10% of anime watched = how many favourite series you should have. That's really strange to me, as I only have 5 tentative favourites (one I need to rewatch), yet I've seen nearing 200 series, not including shorts/specials. I can't even think of 20 anime that could consistently stay on a favourite list for a decent duration
+Digibro I'm a fan or your work, from Singapore. So by the time he post his video it could be Monday for me as Australia 2hours ahead of SG and about 17hours ahead of The USA, depending on where you live.
+Molfsontan No was not referring to Zero Punctuation, or Judging by the cover. I'm refereeing to the CZcams channel Yahtzee19 where he does a let's drown out and talks random things with a person/friend* Gabriel.
I read a bunch of analysis of Utena before I watched it, and I'm not sure I would have made it all the way through otherwise. It's my favorite now, but without knowing something of where it's going and what it's doing, it can just seem... kind of bonkers. I can't even with how happy I'd be if you did a video on Utena.
I've wanted to write analytically about Utena for like 6 years, but it's always felt too daunting. But I felt the same about Eva until I started making videos about it, so who knows.
Is it really worth finishing? I loved episode 1-3, watched them very recently. But episode 4 was... not a good episode, I guess, and seemed relatively indicative of the future of the show. And I suppose I finished what I watched it for in the first place, so I had no issue leaving it behind for Konosuba and Madoka Magica. (I was curious as to how much Rebecca Sugar took from Utena for her over-anime-referencing Steven Universe, and boy, was it a MASSIVE inspiration! Borderline stolen, even.)
I think so! But for me, all you have to say is "post-modern fairy tale that explores and deconstructs tropes while also commenting on everything about adolescence ever" and I'm in. I find it fascinating and I come away with something new every time I see it. After my second view I wrote a (probably not well constructed or supported, because I was mostly trying to see if I could make it work) essay-rant thing about how Utena's duels through the series reflect the Fool's Journey of the Tarot. I don't know what I think about the assessment that Utena is the shojo Evangelion, but it's definitely pretty rich and dense.
That 10% rule intrigued me, apparently my favorites list, excluding movies, is: - GitS (SAC & 2nd Gig) - Steins Gate - Monogatari (lumping the whole series together) - Neon Genesis Evangelion - Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu - Shinsekai Yori - Shirobako - Shiki - Psycho-Pass - Kill la Kill - Hyouka - Hunter x Hunter (2011) - Durararararararararara - Cowboy Bebop - Baccano - Sidonia no Kishi (a surprising one for me) Not quite sure how I feel about the list, if it really represents my taste or not, but certainly interesting to look at, not having done a favorites list before.
It's awesome that you love Gintama, it's my all time favorite. It's been gaining a lot more popularity lately after the recent season and even has a live action movie in the works.
What do you think of adding both FMA (03) and FMA: Brotherhood to a favorites list? I really like them both but I always get a question about it when I post my 3x3 or show people my favorites (not that I'm worried about what OTHERS think of my favorites, just curious on your opinion since you seem to have strong opinions on favorites lists)
You should really catalogue your list according to your age at the moment and then later review it to see where you've been. I would love to see the evolution of your taste over time also so others can compare it for a fun thing to look back on.
i heard you speak positively about Shiki, genuinely interested what you liked so much about it. personally i found the second half to be pretty lackluster, but i could just be missing something or not interpreting things like i should be.
So here's the thing, I saw Eureka 7 on its original adult swim run when I was 14 and it clicked because I could relate to Renton. I'm 24 now and I can still understand Renton, I remember being his age and it all makes sense and holds up but now I find myself more closely relating to someone like Holland. The thing about Eureka 7 is that while it is primarily about Renton and Eureka they through in Domminic and Anemone as well as Talhoe and Holland and they're all picked up at different ages and different enough circumstances that you can find something in them to relate to as you get older. I think I can actually apriciate the show more now, a decade later than I did when I watched it originally.
Due to a change in my work schedule. I have been binge listening to your videos for the past week. So far I've enjoyed most of the vids. Others I've kinda just had on as background noise.
Regarding your comments about ef at around 5:23, I think I completely understand how you feel. I had a similar experience with Clannad and AS. I first watched it in 2010 at age 18, so I was still a little hormonal. I was experiencing some depression and severe homesickness after living alone for the first time in a solo dorm room 10 hours from home. I had also just experienced my first family death that had actually impacted me. Suffice to say, the series took what little was left of my emotional composure at that time and wiped the floor with it. Because of that, I've always held it in a sort of sacred place, mentally. It was an extremely cathartic experience for me. Even being able to concede the series' many flaws is a somewhat recent development. But no matter how much my tastes shift, or how a re-assessment of the anime might result in a lower "score", I feel like it will always have some value to me that transcends quantization.
Since you mentioned Kodocha in the last video, I've blasted through sixteen episodes. It's fucking great. I can already see the possibility of the main character hitting my top ten favorite characters.
Nice video WTTNHK is one of my favorites because I show it to people who ask me why I enjoy anime. It shows how animation as a whole can create a great story much better than live action can.
Are you me from the future?! You like making lists on your free time (as do I), your favorite film director has been Quentin Tarantino for a long time (he's been mine too) and you mention your favorite movies of his are Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Bastards, and Kill Bill (my favorite 3 from him... Inglorious Bastards is my fav), and you critically analyze both the media content (mostly anime, which is my preferred medium of study as of late) and the creation of said content, as well as your own content as a creator (which I tend to do with people I know), and I've thought about making an analysis based CZcams channel (probably about anime and movies), but have never wanted to follow through with it... Maybe 6 years in the future (I'm 20) I have an analysis channel and move to Virginia....... Naw, I don't want to do either of those. Keeping doing you Digibro!
I gasped when he said he'd finish gintama and give it a 10. Like, to hear that from someone as critical and unforgivable as digi, and as a huge gintama fan, I was happily shocked.
Oh wow, I didn't realize you liked Toradora that much.Glad to see a number of my favorite shows on the google doc rated pretty high. Also will consider moving some stuff on my PTW list to a higher priority from your list.
Your experience with Utena is how I'm understanding Evangelion. After hearing yours and many other people's analysis of the show, I'd really like to rewatch it. It's a seven right now. Then there are other shows, like Spice and wolf, which might have been outside my interests and thus I didn't like it much, and want to see if I'll like it any more. I used to never rewatch anime because I knew I could instead watch a new series of the same length, but it is kind of fun to see a show I've already seen and figure out if I like it as much or for the same reasons.
Heres my top 15. I just finished code geass s1 last night , gonna start s2 now :D Top 15 (17) favorite anime: #1 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood / Hunter X Hunter (2011) #1.5 Welcome to the NHK! #2 Steins gate #3 Perfect Blue #4 Hajime No ippo #5 Jojo's Bizzare Adventure #6 Revolutionary girl utena #7 K-on #9 Ghost in the Shell #10 Gurren Lagann #11 Shinsekai yori #12 Neon Genissi evangelion #13 Psycho-Pass #14 Little Witch Academia #15 Toradora!
I think my only two favorite anime from my earlier days as an anime fan is Love Hina and Chobits. The only reason being that I read the manga for both, completing Love Hina and getting up to Vol.5 or 6 for Chobits. Beyond those series, I can't remember much about shows like Bamboo Blade, Tokimeki Memorial: Only Love, Futakoi Alternative, Myself;Yourself, and many others because I saw it way too long ago. Score-wise, I just give many of those older shows I saw positive scores of 6 and up because I remember liking them enough to not drop it since I had yet to follow the No-Drop rule. I could re-watch them, but that would take up too much time. I did a Top 100 when I had around 970 completed anime. If I did it now with 1793, I'd just not do a favorites list. Hahaha cause that just becomes a drag. Either I fail to put the shows I really want on the list because the number is too short, or the list is so long that it becomes a chore. I will probably abstain on a favorites list until I reach 2000 or 2500.
I am immensely pleased that you mentioned that Lucky Star is your favorite one to watch drunk, as I am drinking while watching this video, and was thinking about what series to start next. LS seems right in line with the sort of thing I am in the mood for.
Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Trigun, Higurashi, Full Metal Panic! (and full metal panic FUMOFU occupying the same slot), Paranoia Agent, Fooly Cooly, Ghost in the Shell SAO, GunGrave, and maybe azumanga daioh
I'm happy you have space dandy in your main favourites, its my no. 1 of all time (out of ~190) but I don't see the same too regularly, and sometimes I feel like my opinion might be skewed since I've only really watched anime for 3ish years, and it was among the first few I watched as it came out.
top 10% for me 1. neon genesis evangelion (10/10) 2. spirited away (9/10) 3. cowboy bebop (9/10) 4. end of evangelion (9/10) 5. bakemonogatari (9/10) 6. akira (9/10) 7. FLCL (9/10) 8. princess mononoke (9/10) 9. my neighbor totoro (9/10) 10. steins;gate (8/10) 11. the girl the leapt through time (8/10) So as you can see I've seen 110 series thus far. Lots of ghibli but what do you expect. I expect the top five to be in my favorites list for some time to come but the others may fall out as I see new stuff.
Cowboy Bebop is an anime that even anime "haters" will admit to enjoying. It just hits all the right notes with the anime and non-anime crowds alike. It's got to be how almost everyone can relate to the intense emotions flowing in this masterpiece. Oh, and the awesome soundtrack doesn't hurt in giving it "broader" appeal. ;)
About that 10% rule, 720 is probably the completed number on your MAL at the time. But that would include all the specials and OVAs, which most of the time aren't really relevant. Also, some shows have multiple seasons, like Baby Steps or Log Horizon, so do these favorites of yours count as a single one or do they take as many spots as the seasons they spanned ? Considering these points, 72 could have been toned down quite a bit.
I'm honestly extremely surprised when you said that we should have a top favourites of around the 10% of the anime completed, I just checked my MAL and I have 30 of 316 completed anime with a score of 9 or 10, that being extremely close to the numbers you said.
Since you had Garzey's Wing in your top animes, i thought you'd put Berserk 2016 there too. They are both terrible shows, so you can probably have the greatest laugh of your life when watching them drunk
Joe The Hoe some of the cgi did crack me the fuck up for the first time. seeing farnesse screaming and the horse part. I don't know if it gets to Garzey's level though
Yeah I'd say garzys wing is more everything that happens makes you laugh where as berserk just makes you upset a lot of that being that there's not a beloved source material for garzys wing especially one as long beloved and deserving of a sequel as berserk the new one just feels like a slap in the face. It's more like a cringe video
Digi will you talk about Gintama after you finish it? I'm really curious on how you will view the later seasons. I consider it a 10/10 for all 4 season (316 episodes).
I agree with the idea of the length of a favorites list being relative to the total number of shows you've watched, albums you've listened, etc., but I feel 10% is WAY too broad to put together a "tight" list with a minimal amount of entries that could easily be swapped out for another. When scoring stuff, I always try to make sure my number of 10/10 scores does not exceed 5% of the total number of scores I've given. In the same way, 5% sounds like a good length for a favorites list.
At first I laughed at the fact that people found Angel Beats that feelsy, but now I am actually curious onto why people find it to be that way. It really just wasn't that sad to me. I didn't care too much for any of the characters really and I found it was more funny than sad most of the time.
I totally agree with you. Funny thing is that I never actually watched the last episode of angel beats till like 6 years later because it was just that broken.
When I make my list I usually split it up into Movies, Shorts and TV shows. I've seen 203 anime's so far and only have like 10 anime TV shows that are rated 9 or higher and 6 other anime's that aren't anime TV shows rated 9 or higher so all together I only have 16 favourites when I should really have 20.
Ok but you neeeeed to make a video about gintama. Only because I never see anyone else talking about it. Also you were the one who got me to watch it and now I'm obsessed with it.
I do not know about the 10% method. For me a favourite series is when I can not say that I like another show more, with a clear conscience. I feel very similar about Utena, but I absolutely adore Mawaru Penguindrum, it would be great if you could talk more about that series or Kinos Journey.
As a person who read the manga of Kodocha and considers it to be one of my favorites, I just. I really appreciate the fact that you consider it a good series. Finish it if you can, even if it's just the anime. c:
I totally see where you're coming from I also are in the processes of watching all anime that I think can make my favorite list. Which is over 50 anime.
I'm not sure if it's been commented, but you said you had 722 completed anime from MAL, but doesn't MAL include multiple seasons, sequels, OVAs, etc., so would that still work for the 10% rule?
+Digibro Please about Hanasaku Iroha and the movie. The movie made so much to bring character development to other characters, like Ohana's mother plus the cutest kiss shot I've ever seen, Nako and showing her true self that was a so heartwarming moment. And the series in general is so great, there is no character that by the end I didn't love. And also what about Hyouka.
Any thoughts on possible doing a video on Toradora in the future? I've noticed that you've namedropped the show on several occasions before, but given the nature of the previous videos in which Toradora was mentioned, you simply could not discuss much about it.
Does FMA brotherhood fall into the "haven't rewatched it" camp, or are you just not a fan of the genre outside of hunterx hunter? In your kabaneri video you calied it the perfect adventure story, so I'm just wondering where it falls.
Just took a read to your updated list. While I disagree with some choices, I mostly agree with it. Definitely an interesting read. I'm going to watch all the shows between 7 and 10. Thanks for the recommendations. (And sorry for the poor formatting. Internet Explorer sucks ass.)
Might I ask why Lain isnt included in this list? I've always gotten the impression that Lain was one of your top ten. I remember your Lain analysis driving me to watch the show all the way through. Anyhow great list so far
I'm still surprised that Eureka Seven isn't on your real favorites lists since on your blog it sounded like you really loved the series. Then again I might be biased since I finished it weeks ago and it still gives me feels.
I have this thing where I lie in my bed and think about the feeling that Eureka 7's beginning gave me when I first saw it. It has already been 10 years, right? That's so weird.. Sadly the mecha stuff was not for me, but I'd love an innocent story of that kind, with episodic plot like out of Adventure Time but more realistic and more believable. Any recommendation?
Of the anime i recognize on your list (not that many), the biggest surprise was that Haifuri got an 8. I don't think it's bad or it deserves the not always positive rap it got, but it had sufficient flaws that I would have thought you would stick it into the 6-7 range.
The ones that really stuck out for me are A) Captain Mike's characterization which gets bent for the plot. In Episode 1 when they are being bombarded, Mike starts off sounding almost as if she's not aware they are under fire with her joke about "Shiro-chan" before suddenly making a decision. It was a real turn off, but Mike at least mellows out for about Episodes 2-4 into a captain who's lighthearted but has a sense of responsibility to her crew. She even represses her urge to see Moka-chan for the sake of the ship, and that was a point getter but then we have Episode 5, when Mike suddenly reverses mostly so we can have a scene of her rushing out to see Moka-chan, endangering everyone. After that Mike again mellows out and even learns about being on the other side (character development, yay!) but then goes all weak around Episode 10 or 11 so we can have that scene of having her dragged back to the bridge. Or B) the world. To achieve the goal of making battleships a real threat, the world employs the conceit that there is no aerodynamic flight (thus no missiles, no heloes and no bombers). I can just about swallow this one but then we start seeing the "modern" ships used by the adults ... which look exactly the same as our ships despite the fact our ships are designed for use with missiles and theirs shouldn't be. The end result is that they are weaker than many of the students' ships! This is just lazy and forced world-building. As an aside, to make "a battleship" the threat, they gave elite students the battleship. This doesn't make sense on a lot of levels b/c their battleships are the strongest ships available to the adults as a whole so why would they parcel them out to an educational establishment? Further, it defeats the standardization that should be a goal of a school. As far as possible, everyone in a school should use the same equipment which eases standard training and evaluating the performance of students. Giving the best crew the battleship means their performance cannot be easily compared to the rest because the ship is so different (and overall so much more difficult to operate). Basically the battleship is there to drive the plot, rather than as a part of a realistic world. Or C) the combat. What happens all too often is that they are mouthing off plausible ranges ... and then we get a Bird's Eye View which completely defeats that. Isn't part of the point of showing us combat to allow us to see HOW they fought? How can we do that if the graphics are completely implausible. Yes, OK, I get that we have to see the ships but darn it, how about at least not making it undeniable by giving us birds-eye views? Even Ass War *simulates* combat by flooding viewers with "decoy" stimuli and moving very fast so it might pass casual inspection. Or how about drawing the ships' sizes as needed to justify the plot. There is a scene where Hiei was confused to be the Musashi. This idea by itself is realistic. The problem was Hiei was drawn way too large and so everyone that can recognize ship silhouettes could see all too easily it wasn't Musashi. Graphics aside, the "safety devices". They really shouldn't have inputted that scene where the director gets hit, and yet everyone is unhurt and protected by a mass of goofy airbags that popped up out of nowhere. I get that they exploited Girls und Panzer's previous "carbon" conceit, but this was supposed to be a somewhat serious scenario and not a "sport". The dramatic tension really gets let out when it is obvious no one will be hurt. Further, even cutting out every flawed moment and emphasizing the strong parts (I really liked how they made nearly 30 people with somewhat distinct personalities), IMHO it never quite reached brilliance. I can see you liked Haifuri so probably A, B and C didn't bother you as much as it did me, but even leaving that aside, considering where Sansha Sanyou and Kabineri ended up on your list, I was thinking Haifuri would be their neighbor rather than all the way up in 8.
HONEY & CLOVER. Man I've wanted to shout that title into my headphones listening to weebcast about a billon times... everytime they're like "hmmm good shoujo-ish anime....hmmm..."
I actually feel like adapting your rating system. I will use 'percentile' rating for my video games; their rating is how much i like them compared to others. Fallout new vegas is in the 100th percentile and tons of f2p mobile games belong in the 20th percentile and below.
I'm really curious as to what your opinions on Katanagatari are. Your MAL says it doesn't have a score, so I'm assuming it's been a while since you've seen it and don't want to make a judgement yet. It's definitely my favorite anime, but at least, as of recent times the reviews of it have been a lot more mixed then they used t.Somewhere around the time Demo made his video on it, it's been slightly more negative then when it was airing. I know you like the monogatari series, and it's kind of similar to that, in terms of god tier, dialogue, music and visuals, but the rest is pretty in the air right now.
idk if I'd feel the same way, but I wrote about it at length back when I watched it myswordisunbelievablydull.wordpress.com/2011/01/07/the-unbearable-emptiness-of-finishing-katanagatari/
@@TheTheThe_ No she isn't she loves surrounding herself with media and luxuries, shes not against modern culture at all, she might be the opposite of a cynic also DiD yOu JuSt mIsGeNdEr her >:-(
I have a Top 15 with 10 unranked Honorable Mentions and have completed a bit over 200 shows. I'd say that falls pretty well in your 10% thing. Kinda scary.
I find over time my taste in anime expand, that is to say I find appreciation in more and more types of anime, but I never seem to lose appreciation for what I liked in the past.
I can honestly relate. A lot of anime in my MAL list I haven't seen in years and I honestly don't know how I'd feel about a lot of them anymore. For one example, I watched Princess Mononoke recently for the first time in years and liked it a LOT more than when I first watched it. I don't know how much I'd like Higurashi anymore, probably nowhere near as much I think since I'm such a different person now. On the manga side I know stuff has definitely changed. For example, Berserk used to be like top 3 for me when I first read it since it was exactly the kind of manga my 17 year old self was salivating for without even knowing it, since I used to be a huge edgelord (extremely dark, excellent art, good characters, not beholden to trite ideas about friendship like a lot of battle shounen, etc). It had a huge impact on my perspective and my taste in manga, after that I pretty much read anything in the seinen demographic I could get my hands on to get more of that kind of grimdark borderline-nihilistic storytelling (including a lot of manga I don't hold in as high a regard anymore), it even influenced my own art and Miura was one of my art heroes whose art I held up as a gold standard. Nowadays I still like the series and understand why it's so highly regarded by its fanbase since I used to feel the exact same way, but the edge (the excess graphic rape, specifically) bothers me a little more now and I can't connect with it as strongly. I mostly still like it because of the art, Guts (one of the best manga MC's of all time), and the good characterization for a lot of the other characters like Farnese, Serpico, Sonia, etc. I know some things have stayed the same, Pluto was one of my favorite manga when I first read it almost immediately and I re-read it recently, still amazing.
I really don't like the idea of rewatching shows(or even games for that matter) I haven't seen in a long time to see if I'd still like them. I don't want to be let down by myself for not liking them anymore.
So, I may just not have seen a video on this before, but seeing Seikon no Qwaser on your list of borderline anime kind of surprised me...personally, I couldn't get past episode one, just because it was a concept that did not seem good at all...so if I may ask, what about it did/do you find good enough to be part (possibly) of your favorites list?
***** well, whenever you rewatch it, hopefully soon (because it was better a second time around), you should take it as an opportunity to analyze the show. It certainly needs people to take a more detailed look at it. Mother's Basement already analyzed the first OP
Giant Robo really depends on what sub or dub you watch and what you expect. The original dub is full of so much glorious ham and heart, but was fraught with translation errors and development delays. The newer dub actually makes sense but lacks the original VAs' passion and I've never felt as attached to the original sub's voices.
So when you get around to finishing Gintama (who knows how long that may take I'm even currently on episode 220), ever thinking of doing a analysis video on it probably similar to your One Piece video?
Do you rate seasons differently under certain circumstances? Usually when a sequel just doesn't live up to the original. Like I heard you mention Psycho Pass as a favorite, but I thought Psycho Pass S2 was pretty garbage. Another example is Fate/Kaleid Illya, I loved S1 but the follow up seasons have been very lackluster in comparison for me. Should a series be rated as a whole with all its parts, or is it acceptable to just rate a specific season and discard the rest.
hey digi, been watching your content for a while now and ive always enjoyed hearing you over-analyze anime and more often than not agree with you. how do you motivate yourself to make a list? i get that it is a hobby you've got and love but did you start your list generally when first starting anime or did you pump out a couple hundred?
I started my MAL in 2007, and I probably had 300 entries or so. Making lists like that is pretty much my favorite thing in the universe so it was not hard. I've actually made several other peoples' lists for them.
+Digibro wow man, definitely admire that, im far too lazy to make a list at this point in time and cant remember probably a fifth of what i watch, so instead of keeping the name ive always kept a count. anime is my passion but when push comes to shove, im lazy. keep up the great content, i know you will. have a great weekend, im off to catch some z's
Coincidentally I've started to make a list on my MAL this week. Since I've been watching anime deliberately for the last decade, It's a lot of work. It was too huge of a pain in the ass for me for a long time because I couldn't possibly remember all the names and didn't know how to rate a lot of them. But then I realize I didn't have to do it all at once. And since I can't remember all the names, it's much easier to just go through the entire list of all anime, letter by letter. I dont' score the shows I can't remember well enough and don't have strong feelings about. I give the old favourites of mine the benefit of the doubt and rate them accordingly. In the last few days I've gone through 2-4 letters a day while listening to postcasts or vlogs. I'm now at "O". I should have started it sooner but I's never too late and better do it now than later because the amount of anime won't decrease.
I suggest you rewatch madoka magica: rebellion again (the movie 3). Our tastes are very alike and in my opinion (and many other people) the movie is a masterpiece. In fact is my favourite movie or anything of all time. And also, when you talked about the movie, i felt like you could still like it a lot if you watched it again. Is also the kind of work that grows on you when you watch it, like Utena or Eva. I understand why you didnt like it but still i think you should try to rewatch and apreciate it. And sry for my english, im not a native speaker and i think mine is a bit off sometimes.
i really like lucky star and higurashi no naku koro ni and spirited away alot! i dont have a reddit so i couldnt send an ask or anything, but i was actually wondering if you had/were planning to make a video on higurashi no naku koro ni since it has a really interesting plot and arc storyline that seems to be good content for a video or analysis video; but its all up to you!
i was also meaning to tell you that your url/ 'username'(?) is still mlp-related; like when you go to your channel, its /digibronymlp still! i wasnt sure if you were aware of that so i just wanted to let you know since i know you've wanted to distance yourself from mlp! =w=
72 favorite anime? That number seems a bit high. 25 is PLENTY. There's no "rule" that you have to have a certain number of favorites or even a favorite at all.
This reminds me of how I have a tough time making my favorites list. I don't want make lists much do to that. Utena is one of them, but it's been three years since I've seen it. Also, I feel the same about Cardcaptor Sakura. I haven't completed the anime due to it being 70 episodes. Very enjoyable show with cool characters, but since completing the manga a long time ago, I'm more into the original story than the anime original ones that added more cards.
I really think/hope you're going to love Millennium Actress when you get around to re-watching it. It's my favorite anime of all time and is just wonderful.
Out of all the shows you mentioned that I have seen, Gintama is actually my least favourite, I watched about 100 episodes, it does have some great episodes, but overall it was just ok. There were two shows which I knew would end up on my top list before I even finished, nichijou (after just 1 episode) and deathnote.
Cory in the house?
Seinfeld
Digthony Brotano here.
Does Baythony Guantanamo watch anime?How many did he watch?
Still my favorite since 1890
fuck off fantano
"Lucky Star is my favorite anime to watch drunk.." wouldn't that make it your favorite anime in general then since you're always drunk?
"My scores do not change that much anymore" "when you turn 25 your brain solidifies" wake up digi
I considered making that joke lol
I thought you were going to talk about your favourite hentai
I also would have preferred Digi's hentai picks over this
Bible black. He said it one time on one of his older videos
Lame. Having Bible Black as your favorite hentai is like having Spirited Away as your favorite Miyazaki.
+Thanatos388 mine us bokku no ippo
wait so spirited away is not the best Miyazaki?
10% of anime watched = how many favourite series you should have.
That's really strange to me, as I only have 5 tentative favourites (one I need to rewatch), yet I've seen nearing 200 series, not including shorts/specials.
I can't even think of 20 anime that could consistently stay on a favourite list for a decent duration
Well, Digi bro uploading video after video. This has been a great weekend.
If Yahtzee uploaded a video to it would become an amazingly awesome weekend!
I'm pretty sure Yahtzee vids always come out on Sunday mornings, so that is likely!
+Digibro I'm a fan or your work, from Singapore.
So by the time he post his video it could be Monday for me as Australia 2hours ahead of SG and about 17hours ahead of The USA, depending on where you live.
Yahtzee videos come out on wednesdays if you care to check the escapist instead of youtube.
+Molfsontan No was not referring to Zero Punctuation, or Judging by the cover. I'm refereeing to the CZcams channel Yahtzee19 where he does a let's drown out and talks random things with a person/friend* Gabriel.
I read a bunch of analysis of Utena before I watched it, and I'm not sure I would have made it all the way through otherwise. It's my favorite now, but without knowing something of where it's going and what it's doing, it can just seem... kind of bonkers.
I can't even with how happy I'd be if you did a video on Utena.
I've wanted to write analytically about Utena for like 6 years, but it's always felt too daunting. But I felt the same about Eva until I started making videos about it, so who knows.
Is it really worth finishing? I loved episode 1-3, watched them very recently. But episode 4 was... not a good episode, I guess, and seemed relatively indicative of the future of the show. And I suppose I finished what I watched it for in the first place, so I had no issue leaving it behind for Konosuba and Madoka Magica. (I was curious as to how much Rebecca Sugar took from Utena for her over-anime-referencing Steven Universe, and boy, was it a MASSIVE inspiration! Borderline stolen, even.)
I think so! But for me, all you have to say is "post-modern fairy tale that explores and deconstructs tropes while also commenting on everything about adolescence ever" and I'm in. I find it fascinating and I come away with something new every time I see it. After my second view I wrote a (probably not well constructed or supported, because I was mostly trying to see if I could make it work) essay-rant thing about how Utena's duels through the series reflect the Fool's Journey of the Tarot. I don't know what I think about the assessment that Utena is the shojo Evangelion, but it's definitely pretty rich and dense.
Umi Ryuuzaki I'll have to give it another try then! Thanks.
(I remember why I stopped watching it now. The awful English dub. Ah well, I suppose it's got nothing to do with the quality of the series itself!)
That 10% rule intrigued me, apparently my favorites list, excluding movies, is:
- GitS (SAC & 2nd Gig)
- Steins Gate
- Monogatari (lumping the whole series together)
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu
- Shinsekai Yori
- Shirobako
- Shiki
- Psycho-Pass
- Kill la Kill
- Hyouka
- Hunter x Hunter (2011)
- Durararararararararara
- Cowboy Bebop
- Baccano
- Sidonia no Kishi (a surprising one for me)
Not quite sure how I feel about the list, if it really represents my taste or not, but certainly interesting to look at, not having done a favorites list before.
GITS (movie 1)
Neon Genesis
Berserk
Angel's Egg
Akira
Cowboy Bebop
Rurouni Kenshin (OVA1)
Ranma 1/2
Hunter X Hunter
X [1999]
I expected this video to be about hentai but I can settle for this
that 10 percent rule is genius digi, like dude...
It's awesome that you love Gintama, it's my all time favorite. It's been gaining a lot more popularity lately after the recent season and even has a live action movie in the works.
I would pay you to finish Gintama to be honest
What do you think of adding both FMA (03) and FMA: Brotherhood to a favorites list? I really like them both but I always get a question about it when I post my 3x3 or show people my favorites (not that I'm worried about what OTHERS think of my favorites, just curious on your opinion since you seem to have strong opinions on favorites lists)
You should really catalogue your list according to your age at the moment and then later review it to see where you've been.
I would love to see the evolution of your taste over time also so others can compare it for a fun thing to look back on.
I had a video like that on my main channel, I think I covered all my favorites in my History of Anime Fandom video (not sure that's what it's called).
+Digibro After Dark Yay Thanks, I'll find it.
Nice to see someone else using the .25 rating system.
I think it's the perfect middle ground from the usual .1,.5, or 1 point increments.
i heard you speak positively about Shiki, genuinely interested what you liked so much about it. personally i found the second half to be pretty lackluster, but i could just be missing something or not interpreting things like i should be.
So here's the thing, I saw Eureka 7 on its original adult swim run when I was 14 and it clicked because I could relate to Renton. I'm 24 now and I can still understand Renton, I remember being his age and it all makes sense and holds up but now I find myself more closely relating to someone like Holland. The thing about Eureka 7 is that while it is primarily about Renton and Eureka they through in Domminic and Anemone as well as Talhoe and Holland and they're all picked up at different ages and different enough circumstances that you can find something in them to relate to as you get older. I think I can actually apriciate the show more now, a decade later than I did when I watched it originally.
Due to a change in my work schedule. I have been binge listening to your videos for the past week. So far I've enjoyed most of the vids. Others I've kinda just had on as background noise.
Regarding your comments about ef at around 5:23, I think I completely understand how you feel. I had a similar experience with Clannad and AS.
I first watched it in 2010 at age 18, so I was still a little hormonal. I was experiencing some depression and severe homesickness after living alone for the first time in a solo dorm room 10 hours from home. I had also just experienced my first family death that had actually impacted me. Suffice to say, the series took what little was left of my emotional composure at that time and wiped the floor with it.
Because of that, I've always held it in a sort of sacred place, mentally. It was an extremely cathartic experience for me. Even being able to concede the series' many flaws is a somewhat recent development. But no matter how much my tastes shift, or how a re-assessment of the anime might result in a lower "score", I feel like it will always have some value to me that transcends quantization.
Since you mentioned Kodocha in the last video, I've blasted through sixteen episodes. It's fucking great. I can already see the possibility of the main character hitting my top ten favorite characters.
Nice video WTTNHK is one of my favorites because I show it to people who ask me why I enjoy anime. It shows how animation as a whole can create a great story much better than live action can.
Are you me from the future?! You like making lists on your free time (as do I), your favorite film director has been Quentin Tarantino for a long time (he's been mine too) and you mention your favorite movies of his are Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Bastards, and Kill Bill (my favorite 3 from him... Inglorious Bastards is my fav), and you critically analyze both the media content (mostly anime, which is my preferred medium of study as of late) and the creation of said content, as well as your own content as a creator (which I tend to do with people I know), and I've thought about making an analysis based CZcams channel (probably about anime and movies), but have never wanted to follow through with it... Maybe 6 years in the future (I'm 20) I have an analysis channel and move to Virginia....... Naw, I don't want to do either of those. Keeping doing you Digibro!
I gasped when he said he'd finish gintama and give it a 10. Like, to hear that from someone as critical and unforgivable as digi, and as a huge gintama fan, I was happily shocked.
Oh wow, I didn't realize you liked Toradora that much.Glad to see a number of my favorite shows on the google doc rated pretty high. Also will consider moving some stuff on my PTW list to a higher priority from your list.
"I can't understand what my husband is saying", so strange, but makes a lot of sense to be on the list :D
Best couple
Out of everything on the list that's the one I disagreed with the most. 7-8/10 imo.
Top 15 (17) favorite anime:
#1 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood / Hunter X Hunter (2011)
#1.5 Welcome to the NHK!
#2 Steins gate
#3 Perfect Blue
#4 Hajime No ippo
#5 Jojo's Bizzare Adventure
#6 Revolutionary girl utena
#7 K-on
#9 Ghost in the Shell
#10 Gurren Lagann
#11 Shinsekai yori
#12 Neon Genissi evangelion
#13 Psycho-Pass
#14 Little Witch Academia
#15 Toradora!
Shows i feel might make the list once finished: Monster , planetes , code geass
Paradox The Vegabond wow, you fit 3 shows in #1
Your experience with Utena is how I'm understanding Evangelion. After hearing yours and many other people's analysis of the show, I'd really like to rewatch it. It's a seven right now. Then there are other shows, like Spice and wolf, which might have been outside my interests and thus I didn't like it much, and want to see if I'll like it any more. I used to never rewatch anime because I knew I could instead watch a new series of the same length, but it is kind of fun to see a show I've already seen and figure out if I like it as much or for the same reasons.
I am so glad that Garzy's Wing is on there! A true masterpiece.
My top 10:
1- Gintama
2-Code Geass
3-Steins Gate
4-Monogatari Series
5-FMA Brptherhood
6-HxH 2011
7-Baccano!
8-Berserk (1997)
9-Samurai Champloo/ Cowboy Bebop
10- Fate zero/Parasyte
Heres my top 15. I just finished code geass s1 last night , gonna start s2 now :D
Top 15 (17) favorite anime:
#1 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood / Hunter X Hunter (2011)
#1.5 Welcome to the NHK!
#2 Steins gate
#3 Perfect Blue
#4 Hajime No ippo
#5 Jojo's Bizzare Adventure
#6 Revolutionary girl utena
#7 K-on
#9 Ghost in the Shell
#10 Gurren Lagann
#11 Shinsekai yori
#12 Neon Genissi evangelion
#13 Psycho-Pass
#14 Little Witch Academia
#15 Toradora!
Baccano only gets better the more you watch it. I've seen it like six times now and its definitely in my top five and use to only be line in my top 30
I think my only two favorite anime from my earlier days as an anime fan is Love Hina and Chobits. The only reason being that I read the manga for both, completing Love Hina and getting up to Vol.5 or 6 for Chobits. Beyond those series, I can't remember much about shows like Bamboo Blade, Tokimeki Memorial: Only Love, Futakoi Alternative, Myself;Yourself, and many others because I saw it way too long ago. Score-wise, I just give many of those older shows I saw positive scores of 6 and up because I remember liking them enough to not drop it since I had yet to follow the No-Drop rule. I could re-watch them, but that would take up too much time.
I did a Top 100 when I had around 970 completed anime. If I did it now with 1793, I'd just not do a favorites list. Hahaha cause that just becomes a drag. Either I fail to put the shows I really want on the list because the number is too short, or the list is so long that it becomes a chore. I will probably abstain on a favorites list until I reach 2000 or 2500.
I am immensely pleased that you mentioned that Lucky Star is your favorite one to watch drunk, as I am drinking while watching this video, and was thinking about what series to start next. LS seems right in line with the sort of thing I am in the mood for.
Dude, Drunken Lullabies. What an album. I wish I had the vinyl, but I do have the retail CD at least.
Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Trigun, Higurashi, Full Metal Panic! (and full metal panic FUMOFU occupying the same slot), Paranoia Agent, Fooly Cooly, Ghost in the Shell SAO, GunGrave, and maybe azumanga daioh
I'm happy you have space dandy in your main favourites, its my no. 1 of all time (out of ~190) but I don't see the same too regularly, and sometimes I feel like my opinion might be skewed since I've only really watched anime for 3ish years, and it was among the first few I watched as it came out.
The beard looks nice at this length.
top 10% for me
1. neon genesis evangelion (10/10)
2. spirited away (9/10)
3. cowboy bebop (9/10)
4. end of evangelion (9/10)
5. bakemonogatari (9/10)
6. akira (9/10)
7. FLCL (9/10)
8. princess mononoke (9/10)
9. my neighbor totoro (9/10)
10. steins;gate (8/10)
11. the girl the leapt through time (8/10)
So as you can see I've seen 110 series thus far. Lots of ghibli but what do you expect. I expect the top five to be in my favorites list for some time to come but the others may fall out as I see new stuff.
Cowboy Bebop is an anime that even anime "haters" will admit to enjoying. It just hits all the right notes with the anime and non-anime crowds alike. It's got to be how almost everyone can relate to the intense emotions flowing in this masterpiece.
Oh, and the awesome soundtrack doesn't hurt in giving it "broader" appeal. ;)
About that 10% rule, 720 is probably the completed number on your MAL at the time. But that would include all the specials and OVAs, which most of the time aren't really relevant.
Also, some shows have multiple seasons, like Baby Steps or Log Horizon, so do these favorites of yours count as a single one or do they take as many spots as the seasons they spanned ?
Considering these points, 72 could have been toned down quite a bit.
K-ON is a 10? Fuck sakes.
bruh k-on is a masterpiece
I'm honestly extremely surprised when you said that we should have a top favourites of around the 10% of the anime completed, I just checked my MAL and I have 30 of 316 completed anime with a score of 9 or 10, that being extremely close to the numbers you said.
Since you had Garzey's Wing in your top animes, i thought you'd put Berserk 2016 there too. They are both terrible shows, so you can probably have the greatest laugh of your life when watching them drunk
berserk 16 isnt bad in way that its so bad it's go way not imo anyway's
Joe The Hoe some of the cgi did crack me the fuck up for the first time. seeing farnesse screaming and the horse part.
I don't know if it gets to Garzey's level though
Yeah I'd say garzys wing is more everything that happens makes you laugh where as berserk just makes you upset a lot of that being that there's not a beloved source material for garzys wing especially one as long beloved and deserving of a sequel as berserk the new one just feels like a slap in the face. It's more like a cringe video
id find berserk 2016 fucking hilarious if it wasn't berserk. 😞
I have to say, those shades are fucking lit. it's a good look for you Digi.
Digi will you talk about Gintama after you finish it? I'm really curious on how you will view the later seasons. I consider it a 10/10 for all 4 season (316 episodes).
I agree with the idea of the length of a favorites list being relative to the total number of shows you've watched, albums you've listened, etc., but I feel 10% is WAY too broad to put together a "tight" list with a minimal amount of entries that could easily be swapped out for another. When scoring stuff, I always try to make sure my number of 10/10 scores does not exceed 5% of the total number of scores I've given. In the same way, 5% sounds like a good length for a favorites list.
At first I laughed at the fact that people found Angel Beats that feelsy, but now I am actually curious onto why people find it to be that way. It really just wasn't that sad to me. I didn't care too much for any of the characters really and I found it was more funny than sad most of the time.
I totally agree with you. Funny thing is that I never actually watched the last episode of angel beats till like 6 years later because it was just that broken.
very surprised when you said hourou musuko,
i barely see anyone talking about it at ALL
i think my interest in it goes beyond a little relatable ._.
Have you seen Lupin III: A Woman named Mine Fujiko?
A lot of Cowboy Bebop Alums worked on it, and it's incredibly fun.
I have seen and Fujiko doesnt really work as MC.
>Gundam III
Mad respect. Love that movie
When I make my list I usually split it up into Movies, Shorts and TV shows. I've seen 203 anime's so far and only have like 10 anime TV shows that are rated 9 or higher and 6 other anime's that aren't anime TV shows rated 9 or higher so all together I only have 16 favourites when I should really have 20.
Ok but you neeeeed to make a video about gintama. Only because I never see anyone else talking about it. Also you were the one who got me to watch it and now I'm obsessed with it.
I do not know about the 10% method. For me a favourite series is when I can not say that I like another show more, with a clear conscience. I feel very similar about Utena, but I absolutely adore Mawaru Penguindrum, it would be great if you could talk more about that series or Kinos Journey.
As a person who read the manga of Kodocha and considers it to be one of my favorites, I just. I really appreciate the fact that you consider it a good series. Finish it if you can, even if it's just the anime. c:
Unrelated to the video, but the length your hair and beard are at now really suits you.
I totally see where you're coming from I also are in the processes of watching all anime that I think can make my favorite list. Which is over 50 anime.
I'm not sure if it's been commented, but you said you had 722 completed anime from MAL, but doesn't MAL include multiple seasons, sequels, OVAs, etc., so would that still work for the 10% rule?
It seems to just somehow work out for me.
***** Fair enough, to each their own.
+Digibro Please about Hanasaku Iroha and the movie.
The movie made so much to bring character development to other characters, like Ohana's mother plus the cutest kiss shot I've ever seen, Nako and showing her true self that was a so heartwarming moment. And the series in general is so great, there is no character that by the end I didn't love.
And also what about Hyouka.
This is my favorite Digi's look.
7:29 Wow, this works quite well for me, too. I have 31 completed shows, so that makes a top 3, although the 3rd is only a 7/10
Any thoughts on possible doing a video on Toradora in the future? I've noticed that you've namedropped the show on several occasions before, but given the nature of the previous videos in which Toradora was mentioned, you simply could not discuss much about it.
Does FMA brotherhood fall into the "haven't rewatched it" camp, or are you just not a fan of the genre outside of hunterx hunter?
In your kabaneri video you calied it the perfect adventure story, so I'm just wondering where it falls.
Just took a read to your updated list. While I disagree with some choices, I mostly agree with it. Definitely an interesting read. I'm going to watch all the shows between 7 and 10. Thanks for the recommendations. (And sorry for the poor formatting. Internet Explorer sucks ass.)
might I suggest Aku no Hana or "the flowers of evil"? alot of mixed reviews when it comes to that anime and I'm curious what you will think
Thank you for introducing me to Manabi Straight. I feel I'm in the spot you were when you first watched it.
Have you read any of the source material for Shiki? I'm interested in the novels, but I can't find it anywhere online.
Might I ask why Lain isnt included in this list? I've always gotten the impression that Lain was one of your top ten. I remember your Lain analysis driving me to watch the show all the way through. Anyhow great list so far
Although I did see Lain on the Doc. Forgive me if I didn't seem like I paid attention.
I'm still surprised that Eureka Seven isn't on your real favorites lists since on your blog it sounded like you really loved the series. Then again I might be biased since I finished it weeks ago and it still gives me feels.
I mean, as I just said it's literally only not on there because I haven't watched it in the last 2 years.
Digibro After Dark
Eh, guess that's true lol
hey maybe digi bro is lying ? did u even consider that!
if i put the show on hold 3 times at the first 2 episodes, is there a chance it's worth pushing through to the later episodes?
I have this thing where I lie in my bed and think about the feeling that Eureka 7's beginning gave me when I first saw it. It has already been 10 years, right? That's so weird..
Sadly the mecha stuff was not for me, but I'd love an innocent story of that kind, with episodic plot like out of Adventure Time but more realistic and more believable.
Any recommendation?
Of the anime i recognize on your list (not that many), the biggest surprise was that Haifuri got an 8. I don't think it's bad or it deserves the not always positive rap it got, but it had sufficient flaws that I would have thought you would stick it into the 6-7 range.
What are these flaws?
The ones that really stuck out for me are A) Captain Mike's characterization which gets bent for the plot. In Episode 1 when they are being bombarded, Mike starts off sounding almost as if she's not aware they are under fire with her joke about "Shiro-chan" before suddenly making a decision. It was a real turn off, but Mike at least mellows out for about Episodes 2-4 into a captain who's lighthearted but has a sense of responsibility to her crew. She even represses her urge to see Moka-chan for the sake of the ship, and that was a point getter but then we have Episode 5, when Mike suddenly reverses mostly so we can have a scene of her rushing out to see Moka-chan, endangering everyone. After that Mike again mellows out and even learns about being on the other side (character development, yay!) but then goes all weak around Episode 10 or 11 so we can have that scene of having her dragged back to the bridge.
Or B) the world. To achieve the goal of making battleships a real threat, the world employs the conceit that there is no aerodynamic flight (thus no missiles, no heloes and no bombers). I can just about swallow this one but then we start seeing the "modern" ships used by the adults ... which look exactly the same as our ships despite the fact our ships are designed for use with missiles and theirs shouldn't be. The end result is that they are weaker than many of the students' ships! This is just lazy and forced world-building.
As an aside, to make "a battleship" the threat, they gave elite students the battleship. This doesn't make sense on a lot of levels b/c their battleships are the strongest ships available to the adults as a whole so why would they parcel them out to an educational establishment? Further, it defeats the standardization that should be a goal of a school. As far as possible, everyone in a school should use the same equipment which eases standard training and evaluating the performance of students. Giving the best crew the battleship means their performance cannot be easily compared to the rest because the ship is so different (and overall so much more difficult to operate). Basically the battleship is there to drive the plot, rather than as a part of a realistic world.
Or C) the combat. What happens all too often is that they are mouthing off plausible ranges ... and then we get a Bird's Eye View which completely defeats that. Isn't part of the point of showing us combat to allow us to see HOW they fought? How can we do that if the graphics are completely implausible. Yes, OK, I get that we have to see the ships but darn it, how about at least not making it undeniable by giving us birds-eye views? Even Ass War *simulates* combat by flooding viewers with "decoy" stimuli and moving very fast so it might pass casual inspection.
Or how about drawing the ships' sizes as needed to justify the plot. There is a scene where Hiei was confused to be the Musashi. This idea by itself is realistic. The problem was Hiei was drawn way too large and so everyone that can recognize ship silhouettes could see all too easily it wasn't Musashi.
Graphics aside, the "safety devices". They really shouldn't have inputted that scene where the director gets hit, and yet everyone is unhurt and protected by a mass of goofy airbags that popped up out of nowhere. I get that they exploited Girls und Panzer's previous "carbon" conceit, but this was supposed to be a somewhat serious scenario and not a "sport". The dramatic tension really gets let out when it is obvious no one will be hurt.
Further, even cutting out every flawed moment and emphasizing the strong parts (I really liked how they made nearly 30 people with somewhat distinct personalities), IMHO it never quite reached brilliance.
I can see you liked Haifuri so probably A, B and C didn't bother you as much as it did me, but even leaving that aside, considering where Sansha Sanyou and Kabineri ended up on your list, I was thinking Haifuri would be their neighbor rather than all the way up in 8.
HONEY & CLOVER. Man I've wanted to shout that title into my headphones listening to weebcast about a billon times... everytime they're like "hmmm good shoujo-ish anime....hmmm..."
It would be great to see another video like this in the future, but with favorite anime characters.
I actually feel like adapting your rating system. I will use 'percentile' rating for my video games; their rating is how much i like them compared to others. Fallout new vegas is in the 100th percentile and tons of f2p mobile games belong in the 20th percentile and below.
I'm really curious as to what your opinions on Katanagatari are. Your MAL says it doesn't have a score, so I'm assuming it's been a while since you've seen it and don't want to make a judgement yet. It's definitely my favorite anime, but at least, as of recent times the reviews of it have been a lot more mixed then they used t.Somewhere around the time Demo made his video on it, it's been slightly more negative then when it was airing. I know you like the monogatari series, and it's kind of similar to that, in terms of god tier, dialogue, music and visuals, but the rest is pretty in the air right now.
idk if I'd feel the same way, but I wrote about it at length back when I watched it myswordisunbelievablydull.wordpress.com/2011/01/07/the-unbearable-emptiness-of-finishing-katanagatari/
Digi i want you to know that i think of you as a modern day Diogenes
mrtangelo885 Holy shit that is so true in every way.
Nowhere near. Diogenes was the only true übermensch.
Diogenes was a cynic, this is a terrible comparison, he in no way resemples digibro
@@Majkels
Digibro isn't a cynic? Get necro'd by the way fucker 😳
@@TheTheThe_ No she isn't she loves surrounding herself with media and luxuries, shes not against modern culture at all, she might be the opposite of a cynic
also DiD yOu JuSt mIsGeNdEr her >:-(
I have a Top 15 with 10 unranked Honorable Mentions and have completed a bit over 200 shows. I'd say that falls pretty well in your 10% thing. Kinda scary.
I know you said that you didn't like it but do you think you'll ever make a vid on Katanagatari?
I'm sad to see bakuman was nowhere in sight in this video
It's one of his favourite manga, though
He gave it a 10.
I'm gonna have to give Baby Steps a shot. ippo,Kuroko, and Haikyu rlly got me into the sports genre.
Love Live! will be one of my favourites
I find over time my taste in anime expand, that is to say I find appreciation in more and more types of anime, but I never seem to lose appreciation for what I liked in the past.
I can honestly relate. A lot of anime in my MAL list I haven't seen in years and I honestly don't know how I'd feel about a lot of them anymore. For one example, I watched Princess Mononoke recently for the first time in years and liked it a LOT more than when I first watched it. I don't know how much I'd like Higurashi anymore, probably nowhere near as much I think since I'm such a different person now.
On the manga side I know stuff has definitely changed. For example, Berserk used to be like top 3 for me when I first read it since it was exactly the kind of manga my 17 year old self was salivating for without even knowing it, since I used to be a huge edgelord (extremely dark, excellent art, good characters, not beholden to trite ideas about friendship like a lot of battle shounen, etc). It had a huge impact on my perspective and my taste in manga, after that I pretty much read anything in the seinen demographic I could get my hands on to get more of that kind of grimdark borderline-nihilistic storytelling (including a lot of manga I don't hold in as high a regard anymore), it even influenced my own art and Miura was one of my art heroes whose art I held up as a gold standard.
Nowadays I still like the series and understand why it's so highly regarded by its fanbase since I used to feel the exact same way, but the edge (the excess graphic rape, specifically) bothers me a little more now and I can't connect with it as strongly. I mostly still like it because of the art, Guts (one of the best manga MC's of all time), and the good characterization for a lot of the other characters like Farnese, Serpico, Sonia, etc.
I know some things have stayed the same, Pluto was one of my favorite manga when I first read it almost immediately and I re-read it recently, still amazing.
I really don't like the idea of rewatching shows(or even games for that matter) I haven't seen in a long time to see if I'd still like them. I don't want to be let down by myself for not liking them anymore.
So, I may just not have seen a video on this before, but seeing Seikon no Qwaser on your list of borderline anime kind of surprised me...personally, I couldn't get past episode one, just because it was a concept that did not seem good at all...so if I may ask, what about it did/do you find good enough to be part (possibly) of your favorites list?
I talked about it at some length in the 250 anime recommendations video, as well as in one of my previous recommendation vids, so check there.
He said in the Asterisk War vids that he is a fan of fanservice when it is the point and is well done, putting Qwaser as an example.
I've been watching Shiki over and over lately, Digibro. I think it'd be awesome if you did a video analyzing it. How likely would you say that is?
I have no idea. Lately I haven't been doing much single-show analysis, but I'd like to get back to that.
***** well, whenever you rewatch it, hopefully soon (because it was better a second time around), you should take it as an opportunity to analyze the show. It certainly needs people to take a more detailed look at it. Mother's Basement already analyzed the first OP
Giant Robo really depends on what sub or dub you watch and what you expect. The original dub is full of so much glorious ham and heart, but was fraught with translation errors and development delays. The newer dub actually makes sense but lacks the original VAs' passion and I've never felt as attached to the original sub's voices.
Have you done a tarot anime list?
I love watching the beard grow back over the couse of these videos.
I feel like the list put towards you is insanely accurate in 2017 and I’m now Gurren lagann.
So when you get around to finishing Gintama (who knows how long that may take I'm even currently on episode 220), ever thinking of doing a analysis video on it probably similar to your One Piece video?
Do you rate seasons differently under certain circumstances? Usually when a sequel just doesn't live up to the original. Like I heard you mention Psycho Pass as a favorite, but I thought Psycho Pass S2 was pretty garbage. Another example is Fate/Kaleid Illya, I loved S1 but the follow up seasons have been very lackluster in comparison for me. Should a series be rated as a whole with all its parts, or is it acceptable to just rate a specific season and discard the rest.
I rate each season individually, but when I list them on my favorites list I include any seasons I like on there.
+Digibro I see that you gave Clannad a 5.25, but what about After Story?
hey digi, been watching your content for a while now and ive always enjoyed hearing you over-analyze anime and more often than not agree with you. how do you motivate yourself to make a list? i get that it is a hobby you've got and love but did you start your list generally when first starting anime or did you pump out a couple hundred?
by the time i realize i wanted a list i was roughly 300 completed anime in and i couldn't bring myself to begin the grind on MAL
I started my MAL in 2007, and I probably had 300 entries or so. Making lists like that is pretty much my favorite thing in the universe so it was not hard. I've actually made several other peoples' lists for them.
+Digibro wow man, definitely admire that, im far too lazy to make a list at this point in time and cant remember probably a fifth of what i watch, so instead of keeping the name ive always kept a count. anime is my passion but when push comes to shove, im lazy. keep up the great content, i know you will. have a great weekend, im off to catch some z's
Coincidentally I've started to make a list on my MAL this week. Since I've been watching anime deliberately for the last decade, It's a lot of work. It was too huge of a pain in the ass for me for a long time because I couldn't possibly remember all the names and didn't know how to rate a lot of them. But then I realize I didn't have to do it all at once. And since I can't remember all the names, it's much easier to just go through the entire list of all anime, letter by letter. I dont' score the shows I can't remember well enough and don't have strong feelings about. I give the old favourites of mine the benefit of the doubt and rate them accordingly.
In the last few days I've gone through 2-4 letters a day while listening to postcasts or vlogs. I'm now at "O". I should have started it sooner but I's never too late and better do it now than later because the amount of anime won't decrease.
I suggest you rewatch madoka magica: rebellion again (the movie 3). Our tastes are very alike and in my opinion (and many other people) the movie is a masterpiece. In fact is my favourite movie or anything of all time. And also, when you talked about the movie, i felt like you could still like it a lot if you watched it again. Is also the kind of work that grows on you when you watch it, like Utena or Eva. I understand why you didnt like it but still i think you should try to rewatch and apreciate it.
And sry for my english, im not a native speaker and i think mine is a bit off sometimes.
hey Digi u mentioned Kikis delivery service have u heard filmcritichulk talk about it on the podcast The Canon
i really like lucky star and higurashi no naku koro ni and spirited away alot! i dont have a reddit so i couldnt send an ask or anything, but i was actually wondering if you had/were planning to make a video on higurashi no naku koro ni since it has a really interesting plot and arc storyline that seems to be good content for a video or analysis video; but its all up to you!
i was also meaning to tell you that your url/ 'username'(?) is still mlp-related; like when you go to your channel, its /digibronymlp still! i wasnt sure if you were aware of that so i just wanted to let you know since i know you've wanted to distance yourself from mlp! =w=
72 favorite anime? That number seems a bit high. 25 is PLENTY. There's no "rule" that you have to have a certain number of favorites or even a favorite at all.
How about manga ? Also Did I miss something or you didn't mention a Yoshitoshi Abe show ? I expected Tehnolyze.
I did mention Lain, Texh is just shy of my list.
This reminds me of how I have a tough time making my favorites list. I don't want make lists much do to that. Utena is one of them, but it's been three years since I've seen it.
Also, I feel the same about Cardcaptor Sakura. I haven't completed the anime due to it being 70 episodes. Very enjoyable show with cool characters, but since completing the manga a long time ago, I'm more into the original story than the anime original ones that added more cards.
I really think/hope you're going to love Millennium Actress when you get around to re-watching it. It's my favorite anime of all time and is just wonderful.
Out of all the shows you mentioned that I have seen, Gintama is actually my least favourite, I watched about 100 episodes, it does have some great episodes, but overall it was just ok. There were two shows which I knew would end up on my top list before I even finished, nichijou (after just 1 episode) and deathnote.
Dude, thumbs up for the hair.