-What criteria do I rate anime on?
I rate anime based on how interesting it was for me.
Connection / Friends, Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou (Ep 12)
Hard Luck Woman, Cowboy Bebop (Ep 24)
Someday in the Rain, Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu (Ep 9 Broadcast, Ep 28 Chronological)
The 4 1/2 Tatami Ideolouge, Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei (Ep 10)
The World Of Ice, Mawaru Penguindrum (Ep 9)
If you have a recommendation, feel free to leave a comment.
Yuru Camp△
Natsume Yuujinchou
Non Non Biyori
Serial Experiments Lain
Sonny Boy
The Night is Short, Walk on Girl
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Bakemonogatari
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Sometimes I rewatch an anime to update my scores, but most of the time it's just for fun
Steins;Gate + Movie
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
RDNDOBGS
Bloom Into You
Flip Flappers
Hi, noticed we had similar affinity so just wanted to reccomend Mawaru Penguindrum and Mononoke(not the ghibli) to you, they seem like shows that you would like.
Thank you, I absolutely despised how prevalent so many shonen tropes I've seen time and time again appear here, thank you for noticing. I guess it just appeals to a certain audience. I'm glad you enjoyed my review though!
Wow! Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm happy to see that my reviews / content has been worthwhile for you.
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lol no worries, I do that too to a terrible degree - the number of unread msgs on every platform I own is almost criminal, so I get it. A lot people can misconstrue it as a lack of interest towards the person or conversation but that really isn't true.
I've watched a bit of SxF part 2 and so far it certainly feels a lot different. I agree that it doesn't handle SoL particularly well either. I haven't read that far into the manga so I can't confirm how expressive it feels there, but I always feel like Yor's existence in the trio is woefully underused compared to the chemistry of Anya and Loid. A lot of her character feels so deeply engrained in the tropes its based off, so most of her interactions with the other two are just that - she's secretly an assassin, she's actually really powerful or she's really dumb without little nuance. This isn't a problem specific to part 2 or anything, but some aspects of part 2 reminded me of that.
Totally agree with your thoughts on Do It Yourself. I think it's decently fun and cute, but I'm not really sure where so much of the 'underrated gem' comments came from. Those character tropes are treated with the subtlety of a jack-hammer, in a one-off random inside joke visual novel some friends and I developed (for less than a week) we literally had characters named the same way Yua Serufu is lol.
Argh, Mob, the show that keeps forcing me off twitter so I don't receive spoilers - one anime of many in my neverending list of plan-to-watches. Hearing that it's got a unique vibe to most other shounen's got me interested more, though. I'll keep your recc in mind for the future !
I didn't know the new Gundam show was beginner-friendly, I might give it a few eps just to see the feel of it - I've only ever watched two mecha shows, and those two are mfing Bokura no and Eva, so I don't think that's really representative of the wider mecha genre lol. Still, I'll proceed with caution.
Raven of the Inner Palace sounds interesting from what you say and the synopsis so I might give it 1 or 2 eps to see. Did you watch it because you fell into that niche audience or what is it more of a vague interest in it? and how do you think it does to appeal to that niche?
I'm also kinda curious, what do you think is an anime that surprised you most - one where you weren't anticipating to enjoy the show or the premise seemed completely boring but it pleasantly suprised you (if you have an anime for that). Sorry if that's something you've already answered in a review, haven't read a lot of them quite yet. Again don't stress about respond times lol, we've all been there.
https://youtu.be/xN7rPJXgkmk
This video sums it up pretty well. Ritsu’s personality, and tbh all the k-on characters have more fleshed out personalities that more naturally bounce off each other. You can have a socially awkward character that still has meaningful interactions with the characters around them (for instance Mio from K-On). Bocchi just feels like a string of poorly timed jokes about “wow introvert relatable” and it gets boring really fast.
Thank you! Yeah, even though I like to think I'm mostly writing reviews just so I can shout thoughts into the void, can't help but look at it every now and then to see those numbers lol. I've read through a couple of your reviews and I really like the style of writing, and I thought that your Lycoris Recoil review really resonated, even though I never finished the show - I still always felt the backwards organisation the characters worked for always seemed to muddy any of the light-hearted fun we saw.
I've been seeing a lot of fun stuff from Bocchi the Rock all over the internet but haven't sat down to watch it yet. Definitely will check it out before it finishes airing, but maybe in a couple weeks or so. From what it looks, the voice actors had a blast doing their parts. Anything else this season you following?
Huh, so what made you drop Flip Floppers AND give it a 10/10? Are the later episodes supposed to be really bad or something? I actually dropped it around the same point you did because I wasn't too into it. Nice production values and a fun style for the ED, though.
Don't worry, they are probably not altting. 100% some outsiders (Insiders who cares about MAL reviews, which reduces the number) are altting certain shows. I knew that Kimetsu no Yaiba is altted by a discord server, I just didn't have the proof before haha I'm just outing because these people jumped straight to MAL when they tried to solve the problem
Thanks! Bocchi the Rock three episodes are just pure talent display, one of the shows that I have been waiting for with more enthusiasm since... the last season. And yeah, I feel like some people just underestimate how important it is to have a unique set of characters in CGDCT, the setting is the engine to create relationships, not the motive itself
You would be surprised about how rampant the alt upvoting is/was. I just run it with Panda because I was curious about his capability of bumping extremely unpopular reviews to the first spot. We are all audiologist16 on this blessed day
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I've watched a bit of SxF part 2 and so far it certainly feels a lot different. I agree that it doesn't handle SoL particularly well either. I haven't read that far into the manga so I can't confirm how expressive it feels there, but I always feel like Yor's existence in the trio is woefully underused compared to the chemistry of Anya and Loid. A lot of her character feels so deeply engrained in the tropes its based off, so most of her interactions with the other two are just that - she's secretly an assassin, she's actually really powerful or she's really dumb without little nuance. This isn't a problem specific to part 2 or anything, but some aspects of part 2 reminded me of that.
Totally agree with your thoughts on Do It Yourself. I think it's decently fun and cute, but I'm not really sure where so much of the 'underrated gem' comments came from. Those character tropes are treated with the subtlety of a jack-hammer, in a one-off random inside joke visual novel some friends and I developed (for less than a week) we literally had characters named the same way Yua Serufu is lol.
Argh, Mob, the show that keeps forcing me off twitter so I don't receive spoilers - one anime of many in my neverending list of plan-to-watches. Hearing that it's got a unique vibe to most other shounen's got me interested more, though. I'll keep your recc in mind for the future !
I didn't know the new Gundam show was beginner-friendly, I might give it a few eps just to see the feel of it - I've only ever watched two mecha shows, and those two are mfing Bokura no and Eva, so I don't think that's really representative of the wider mecha genre lol. Still, I'll proceed with caution.
Raven of the Inner Palace sounds interesting from what you say and the synopsis so I might give it 1 or 2 eps to see. Did you watch it because you fell into that niche audience or what is it more of a vague interest in it? and how do you think it does to appeal to that niche?
I'm also kinda curious, what do you think is an anime that surprised you most - one where you weren't anticipating to enjoy the show or the premise seemed completely boring but it pleasantly suprised you (if you have an anime for that). Sorry if that's something you've already answered in a review, haven't read a lot of them quite yet. Again don't stress about respond times lol, we've all been there.
This video sums it up pretty well. Ritsu’s personality, and tbh all the k-on characters have more fleshed out personalities that more naturally bounce off each other. You can have a socially awkward character that still has meaningful interactions with the characters around them (for instance Mio from K-On). Bocchi just feels like a string of poorly timed jokes about “wow introvert relatable” and it gets boring really fast.
I've been seeing a lot of fun stuff from Bocchi the Rock all over the internet but haven't sat down to watch it yet. Definitely will check it out before it finishes airing, but maybe in a couple weeks or so. From what it looks, the voice actors had a blast doing their parts. Anything else this season you following?
You would be surprised about how rampant the alt upvoting is/was. I just run it with Panda because I was curious about his capability of bumping extremely unpopular reviews to the first spot. We are all audiologist16 on this blessed day