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Chernobyl is one of my favorite series of all time! It's absolutely terrifying to know that the most dangerous substances known to man are under the control of often petulant, irresponsible, shameless people in positions of power. People who would rather double down on their mistakes rather than admit them, all while putting the entire fate of our planet in jeopardy. What a phenomenal cast! I loved the choice of having all of the actors use their own voices, instead of attempting to make them all use phony Russian accents just for some kind of "added realism." The events speak for themselves.

Unfortunately it seems as if not every world leader has learned from this catastrophe. Anyone who has viewed this series, or has a decent understanding of what took place, was absolutely horrified when news came out in 2022 that nuclear power plants were being commandeered as pieces on a chess board for war, and possibly even targeted for destruction. By the same country who should know better than anyone! Amazing series, thanks for reminding me of it!

Just checking in to see how your recovery has been going. I know it's been a little while, but it has popped into my mind in the past week. I sometimes forget how serious concussion symptoms can be. I think recently any time I hear the term concussion, it makes me wonder if you're doing better.

Have you been able to enjoy watching Monster at all? I was thinking that maybe you might want to put it off until you're in a better state of health. It would be a shame if you tried to watch it with the symptoms that you had told me about. I would worry that it might leave a bad impression if you associate it with a painful life experience.

I just finished watching Land of the Lustrous. It really didn't seem like my kind of show, but I have found so many hidden treasures by going against my preconceived notions. It turned out to be a pleasant surprise. I think you might like it. It has very deep, very original worldbuilding. It's a concept that I never would have dreamed of, and that could only come from highly artistic anime. The character interactions and development were done extremely well. It's very relaxing most of the time, with occasional sudden moments of chaos. I see it's on your watchlist, so I just wanted to share my experience with it.

I'm also finally reading the Berserk manga. My relationship with Berserk has been a strange one, indeed. The original 1997 anime was one of my introductions to anime as a whole. It genuinely made me realize that this was the medium that I needed to explore. Even the music was completely captivating (other than the opening song, which is the one singular element that felt out of place.) I then watched the "Memorial Edition" of the Golden Age trilogy. It covered the same material, but featured modern CGI animation. I loved every minute of it, only slightly less than the 1997 version. They had slight differences in details, but that made me appreciate both. Then I watched the 2016 version and loved it. I didn't really care for the 2017 sequel series, but overall, I truly loved Berserk. As soon as I discovered this site, I was in for a shock. People absolutely loathed these shows that I had just watched. Some were tolerant of the 1997 version. The Memorial Edition wasn't highly talked about by any means. And people absolutely hated the 2016/2017 series'. I was so confused!

After weeks of reading reviews, and watching YouTube critiques of these shows, it became obvious that I was in the minority for loving most of what I had watched. Getting to the root of the issue, I realized that the largest issue was the CGI presentation of most of these, and the fact that they weren't completely faithful to the manga. I watched enough critiques that I ended up kind of agreeing with the bad CGI factor. I was so new to anime that I had no idea how the community as a whole felt about such things. It genuinely made me feel stupid at first for rating these shows so highly. I suppose I betrayed my initial instincts.

Recently I watched the 3 Golden Age movies, which I had basically already viewed, as they were the source material for Millennial Edition. Which made me finally decide to read the manga. It's funny to me now. I have now watched the same exact story 3 times, and I'm currently reading it once more. The foundational story of Guts, Casca and Griffith presented in all of these different versions now feels like actual mythology to me. It feels as if its a tale or fable as old as time. Now that I'm in the midst of reading it in its original form, I'm happy to know that I'll finally be able to move on to what happens afterwards. Because seriously, I can almost quote certain sections of it word for word after seeing it retold so many times. I will say that one of my biggest takeaways from all of this is that the 1997 anime deserves more respect. It is so faithful to the manga, both in story and artistic style, in my opinion. It will always remain as one of my all time favorites. You obviously enjoyed it as well, which is the only reason I have spent so much time talking about it.

So if you decide to continue with the manga, I'd be interested in your thoughts as you make progress. While reading it, I'm really getting this wild feeling that I'm still in the very early stages of a truly epic tale. It gives me a feeling that I am experiencing a sort of Japanese Game of Thrones (which I absolutely love) or something like that.

Let me know your Berserk experience up until this point, if you're feeling up to it. Your thoughts about the 1997 anime, and if you're purposely avoiding the more recent versions, or just haven't got around to them. If you pick up the manga again, it's also something I'll be curious about. I suppose I'm just getting excited about everything that happens after the story that we all know, and wouldn't mind having someone to discuss it with.

I hope you're feeling better, and that every day is better than the last one. I just had a few topics in mind that made me think to reach out to you.

Well, fuck, several years since I last talked to the guy and I can't find him on social media, I don't know how to track him down haha
Here is the Portuguese version though, I dedicated it to a close friend of mine that was denied shelter by anarchopunks and was later murdered by nazi skins https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fmpqb2pq1dj3240z18odo/Hist-ria-Skinhead-e-Oi-Carecas-do-Brasil.pdf?e=3&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1CTCsvZMJIQUhBgjNj8gUXsu0zotwNna5JZEo1pxiUCoeRiZiIdIIHgfI_aem_ZmFrZWR1bW15MTZieXRlcw&rlkey=4oa3wa6g5xncsevq9f1w4jynt&dl=0

I guess being in a gang was just cool haha

Yeah, skinhead scene started with Jamaican immigrants and music, it's quite sad that it became a nazi thing.
I have the Portuguese version, it will be hard to translate because it's full of slangs, but I'm gonna message the guy that told me about distributing into in Mexico and going to see if he has the Spanish version.

Are you from Oxnard or around it? I probably only know the bands that are in that Nardcore 80s album, another band I really liked was RKL

Hi again, I hope you're continuing your recovery. It sounds like you have been going through some pretty scary symptoms. You seem to be into many creative avenues, so it's even worse that you have been kept from enjoying them throughout your struggles. I suppose songwriting would be out of the question if it literally tires out your brain. I wonder if you did manage to write songs during this time, that they might turn out unique due to what you're going through. I'm not sure exactly how to explain it, but I mean like how stress and pain might bring out some hidden facet of your mind that isn't normally present. It might be interesting a year from now to look back at anything you've written during this time. Hopefully it wouldn't bring back strong negative memories that you would quickly want to forget. But being able to view your work from this time in the future might be an interesting window to peer through. If you haven't been feeling like yourself, it might be reflected in your projects. Once you're back to normal (I hope that will be possible sooner than later,) perhaps you can look back at this as your "concussion era," and possibly notice something distinct about it. Just a thought. Maybe I'm just trying to find any silver lining I can at a tragic time in your life.

I still haven't watched Black Books yet, but now this topic has become even more humorous to me that your mind went to a Canadian English accent! I will concede that I do live around 20 miles away from the Canadian border. I'm also in one of the few geographical locations where I would actually have to travel south to reach the Canadian border from the bridge (or tunnel, there is an option at the border.) However, the change in accents from one side of the bridge to the other is pretty drastic! Well, only with a few particular words and phrases. I haven't been to Canada in quite a while, but I've really enjoyed the time I've spent vacationing there. I have been to Toronto twice (it's quite a bit further away than the city across our border,) and it's my favorite city I've ever visited. The people are so much nicer, and it just feels so positive overall. It just spoke to me. Nowadays I'm sure it's completely unaffordable to even spend a week there. In a wish fulfillment scenario, where I am completely financially free, I would love to live there. Do you have any places like that in your mind?

Speaking of mechanics on this site, I am also still discovering all of the little tips and tricks. I don't know if you use the mobile app or not, or if you only access via browser, or a combination of the two (like I do.) I've already mentioned that the phone app has that useful feature where you can see how everyone on your friend list has rated any anime or manga. That really does seem exclusive to the app, and I absolutely love having access to that. The app is also very limited in many ways. If you remember, I was telling you about how I watched Monster twice, yet didn't get credit in the "rewatch" category of my list. Apparently, I can use the browser version of the site, which has so many more options, to enter this manually. The browser version also allows you to make comments on every anime on your list. For example, I could almost write a mini review for all of them, and it would show up in a comment category on my list when viewed via browser. I believe that it is limited to a certain number of words, so I don't think it can handle full essay length material. So we can almost write reviews for what we watch, minus the social anxiety factor of having them become public spectacles. I wish I would have known about this earlier! I have always toyed around with the idea of becoming the kind of user that writes reviews. I enjoy writing, although the only time I really get to exercise this is when I'm chatting with my friends, like we do from time to time. I just feel too intimidated to set something in stone for everyone here to see. I would also feel the need to come up with a completely original approach. I would want my own style that is set apart from the standard "Story, Characters, Sound, Enjoyment" template that most people use. I haven't come up with anything yet. Have you ever considered writing reviews here? You strike me as someone who might feel similar to myself, where you feel like you have things to say about certain anime and manga, yet always second guessing and just feel comfortable keeping your thoughts to yourself. The life of the introverts, I suppose!

The one cool feature on the browser version that I wanted to share with you is the ability to block everyone from seeing your updates for as long as you choose. I've chosen to keep a little quiet on the site for the moment, yet I'm still adding to my list. So it makes that "rating dump" thing that we talked about even easier. When you hide your updates, nobody can see them on their timeline from the homepage. I don't know if this was something that you were interested in, but for me, it sort of eases the anxiety of having everyone see that I'm about to rate Sword Art Online a 4 at best haha! I think you know what I'm saying, as far as not having every little thing we do here being broadcast to our entire list of friends. I may turn it back on shortly. I just wanted to become invisible for a few days, and this selectable option allowed me to do so.

I usually don't consider myself to have OCD, but when it comes to my anime list and other lists I make to document certain aspects of my life, it becomes obvious that I indeed do have some of the symptoms! Since 2020 I have documented every single cent I have spent on food, in order to lower my budget. At the end of every year I will actually break the list down and figure out how much I have spent yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily. My best year was 2022, where I spent an average of $29.07 per week on food. Narrowly edging out 2021, where it was $29.11 haha! Last year it jumped up to $32.46 per week, due to inflation, but I'm on pace to have my best year ever for 2024. It sounds so weird and obsessive to most people, but I'm really using this as a tool to assure that I'm never devoting too much of my budget to what I eat. It almost becomes a game, where I'm competing with myself from previous years. It also allows me to get very creative in the kitchen. Learning to do a lot with a little. Needless to say, restaurants and takeout are almost completely out of the question. But this meticulous list obsession has definitely carried over into my anime list. That's the reason why you've heard me talk about adjusting my ratings to get everything perfect and harmonious.

Well, I'm still pulling for you to heal, if it hasn't happened fully yet. I'd be happy to know when you finally get back to doing the things you love, and are passionate about. I'm hoping that this is just a small setback for you, and that soon, you will feel ready for a comeback, and a full recovery. Also, if your projects are things that you would like to share with other people, I'm right here for ya. If not, I understand completely. I value privacy as much as the next introvert. As always, good talking to you, my friend.

Talking about Leftover Crack, I just remembered this Ska remix haha

Oh, and I was still thinking about the "raw punk" thing, when I first mentioned I didn't actually know it was a bit of a local name we give to those 80s d-beat and crust-like bands, I guess they came up with that name here to distance it from regular street punk scene that is very linked to skinhead and Oi!. Oi! is very very controversial here, it was majorly fascist until mid 00s, in the 10s a strong antifa street punk scene was consolidated but it was met with a lot of distrust from old anarchopunks and crusties and there was a lot of fights because of it, I was kinda cancelled in the middle of it just because I wrote a material about the story the Oi! and Street Punk scene mentioning all the fascists and antifascists there were - with some uncomfortable info, like tons of those early Scandinavian punk bands had their records released by Rock-o-Rama, the biggest nazi music record there is hahaha
This mini-book/fanzine was published by a few anarchist presses here and I know it was also published in Mexico but I never got see that edition. I assume it got to other Latin countries too since the major language barrier was broken.

Man, I absolutely love Chocking Victim and Leftover Crack!
They have a very original kind of ska punk, or as they call it, crack rocksteady. They were a huge influence for me, I actually can't play normal ska punk songs very well because I learned ska with them haha
The only band I've found in a similar vein is No Cash, ever heard about them? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ut8PEP4XKI

When you mentioned nardcore I was hoping for Stalag 13 on that list haha, I don't know how well know those guys were but they were a random band I managed to get a few songs in dial up internet long ago and fell in love with, I specially like their song Black and Gray. I know a few Ill Repute songs too but is not a band I ever got to explore much - when I finally got a decent internet I was very focused on my local scene - and Descendents is pretty famous. Love those bands you've sent.

So, I actually studied History in college, and I don't know how it works there but here to graduate you have to make a scientific paper that is analyzed by a board that will say if it was good enough to be published and then you get your degree. A bunch of people in History and Sociology made papers about the punk and hardcore scene here and I was doing a huge research in that area to also do something although I hadn't decided on what I would focus - I had to drop college to take care of my mother so I never actually did any work. There is a really good documentary about punk in Brazil called Botinada but it's very focused on the musical side while the punk scene really started with the gangs... if you don't mind, I will paste a text I had written previously about this subject:

"The first blue-jeans-leather-jacket gangs that formed the punk scene started in 1976, they were punks but didn't know punk existed, and they liked stuff like MC5, Stooges and New York Dolls, and then in 1977 some articles appeared in newspapers and magazines about punk in UK and the guys that saw it started adopting the name here, and in the same year a magazine release this record https://www.discogs.com/release/3349367-Various-A-Revista-Pop-Apresenta-O-Punk-Rock that was the first contact they had with the music and they all lost their collective shit, punk exploded here, but it was all gangs. First bands started appearing in 1978, none of them were musicians, they were just tired of hearing songs about the streets of London and New York and decided to make songs about the streets of São Paulo, so they picked up instruments and started playing, but then again, the movement was formed by gangs, and being a punk meant being in a gang even by proxy, so bands from some regions couldn't play in some other regions because of gang fights - later, they also watched too much The Warriors haha. The first low quality demos and bootlegs from the bands are from 1980, and only in 1982 one band managed to save enough money to do some studio recording and press a 7'', Lixomania - Os Punks Também Amam ("The Punks Also Love"). That same year there was a big two-days peace event supposed to unite the gangs and end the war, O Começo do Fim do Mundo ("The Beginning of the End of the World"), the event was recorded and it's a big piece of underground music history, Maximum Rocknroll covered it, and it was raided by the cops by the end and a lot of punks got beat up and arrested but it was a success, they made a 12'' and the punks united, bands could play everywhere, so gangs became less important and bands were able to grow - later troubles exist to this day, one of the biggest punk gangs used to shave their heads, they discovered skinhead scene, and later the media told them skinheads were nazis, and by late 80s there were a lot of nazis and other fascist groups being directly sponsored by parties trying to mimic UK's National Front. Anyway, that's the sum up of the beginning of punk in Brazil."

The Botinada doc is here with subtitles, but unfortunately it gets desynchronized at about the 40min mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trIAXkc003k

One important context is that we lived under a military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985, so punks had a lot of trouble.

Thank you for the feedback about my writing. I am trying as much as I can not to use grammar checkers or paraphrasers so I can train my writing again. Although English is my second language, I stopped honing it when I started to play computer games. My world revolves around it and I stopped growing. I agree with the Sloths characteristics that you mentioned.



How am I doing? Hmm, thanks for asking. I feel like I'm in a bottomless pit that I can't escape or trying my best to escape to. Take your time responding, that is okay. I hope you're doing well since you mentioned about doing medical stuffs. I've been in customer service/outsourcing for a long time. I recently quit my back office job last month because going to work back and forth eats up 2:40 hours of travel time. And I got drained, so I changed my job into freelancing now/virtual assistant. What do you do for a living?



He definitely understands depression and execute it very well on his art. That is why I really dig his work. People who is hating him on this site never understand depression nor experienced it yet. All of the points that you mentioned regarding his work and about depression is the reason why he is one of my favorites. I haven't explored a lot of manga yet. But hopefully, when the time my mind is at peace. I can go back binge watching anime shows and reading a lot of manga again.



Aku no Hana's anime style is really a breath of fresh air for me. I enjoyed it a lot and if I recall correctly I've watched it in one sitting. However, based on the reviews most people, they did not like its art style. You've pretty much hit what is on my mind about the Tatami Galaxy, that one will be special to me.




I did not even think for a second that it sounds pretentious at all about what you prefer watching. Actually it is really cool when artist are trying different instead of the plain boring art style that we are getting nowadays. Those shows from the old are something different, you will feel the love that they put on each work compared to many of the shows as of late. I haven't watch Mononoke and Texhnolyze yet but those shows are my on watch list for a long time now. I will definitely watch those when my mind is ready. To be honest, I haven't read Monster yet. I went straight to the anime and I highly recommend it. I will definitely read the manga too to refresh my memory. Hmm, I pretty much like dark theme ones, psychological, shows that I can relate in real life. Shows that boost your morale and inspire you to keep moving forward(Sports). When my mind is blank I watch isekais to kill time, because I doesn't require you to think deep. If you know what I mean.




To be honest, I am still not feeling better. But thank you for your concern. I hope your medical stuffs are not that bad. Yes, Pingpong the Animation resonated and enjoyed this show a lot. Because I feel the "life" and reality on this show. The art blends with the story telling. It portrays the emotion of each characters very well. Slam dunk is what I watched when I was younger so up until this day I still enjoys it whenever I do a rewatch.

About "Raw Punk", I believe the Scandinavian scene was the most extreme "Crust Punk", but the main influence for the whole thing was early Discharge from UK, where the term "d-beat" came from, that is the standard drums of the genre... I believe "Raw Punk" is a very local thing, at least the name we gave and elsewhere it might just be punk I don't know haha, I can't really find sources for "Raw Punk" elsewhere, it's bands and a scene inside our punk that is very inspired by early Discharge, 80s Scandinavian punk and even 80s Japanese punk that was also pretty extreme and on par with the craziness of the Scandinavian bands, but I guess the main characteristic of our "Raw Punk" scene is that they are very "colorful" like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqPbydinWeQ I think our most influential band in that scene is Luta Armada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCzJQqbGQdc (couldn't find any cool video clip haha) but another famous one is Pós-Guerra, I know the guys from both of these and they are very chill, Márcia (the woman in that picture) has a shop and I believe she is the main supplier of rivets for punk jackets in the country, I bought from her too when I was a teenager haha
Raw Punk is very similar to Crust Punk musically, perhaps Crust got a more metal influence, but Crust punk is more linked to Anarchopunk aesthetics and ideology, "Raw Punk" bands tend to be more fatalist, "no future", war and somber themes but not overly political, and songs about getting drunk and such, so I guess in that part they are more akin to "UK82" (bands like Discharge, Varukers, GBH...), while Crust/Anarcho is very political.
ps: This Raw Punk subscene I believe started mid-late 90s only (Anarchopunk scene here developed in the late 80s), I will show you some early 80s Brazilian punk bands later, I believe first bands started popping up in '78 or so, but as everyone was poor as fuck, as the country in general, they couldn't record anything decent until '82.

Man, I quite liked Melt-Banana, that child-like high pitch vocals reminded me of a local 90s band called Okotô, that coincidentally also had a Japanese girl as vocalist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-6SScnqwM (unfortunately the only version of the video I found has the sound quality messed up) - she formed this band here later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LczcRmGIKjE (not singing like that anymore) and she was very known and important in our metal scene, she also played bass on a death metal band called NervoChaos, unfortunately she died in 2017.

Number Girl also quite good, those are two bands I'm going to dig deeper later, as for Zazen Boys, it was a tad to experimental for me haha, but it was interesting to get to known them

Hello again. I'm hoping that your concussion symptoms are subsiding. It sounds like it has been a real nightmare for you. It must have been quite an impactful incident, and it sounds like the mental trauma you have suffered is comparable to the physical. I'm glad you are at least able to enjoy your hobbies through the ordeal.

I don't know when exactly I'll get around to watching Black Books, but it might be sooner than later, because I'm so curious now haha! I wonder if once I see the main character speak, my cadence will either move away from his, or actually lean into it harder haha! I love a good British comedy, and it's been a while since I've watched one. This will be a good opportunity. Even though I'm not from England, if you think it's more fitting to imagine me with his accent, I think it would be hilarious! I suppose we might reach some kind of humorous conclusion once I've watched the show.

You might be the only person I've talked to on this site so far that also appreciates subs over dubs. I usually never bring it up, since I think it tends to make people sound smug or condescending. I consume anime as a complete Japanese package. Everything was chosen by the creators, from the animation style, to the musical score, to the voice actors. Adding any sort of western element into the equation really diminishes the final product to me. I respect American voice actors and what they are commissioned to do, but to my personal tastes, they really ham it up, and turn subtle roles into campy cliches. All of my terrestrial friends prefer dubs, so it often feels as if we're watching completely different shows when I take a peek at how the dub sounds. It seems to always lower the maturity points of anime by at least 10 years to my ears.

Oh, and as for your concern about attempting to have a massive "rating dump" on your site, let me try to set your mind at ease. I realize how this happened, where on my timeline it showed that you had "just completed" Fullmetal Alchemist. Considering that we have been in contact, it seemed like a good conversation starter. But now I realize that you had probably finished the show years ago. It makes sense to me now, and I apologize for the misconception. But I have some advice on how to get this all out of the way easily. It seems as if you're feeling anxiety about how it might appear to your friend list if you were to suddenly rate old shows that you have watched years ago in one session. It won't matter. We share many of the same friends, and I can say with the utmost confidence that it won't even register for most of them. Heck, one of our friends regularly adds like 40 shows to their "watching" list, and then slowly drops most of them and rates them all a 4. Some of them have between 100-1600 friends, and will never even pay attention to how you're rating anything. They won't even see it. At least one of our friends barely even watches anime anymore, so they would have no interest in your ratings. That leaves only a few other users that I'm not familiar with, but if you've already agreed to be friends, they won't be dropping you based on any anomalies in what you're doing. My solution for you is to physically write down every rating of any anime that you have watched. Get it all down on paper. Wait until late at night, and just do it all at once. Get it all out of your system. It's better this way. When I first signed up I had to input dozens of ratings all at once, from my anime watching before I even knew about it. Nobody will care, it'll take a load off of your shoulders, and your list will be a much more accurate portrayal of your experience. Once it's done, you'll realize that nobody has called you out on it, or questioned you. I promise that you'll be just fine.

Oh, and as far as Hunter x Hunter, I'm actually saving the original 1998 series for later. It will be like a treat for me one day. I'll get to rewatch my favorite scenes in an entirely different style, from a different era. Same with Fullmetal Alchemist. I'm purposely saving those experiences for a later date. One day I will want to revisit those characters and those stories. It seems so fun to know that I'll be able to achieve this with alternate versions. Apparently they have some significant differences. They spend more time with some scenes because they had to stretch the shows out. The source material at those times was not yet finished. If you ever get around to the newer Hunter x Hunter, you would probably be ecstatic to find that there is another version where we get to spend even more time with the tremendous characters. I'm really looking forward to it! Actually, it might be beneficial for you to only watch the 1998 H x H. It would allow you to experience many of the great parts in many less episodes. The 2003 version is great, but the controversy is about a certain 60 episode arc that happens toward the end of the series. Some people think it's the greatest arc of all time, others can't stand it. I'd like you to at least be able to see how smart the show is, and take a look at the character interactions. But I realize that 148 episodes seems daunting. Perhaps try out the 62 episode original series. If you like it, then it is followed up by a few OVA's if you're still on board. But it was made before that infamous 60 episode arc was even created. Just a suggestion. Gon and Killua are such amazing characters, and there are so many conundrums and logic tests, to where I think you should at least dip your toe in at some point. It's just smarter than your average anime. I realize we all have our own time constraints, so this isn't some sort of thing I'll be following up on. No pressure at all.

Hope you are recovering at a good rate. Always nice to talk to you.

I understand, I rarely talk to people as well because I don't talk that much. My writing also sucks even though I am using English on a daily basis. I really don't know, but I kind of feel that I resonate with Sloths. They are very slow but survived the wild this long.

I've been struggling watching continuously as well, mainly because my mind is in a deep mess right now. I just quit my back office job and now working from home as freelance. I have more time to watch, but I chose playing online games instead. I hope I can find my motivation on binging shows again.

I started reading Asano's work on pandemic, and boy I really love them. Because I can relate to most of them. Mainly because of the depression theme. And I love the artwork as well, pretty solid in my opinion. His story-telling like what you said is really impressing. I stopped reading for a while but I'll definitely be back at it.


For Aku no Hana, damn that hits really hard. I enjoyed both the anime and manga to be honest. A lot of people hate the anime because of the animation. But to be honest, the animation is fine with me. I think it blends with the story. Although the female main character looks different in anime compared to manga. And as for Tatami Galaxy, I enjoyed it because I pretty much wasted a lot of years in college. So yeah, I feel like it is the story of my life and a lot of bad choices and decisions that I did way back.


What genres are you interested with? But your list pretty much explaisn what you like. But I just really want to know coming from you. Since you mentioned that you are not a fan of Chibis, I would still recommend watching Made in Abyss. Most people here are hating it because they said that the author is a pedophilia. Which I understand where they are coming from. Please do watch and read Monster, that show blew my mind.


Also some shows that you've already finished are on my watchlist for several years or a decade now, I really wanted to watch them But my mind is still in shambles. Nowadays I only watched shows that I don't need to think much(Isekai). Also I'm interested in Sports show because it somehow portrays reality and kind of getting inspired because of it. Again, sorry for my bad writing, I just recently reformatted my pc and haven't installed grammar checker apps yet.

I don't know these Japanese bands you mentioned, but I do like Pixies and Jesus Lizard.

I guess the way the punk scene evolved here people didn't care much about USA hardcore punk, I mean everyone likes Dead Kennedys and Circle Jerks, but we were more influenced by UK, Finnish and Swedish bands and I guess it's mainly because they had a more "punkish" visuals, like colorful mohawks and jacket full of pins and so on, and I guess the names also sounded more exotic haha
Those Scandinavian bands is what we call "Raw Punk", they are mostly very noisy, first time I went to hang with the punks from São Paulo (our biggest city, actually the fourth biggest city of the world) I'd ask about bands people liked (because I knew shit) and everyone would say Kaaos, Terveet Kadet, Rattus, Riistetyt, Lämä, Anti Cimex... those bands actually sound very like the bands we had here since late 70s, so perhaps wasn't just visuals but the music sounded more familiar.

Let's trade some links!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuT6_uLLCxk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JT19QaF_qI

those are like "old" more traditional stuff to give you a general idea, Kaaos is a band I really like and these two here are probably my favorite songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK5SMdKLuWs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESDe_KY_RvM

Fair enough, that is my latest interaction to MAL users. I am thinking that you saw my comment in Gsarthotegga's profile.
I enjoyed Solanin as well, we have the same interest I see. It was nice to know that you like my pfp and the Sloth picture. I love the name Sloth and the animal for a long time now. I have a sloth tattoo in fact. Also, I like your profile as well. Are you new to anime/manga? Or you only just rarely watch? I am curious.

I fell in love with those titles that mentioned which are on my favorites. And some time in the future I might re-read/re-watch those. Cheers!

I don't like breakdowns and it's so predominant in metalcore, screamo and modern metal in general... I like fast music :P

Oh man, honestly I didn't get to enjoy much any show I was directly promoting, I was so tense checking if everything was alright, but as a young punk I was addicted to Nordic punk, so I really liked meeting the guys from Rövsvett and Lautstürmer (it was a new project with guys from Driller Killer and Mob 47, two bands I love, but Lautstürmer itself was a great surprise for me, "We are the Audioplague" feels like Motörhead on speed).

Hey, about punk and metal fans in here, its really hard to find more indeed!
Checking music videos here pummeled my mean score because, even when I find the video cool, mostly the music hurts my ears haha
I made this forum post "Punk/Metal/Grunge anime music videos" https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2106250 a year ago and got zero replies, also I had no luck with clubs.