Hey guys and gals, the name's Ken or if you prefer the avatar...Oddball is fine too. I call the deep American South home. I'm a mid-age professional with a wife, two kids, and as of about 12 years ago, a renewed love of anime. I say renewed because one of my fav shows growing up was the original
Starblazers: Space Battleship Yamato I watched syndicated on an independent network in the early-to-mid '80s. (That same network also blessed me with Ultraman and all the Godzilla movies that I still cherish today.) So why the renewed interest? Well, blame my daughter. She has always loved everything Japanese, growing up with Pokemon, Power Rangers, Sailor Moon, reading manga, etc. Today she's a really good sketch artist, and you can tell how much anime plays in her style. It took her more than a few years to get her dear ol' Dad interested again, but her persistence and my inner kid finally pulled me back in. :)
I also have to give credit to YouTube and those who've presented everything from the anime themselves to AMVs to critics to recommendations. About 10 years ago, I saw an amv for
Black Lagoon and was instantly hooked. Not knowing you could find it for free online, I purchased blue-rays of both series and the OVA. So yes...Revy will always be my Best Girl. Next came a vid about the running "Kanna-gasms" gag from Saikawa from
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, and suddenly everything anime was (and remains) awesome.
What anime genres do I like (I'm sure you're asking)? Action, horror, and psychological/thriller are my favs. Being a history nerd, I also love historical fiction. Libras such as myself are hopeless romantics, so bring on the rom-coms!! If it involves girls and guns...thank you, ma'am, may I have another? There's not much I won't watch or at least try, although I'm not much of a fan of magical girl and sports-related anime. I am, however, a sucker for slice-of-life and yuri. Whatever your tastes are, I don't judge or trash anyone's preferences. Anime & manga have something for everyone, I say. :)
If you've read down this far...thanks! I'm a laid back kinda guy that loves to met new peeps, so whatever your interests are I'd like to hear about them. Let's keep the drama in our anime, however. Not in any sense of the word am I an otaku (never mind all those Strike Witches figures, lol) so if you are one, then...teach me, Sensei!
Cool song you gotta hear:
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All Comments (10) Comments
Yang is my favorite, i love her character, i see myself in her at times. Bumbleby ftw, i love nuts and dolts as well! it's probably not possible but i would love ruby, weiss, and penny to all end up together somehow. the best of both ships :p
Nora + Neo is an interesting one, I love both of their characters. I hope Neo gets a redemption arc, i've been waiting so long for it & she deserves one so much!!
I prefer online classes because i can go at my own pace but it leads to a lot of procrastination unfortunately. I'm kind of a shut-in even before the pandemic, so i wasnt hugely affected by it all. I was just starting to go out more tho so it sucks since it essentially stopped all that. I'd like to be able to visit my gf and my homies n what not but travelling across the whole state isnt rlly viable which is unfortunate.
and yeah, I'm a total sucker for hot anime and manga women LMAO
I'm a HS student right now, just sorta floating by in my online classes. Sleep is sometimes my saving grace, and other times its a slick bastard that I can't seem to catch up to.
bad-ass alpha females you say? AND they have guns? sign me up. i will happily simp for all the bad-ass women in an anime lmao
And yes, Kobayashi is always my pick me up. I usually will re-read a few chapters and be happy as can be by the end. Especially the Kanna spinoff, it’s so cute. Glad to have another east coast homie, my hours are all over the place though because i’m a student and sorta just sleep whenever. I’ve never seen Black Lagoon but I would assume it’s pretty good? I think i’ve seen the main girl from it before and she’s very pretty so, might have to move it up on my priority of what to watch next :p
I think of if my all time favorite anime as well as manga has to be Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid- im sooooo happy that the second season of the anime is coming out since i ended up reading all the manga including catching up on every spinoff and was just left sorta waiting for new content lol. glad to see it’s on another person’s favorites though. The RWBY manga isn’t actually one of my favorites however the animated series is, it’s just american and therefore not on here, so i represent it with the manga instead.