This might be a fun idea. Just a shitstorm of ideas and whatnot. "If ignorance is bliss, I'm a motherfucking genius." Happy Birthday Congratulations on your Melancholy Birthright. Ayfas - Vaehylas - Ezvie "I love to think, but I hate to do it." -Anxiety "Tears? This is NOT tears! This is eye water." -Me, 7.55pm, 28 August (Tuesday) "My mood is a collection of poorly timed naps." - Me after napping all day, October 3, 2018 (Wednesday) The Rules of Watching Anime
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henriiezSep 14, 2019 3:50 PM
Just simply a list of franchises and all the entries.
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henriiezJan 18, 2019 5:28 PM
| Anime Challenge Year + Season Entries for the anime challenge that I haven't seen. Just preparing this so that following years won't have to struggle through this, seeing as I don't have much time this year, and I doubt will have much time the following years. |
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The 5 Categories
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Your Scoring Range
How Heavily You Weigh the 5 Categories
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I Score Anime with Relative Quality Full Scores On the Way The way I go about scoring anime is deciding how good a series is and then apply that quality to all the other series. This way is a constant influx of having to go back and change scores with tweaks here and there but I believe scoring should be an ever changing process, moreso when a series comes along to beat down the status-quo. Especially when starting out using this method, the constant additions to your sample size will expand it allowing you to make more informed opinions about where they fall onto the list of quality. As for how you determine said quality is entirely up to you; some people merely use enjoyment, others use how the series performs within the 5 categories of Story, Characters, Sound, Animation and Enjoyment, and I use the combination of the two. More accurately, my personal enjoyment has an extremely strong correlation with how good a series is but there are exceptions where I may hate a series despite giving it a high score, look no further than Nisekoi (which I gave a 6.5/10), and having a high score for being nothing more than average, which I'm proud to say are Acchi Kocchi and GJ-bu (which I also gave 7/10 for both). And I believe most will agree with my two latter picks as they have been extremely well received from what I have seen. I don't have a checklist when it comes to scoring my anime but rather I go by feel that has been developed through numerous anime viewing, countless discussions and analysis of shows and themes and review through re-watching and understanding. I believe the last point puts most who watch anime more as an almost aggressive hobby, at odds with those who don't really care either way and have their opinion to voice regardless of how informed it is, because an opinion is an opinion. And I understand that some people believe that the score they have an anime at the start is the one they should keep as it embodies how the shoe made them feel in the moment. However, this comes with just as many variables as breaking down the series itself. How quickly did you finish it? What series did you watch beforehand? Did you watch it whilst doing something else? Was it just on in the background? What were your expectations going in? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Refining Your Scores
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scoring on Potential This is understandable, for a first episode reaction, however, as a final definitive score for a series, it's a no. If the series failed to capitalise on their potential then that's for the series to be accountable for their mishap whilst trying to not take away from everything they have done. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scoring Anime Before You Finish - The Initial Score As long as it is subject to change, then I don't see a problem with this. If you develop an opinion on a show in the first episode, and you have a numeric value for that opinion, give it a score. If not, don't. I see most people trying to make a big deal out of this because usually people don't bother to change their scores and simply stick with the one they give at the start and not really think much of it later, even if they think differently of the show, be it for better or worse. I can see this being a problem when a show starts off strong and ends weak, which in my opinion, most of the popular anime tend to do to attract most of their viewership and lose the rest of us by the end. But the same applies to anime that doesn't leave much of an impression on first episode but develops into a strong story and characters, that tends to have a dedicated however smaller following. And are dropped by some left to never be picked up, which ends up affecting the average which in turn rankings on "Best Anime." Which I would say, why do you even care? As long as people like it, I don't see the problem. I believe scoring should always be a work in progress but that isn't the case. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scale of Genre Scoring anime by their genre rather than overall quality: No. That's like saying an anime that's the only of it's kind is by default a 10, it matters not that it is shit, but due the fact that it is the only one of it's kind, means it's the best. Yeah, you can say it's the worst, but no one fucking makes that argument. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Score Difference: 7 the Average Now, I'll be talking about this from the perspective that not everyone is inept at scoring anime but rather is filtering and selectively choosing what to watch, be to personal preference, time restrictions or otherwise. It's simple, really. Generally people don't watch average anime, let alone anime that was worse. The fact that people are actively trying to find shows that they would like to watch and have fun with is essentially why we are all watching anime in the first place, to enjoy ourselves. Whilst fully utilizing the full scale of 1-10, the lack of exploration into the underworld of anime is natural and any exploration to the other side usually is out of curiosity and ultimately never lasts long. And with time, it'll smooth out and despite the bell curve, I don't believe it'll be 5 as the central average, but rather 6 will be due to people not going out of their way to make mediocre series. That little quirk that is added into the series elevates the series ever so slightly compared to those shows that are bland and uninteresting, which ultimately destroys the viewing experience detracting from average and making it a bad one. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't Score Anime Essentially, being open-minded. This might not be a definitive way of doing it, however, it does assist the way of thinking. You aren't always trying to justify the scores you give series and therefore don't feel bound by opinions, or in this case, the scores. For example, a score cannot be a determining what you liked about a series or there lack of, unless it specifies such as giving each category a score. However, this quantitative information will never hold up against it's qualitative information. It can help to be a guide, but because my scores aren't accompanied by explanations of how the conclusion was reached, it doesn't give me room to defend my stance on the score. I believe, this is a lot more apparent when the opinion sways in the wind or the memory of the series has eroded, removing the score outright is a good course of action. As I have done with a large handful of series. **Maybe change it to "how the public average scoring of an anime skews the mainstream or hyped up ones." Deriving the implications that the initial positive impression of the anime impacted their decision making. In other words, peer pressure and hype. SadMadoka said: I removed my scores some time ago, primarily because it was diminishing my enjoyment of anime. Having to arbitrarily quantify everything, worry about how others will judge you, debate how much weight objective and subjective factors should hold, and so on is a real pain. I do enjoy looking at others' scores to see the wide array of opinions out there, as well as discussing anime with others in general, but ultimately, scores have no credibility in my eyes. The fact that someone else loved or hated something has no relevance to my own opinion. I'm honestly insulted when I adored an anime and someone dared to give it a 1 or whatever, but I strive to keep an open mind and attempt to understand why others feel the way they do. I don't think most members should abandon scores. It's a good way to share your opinion. If I could only offer one sliver of advice, it would be: Just don't be a prick about the way you score anime. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Advantages of Scoring Anime I believe an advantage of scoring anime is that it makes you more conscious as to what you're watching. You start to pay attention to more aspects, broadening your understanding, knowledge and experience with different aspects of a series. And with the scores you end up giving it as you complete it, can carry down when you have almost forgotten the series, although this isn't an end-all-be-all fact and mustn't be treated that way. Especially, if you don't remember much of the series and can't defend such a score. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't recommend 10's I don't recommend my 10 out of 10 Masterpiece anime. These are series that you need to watch with a certain mindset and ability to see, follow and infer from nuances, sublties and cause to effect which really make the series much better than if you were not to notice these things. This is why I'm open to the idea of I having missed something in a prior series, and if I didn't notice them and someone tells me something that was kind of obvious, I'll go back and re-watch the series and re-think my opinion on the series. However, until that time comes, I won't put too much effort into changing my opinion. But the scale kind of drops off at 8. 10 is best thing ever, 9 is the same with a drawback, 8 is extremely good. And then 7 is good, 6 is alright and 5 is ok, then 4 is bad. To be honest, I had the same problem for the longest time, but when you stop being very lenient about the scores, it will smooth everything over. It's much easier to thin out the very top of your scores since it'll be something you love and have no problems going over and watching again however spending time at a lower scored idea feels like a waste of time. Having more of a critical eye for these things will really help you distinguish what problems the series actually had rather than not feeling anything for the series and defaul to giving it a 5 as long as it didn't make you hate it. Try and see what is wrong, why you don't enjoy it, what they didn't do or how they could have done it instead and move it down depending on the scale of what they did. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your Score Average Who gives a shit? MAL's averages' are worse, depending on who you are of course. KreatorX said: I apologize in advance but really I must ask, what's the point of this thread again? "4: Light Novel adaptations are the problem here" What can you do about it? The fact is that anime industry doesn't care about your or mine or MAL's rating system. It specifically doesn't care about what you interpret from the mean score on MAL. This will sound like a no-brainer but money sells, and the anime industry will pump out stuff that sells well. Especially when you know that anime is unfortunately a marketing tactic first, being an advertising platform for the source material in order to boost its sales. If the LN or a franchise does well, we may or may not get a second season or a third season. For example, plenty of people dislike SAO but hey, we are getting a third season now. The change in mentality you need is to avoid emphasizing the importance of a silly number affixed to an anime. You watching 'better' stuff is someone's opinion of trash anime, and vice-versa. The anime industry is the least bothered in fixing that subjective difference between people unless doing that directly gives them money. To enjoy a larger variety of anime, you need to set your bar low instead of high. If you are unable to enjoy something, it's your loss and waste of time. All definitions of better or trash shows are moot. If the point of this thread was to infer something from the mean score, then it never is a good barometer since you won't be able to infer anything concrete from it. One Piece's anime received an 8.5, an anime which I can never get myself to like, despite giving it a lot of chances as the anime was very well received (finally dropped it at episode 225). Is this an outlier? Perhaps. A pretty colossal waste of precious time on my side... on a bloody outlier if you ask me. But hey, it's one of the most successful franchises out there, and I won't deny that. The point I am trying to get at is that it is a useless endeavor to decide whether you will like an anime based on the mean score's interpretation. Heck, I am a picky watcher with preferential bias against a good number of genres. My mean score statistic is less than yours but it doesn't even tell you anything concrete about me or my watching habits and impressions. tl;dr : There is merit in creating threads like these only if the anime industry even bothered with mean-score interpretation in the first place, as amusing as it may seem. |
henriiezSep 8, 2019 9:22 PM
| Realism: Anime Started Before Anime Started Essentially, the lives the characters lived before we got to know them. I don't imagine that you've done nothing your whole life and if you did, how'd that effect you, I want to see these things without being told them. I want to be able to draw the connections to your actions by knowing your past or being able to figure out for past through your present actions. I want to know what drives you, what has scarred you, what has formed you into the you that is you now. I don't want explanation. I don't want justification. I want to understand. Without exposition. Give me time. And time will tell me everything. Assuming you've done everything right. I want to know what your room is like. Do you share your room? Is it small? It is big? What decorations do you have in your room? Do you have any pictures? Do you have any medals? Do you have any books? The size of the room can indirectly tell us what the financial situation of the character's family is in. The decorations can tell us what interests and hobbies they have. The pictures can tell us who's important to them, be it friends or family. The medals can tell us whether or not they are proficient in any activity. The books can tell us about their personality, how'd they behave and think. And any number of things which all of us have, that perhaps the next person doesn't. Like, if I look around in my room, I have my $1200 MSI Gaming Laptop with my TV connected as a secondary screen, peripherals being a Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum on a Razor Extended Mousepad. My $2000 5-piece drum kit. My display shelf that has a whole dedicated shelf for all the anime I've bought, a shelf of books I've collected over the years, a shelf of stationery and other work related things, a shelf for miscellaneous items and another for my alcohol and storage. My make-shift bed that is actually a fold out couch. My 5 plastic 60 litre storage containers. You can have a sense of what kind of person that I am, if at the very least, it's a room that's been lived in for any sort of time. Rather than a blank slate room where there's only a bed and a desk with nothing on it. I Like Realism An aspect I do very much enjoy is realism in it's nuances. "Show not tell" is the aspect that I really enjoy. The inferences that can be made by the viewer without forcing the idea onto the viewer, is the sort of realism that makes me feel apart of their world. That isn't to say, that they just don't explain anything that is definitive for our understanding for their world, and knowing when and how to explain it, or at all, is a very important aspect.
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henriiezSep 19, 2018 1:20 AM
| Watching 100 Anime So here's some popular anime:
Ok, watching a relatively random selection of anime takes you to about 20 anime finished with an episode a day formula. Playing with those numbers gets you:
And this isn't counting the days or series that you simply cannot stop watching. Say those weekends where you have nothing to do and decide to splurge on binging a whole series or a lot more than 5 episodes. And so constant watching will naturally bring up the pure number of anime you will have seen. Most people have not seen that many anime series within a year, let alone a month, so don't be in such a rush to catch up. Simply pace yourself. And don't be surprised when someone says they have seen a few hundred series, ie. Me, because they have either spent a few years watching anime or most of their time watching anime, or the real kicker, a few years spending most of their time watching anime. Although, I don't think this is a big advantage in the long run, this is for another day, but the essence of why I think this is due to the fact that learning, studying and discussing things about anime will improve the quality of your viewing experience allowing you get more out of the series you're currently watching. However, you can see the discrepancies in those numbers when pushing for an extra episode in. Five episodes daily is simply 2 hours. If you use average numbers: 8 Hours Sleep, 8 Hours Work/School, 3 Hours of Responsibilities, 3 Hours of Miscellaneous Things, leaves you with that 2 hours left to watch those five episodes. I understand that most people don't have much time, motivation or need to watch this much anime and there really isn't any need to, this is for the people who are surprised at the sheer number of series others have seen when it's what I, us, we, spend most of our time doing. Then they turn around and tell me:
And whilst doing all that, I was spending my time:
And if you've done some of these things, you know that you didn't achieve these numbers overnight. If you could have, then I wouldn't be as proud, or ashamed, of these numbers as I am. The hours I've spent learning about my hobbies, actually doing my hobbies and messing about with my friends whilst doing so times I'm extremely fond of having. Watching a lot of Anime is Subjective I believe this is always a relative idea. As someone who has seen 30 or even 300 anime may say they have seen a lot, but only when they are compared to each other, does the discrepancy between the hours they have logged become clear. The fact of the matter is that you cannot skip hours with anime and it's truly one episode at a time and there's really no way around it. Everything can only progress at the same speed, but how many hours you can spare or override with anime is entirely up to you and your situation. Now here's some factors that can change with a matter of perspective:
Some extra mumbo-jumbo: The fact that there's no definitive time where someone can say that they have seen a lot of anime has been brought up multiple times for an opinion to be valid, however, over the course of my years discussing anime however small or large, it doesn't boil down to the number of anime you've seen, but the quality of knowledge and ideas that you are able to bring forth that makes your opinion valid. That isn't to say that a lot of anime doesn't help achieve that. |
henriiezSep 17, 2018 10:25 PM
| The Future of Anime. The whole bullshit of "Anime is on the decline", "New anime is shit" or "Nothing New" and a whole range of other complaints of the fans. And the irony, they can try to make a difference rather than just complaining about it. Like, contribute to the industry rather than just enjoying the free medium. And I'll try not to make this a "Use legal sites" and "Buy Blu-ray" because I barely do either. I don't have a blu-ray player, so I've bought a bunch of DVD's instead, but this really isn't about that. I think the future of anime can very easily one that expands much more than it already has. As long as the community doesn't just give it up as they turn older, making the average age of the viewer an older one, that hopefully will contribute to the industry, they industry will turn to cater them. If in the few years, the only series that sell are the ones of any quality rather than high nudity ecchi/harem series, the industry will not just turn away such a demand. And this will ironically, revert anime to the olden days. Now let me just explain that statement. Anime nowadays are being produced at a very rapid rate just to put it out there. Not out of passion. In the olden days, the projects are works of hardwork and dedication without the concern of sales, because the mantra was "Quality will sell." Which is tough when the sales didn't show that passion, which will burn out and become stale. Our animators should not be dying due to overwork or anything for that matter. They should be working good hours and getting paid well to earn their living rather than barely scraping by and still being pushed to their very limit. As of writing, the slice-of-life genre is becoming less of the norm which sets it up for the next phase of fantasy game worlds like Sword Art Online, Accel World, Log Horizon or heavily referencing being an "Otaku" (whatever that is) or as I very much like to call "Weeb." However, when this phase turns a new leaf and we await the new trend, perhaps long running series will really start to get their shine. Well deserved sequels will start to become more of the norm, as they already starting to pump them out reviving series from the 90's and even further back. Series that were waiting for a sequel in double-digit years. This is movement, if the community as a collective came through and contributed to the next trend that happened to be of what I consider quality series, the community will not die. On the contrary, it will flourish unlike anything else. Of course, they can't be pumping these out but at least they will be the goal for at least a studio which is a start since those quality studios are a rarity. They have, or have had, their moments but it's not reaching the audience and there isn't a strong enough communication between the community and the industry. Especially for the Western audiences. But, a wave can quickly become a tidal wave if we all come together. If we are 1 million strong and could all donate $1 for each-cour, we would be able to fund a whole series. And we could just add another dollar each and that would be enough to put more time into making a project well-worked on. |
henriiezSep 14, 2018 1:47 AM
| The Mindset to Dropping Anime The mindset being the 3 Episode Rule is to determine whether or not the series you are watching is worth continuing. As within the first episode is merely to hook the viewer into staying with the anime to continue watching into the following episodes, which is where the real challenge begins. Keeping the viewer in the episodes that follow, because making them interested is the easy part of the series. Can the audience get behind the main character? Does the audience like where the story is heading? If the audience can't find a reason to watch after this point, is where the series will be dropped. The Knowing Good Anime Rule Disclaimer: This is just me. For me, who watches a lot of seasonal anime, the way I'm able to instinctively understand how a series is good is whether or not I will re-watch it. And there are different stages and types to this:
This is for Seasonal Shows For Already Completed I think it's essentially the same just about. Just twisted slightly to fit an already completed series. |
henriiezSep 25, 2018 11:11 PM
| One Punch Man Complicatedly Simple or Simply Complicated. Call it what you will: a parody, satire, deconstruction -- it's good. The Hero Idea: The ideal hero being one who defends the innocent at almost impossible odds, always pushing himself beyond what should be capable and foremost, putting others before himself. The show turns this on it's head with Saitama claiming to be "A hero for fun." and practices being a hero as a hobby. This is juxtaposed against the idea of what a hero is and the reasons why Saitama does it, along with the rest of the cast either trying to act like heroes or have become heroes almost merely in name due to the fact that they are strong. However, strong is a relative term here with the hero association having simply ordinary people clean up the streets and assist the community however they can, whilst also having people who are capable of fending off whole waves of monsters without expending almost any energy at all. Saitama, however, turns this on it's head as when those heroes struggle to defeat a monster, Saitama is able to beat the monster, mostly in a single punch. And this breaks around the idea of adversity, normally these heroes have trials they have to overcome to be that strong, unleash their power or continue becoming stronger. With Saitama essentially being at the peak of power, it essentially beats the purpose of having such an idea in the first place. Normally, heroes would have to struggle to defeat the undefeatable opponent and be at extremely bad odds, but ultimately come through in the end. Saitama never has to struggle to defeat his foe. He is never at odds about beating the enemy. We are not put in the position of having to guess whether or not he will defeat the enemy, but rather how. The idea is that Saitama has already forgone these trials which the end result was him having the ability to defeat most opponents with a single punch with the drawback of not having any hair. Because he most definitely isn't bald. The Shounen-Genre Idea: Shounen main characters tend to have flashy hair with a colour that defines them as the main character and have a very stand-out-ish personality or way of acting, like crying to act badass or something. Building a personality, an image or something. Saitama doesn't give a shit and he is fucking bald with no attention seeking feature about him, although you could argue his hero outfit is, but it sure doesn't feel like it since he gets attention for just being badass personality wise. Which is contrasted by the fact that Genos is almost the cookie cutter cutout of what a shounen protagonist should be, strong but not strong enough to be able to And then you have Genos which has the perfect potential to be a typical shounen main character but because he is not the main focal point of the series, it allows for some interactions by having be almost perfect and Saitama getting the shirt and of the stick. And that way, it doesn't feel repetitive but rather extremely refreshing because normally in this case, the person losing out normally isn't Saitama. And by that I mean, Saitama is clearly stronger than Genos which would result in him achieving a higher rank than Genos, but's flipped around with Saitama being the lowest of the low, and Genos being the lowest of the highest class. And Genos knows this as well, how much stronger Saitama really is. But to the normal character idea, Genos' flashy way of fighting with power-ups and overdrive really emphasizes the way he can be the typical shounen main character. The way Genos and Sataiam have their disciple and master relationship is also different because that role would normally be fulled by someone like Silver Fang Bang. Except Bang who is much older than Saitama, respects Saitama due to his ridiculous strength to be able to destroy a meteor. And due to the fragments of the meteor destroying the town, except that he saved the entire city, and is ridiculed by other heroes of cheating his rank by getting some credit for destroying the meteor which majority of the credit was given to the S-class of the scene. Saitama puts the heroes in their place and tells off the townspeople that he did not become a hero to be liked, he did it because he wanted to and that he didn't care what any of them thought of him. Which further reinforces the whole deconstruction thing with being completely anti-hero hero material. But that is what makes Saitama so fucking awesome, which in turns makes the whole series, fucking awesome. However, the anime had some problems to make all of the viewers that didn't read the manga, aka. the "We Need Boros Fight Animated" Effect. One Punch Man Anime Without The Boros Fight Well, One Punch Man the anime was fucking awesome, don't get me wrong but there were things I didn't like about it although it is justifiable since I had speculated that it wouldn't have worked unless they had 24 or so episodes. To get to the Boros fight that is. However, they skipped a lot of content to do so which is a double-edged sword. It helps to see Saitama perform a move with a name for shounen-like purposes and actually fight someone where he would have to actually "try." Like imagine One Punch Man without the whole Boros fight. So no epic final boss fight. No world ending crisis on our hands besides that meteor that Saitama smashed, with one punch. And that was only Dragon Level Danger, not God Level Danger. It wouldn't be as epic and that was also the last episode so you can say that the series truly ended up with a bang. Or a punch, you now? (Such a bad pun) But it does redeem itself with every fight scene they animate being a great demonstration of what key animators from the industry getting together and seeing some of the distinct styles they offer. And a big shout out to Canipa Effect for opening my eyes to this since I was clueless before watching his videos on the animation of One Punch Man by the studio Madhouse. If it wasn't for him it's probably just think that the creation of One Punch Man was the sole creators of the animated series. So it helps to now that talented people in the industry come together to produce such an amazing looking series. I'll have the links to Canpia's videos in the description so I'd love it if you would check it out and spread the word. |
henriiezJul 27, 2019 9:59 PM
Artist: Bo Burnham Song: Can't Handle This (Kanye Rant) Show/Album: MAKE HAPPY (Netflix) Artist: Kanzaki Iori Song: Hated By Life Itself Singer: Mafumafu |
henriiezSep 14, 2018 1:56 AM
| The Psychology of Watching Anime BIG WORK IN PROGRESS New to Anime When starting to watch anime for the first time, there are no bases as to how anime should, will and is going to be like and will simply be, as you first view it. This is under the assumption that you don't follow writers' planning and writing techniques, artists' illustrations and animations, musicians' composition and performance that contribute to a series. Therefore, making the initial wave of series you watch when starting out has a huge effect on what you consider to be of quality, which is double-edged sword. At this stage, chances are you're simply watching anime for the enjoyment of watching a show regardless of what it is, but where this becomes a double-edged sword is if you were to watch something amazing, it'll be hard to match but if you don't something good enough, then you won't be hooked. Luckily the hyper popular anime have the formula figured out: Have Impact and Interesting Concept. At this stage, simply the idea alone is enough to enthral newer viewers: Sword Art Online's Virtual Reality for the Gamer's, Attack on Titan's Battle for Humanity for anyone really, and Tokyo Ghoul's Cannibalism for the edgelord's are the examples that come to mind for me. I don't believe any of these series are good but they do have a good production and are easy to watch at first glance. Good Concept, Good Animation, Good Sounds and some Good Characters and they are set, and they can throw everything else at the wind because you are already hooked and it doesn't bother you how they do it, but rather what they do. Which leads people to start discussing direction and execution, but that's for another day. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We all pay attention and notice different things It's so very refreshing to hear the views of someone that isn't just simply a casual viewer, a hobbyist or an enthusiast of anime talk about the medium. The things we focus on from the story's, character's, animation quality and design's, soundtrack's, seiyuu's and enjoyment's point-of-view I feel are never this focused nor explained or even noticed most of the time. People who read and write stories will more clearly spot and ponder about aspects relating. People who imagine characters and spot themselves into other's shoes are more easily able to see the world that other's live in. People who draw and design characters, backgrounds and the world will understand what colours and level of shading needed within a certain frame. People who listen to music and compose it will be able to hear and understand the hardwork to create such a magnificent track with embodies certain emotions. People who sing or use their voice will know how hard it is to alter the voice to produce different pitches and noises which in-turn help convey emotions of characters. And enjoyment simply stems from one or more of these aspects that we are able to pick up and if we aren't, some might seek to find out what other's have found that we have missed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Re-Watching Anime You'll no longer be surprised what happens since you already know shit. That changes the experience.
But if you don't want to re-watch a series because you're scared your opinion of the show will change, that's a stupid idea if any. That's like opting into being ignorant. As things happen, people move on. Your first opinion shouldn't be your only opinion, otherwise we will live our lives on first impressions. Oh wait. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Previous Series Affecting The Current Series Good to Bad: "Ah, not as good as the last series." Your perception of the series becomes diminished. Bad to Good: "OMG, it's so much better than the last series." Your perception of the series becomes inflated. I believe it's underestimated how much the prior show really affects your viewing experience and don't take into account how drastic your enjoyment, and in-turn perception of a show will turn out. However, this feeling is mostly felt in full once you re-watch said series with the experience of "This is so fucking good, why didn't I think it when I watched it?" or "This is so fucking meh, why did I think it was so good?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoyment During Watching and After Watching In the Moment Joy: Fuck yeah After not as good: You calm the fuck down and think about it. Meh After just as good: Fucking legit ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Watching All The Masterpieces I believe that watching masterful series will be a great watching, learning and analytical experience, however, watching the vast yet numbered masterpieces isn't the best course of action. The keyword being numbered. Eventually you will have exhausted the very apex of the medium and have nowhere but down to go from where you end up and the journey from there, I can only imagine, is unbearably painful. The feeling is close to the Void ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Void Nothing is good as this. I'll never find something like this. Anime sucks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Hype YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY Delivers: Very good Doesn't: Worse than intended ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Favourite Not Best No. It has a correlation, but not the same thing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Favourite Animu Turning Not After Re-Watch henriiez said: Bleach; my gateway drug to anime. The series that brought me to the doorstep of the amazing medium.
This is most likely due to the fact that when you watch more anime and expand your library of anime you've seen, you'll know what contributes to making a series you like and is in turn, good. Once you start noticing these problems, your favourite series becomes nothing more than a big compilation of flaws, this is assuming you didn't watch the apex of what anime had to offer as one of your first few series. There also seems to be some kind of misconception of your favourite series must be the best series. It doesn't have to be anything except what you call it, "Your Favourite." Your favourite anime can be multiple reasons, the quality, the significance that the anime had on your life like introducing you to the medium and making life long friends through it, or source of coping through escapism or numerous different reasons. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anime for Escapism Not me. |
henriiezSep 14, 2019 3:53 PM
| Anime's Audio Language Dub First off, to clarify for the people that don't know or just did really bad typos:
Make sure you type the right one otherwise you're either a normal person, a failed anime fan, a Japanese person or the average anime fan, respectively. As for me, I'm an average anime fan. I don't watch any English dubbed anime like a failed anime fan. Don't ever want to hear about that shit. But all jokes aside, you do you, you goddamned failed anime fan. The reasons as to why I watch anime with the original audio of Japanese Dubbing are:
Me gushing over Sawashiro Miyuki: For me, that's Sawashiro Miyuki with her outstanding performances particularly Inaba Himeko from Kokoro Connect which I fell completely and utterly in love with. Ever since, I've always looked for her roles and distinguish her voice in a pool of characters even if I'm not looking for it, let alone paying attention to it. The quality of her voice-acting hasn't been just noticed by me, but also other seiyuu voting her as one of the best seiyuu amongst the oldest veterans in the industry. She being 20 years younger the youngest one on the Top 100 voted. The Seiyuu Industry This is a comparison between the Eastern (Japanese) and Western (American) voice acting industry. Initial Thoughts: The Japanese language and culture is much more different than ours. As we have more movies and TV series than we do Cartoons, and the demographics for such shows are just about polar opposites, in Japan anime is a common medium to enjoy media. They have a series that has been going on for an absurdly long time with 7000 episodes under it's belt and cycled through a number of generations and voice-actors. And it's enjoyed during family time around dinner time or such a time where everyone gathers around. And so, there's more of a gateway for voice-acting as we are more lead towards acting as a whole with a voice-acting as a side-career/job. |
henriiezSep 14, 2018 1:45 AM
| Anime or Manga Both types have different ways of expression. henriiez said: Adapating A Series from either a Light Novel or Manga; The Differences Leanne: "The differences of adapting an anime from a light novel as opposed to a manga. The good ones verses the bad ones (ie. Baccano vs SAO)" Light novel's are able to more easily convey feelings through monologue and small descriptions whilst such explanations suffer in an anime and manga format that encourages them to be written to try and implement realism through nuances. Can't just have a character shown "And he nervously reached for the door, suffering existential dread of having to mingle with the cruel merciless reality, that he has to go to school to uphold such images." Can't get that descriptive in an anime or manga without being uncontrollably overbearing. Well this is more a personal preference about whether what you want is colourful, or just colour, because some shows are like that, music and voice of characters over a more developed story because it has more content than it's anime counterpart and use imagination of the scenes yourself rather than have them shown to you. However if you couldn't careless and it was a smaller problem when you consider time because you have real life prioritizes, then I would recommend reading manga since it's something you get to do at your own pace rather than having to sit down for 24 minutes to watch a whole episode. Although there are some short anime out there that you could check out. If you are one of those people who don't do this or anime is simply one of those you have on whilst you also do something else, no matter which one has high priority, you make me cringe. Ugh. But I can't stop you, although if you did this with manga then sure, knock yourself out. Read that one page you're on 15 times. But watching anime is like driving, look away for a second and you miss a lot more than you would like useless it hits you in the face or comes to bite you in the arse later. Watching anime takes time but it's easily calculated compared to manga since it depends on the dialogue and number of panels they have per page or per spread. A 12 episode series would take 4 hours and 48 minutes if the episodes were 24 minutes and you didn't skip the opening and ending theme songs to get back to watching the series faster. Although, realistically, I calculate 2 episodes for every hour so if something comes aka. toilet breaks or annoyances or distractions or obligations or whatever, you get the point. Check the fridge. It gets lonely. Watching Anime or Reading Manga: Which One Do You Do First? (If you're going to do the other) If you watch anime first, I believe, you get to feel the suspense through the sound and movements of the characters and scenes which really brings out the shock value and tension of the scenes. And that allows for a better emphasized humor I believe, watching Danshi Koukou no Nichijou or if you have no idea what I'm talking about, Daily Lives of Highschool Idiots, for reference. Whilst reading Manga after the anime will have you reading the content which eliminates the shock value, even though it would be regardless because you know what is going to happen, and if it still hits you, then it's a good. Anyway, but with all the shock-value taken out of the equation, you get the "full value" of the scene and story by not being taken aback by the events unfolding. Although, I understand about it's boring because you've seen it all already so there's like no point, like fair enough, which kinda makes reading manga first easier, with some drawbacks. Reading manga first allows you to take control of the series, visualize the movements, voices and grandness or subtle-ness of the scenes. Which you have to adjust when you watch it animated, especially if the voices are different than what you expected them to be. But this way you get to soak the content by making it yours, than if you watched the anime since it does it the way the director would translate the scenes unfolding which may be different from the original source material or yours. If you simply read manga and just look at the pictures, that's cool. Nothing wrong with that. Not going to tell you how to live your live. And if it's a light-novel. GG. Basically, watch anime for the umpf and read manga for the content. Umpf being horror, thriller, comedy, action and content being more romance, adventure, mystery, although mystery works in both cases. So just have fun with it. |
henriiezSep 19, 2018 1:14 AM
| Anime Introductions: Story and Setting A lot of series follow a formula of ordinary main character + new power or new character or new situation and then normally starting by the end of the first episode ended. There is one series that puts me in a good mood when it comes to this. Legendary Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. It starts off in the middle of a fight without useless monologue and without trying to introduce the characters and all that comes naturally later. If they have a name, then their name will be called. If they have a special power, then we will find out when they need to us it or when it will be advantages for certain situations. If they have connections or past experiences with other characters or events, then that too will come across. Rather than the story being started, we start off in the story. The series called Baccano has the best way of explaining this. There is no start of the story and no end. The start is simply where you happen to choose where you begin to see the story first developing, although, the characters bitch, parents love, their habits have already been developed, we just happened to start seeing this after those events. I would say this is like meeting someone in high school for the first time. Sure, this is where your story with them is, but they had their life before the time you met them. About 12 years. Which isn't anything to sneeze at. Years of content right in front of you. But this is simply where your story begins. Unless you're somehow starting at the Big Bang or whatever theory that began life and whatnot. Anime Introduction: Impact and Development Normal series have that all important impactful first episode which like make you come back for more. However, from experience, the shows that don't have the most impactful introductions do better of in the long run unless the impactful series introduction continues just as strong throughout, something like Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, sort of, if you've ever seen that. Although, a series that really had that going for me that isn't crazy like that is Kokoro Connect but eventually lost it's steam. They can only do so much before it starts getting shit. But Gurren Lagann just gets bigger and bigger. The slow series take their time to build their characters, interactions, settings and develops further as a collection when the main problem of the series kicks in. I think the best way to explain this is with graphs. The shit series is like a linear graph that has a negative slope. Heaps of impact at the start, then impact starts to fall off as more and more episodes go by. The awesome series is like a exponential graph. Starts off low and then just jumps beyond places we can reach and really really quickly. Although people would normally dislike it being slow, these are often the most loved because of how much there is to fall in love with since they take the time to build from the ground up so we find things to love ourselves rather than liking what's there or not at all. Since we don't have much of a choice. So it's do or die. It comes down to everything from taste, experience and expectations. Which all tie into each other, taste is acquired from experience; experience gives as the knowledge for what to expect and that builds up our taste. People who have "good taste" have experienced a large variety, quality or substance from discussions, thoughts and whatever other means they have of obtaining knowledge. All which would help them be able to expect certain things from series which newer people to the medium have yet to build up. Which is why there are things people call good introduction to anime type series. And there are different types of goodness as well, if you like me coming from a medium not known for it's story, gaming then we want to hype stuff or things to relate to, but this almost applies to everyone, which is why Sword Art Online gets so much love. If you came from a medium like Novels, TV series and movies, then you might want something with a little more depth or be it as you might, you might not care and just want all that blood sweat and tears kind of series although those in it's own right, I would generalize are better than common anime type series. |
henriiezSep 14, 2018 1:19 AM
| My Big Three Anime Series There used to be a sacred title of "Big 3" referring to the mammoth series of:
Which no longer exist as Naruto and Bleach have ended their runs whilst One Piece is still standing strong on top of the shounen jump ladder. These being the discussion and the memes I've only heard of but I was brought in during this time but didn't parttake in the discussion let alone the community. I was simply one who had watched Bleach and some other minor series you may have heard of like Death Note, Ouran Highschool Host Club, Toradora and some other ones. However, during my time integrating myself within the discussion, I noticed that I had a Big Three of my own, all unique from one another. They are Baccano, Fullmental Alchemist: Brotherhood and Mushishi.
I think the biggest take away is that a story can all excel, in all different ways, but one must know how to accommodate those different ways. Baccano's non-sequential but ultimately short story, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood's traditional action adventure story that spans over enough time to see them change and Mushishi's lack of an overarching story really make the respective series shine. |
henriiezSep 14, 2018 1:44 AM
| Opening and Ending Theme Songs For those of you that skip the theme songs, shame on you. I don't care whether you are trying to get to the next episode, fucking watch that ending theme song you degenerate fuck. And if you skip it because you don't have time, don't fucking watch the anime. Read the fucking episode synopsis or someshit that will actually save you some time. In any case, here's some shit I like about the theme songs:
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henriiezAug 10, 2019 2:19 AM
| Random Dump Anime is Weird I believe the Japanese culture is the reason why anime can be such a bizarre medium. "Classics" "For someone like me, I would consider One Piece, Naruto and Bleach to be pretty big Classics. But if you look at the generation before, that actually was a giant balls deep niche that no one knew of, you're talking Cowboy Bebop, Trigun and Akira since those are what got the word out about what anime was. And then Studio Ghibli really nailing that in for the wider audience. But if you talk about the more modern generation, but old enough to call classics, like the 2002-2010 generation, of a crap tons of different "classics' of Hajime no Ippo, Toradora, Lovely Complex, Azumanga Daioh, Monster, Fullmetal Alchemist, Kimi ni Todoke, and many more. Or the stupid kiddies age of SAO, AoT, NGNL, ERASED, Tokyo Ghoul, Re:Zero, Parasyte, etc etc etc" -Henry, (11 September, 2018) Watching Filler Favourite Studio And my top studios are Production IG for their Overall Amazing Anime, through Sound, Animation, Character and Story. You can find many series that excel in one or more of those categories. Kyoto Animation, because the aesthetic is not bad and the Animation Quality and Consistency rank it as easily the most consistent high quality high quantity studio. Studio ufotable for the Garden of Sinners and Fate franchise. They speak for themselves. The quality in Animation, Aesthetic ans Sound. I'm not the biggest fan of story and characters, but many, I bet even you, would have to disagree. I had high hopes for Silver Link (or something) for their work on Non Non Biyori and amazing animation on the fucking Fate Illiya (?) series. But I haven't seen anything noteworthy since them. |
henriiezDec 5, 2018 5:07 AM
| What is Execution? (From a Story Perspective) Having An Opinion On A Series You Haven't Finished Manly Animu + Animu Role Models Old Animu vs. New Animu Recommeding shiet Interesting Links Elistist |
henriiezAug 17, 2019 12:08 AM
| Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun Questions:
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henriiezOct 3, 2018 11:14 PM
| Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e (TV) - Episode 1 Reaction The concept this series presents is a high-end highschool aimed at letting students reach their potential in the working world, whether it's preparing them for getting into university or straight into the work force. The problem I have with this concept and the way they incorporate this idea is badly done seeing as Japan is known for their high-standards and extremely competitive schooling system with almost an entrance exam needed to be taken and passed for their entrance to be considered. So the idea of "normal" students joining this elite highschool that boasts a 100% acceptance rate after graduating that seems to let anyone join, is idiotic. Especially seeing as it was a government funded project. And even if they did cover a large range of achievements, would that not be divided up into a different type of schooling, seeing as they have built a what seems to be fully functional city within the campus. Leaving the campus once admitted is a rare opportunity. The idea of the students catching the bus into school on that first day, already seems out of place. Not to mention, the obnoxious attitude of the "blonde-rich-boy" character, which goes completely against the known attitude of Japan as a whole -- as Boku no Hero Academia calls it, "One For All." And for such a school to exist, there must be talk as to how it operates, which leads back into the 100% acceptance rate, which means that most would be already within the industry and work force. Even if it was a recently developed program, the fact of the matter still stands that such treatment of students would most likely not be allowed, unless there was a clear statement that the students knew what they were getting into, which is not what happened ending of the first episode. And the fact of the matter is, the series would work exponentially better a psychological anime which it seems to be trying to do anyway, in a rather roundabout way, trying to show how out of sync everyone is and most likely unity for the "One For All" message. And they will most likely explain all the thought-processes that drive them for this idea, like in episode 2 where the main character suggests that the way of thinking, "We'd be better off without them since they'll drag us down" is flawed. If they threw away that idea and stuck with students who has full disclosure of how the school operates under a very cutthroat system, the series would be a high-end psychological anime where it has the chance to pit people who excel in academics, music, art, science, information technology, sports and the wide range of other skills to really bring out how to really thrive within the real-world industry. To beat someone at highschool is simply grades, but to beat someone in the industry means money. Which this would give a head start to with the points system that doubles as currency. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sword Art Online: Gun Gale Alternative - Verdict: Sucks So the stupid premise is that a girl who is stupidly conscious of her stupidly tall build stupidly goes into VR in order to stupidly escape the stupidly cruel reality. She stupidly stumbles across 50 games that all stupidly have randomized avatar's and stupidly gets all stupidly tall avatar's until GGO. And we'll just work with that stupid premise. So, in a game where it's a tactical shooter, with customizable avatar's, they have the character randomized to start off the game. So, basically, if you get a female character or a small character, or in this case, BOTH, you have an unnatural advantage in a game where it's meant to be skill-based. And at the top level of a skill-based game, there needs to be regulations. If pros have advantages purely on their avatar, without the mention of being able to move at inhuman speeds or possess absurd strength, this so called skill-based tactical shooter, turns into an RNG dice roll in order to get a small cutesy girl avatar. And so, if you bring in the natural order of disgusting human beings, you'll realise people will be trying to farm this female avatars, which will upset the balance that is GGO. And people could buy more copies of the game in order to try and obtain these avatar's and they could exponentially increase in price in order just to get ahold of them, even more so to try and balance these advantages. OR THEY COULD NOT AND JUST GIVE PLAYERS THE FUCKING CUSTOMIZE AVATARS! Or they could make it a female shooter only game. Or make it so there's gender specific tournaments, or general tournaments. But then again, that's going to cause a lot of backlash either way. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I Want To Eat Your Pancreas - Trying To Gather My Thoughts Needs to be re-written because it's 2 rants just put together with hardly any edit The poor overall characterization doesn't takeaway from the themes that the movie explores. The matter of death, the affects of the label of walking around with the grim reaper on your back and how people alter how they treat you and how you mist seem to everyone else. The docotrs give you the truth. Friends give you happiness, especially in a less standoff-ish way if they don't know you're dying. And it's the one that's dying that's told that "They are so strong." whilst if they were to breakdown, there's really no one can help pick them up from down there. So when someone comes along, finds your secret of your circumstances and seems unaffected it, the salvation that Sakura finds in that is why she can have the best of both worlds, "You know I'm dying but don't treat me any differently than anyone who wasn't." And so when Haruki ultimately picks her diary up, the "Fuck it" mentality kicks in and she just lets him know, where he either thinks she's lying or he just doesn't care. We find out he changes those two ideas; whilst grabbing her facial wash he sees the bag of medication which ultimately sets the hammer down that she's definitely not lying and is definitely dying; and her impulsive "dying" nature dragging him along and him ultimately opening up and getting to know her makes him start caring for her, and wanting her to keep living at the scene where they watched the fireworks and ultimately the last time he ever sees her. Haruki who seems to be an empty slate is more complicated than that. He appears like that but the fact that he loses it and explains it by "THIS is why I keep to myself and don't get involved with others." justifies why he has shut himself off because he doesn't want to hurt anyone anymore due to past trauma, although this isn't explained at all which annoys me and has been annoying me for the last hour. And Sakura is the embodiment of the themes, a strong exterior and quite literally a crumbling dying interior. For Haruki, him being closed off was due to past traumas and he found book as his escape. And so books became his almost eternal escape and coping mechanism, so when Sakura died, what's the first course of action? Read until you have nothing else to read. And it's the coping mechanism that ultimately brings him back in the form of Sakura's dairy. The more Haruki gets influenced by Sakura the more he lets the interaction change him slowly until the point where she's become apart of what he sees as his normal life despite how brizarre it can be. And like Sakura says, her personality has been formed by the interactions with her friends and she doesn't have much of herself apart from the pancreas cancer (?) that's killing her. And the knowledge of knowing she's dying is why she didn't tell anyone. Everyone will talk to you on eggshells like her family was, and that was no fun for her and we can bet that was incredibly depressing as well, and so she decided not to tell anyone. And this isn't to say that the anime isn't without it's weak writing points. How did they rent that hotel room? How did they get alcohol? Why was her ex-boyfriend standing in the rain outside the road that lead to Sakura's house? Did they forget where they were after that point in the rain? And did the ex-boyfriend just leave because of that? Just how far did he get before they had their moment? The characterization wasn't so much poor as it wasn't shown to us. We kind of had to put the pieces together. We don't get much characterization in terms of backstory but we do get it in terms of their actions. The compositions sure weren't interesting, and the at the feet behind the back looking up shots were just "??? Why?" but everything else, especially character animation was spot on and consistent throughout. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sword Art Online: Alicization - New SAO Sucks Ok, for one, their incredibly lack of nuance in trying to immerse the viewer into their world. They try to refer to what everyone in their world knows as common sense, and yet have the audacity to refer to everything as "that" and "this" then go to explain what they all are. They even had trouble trying to show that the save is cold, and have to show their breath with the light, AND then go ahead and say it themselves. This simply could have been done with "It's gotten colder, I'm getting the chills* (as compared to how much cooler it would be without all the fucking ice further down.) And stupid ass thought-process before entering the cave. "We've gone this far, so we have to keep going." You haven't entered the fucking cave, if they were literally at the dead dragon, that's a "Too far in. Can't go back" situation. But we can cough that up to kids being dumb, but weak argument. Kids can more than easily back out. And then when Kirito finds the fucking sword and shit near the dragon, goes ahead and "infers" that the dragon was killed by a human. And viewers how don't have the definitive answer can bring into question hundreds of other things that may have caused those markings, although we don't get to really see the markings, just a clean-cut object. And again, and say that kids are dumb. The biggest problem with this is that we find out later that it could be people as old as 16-17 bringing out these conclusions, although, how much knowledge they have from the rest of their brain is clearly up for debate unlike that stupid dragon-killing. And then for some continuity parts, when they are taking Alice, Kirito and the other cunt were standing behind the crowd and in the next scene, Alice is like bounded and chained ready to be cucked with the dragon. HOW DID THE SCENE PLAY OUT? HOW DID THAT HAPPEN WITHOUT KIRITO AND BLONDIE TRYING TO STOP THEM? HELLO?! There's so fucking debate about that part, fucking shithouse. And then out of the "game." Fucking Klien is shooting out of the car and the next scene, he's the one driving the damn thing. And when the car is going around, it has windows, whilst close up? NONE. Fuck yes. And then exposition. And cheap Kirito sleeping joke that's meant to casually bring up his "other job." #nuanced AND AFTER THE EXPOSITION, MORE EXPOSITION. And in the most unrealistic way. Just some bar with no one else around, and if there are, there's no interaction with them, and it's just them talking with nothing else happening. Not to mention, the fucking cup camera perspective? What the fuck are they trying to invoke there? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari - Horrible The premise is fucking stupid by how they summon heroes of utter uselessness in order to save their world from demise. First off, the world is set up as a game with experience, class-upgrades and spawning monsters and yet they don't have anyone strong enough to hold their own. Not to mention, we later on find out that there are other nations that all wanted heroes of their own to defend against the waves which the heroes were summoned to defend. If that wasn't bad enough, they were all level 1 on arrival and basically useless as any kind of "Heroes" they were meant to be. Because the members of their party level up with them. This would be fine if either, the heroes summoned were of crazy levels but due to lack of mastery, had to learn how to use their skills or if the heroes summoned were of combat expertise. What's worse is on arrive, all of them, besides the hero, question where they are nor accept the request to defend the world they were just summoned into and start making demands like they all knew each other from before. Not only did they not know each other, and then the series goes out of it's way to make the MC the odd one out and this was before making him lose his fucking mind and hating the world. But then they agree to train and defend the waves, for some cash, in another world risking their lives for just a chance to go back to their own world. Why? Just don't fight and lose the plot armour. The dialogue throughout the show is terribly bad and leaves no room for being nuanced, let alone realistic, and literally makes the characters completely and utterly stupid. None of the scenes play out such to say that they have truly went their separate ways and decided to grind their ways through levels in order to be even strong enough to defend the waves. And then their actions are completely void of any logic, especially if you were to consider the fact that their party members are from that world and should be knowledgeable about the mechanics of fighting monsters. |
henriiezSep 14, 2019 3:54 PM
| Weathering With You - A Shinkai-esque Romance The premise of the movie doesn't lend itself to a more spiritual direction but nonetheless is injected into it. How everything gets linked together doesn't mesh nor makes any coherent sense from how one else made any effort to seek out the only place with sunlight during a storm (despite the movie having people interested in urban legends and superstition) to knowingly abusing the weather powers for the benefit of a brief moment in time. They go and interview a large number of people to find out information about the "Sunshine Girl" from supposed eye-witnesses to fortune tellers and the like, but upon actually meeting her, don't pass on any information that she may need/want to know. |
henriiezAug 27, 2019 1:01 AM
| Started 04/09/2019 (September) https://mangarock.com/manga/mrs-serie-200132745 |
| Hours Watched 2013 1714 episodes 2015 375 episodes 2016 15584m 259h 44m 10.82 days 566 episodes 2017 301 episodes 2018 247 episodes 2019 151 episodes 2020 100~ episodes |
henriiezJan 29, 2021 6:18 PM
| Type Test The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. The quick onyx goblin jumps over the lazy dwarf. Amazingly, few discotheques provide jukeboxes. |
| Favourite Moments Kimi no Todoke - Episode 3 - Kuronomua's Smile whilst teaching Class. Aria the Origination - Episode 6 - Alicia's teaching method. |
| There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. |
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