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Enjoy anime. That's all that matters.

Sometimes I rate certain anime way too low, but I might actually enjoy it a lot. The side descriptions in my anime list do not mean everything.

Please don't send random friend requests to me, thank you. Maybe if you attach a personal message, I'll consider it after I read your message, since I view my process of engaging in discussions and reviewing to be very personal. I do not need large numbers of friends on the platform, but I'll be happy if you'd want to be one with me. So please do send a private message if you want to be one.

I would occasionally make a review about a certain show, not necessarily new, seasonal shows but older shows as well, and regardless of it being a classic or a terrible show. My thoughts on reviews and reviewers can be summarized in this paragraph: Artists with no sense of self-hatred should not be involved in art, my position with reviewing and working a critique are the same - a reviewer who can’t bear the need to heap superlatives onto the show without possessing a method of dealing with the principal strengths and weaknesses of the show - even deliberately diminishing the other or berating those who do so - is nothing more than a schmaltzy fanatic, a bigot who is drunk with their own self-indulgent lucid dreams that babbles endlessly without any merit of its own.

Therefore, there's no need to come for me seething with anger, twitching with every bit of infuriation and clocking in every bit of your exasperation in the form of insults to me. They are all subjective and personal, if you disagree with it, that's perfectly fine. Hurling insults and insetting passive-aggressive provocations in every sentence of your response is a juvenile, ludicrous way of dealing with someone you disagree with. I've had a period of time where I'll denounce someone for having opinions I completely disagree with, a period of time that I'm ashamed of, for having such a unbearably childish manner.

And to be frank, I am an ever-changing person. I would wake up the other day, sitting down and looking at my work and feel an unimaginable sense of repulsion by it. In other words, in a short period of time, I might grow to hate one of my reviews so vehemently and fervently I would say I loathe it more passionately than the review's haters. That's how I view my work with reviews on this site. I refrain myself from ever becoming 'satisfied' with the works I wrote, delivered or published previously.

These are my views, rules and my personal metrics for the criticism of animation, books and films in the broader strokes:

Quotes I'm particularly fond of:

“One of the commonest and most generally accepted delusions is that every man can be qualified in some particular way -- said to be kind, wicked, stupid, energetic, apathetic, and so on. People are not like that. We may say of a man that he is more often kind than cruel, more often wise than stupid, more often energetic than apathetic or vice versa; but it could never be true to say of one man that he is kind or wise, and of another that he is wicked or stupid. Yet we are always classifying mankind in this way. And it is wrong. Human beings are like rivers; the water is one and the same in all of them but every river is narrow in some places, flows swifter in others; here it is broad, there still, or clear, or cold, or muddy or warm. It is the same with men. Every man bears within him the germs of every human quality, and now manifests one, now another, and frequently is quite unlike himself, while still remaining the same man.”

“It is usually imagined that a thief, a murderer, a spy, a prostitute, acknowledging his profession as evil, is ashamed of it. But the contrary is true. People whom fate and their sin-mistakes have placed in a certain position, however false that position may be, form a view of life in general which makes their position seem good and admissible. In order to keep up their view of life, these people instinctively keep to the circle of those people who share their views of life and their own place in it. This surprises us, where the persons concerned are thieves, bragging about their dexterity, prostitutes vaunting their depravity, or murderers boasting of their cruelty. This surprises us only because the circle, the atmosphere in which these people live, is limited, and we are outside it. But can we not observe the same phenomenon which the rich boast of their wealth, i.e., robbery; the commanders in the army pride themselves on their victories, i.e., murder; and those in high places vaunt their power, i.e., violence? We do not see the perversion in the views of life held by these people, only because the circle formed by them is more extensive, and we ourselves are moving inside of it.”

-- Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth."

“For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.”

“There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless. ”

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky