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Hiya, nice to meet you guys. Please feel free to look around my profile, but please be respectful.

I'm no anime connoisseur, just someone drawn to their taste, whether trashy, mainstream, or hidden gems (at least by my standards). So I may not have watched a lot of critically acclaimed anime, but my profile represents a lot of works that I grew up around and hold a special place in my heart.

However, I am always open to exploring new genres and styles of work beyond what I normally confine myself to. Also, I have no desire to be pretentious or keep up with current trends. My favorites are my personal favorites, not what I believe is the best cinematically created or with any recency bias.

I've been watching anime for a long time now, and for someone who's been watching for as many years as I have, I realize I haven't nearly discovered as many works as I'd like to have. So I finally opened a MAL account in 2021, to start recording what I watched and what I'd like to watch going forward.

If you can notice, I'm a huge romance buff. If you have any recommendations, I'd love to look them over. My Plan-To-Watch list is full, one day I'd like to go through with it.

I'm also a huge fan of webtoons/manhwa, and my favorite work that isn't represented in MAL that I would love to give a shoutout to is:

PURPLE HYACINTH [Cue Applause xD]

An anime I've been watching for years and has a special place in my heart is:

[Drumroll please] DETECTIVE CONAN

A guilty pleasure that I used to deny a lot when I was younger because I didn't want to be a cliche teenage girl obsessed with romance, is:

[Le gasp] Kaichou Wa Maid Sama


If I had to list three genres I like, (this is in general, I'm not referring to anime only) would be:

1. Romance
2. Fantasy/Historical
3. Mystery/Thriller

If I had to list three points I usually love to see in a story:

1. Tragedy (I love crying at a well written believable plot that's worth crying for)
2. Wholesomeness/Coming-of-Age
3. Nature elements (I love the attention to detail, especially in Ghibili movies that focus on the beauty of our world.)

Although, I would like to point out that I wish to see more well-written adult-cast shows. Now that I'm in my twenties, it's getting harder and harder to relate to the youthful school anime. But it's still charming to watch, just not as relatable haha.

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If you have read this far, I guess you will get to read a little about myself.

I like the taste of iced fruit tea with lychee jelly during the summers and jasmine milk tea during the winters. I love the smell of coffee beans in the mornings, and sometimes eating an extravagantly prepared bowl of nongshim noodles at night.
I like to play Genshin Impact sometimes, and other times, I like to binge-watch K-dramas. On Fridays, I listen to the podcast Trash Taste and write poetry whenever I'm on public transportation. I'm a metropolitan gal, but I spent my single-digit childhood in the suburbs and a few years in my grandparents' village.
I love the sound of the rain against the window pane but hate walking through the puddles in the streets. I miss the snow that piled atop my coat when I used to go to uni.
I dislike makeup because I'm lazy in the mornings, but I love wearing large earrings for the feeling of being distinct. I often babble away and realize once I get home, I may have told someone too much.
I love listening to classical and folk music from all parts of the world, and I love listening to Bollywood, Japanese, and Korean 80s city pop, soft Korean songs, lo-fi, and anime music. I love the sound of keyboards/typewriters and the smell of freshly printed books. My camera roll is filled with more pictures of skies and random outdoor shots than of people themselves.
Most of the time I try to come across as pessimistic, but I'm ridiculously and overly optimistic. I dislike crowded places and deafening noises. But I like the serenity of hearing a few people chattering and laughing, like the beautiful noise of fire crackling. I like the assurance of people being near me, even if they're not doing anything with me.
I prefer the mountains over the sea. But I love the sound of rivers, streams, and creeks. I'll wake up to see the sunrise in all its glory, but the day will exhaust me enough before I can appreciate the sunset beyond the trees.
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Maybe this was too much information, haha.

If you made it this far reading all this, once again, nice to meet you ^-^

Feel free to introduce yourself and let me know a little bit about you too!