My Anime List

[Ornette]

A real bizarro problem with MAL over the last month or so where my INBOX keeps saying I have 65533 unread. This in turn was causing my account to not update when I change settings. There's a "Fix Inbox" link at the bottom of your messages page which fixes this (temporarily at least, for me) which temporarily allowed me to update my signature image.

[gatotsu911]

So I'm not the only one who had that problem? Thank god. I thought my account was undergoing some sort of weird bug.

[Alastor]

Eh, why not. List is small and incomplete too.

[Draconis]

Holy shit Ornette. I didn't even know that many anime(s?) ever even existed. Is that every anime in existence? o.O

[BrikHaus]

Holy shit Ornette. I didn't even know that many anime(s?) ever even existed. Is that every anime in existence? o.O

He has so many because the only thing he watches is anime, and the occasional episode of Family Feud.

[Ornette]

I think ANN had ~6000 in its database, maybe a couple of years ago, so maybe closer to 7k? No idea. Also note that my list on ANN has about 60 or so fewer entries because of how anthologies or movie series and the like get grouped compared to MAL.

I watch a lot of anime, almost exclusively, and sometimes Family Feud, but only the ones that the ass-grabtastic Richard Dawson hosts.

[ZapX]

Goddammit, now I'm gonna be watching game show bloopers all morning.

[BrikHaus]

I watch a lot of anime, almost exclusively, and sometimes Family Feud, but only the ones that the ass-grabtastic Richard Dawson hosts.

ROFLMAO!

[Tarnsman]

I lack Ornette's saint-like patience to even try and finish updating my MAL. (Although if I ever did, I'd probably only have ~2/3rds maybe 3/5ths of what he does.) I gave up around two hundred something when I decided it just wasn't worth it. I'll probably come back to it in three years and start updating it again. MAL was fine with me having absolutely nothing on my profile for three years as it was, so they can wait for me to stop being lazy. I did try and add to it again after stopping, but only ended up adding two shows (one that was new and one that I had rewatched) before giving up.

@Ornette: Richard Dawson is just awesome in general.

[soul.assassin]

Someone cracked open the site using compromised accounts and went about messing around, so I had to back up my list (in XML format) and got a new password. Now it's okay, but I've put this up for everyone to know.

[Alaska Slim]

I think ANN had ~6000 in its database, maybe a couple of years ago, so maybe closer to 7k? No idea. Also note that my list on ANN has about 60 or so fewer entries because of how anthologies or movie series and the like get grouped compared to MAL.

Impressive list, but according to it, you still haven't watched Cyborg-009, Zegapain, Android Kikaider, Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team, Mach GoGoGo, Detective Conan in general, popular shounen anime in general, you only have 1 of the Pokemon films, and Digimon is completely absent (much less Tamers).

So I have just one question, since you haven't watched the show, do you still find Dragonball Z Abridged funny? Oh no, don't tell me...

[Ornette]

Except for that one entry, I don't enter shows that I've only seen a part of (the Sarge Frog entry I put in there by mistake but ended up just leaving it). The ANN list I also don't keep good track of what shows I've seen some but not all of. Though when I do start watching a show, I do enter it as "seen some", but I don't retroactively look for anime that I've seen some episodes of and enter them into ANN.

By the time Pokemon and Digimon had came out, I'd already graduated from college and started my own software company, thus missing the window of seeing it on TV for enjoyment, what I have seen of either show doesn't make me interested at all. A lot of the older shows are harder to get a hold of though Zegapain, 08th MS Team and Conan I've seen episodes off. In order: watched when it aired, dropped because there was a ton of great shows that year, never bothered to pick it up again; as with a lot of Gundam, it bored me to tears; an average show that had a lot of ok episodes and a few really good ones, but it's so long I don't feel like putting in the initial effort to start from the beginning and motor through it. Urusei Yatsura is another along those lines. Having seen most of the show but it's is so long that I'm more than happy to catch the occasional episode instead of putting in the effort to watch them all in order.

I've seen a lot of Dragonball, even while growing up when it wasn't on TV. I don't think any of the abridged series for any show are that funny.

[Dr. Nick]

as with a lot of Gundam, it bored me to tears, an average show that had a lot of ok episodes and a few really good ones, but it's so long I don't feel like putting in the initial effort to start from the beginning and motor through it.

Dude, it's 12 episodes.

[Alaska Slim]

Except for that one entry, I don't enter shows that I've only seen a part of

You actually sat through all of Rurouni Kenshin? I mean it just goes to filler after episode 50 or so.

But by this logic, should I take it you never add a show that is currently on-going? And do you follow shounen at all, whether it be DBZ Kai, Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, or the like?

By the time Pokemon and Digimon had came out, I'd already graduated from college and started my own software company,

Still, you watched one of the films, was that just for the lulz? Or were you too, attracted by the possibility of a "Pokemon War"? That was completely averted, thus a let down...

If you enjoyed it at all though, I'd suggest taking a glimpse of "Rise of Darkrai", it's the first in the trilogy of Pokemon's recent so-called "renaissance". For it, the animators traveled to locations all over the world, to capture particular cultural settings, and the result I found was just stunning to watch (though the story... yeah, it's Pokemon, Rise of Darkrai is the best of the trilogy, merely because a good deal of the focus was taken off of the "protagonists" for once).


Of course, I've always recommended Digimon Tamers, and for two reasons primarily:

1. It takes after Evangelion, and in all the right ways. The characters face serious internal dilemmas, they're flawed, with not a single one of them being at all "perfect", there are many otherwise dark themes that permeate the plot, there's hints here and there of legitimate ambiguity, and the technobabble is credible... (Well, since it ties in quite squarely into what you do for living, I'd imagine you could poke more than a few holes in it, but for the series, it works.)


2. It was headed by Chiaki Konaka (Big O, Serial Experiments Lain, Texhnolyze), who in a rare move for shows like these, ensured Tamers didn't continually talk down to its audience. He gave it a story that holds up, and went to great lengths to endear the characters to the viewer (and all without fan service... well, maybe not completely).


It admittedly takes a while to get going, as it has a "Rising Action" plot, quite an odd move for a series, but one I feel that pays off tremendously.


I only wish Disney had kept better track of the franchise, and that I didn't feel like I have to buy a DVD collection from an illegitimate source. Seriously, this franchised rivaled Pokemon once,, how did all the copies end up being crap or clear bootlegs?

[Ornette]

Dude, it's 12 episodes.

Sorry, I needed a semicolon there. The Gundam part ended at "it bored me to tears", the rest was about Detective Conan. And to elaborate a little, I never had any of the episodes and a friend was showing them to me. At the time there seemed to be more interesting things to do than sit through 08th MS Team.

You actually sat through all of Rurouni Kenshin? I mean it just goes to filler after episode 50 or so.

It was before I knew it was filler, I've never read the manga and it was long enough ago that I didn't have 15 other shows a season to follow.

But by this logic, should I take it you never add a show that is currently on-going? And do you follow shounen at all, whether it be DBZ Kai, Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, or the like?

I don't add shows that I'm currently watching, even if they are ongoing. I have a pretty good personal system of tracking episodes for shows and it's too much trouble to keep accounting in 2 places, actually, my computer knows when I've watched an episode so it's zero work for me whereas I'd have to go to update MAL everything I watch an episode of something. I followed Bleach for a little while on TV, even caught up by reading the manga, while the show is ok, it's too hard to keep up with it since I don't have cable TV and hulu only has a chunk of episodes at any given time. By then I'd already lost interest.

The Pokemon movie I watched was on TV, can't remember what channel it was. Digimon may be something I could try, because it's not really long. I'm not really a fan of long series and even less so when it's never-ending arc based (meaning I can't miss a huge chunk and just pick up whenever I want). I don't even like live action TV shows that are like that.

[Alaska Slim]

I followed Bleach for a little while on TV, even caught up by reading the manga, while the show is ok, it's too hard to keep up with it since I don't have cable TV and hulu only has a chunk of episodes at any given time. By then I'd already lost interest.

Ah, I asked because I noticed you had watched Yu Yu Hakusho, another long-running shounen show, as well as Legend of the Galactic Heroes. So should I take it you don't mind this genre much, as long as it isn't longer than, say, 120 episodes? Or is it the series being completed that's important?

Either way, Digimon Tamers is about 51 episodes, and you don't even need to watch the prior two seasons to know what's going on (different continuity, at worst you'd miss a few homages and in-jokes).


For Pokemon, hell, just complete one arch, and you've pretty much watched the entire show, it hasn't changed it's formula in over 12 years.

SPOILER: Show

Ash goes to region, Ash captures starter Pokemon of that region (thus show casing them for game buyers), Ash goes to gym/special location to compete for Badge/ribbon for tournament in that region, Ash eventually collects enough to go to tournament, where he ultimately loses (as winning would go towards completing his "dream", reducing viewership, and Nintendo's sales).

Ash then goes on a partial-filler arch where he competes in a short tournament that he may be allowed to win, just to keep his spirits up.

God forbid though, if he's had any character development since the 1st season (one of the staff stated that they're saving the elephant in the room of where the hell his Dad has been for just such an occasion).

I had to laugh though, when in the beginning of the new *series* Ash, the guy who has saved the world about 5 times over at that point, lost to a new trainer who only just got their starter. I think it's about time he found a new line of work, and surprisingly, many of his former companions have.

[Ornette]

120 or so episodes is an investment, it's easier if I see the first couple of episodes and want to see more, as opposed to coming into it midway, not knowing who any of the characters are, and leaving less than satisfied. That goes for shows like YYH, Ippo, D.Gray-man and Fist of the Northstar. LoGH is one of those shows that when I started, it was actually really hard to stop and I ended up marathoning the entire thing in one sitting. Maybe the only other long-ish show that had me that hooked from the get-go was Monster.

A quick glance at Tosho tells me Bleach is up to the 340's, far too many episodes for me to get re-interested in it. Overall, I'd feel safe to say that the Jump and Ace type Shounen shows that are long running aren't the kinds of shows I prefer to watch.

There's another old irc bot I found a few weeks ago that xdcc's some old obscure titles and I'm in the process of getting through it's list of OVAs and movies, once I'm done with that maybe I'll check out Tamers.

[BrikHaus]

Dude, it's 12 episodes.

But if the series is boring garbage, 12 episodes can seem like an eternity.

[Draconis]

Got one a little while back. Link in my sig.

[Aiko Heiwa]

Yeah, I have one too.

The link is...

Look, you can click the MAL button down at the bottom of my post.