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For anyone reading this, sorry I haven't been on lately. Had to make a trip to the emergency room for what I thought was a severe anxiety attack that wouldn't go away. Come to find out I had a tumor and bad gall bladder. I had surgery to remove both and have to stay with my parents for awhile because I can't be by myself (husband travels for work so I'm technically home alone otherwise). I'm healing slowly but I do have diet restrictions and weight restrictions...

The Promised Neverland. Isabella’s Lullaby on the piano:

Any game developers here? I've been thinking of making an XCOM-like for the past few weeks. I've been working on sprites the last few days, and I'm hoping to move onto the game functionality soon. I'm thinking about starting a new blog here on AF just to log my notes about the development cycle. If there are other game devs here, what has your experience been like?

To anyone who has made something or attempted to make something, you know this feeling too well. "Can I really do this? Who am I kidding? I don't know what I'm doing." I dabble in a lot of things. From web development, video editing, animation, web comics, making games, photography etc. But I never called myself a web developer, video editor, animator, artist, game developer, photographer. Because I never really felt I was one. I thought since I was a beginner and not as good as others, I shouldn't call myself a (insert title here). As it would be insulting to the REAL (insert title here). No matter what my accomplishments were, no matter how much experience I got, I was just a wannabe, a fake, an impostor. But then I realized.... you are what you do. Some people talk the talk and some walk the walk. Some think they are cool while some ARE cool. If you made a website, you are a web developer. If you made a web comic, you are an artist. If you took a photo, you are a photographer and so on. Many if not all veteran creatives went through this stage. Where they doubted themselves. But chose to keep going. And in the end, the feeling of being a wannabe disappeared. They became a real legitimate (insert title here). Have you ever felt impostor syndrome? How did you overcome it?

Oh GXP....that one I dislike as well. Oh the heights and potential it could have had.... it was a flop for me. Painful to even watch though partly my own fault for mentally hyping it up before even watching it. I purposely restrained myself with WoG and was thrilled with it that said. My best friend trashed it but I believe she had already written it off before watching it (she often does). Even if the spinoffs have not yet been your thing, I would urge you to watch War on Geminar but to keep your expectations grounded. Expect fanservice of course, but you'll probably be surprised by it (Kenshi even makes comments about how perverted some things are, almost a 5th wall moment). Generally Kenshi is just more likable than most Tenchi protagonists and his life with Tenchi and the harem before the events of WoG are referenced frequently. He would be the half Brother of Tenchi, from Rea and Noboyuki. I actually enjoyed the story and it got me back into looking forward to more Tenchi releases And FYE isn't exactly closed but a lot of the stores near me either closed or had a rebranding (and with it substantially shrank their anime supplies). ugh...let's not go on about Rightstuf. The problems I've had with them over the years is far too numerous to write down. Their customer service is lousy these days. What's worse is Sentai's store uses Rightstuf's warehouse as a distributor (no doubt they get a deal on Sentai titles for it) so every time I order from them I get worried. So far though so good on the Sentai orders. Still, I take every Rightstuf order with a grain of ghost pepper. I already know it's going to bite back.

Welacome to af , hope you have a good time

Welcome to AF. Hope you have a great time here with us. I too have been into anime sense I was little. Hope to see you around.

Started watching the Tanya the Evil movie this morning. Will continue on my lunch break, but probably won’t finish until this evening.

Welcome to AF!

@Koshigaya23 Haha, you have pegged me true. I am definitely a Tenchi fan though my favorite "Tenchi" is Kenshi Masaki. There was so much wrong with that boy...and yet I really bellylaughed at some of his misadventures (and felt his romantic interest to be more defined and less noncommittal). I think they did the right amount of everything with him. He basically was all the girls from the Tenchi OVA mixed together with a splash of Tenchi to round him out. The multiple timelines/universes (not to mention the family relations...) have probably made it one of the most difficult series to explain to people. Surprisingly enough, although my sister was not really an anime fan (she really only loved Sailor Moon), she did love the Tenchi OVA (was an Ayeka supporter from the start) and it really bothered me that they never went back to finish properly the OVA back in the day (I'm not sure what they released later on is a proper telling....it was missing some things and felt really rushed. Did not match the care and quality of the original OVA storyline). To this day I am still aghast that they made Tenchi in Tokyo (the only Tenchi I never bothered to buy. I might someday get it via a used anime vendor if the price is right although I'll never watch it willingly). The Tenchi Quiz was me alright I should make another one. I actually gave that quiz to a friend of mine and she was surprised how much of Tenchi she had forgotten. I have to ask....do you cringe when you think of Daughter of Darkness? And $120 for the OVA boxset... I waited and waited for the pricedrop...then when I finally gave up on waiting they had run out of product. Apparently, they knew we'd all eventually give in lol.... I have not managed to watch the Mihoshi Special. It has been on my list for a while actually. I do remember however downloading an emulator so I could play the Tenchi game on my computer (modeled after the OVA). Even though it was all in Japanese I absolutely loved it! Wow, I'm really showing my Tenchi obsession now... The YuYu Hakusho VHS were the dubs and I think I had around 5 or 6 of them. I actually left them at my parents' home when I moved out since I never finished the series on VHS but I did actually get the entire series on DVD back in one of the RightStuf sales (likely a Christmas Sale),love me some Kurama and Kuwabara hehe). I also just went through my collection upstairs and I had forgotten that I had come across a VHS boxset of Utena VHS too. First season I believe (the Rose Bride arc?). I saw that one and remembered it being rare. Unfortunately, I have no way to watch my VHS anymore since our VHS player died. So...it will remain unwatched forever. FYE....I wish they were still around here. I got so many good anime at FYE, and the random deals you'd find. I remember finding Starship Operators in one and found Last Exile for 40 bucks (they had 4 of them, all 120 bucks except for the one lol). I too collect a lot of older series truth be told. Tenchi, Cardcaptors, Solty Rei, Trigun, Big O, most Space Operas lol...a lot of the older series had great storylines and less filler/fluff. These days there's too much distracting from the story (if there even is a story), not enough depth in the characters...I can't say that's true for all, but it is certainly true for harems these days and for most anime. v_v You'll have to share with me your purchase list....you share your collection with me, I'll share with you mine... From one Collector to another. I've got so much these days from all my years of collecting I have a list typed up by genre/alphabetical order so I can verify before I purchase if I already have it or not (this is important...I have bought the same anime twice before! It happens...). Still I like seeing what other people have. It reminds me of things I've missed and still need to track down.