Name’s Derik. I officially began following anime back in February 2011 with Wangan Midnight, Death Note, and Shugo Chara!, and then seasonally from Fall 2011 onward. My favorite genres/demographics include slice-of-life, romance, drama, sci-fi, mystery, and seinen. I score primarily on presentation, character complexion, progression, and overall impression and may adjust scores occasionally for accuracy. List entries are start and end dated where applicable, with entries watched before 2011 omitted for lack of specifics.
Ratings scale:
9+: quintessential
8: exceptional
7: great
6: good
5: average
4: fair
3: subpar
2: forgettable
1: valueless
Personal records:
Time (day): 8+ hours / 22 episodes (11, April 2020)
Time (week): 36+ hours / 100 episodes (5-11, April 2020)
Viewing milestones: TV*
100 - Usagi Drop (4, May 2012)
150 - Phantom: Requiem of the Phantom (27, September 2012)
200 - Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo (25, March 2013)
250 - Tamayura: More Aggressive (19, September 2013)
300 - Neon Genesis Evangelion (24, March 2014)
350 - HeatGuy J (14, November 2014)
400 - Shion no Ou (22, October 2015)
450 - Owarimonogatari 2nd Season (31, August 2017)
500 - Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator (27, September 2019)
550 - One Room Third Season (1, January 2021)
600 - Koukyuu no Karasu (21, January 2023)
650 - TBD
Movie*
50 - Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 2nd A's (22, March 2014)
100 - Kizumonogatari I: Tekketsu-hen (28, January 2017)
150 - Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: First Kiss wa Owaranai (13, December 2023)
200 - TBD
OVA*
100 - Tonari no Seki-kun OVA (16, January 2014)
150 - Yuru Yuri Nachuyachumi! (1, March 2015)
200 - Fukubiki! Triangle: Miharu After (29, September 2015)
250 - Nisekoi: OVA (13, January 2016)
300 - Midnight Panther (18, May 2016)
350 - Kime Koi! (20, January 2018)
400 - TBD
Episode**
2,000 - Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha ep. 8 (6, June 2012)
2,500 - Hyouka ep. 18 (20, August 2012)
3,000 - Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun ep. 6 (5, November 2012)
3,500 - Robotics;Notes ep. 14 (24, January 2013)
4,000 - Kimi ga Nozomu Eien ep. 10 (10, April 2013)
4,500 - Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS ep. 16 (21, July 2013)
5,000 - Cardcaptor Sakura ep. 50 (15, October 2013)
5,500 - Super Sonico The Animation ep. 2 (13, January 2014)
6,000 - Captain Earth ep. 2 (12, April 2014)
6,500 - Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino OVA ep. 2 (14, July 2014)
7,000 - Psycho-Pass 2 ep. 4 (30, October 2014)
7,500 - Ghost in the Shell (11, March 2015)
8,000 - Hibike! Euphonium: Suisougaku-bu no Nichijou ep. 2 (17, July 2015)
8,500 - Seitokai no Ichizon Lv.2 ep. 7 (29, November 2015)
9,000 - Macross ep. 17 (24, May 2016)
9,500 - Natsume Yuujinchou Go ep. 1 (5, October 2016)
10,000 - Kaitou Saint Tail ep. 43 (13, July 2017)
10,500 - Kigurumi Sentai Quiltian ep. 2 (12, July 2018)
11,000 - Aikatsu Friends!: Kagayaki no Jewel ep. 5 (6, May 2019)
11,500 - Keijo!!!!!!!! ep. 5 (30, March 2020)
12,000 - Houkago Teibou Nisshi ep. 9 (3, September 2020)
12,500 - Major 2nd (TV) 2nd Season ep. 9 (31, May 2021)
13,000 - Aria the Benedizione (10, September 2022)
13,500 - Sousou no Frieren ep. 13 (7, December 2023)
14,000 - TBD
Completion**
500 - Riding Bean (22, February 2014)
750 - Mushishi Zoku Shou: Suzu no Shizuku (3, August 2015)
1,000 - Hibike! Euphonium 2 (28, December 2016)
1,250 - Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu Part 2 (21, December 2021)
1,500 - TBD
Time (days)
40 - 29, July 2012
50 - 30, October 2012
60 - 28, January 2013
70 - 8, May 2013
80 - 29, August 2013
90 - 14, December 2013
100 - 28, March 2014
110 - 15, July 2014
120 - 29, November 2014
130 - 22, April 2015
140 - 26, September 2015
150 - 21, April 2016
160 - 20, September 2016
170 - 2, September 2017
180 - 27, October 2018
190 - 6, November 2019
200 - 23, July 2020
210 - 22, May 2021
220 - 21, November 2022
230 - 11, April 2024
240 - TBD
*sequel entries counted additionally
**includes all episode types
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Saw your messages on PSN this week. I think I'll finish FF VII Rebirth sometimes later this week or the next. Taking a short break from another game haha
The sequel honestly feels so much bigger than the previous remake...
That's great and all, though I just can't feel for anything with Angel Next Door. It's just plain old vanilla flavored romance to me, especially how silly the initial setup has been. Granted, at least the more emotional beats actually clicked efficiently in the LN, which I'm not too fond of, either. The anime adaptation has been extremely underwhelming for me, personally, though. I understand a majority of other people are also going gaga over it, so good for them, too, but I just can't take the sappy status quos seriously here. If only the studio assigned to it wasn't so poorly prepared and equipped for the task, cause better scene directing and visuals would've helped loads, if anything.
On the other hand, Tensei Oujo continues to be extremely solid; in fact it's been the best thing from this season for me so far, barring Vinland Saga 2. I've gotten annoyed by the divide from many of the viewers, though; some complaining it's slow and unengaging, while others who've read the manga or LN and complained about things beingt too compressed and rushed in the recent few episodes. For me, who's read a bit of the LN and caught up to the manga, though I'm more entrusting with the former cause it's the original source material, I've found the anime just fine with how it's adapting.
Btw, decided to change my score of Tensei Oujo to 8/10. Latest episode was very well done and I really liked how well the domestic & political stuff was handled in a logical and mature manner to make for a more seamless and natural leeway for the two girls' relationship and the overall story to develop.
Sometimes the latter. The thing is that I would balance things out doing other activities during the day and try to get to new episodes as early as possible before I fall behind.
Angel Next Door isn’t offensive at all, but the anime feels very lackluster in presentation and lacked the subtleties that I read in the LN so far. Project No.9’s usual art style feels so underwhelming to me, personally.
Ep 2 of Tensei Oujo surprisingly did well in terms of handling the parent-child interactions, which was something I was really concerned about considering the aristocratic aspects it had that I usually find off putting at times, especially during the first episode. The development is coming along just fine right now, but we’ll see.
First episode of Tensei Oujo was rather awkward, but the 2nd episode felt much better pacing-wise as well as having very fond character interactions.
I’m glad you dropped Spy Room, btw. The adaptation is just rushing things right now. They’re already about to finish the 1st volume with the next episode or two.
I just added u on whatsapp I'll send u a message in a bit. Ohh makes sense as whats app is just faster haha, fsfs lmk whenever u wanna call someday idk maybe we can play sum. Also sorry again for not responding for a while I had a very hectic week and had to choose if I log into MAL on my PC or read manga and ended up going for the later as of lately thaats why I didnt reply only logged stuff through the phone really.
I do agree with you in the accentuation part but rarely occured to me, but I can't run from the fact that monogatari is my favorite anime and it has quite a bit of fanservice I can't lie hahaha
Ngl I've always loved me my platformers so we definitely do have that in common, I always had a special place for Ratchet and Clank and Sly Cooper, games I played a lot as a kid and have always loved and will always as well, also as you have a PS5 definitely you should check Ratchet and Clank out although the story in the reboot is really weak as well as the characters have gotten worse, the gameplay is imacculate. And Crash Bandicoot also had a part in my childhood not as much though suprisingly, but that didn't mean I couldn't enjoy it because I assure you that I did.
Wow like damn 11 years watching seasonals when I can't even hop on one I'd probably already have gone insane in your place, I'd maybe even try but I'm having a hard time watching anime as of late, I tried watching the cyberpunk one but I can't watch even a single episode, manga has been a lot easier to get to consuming I think because I dictate the pace of it so it's easier to get invested and also faster. I'm ngl it wasn't a total break from anime/manga, because I still watched jojo's in the mean time, but it wasn't something like it was before like a lot of episodes in a day and all that.
Whichever one is best for you as I do have both of them.
That last part about it having little fan service already gives it points as I've grown to dislike that more and more. I was enjoying superstar a lot so knowing Aikatsu is close to it I might give it a shot as one of my next anime, I just have quite a long list of manga I've been trying to read as of late so it'll probably take a while for me to get into it but I'll definitely do.
It was mostly lack of time, I ended up watching just jojos in the span of like a whole year which is barely nothing for me as I used to be a heavy anime watcher, but I've been getting back into the media with time, definitely I have a special thing for the japanese storytelling and whatnot. Combat is something I have high regard for in games so knowing that I'm more inclined to playing it. interesting haha
I can't even forgive myself for that one, because it took a while to say the least haha, but i don't know whatever is more comfortable for you both are fine with me and yes maybe sometime a call coud be arranged no problem.
I swear I didn't notice I'd written Holo Live, but you got what I meant so I think it could be forgiven.I haven't watched Aikatsu yet, but if it manages to spark what I felt with the OG Love Live I'll already be happy as I didn't expect to even remotely be into idols until I saw it and completely changed my mind.
Interesting, this paast year I didn't watch much anime, read manga, visual novels or even played viddeo games to be honest as of late I did go back to the usual andd consumed some, but unfortunately no action on the Tales games, I did play Hollow Knight tho and some other indie games (currently playing Omori), but I'll definitely get into Tales I just sincerely have to finish a small list of games that have been waiting for me in my library. But what you saidd really makes me doubt if I should start or even get close to Arise as gameplay progression is something I value a lot in games, but I'm pretty sure there are a lot of pros you still haven't talked about
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The sequel honestly feels so much bigger than the previous remake...
Yea I think we can. What’s your discord ID?
On the other hand, Tensei Oujo continues to be extremely solid; in fact it's been the best thing from this season for me so far, barring Vinland Saga 2. I've gotten annoyed by the divide from many of the viewers, though; some complaining it's slow and unengaging, while others who've read the manga or LN and complained about things beingt too compressed and rushed in the recent few episodes. For me, who's read a bit of the LN and caught up to the manga, though I'm more entrusting with the former cause it's the original source material, I've found the anime just fine with how it's adapting.
Angel Next Door isn’t offensive at all, but the anime feels very lackluster in presentation and lacked the subtleties that I read in the LN so far. Project No.9’s usual art style feels so underwhelming to me, personally.
Ep 2 of Tensei Oujo surprisingly did well in terms of handling the parent-child interactions, which was something I was really concerned about considering the aristocratic aspects it had that I usually find off putting at times, especially during the first episode. The development is coming along just fine right now, but we’ll see.
I’m glad you dropped Spy Room, btw. The adaptation is just rushing things right now. They’re already about to finish the 1st volume with the next episode or two.
I do agree with you in the accentuation part but rarely occured to me, but I can't run from the fact that monogatari is my favorite anime and it has quite a bit of fanservice I can't lie hahaha
Ngl I've always loved me my platformers so we definitely do have that in common, I always had a special place for Ratchet and Clank and Sly Cooper, games I played a lot as a kid and have always loved and will always as well, also as you have a PS5 definitely you should check Ratchet and Clank out although the story in the reboot is really weak as well as the characters have gotten worse, the gameplay is imacculate. And Crash Bandicoot also had a part in my childhood not as much though suprisingly, but that didn't mean I couldn't enjoy it because I assure you that I did.
Wow like damn 11 years watching seasonals when I can't even hop on one I'd probably already have gone insane in your place, I'd maybe even try but I'm having a hard time watching anime as of late, I tried watching the cyberpunk one but I can't watch even a single episode, manga has been a lot easier to get to consuming I think because I dictate the pace of it so it's easier to get invested and also faster. I'm ngl it wasn't a total break from anime/manga, because I still watched jojo's in the mean time, but it wasn't something like it was before like a lot of episodes in a day and all that.
That last part about it having little fan service already gives it points as I've grown to dislike that more and more. I was enjoying superstar a lot so knowing Aikatsu is close to it I might give it a shot as one of my next anime, I just have quite a long list of manga I've been trying to read as of late so it'll probably take a while for me to get into it but I'll definitely do.
It was mostly lack of time, I ended up watching just jojos in the span of like a whole year which is barely nothing for me as I used to be a heavy anime watcher, but I've been getting back into the media with time, definitely I have a special thing for the japanese storytelling and whatnot. Combat is something I have high regard for in games so knowing that I'm more inclined to playing it. interesting haha
I swear I didn't notice I'd written Holo Live, but you got what I meant so I think it could be forgiven.I haven't watched Aikatsu yet, but if it manages to spark what I felt with the OG Love Live I'll already be happy as I didn't expect to even remotely be into idols until I saw it and completely changed my mind.
Interesting, this paast year I didn't watch much anime, read manga, visual novels or even played viddeo games to be honest as of late I did go back to the usual andd consumed some, but unfortunately no action on the Tales games, I did play Hollow Knight tho and some other indie games (currently playing Omori), but I'll definitely get into Tales I just sincerely have to finish a small list of games that have been waiting for me in my library. But what you saidd really makes me doubt if I should start or even get close to Arise as gameplay progression is something I value a lot in games, but I'm pretty sure there are a lot of pros you still haven't talked about