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No idea. I know how many I own but no clue how many I've watched on Netflix and hulu or on tv. To this day, I still buy anime that strikes me as "really interesting looking" from the cover art only to realize halfway through that I saw it years and years ago. Happens with books too lol...I'm a mess!

Welcome to the forums! It sounds like you have had a really varied experience throughout your life. I hope you enjoy your stay here. Many people started with Sailor Moon so you aren't alone there. That was actually the only anime that my sister enjoyed watching. Never could get her to try another one.

Welcome to the forums!

Welcome to the forums O.G. It is nice to see another avid gamer here. My first experience was probably with the atari. It's hard to remember that far back. The console got fried in a lightning storm too do we only got to enjoy for a few months (my father was an avid ham radio fan and had gigantic antennas attached to the house. Nothing was safe in a storm.). Then someday we got the NES which eventually met the same fate (I saved that one from the trash, eventually fixing it when I was in college much later in my life) and just kept going from there. I too retired from the MMO front a long while ago. It took too much time in my life to maintain...though I haven't had the urge to return to it at all thankfully. Anyways, I hope you enjoy the forums!

It depends really. If I'm browsing the Web on my laptop or tablet, WiFi is good enough, even for streaming. If I'm gaming, I use a MOCA connection instead. More affordable than installing ethernet in the house and very fast. Never lags.

Wow, what a story. Well, this Cat's got your back. To start, from an objective standpoint, the "quit anime or else" approach she's using seems like a power play. I personally would not quit either, but I imagine there is a deeper story that explains a bit more of it. What were her previous boyfriends like? What were yours like? How much do you really know about each other? Have you put her on hold to watch anime before? What are her hobbies besides anime? Other than telling her she's really pretty, have you mentioned why these harem girls aren't actually your type, even though you enjoy the shows? If she's basing it completely off of looks, the fact that it's fiction versus reality won't get too far with her. These types of people base their own self worth with what society judges and nothing you say will change it. That particular problem needs counseling (similar to how a person with bulimia or anorexia needs extensive counseling to change their self image) and you might want to consider a power play of your own in recommending it. After all, anime are just stories put into an art medium. If you decide to try to recommend counseling, you may want to try couples counseling first. Since you have a history of mutual interest in anime and you have a history of trying to console her, a counseling session might help her see this is a problem of her own making. No one should be forced to be miserable in a relationship. It's not fair to you and it isn't fair to her either (even though she's creating her own misery). Though I seriously wonder if she has had eating disorders in the past. It would not surprise me.

Console, handheld, or pc? Can't recommend anything until I have a platform.

Welcome to the forums. We're a pretty friendly community so I hope you enjoy hanging out with us! Any favorite anime you want to share with us?

I do the same thing. Filling in the timeline, noting where major character development happens and how things are going to go down is something I do too when planning out a story. I think my main problem comes in dialogue of conflict. It's hard to construct a conflict between two people for me. It takes a lot of energy out of me but then most conflicts between people will. Still, going to keep on writing. Now that I've decided how I want to go about introducing this other group, I think it won't be long before I'm chugging along again on the novel. I used to write around 6 to 8 pages a day but if I have the energy and the inspiration (and some good Frank Sinatra music playing in the background...surprisingly, it helps me write) I can write around 16 to 22 pages in a day's time. It's rare that I have a good day though where the words flow out of me that fast. Getting in the mood and having things set (and having the room clean before I start...a messy room is a big distraction for me) really helps.

You could read the manga for Pretear then watch the Anime and tell us which you liked best. They changed a lot for the anime so that the guy with the theme music could get the girl. It would make an interesting review too since you'd know exactly what was changed (and how it completely changes the story).

So, like many of you out there, I do enjoy a good book and some day, I hope I can sit down and enjoy reading a book I wrote on my own. Does anyone else out there have a dream like that? I've been writing stories ever since I was in middle school and I am forever thankful that I had an AMAZING mom who took the time out of her busy days after work to sit down with me and teach me to read all by herself, just because I asked her to. Yep, I was reading before I even got into kindergarten and by the time I hit first grade, the teachers were parading me around to read to the other students (in hopes I would inspire them). Back then, reading to my fellow classmates, I was on a fifth grade level and my love of reading has only grown since (along with my level haha). Reading stories inspired me to excel and think and by the time I started writing my own, I had some pretty stiff convictions about what a good story would entail. Character development. No plotholes. A setting and world so vivid you could see it around you as you read the page. Like many people, I started out by writing fanfiction. In actuality, fanfiction is GREAT practice for writing an actual novel. It takes the world building component and the character building component out and lets you practice fleshing out a story. The rise and fall of the plot, the subtle changes in the characters as they grow through a story, and the sculpting of a conclusion, wrapping up the story in a tidy bow. Then, around five years ago, I decided to take the plunge and write my own story straight from my brain to the keyboard. To create that world in its entirety and sculpt the characters from the vision in my head. Sounds easier than it really is. Needless to say, I wrote a great first chapter. I've gone back and done some minor tweaking to it but that's where I'm stuck. I've introduced one major character and now I need to introduce another. The rest of the story I've jotted down in notes throughout the years. I've researched different types of weapons and armor (it's a medieval fantasy type story), I've written background biographies for the various characters in the story, the main villain has been augmented so many times she is no longer recognizable from her first incarnation. I know how I want it to start and I know where I want it to be, it's just the getting there that seems to be tripping me up now. That and life pretty much stole all my motivation for the past four years...but that story is a tragedy that no one wants to read haha... So, with all my extra time recently, I've started back writing. I've tweaked my novel's first chapter and now I've started on a new story. This new story is more of a "short story" meant to grease my writing gears again and man did I need it. In just a few short days I burned out 37 pages of material (yeah...short...I know...) and that was just chapter one of my short story. I could tell with every four to five pages that my writing was improving as well. I think at this point I might be back to the skill of writing that I stopped with last time. And now...the delimna....to continue writing my short story (and hopefully finish it...was planning four chapters).....or instead work on my old novel. I think I've finally figured out the proper way to proceed (I need an actual introduction of the main group and protagonist before my other protagonist meets them...I could never figure out what was missing before but I suddenly see it for what it is now.). I've already gone back in and revised the new story's first 20 or so pages..... Decisions....decisions.... Doesn't help that now when I fall asleep at night I dream of two different stories meandering about in my head.... I might have to just drink some shots tonight and flip a coin to decide on this one. Wish me luck, guys!

Have you tried an anime-planet search yet? If you put in the tags "magical girl" and "high school student" it'll bring up about 3 pages to sift through. If you recognize one of the girls, you might have found your anime.

I told you there was a video out there using parts of K-on that wasn't K-on lol..... I think it has ensnared many an anime fan in its grips. I honestly wonder what all the different anime used in that video were. Hehe, you had the same response as a friend of mine who watched it. Sorry for laughing, but it is funny how so many anime fans can be alike.

Any way you can share the link to the video? It sounds like K-on...supposedly there is a heavily edited video with things like that in it (that might not happen in the actual anime - I've heard this but never seen K-on so I can't verify or deny it). I'm sure anyone who has seen the anime could verify it for you though. I don't think that the bus accident is real. That might have been part of the edit.

Aww, I had hoped you were a Simpsons fan. You have been virtuous in your life and you are given one wish that will come true as a reward. What do you wish for?

Watched Howl's Moving Castle twice in the past few days (cause I love it). Now I'm reading the original novel it was based on and man are things different! I still like it but they changed a lot. The book is definitely better, so far anyways.

Knights of Sidonia. Very good.

Red bean buns. Good practice with dough. Pretty simple to make.

Well, not really a screenshot, but close enough Shiroe from Log Horizon...the Villian in Glasses. As a glasses wearing individual myself, I feel a certain kinship with his character, not to mention we share similar playstyles. That and I love his face when he gets wicked and the aura hehe Got to love a neutral evil character with aura This particular scene was rather memorable as the later sister-scene (him learning that his plan has failed in an epic manner) really makes me think of an internet troll who posted a volatile thread...then later finds out that no one took the bait lol. Pure poetry.

The answer is....it depends... So, I normally review after having watching a series in its entirety (and even reviewing then is pretty uncommon - it would have to speak to my soul to get a review). However, there's always a few that slip in that are so incredibly atrocious that they don't even make it past my "3 episodes before quitting" minimum rule. Now, I have this rule because I know most anime directors and writers suck, suck, SUCK at introducing people, places, and things. The first 1-2 episodes are generally super corny and full of bad flyby introductions of random characters, usually complete with a laughable plotline that is formed and resolved within the first two episodes (a mini anime, so to say). Oftentimes, it makes an episodic stab at an otherwise overarching plotline type anime. These "mini-anime's", so to say, are usually lightyears below the quality of the actual anime (usually episode 3 and onward). Sticking with this rule has served me well in the past. The anime that most frequently comes to mind with this rule for me is Last Exile. I recommend this little gem to my friends a lot. However, I always tell them that they are required to sit through at least 3 episodes before quitting. I warn them that Episode 1 and 2 are extremely super corny and that they should not judge the quality and content of the rest of the anime by the corniness of the first two episodes. This piece of my recommendation has always managed to get the person to finish the anime (and I have heard countless times, "I was ready to quit after episode two but then I remembered my promise and.....") Now, if I can't make it past three episodes, I promise you I preface my review with "This anime was so bad I couldn't even make it past episode X!" Then I list what either really turned me off (The Irregulars at Magic High ~ That he was turned on that his sister wanted to bang him and every female on campus made googly eyes at him before the end of the first episode. BLECH! I think that one I didn't make it to Episode 3 truthfully) or another similar reasoning (for example, The dub's Voice Acting was terrible! I switched to Japanese w/subs and found it was actually worse! The HORROR!). Note, a positive review comes after having watched the entire anime. A negative review occurs when I couldn't even finish the anime instead. Now I know, sometimes if I keep going I'll find something good. A lot of times, I was right to quit after Episode 3. It's up to anyone reading my review to decide if they want to take a chance on it after that. Truthfully, with my usual lack of time in the past, struggling to get through 2 bad episodes is hard enough. I don't have time to throw away on half a season of rubbish if I can identify it as rubbish from the get go.

Hmm....interesting.... Well, I too am a fan of dubs! =D I switch to subs when the English VAs are horribly picked (although it happens, it is more rare these days than it used to be). Since you liked SAO...you could delve further into that "subgenre". Maybe try Log Horizon (focuses on the guild aspect, not the lone wolf), Overlord (good storyline, honestly, it's a different kind of extreme), The Ambition of Oda Nobuna (this is a harem anime based off of...you guessed it! Anyways, I enjoyed it. Very different take. Should have been longer. It is full of haremy stuff.), or even dot hack//SIGN (The one that started it all). Truthfully, that type of anime is pretty rare out there. You have just enough space opera in there that I might think you'd enjoy Crest/Banner of the Stars.

My favorite straight up romance would hands down be Ah! My Goddess. After that, I'd say Norn9 (does not come dubbed however, subbed only). Snow White with the Red Hair is really good too. I couldn't stand the voices on the dub (subbed is awesome).

You know, I introduced my best friend to her first Anime Convention so I got your back! It's hard to prepare for your first con mentally so just try to be loose and flexible. Try out different things 1. Expect to be overwhelmed. Yes, everyone gets overwhelmed their first time. If it becomes too much, just take a break at your hotel room or go out to eat somewhere and relax. You can always go back later. Don't get wrapped up in having to see it all. If you take it easy you'll enjoy what you see instead of feeling hurried and fatigued. 2. Buy tickets early. Figure out parking the night before (or stay at the hotel next to the convention). Go to preview night and pick up your admission passes (this will save you hours in line the next day, trust me). Get any cosplay props you plan to use inspected and whether you plan to go to an "adults only panel" or not, get your armband or stamp for it. 3. Sit down the night before it starts (or preview night) and look at the schedule, convention center map, and decide what you really want to see. I usually have a full schedule planned from 9am to 7pm. Plan to take a break for lunch (I hope you have a huge breakfast too). Nothing is worse than scaring everyone around you when you pass out because your blood sugar got low (they will call a medic to check you out). Plan in at least 2 hours for the Artist Alley/Gallery and another 2 hours for the Dealers Room (those spots where none of the panels really speak to your soul are perfect for squeezing that in). Even if you aren't buying, it's awesome to see what people are selling. If you buy a lot, don't be afraid to leave and drop things off in your car. Consider if you are autograph hunting that you may sit in line for over an hour and still not get the autograph. Try not to let that consume your entire con. Visit panels and contribute to discussions! If you are going with someone else, get their input on what they'd like to see too. Oh, and plan 8 hours of sleep. >_> please do this. Some cons don't completely shut down at night but you need to sleep to enjoy the con. Plan it in your schedule! 4. Bring a backpack to carry your stuff in. The night before put in a notebook and pen (for jotting down anime you want to check out later or contact info if you make friends at the con), some fruit for snacking (apples, bananas, and oranges do pretty well - this is not lunch lol), a couple of drinks (everything is more expensive at the convention center), an extra battery for your phone or charger or charged battery bank, and some cash. When you arrive at the convention center you can put your map and schedule in there as well as anything else you grab upon entering. Put some over the counter medications (or if you have prescription strength) in your bag as well. Nothing is worse than going back to the hotel because you suddenly have a pounding headache, or your neck hurts, or even the convention food didn't sit right with you. Prepare for it to happen, especially if you get overwhelmed. As for cash, I generally bring half of my anime budget for the year with me. You can find rare gems from some vendors that will cost you dearly and amazing deals at others. Make sure you make a full round of the Dealers Room before you buy so you can prioritize your purchases and get the best deals. 5. Decide on the right hotel. One close to the convention may resolve parking and be convenient but will undoubtedly be more expensive. One further away will require extra drive time to and from the convention and will come with parking issues, but will be cheaper. I stay at one 30 minutes away every time but we stay there everytime we are in that city so I don't mind it so much. Lots of people stay at the hotels connected to the convention center. 6. If you can go with someone who has gone to a con before, that is ideal. Even if you get overwhelmed, they will pull you to the panels you decided on and you can recover while waiting for it to start. Without that, just try to have fun. Even if you planned to see a panel it isn't the end of the world if you miss it. Sit back and enjoy the cosplay, take pictures (please respect the cosplayer and ask before getting shots of them. It's rare that they'd refuse but still polite to ask), and have fun. Watch a movie or preview in the theater if you need time off your feet. I remember that they previewed one of the SAO movies at the con I went to. I had an hour of nothing planned so I decided to check it out. While I really didn't like the movie, it gave me time off my feet that I really needed and time to text pictures to a friend. 7. Lastly, plan on eating out. I go to my favorite sushi restaurant at night when we go to my favorite con. The sushi options around my hometown are severely limited so I take what I can get lol. Experience the city you're in too 8. Miss a day if you want! I usually miss Sundays. I want to go to the Farmers Market while there and usually after noon rolls by I'm ready to buy some tomatoes to can LOL. That being said, there are usually feedback sessions on Sundays where you can tell the planners what you liked and didn't like about the con. I highly advise attending those sessions if you can. I've attended bad panels before and others that were so good they needed a bigger room. The planners will never know unless you tell them.

Haha....watched the April 2017 episode and it was pretty good. Had me laughing for sure. Reminded me of some of the panels I've attended in the past. That being said, I did pretty badly. They picked some categories I wouldn't have...and there were lots of Naruto/One Piece/Pokémon questions that I never had a chance in answering. I avoid anime that drag on into infinity (like One Piece....)....anyways, I loved it. I might watch some more tomorrow. Too late to keep going tonight.

Occasionally I do. Usually my space operas get a fair amount of rerun time. It isn't a huge genre so I take what I can get. I rewatch Log Horizon every year as well. So...yeah I rewatch the good ones. Some series there's a few years in between rewatching.