I first watched "anime" back when I was young, it mainly consisted of Doraemon, Gundam, Ghibli movies and Pokemon, which I considered to be one of the forms of entertainment I consumed from video games, movies, TV shows, animations, cartoons etc. I did not distinguish them as "anime", and I did not even consider that they were from Japan, as I mainly consumed them in my native language.
Fast forward to 2014, my YouTube feed started to be filled with numerous videos about "Attack on Titan", some of my favourite YouTubers were making videos about this cartoon show which I did not notice. I decided to give the first episode a watch, and from then on I was completely hooked on the medium. It was my first foray into an adult-centric animation, and it enlightened me into how a medium I considered to be childish, can tell more darker, exciting and philosophical stories compared to other mediums. Of course, my teenage self did not value these qualities initially, and I mainly explored other shows that were just as exhilarating as the first season of "Attack on Titan", which led to me watching the most popular and beginner-friendly shows such as Bleach, Fairy Tail, Parasyte, Noragami, and Sword Art Online (which opened up my interest into the romance genre).
Nowadays, I have enough exposure to the medium to define my preferences, as well as elevate my standards to what I consider "good". My Favourites section currently holds the shows/mangas which I hold in high regard. Usually, any show that I rate >9 falls within my preferences. My opinions about a show are inherently biased and should not taken as objective, shows that I was able to emotionally connect to, I would rate highly, and I try to give an objective analysis about a show, but if it was able to elicit emotions from me, it speaks to its quality.
My ratings include a mix of critical, objective analysis as well as enjoyment. The point of a show is to watch it for pleasure, not to suffer and watch it as if it is a chore. However, certain aspects of a show I may critique as my form of enjoyment.
10: A (personaL) masterpiece of a show. Personally I deem them flawless in almost every aspect of them (although objectively they may not). My enjoyment was beyond satisfied and they leave behind a lasting impression on me that affects my very being in some way. Definitely will rewatch these shows.
9: An amazing show that deserves some re-watches, greatly satisfying to experience and was produced with care. Some minor issues prevent it from being near-perfect.
8: Great shows that I found highly enjoyable. Maybe a few gripes that make me question some moments in the show, but very well done.
7: Pretty good shows that are enjoyable upon first viewing, but they do not leave a large impression on me and they have quite a few problems that exist within that discourage repeated viewings.
6: These shows are somewhat enjoyable, but there are flaws that take me out of the viewing experience. Nothing too stand-out about it but may satisfy certain niches.
5: Shows at 5 have redeeming qualities, but it is overshadowed by the poor execution the creators made that riddled the shows with flaws and mistakes. Satisfies very certain niches
4: Anything rated 4 or below I will not recommend being viewed. Finding anything enjoyable here, you must scavenge through a stack of needles. Though some moments are enjoyable, they are usually superficial.
1: My friend... there are better ways to die than this.
Final Fantasy 16 looks really amazing so I understand why you would be excited for it! :)
I used the be mest active on computer but since I don't have a gaming computer or just a computer that's good for games in general I haven't been able to really play any big games since before corona ;-;
But I can still play smaller games like Among Us on my own computer without too much trouble ^^
But besides that I'm pretty active on my Nintendo DS/3DS and our shared Wii :D
That's true, since I'm bad with jump scares I'm often too afraid to play horror games by myself so I always play it with someone or have someone with me when I play xD I don't think I've ever played Alien: Isolation, what's it about? and is it fun? But Resident Evil 7 and Outlast are pretty fun indeed! I grew up watching my dad play Resident Evil 4 from 2005 so I was interested in Resident Evil pretty early and he always refused to play any of the other Resident Evil games until he finished it but I only think he finished it once from what I can remember xD
That's understandable, we didn't have any protection either we were just some kids given some sticks and accidentally hitting each other xD
Well if you want I could always make a training list for you so you can try it at home? It would be fun to hear what someone who's not related to my school thinks about it :)
There's no rules about what to cosplay at the school as long as you have fun so sometimes you would see Anime/Game/Movie characters or something like that and other times a vegan would meet up to class in a cow costume with a sign saying "Not your mom not your milk" :D
Yep, I play PC, Playstation, Switch, Nintendo and Wii ^^ (Or more like I borrow my brother's Playstation and Switch xD)
But yes! I love horror games but I'm really bad at jumpscares xD
Oh I forgot to mention that I'm a really big Resident Evil fan ^^
Recently I was pretty excited for Little Hope but besides that I've been a little too busy to check out new games :3
It's hard not to get injured when playing sports, I remember when I was young and played hockey and someone hit me in the face and I lost a tooth but thankfully it was supposed to fall out xD
It's something my science teacher did once a week at my school, it's really intense training as the name suggest xD
The first few times I did it I had trouble going around because my body was in so much pain and I lived on the 2nd floor xD
It's indeed a really interesting school/camp since they focus on all the nerdy things so we had cosplay/roleplay teachers and in general some pretty 'interesting' teachers xD
Are you excited for any new games or are you too busy too? :D
To be honest besides the few that im watching this season I haven't watched anime for a good amount of time, no reason though, i just got kind of bored lol...besides anime though I read an absurd amount of manga, my favorite that im reading now is probably either Attack on Titan or Kaguya sama.
I took a quick look at your profile and one thing i can relate to you on 100% is what you said about destiny, I know the story had so many plot holes and PvP was absurdly bad at some points in time, but I spent so much time grinding in that game. Unfortunately I wasn't able to quit after destiny 1 and ended up wasting even more time in destiny 2 but, it was a good way to waste time XD
I like games where I can make my own character but I enjoy a lot of different games, some of the games I've played recently are Rainbow Six Siege, Dead By Daylight, Among Us, Friday The 13th, Angels Of Death, Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy XV but sometimes I enjoy games like Amnesia and Cinderella Phenomenon too ^^
I'm not that much of a sports person because I always end up injured but It's fun playing badminton and volleyball, I enjoy indoor hockey too :D
One of my old teachers introduced me to something called Train & Die which I use to not get too lazy :3
It was actually pure accident xD
3-4 years ago I was on a camp to try out what it was like on the boarding school I had to go to and then one of the Cosplay teachers showed me how to make this small little wound but when I actually started on the school 2 years after the camp I started learning new tricks and now I just love to make zombie make up and sometimes scare people :)
It's totally fine! I've been really busy in the last 2 weeks too so I haven't had that much time to watch Anime or in general do stuff I enjoy and I'll probably be busy until summer but I hope to get some time in the holidays or something like that :D
If you ever want to recommend me something else then feel free to tell me! There's a 100% chance I'll watch it ^^
I enjoy drawing, games, baking, reading and sometimes on rare occasions I dance since I used to be a competitive dancer a few years back :)
Oh yeah! I enjoy special effect/zombie make up too! I don't know how to use normal make up but I love doing zombie make up a lot! :D
What hobbies do you have? :3
Ye i prolly racked the same amount of time. He no problem, I myself replied late.. And yeah cyberpunk 2077, I had the excitement at the start, but it kinda died down now lol. I feel like if they delay the release anymore, it's gonna actually release in 2077. oh I see
I kinda have been watching less anime nowadays. but I love fantasy adventure and romcom in general. been watching the fate series
I generally just watch Anime that I enjoy and don't care about what others think of it (✿◠‿◠)
Then I'll add Occultic;Nine to my 'Plan to watch' list (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧
It's fine to be a bit more critical since we all have different ways of watching Anime \(*^▽^*)/
Hmmmm I actually can't remember since it's been so long since I started, when I was a child my parents bought me a lot of Ghibli movies and other movies like that so I grew up loving Japanese animation and one day I think I just took the next step and started watching my first real Anime series but I really can't remember exactly 。◕‿◕。
How about you? There's so many different ways people started watching Anime ◕‿◕
Hello and thank you for accepting my friend request! (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧
Hmmmm if you mean what shows I enjoyed not many others like then I quite enjoyed Neo Angelique Abyss, Hiiro No Kakera, Sirius The Jaeger, Magic Kyun Renaissance, Code:Breaker, Juuni Taisen, Trickster: Edogawa Ranpo Yori and Harukanaru Toki No Naka De: Hachiyou Shou which are just a few out of more that I think deserved more love than what they got o(╥﹏╥)o
How about you? What sort of shows do you enjoy not many others do? (◕‿◕✿)
I love action RPGs too lol
my fav one was Skyrim. Loved the detail and story.
I wanted to try witcher 3 too, but vid games are on hold due to schoolwork.
Ah, Fps is best played with friends. I usually play csgo tho.
It's fine I understand that.
Btw, I think I accidentally denied your friend request because there has been too many strangers sending me friend request during these few days, mind sending the friend request again and give me the name? (so I wouldn't deny it again lol)
Yeah I do, My discord is Cqffee#8622, you can add me if you want to :)
Thanks for the recommendation man! Would definitely buy them later, also I think Nier;Automata should be in sale right now, so I would probably buy this first.
Sorry for the late reply again, the last week has been one of the busiest weeks in my life.
Sure we can definitely play Apex together soon.
Yeah I also play Among Us with mobile too.
Anyway I'm planning to buy some RPG soon, do you have any recommendation?
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Anyone who has Monogatari series on their favourite list can't have a bad choice :)
I used the be mest active on computer but since I don't have a gaming computer or just a computer that's good for games in general I haven't been able to really play any big games since before corona ;-;
But I can still play smaller games like Among Us on my own computer without too much trouble ^^
But besides that I'm pretty active on my Nintendo DS/3DS and our shared Wii :D
That's true, since I'm bad with jump scares I'm often too afraid to play horror games by myself so I always play it with someone or have someone with me when I play xD I don't think I've ever played Alien: Isolation, what's it about? and is it fun? But Resident Evil 7 and Outlast are pretty fun indeed! I grew up watching my dad play Resident Evil 4 from 2005 so I was interested in Resident Evil pretty early and he always refused to play any of the other Resident Evil games until he finished it but I only think he finished it once from what I can remember xD
That's understandable, we didn't have any protection either we were just some kids given some sticks and accidentally hitting each other xD
Well if you want I could always make a training list for you so you can try it at home? It would be fun to hear what someone who's not related to my school thinks about it :)
There's no rules about what to cosplay at the school as long as you have fun so sometimes you would see Anime/Game/Movie characters or something like that and other times a vegan would meet up to class in a cow costume with a sign saying "Not your mom not your milk" :D
But yes! I love horror games but I'm really bad at jumpscares xD
Oh I forgot to mention that I'm a really big Resident Evil fan ^^
Recently I was pretty excited for Little Hope but besides that I've been a little too busy to check out new games :3
It's hard not to get injured when playing sports, I remember when I was young and played hockey and someone hit me in the face and I lost a tooth but thankfully it was supposed to fall out xD
It's something my science teacher did once a week at my school, it's really intense training as the name suggest xD
The first few times I did it I had trouble going around because my body was in so much pain and I lived on the 2nd floor xD
It's indeed a really interesting school/camp since they focus on all the nerdy things so we had cosplay/roleplay teachers and in general some pretty 'interesting' teachers xD
Are you excited for any new games or are you too busy too? :D
I took a quick look at your profile and one thing i can relate to you on 100% is what you said about destiny, I know the story had so many plot holes and PvP was absurdly bad at some points in time, but I spent so much time grinding in that game. Unfortunately I wasn't able to quit after destiny 1 and ended up wasting even more time in destiny 2 but, it was a good way to waste time XD
I'm not that much of a sports person because I always end up injured but It's fun playing badminton and volleyball, I enjoy indoor hockey too :D
One of my old teachers introduced me to something called Train & Die which I use to not get too lazy :3
It was actually pure accident xD
3-4 years ago I was on a camp to try out what it was like on the boarding school I had to go to and then one of the Cosplay teachers showed me how to make this small little wound but when I actually started on the school 2 years after the camp I started learning new tricks and now I just love to make zombie make up and sometimes scare people :)
If you ever want to recommend me something else then feel free to tell me! There's a 100% chance I'll watch it ^^
I enjoy drawing, games, baking, reading and sometimes on rare occasions I dance since I used to be a competitive dancer a few years back :)
Oh yeah! I enjoy special effect/zombie make up too! I don't know how to use normal make up but I love doing zombie make up a lot! :D
What hobbies do you have? :3
I kinda have been watching less anime nowadays. but I love fantasy adventure and romcom in general. been watching the fate series
Then I'll add Occultic;Nine to my 'Plan to watch' list (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧
It's fine to be a bit more critical since we all have different ways of watching Anime \(*^▽^*)/
Hmmmm I actually can't remember since it's been so long since I started, when I was a child my parents bought me a lot of Ghibli movies and other movies like that so I grew up loving Japanese animation and one day I think I just took the next step and started watching my first real Anime series but I really can't remember exactly 。◕‿◕。
How about you? There's so many different ways people started watching Anime ◕‿◕
Hmmmm if you mean what shows I enjoyed not many others like then I quite enjoyed Neo Angelique Abyss, Hiiro No Kakera, Sirius The Jaeger, Magic Kyun Renaissance, Code:Breaker, Juuni Taisen, Trickster: Edogawa Ranpo Yori and Harukanaru Toki No Naka De: Hachiyou Shou which are just a few out of more that I think deserved more love than what they got o(╥﹏╥)o
How about you? What sort of shows do you enjoy not many others do? (◕‿◕✿)
my fav one was Skyrim. Loved the detail and story.
I wanted to try witcher 3 too, but vid games are on hold due to schoolwork.
Ah, Fps is best played with friends. I usually play csgo tho.
Btw, I think I accidentally denied your friend request because there has been too many strangers sending me friend request during these few days, mind sending the friend request again and give me the name? (so I wouldn't deny it again lol)
Thanks for the recommendation man! Would definitely buy them later, also I think Nier;Automata should be in sale right now, so I would probably buy this first.
Sure we can definitely play Apex together soon.
Yeah I also play Among Us with mobile too.
Anyway I'm planning to buy some RPG soon, do you have any recommendation?