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I’m currently not that motivated to read or watch the most popular or trending things. I’d rather indulge in ongoing/short tropey, audience catering things, unless I have solid recommendations.

Issues that concern me in anime and manga in general are how women are portrayed, from their characterization to the way they are designed— hell, I even take issue with school uniforms and how unfair they are. All this has often been a subject of recurrent anguish, which might reflect in my reviews.

I like to read or watch anything with both important male and important female characters. That’s why I tend to avoid majority single sex media, unless it is Magical Girl because they’re cute.

I'm a huge fan of romance (yaoi/yuri/GL/BL, I'm not interested in). And I love seeing romantic relationships included and well-written in non-romance focused media. As such, I have my own standards for what a proper romance should look like. There should be a level of physical attraction (such as increased heart rate with increased proximity), jealousy when the love interest is with the opposite sex (if the opportunity presents itself), and a bond beyond acquaintances, otherwise, the feelings will be deemed platonic. On that topic, I absolutely HATE IT when romantic relationships are depicted as the ultimate form of love, the most important relationship in one's life, and that you'll be lonely without one. That's why I love it when the story shows that there are people important to the couple besides each other (unless there are circumstances where this is not possible, as is often the case with yanderes and their backstories). But I do understand that in the romance genre, in order to make a romance interesting and memorable, the two are often the most important people to each other and have a particularly unique, irreplaceable bond where they understand each other the most, which is fine, and also something I enjoy when executed correctly. I also understand that many characters will only feel romantic attraction if a member of the opposite sex is close to them or understand them well (as is often the case with chaste prettyboys who will never look in the direction of a woman even if they're surrounded by them), I just hate it when boy meets girl = romance, even if that is often the case IRL. So to TL;DR that, not all close bonds indicate sexuality or romance, and not all sexual relationships are romantic either.

How do I have time for all this?