It’ll be a quick and easy prompt this time around! How often do you watch anime outside of your comfort zone, and then how would you rate them? For some there may be a more involved thought process behind this, but for me it’s pretty straight forward. I don’t watch anime outside of my comfort zone very often, maybe just a few a year unless I am purposely doing something like the anime genre review collection I did last year where I force myself to watch anime from various genres I normally wouldn’t look at. So yeah, not often. Typically, after a season wraps up, I’ll binge all of the fantasy ..read more

Let’s take a look at something from the Fall 2023 anime season that recently wrapped up – Sousou no Frieren. Interesting how the Japanese title differs from the English one. Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End vs. something that’s more like “Frieren’s Funeral Procession” (or “Frieren at the Funeral” as it’s listed in MAL). The two different titles paint a different picture I think. But I won’t really dive into it, you can think about that for yourself! Synopsis Frieren is an elven mage who participated in the defeat of the demon lord alongside her party of heroes. Afterwards, they all part ways. Ma ..read more

Pretty broad one here, seeing as there are many different sorts of thoughts you could have after watching something. But nothing wrong with that! I’ve got one that comes to mind, it’s the first clear moment where I watched an anime and was like “that’s a pretty neat idea to think about”. And that’s actually the Endless Eight from Haruhi. My first watch of this goes way back to when I was still relatively new to anime, still watching dubbed anime even. It’s not a particularly deep thought or anything, but I just remember watching the Endless Eight (not all at once, maybe over 2 or 3 sittings ..read more

Here’s an interesting one. I feel like I know what most people would answer here, and I would be included in that… but the perspective of there being too many genres is intriguing so I wanted to try and understand why someone would feel that way. So to get the obvious out of the way, if I had to guess, most people would probably prefer for there to be even more genres than we currently commonly see. This is coming from the perspective of someone that uses MAL to find anime, so maybe other sites do have an expanded list of genres / tags for anime. I can come up with a few genres right now that ..read more

The question was more asking about OVAs, but I feel like movies can work here too. The basic gist here is referring to series where an OVA comes out after or between seasons that basically has no actual bearing on the main story, or maybe the main story is already wrapped up and the OVA is just like a fluff piece. Either way, this is sort of along the lines of content that’s not canon, so it’s not important, it’s just something there for fun. I know a lot of shonen series have all kinds of movies where a bunch of stuff happens, but then it’s just never acknowledged in the actual series, so tha ..read more

Let’s go with a quick prompt this time around, because I want to get a post written, but I also want to go watch Solo Leveling! So what’s a well-liked anime that I didn’t really like? This one didn’t take long for me to think of. I may have even used this anime in a past post, it’s a pretty simple topic so I wouldn’t be surprised if I’ve already touched upon it. Anyways, my anime of choice here is Kaguya-sama: Love is War. I know that a lot of people found it a lot of fun and very cute, but personally, I felt like Kaguya-sama was a bit too much of the same joke repeated over and over, and a f ..read more

Thought this was a funny one on MAL, I immediately knew I had to use it as a prompt here. I’m pretty big on rewatching anime, but I can’t say I’ve ever watched an anime 10 times in a row…! Alright, let me set the stage here. You’re sitting at home, nice and comfy. You just finished watching a series, when you get the phone call. You don’t recognize the number, but at the same time, it is from your local area code… but then if it’s truly important they’ll call back. So you let it ring out, and then after a moment of silence, it starts to ring once again. Same number. Guess it was important aft ..read more

Long one, approaching LN title length here. But the question itself is quite simple, and I’ve sort of touched upon this topic before with prompts like the recent “Would you rather your favourite anime be mainstream or unpopular?” or “What’s an anime that you never watched because it’s too hyped up?”, but I don’t think I’ve done a prompt that directly looks at anime that are hyped up by the community. So let’s address this idea head on! I’d mentioned before how I’ve never watched Cowboy Bebop because it’s just been mentioned so many times and hyped up to me so much that I just don’t want to wa ..read more

Here’s an interesting one, particularly because I’ve actually never really thought of the idea of “safe” and “unsafe” anime. That’s really why I chose it in the end! What’s a safe anime? I’m thinking it’s something like anime that are very popular, or have a large audience but still have high ratings. Something like that, anyways. Your “mainstream” anime, so to speak. But you know, some really popular anime may not be all that safe, because it kind of depends on preferences. For example, Sword Art Online (SAO) is pretty contested despite its popularity, there are people on both sides of the f ..read more

Let’s get another easy one out there with this prompt. Would you rather have your favourite anime be mainstream or unpopular? Well, you see, as a distinguished anime connoisseur and blogger of the highest calibre, clearly I would never want to be associated with whatever drivel the common folk associate themselves with, nor would I be caught dead favouring an anime that’s well established to be abhorred by the masses… This is quite the conundrum I find myself in! Jokes aside, the reality is that I don’t really care all that much about what anime fans in general think of the anime I like. Tha ..read more