I am just an average anime watcher.
I do not watch all those big mainstream shows like naruto, one piece, dbz etc. I also do not hate people who watch these shows. Everyone has their own tastes.
I like animes with good story. For me, the main focus is on story, everything else comes later on.
I also love soundtracks quite a lot. I am a big soundtrack fan. Like, man i dont know how to say how big of a soundtrack fan i am, be it anime, movies, series etc etc.
I watch around 1 anime in two weeks or at the very most 2 anime in two weeks, nothing more. I prefer to complete one anime with understanding everything than watch multiple simultaneously. I started watching anime quite recently and currently, one of my friend has been shortlisting good animes for me to watch so my mean score is high because of that probably.
Have been going through stuff on my own now most of the time.
Keeping all that aside, I like playing AAA games and only MOBA I play is DOTA 2, not even CS :P.
I am not a heavy review writer, i just like to keep things to myself to be honest. I will rarely write any review. I am also not a much experienced guy in watching anime so its waste asking me about various things.
I also do not drop any anime no matter how bad it is.
Below is a list of anime which i am a big fanboy of and its a waste if you tell me how bad they are. I will just ignore any random hate comments against the mentioned animes to me :D
Code geass Season 1 and season 2
Tokyo Ghoul season 1 and season 2
Zankyou no Terror
Noragami Season 2
Steins;Gate (original one)
Fullmetal Alchemist : Brotherhood
Fate/Zero season 1 and season 2
Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade works (UFOtable one)
Zetsuen No Tempest
Shinsekai Yori
Mahouka koukou no rettousei
Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio : Ars Nova Cadenza
Ergo Proxy
Kimi no na wa
Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2199
Fate/Stay night - Heaven's Feel Movie 1 - Presage Flower
Steins;Gate 0
Shingeki no Kyojin
Fate/Stay night - Heaven's Feel Movie 2 - Lost Butterfly
Grancrest Senki
Mo Dao Zu Shi
Tokyo Ghoul :re
Babylon
Legend of Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These
No matter how much my inner self would hate attack on titan for being way overhyped and the praise given to it by illogical people, I will not deny that it is really some amazing stuff.
Thus, after finishing first cour of season 3 of aot, I have decided to give the entire previous seasons of aot a 10/10 from my side.
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Babylon - This show was much more better than what I originally rated it ( 7.5 ). I was probably too much in shock after finishing the show, was not able to think correctly. The show has been on my mind permanently after finishing it. I do believe that the last arc, even though it as not as I expected and was not as better as episodes 1-7, it was still quite good. Deducting entire 1.5 for that is not something I believe I did right. I'll deduct 0.5, and considering the value of the rest of the show, this show now stands at 8.5 for me.
The Voice acting of Ai Magase was something out of this world. I personally liked it beyond appreciable levels. The voice acting would be a 11/10 from me.
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Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Die Neue these: A show out of this world. The remake is just outstanding. The world building, the music, the animation, hell the CGI itself is marvelous to me personally. Having watched the original Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu, this is freaking amazing. It's having received a fantastic show a complete modern makeover while keeping the qualities that were great. I cannot praise this show enough. It received a rating of 8, with Gekitotsu receiving 9 if i remember correctly, and i just upped everythign to 10 in middle of sakubou watch. This show is doing everything perfectly. If it screws up later, that would be sad, but just how amazing it is till now, I cannot keep it on a "good" scale, this has to be a masterpiece rating. I am beyond thrilled by this show, even when I am just doing a rewatch in a sense. Hats off to the original creators of the source material, the story is beyond something I would call entertaining, it is an experience like no other. I just hope Studio completes it, because this is something I LOVE!
Wanna know how I rate stuff ?
Lets start with the best thing first.
10 : Not many animes will get a 10 from me. An anime has to be something which
Totally exceeds my expectations, has no flaws which I could find with it*, has
a good mixture of everything and has an amazing story, these are the criterias for me for an anime to be a contender for my 10/10 rating. All these still do not guarantee a 10 spot.
9 : An extremely good rating from me. The animes to which I gave a 9, were those animes in which I felt the time just past by me. It felt like the episode just started and ended. The story is very intriguing and various other aspects including soundtracks just pleased my inner soul. An anime with this rating means that that anime kept me extremely hooked to it right till the end. The animes which are at 9 ratings are usually ones which are also there as a contender for getting a 10/10 from me but failed at one thing or another.
8 : A quite good anime. Has good mix of every aspect. I enjoyed watching it. Did not bore me for a bit and kept me very well entertained. The story *may* not be the best, the things might not exactly be clear (By this I mean you understand most stuff except a select few), but that anime did its job pretty well in keeping me hooked to it.
---------Ratings above this are the animes which I believe you are missing something important if you hvn't watched--------------
7 : This anime did its job. It had some flaws, but the entertainment value surpassed the flaws for me in this case. Anime did not get a lot boring. Story need not be extremely clear/understandable/may require extra searches to understand. Entertainment value matters in this rating.
6 : A very okish anime. Nothing special about the story, the anime in this category is like, if i wouldn't have watched it, i would not be missing any important show type of thing. Its fine if you watch this anime, but do not expect a lot from this.
5 : The weakest point would Probably be the story in this case. An anime which got a 5 has to be something which really pissed me off at one thing or another (99% of the time, it will be the story). As to why its 5 is because maybe there was something that I really liked, maybe a scene, maybe the soundtrack.
4 : Something that is extremely bad, except one or two parts, nothing was good in this anime. Soundtracks were also just mediocre, op/ed okish and nothing special.
3 : The anime which if I ever decide to drop while watching, will fall into this category just because it was that bad at literally everything.
--Ratings below this dont matter--
1) Aoki hagane no arpeggio (Cadenza) : There may be people asking me as to why I gave this specific movie a 10/10. I agree, there were some flaws or things that are quite exaggerated, but this movie had one specific scene, which no matter how much I try to not affect me, touches the inner me. SPOILER AFTER THIS LINE The scene am talking about is the scene where iona/yamato charges towards musashi and then both of them just move against each other sideways with both iona and musashi looking at each other with all those circular rings encircling them. That scene had a deep meaning according to me. Both being sister and caring for each other, fought, because one's ideals did not match with others. Yet the other sister(yamato) only fought to save her sister(musashi). The soundtrack which played at this scene itself was genuinely amazing and is one of the top soundtracks according to me. I was actually gonna give this anime a 9/10 but just because that special scene touched me, I just could not stop without giving it a 10.
2) Guilty Crown : This anime was horribly bad at story. Makes no sense at all. I will say it bluntly, this anime literally is pathetic at its story and i can find no reason as to why people like it. Of course i have no hate against the people who do. As to why it got a 5 was because it had a good op/ed, and extremely good soundtracks.
3) Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei : If you look at the profile information, and animelist carefully, you'll see that all animes i mentioned as me being a fanboy of are 10/10 only except rettousei which got a 9/10. This is because rettousei was something, that if i only evaluate based on the anime, it had some basic flaws. It did not explain the CAD well, i literally had doubts as to how this is working, it did no explaination of eidos, at least none that could be understandable. Moreover, Tatsuya almost became "The go to guy" for the whole college by the 5th and 6th episode which was pretty weird for me as a watcher. Still why is it in the fanboy list is because this anime was genuinely amazing. The story was one of the most intriguing ones I had felt in a long time. So far i have read only 1 manga, tokyo ghoul (includes :re) and i do not like reading, but this anime (rettousei) intrigued me so much that now i have started reading the light novel (As a guy who is not interested in reading manga, reading a light novel is even harder). This anime had a genuinely amazing story and i mostly dig stories in anime and thus, even after being a 9/10, Its in my fanboy ratings.
4) Sidonia no kishi : The rating of the first season was increased because second season cleared some stuff i did not understand. And i liked the overall series a lot.
5) Akatsuki no Yona : The story was damn amazing. And especially the last parts with su-won (soo-won whatever) were damn near heart touching. Also the overall soundtrack and shin-ah's part pleased my soul. Hence the rating was increased by 1 to 9.
6) Arslan Senki - Fuujin Ranbu : Hey we get to see more of Daryun's fighting and Narsus's strategy. Honestly, I forgot the reason why I gave it +1 but well has to be something. Forgot since I'm updating my profile after a long time.
7) Boku no hero academa Season 1 : Rating was increased because, even though the story was pretty okish, there were genuine good parts. The last fight of all might vs the villain was amazing. Also the part in start, where all might says "You can be a a hero" to midoriya, it was heart touching. The soundtrack also was pretty good. Hence +1
8) Btooom! : Tbh the story was very mediocre. Some parts pissed me off so much that I actually wanted to give it a 6. But just because of the last part with Taira-san and how "Date" comes back after going back from first war I gave it a +1.
9) Cross Ange : No particular reason for +1 except for good background music and some nice entertainment value.
10) Eureka Seven : Reason for +1 was the arc with beams family and overall story being fairly entertaining, even though those kids kept repeatedly pissing me off.
11) Grisaia no Rakuen : This was actually meant to be a normal 9 but few things made no sense to me. Hence I reduced the rating to 9 with a +1 tag from me because I became a fan of the series by that point and was unwilling to reduce it to an 8. Also the second main reason why I was fixated on giving it a +1 was the part where Asako of pushes Yuuji to stand up and confront the villain whom he was fighting during the last or second last episode of rakuen. That part touched me emotionally a lot and I really wanted to increase the ratingl
12) Kekkai Sensen : Well it was a pretty mediocre anime. Nothing too special. Some parts were entertaining even though I was unable to get the whole point of the story. So just because it was a bit entertaining and extremely funny at some scenes, I gave it a +1.
13) Konosuba S2 : Well some parts were epicly funny. Hence a +1.
14) Koutetsujou no Kabaneri : The reason for +1 was mainly its background music or soundtrack. That was one hell of an epic composition for the entire anime.
15) Mobile Suit Gundam - Iron Blooded Orphans Season 2 : This anime was not as good as its predecessor. By that, I mean it missed its mark at a few places, especially early on with that kid in tekkedan commanding his unit on the basis of second guy giving vague orders just to destroy them as a whole. That was kinda pissy and it went on for quite a long time. But the series picked up quite good during the end with some really unforeseeable twists. +1 for that. The series as a whole was genuinely almost epic.
16) Nanatsu no Taizai : The series was on point of what I call entertaining. The fights were, well ok, but few parts like meliodas throwing gilthunder's spear back to him in the initial part of the series was epic. Also the plot twist with gilthunder was very surprising and hence +1.
17) Re;Creators : +1 for hiroyuki sawano and his tracks. In all seriousness though, the series had some really good plot to work with but kinda felt it was unable to cope up with that. I was really entertained throughout the series though and I became a fanboy of few characters. Mirokuji for example and his hangaku. <3 +1 for making me a fanboy of characters and providing pretty nice tracks and a good opening and ending.
18) Re;Life : Well the series had some nice plot, but I am not much of a slice of life guy. Hence a 6 with a +1 because it entertained me "VERY" much in some parts.
19) Sword art online - Ordinal Scale : Yea~ +1 for the animation. Thats it.
20) Tales of Zestiria - The X : +1 for the animation and some amazingly nice fights.
21 ) Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e : The mysterious aura surrounding the main character was pretty damn neat ! Almost like Rettousei which I like, a hell lot. Also the girl with dual personaity Disorder seemed an interesting character. Overall a +1 for the main character and his characterization.
22) Bakuman Season 1 : The story...Was interesting to watch. Though some elements pissed me off, but the overall storyline seemed interesting. There were some cliche stuff which everyone can expect. The original rating was supposed to be 6 but the overall plot of bakuman really felt pretty nice. I was interested to watch season 2 of it and as a whole, it most of the time entertained me. Hence rating was increased from 6 to 7, however with a +1 tag.
23) K : Really liked the overall idea of the anime, having different kings with their own people. Only if some of the stuff was explained more clearly (for example the incident which they kept talking about the entire anime), what exactly are the sword of damocles etc, i'd have given it a strong 8. The story really intrigued me especially Suoh mikoto's character.
24) Durararax2 Shou : Seriously, I do not remember why i gave it +1 lol There must be a reason, but now I can't remember it. Been some time I watched and updated this list. Sigh ~, I need to keep this up to date.
25) Blood + : I think I gave it a +1 because of how the show ended. A beautiful bittersweet ending. The soundtrack was also pretty neat and the story picked up quite good near the end. Before that it was plain bland for me.
26) Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken : If you have reached to this point after reading everything above, I don't think I need to explain why I gave this meme anime a +1. Gave it a +1 because it was so lmao that even during serious scenes (if any) it made me laugh a lot. Well maybe Wamuu was also a factor in giving this a +1, sweet guy.
27) Bounen no Xamdou (xam'd, whatever is the name) : The series was slow to progress, but picked up nicely. I have a few plot problems with it, as in i don't get some stuff. But on the other hand, the story (if i suck in some things with a grain of salt) was actually very decent and entertaining, heartbreaking, heartwarming, gentle. Some scenes got my eyes watery, some scenes made me laugh. Adding to all this, the soundtrack was so marvelous, hits you right in the feels at some moments. Opening, eh not a fan of that, but the ending songs, that too all 3 (favourite being the first ED) were pretty good. Anime became really entertaining near the end and a bittersweet ending. Overall enjoyed it a lot (near the end). Hence why a +1.
28) Mahoutsukai no Yome - The first half of the show was great. The second half was kind of a letdown for me. Hence the +1
29) Juuni Taisen - +1 for a very very very good ending to the series. Honestly did not expect the series to have a great ending.
30) Legend of Galactic Heroes : Die Neue These - +1 for the absolutely stunning space fights. The animation itself was quite quite good, at least to me. Though I absolutely criticize a few models, especially Oberstein and Reuental. They both looked so good in the original ova series.
31) Hentai Ouji to Warawanai Neko - +1 for the mother arc. I mean this anime honestly did not appeal me much, especially the harem ticked me off at many places, but the mother arc was pretty good.
32) Cowboy Bebop - +1 for the comedy and entertainment that was present in some of the episodic episodes. Some of the moments were so random, they just left me laughing so hard and going wtf just happened (not as in surprise, but as in randomness).
33) Darling in the franxx - Me during Epi 1 - 16 : "wow this is pretty good, why were all top reviews in mal for the show gave it "1" rating ? Probably because ending was bad and they got butthurt by a good show having a mediocre ending. Well now since I expect it, I might not be as critical about it ". Me during episode 16-19 : " okay, this is changing, but its not bad, it Still looks good to me. Me during episode 20 : "the what and what and what now ? And what is going to do what ? and combine with what ? And what did the what doctor do what ? The what princess again ? WHAT ? " Me during episode 21- 25 : " HAHAHAHAH, what the fuck is going on LMAOOOOOOOO. (soon as strelizia apath (or apus whatever) transforms fully in space ) ROOOOOOFL LOLOLOOLOLO, WHAT ??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. (kids holding hands to give message to 02) Oh my god are you kidding me ? Like what the fuck ? " Overall opinion : Watch till episode 16 then close up your mind if you enjoyed it till then and liked the story. After that, the story is for 12 yo kids. This show took a full retarded gurren lagann version turn in the end.
34) Kuromukuro - What a superb ending. The show really touched the subject of xenophoia correctly in my opinion. Near the end, show really portrayed that no matter what happened, we would always be scared of what is unknown to us, and that I believe is totally correct. The show in the start wasn't as entertaining and was pretty lighthearted but picked up quite a good pace from episode 18 onwards and just became better and better.
35) Tegami bachi : Reverse - Coming from the first season, I really had no hope from this show, expected another filler filled show that had a very basic story. I honestly like the start of the first season, but the fillers killed the mode, the entire season was almost a filler (similar reason why I don't like cowboy bebop much as well). But the season 2 was wayy better than season 1. Only 3-4 episodes of fillers, and the story picked up quite a great pace. Things were really random at times though. Still whatever be the case, the story progressed and in a good way, I liked how it turned out, and the mid season was really engrossing. It was only due to the middle of the season that I decided to give it a 7, but later on it again became a little lackluster, still was entertaining though. Hence a +1 for the middle part, oh and not to mention, the amazing op1, op2 and ed2, purely amazing songs.
36) Sword art Online - Alicization: (This description has spoilers so don't read if you haven't watched the 24 episodes). A really good show, turned by the very weird and complicated ending according to me. Some actions near the end episodes served no meaning. Especially cardinal's death. Whatever reasons she gave for sacrificing herself were just violated by kirito and eugeo themselves. Eugeo fought the machine, kirito fought quinella. Like why did she die then, she only arrived to heal both of them ? lol. Not to mention, the explanation for that humanoid sword thing in the end was such a weird piece. I mean I watched the explanation at least twice and still did not get what was actually happening and why was the sword following quinella's orders. Overall a very great show, which was deserving of a solid 8 without a +1, but the end forced me to reduce the rating to 7. Still I decided to give it a +1 for how entertaining it was in the entire show before that, not to mention the godlike soundtrack, a very clean animation and great op/eds. Episode 10, 16 and 18 were highlights for me. Also absolutely amazing cliffhanger. I mean, the show really ended on a nice hook, I really wanna watch what happens next in "war of the underworld" seasons.
37) Kimetsu no Yaiba - Katanakaji No Sato-hen: +1 for the last episode really, + muichiro back story was mindblowingly good. Lovely stuff. But it was a downgrade from entertainment district in terms of overall story, hookness, edge type feeling.
38) Great Pretender - Never thought I would give a show a "-1" really. It is just honestly mindblowing how much it infuriated me in the last episode.
I really loved this show. The first arc was mindblowingly good, the third arc with cynthia's story was so beautiful, heartwarming, satisfying, genuinely loved it. And they shit on everything in the last episode by bringing everyone they conned together. Why? Just why? So basically what Cynthia went through was for nothing? All the drug deailngs cassano did, everyone's life he ruined, nothing of it? Are you kidding me? This does not even pass on as a joke. You genuinely ruined something that had everything going well for it. The story writers deserve this -1.
39) Haikyuu: Gomisuteba no Kessen: Story was pretty ok I guess. Decent watch. +1 for the POV scene, that was so thrilling to see in theaters.
40) Tetsuwan Birdy Decode S1: Story started off slow, and coming from the original old OVA, I much highly preferred the old OVA. The story felt decent in the start, but started to grow near the end. The funny moments were still decently funny but nothing in the show really tops OVA for me. Additionally, I highly prefer the OVA Birdy VA rather than decode birdy VA.
41) Tetsuwan Birdy Decode S1: Same reasoning as S1. S2 also started off slow, but it became quite interesting in the later episodes.
**NOTE**
This list is no longer updated. All data is now directly added into the comments section of my anime list. If you see +1 tag on a show, and that show is not listed in this section, click the "more" button on the same row as that show and head over to the comment section to read the reason for the +1. If the description is a bit too large to fit there, I'll add them here.
Updated :23- July - 2020
The +1 that you may see on some animes present in the tags of the list, means that I increased the rating of that anime by 1 because of some reasons. These reasons are usually somethings which "I" find extremely good.
An example of that is koutetsujou no kabaneri. The reason i increased its rating from 6, was because though this anime had major plot issues (at least as of first season), The entertainment value surpassed quite a lot. And there were some genuine instances of the anime actually grabbing me in its plot.
You can think of +1 tag as a .5 extra rating from me. So if an anime has a rating of 7 from me with a +1 tag, that means I'd give that anime a 6.5.
For example :-
A rating of 7 without +1 is better than a rating of 7 with a +1 tag in my list. Same goes for rest other, like an 8 rating is better than 8 rating with a +1 tag etc etc
Discovered this through your YT channel. Im also a big soundtrack aficionado! There have been literal books written on music theory regarding the unique sound of anime and broadly modern Japanese music. Quite special.
That's okay, I'm not trying to defend those people, I'm doing it for myself lol because I disliked Charlotte A LOT for the very reasons that you seem to praise it so much.
I think you are mistaken. The people that disliked Charlotte are not mindless Naruto and DBZ fans. They're just people that actually notice a poor story when they see one.
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