(I change avatar all the time because it's fun)
Hey everybody. I'm just some unimportant denizen of the internet who happens to enjoy anime and stuff. Even though the time I spend enjoying these mediums seem to be decreasing by the day, this hobby of mine will surely follow me to the grave. I mean, I'd like it to at least.
I watch mostly anything, and don't care much about the genre of the anime or manga itself. If the synopsis or premise sounds interesting enough, I'm game. The genre doesn't, after all, make the anime. But even with that said, I always keep my eyes open for some good mystery/detective fiction. Can't go wrong with that after all.
Anyways, it's always nice to see something that hasn't been done before. Female protagonists are a definite plus, as long as they are not assassinated by their writers.
In any case, the market for things like this has a tendency to occasionally grow stale. That is inevitable, Japan does have shit taste after all (I'm just kidding). The effort goes to that which brings in the most money, that's just how stuff works (Capitalism, ho!). Nonetheless, it's nice to see that anime can take place outside of Highschool every now and then.
I'm a big fan of TRIGGER if for no other reason than how their energetic and joyful shows like Luluco, LwA, KlK, BNA and Inferno Cop helps keep my nihilistic disposition in check. Shaft is a studio I try to keep my eye on as well, since they are unbeatable when it comes to style and personality. Ikuhara is GOAT.
I'll never forgive DEEN for what they did to Umineko. On that note, Subahibi and Unimeko are pretty cool, you should check them out!
I'll be forever awaiting Studio Orange to animate season 2 of Houseki no Kuni.
I probably haven't added every single manga or anime that I have ever watched or read to my lists, but if I were to stumble upon a series that I've already finished I'll just dump it there later on. But most of it should be there.
My Manga list is trash and not accurate at all so please disregard it.
I am not a big fan of the numerical rating system, but alas, hypocrite that I am I use it all the same. Honestly though, I'd much rather read someone's thoughts on a certain show and the reasons for why such thoughts occur than to be given a meager number. Usually, one is not without the other but then again, if one can manage to put their thoughts into spoken words or written text, the number is in truth rather meaningless. Personally, I find myself changing scores back and forth all the time. I never quite feel like I get it right. I just can't sum up my feelings for a show with a simple number. I don't think it is possible to accurately convert your experience with a series into math. In reality, art can all too easily add up to more than the sum of its parts. A number can say little about the material itself whilst simultaneously meaning different things for different people. Art is a mixture of the subjective and objective both, and to pretend these can be separated and coherently reviewed independently of each other is rather daft in my opinion.
To put it bluntly: A show is something to experience for yourself.
To alleviate this, I have written a short summary of my thought on the anime in my list under the "Tags" thingy. Buuuut... They are hardly anything to go by. Many of them are poorly written and hardly thought out. I just have them there to give people a small idea of what my thoughts were right after finishing the show. But as I said, most of them are shit. But yeah, that's just my hastily put together, poorly written thoughts on the matter. If someone for some reason should be interested in what I think about a specific show, just ask. Really though, there's a ton of reviewers both on this, and other sites, that are much better at putting their thoughts into words than me.
And that's about it. If you've read all this and have any questions or comments, feel free to leave a message. I probably won't answer very fast since I tend to be very inactive on this site and am somewhat unsociable. I'm a lurker rather than a poster, I suppose. But then again, I'm not important enough for anyone to fret about, really. You're free to drop a friend request for whatever reason and I most probably will accept it without question. You do you, I won't mind either way. Seriously, I'm happy enough if you've just read this far. Thank you, sincerely.
That's everything for me, have a nice day/night and remember: Without love, it cannot be seen.
Yeah, one of the things that made it awesome was all of those characters who I didn't really know much about dying in awesome ways that actually made me sad that I didn't get to learn more about them. And then after the whole Dimensional Labyrinth deal in the series they were all there and that was sad, but in the movie it was just Kamina and Kittan, which was just kind of lame. The roll call scene with all of the mechas showing up and kicking ass in the final battle did make up for it a lot though. Still can't believe they ended it that way though...
It's all good man, that sucks that it crashed for so long.
Well, I finally did it. It took me 4+ hours due to loading times and the Megavideo blocks but I finally watched Lagann-hen and, like you said, a lot of interesting changes made. And also, last battle scene was so ridiculously awesome, just epic. Cool how everyone got their own showcase of their mechas. Pacing was a little off, my only real problem with the story though was that Kittan and Nia still died. I was pretty upset...
Yeah they were most definitely a help. I figured that you knew what the guy in your pic was from? Haha.
Hmm well I'm not a huge fan of reading manga so I may just go with the anime.
Yeah the episodic format was the reason why I had to put Mushishi on hold, it seems like a deep series, but the events seemed somewhat repeatative and it doesn't seem like there's much of a story.
I enjoy shoujo-ai and yuri quite a bit actually. Haha. I just started reading Girl Friends and I'm really enjoying it, looks like I might finish the whole series in less than a day, something I never do usually. Haha.
I know that I really need to watch all three, it's just a matter of finding the time, plus I'm not so sure I want anything incredibly dramatic or sad right now. I'm thinking I'll probably watch Clannad over Christmas break, then I'll have a lot of time to dedicate to it and with snow on the ground it'll give me a good excuse to not go outside for a while. Haha.
Yeah I literally added Onani Master Kurosawa a few hours before your comment because someone mentioned it in the forums and I saw how high it was ranked, your rec only confirms that. I also found in slightly ironic that the top reviewer for Kimi wa Girlfriend had the same profile pic as you since you recommended it...
Ok, I heard that the Kimi ni Todoke anime diverges from the manga, any truth to that? I might just go with both in the end depending.
And how can you say that these recommendations aren't top notch? Look how many you gave me, no way I could match that. Haha. I've definitely got a lot more stuff on my plate now cause of you. I really appreciate it. I could only imagine the list you could make if you wanted to take the time...
And for the record, I LOVE shoujo-ai and yuri, so good call on that one. Haha.
Hey glad to have been of help then man. Petshop of Horrors only has four episodes as an anime so that's pretty short, but I'm also pretty sure there are like 10 volumes of the manga out there so a lot more gets covered there.
Yeah, at first I was a little put off by how ridiculous Needless was and it was a little bit annoying at times, but in the end I really ended up enjoying it.
I really need to get back on Mushishi as well. I'm about 6 episodes in and I really think you'll enjoy it, at the time though the episodic format was just a little bit frustrating to me.
Anyhow I'll turn around and ask you for some recommendations if you've got any. Any really good somewhat under-the-radar romance anime/manga out there that aren't on my list that you know of?
Hey it's cool man that just kind of really sucks for you so I'm sorry to hear it. Is something going on with the site, I saw something in the forums, didn't know if it was legit?
Anyhow I'm thinking that you would really enjoy some Black Lagoon right now. I see it's on your on-hold list. I just recently read the first 5 volumes of the manga and started watching the anime and it's pretty nice badass action with some fun.
Also, not on your list:
Noir- It's one of the girls-with-guns series, I saw the first episode and it looks pretty bloody but good, and I hear it's something of a classic
Petshop of Horrors- Another older one but it has got some nice psychological action going on, even if it's a little short.
Needless- I just finished this a couple months ago and I really enjoyed it. It's kind of a shounen series parody. It can be a little bit ridiculous at times and kind of pissed me off, but it's got some cool fights and a TTGL kind of feel.
Strait Jacket- It's a 3-OVA series but I saw it on TV all at once as a movie. Pretty violent and bloody though, so some nice appeal.
Exactly. That's one of the reasons that it is one of my favorite anime out there, and it was like the 3rd anime I ever watched after Yu Yu Hakusho and Cardcaptor Sakura, which also had some pretty good endings in my opinion. So naturally at the time I thought that all anime had good, conclusive endings (boy was I wrong haha). I feel like an ending can really make or break a series and like you said TTGL had the perfect balance of sad and happy and had some closure.
Wow that's quite a list you got done there. I'm going home from college this weekend so I'm going to have a bit of free time, so I think I'll try to finish off a couple series. I'm always willing to recommend stuff, anything in particular you're looking for/ have in mind?
Watching the TTGl movies on a big screen would be absolutely awesome. Haha. I haven't seen the second movie yet, but I hear the battles are waaay more intense. And apparently how it ended is different too? Which will be interesting to see because honestly, when I first saw that ending I felt like I got punched in the gut. It was so bittersweet but kind of actually made sense and I almost was happy it wasn't some "happily ever after" scenario. Almost...
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It's all good man, that sucks that it crashed for so long.
Hmm well I'm not a huge fan of reading manga so I may just go with the anime.
Yeah the episodic format was the reason why I had to put Mushishi on hold, it seems like a deep series, but the events seemed somewhat repeatative and it doesn't seem like there's much of a story.
I enjoy shoujo-ai and yuri quite a bit actually. Haha. I just started reading Girl Friends and I'm really enjoying it, looks like I might finish the whole series in less than a day, something I never do usually. Haha.
Yeah I literally added Onani Master Kurosawa a few hours before your comment because someone mentioned it in the forums and I saw how high it was ranked, your rec only confirms that. I also found in slightly ironic that the top reviewer for Kimi wa Girlfriend had the same profile pic as you since you recommended it...
Ok, I heard that the Kimi ni Todoke anime diverges from the manga, any truth to that? I might just go with both in the end depending.
And how can you say that these recommendations aren't top notch? Look how many you gave me, no way I could match that. Haha. I've definitely got a lot more stuff on my plate now cause of you. I really appreciate it. I could only imagine the list you could make if you wanted to take the time...
And for the record, I LOVE shoujo-ai and yuri, so good call on that one. Haha.
Yeah, at first I was a little put off by how ridiculous Needless was and it was a little bit annoying at times, but in the end I really ended up enjoying it.
I really need to get back on Mushishi as well. I'm about 6 episodes in and I really think you'll enjoy it, at the time though the episodic format was just a little bit frustrating to me.
Anyhow I'll turn around and ask you for some recommendations if you've got any. Any really good somewhat under-the-radar romance anime/manga out there that aren't on my list that you know of?
Anyhow I'm thinking that you would really enjoy some Black Lagoon right now. I see it's on your on-hold list. I just recently read the first 5 volumes of the manga and started watching the anime and it's pretty nice badass action with some fun.
Also, not on your list:
Noir- It's one of the girls-with-guns series, I saw the first episode and it looks pretty bloody but good, and I hear it's something of a classic
Petshop of Horrors- Another older one but it has got some nice psychological action going on, even if it's a little short.
Needless- I just finished this a couple months ago and I really enjoyed it. It's kind of a shounen series parody. It can be a little bit ridiculous at times and kind of pissed me off, but it's got some cool fights and a TTGL kind of feel.
Strait Jacket- It's a 3-OVA series but I saw it on TV all at once as a movie. Pretty violent and bloody though, so some nice appeal.
Wow that's quite a list you got done there. I'm going home from college this weekend so I'm going to have a bit of free time, so I think I'll try to finish off a couple series. I'm always willing to recommend stuff, anything in particular you're looking for/ have in mind?