I have a profile on animenewsnetwork. And at one time, I posted on their messageboards. Keep in mind, I didn't post that much; there's only about 20 or so posts to my name, however, I stopped posting there for a reason; ANNites are assholes. Gigantic, elitist, over-serious assholes. For them, anime and manga wasn't just a way of life; it was a crusade. Flame wars erupted over everything. EVERYTHING. Observe.
"I like Kanon. The girls are cute." "Moe fetishist! That is an unrealistic and sexist portrayal of females designed to give male (and lesbian female) otakus something to obsess/jack off over. You are contributing to the objectification of females and setting back feminist movements by admitting this!" "Um, dude, we're talking about Kanon, not K-on. Not all moe girls are the-" "-DO NOT JUSTIFY IT! YOU ARE RUINING ANIME!!!!"
"The English dub of Axis Powers Hetalia is really good!" "Here we go again, another naive fool who can't realize that seiyu are far better than English VAs. Has it ever occurred to you that maybe the reason so many dub companies are folding is because they keep hiring the bottom of the barrel instead of people who can at least hold their own against seiyu?" "Um, dude, I'm pretty sure people like Todd Haberkorn and Monica Rial are far better actors than you ever could-" "-SILENCE! SEIYU AND THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE ARE FLAWLESS! THIS IS NOT NEGOTIABLE!"
"Wow, the anime of the last five years have been incredible!" "Wow, what an obvious new school fag. Maybe if you actually watched anime instead of whatever trash they're airing on Adult Swim right now, you'd realize that the 1990s was the golden age of anime." "Actually, I have watched anime from the 90s, and most of them sucked compared to anime from the latter portion of the 2000s." "I'll bet you're just saying that because the studios waste more money on artwork now just to satisfy graphics whores. (sighs) Why can't anime be entirely hand drawn again? No CGI, no digital coloring." "And you are aware that most pre-digital anime have absolutely atrocious coloring, right?" "NEW SCHOOL FAG!" "OLD SCHOOL FAG!"
Anything and everything degenerated into a flamewar. Unlike with the NPF, I didn't feel the need to tell off the messageboard, so I just completely disappeared, and let the "real" fans keep butt-hurting themselves, because I want to actually watch and enjoy anime, thank-you-very-much.
Now then, MAL is less formal than ANN, yes, and yes, there are trolls like the ones I illustrated above, but the overall atmosphere is much more relaxed in comparison, and the good fan/"real" fan ratio is much better from my observations. Also, I can post reviews there.
In other news, I finally came up with a list for favorite anime people on MAL. You can only have 7 though, so I had to be choosy. I won't say who they are, but I will give hints though.
Four of them are manga authors, although two of them have also dabbled in anime. I daresay their anime efforts are more popular, but whatever.
One of them is a writer for various anime series, some of which are god-like, some of which are overrated, but said writer's god-like works . . . yeeeeeeeeees.
Two of them are English voice actors, one male, one female. If you've been reading this blog since I started giving shoutouts to voice actors, you should be able to figure out who my favorite voice actress is by now. As for the male actor . . . you might be surprised. I have praised him in the past, but not that much.
But let's see why I would choose them. The actress is someone who can play a devious demon, a swordswoman, a data entity, a favorite character of mine from a PS2 game I used to own, a moeblob, the best friend of another moeblob, a robot girl with a reformatted memory, and also is in the game I'm currently flying. Gee, I wonder who that could be . . .
As for the favorite actor? Well, he was a corrupt army officer, than an angel of death (of sorts), then a former army man who goes against the flow of society, then a punk who's gonna RENOVATE YOUR ASS! then a rebel leader on Mars, and . . . who else?
"FOOL! Rule Numer 287 in my List of A Thousand Provisions that You Must Obey reads . . . (can't hear the rest, for I am zoning out)"
Oh yeah, and he was good enough to get a part in Soul Eater, too. Surprised? You shouldn't be.
"Hey xm, care to explain this?"
Oh, that, um . . . what do you think I would have wallpapers of? I sure as Hell wouldn't use a wallpaper of a Hollywood starlet of overrated talent and appearance, now would I?
Also . . . must . . . not . . . go . . . into . . . Kawaii overdose . . . . . . . . . . . . .
LATE EDIT: Too bad I changed my MAL lists since this entry. Spoiled my own joke; how could I!?
