Gonstroph

I'm happy to see the love for Raven. That show is so underrated.

Update: I reached 100 completed shows. My Gonstroph list is my subjective list, where I rate based on enjoyment. https://myanimelist.net/animelist/Gonstroph?onetime=ce91b63613cf434afcb42f9094f3aafa7802b721aee4ada54c2b4513f21c0eab My GooWapa list is my attempt at an objective list, where I consider shows purley from a critical perspective regardless of how I feel. https://myanimelist.net/animelist/GooWapa?onetime=216727d35fa2b081e6e2b2ffbd2c0bc162bf9a389c575196e7f816b788ad186d I'll probably make an update post much farther down the line, but a lot has changed since my first post here, I felt obligated to update it. (To Media Consumes Me, I will get to Fate/Zero and End of EVA eventually, they were just very difficult to understand. )

Anime is something a lot of my friends were into already, there were never many people I needed to convert. The only converting I really needed to do were getting people off of big Shonen shows like AOT or DBZ. Mainly my male friends were into that, so I would suggest them stuff like Black Lagoon or Cowboy Bebop. But someone I genuinely converted into anime recently is a friend from Guatemala who didn't know what anime was until she saw me watching it. We poked fun at each other for how often we saw our respective shows, it was me with my anime, and her with her Netflix school dramas. One day though, I suggested her Neon Genesis Evangelion in dub since she still couldn't stand not understanding what anyone was saying. And she actually loved Evangelion, we binged half the season in one sitting, and now she moved on to Death Note and binged the entire show over a weekend. She told me she likes anime now. Mission Accomplished.

Kodocha 1st ED song. This entire show had an outstanding OST period, and this ED song was when that fact became obvious.

For non-sesonals, I'm watching: Kodocha, Rio: Rainbow Gate, and Samurai Champloo. Seasonals I'm watching are: Chainsaw Man, Spy x Family, Raven of the Inner Palace, Bocchi the Rock, My Master has No Tail, and Urusei Yatsura. I know this seems like a lot, but I'm mainly focusing on Kodocha, everything else I'll watch occasionally. And I am absolutley LOVING Kodocha. I find myself consistently humming the tunes from this series and not being able to put it down at times. I'm a sucker for any series with a good OST and a good romance, and this show has both.

Black Lagoon has the most kickass dub of any show I've seen, I'm really surprised no one has mentioned it yet. Oddtaxi and Fruitsbasket 2019 would be my next two favorites.

The two shows I blame for getting me into anime are Evangelion and Fruitsbasket. With those two shows and most shows I watch, I would go on YouTube and find reviews for them to see what others think, and got into anime culture that way. Fruitsbasket especially though, the ending left an amazing impression on me and made me want to find more good shows.

... Happosai from Ranma?

Okay, so based on numbers in MAL, this anime seems to be very unknown: Alien 9. It has gorgeous, and I mean gorgeous visuals first of all. The entire thing was beautiful to look at all the way through, and the animation is incredibly smooth. The story here also has a lot of depth, and every single scene is used to progress the story somehow, nothing here is without purpose. In other words, it had great pacing. Bear in mind though, this show is very, very weird. Don't come into this show expecting anything, just keep an open mind and enjoy it, because it will not go the way you think it will. It doesn't have any cliches or any kind of familiar story elements. I really haven't seen anything like it, and really wish it was more well-known. God damn look at these MOVEMENTS

Honestly very, very torn on whether to watch this remake or not when I found how how many more episodes the original has than this version, which if I remember right, will only have around 47 episodes. I just finished Ranma and want more from Rumiko Takahashi, so what would yall say is best between the two options?

Is that really from an anime? It's an English pun that's why I'm wondering If so which one I like that quote

"In all things, I think having a dream requires having the resolve to struggle with reality." -From Silver Spoon, episode 3

Great Pretender and Serial Experiments Lain are the two I really wanna rewatch someday, just because I watched them pretty early in my anime binge, when I began getting into more anime, so I need to refresh my memory of them because I remember both of them being amazing and wanna see if they really were. I began criticizing and trying to break down shows from the beginning and would say I'm a lot better at it now then I was then, I'm able to notice more details and pay attention better, (My attention span then wasn't nearly as good as it is now too.) so I wanna see what I can notice on my second watch. Shows as good as those two generally have a lot of small details that are worth noticing.

Dude I haven't watched anything from summer 2022 so far other than Lycoris Recoil, but that show really, really surprised me with its writing. It's so damn sharp, and that's a rarity among most anime. They talk and interact so naturally, I fell in love almost instantly.

I just wanna talk about this show for a bit. I just finished it recently and was completely blown away. My favorite Comedy anime has long been Ouran High School Host Club just because no other has actually got me to laugh or feel for the characters like that show did. It felt on another level compared to any other comedy I've watched. So finding another Comedy masterpiece feels really refreshing. Azumanga Daioh I watched solely because I found out Kiyohiko Azuma had a work that was actually adapted into an anime. I've read Yotsubato and feel in love with the series and everything about it, so seeing his style of writing adapted into an animated series I was very excited about and I was not disappointed. The big thing I love about this show is, unsurprisingly to y'all who have watched it, the characters. They just are fleshed out to the point where you could run into people exactly like them in real life. Koyomi, Chiyo, Tomo, Minamo, and Yukari are some of the best written characters from what I've seen. This is still a comedy anime and a lot of the others are ridiculous or exaggerated somehow and that's fine, they're still such organic characters, they feel natural, like real and with depth. And others who are a bit more unrealistic are still some of the best characters in any show I've seen for other reasons. Like Osaka. Osaka. Osaka. Osaka. She is something else I have never seen before and I loved every goddamn second she was on screen. And she's completely killed me a few times, I love it. To anyone who hasn't watched this show, I'm on the ground asking you to. I would've posted this on previous topic about Azumanga, but it was closed. PLUS this show has too much to talk about, I could go on and on.)

Love after world domination did pique my interest a little, I'll put it on my list. Spring 2022 as far as I know is outstanding, and it was the first season I began watching brand-new releases.

The character that really hit me hard was Shinji Ikari. (This is gonna get personal as well) Shinji was fundamentally someone with no identity more than anything else. He hides himself and is generally afraid to get hurt emotionally. He is kind, but also really wants to be praised and not scorned. It's pathetic, and it was me. Still is in many ways. And even towards the end he still was afraid of getting hurt. Opening up had no point because it only lead to more pain, and if there's no point in opening up to a world that only scorns you for it, why keep going? You're only gonna mess up again in the future- And then he has those moments where he is praised, and suddenly the entire world lights up for him and he can keep pushing, just for a little longer if it means getting praised more, if it means being approved of for once. Validating his existence. For the longest time, I based my entire existence on my worth to the world, and if I wasn't bringing anything to the table, I believed it was fitting I would be pushed to the side. It still didn't stop my desires to be with others and be approved of and recognized however, so I kept pushing, practically against my own values and made things worse for myself by desperately trying to gain approval. The fact that a character actually represented my situation that goddamn well opened my eyes a lot. And the fact that that character was able to actually overcome it simply by saying "Maybe it's not so bad that I'm here after all" was the best possible advice I could have ever gotten. Now, I know at some point I began deciding to relax. To stop trying so hard for approval and just stick to my guns and myself and let the world come to me more naturally, and let myself into the world more. And I really think Shinji helped me realize that's all I had to do. Just accept that my existence isn't so bad that I throw myself away. It's OK for me to be here.

Bottom right is from Maid-Sama, Misaki Ayuzawa, and top right is Jibril from No Game No Life.

Apologies for watermark, bottom right is Misaki Ayuzawa. Also, the only one it really feels right calling a waifu here for me is Sypha Belnades. (Middle.) The rest here feel more like my favorite female characters.

I love platform fighters, and so far I have played 3: The smash series, Smash Ultimate most of all, Nickelodeon All-star Brawl, And Rivals of Aether. And my favorite and most recent so far is Rivals. The game looks gorgeous and the gameplay is incredibly fluid and dynamic. And I've been catching up on its competitive scene recently, and seeing the stunts pulled off in game with every character is hype as hell, there isn't a single character in rivals that is lame. Fantasticly designed game, 10/10.

Love Chunnibiyo & Other Delusions is a 5 on my list but a 7 in my heart.

Saiki K. Has the most overpowered protagonist in comparison to their world out there I think

https://myanimelist.net/animelist/Gonstroph?status=1 I had an anime tier list that I put a lot of thought into and just translated it into this list.

This topic can also be thought of as what do you guys want to see in whatever shows you watch. For me, I put a very strong emphasis on two things: 1: consistency with established rules 2: strong characters. There's a lot more that can make good shows, such as a good storyline, but these two aspects of a show can easily make or brake one for me. When I want a show to have consistency with established rules, I mean if something is established about a character, or a magic system, or the world and how it operates, ect., it's important to make sure none of that is just conviniently ignored for the sake of the plot or else the story won't make its intended impact, because it would be contradicting itself. So for example, plot armor I really don't like because it's like I'm supposed to be feeling something but I don't because I can't take it seriously because consequences really should have been there. (Established rules also referrs to what the show is based on. There are invisible established rules the show makes simply because it may be based in reality, or the social structure of the fictional world is similar to our own.) Shows with good characters I really like. I like to say that I can judge the strength of a show based on its side characters. If the show can manage to make every side character really well (bonus points for well-made background characters,) that's a good sign it's amazing, it makes the world feel a lot more alive.

(Spoilers for Toradora below.) It was a very specific moment with Ami that made me drop it on episode 6. It was when she decided to drop her fake personality, the setup was horrible because the photographer literally CAME OUT OF HIDING AND TOOK A FLASH PHOTO OF SOME RANDOM ASS PERSON, and what's worse is that the photographer tried to hide to take pictures of Ami so why the hell would he suddenly just jump out this time around????? I was also really bothered by how much she sucked ass at hiding her true personality up until that point, but that setup leading to the moment she decides to leave it behind made me drop it.