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The Step Between 'Favorites' and 'Obsessions'

I’m sure it happens to all of us – we watch an anime, and it completely bowls us over in it’s awesomeness. The show changes our perspective on how great anime can be and effects us on emotional and personal levels we may not have thought possible, etc. After watching a show like this, we might have to totally redo our favorites list just because this show rocked so hard, we have to wonder if the rest of our favorites deserve to compare, even if we can’t figure out if we can really put something above the shows that we’ve been obsessing over for years.

Implications of a Like vs. Enjoy Conflict in Writing A Favorites List

This is a continuation of this post wherein I described how one can separately ‘like’ and ‘enjoy’ any given show. Some people pointed out that ‘like’ is a very horrible term to use here, however, the suggested term ‘respect’ does not fully convey what I’m getting at here, so bear with me. In the future, I will never use the word ‘like’ this way again, but for the purpose of this post, please assume that when I say ‘like’, I mean to say ‘something that meets one’s personal standards’, and that when I say ‘enjoy’ I mean ‘something that I was pleasured greatly by partaking in’ (think ‘sex’). That out of the way, I want to talk about what separately ‘liking’ and ‘enjoying’ something means for one’s (namely my) favorites list.

Diary of an Anime Lived – Toradora in the Mirror

The requirement for writing one of these posts is to be completely and utterly honest, isn’t it? In that case, I suppose I’d better tell the truth right from the very beginning: I’m really not sure what this post is going to be about.

200 (+) Anime Worth Taking With Us Into the Next Decade

The first decade of the formerly-new millennium is coming to a close, so it’s natural that everyone wants to have a go at recollecting it. The biggest trend so far has been talking about some of your favorite, or otherwise all of the noteworthy shows you saw this decade. I thought about doing that, but I realized there was a bigger fish to fry. I’m not just going to talk about some shows I liked – instead, what I have done is compiled a list of every single worthwhile anime of the past decade. I will now take a few paragraphs to explain to you how this was possible.

100 Characters For 100 Otaku (Part Twenty: 5-1) FINAL

Well, folks, here we are! “The final post in 100 Characters For 100 Otaku!” It’s been a long and crazy ride, exciting every step of the way, but it’s finally time for the whole thing to end. I hope you’ve enjoyed what I sincerely hope will be remembered as my most epic and experimental post series to date (don’t worry, I’ll top this one day!) That being said, let’s cap it all off, baby! It’s time for the top five!!!

I Finished Toradora, So Yeah. IT WAS FUCKING AWESOME.

Too many people told me they wanted me to post about Toradora after I finish it, so here I am, but what do I say? Back when I was on episode 11 of this show, I did a metric fuckload of fanboy-riffic posts on it. I was kind of too scared to continue the show knowing it would become a love shape of sorts, and I hat love shapes, but I watched it now, and I can safely say that all the problems are far behind. For the time being, toradora makes my Top 5, once again reinforcing the embarrassing fact that most of my favorites come from the past 2 years!

Why Goodness Doesn’t Matter (Probably Secretly a Confused Toradora Post?)

Fandom is a strange thing, and one thing’s for sure – goodness does not dictate fandom. As ghostlightning always says, “fanboys are forgiving, not blind.” He supports this idea with his immense love for Macross Frontier in spite of the many flaws he himself professes it to have. Basically, this post is a rebel cry. SCREW GOOD SHOWS! FANBOYS ARISE!

The Step Between 'Favorites' and 'Obsessions'

Diary of an Anime Lived – Toradora in the Mirror

100 Characters For 100 Otaku (Part Twenty: 5-1) FINAL

I Finished Toradora, So Yeah. IT WAS FUCKING AWESOME.

Why Goodness Doesn’t Matter (Probably Secretly a Confused Toradora Post?)

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