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About

FYI, I rate and comment a lot, but not everything is up-to-date, esp stuff I watched when younger. I am honestly fairly picky, so peruse at your own discretion.

(About Me: I'm a weeb/otaku from Philadelphia who enjoys video games, board games, speedruns, writing, reading, exercising, playing sports, hanging out w/ friends, etc.)

Fave section is ranked w/ top-left being #1 and going right and down. Movies go after shows, and light novels after manga.

Fave anime:

Diamond no Ace
Rokka no Yuusha
Digimon Xros Wars
Hunter x Hunter (1999)

Fave movie:

They Were 11

Fave manga:

Kaguya-Sama: Love is War
Angel Densetsu
Rough
Onani Master Kurosawa

Fave one-shot:

Fighting Girls

Fave genres:

romance
drama
sports
shonen
less so but also enjoy comedy, mystery, and fantasy

Tags I enjoy: games/tournaments, superheroes, redemption, underdog, virtual world/RPG, level up system, survival, time travel/age regression, martial arts, and coming of age.

How I got into this hobby:

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As a wee lad, I watched stuff on TV, like Pokemon, Digimon, Medabots, and Cardcaptor Sakura. Gradually, my family got some box sets, so I watched Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Great Teacher Onizuka, Rurouni Kenshin, Naruto, and Hunter x Hunter in that rough order. Of these, HxH 1999 was the first one that made me really love it. I was about 10 ish and even recall looking up fanfics since it was on hiatus.

In middle school, I got into more manga like One Piece and other shonen too. Later, in high school, I watched and read more, even making a MyAnimeList, though I didn't use it much at the time. Finally, in college, I joined the anime club to make friends and got deeper into the hobby, even going to my first con at Otakon 2013 (its 20th anniversary!). In my last college summer of 2015, I also watched Toradora, which made me realize that I liked romances, so I expanded my tastes even more, probably doubling the things I tried to that point.

I started actively using MAL around then (though I switched to Anilist when MAL crashed). Not long after that, I got into more manga and light novels.

Anyway, overall, I love the hobby. It's helped me cope in difficult times, and I met a lot of friends through it, so I'll probably always have a certain fondness for it in my heart.

About my lists and ratings:

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- usually, 70 and higher is good. 50 is average, and 60 is mildly above average with 65 on borderline of above-average to good. I almost never give 100s. - also, even if a show is only a 70, it may still be a personal favorite because it clicked in a certain way or I identified strongly with something in it, etc. - things I dislike will usually get a 40 or below for me. Doesn't mean it's necessarily bad but just not for me. - as mentioned above, some of this is out of date since I haven't edited some stuff since I was young, and my tastes have changed. - Paused is stuff I'm waiting to build up before binging or the author themself put it on hiatus or some other reason. - Fave OPs and other such lists is favorite opening songs and such. - I try to give things 3 eps/3 ch before dropping if possible, but sometimes, if I feel it really won't click, I'll do less. Sometimes, I'm uncertain and will instead do more before dropping. - Rewatches are estimated as I often skim when rewatching. I also sometimes skim or skip filler/unpleasant scenes like ones with heavy gore, so my list technically isn't fully accurate. But for the most part, it should be.

Top 50 Anime (as of August 2025) (very rough list as my opinions can vary day-by-day)

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1) Diamond no Ace 2) Rokka no Yuusha 3) Digimon Xros Wars 4) Hunter x Hunter (1999) 5) Suzuka 6) Steins;Gate 7) My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU 8) White Album 2 9) Saiki Kusuo 10) Aldnoah.Zero 11) Baby Steps 12) DNAngel 13) Tiger and Bunny 14) Prison School 15) Major 16) Hi Score Girl 17) Kokoro Connect 18) Detective Conan 19) Danganronpa: The Animation 20) Detective School Q 21) Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo 22) They Were 11 23) Kaguya-sama: Love is War 24) Rising Impact 25) Medalist 26) Parasyte the Maxim 27) I Parry Everything 28) Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress 29) Code Geass 30) Digimon Adventures 31) Charlotte 32) The Dangers in My Heart 33) Toradora 34) Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 35) BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! 36) Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal 37) Hajime no Ippo 38) Black Clover 39) The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World 40) Vigilantes My Hero Academia 41) Hinomaru Sumo 42) Naruto 43) Cardcaptor Sakura 44) Yu-Gi-Oh! 45) Isekai Quartet 46) Ace Attorney 47) Dragon Quest: Your Story 48) Digimon Frontier 49) Ao Ashi 50) Trigun (Excludes stuff I mainly read manga/light novels for like One Piece, Eminence in Shadow, and Hikaru no Go. Top half is more certain and later ones fluctuate much more.)

Top 30 Manga (as of Sept. 2025) (same as above, opinions can vary greatly day-by-day)

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1) Kaguya-sama: Love is War 2) Angel Densetsu 3) Rough 4) Fighting Girls 5) Masturbation Master Kurosawa 6) Starting Today, We’re Childhood Friends 7) One Piece 8) Please Go Home, Miss Akutsu! 9) Case Closed/Detective Conan 10) Ace of the Diamond Act II 11) Arakure Ojousama wa Monmon Shiteiru 12) Katsu! 13) On the Balcony Again Today 14) Blooming Love 15) Gambling Emperor Legend Zero 16) Tantei Gakuen Q 17) Pokemon Adventures 18) History’s Strongest Disciple Kenichi 19) Ultimate Janken 20) Hikaru no Go 21) Liar Game 22) Prison School 23) Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 24) GE: Good Ending 25) Hanazono-kun to Kazoe-san no Fukakaina Houkago 26) Fairy Tail 27) Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World 28) Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01 29) Chigau, Miyahara Omae ja Nai! 30) Fukuzatsu na Kyoudai no 4-koma (there’s more I liked but need to read further/revisit to add for sure like “The Moon on a Rainy Night”/“It Takes Two Tomorrow, Too” and some I prefer anime/light novel version like “HxH”/“Eminence in Shadow”. Top half is more certain and latter ones less so)

Lastly, useful analyzer sites and such I liked for Anilist, etc: