Cetonis

Just a random student at a little school in PA called Keystone Collge, majoring in IT... Aside from anime, I play JRPGs, UFS, Magic, fighters and follow baseball/football.

Anime-wise, I tend to like the vast majority of what I watch, though I do steer clear of shows that are excessively ecchi, kiddy, or too far shoujo to work for me. My favorites are generally slower paced slice-of-life or mystery series, (particularly those with an intellectual side) as well as some dramas.

I've yet to really get into manga, but am starting to put together a list of things to look into. If you're wondering why there are a bunch listed as stalled at nothing, I'm just using the status as a want-to-read for things that aren't yet available stateside. It seems kind of hard to stall a manga, after all.

I'm also a moderator on the anime sections of the forums, and like to run various things there - the Anime Cultist Club, Annual Anime Awards, List of the Week, and other random contest-things.

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About my user reviews: They're pretty much a simple pros & cons format, but I use "why you should watch this" and "concerns" both because they're a little more open-ended, (can list things I might not have minded but others will, etc.) and in hopes of pushing myself into a somewhat more casual style -"pros" and "cons" as labels would be awfully dry. "PSAs" are just public-service-announcement types of things, in case there's something worth knowing going into a show. (odd episode lengths, relations, other random stuff)

Scoring-wise, I continue to fail at finding a system I like enough to keep for more than a month or two >.< Going to try and go back to basics with a simple 10-mark scale, using 6 as the baseline for "good" as opposed to 7.

• 5/5 - The highest score. I consider these to be the best I've seen.
• 4.5/5 - These shows are among my favorites; if there were any notable flaws I either didn't notice or didn't really care.
• 4/5 - Great stuff. Certainly not perfect, but in terms of enjoyment and/or quality this was on that next level for me.
• 3.5/5 - A plus-quality anime. Not especially great, but I liked this more than most and would heartily recommend it to any interested.
• 3/5 - Your everyday good show. I enjoyed this and would recommend it if asked, just not with any particular zeal. 
• 2.5/5 - Decent, not bad really, but not particularly good either. Kind of an in-between zone. 
• 2/5 - Bad for the most part, but there were some things I liked about it. 
• 1.5/5 - Just plain bad. Not to the point of being painful, but entirely dull. 
• 1/5 - This was generally painful to watch, but did have some parts that were decent. 
• 0.5/5 - Painful to watch, and had no redeeming factors whatsoever. 

In other words, even though 6/10 is a somewhat bad score for many people, on this scale it's a perfectly fine score. Heck, even a 4/10 means I liked the show to some extent. So it's a little unintuitive, but forcing all my good scores into the 7 and above range ends up making me use so many demarcations that I drive myself insane nitpicking at half and third-points -.-' Figured I'd try it like this for a bit and see how it goes.