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Arachne

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  1. Steam: Bad Wrong Fun (friend code: 123101877)
  2. I probably should have done this earlier, but hello! I'm a trans woman in my early 30's living in the US. This is will probably be obvious later, but I am very much into yuri, horror, and mecha. Outside out of anime and manga I'm also into theater, card games, and tabletop roleplaying games. I'm recently getting back into building model kits, mostly gunpla (Gundam plastic models), but others too. And I'm and trying to branch out into more multiplayer video games like MMOs and fighting games. As I've mentioned in some earlier posts, I grew up in era of Toonami, and especially as a teen would try to collect any anime DVD release I could. But seasonal anime has always kind been something I've never really kept up on super well. However, I always try to get around to stuff that interests me and make myself watch a few new shows every year because I don't wanna turn into one of those our of touch people who think "Anime was better in my day, there's nothing good anymore." More recently, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury has been my favorite show in a long time and has basically reignited my love of anime. And as a result I've gotten into gunpla and been trying catch up on anime from the past couple seasons or so like Bocchi the Rock, Stone Ocean, Birdie Wing, and the new Pop Team Epic season. Additionally, as I'm getting older I think media has turned into more of a social thing for me. I'm watching more stuff in group watchers or just in general with friends or as part of a date. And obviously that does include anime. But it's been long since I've really been a part of any real online anime communities, and I've vary rarely been following or discussing new shows with people. But I'm thinking being in a community like this would also really invigorate and motivate me in much the same ways as the group watch stuff, so I really wanna give this place a shot.
  3. Shonen and seinen are magazine demographics, not genres. It might surprise you to know that famous horror mangaka Junji Ito got his start in the shoujo horror magazine Monthly Halloween, and much of his other horror work is also classified as shoujo. Ko-On the cute slice of life music manga is a seinen because it's run in the seinen magazine Manga Time Kirara. A lot of romance manga like Nisekoi and Strawberry 100% were run in Shonen Jump and are thus shonen. I think you get the idea. For me I'd probably say I'm inherently more interested in mecha, horror, thrillers, mysteries, dramas, romance, and comedies. I'm definitely a bit weary of video game and isekai themed shows, but sometimes I'll definitely find a few that catch my interest. Idol anime I have a hard time connecting with, but I loved Zombieland Saga. Same with a lot of the long running battle and sports anime just because I've been burned so many times. However, there's a couple I'm still following. I'm definitely willing to try all sorts of stuff if something about it catches my eye or it's highly recommended.
  4. I do wanna preface that is that a really unfortunate reality is that due to the poor treatment of translators in the industry and the nature of rushed sub and simul dub releases for services means the quality of translations whether subbed or dubbed does suffer and both can be a gamble. The format never truly was a guarantee of authenticity or a lack there of but it is doubly true in the modern sense, just not in a positive way. But for me it is just going to vary wildly. My natural preference for viewing something by myself is to have a dub with subtitles/close captioning enabled, especially because I am a little hard of hearing. Having this option is something I've loved about DVD and Blu Ray releases. But if a show doesn't have a dub, there's no problem. I'll watch it in the only way that's available. And if there is an option when looking up a show, especially an older one, I might do a little research first or watch a bit of both to compare and contrast and see which I'm vibing with more. And then come to a decision. Re-watching a show I might also watch the version I didn't before. For example, when watching the a lot of the old Universal Century Gundam shows, I watched the dubs, which generally will say are well done and perfectly fine ways to experience them. However, I did get something out of rewatching them later with subs because unlike in the dubs there were consistent voice actors for the recurring characters between the different shows like Char and Amuro. The social nature of group watching adds a whole extra dimension to things. Am I watching something with friends or partners and talking during it? Well, then I'm doing to use the sub because then us talking doesn't interrupt much and we can understand everything. If it's purely an online group watch and we're doing some text chat, then I'm turning on the dub for the exact same reason.
  5. For me it was My Neighbor Totoro, the early 90's VHS. I was a very small child at the time. In retrospect, it might have been the perfect introduction. It was impossible to not be aware of it's origins, but also was intensely relatable to me at the time as someone growing up in the rural American South. Nature and small town life was all around me. I'd be wandering and exploring the forests near my house for fun on a nearly daily basis and living on what used to be farmland. Tatsuo, Satsuki, and Mei felt like the kind of people who easily could have been my own neighbors. So as a kid with one of my exposures to Japanese culture was something where I had to confront and become aware of this different culture and differences but also immediately resonate with from shared experiences. It's honestly something I might wanna rewatch again now that I'm older and recently moved cross country to a big city, sort of reconnect with my home and childhood.
  6. For me it had to be around 1998 or so? Got issues of Dragon Ball Z and Ramna 1/2. These were the monthly Viz releases, only two chapters at a time, flipped left to right and stretched out a bit. Basically they made to fit in with any Western comic book issue at the time. I was already following the anime for Dragon Ball and having issues of the manga helped me catch up especially on episodes on the TV show I missed. Ramna I was mostly confused about by jumping right into the middle of at the time but I came to appreciate it later. I think I shortly after started to find more manga with a few issues of Mixx Magazine and more Viz manga with No Need for Tenchi but things hadn't QUITE reached the proper Tokyo Pop boom and explosion of manga's popularity in the US just yet.
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