi, seinen, family, friendship, coming-of-age, mystery, drama, supernatural, horror, tragedy, psychological (horror), philosophical, historical and nakige themes.
Visual Novel (VN)
Clannad has gotten me into a lot more visual novels I can complete since I fell in love with the dynamics. I first started with sake visual's RE:Alistair++ and Jisei and then I dived into Saya no Uta without mentally preparing for the heaviness of it by googling something along the lines of "good visual novel". Now I find ones that house on calmer themes to read by frequenting top-ten lists when I'm in the mood.
(Unfinished: Clannad; Fate/stay Night; G-senjou no Maou; Steins;Gate)
I only update when I remember that I've read/watched a certain anime/manga, haha. Otherwise I'm beginning to update on real-time so that's very rewarding to my otaku-loving self.
Personal Note
Little did I know that I was a sucker for vibes analogous to Gen Urobuchi's works for a long time namely, Saya no Uta, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Psycho-Pass and.. Fate/Zero. I planned to at least read and/or enjoy Kinoko Nasu's Fate premise in all of it's entirety first heh. (as much as I immensely enjoyed Type-Moon's Kara no Kyoukai/The Garden of Sinners franchise)
As a reawakened fan, I think I'm really digging watching anything that has been made from the same impressive writer/illustrator to try to understand why they do what they do from the products of their effort. I know. I won't know much from that alone but that to me is enough thought on my head to fully comprehend why great people are just like any of us but with much greater vision and passion for the things they've readily decided to do.
Aside from fancying darker, maybe more complex themes, I'm as big a fan for Makoto Shinkai's animations as much as theirs; generally anything CoMix Wave Films will definitely pique my interest. My top favourite from him is 5 Centimetres Per Second.
Cue: more gushing
I rate most anime 8 without considering the art, sound, character and those pointers you usually see when fans review them. 10s are more common in my list hahah, I'm particularly sympathetic to series/movies I've seen, the fact that I haven't dropped them makes the worth my attention and time hence why I mostly give 8s. Though should one notice the change in my numbers (I've considered it for a long time) it's probably because I've implemented that system where I rate it based on those pointers!
Unfortunately for me I'm still very new to the community despite my first anime at 4/5 when Pokemon and Digimon were the rage and 8, Sugar Sugar Rune which became the benchmark to every anime I've watched the years after. It wasn't just childish romance at play but presented an in-depth perspective of how if circumstances allowed it, children and adult lives aren't much different.
I'd like to think that anime opened my eyes; that cartoons and animation aren't just for the childish at heart and kids, it's for the world. I'm still a greenhorn at analysing good but for now I can say that what separates good from the rest for me is the plot. Extra points for the more mysterious, darker themes. Though a well-refined plot is enough to keep me yearning for any which boasts even ordinary tales. I'd like to live to see anime blossom despite the numerous generational changes it has yet to face heh, and I'd like to explore new themes whenever I can.
The Truth
I wouldn't call myself a dedicated fan or a weeb, more like.. watching anime has only been a small fraction of my life. It has been nothing but a mere platform for me to gain a better understanding of human endeavour. I try to learn basic Japanese to understand what's being said, just like how I'd do the same if I were to watch Spanish movies. I'm also really insecure about the way I present myself so I'm not a fan of my own works, especially not this ^ but I write anyway. I like to fill my cyber profiles with long walls of text because I love to imagine how peoeple see me. I don't usually expect results but I do know no one knows how I view myself as someone impressive because I spend more of my airtime speaking about how crappy my life is.
I don't really know what I'm doing but what I do know is that, I don't tell them the greatest adventures of my life. My stories are just a filler so that everyone sees me as a normal enough person to hang out with. I'm more interested in sensing other's experiences than telling the story of sensing my own because I have this fear that if I told everyone how happy I was, they'd rob it away from me. So in other words, I like myself a bit too much eheheh though I don't express this so, shhhh.
p/s: won't give up anything for a seinen/josei tag ;d will easily give up for an ecchi ahAh, see how that goes? ;p
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