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My name is Alex, I'm 28 years old and I've been watching anime for almost 18 years, so I've experienced many ups and downs of the whole anime culture. My tastes have changed and evolved a lot over the years, with an improved understanding of the work and standards of evaluation. I write reviews merely as a hobby of my own. I like to read through my old reviews after years and see my opinions from the past. If I can give someone a little hint through that, all the better.
I watch anime for a long time, but I am not an anime fan. There are simply too few anime for me that I would really call great. Most are just above average or bad. I also don't like anime fans because I don't like their nature at all. They are toxic, embarrassing and just plain unpleasant. Especially Shounen fans, like DB, Bleach, Naruto or whatever fans. They practically have Rabies and you should watch out.
Of course, there are also normal anime fans, but unfortunately very few.
Hope we do not kill each other. Eat an apple a day. If you ever need to make an apology video, use your ukulele.
1⭐There is no excuse for such a result. Series that are this bad don't have a point worth mentioning and shouldn't exist.
2⭐It's bad, but not the lowest point one could have reached.
3⭐Waste of time, disappointing and weak. Still kind of watchable under certain circumstances.
4⭐ These series are not conditionally bad, they don't have enough strengths to be average. It's not the best you'll watch, but it's not the worst.
5⭐ Perfectly balanced, as all things should be. The strengths and weaknesses of a show are almost evenly matched, which means you could definitely dare to give it a chance.
6⭐An above-average experience that definitely stands out from the rest. You can clearly perceive the difference once you set a certain average.
7⭐Series you definitely have to see, despite flaws and weaknesses, they excelled in many aspects and achieved good results.
8⭐Without much exaggeration, this is the cut you would really expect, but very rarely achieved. Series this good were made by the most capable or creative authors.
9⭐ Series like this are at the top of their genre and represent practically the best possible results in every possible area. They are, unfortunately, a massive rarity.
10⭐There are no flawless and perfect series, manga or games. But you really can get close enough to perfection.
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As far as rewatching is concerned, because I spend lately some time with studies about the sengoku era, I started rewatching Oda Nobuna no Yabou for the umphteenth time. The show has a killer soundtrack, if nothing else. And even though I first got subjected to it like 15 years ago, I still somehow enjoy historical characters made into anime girls, like Fates Saber or said Nobuna.
But a friend also trapped into Genshin with that music video of blazing heart, so I have even less time for anime now. But I know Genshin never holds me for longer than 2 weeks, anyways :D
I would love to ask what you've been up to watching, but you already said that you haven't touched a show in a long time, so... some interesting game caught you recently?
Gerne doch, mich freut es besonders zu sehen, dass es noch andere Benutzer hier gibt, die einfühlsam und mit Mitgefühl reagieren. Soetwas wird gerade hier sehr gut gebraucht, denn es gibt so einige hier, welche schwere Zeiten hinter sich hatten, bzw. noch durchmachen.
Danke für deine aufmunternden Worte. Bei weitem nicht so weit wie ich um die Zeit kommen wollte, aber das Leben ist kein Wettrennen. Ich mag vielleicht weitesgehend ausgebrannt sein, aber ich bin guter Dinge, wenn ich sehe, dass ich würdevolle Nachfolger im Forum habe. Mach' weiter so!
Ah I don't mind discussing it all, have done so quite a few times on MAL already.
I get apprehensive about certain replies though, as I know it's quite unbelievable sounding.
But your right that it sounds like a movie plot, it totally does. My mother even wanted books and movies made about it if we were allowed to, but all our reputations are too badly damaged (save for a court judgement if there was one) and we were dealing with other stuff, just never had a moment to give it real serious thought. My (unwell) sister was a good writer though, she wrote an unpublished novel before she went strange 🥺
It's not totally an unheard thing regarding the NHS to do something like this, but it's notoriously difficult to pursue them, as they close ranks to protect themselves and the NHS especially.
We really had all the proof we needed, but they decided to take the option that they did unfortunately.
My sister is in kind of a difficult situation. She's under the care of the local council there, they even went to court to obtain care over her from us, as the relationship between my family and care teams wasn't ideal. They had their own ideas and wouldn't listen our wishes and considerations, and they thought she'd be better living away in a flat complex with other similarly affected people instead of at home with us, and they didn't want my mother seeing her.
It's difficult actually trying to contact her, as she doesn't seem to remember anyone or fully grasp the real current world and situation, and how she is changes often, like personality disorders I guess? but she might also be suffering from a some sort of brain damage... really not sure :/ she's been admitted into hospital about 3 different times and each time she got released she was less & less like her normal self.
It wasn't quite so bad before, as I could at least visit her and tidy her place up, as she hoards stuff. But since the pandemic lockdowns happened, she seemed to think none of us cared about her, but again that changed to her being like what she is now.
But mental health procedures have changed since these episodes of her's happened, and it's more difficult to get to her without police intervention, and she's not an outright risk to anyone, she's just odd and hides away.
My eldest sister tried contacting her after my mother passed away, but she didn't recognise her and told her to go away.
We've tried contacting the hospital where she came out of about her, but all they could do was get her GP to write to her, but she'll just ignore the letters.
It still affects me because our medical records within the NHS have been doctored and shared around, and the true ones hidden.
I think my true ones are under a butchered version of my full name to make me female, but I don't know for certain as my mother was told that off the record.
I do have true private records, but getting people to seek them was always difficult with our deliberately ruined reputations and the wrong records on-hand. People usually just see that and go no further.
I think it's too far gone to overturn it all now.
My life currently is much more settled and I'm doing some things I missed out on, I get a bit scared about going too far away from home though 😅 and I still go to my big sis for help on things, as most stuff was quite new to me.
I was always a bit of a loner, but I'm starting to meet people through hobbies. I'm apprehensive about getting too close to people though, would love to have a family of my own, but don't know if it would be safe to if nothing changes.
Ah I guess it's a bit like better the devil I know when it comes to my country/location...
I was very sheltered and haven't been to other countries until fairly recently. I can't drive so I would prefer somewhere that's easy to get around without one.
I liked the Isle of Man - which is a small island off the UK that isn't part of the UK, but my country defends it militarily.
That felt like a much better version of the UK and doesn't have the NHS. Not sure if I could afford to live there though...
My eldest sis has a home in Spain that she lives between there and here, but I'm not a massive fan of the country. It's much bigger than here and hard to get around, and I don't like the climate 😅
I don't hate the UK though, just don't feel all-that safe or comfortable here... but I can get to my hobby stuffs much easier.
A lot would have depended on our case's outcomes, as if we won we could have stayed and felt safe here, as we would probably have been untouchable. Or could have gone abroad also.
But at the time of this happening, there wasn't many places in the world that was able to treat patients such as us, and one of those was in England near London, whe just needed funding to pay for it.
Probably many other places in the world have these capabilities now, but trust was a much bigger thing. I still hopefully have my private Dr to go back to, but unfortunately she's not nearby, as the family home near her is rented now, me and my eldest sis are landlords of it.