Who shares similar tastes with you?

[roastedpekingduck]

I'm sure all of you have come to find that a few people on the forums share really similar taste with you and perhaps trust them for recommendations and such. For me, those people would likely be leongsh, Christian, Teiresias, DKL and JackProton, along with Itsuka and Dagger to a more limited extent. Unfortunately, if Patchouli likes a show, I usually stay away. :sd: Who do you share tastes with?

[CGord]

I have no idea.

I believe FLCL is the greatest anime ever made.

Anyone else who believes this is pretty cool, I'd say. :p

[AbeChinchilla]

No one!

My taste is too varied, but also limited to anything that makes bad use of CG-paint animation. Which everyone seems to like, because they like their characters looking exactly the same.

[Suwako Moriya]

Honestly every time this topic comes up, I'm not sure who to mention at all. Either way if I remember some past posts right, my tastes are apparently predictable enough anyway. :sd:

[Suwako Moriya]

I believe FLCL is the greatest anime ever made.

Anyone else who believes this is pretty cool, I'd say. :p

Heh well since I consider FLCL to be rather bad save for the fact the dub was decent. I guess that eliminates me from the running. Ah well it's been awhile since I fell through that trap door. So I'll just get myself ready. :)

[Serial Experiments Nobue]

Woohoo, namedropping time!

Actually, only one immediately springs to mind for me, and that would be chloes_fork. While not a complete mirror, in chloe's signature list of 12 or so favorite series, I have something like a 65% match. Also, I'm pretty sure they were the one who gave me the final nudge to get Boogiepop Phantom and Moon Phase. I could probably also give shounen kakumei akio a nod for the (fan of) Utena/Fancy Lala two-fer. ;)

But anyone who ranks Utena and/or Figure 17 amongst their favorite series is cool with me. Same for Yoshitoshi ABe fans and anyone who can share in the wonderment that is Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko! :neko:

I could probably list some more names, but I think they're more like posters who I enjoy reading than people who have at least 50% of the same anime collection as me. :D

[LelouchLamperouge]

My tastes are extremely varied. Although I've noticed lately that Relwarc shares a few series with me in both my buying list and Rel's buy/rent list, so I guess we have similar tastes to an extent. We both liked Heat Guy J apparently. That's a good sign that we have similar tastes.

My tastes are all over the place, as my signature suggests from my "current buying" :)

[something]

Geh I'm terrible at this and will undoubtedly forget some of the closest people but here goes:

Fence except for his strong affinity for mecha, which I don't inherently dislike (I'm watching Giganform and Heroic Age for example) but also don't seek out at all. We also have the same #1 and #2 favorite anime, just flip flopped.

Patchu of the many names is sort of like me in how he likes most anything, which goes for others too of course, but I notice it a lot more with him because, well, we both post in the discussion threads so damn much.

EmperorBrandon for shoujo goodness and slice of life type stuff and Rozen and I dunno, just stuff in general.

Dagger always has good taste, and her recommendations always mean something.

Then Xcal/TY (generally), TheGreatBear (generally, I think), DKL (generally), HitokiriShadow (even if he's evil and doesn't love Lucky Star), Digikerot (Sunrise fun).

There are others of course, and not being in the list hardly means I don't consider your opinion, but these are the posters prolific enough in the new-series GA threads for me to think of off the top of my head. A rec from Dani means something too, but she's more of a manga forum denizen so I don't see her too much in the GA circuit.

I have my list of people I know I'm safe to just roll my eyes at, but on the whole there are so few shows I *don't* watch, that I match up with almost everyone somewhere. So for example I'm watching a number of shows that you and leongsh and that crowd are too this season (and carrying over from last season) but slow translations can make that troublesome for those shows. But great shows like Nodame, Dennou Coil, Claymore, Darker Than Black, Moonlight Mile (finally, two more eps of that I can watch when I get a chance), Romeo x Juliet, etcetera tend to attract a slightly different crowd than the other shows I like.

But yeah, I like em all.

[StudioZEL]

Well I know that something and I both have an affinity for the works of Kyoto Animation. ^^

I tend to share many similar opinions with Fencedude as well. ^^

[roastedpekingduck]

I completely forgot about DKL and Dagger. Sorry you to. :sd: DKL and I share a love of Madhouse and Dagger just has plain good taste.

[Lego]

I'm "all by my lonesome" a lot when it comes to my tastes. Sheena has been with me on one or two series including Emma, so I guess I'll mention her. I've seen diaaaaa... er something in a couple of my series threads so we share similar tastes on somethings. Besides them I really can't think of anyone. I have noticed though that a lot of the same people gravitate towards certain shows, so maybe that has something to do with it. But I've always liked shows based on the show, not whose watching it.

[The Great Bear]

TheGreatBear (generally, I think)

It's nice to be noticed :)
…
As for who I share tastes with…hmm.

I don't do fansubs, but I do read (and sometimes contribute nonetheless) to the new series threads, and if Fence, something, Patchouli (today, who knows next week), Xcalibur/Ty and EmperorBrandon are all in the thread talking about a show a lot, I will pay attention to it.

Just based on Patchouli's descriptions, I actually bought one volume of Master of Epic of all things, and I kind of liked it (even if I didn't know what they were saying 95% of the time :sd: ).

For already released series being talked about in either R1 or Recommendations, in addition to those above, I find that I have *some* shared interests with JackProton, Shimauma, Fudce, Vicserr, retributionzero, Dagger, DKL, roastedpekingduck, Mike Dungan, Dani, bctaris, Lego, and some others whose names I can't think of just right now.

Since I like shows from all genres, I guess I find that I am sometimes agreeing, and sometimes strongly disagreeing, with just about everyone here :sd:

[Suwako Moriya]

Just based on Patchouli's descriptions, I actually bought one volume of Master of Epic of all things, and I kind of liked it (even if I didn't know what they were saying 95% of the time :sd: ).

Ah cool so now you get to see the greatness of Waragecha Five itself! Still the real fun with them comes in later episodes. Plus if you continue to collect the series you'll won't have to worry about that text that blocks the screen in episode 03 when They're wearing different outfits

[Fudce]

There are quite a few folks here who I share interests with, too many to list, but the ones that really stick out are Spirit of the Stage, Something, EmperorBrandom, Mike Dungan & vtr9kvictor.

[Suwako Moriya]

On a side note the whole "Food Girl" thing is part of the reason I felt a bit motivated to remove Hayate the Combat Butler from hiatus status. So in short it's partially Fudce's fault I've caught up to episode 12 when I had only seen up to episode 06 for awhile.

[The Great Bear]

Just based on Patchouli's descriptions, I actually bought one volume of Master of Epic of all things, and I kind of liked it (even if I didn't know what they were saying 95% of the time :sd: ).

Ah cool so now you get to see the greatness of Waragecha Five itself! Still the real fun with them comes in later episodes. Plus if you continue to collect the series you'll won't have to worry about that text that blocks the screen in episode 03 when They're wearing different outfits

I'm not sure I can afford to get the whole thing on R2 (it's not a particularly expensive show compared to some others, but I only have so much money :sd: ). But maybe I'll get the disk with episode 3 just to see what you're talking about.

And the Waragecha Five theme song is kinda infectious. Gan Gan Gan Gan Gan Gan Gan, wa-ra-ge, wa-ra-ge.

While I'm not sure how likely it would be, I would love it if it could get licensed, though the chances of that are pretty slim, since it doesn't really fit into any of the regular types of shows that one can almost guarantee an R1 license.

[Fudce]

On a side note the whole "Food Girl" thing is part of the reason I felt a bit motivated to remove Hayate the Combat Butler from hiatus status. So in short it's partially Fudce's fault I've caught up to episode 12 when I had only seen up to episode 06 for awhile.
Not bad for a series I originally only chanced because it had a cool name. :P

[The Great Bear]

On a side note the whole "Food Girl" thing is part of the reason I felt a bit motivated to remove Hayate the Combat Butler from hiatus status. So in short it's partially Fudce's fault I've caught up to episode 12 when I had only seen up to episode 06 for awhile.
Not bad for a series I originally only chanced because it had a cool name. :P

Well, I've only become interested because of your avatars of the Food Girl.

But since then, I've read up the descriptions available on the web and it sounds pretty amusing. With luck it will get licensed.

[Yoda47]

Bulldog.

We don't always agree 100%, but it's to the point now that if he tells me to buy a show I'll get it without knowing anything about it.

[C_Roberts]

My tastes are pretty specific so probably very few people share them exclusively. I primarily watch futuristic sci-fi so stuff like;

Planetes
Banner of the Stars, etc
Cowboy Bebop
GitS: Stand Alone Complex
Blue Gender
RahXephon

The list goes on, but you get the idea. And of course there's always a few exceptions, but they're pretty rare.

[roastedpekingduck]

I don't think your tastes are that specific. :D I'm enjoyed all those shows in your list a lot, and I'm sure others have like the same block.

[Ty]

Then Xcal/TY (generally), TheGreatBear (generally, I think), DKL (generally), HitokiriShadow (even if he's evil and doesn't love Lucky Star), Digikerot (Sunrise fun).
I've noticed your taste in shows aligns with mine about 90% of the time. I don't have enough of a bead on everybody else to say exactly but the two of us always seem to be looking for the same things in a show.

[Garasharp K7]

I haven't been posting here that long, (though I've been lurking for quite a while) so I'm not too familiar with the folks here and their anime tastes. I can see a few people like some of the shows I do - Vicserr definitely has similar tastes to mine, at least as far as giant robot shows are concerned - though I know he's seen far more of 'em than I have. Something digs Haruhi as well, but I'm not quite the devout Haruhiism convert he is, :)(I can thank him for getting me hooked on Lucky Star too) and there are a couple folks here who like Azumanga, Excel Saga. Cromartie High and Nadesico, so I have something in common with them too. :)

Oh, and I have to admit I'm really curious about that Hayate show now mainly because of those Food Girl avatars. :) If I ever become a fan of that show, it'll be thanks to Fudce, The Great Bear and _Ty_. :)

[C_Roberts]

I don't think your tastes are that specific. :D I'm enjoyed all those shows in your list a lot, and I'm sure others have like the same block.

I'm sure a lot of people like them, but I like that genre almost exclusively. And even then I don't like many of the shows that could be classified as futuristic sci-fi. So there's probably far more tastes we don't share than tastes we do.

[roastedpekingduck]

I used to be an exclusive fan of the genre when I first came into anime. I have since diverged.

[Njr Scrawl]

Classic/"old school" fans
UC & ZZ Gundam fans
Kimagure Orange Road Fans
Rumiko Takahashi show fans
Utena fans
Oh/Ah! My Goddess fans
You're Under Arrest fans
Aria fans
Leiji Matsumoto fans
Shoujo fans.
etc.

More surprising is when a posters likes a show or release I do, that I didn't think would as our tastes are otherwise different.

[raistlinmajere]

Sign up for my site and rate stuff, it will tell you who's similar ;)

For example, I seem to be similar to Brad Lascelle. We've rated many things the same, and rarely apart by more than 1...

[C_Roberts]

I used to be an exclusive fan of the genre when I first came into anime. I have since diverged.

I did the opposite. :)

[pianocello]

For the most part, I'd say Nuriko has the same taste as me.

[Nosredna]

I really don't think anybody does. My taste in anime is pretty odd and for the most part I may like one or two things that someone else likes, but then something they really like I may hate, or vice versa.

[raistlinmajere]

Unless you're JAppi, then people do.

[Spirit Of The Stage]

I think when I first spoke to Fudce it was on our top 10 anime list and if I recall I think about 8 of the series on our lists were the same...so yeah, we're similar.

Also definitely EmperorBrandon, something and also Azumangaman have similar tastes to me (which made it hard to recommend something to Brandon during a recommendation topic when pretty much everything he's got I got as well... :sd: )

[MKVarana]

I don't know of anyone offhand that shares my tastes. My tastes are pretty broad, as I've quite enjoyed shows from just about all genres of anime, and I'm not biased against old animation or new animation (though I think I do prefer the newer stuff a little more, but only on the visual level). However, it takes a pretty special show for me to rank it as one of my absolute favorites (currently, my top 2 are Fruits Basket and School Rumble), and an incredibly terrible show for me to actually hate it. Shows that have Yui Horie cast in them get bonus points and a blind buy preorder from me, but I still judge the shows fairly and don't use her to decide wheither I like the show itself or not.

[Njr Scrawl]

While I don't blind buy Yui Horie yet (not seen enough of her shows), I do where Kotono Mitsuishi, Hiromi Tsuru, Aya Hisakawa, Kikuko Inoue, Yumi Touma, Rei Sakumo & Michie Tomizawa voice main or important characters. Its interesting where following seiyuu performances can take you, & cost you!

I used to be a Megumi Hayashibara $ groupie, but she's done too much, so while a good decision criteria, I don't blind buy everything she's done.

[MKVarana]

Its interesting where following seiyuu performances can take you, & cost you!

I definately agree with you on that. I've found some stuff that I really enjoyed that I either never would have looked at or at least not looked at as soon as I did based on my Yui-related blind buys. Figure 17, for example, is a show that I highly doubt I would have ever looked at without hearing Yui was in it, and it turned out to be really good. I tried Angelic Concert (a PC game) out after hearing a few of her songs from it, and now I've become addicted to it and have spent all kinds of money to get almost all of the songs (sometimes ~$100 for 1 song that comes with a new Kogado game, which makes me wonder why people have a problem with the ~$2 for a Guitar Hero song...lol). Add in her CD's and stuff, and she's cost me alot of money (in a good way, mind you). o(^-^)o

[martod]

My tastes are definitely closest to EmperorBrandon's (although I have to say I tried several times to get into Princess Tutu and I just couldn't). My tastes are also similar to Patchouli Knowledge/whatever his name is as this post is read.

[CGord]

Planetes
Loved it

Banner of the Stars, etc
Havent seen it

Cowboy Bebop
Loved it

GitS: Stand Alone Complex
Loved it

Blue Gender
Haven't seen it

RahXephon
Loved it

...based on this, it seems I have two series to check out.

[Johnny]

Chacrana shares my love of the violent and Jarred shares my love of sports and Shonen fighting stuff.

They're the first two that come to mind anyway.

[joelgundam01]

There are several members that have similar tastes as mine, but I can't remember most of the names. :sd:

The first three that come into mind.

lheiskell (Yep our own resident Funi rep.)
Fencedude
Viscerr

[Shsway]

I'm almost always watching and praising the same shows that Wrath of the Njr, JackProton and chloes_fork are watching. It's a bit scary in the case of the first, actually, but wholly understandable given that we both seem to be very sentimental about certain characters, plot twists and music.

[HitokiriShadow]

Then Xcal/TY (generally), TheGreatBear (generally, I think), DKL (generally), HitokiriShadow (even if he's evil and doesn't love Lucky Star), Digikerot (Sunrise fun).


Yeah, I'm a heretic. Please don't burn me at the stake. :D

In any case, the person who's tastes are probably the most similar to mine is probably, incidentally, something. He tends to like a lot of the same shows I like, though the degrees and precise rankings can differ quite a bit at times. For example, he ranks My Otome higher than HiME, but I rank it significantly lower. But we agree that HiME's last episode is best forgotten. And while I really, really like Haruhi Suzumiya, I'd rank a few other shows (like Nanoha) higher. Of course there are a decent number of shows that he likes but I have no interest in and vice versa, but a majority of the time, we seem to like the same shows. If he likes something, I probably like it to some degree or have an interest in seeing it 75% of the time.

Fencedude and Patchouli are probably the next closest.

[Sheena]

Think I've had the most affinities with Lego. It's extremely rare that I'd have a very diverging opinion of an anime vs his. From Ergo Proxy to Denno coil to Emma, it's been pretty consistent across quite a few genres.

Which is nice for me since he watches so much stuff and posts early comments on them. :)

[Chacranajxy]

Chacrana shares my love of the violent and Jarred shares my love of sports and Shonen fighting stuff.

They're the first two that come to mind anyway.

I don't agree with Johnny out of principle, but I do think I tend to like the same sorts of stuff as Jarred, DKL, and JoelGundam.

[Mateo_home]

I have mixed/strange interests in anime.

Just to show some examples and what I like, I enjoy good comedy (Haruhi, Full Metal Panic, School Rumble), a little violence (Hellsing, GunGrave), an interesting story (Planetes, My-HiME, Le Chevelier D'Eon), a dark mood (Shana, Higurashi, Fate/Stay night) or just plain cute slice of life (Azumanga Daioh, Strawberry Marshmallow, Kamichu). There's more but I don't think it needs to be any longer.

So yeah, probably no one.

[something]

So yeah, probably no one.
Plenty of people are that varied if not more (like myself), so there are definitely others like you.

[Mateo_home]

So yeah, probably no one.
Plenty of people are that varied if not more (like myself), so there are definitely others like you.

True. It's better to not stick solely to one genre.

[Suwako Moriya]

True. It's better to not stick solely to one genre.

In my case I just go with the flow and watch what catches my interest. If that means I watch little from one genre and a lot from another that's just the way things go. I will admit that there will always be genres I'm more fond of and ones I tend to avoid.

[Mateo_home]

True. It's better to not stick solely to one genre.

In my case I just go with the flow and watch what catches my interest. If that means I watch little from one genre and a lot from another that's just the way things go. I will admit that there will always be genres I'm more fond of and ones I tend to avoid.


For me it's long running Shonen titles. Yeah I may be missing out on something but it's my opinion.

[StudioZEL]

As far as things I like personally, I find myself being drawn to stuff that falls into these three categories (listed by rank of importance to me).

1) Downright silly and/or fun despite quality (School Rumble, Marmalade Boy, Lucky Star, Detective Conan etc.) Note: This is not to say that shows in this category are not high quality. It's just not a requirement if I find it silly or fun enough.

2) Amazingly good all around (Haruhi Suzumiya, Kanon 2006, Cowboy Bebop, Princess Tutu, Gungrave, Giant Robo, Maison Ikkoku etc.)

3) Uber cute (Cardcaptor Sakura, Ah! My Goddess, Keroro Gunsou etc.)

And ANY combination of those three. ^^;

[masterpez]

For me it's long running Shonen titles. Yeah I may be missing out on something but it's my opinion.


Then I can definitely say that we have the same taste. I tend to adore a good number of long running Shounen titles. I also have enjoyed all of the titles you listed in your previous post, except for Azumanga Daioh.

As for me, I tend to like the same titles as Bobma. He/She doesn't post that much, but I tend to check out series that Bobma enjoys, and if not, I'm probably already watching it (More people need to check out Kekkaishi....when it's not on its 5 week breaks). Which means I need to get around to seeing Oh Edo Rocket. Actually, I could say the same things about seca.

[Suwako Moriya]

For me it's long running Shonen titles. Yeah I may be missing out on something but it's my opinion.

Heh it depends on what you define as long. I was willing to watch stuff like Inuyasha and Yu Yu Hakusho, but then again I was able to watch them on TV. Which avoided the cost factor of DVDs and the ethical issue of fansubs in regards to them, but that's another story. However in general I would definitely be cautious about watching an uber long show where a battle can last several episodes and you sometimes wonder if the show will ever end. It's even worse if when the show finally does end it has no ending. Oh if only I could think of any example. :P

I can say that I'm definitely not into gore especially if it is gore for the sake of gore. Ultra violence does not appeal to me. I also am not a fan of series where philosophical sayings are slapped into characters' mouths and random symbolism is used to make the show seems. It's not that philosophy is bad, but I prefer it to work with the story rather than dominate it. Oh yeah I also avoid hentai, but that's just me.

[roastedpekingduck]

I hope my tastes aren't too closed. I've basically tried every major subgenre except for hentai for obvious reasons. My collection isn't too narrow... :sd: ...I hope.

[The Great Bear]

I've basically tried every major subgenre except for hentai for obvious reasons.

You'll get to it eventually.

Hentai must be experienced by all anime fans at some point for two reasons (and no, not sexual titillation):

1. Horrendously bad dubbing. To truly appreciate good dubbing, you must experience what is really bad dubbing. Hentai will do this for you.

2. At some point or another in many a hentai title, you will simply look at the screen and say "No, they wouldn't do that. No way. Are you kidding me? No, they did not just do that. Oh my…Did they really just do that? No."

And I haven't even seen the famous one about the eggs that Chris and Ape2020 talk about.

[Dagger]

Not to be repetitive, haha, but I'm going to have to grab some of the names off of duck's and something's lists.

A rec from Dani or Christian means a lot--maybe even more so because they aren't super active in the anime forums. roastedpekingduck tends to have harsher standards than me in certain areas, but this just means that it'd be unusual for me to dislike a show that he's fond of.

While I can't say that Fence and I have very similar tastes, I think his posts about different shows make it very clear what they're like. I mean, whether or not my interest ends up being piqued, you can tell a lot from his reaction. If that makes any sense. It helps that he's openminded but doesn't give anything a free pass.

I have a lot of overlap with something (who I am convinced must appreciate or at least watch a wider variety of anime than anyone else on this forum. :D )

[Johnny]

Chacrana shares my love of the violent and Jarred shares my love of sports and Shonen fighting stuff.

They're the first two that come to mind anyway.

I don't agree with Johnny out of principle, but I do think I tend to like the same sorts of stuff as Jarred, DKL, and JoelGundam.


Rubbish. You know you're all about fluff/Shojo/Boys Love you homo :D

[roastedpekingduck]

roastedpekingduck tends to have harsher standards than me in certain areas, but this just means that it'd be unusual for me to dislike a show that he's fond of.

:neko: For some reason, that post made me feel really happy. Thanks! I'm not usually one to consider I have "high taste." :sd:

[Ty]

I have mixed/strange interests in anime.

Just to show some examples and what I like, I enjoy good comedy (Haruhi, Full Metal Panic, School Rumble), a little violence (Hellsing, GunGrave), an interesting story (Planetes, My-HiME, Le Chevelier D'Eon), a dark mood (Shana, Higurashi, Fate/Stay night) or just plain cute slice of life (Azumanga Daioh, Strawberry Marshmallow, Kamichu). There's more but I don't think it needs to be any longer.

So yeah, probably no one.
You're at least a good 75% match for my tastes. I would think that most people enjoy some variety. Cute is great, but I've found there is such a thing as too much. Of course we do have this amazing new generation of cute concepts like those applied in Higurashi which is mixing it up a bit. :)

[Teiresias]

roastedpekingduck tends to have harsher standards than me in certain areas, but this just means that it'd be unusual for me to dislike a show that he's fond of.

:neko: For some reason, that post made me feel really happy. Thanks! I'm not usually one to consider I have "high taste." :sd:

I think it would be fair to say that RPD has the most rigorous standards of anime excellence of any teenager in the history of the species... :neko:

[roastedpekingduck]

I've basically tried every major subgenre except for hentai for obvious reasons.

You'll get to it eventually.

Hentai must be experienced by all anime fans at some point for two reasons (and no, not sexual titillation):

1. Horrendously bad dubbing. To truly appreciate good dubbing, you must experience what is really bad dubbing. Hentai will do this for you.

2. At some point or another in many a hentai title, you will simply look at the screen and say "No, they wouldn't do that. No way. Are you kidding me? No, they did not just do that. Oh my…Did they really just do that? No."

And I haven't even seen the famous one about the eggs that Chris and Ape2020 talk about.
I experienced a tiny amount of hentai that was the last I wanted to experience. In my opinion, laughing at the bad dubbing was just not enough to watch something with no redeeming value.

Two years ago, when I was 14, I went to a birthday party to my friend Fatty. Saying "a friend" to describe various people will get annoying, so I'll just call them by their nicknames. Fatty isn't fat, but is actually quite a muscular guy. He's just called Fatty because he eats unbelievable amounts. He's quite the nice guy, so everyone thought he was a clean goody two-shoes. :sd: Anyhow, Crazy Chink, another friend, asked to use a computer, and Fatty happily obliged. Little did Fatty know that Crazy Chink was going to explore the computer and discover...Fatty's hidden hentai folder. Thirty minutes passed from the time Crazy Chink first started using the computer and it was time for dinner. I went to call Crazy Chink and just entered Fatty's bedroom. Lo and behold, when I enter the room, Crazy Chink's pants are down, and there he is, happily moaning with the VERY busty female hentai character on screen. When he saw me, Crazy Chink immediately pulled up his pants and looked extremely stunned. After a minute, Crazy Chink regained his composure. During that minute, the character on screen was getting raped. :sd:
"Ummm...wanna watch some hentai? The boobs are pretty cool." he asked me.
I'm pretty sure that seeing him with his pants down and a character being raped turned me off from all of hentai.
"Did you download this hentai Crazy? You're a perv."
"No. I just found it in one of Fatty's folders."
"Fatty wouldn't watch that kind of stuff."
"I would if I had high speed internet...so maybe he does to."

Fatty was wondering what was taking the two of us so long and went up to his room to check on us. When he saw Crazy watching hentai from his secret folder, Fatty ran over and put Crazy in a headlock.
"Did you seriously download that hentai?" I asked Fatty.
"It was...spyware." He replied. "I wouldn't do this kind of stuff." Well, there went Fatty's reputation. :sd:
After she heard the loud commotion Fatty's sister, Deaf Daphne too had gone up to see what was happening. After Fatty's denial, Deaf Daphne just randomly burst out, "Aw Christ, Justin, just go fuck yourself. You do that for two hours in front of your computer everyday anyways." She was 12 at the time. :D We then continued on awkwardly with the birthday party.
After that incident, seeing my friend with his pants down and awkwardly moaning while another character was being raped on screen just turned me off from hentai altogether. I'll never watch hentai to say the least.

[roastedpekingduck]

roastedpekingduck tends to have harsher standards than me in certain areas, but this just means that it'd be unusual for me to dislike a show that he's fond of.

:neko: For some reason, that post made me feel really happy. Thanks! I'm not usually one to consider I have "high taste." :sd:

I think it would be fair to say that RPD has the most rigorous standards of anime excellence of any teenager in the history of the species... :neko:
Teenagers are their own separate species now?
Thanks for the compliment BTW.

[Teiresias]

Sounds like a Maxine Hong Kingston novel... :>

[golthin]

I have no idea.

I believe FLCL is the greatest anime ever made.

Anyone else who believes this is pretty cool, I'd say. :p

WEll I pretty much like everything but I think FLCL was awesome and I am still hoping for a sequel.

All time favorite anime for me!
Maison Ikkoku.
Everything Tenchi Muyo!
Captain Tailor
Blood+
All the slayers movies and series!
Shadow skill!
Urutsai Yatsura
FLCL
Everything Gundam!
Evangelion!
Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

Currently watching
Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann
Virtorian Romance Emma

[The Great Bear]

:blush: O.O :sd:

I see. I can understand how that experience might have left a bad…um…taste. It's not exactly what you want to see, and it's not the best introduction to hentai. But you have a really good story to tell :>

Frankly, I'm not a huge consumer of it myself, though I don't deny ever watching it either. But it's something to experience. But perhaps better alone, and not with friends.

This just made me completely crack up:

Deaf Daphne just randomly burst out, "Aw Christ, Justin, just go fuck yourself. You do that for two hours in front of your computer anyways." She was 12 at the time. :D

Kids these days grow up so fast. :sd:

[Teiresias]

I think he has the basis for an excellent short story here. As long as he keeps the sex quotient pretty high, he'll have a sure winner.

[christianlf]

A rec from Dani or Christian means a lot--maybe even more so because they aren't super active in the anime forums.

Wow, thanks, I appreciate the nod. :blush: And I'm not just saying it 'cause you mentioned me, but because I also enjoy reading your posts about shows, not only because I do pay attention to those with whom I overlap but because they're usually insightful and informative. :) I tend to lurk a lot more in the anime forums now, mostly because I don't seem to watch shows at the same pace as others these days, especially GA posters.

I try to have an open mind about anything, so I consider my taste to be rather wide, but I do admit that certain types of shows would have a bit of a harder time getting me to watch them, so it's not like I'm all-inclusive. And I do have my preferential genres, too, but I still think if it's a good story, I can appreciate a little bit of everything. That said, I've found that there are posters whose recs carry a bit more weight, not only because of similarities but because of the way they write their posts. Besides the aforementioned Dagger, there's leongsh, Jarred (though he's still under the mistaken impression that 20CB is better than Berserk), Texhnolyze, roastedpekingduck, Dani, and chloes_fork. Those are just the ones that immediately come to mind, so I've probably missed some people (I usually try to avoid topics like this 'cause I feel like I'm name-dropping or something... :sd: ) I can't say I agree with them on everything, but there's enough there to get my attention.

Oh, and though I might disagree with him about the merit of certain shows, I gotta give something credit for giving very detailed descriptions about why he likes what he likes, which I also find to be helpful. Hmm, I don't believe I've added a single name to the topic...errr, well, if you subtract all the yaoi, Skinny Cat and I used to end up in a lot of the same show topics, but she doesn't seem to post here any more. A shame.

[roastedpekingduck]

Kids these days grow up so fast. :sd:

Definitely. It's not rare to hear eight year olds spout stuff like that now. :sd:

By the way Teiresias, thanks for the short story idea. I might just have to do it for a creative writing assignment next year. :D

[Mateo_home]

Oh yeah I also avoid hentai, but that's just me.

I guess we're on the same page then. You won't find any hentai in my collection. And no, there's none hidden away if that's what you're thinking.

[Shiroi Hane]

I seem to remember agreeing with HolyAjora and Fencedude on at least a few occasions in the past, probably disarm also. I've not had a great deal of time for forumming recently so I'm a bit out of the loop of the fanscapes for the more recent series and rusty on names in general.

[jecca-neko]

No idea out of the regular AoD people. I can tell you who has similar tastes in video games, but not anime.

Out of everyone I know my boyfriend shares the most similar tastes. We tend to like the same exact shows. How we'd each rank them varies a bit... ask what our favorite Ghibli films are, for instance, he'd probably say Princess Mononoke and I'd probably have my mind change depending on my mood but most likely Kiki's or Howl's. But typically if one of us likes it we'll both like it and if one of us doesn't like it neither of us like it. Which is weird since we have slightly unusual tastes. We both mostly like shoujo but also shounen shows that have good storytelling and/or character development (Ippo, for instance).

[ape2020]

Me, myself, & I! Oh and that freakish troll Chimp1010.

I guess Kakugo seem to know way too many of the extreme nasty stuff I mention, but he more the grandmaster of preversion while I'm just a wannabe perv.

-ape2020

[Chloe]

I'm not sure exactly, but I do know I tend to pay more attention to Chloes_fork, Jack Proton, Teiresias, and Something. There are a few others who are maybes(like Piano Cell Conducting), but those are the main ones, off the top of my head.