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Name: Silence Email: None Url: None Reviews: 74 Posts: 17 |
It all started in September 07, during my school holidays when I had nothing to do. I turn on my tv, and caught episode 20 of Melody of Oblivion. I originally started and dropped it at the totally incomprehensible episode 3. But now I am very interested. I re-watched the whole series, and here I am, an avid anime fan who watched 70 series in two years and still going strong.
Soon after I started watching anime, I was looking for recommendations for good animes. That is when I chanced upon this site, and found the reviews here very insightful and helpful. I began to frequent this site, and finally decided to write some reviews myself.
My character design rates the how realistic/cool/awesome/likable the characters are, not how they look (that goes in art). The rest are pretty self explanatory.
I do assign scores, but they are not very strictly benchmarked with each other, so do not put too much weight on them. Anime, I firmly believe, is a form of art, and thus forcing scores on it would not be too accurate. The most suitable indicator would be how much i liked it, and in materialistic term, if I would be willing to buy/rent it. So that should be the primary indicator of how good an anime is for me. Anyway, a Buy is definitely worth your time, and could make it into your collection. A Rent is an enjoyable watch, but it probably does not leave much impact. A Watch should not be something you spend much time on, unless you decide that your taste is vastly different from mine (which is very possible). Avoid is rarely given out by me, and an anime has really got to touch some raw nerves to get there.
Ps. Dubs are the enemy.
Recommended Romances/Dramas: 1. Koi Kaze 2. Planetes 3. Bokura ga Ita 4. Aishiteruze Baby 5. Kimi Ga Nozumu Eien
Recommended Action/Thrillers series: 1. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann 2. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex + 2nd Gig 3. Monster 4. Cowboy Bebop 5. Fate/Stay Night
Recommended Comedy: 1. Great Teacher Onizuka 2. Skip Beat 3. Bakemonogatari 4. Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu 5. Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu!
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| 2003(3) | 2002(1) | 2000(1) | 1999(1) | ||||
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| A Certain Magical Index | Rent | See To Aru Majutsu no Index | |
| A Certain Scientific Railgun | Rent | See To Aru Kagaku no Railgun | |
| A Presidente da Associação de Estudantes é uma Empregada (Portuguese) | Rent | See Kaichou wa Maid-sama! | |
 Aishiteru Ze Baby |
Buy | A crisis in the Katakura family changes the life style of a carefree high school playboy, when Kippei is asked to look after his five-year old cousin, Yuzuyu. Kippei tries to complain and avoid the responsibility but Yuzuyu's quiet charm soon wins him over. In trying to be a mom to his little cousin, Kippei learns some hard lessons on how to be responsible, as well as helping Yuzuyu deal with issues at her pre-school and her longing for her absent mother. And what about Kokoro, the cute classmate, who seems to show some measure of interest in Kippei? | |
| Aishiteruze Baby | Buy | See Aishiteru Ze Baby | |
| Ang ating Presidente ay isang Katulong! (Filipino) | Rent | See Kaichou wa Maid-sama! | |
 Angel Beats! |
Rent | In a world after death, teenagers fight for their fate and their future. Tenshi (Angel), the white-haired chairperson of the student council for the world after death, tries to enforce the school rules; Yuri, the red-haired leader of the Shinda Sekai Sensen (Afterlife Battlefront), rebels against the god who destined her to have an unreasonable life, and the members of her SSS organization utilize armed weaponry to battle it out against Tenshi's supernatural powers. | |
| Apocalypse Meow | Unevaluated | See Cat Shit One | |
 Arakawa Under the Bridge |
Rent |
A young upperclass elite man, Ichinomiya "Riku" Kou, who has a policy of not being in debt to anyone, ends up owing his life to a strange girl who rescues him. Nino is a beautiful homeless girl who believes that she is a martian and lives under the bridge by the Arakawa river. So the young man ends up living there too. |
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| Babe My Love (French) | Buy | See Aishiteru Ze Baby | |
 Baccano! |
Buy |
Baccano is Italian for noise, but light novelest Narita translates it as "stupid commotion" in the literary source of this series. Each of the stories in the series involves several unrelated plots intersecting and crossing each other as events spiral farther and farther out of control. Immortal alchemists, mafia operated speakeasies, and many other elements of pulp fiction are mashed together for a world straight out of the movies. |
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| Baka to Test to Shōkanjū | Rent | See Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu | |
 Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu |
Rent |
A story set in a school that strictly stratifies students and the relative comforts of their classrooms based solely on their initial test scores. The lowest ranked class rallies to fight against the injustice of this system and decides to take on the higher ranked classes by using the school's 'virtual competitive system', a system which lets students fight each other through the use of 'virtual summoned creatures'. So let the war between the school idiots of class F and the genius kids begin...... |
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 Bakemonogatari |
Buy |
Bakemonogatari centers on Koyomi Araragi, a third year high school student who is almost human again after briefly becoming a vampire. One day, a classmate named Hitagi Senjougahara, who infamously never talks to anyone, falls down the stairs into Koyomi's arms. He discovers that Hitagi weighs next to nothing, in defiance of physics. After being threatened by her, Koyomi offers her help, and introduces her to Meme Oshino, a middle-aged homeless man who helped him stop being a vampire. |
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| Betrayal Knows My Name | Rent | See Uragiri wa Boku no Namae o Shitteiru | |
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