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"Crushing feeling of disappointment" would be a very overdramatic way of describing the scenario I have in mind ... but I couldn't help but be a little disappointed at the end of My Hero Academia season 2. Because, I was so excited we would finally get a fluffy filler episode. AND THEN WE DIDN'T. DANG YOU GOOD WRITERS FOR WRITING EFFICIENTLY D:<

I'm enjoying this show a lot! If nothing else, the art is gorgeous and the little details in world-building (like the little types of creatures that appear in the background, etc.) really make it pop for me. I'm also not sure where the main plot's going, but I don't think I mind that too much :3 (It does make it harder to stick with it after one mini-adventure ends though...)

Waaaaah those look so good! You're a wizard, Hyuuga! :3

Hinata, the main character of Haikyuu, has always been really inspirational to me. He's very shonen-hero-esque, being a short volleyball player determined to be the very best like no one ever was, but hey it goes to show that shonen tropes work because they resonate with people One of my favorite anime quotes is when he says "I may be short, but I can fly!" or something along those lines. His growth in his skill is also fairly gradual in the series, so you really get to see the details of what he works so hard on to improve, and you see it's not a quick thing that just happens. I've gotten pretty discouraged about chasing my dreams a few times (YouTubing, if anyone's curious), and during one of those slumps, the song from Haikyuu's second OP "I'm a Believer" started playing on my phone and I broke down sobbing (talks about persevering, pushing forward in spite of obstacles, yada yah). Hinata's now on my phone background as a reminder to not give up and find ways to fly

Out of curiosity, if you watch food anime, do you ever find the food logic to be questionable? :3 I sometimes wonder, but for the most part I just accept it without question since I don't know better

Wow, it's amazing hearing what anime means to some of you ... I'm honored to have gotten to hear bits of your stories I didn't get into anime in any interesting way; I tried getting into it for a while because I liked the art style, but I couldn't really handle the shows I tried getting into for a while. SAO was the first anime I was able to finish, and then from there people started giving me recommendations and I thus traveled down the slippery slope of otakuism

Food Wars has taught me that if my food doesn't disrobe people by the sheer force of taste, it ain't good enough ... In actuality, it kinda just makes me wish I had a good food logic that didn't require me staring at a recipe to make anything :3

I only skimmed the essay, but it was definitely a fascinating read, especially as someone who stopped watching the show pretty early on. It's certainly disappointing, as I heard that, like you implied, XYZ was going in a good direction. I guess the purpose of the Pokemon anime now is pretty much just to have some fun episodic Saturday-morning-like adventure to throw up on TV every week for kids to watch. If that's still their intended audience and the views are all they want, then hey, it works, I guess. It's not a great way to hang on to their original audience, though. Moral of the story to me seems to be, read Pokemon Adventures instead

I'd love to see a short episode or something about the afterlife! I don't know if I'd want to see too much more, though, as the anime felt pretty complete to me. I think the manga has a little more on what happens after the finale, too, though I haven't read it ^^" Love Angel Beats, though; I think I might rather see a more detailed remake than a sequel though IMHO, but it's a bit too soon for that :3

So I discovered Anime Maru pretty recently ... not too sure how well known they are, but basically, they're kind of like a blog that sends out satirical anime news. Like all satire pages, some of the articles are questionable, but overall I found it pretty hilarious. Some of my favorite articles are "Op-Ed: I Watched One Episode of ‘Game of Thrones’ and Determined American TV is for Perverts," "Man Can't Admit He Likes Sword Art Online," and "TSA Refuses to Accept Man's Crunchyroll Passport." Thought the "How Well Do You Know the Lyrics to the Pokemon Theme Song?" quiz was really funny too. Anyone else into that kind of thing? http://www.animemaru.com/

Rereading David Copperfield. I did enjoy my Victorian Literature class, but it was difficult meeting those crazy deadlines without SparkNotes

Unfortunately, you definitely need to give Gintama at least 3-5 episodes before making a judgment (and even then, as Wedgy said, it'd be a pretty incomplete judgment due to how spread apart Gintama's more serious arcs are). I agree that the first two episodes kind of throw too much at you, but after that the series goes back in time and starts re-introducing the characters a lot more slowly, so they're more like actual characters and less like a blur of names and faces with random catchphrases and tropes Also, agreeing with what Wedgy said that "you need to just go with the flow and not look for [the plot]." Gintama DOES eventually feed you background info and resolution, but it takes a VERY long time ... However, if you didn't even marginally enjoy the pilot, that's probably still a pretty bad sign for your compatibility with the show :3 Gintama does have a sense of humor that isn't everyone's cup of tea, so if you don't enjoy the humor much then it would be pretty hard to enjoy the majority of the show.

Haha well, I figured I probably wasn't the only one. Good to know! What makes it slightly worse is that I'm pretty sure I've seen people posting AF in a way that was clearly talking about Anime Forums, and I totally understood that... just took a while to make the connection with the member rankings Aw, sucks to hear about the eye infection though. Is it hard adjusting to leaning on the use of one eye more than the other?

I feel really dumb right now. I'm guessing this may be a common rookie mistake ... but I kept thinking all the member rankings (e.g. New AF Member, Regular AF Member) meant new as f*** member, etc, and I kept thinking everytime I saw it, "that's kind of annoying it's on so many of the rankings, I don't want to be seen as THAT new or THAT regular." Then I realized. IT STANDS FOR ANIME FORUMS. IMMA JUST GO BANG MY HEAD ON A WALL NOW *bangs head on wall* Okay, I'm done.

Fair enough; it still is quite a bit of screaming I guess I don't mind screaming much, but sub Asta just screams at the same pitch every single time and that kinda bothers me :3 But yeah, if you can't stand the main character it's probably a drop for you

Try listening to the dub and see if you like it! I was pleasantly surprised, enough so that I'm planning on waiting for the dub to catch up to continue watching

Out of all the anime I've picked up this season, I'd probably say Mahoutsukai no Yome / Ancient Magus' Bride is my favorite so far. It's visually really beautiful, and pays a lot of attention to little details in the magical aspects of the world. The plot is a hair slow so far in my opinion, as I don't see a main conflict or anything yet, but that's fine since the episodes have been mostly about taking in different aspects about magic and the world, and in developing the main character's interaction with her past and present situations. ...That was a very long sentence

I've heard rumors that the plot gets a lot better later, so at the moment I'm sticking with it in hopes of seeing it play out It'd probably be a better read than watch, but the animation and color palette of the world is quite pretty IMO and it's nice on the eyes :3 This is probably the only anime that I've ever/will ever drop in sub immediately after hearing the dub. I was more tolerating it in sub because of, y'know, Asta's little problem, but in dub I can say I genuinely enjoyed it. The writing is still "every shonen ever," but I like shonen so ... for me at the moment, it's worth sticking with in hopes of seeing something new after we've got all the generic opening stuff done. Little Yuno is also freaking adorable.

Interesting, I feel like his cheeky manipulative side wasn't really hidden much ... I felt like the only time he acted calm and nice was more for his host persona, which I guess can qualify as a split personality if you want :3 In my opinion, Kyoya has less of a split personality and more of a really hard front, given his background of having to gain his worth through achievement. It's pretty well implied that he really does care about those around him, and just covers it up. His manipulative side seems to me to be more for comedic effect than for him being just an actually terrible person (though, to speak comedically, he kind of is a terrible person ) Hmm, answering the question ... Pretty much every Ace Attorney character ever

Peanut butter. In everything. On everything. Automatically makes it breakfast Not really, but I do eat a disproportionate amount of peanut butter in the mornings compared to the rest of the day. In yogurt, in smoothies, on toast...

Pokemon Red! Oh man, rating is hard to say. Pokemon was just exploding onto the scene at the time so it was probably pretty revolutionary-ish Game Boy Color; before lighted screens were commonplace :3

"Touch my pizza and you're dead." (Sorry next poster, don't think there's much to draw from mine xD)

Are these Switch games? It would make sense since the Switch just came out this past year... but if they're not, I guess I'd have no idea why personally Unfortunately I don't know much about any of these games, but I'm kind of interested in sticking my nose in the Monster Hunter franchise one of these days :3

Well, good thing this thread doesn't seem to have gone to outright flaming ... I think ... #didntactuallyreadthelongerposts ^^" I agree with what a lot of people say about SAO not being well-executed, and the whole harem business bothers me as it does many others also. However, SAO was my first anime I was able to watch all the way through, as it is and was for many others. So I can't help but personally feel a little grateful to it for still being fun and watchable despite its flaws, since I spent several years trying to get into anime and not being able to because I just wasn't really watching the right shows for me. Ironically, what I perceive as one of its greatest weaknesses (the loss of believability that anyone important would actually die) was probably what helped me most in being able to watch it, since I wasn't able to handle really heavy stuff for a while. tl;dr: Ain't perfect, but I'll still probably end up watching because it's pretty and fun, and I'm glad it's able to help people get into anime more like it did for me ^^"

You've piqued my interest! I'll probably look into it then ;D