Notice: I haven't watched anime frequently since August 2020. Any entries in an incomplete state can be considered quasidropped.
Introduction
I'm here to make a record of the anime I've watched, seeing as how I 'started' watching anime in 2013 (could be as early as some unascertainable year in the late 1990s/early 2000s if you were being thorough, 2013 if you count watching one seasonally and marathoning a few, or as late as 2015/16 if you start from beginning to watch seasonal anime regularly) without this service and started developing a fear of unknowingly rewatching anime, and can now finally keep track of all the anime specials I haven't watched yet.This is false, I'm obviously a man sent 100 years from an Apocalypse where Ousama Game happened in reality, here in the present time with the specific mission to add these weird joke sections that only someone who uses inspect element, looks at page sources, or has a browser with a minimum font size would possibly see in order to prevent it, and add the subliminal message of “Watch Ousama Game”. Though, you probably noticed the white-space, or have your minimum font size set to some non-trivial value, so hi.
Influences
DouchebagChocolat (also known as DEMOLITIOND) — the earliest anime YouTuber I watched, and perhaps my reason for getting into anime in the first place. I started watching him in the Summer of 2014, for reference, just in case the idea of me watching a guy that's only uploaded about 6 videos since I started watching anime seasonally raises any doubts. His writing and editing in his videos lean more into comedy compared to my writing, whereas I only ever do so if it helps emphasise a point I'm trying to make.
RebelTaxi — another YouTuber, though, going off of his current video catalogue, appears more interested in the genre of animation as a whole. I watched Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt because of his video on it, which caused me to watch a fair amount of anime in 2013. I don't consider him an influence on my writing, though, if only because I joined this site in 2018, and I don't think I've watched a video of his since 2016 or 2017 (the last one I really remember liking was released in 2016).
Weeaboo Club and its members — it's a podcast rather than an individual YouTuber: it's three, or two and a Twitch streamer, but it's still influential to me. The EWB Weeb Critique helped me learn various things to avoid when commenting on anime, not that it wouldn't surprise me if they already coincided with my pre-existing views. Ironically, I think they're the only anime YouTubers I watched regularly between 2019 and 2020.
Tags
“comments”/“no comments” — quality-of-life tag, shows if entry's comments are non-empty/empty. The absence of either tag should be treated as “no comments”.
"horny" – comments contain a sexually charged statement of some intensity. Varies from implications (i.e., what do you think I would watch a hentai for?) at best to mild and brief descriptions of sex acts in the work proper at worst. I think have a hair-pin trigger for this tag, some of the entries I marked as “horny” have comments as mild as “I like bikinis” to admissions of performing a sex act. Primarily so any uncomfy moments can be skipped. Mind you that was back when series comments weren't shown by default, so I'll go back and spoiler these moments at some point.
“So bad it's good” — work is bad, either in technical aspects or simply a guilty pleasure, but these combine into an experience that is highly enjoyable.
“goes on a tangent” — comments contain a long section on a subject tangentially related to the work, with said subject being specified in the next tag.
I could create a more elaborate set of tags around some of these tags, but I don't fancy classifying them.
Rating system
Ratings are based off of my personal enjoyment of the series at the time I watched it, or a rough estimate of it based off of memory for series I watched some time prior (on the scale of months or sometimes even years), and should not be taken as a general grade of quality.I go by enjoyment rather than the series technical prowess because my eye for technical proficiency in aspects such as story, animation, art, sound, and voice-acting is nonexistent, so instead of trying to dress-up my subjective opinions as objective, I lay them bare here. [spoiler alert: I don't think meaningful objective statements can exist in reviews without some shade of subjectivity—commenting on anything will indicate that your attention is biased towards it and anything that goes beyond a description of objective reality is going to be subjective. For example, in the statement "the sky is filled with grey clouds that partially block out the sun" is objective if it is true, but if that statement is then followed by "it isn't a good time to sunbathe," it becomes subjective, even if its based on reality (intuitively the idea is that the sunbather would want to have the most exposure to the sun, which itself would be to assume a subjective position).]
My scoring system has 5 as the average score, with anything below it being abject disgust or boredom, and anything above it being varying degrees of enjoyment or personally influential. Scores lower than a 3 are used sparingly. The irony of switching from a 7 to a 5 average is you realise there aren't that many ways to feel negatively about a work, at least impersonally. Also, the reason 7 is considered “average”, for those not in the know, is because of video game reviewers and the occasional set of rabid fans.
Some ratings given may be inaccurate to how I'd rate them if I rewatched them now, especially considering that I've never really had a concrete rating system. Things that I rated a 7 prior to 2016 might be 5 or 6 now, but I simply don't have the time to rewatch things with the costly reward that I might be marginally better at picking things for some indeterminable time period afterwards.
Also, the amount of titles in “On-Hold” that are in a quasi-dropped limbo is also noteworthy, due to the sheer quantity of titles in that state.
Disclaimers
MY LISTS CONTAINS HENTAI
That is to say; try to avoid opening my anime/manga lists on your phone unless you're okay with you, and whoever you're with, potentially seeing pictures that could be reasonably considered as inappropriate.
Seriously, this site needs to make it so you can easily exclude titles in a list based on their genre, especially in the case of hentai, considering that this has already been implemented for the seasonal view. A small compromise however is to filter them by an ascending rating (the age rating, not to be confused with score) order.
Some comments were formerly improperly inputted as tags, with me playing character golf with the tag system in order to make them be accepted, and as a result, these comments are low quality and short compared to the others.
Avatar source: Hashimoto Mai (a character from Artificial Academy 2, by: Anonymous)
In the past, I've added entries to my lists, only to eventually realise that the information inputted was inaccurate. (granted though I'm almost certain the total amount of these “false titles” is <5)This only realistically applies to the anime in a dropped state too, so I'd imagine the only false time is probably an hour long, which means it's likely negated by the hentai I forget to list.
Also, as I come from the UK, dates are accurate in GMT (last Sunday of October to last Sunday of March)/BST (last Sunday of March to last Sunday of October), and some “spelling errors” can be blamed on localisation. If you want a thorough run down of possible differences, check American and British English spelling differences on Wikipedia. Beyond this, there's only one major difference, and that's that I'll sometimes default to using terms not widely used in the US, common examples of this include: lorry (US: truck), rubbish (US: trash). Also, I sometimes write comments with heavily localised words to parody Japanese to English translations that use American words not widely used overseas, because I'd have in all likelihood never heard of the word “boonies” had it not been for it being so commonly used in Crunchyroll's translations. There are words in locales which are potentially offensive to people in the other locales, either due to them having a different, if not additional, definition resulting in a different perception of the way the word was used in said locale, if not subculture. Not that I'll be using any of them, but on the extremely unlikely chance I did, apologies in advance, not that the worst word from my locale I've probably ever wrote here was “wank”. Outside those few instances, I'll mostly stick to locale-neutral and about as close to slang-free as I can muster. Of course, all of this, at least phonetically and perhaps spelling-wise, could one day become obsolete with the help of the glacial process of cultural osmosis, but I'll probably either be dead or old by the time that process is completed. This used to say “take root”, but considering the trap-bath split's been shifting for the last decade or so, it's already taking place. Slang? Despite how incredibly local and short-lived those words can be sometimes, the only time they'll all fade away is after the English language itself dies out, something that, by definition, cannot happen in my lifetime. And, yes, I do hate that one of my locale's potential names is formally called "English English”, which is why I almost always use “British English” instead, even if it's too broad for slang discussion. Mostly because it's difficult to talk about accents in a written medium.
I do find the state of education regarding locales lamentable, given at best it's “You misspelt “mispelled”, that's the American spelling, the correct spelling is "misspelt”.”, basically acknowledging that other locales exist, but the discussion begins and ends at “Write in the locale that you're going to be taught English in.”, not “Write in the locale you presume a decent part of your potential audience is in”, which in this age amounts to “Write in your locale's spelling, words chiefly used in American English are acceptable.”.
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