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Oriental | Cyberpunk | Steampunk
Urban Fantasy | Dystopia | Noir

My taste is very variable. There aren't many genres that I don't like and even for Battle Shonens or works from the Ecchi and Harem genres, which I don't really like, I give it a try. I don't have a lot of prejudice with most works, even if MyAnimeList's rating is low, and I decide which anime I will see, mostly, via wheeldecide.com.

I really like works that address the psychological aspect of characters a lot, especially those that contain dense monologues, approaches to memories, specters of human psychology, and characters that contain relevant social illustrations. Particularly, I really like to look for these social representations in what I watch or read and I highly value works that teach me new values or rescue old ones that are important to me. Works like Sword Art Online, Oyasumi Punpun, Boogiepop Series and Boku dake ga Inai Machi influenced my perception of things in a way that I keep and apply their teachings to this day, which is why they are among my favorites. Also, my favorite moments in anime are usually not action or climax scenes, but rather revelation scenes and foreshadowing connections. Because of this factor, I often value the message that certain works have to convey more than structure and these particular plot aspects, although I don't discount them. As you can see from the ones listed on the profile, I tend to prefer serious and ambitious works to comedic works. I have no problem with the fact that you, the reader, prefer this style, however I rarely like works that alternate between serious and comedic moments. With rare exceptions, the works I like are either purely serious or purely funny.

About characters, I generally prefer those with remnants of humanity, who make mistakes, have tragic stories and exposure to the psychological. I place (much) more importance on the characters' stories themselves and the social illustrations they compose than on their personalities. Likewise, I generally prefer the show's protagonists and rarely will a supporting character overcome this barrier.

I'm a huge fan of anime openings and endings. Having memorized the letters of more than 100 of them over time and played several quizzes, this is an ongoing memorization effort. However, in addition to the songs, I tend to give even more importance to the imagery symbolisms that are presented in the openings and endings. The ones listed below are sorted by a personal assessment I made, following the criteria of image symbolism, lyric symbolism, music and animation, not just music. However, as we tend to develop greater affection and to analyze more deeply the works we like, it is possible to notice that most of them correspond to my favourites.

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I have a hard time summarizing the things I would like to express. I'm extremely wordy, as you can tell from the texts in my list and profile. Much of this behavior, however, is voluntary. Personally, I believe that the main and driving key to understanding things and to information success lies in complexity. Paraphrasing my dear NHK ni Youkoso!, the difficulties of human beings and their social isolation mostly result from suffering and the breach of expectations, guided by the shock of simple, immature and impulsive thinking of humanity with the rationality and complexity of its own creations. Thus, I could describe myself as having the famous "Kei Niitoki syndrome". Sometimes I pore over works and things, noting countless elements, writing analyzes and trying to understand every possible detail. I really can't stand to see something unexplained or deal with dogma, and I'm able to come up with theories to fill that hole if it's still there at the end of the experience.

This taste for challenges and the desire to occupy my head literally all the time with the exercise of thinking led me to choose my profession. I am currently a recent medical graduate and am an aspiring Neurologist. I can say that a large part of my choice comes from my attachment to correlations between psychology and neurology, my fascination with neuroscience and also, oddly enough, the philosophy of AIs and the science fiction of Sword Art Online.

I have a huge dislike for any kind of provocation, arrogance and densely populated social networks, with disorganized and huge communities like Twitter. In addition, feelings such as exacerbated nostalgia, excessive optimism and actions such as the simplification of events irritate me deeply.

Many of my hobbies involve writing private reviews of works I watch, researching (neuro) psychology, and sharing only with my friends, in addition to researching and watching videos about Japanese culture, science, philosophy and artificial intelligences. This behavior emerged in high school and intensified over time, given my fondness for writing tests. I have always, however, been a huge fan of Mathematics and Natural Science. As you can see, I also really like creating Rankings for things. I've cultivated this hobby since long before the popularization of Tierlists, when I watched Animal Planet: Extreme on television every day. In addition to anime, I also follow football and cheer for Botafogo and play some games, including the competitive side of Pokémon and, mainly, Geoguessr. For a good part of the time, I had the habit of drawing, however this practice was lost over the course of college.

It may seem contradictory at first, but it is precisely the way in which she is extremely human that put me on the pedestals of this feeling. When I first saw her, I was an immediate person who barely understood the complexity of the word "judgment." The moment I first faced this painful humanity, I immediately began to rethink my world and the low limits that were my ceiling. From the most melancholy sigh, she drew strength to move forward, walking against her trauma and struggling, curled up in the blanket of herself, against the distortion her being had created. The one who created another of herself, a dissociation, and saw in this simulacra of her own god.

Shino-non is a portrait of humanity facing the virtual. It represents what we most manufacture and unconsciously do when caught up in our routine about digital polygons. The essence of virtuality is the creation of unlimited, ideal worlds and interfaces. And why not ideas of perfection? When a person takes 1000 photos of himself, those 1000 photos will not be the object of ostentation he will announce in front of a megaphone. There will only be five. The five best captures, the ones that will best define your qualities and hide your flaws. Society is an omnipresent jury, and exposing its true nature means opening itself to the judgments of all eyes. However, the real persona is made up of the joining of these thousand photos.

That's why her journey is a mirror of ours. Every day, people essentially project what they consider conveniently good traits and hide the negative ones. Virtual profiles are often collections of this, and it's no exception what I do here, replacing my problematic traits with quotes, rankings, and tributes. Sinon is their virtual "god", the ideal object that became an objective and an example to be pursued. Shino Asada, on the other side of the mirror, is the human being, imperfect and whose psychological is extremely fragile. And so we are.

I love her for scaling my choices and dimensions of the world. I love her for giving me back humanity and rescuing me from the backslidden path I was walking. I feel a deep gratitude for helping me to accept my personality. And most of all, I love her for being human. A dichotomous flower, of great strength and, at the same time, so fragile. After all, it's the imperfections that made her perfect for me.