Hi, you may know me as Anduré Shuraragi, Craftedbot or one of my (many) other dumb internet names.
<Oi eu sou o Pestana/Anduré Shuraragi e eu escrevo as coisas no meu perfil em ingles por motivo nenhum, desculpa, o site é primariamente em inglês e eu achei adequado>
As you can see below, I occasionally get an urge to write big walls of text on the internet, but please don't mind it. I don't treat my account as a blog by any means but I enjoy writing things down. I don't, however, have much drive to write full actual reviews on this site because most of them are the cringiest, most pretentious shit I've ever read and I don't want to participate in that shitshow.
Even though there is so much text here, I barely actually use this website or this account apart from just updating and tracking my list.
I don't expect anyone to read or care about all this stuff I've written below about the details of how I use my account, but it's good for myself in case I ever forget (and I do often forget):
Blank score = same score as the previous season of the show. I don't usually rate seasons individually but rather give one score to the whole show on the entry for the first season, unless I actually think there was a significant change in quality throughout the seasons. I do this because I think it's annoying that shows with multiple seasons are split into multiple entries on MyAnimeList, and it would ruin (even further) the statistical value of my account's mean score if one show accounts for multiple, redundant, identical scores.
Translating opinions into scores from 1 to 10 is actually pretty hard and also inconsistent across different genres, don't take them too seriously. Usually 5 is like the default score, anything above that is a positive score. More details about how I give scores in the other button below, if you care for some reason.
anime list is very complete and updated (basically 100% complete and up-to-date) since I use MAL to keep track of which episode I'm on, so I make an effort to update it (yes, I forget things very easily). Since I never really watched any anime as a kid (not even the Big Three), my MAL account was created only months after I actually started watching anime, and that's why I'm confident that it's 100% complete and there are no missing entries;
manga list, however, is quite incomplete and outdated, I read a lot of random trashy manga on-and-off and don't remember to add them, but all the ones I actually like are in there and I occasionally try to update the count of which chapter I'm on.
favorites are in no particular order (except the anime favorites I think)
sometimes I write what I think about the show in the notes of the entry, you have to click on See More on the list to read those but they're mostly meant for myself to remember what I liked or didn't like about a show. These are very short notes on a few key aspects of the anime, and are not meant to work as a full review at all (as I said in the introduction above, I don't feel like writing actual reviews in this website). I usually write more (and more often) about anime that I didn't like, mostly because it's easier to write a few reasons for not liking one show instead of all the reasons why I liked another. I also randomly write them in either English or Portuguese.
I love to keep track of the dates I started and finished/dropped shows, I think it's fun to have the timeline. Any shows without dates were the first ones I watched, either before I created this account or before I started recording the dates on the entries (end of 2015 and first half of 2016 which was when I actually started watching anime)
As I said above, I'm writing this out mostly for myself so I can keep my ratings somewhat consistent, and I don't expect anyone to actually read it. I can talk a lot about anime or manga that I like (or even dislike) but trying to express my opinions on them into a single number is honestly a bit dumb and will always be inherently inconsistent. I'm writing it thinking about anime but the same rules apply to the manga scores (or movies, OVAs, etc).
When rating shows I usually compare them to other similar ones, which usually means shows of the same genre and of about the same lenght in episodes. So a 9/10 score on a 12-episode comedy/SoL series does not imply the exact same thing as a 9/10 on a 150-episode shonen battle series. Genre and lenght bring different expectations to the table and I need to judge them based on those expectations. So every score is somewhat relative.
I also try to give scores somewhat independent of my personal preferences of the anime, as dumb and impossible as that may seem. In other words, a show doesn't need to be a 10/10 to be one of my personal favorites (I don't need an anime to be perfect in other to love it: I can love it while still recognizing it's flaws and recognizing that it may just have a strong personal appeal to me), and a 10/10 show won't necessarily be one of my favorites (I don't need to personally love or have an attachment to an anime in order to recognize it's very good). But it goes without saying that it's only natural that I would give high scores to series I like, and like series to which I give high scores. After all, every review or score given by a human being is based on a mix of objective and subjective reasons specific to each person. You can't really separate the review from the reviewer, in my opinion.
I avoid scores with decimal places like 6.3, and even ones that are "and a half" like 7.5. I'm giving scores from 1 to 10, not from 1 to 100 or 1 to 20. If I feel a show is a 7.5/10 I will round it up to 8 or down to 7, and usually include a note saying when this happened and why I rounded it up or down.
Everyone is a critic, but I'm not a professional one, I'm just a guy that watches japanese cartoons and likes to write occasional huge ranting paragraphs on the web. I don't watch anime for the sake of reviewing it on the internet, so I don't go out of my way to watch anime that I don't even think I'll enjoy, neither do I keep watching anime that I don't enjoy just so I can have a well-based opinion of it. Because of this there are few entries that are scored 4 or lower, and even fewer of those are shows that I actually finished watching. This makes the scoring even more inconsistent for scores below 5.
With all of that said, here is the "what I mean" for when I give each of these scores to an anime or manga:
10/10 - I think this anime is one of the pinnacles of its genre. No series is perfect, but I think it doesn't get much more perfect than this and I have very few complaints about it, if any. I think the 10/10 club should be very exclusive by nature so I think this show is a very complete package, meaning that I think most of, if not all of its aspects are of great quality. I can see myself rewatching this show countless times and never getting tired of it.
9/10 - This is a great show that flew near to perfection. I probably have only a few complaints about it that I think prevent it from being a masterpiece, but I think it's perfectly reasonable for anyone else to consider it a 10/10. I most likely want to rewatch this show at some point, if I haven't already.
8/10 - I think this show is special or unique in at least one way, elevating it into the upper tail of the anime quality bell curve. The gap between the 7 and 8 clubs feels larger than most other score thresholds. I will easily recommend this series to my friends and I would enjoy rewatching it, especially if being offered to watch it with other people. For that reason, I am likely to keep this show in my Hard Drive for a long time without deleting it.
A wise woman once said that, regarding number scoring systems and all the contrived dumbness that comes with them, 8 9 and 10 are all essentially the same score, meaning that a 8/10 is a 10/10 that you simply didn't love as much. I tend to agree with that notion.
7/10 - Most of what gets popular every season probably falls from 5 to 7. This show is what I think should be standard quality for its genre and I will most likely watch any sequel that comes out if I did finish the first. I may recommend this show to other people depending on their tastes. Most anime can easily achieve this score if they are fun enough, even if they lack production value.
6/10 - There is at least one thing about this show that I think makes it above average. I like it enough to most likely watch it entirely and may even watch a sequel. But it's still not a very good use of my time and I will not recommend this to anyone.
5/10 - I think of this as a neutral score, so this is the definition of average. This show is not very interesting, well-made or unique, but it's probably not bad or annoying enough for me to drop it early or dismiss it entirely. Anything below a 5/10 is a show that I am not very likely to finish. NOTE: Scores below 5 get fuzzy and badly defined, as I don't watch many series that fall down here and am very likely to drop them.
4/10 - The most likely reason for a show to be down here is that it's boring or unappealing to me. However, I may still enjoy it ironically or get interested enough in some of its aspects to keep watching. Anime considered generic within their genre easily fall into this score.
3/10 - This show is plain, boring and below generic. I find it not only boring, but also annoying, and probably actively regret the time I wasted watching any episode of it.
2/10 - This show deserves to be dropped after watching the first episode, without second thought. It can still be called anime, but has no quality good enough to justify its existence. This score is what I expect from anime adapted from mobile games.
1/10 - This is also a very exclusive club that is reserved for unsalvageable, appalling shows that I most likely decided to drop in the middle of the first episode because it was not even bad enough to be ironically funny. I think I have actually never given this score to any show, because if it's this bad then I probably don't even give it a chance in the first place. Thanks to low average scores and user reviews (as bad and dumb as they can be), no 1/10 anime has ever managed to trick me into watching even 1 episode of it.
I wanted to have a digital list of my whole manga collection and this seemed like a good place to put it instead of making a spreadsheet.
This is a plain list and I will not include any reviews or comments on any of the manga, but it's reasonable to assume that I like any manga that I actually spend money on, or at the very least I like their anime adaptations.
I'm Brazilian and all manga I own and buy are the Brazilian [PT-BR] versions.
Format:
> Title(s) [Publisher] - # of volumes owned / total # of vol. (# of vol. already published in Brazil / total # of vol. in Japan)*
*parentheses section only if the manga is either: still publishing; or complete but still being published in Brazil.
TBP = "To Be Published", i.e. available for pre-order; TBD = "To Be Delivered", i.e. I already bought it but haven't received it yet
Series 100% collected also get a cute checkmark at the end: ✓. List in alphabetical order I guess. List updated as of 10/09/2023 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Video Girl Ai [JBC] - 26/30 (NOTE: volumes 27-30 are Video Girl Len and I may still buy them but I don't care about them that much)
Yagate Kimi ni Naru (Bloom Into You) [Panini] - 8/8 ✓(NOTE: due to Panini's logistics, I have one extra copy of volumes 3, 4 and 6 each)
I plan to continue collecting the incomplete/publishing series above but I don't have any new manga that I wish to start collecting in the near future.
Manga I would like to collect one day but I'm not promising anything to myself:
Berserk [Panini] - 0/38 (38/41)
Vagabond [Panini] - 0/37
Byousoku 5 Centimeter [???] - 0/2 (I was collecting the manga adapatations of Shinkai movies on a whim but idk if I'll keep going)
Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou - 0/6 (no sign of being published in Brazil yet but I would immediately buy it all in pre-order)
Yotsuba to! - another one that I would love to buy but has no sign of being published in Brazil
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