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Long time insomniac, current practicing science man.

I used to read all of One Piece once a week, and succeeded from 2003 to 2006.

I'd rather talk for a hundred years about things I love than talk for a minute about things I hate.
If there's a piece of fiction to read that feels like the author bled into the ink to make it, I wanna hear about it.

Here's how I rate things.
10 - I can't think of anything I would do to make it better.
9 - I like this very much and would reccomend it.
8 - I like this very much.
7 - I like this.
etc.

I think putting the "average" manga on this site at a 5/10 is not quite right. First and foremost the subset of manga that get scanned to be read illegally/early is already a loose filter. Secondly there's so much doujinshi out there and manga that run in local magazines and netgen-publications that if you really wanted to put a numeric value of 5 on the "average manga that exists" then I think far too many people that try for good reasons to be neutral on this site fail to do so. I think dismissing those manga that exist in the dark corners of the world away from our eyes only serves to lessen the significance of when a diamond in the rough comes along.

Some of what I believe to be the best pieces of fiction ever made exist in obscurity, and putting things like numbers all over the place only serves to trivialize the concept of "what art means to you."

It's kind of paradoxical that we simultaneously believe that you can't review anything if you don't finish while also believing that there's too much manga out there to allow you to waste time reading things you don't like.

I rarely write reviews of things I don't like. I just find it fun expressing how much I love the pieces that grab me.

If I write a review, it's because I've felt something new or seen something exceptional.
If I've written a review of something, you should read it.