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I'm going to redesign my profile at some point, but for now I've trimmed it way down.


"Anime is like...uh...it's like a cycle of love, emotional...*long pause*...emotional distance, and self-loathing"
- a sleep-deprived, drunk ArbiterofWhim during a Skype group call

I'm just your average dingus swinging his pingus through the neverending cycle of binging anime and then going months without watching a single episode. When I'm not roleplaying as the anime equivalent of a relapsing alcoholic, I'm probably gardening, 3d modeling/printing, sperging about nutrition and fitness, cosplaying, or whatever else sounds interesting. Sometimes I drive several hours back to my university to hang with my underclassmen and relive a bit of the fun times when I was the anime club president.

If the ratings on my list seem low, that's just because I use the rating system as it's actually intended. Read the description that MAL provides. 3 is "Very Bad", 5 is "Average", 6 is "Fine", 8 is "Very Good", etc. It's really not complicated. If it's an average show, give it a 5. People who use 7 for average are the reason for the scoring inflation on MAL. Your shit taste is probably also a factor :^)
With that said, the gap between my scores widen below 5 and above 7. The average anime is relatively mediocre garbage so for things to be below a 5 they need to be objectively bad (not just mediocre) and/or a struggle to watch. 5 and 6 are somewhat interchangeable for me. Usually a 6 is just a 5 that I enjoyed watching because it was cute or I chuckled a lot or whatever. Just think of it like a bell curve distribution.
Oh also, an anime should be able to stand on its own merit. People should be able to watch a show and sufficiently understand the majority of it without needing to have read the source material. I don't care how much better the source material is. I'm not going to give a bad adaptation free points just because the manga was good.


Statistics and stuff
https://anime.plus/arbiterofwhim
https://vndb.org/u71561/list

I'm also working on adding a tagging system for shows in my Completed section. Only a few are tagged so far, but I'll add more when I have the time.
B - "Beginner Friendly. Good entry-level suggestion of decent quality without much meta knowledge required. Only for Season 1's."
C - "College. Anime set in college, one of my favorite subgenres."
D - "DVD. I own this anime on physical media. DVD, Bluray, etc."
E - "Essential Viewing. Something every anime fan should watch due to quality, fame, cultural significance, or similar reasons."
F - "Favorite. This show is a personal favorite of mine."
J - "Junk Food. So-bad-it's-good anime. Best enjoyed with friends and/or alcohol."
M - "Memes. Lots of memes, gifs, clipable moments, etc."
N - "Normie Friendly. Approachable to mom and pop non-anime viewers. Little to no lolicon, crass fanservice, meta humor, etc."