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I've been watching anime ever since I turned eight, five years prior to my signing up here. Am getting accustomed to the MAL UI & features as I go, but you'll rarely see me interact with the community.

I've watched roughly double that of what I've been able to identify on this site up until, but as I'm forgetful, my list has remained inaccurate. I wont bother to rate something that I might've skimmed through prior to registration.

Something of note is that my median rating is hiked up by the fact that I seldom finish shows that I flat-out dislike. There are thousands of artistically driven adaptations that've either remained faithful to their source material or potentially even took elevating creative liberties of their own, and I've adhered to the notion of outright avoiding mediocrity as I've come to face it.

Considering my list beside "completed" shows which I think self-evident enough:

Series in "watching" are ones that I'm either watching actively (min. episode weekly), or rewatches that aren't as timely but which you can't exactly label separately either. Shows "on hold" mainly consist of longer titles for which I don't watch consecutive arcs of, but there are also some that I've basically dropped in favor of seasonals. In "dropped" there are series that took unwanted turns narratively or series that I felt could be left for later (seinen & psychological stuff generally, I'm still barely an adult myself). In the "plan to watch" section I've selected shows that I thought looked interesting from MAL alone, as I'm aware of each and every classic that I am missing besides.

Anime favorites display multiple shows that've left everlasting impacts during my growing up. For longer shows the bodies of work I've chosen represent each series as a whole, standalone movies I don't even take into consideration as they don't hold a candle to fully fledged-out franchises. My favorite anime & enterprise of all time is Evangelion, and the subsequent show (Re:Zero) would be the one that initially roped me into anime as a medium. Third spot has been reserved for One Piece, and as far as I'm concerned the rest of my list just follows suit according to my ratings. Besides these three mentioned I don't value or assess any shows that hold the same rating differently, and there are no "high 9's" or "low 7's" or any vague shit alike. What you see is what you get.

Characters on the other hand I haven't really put much thought into. This beautiful depiction of a fair, blue-eyed blonde character (Ryo Asuka, Griffith, Haschwalth, Johan Liebert) is what I've long considered to be my favorite primary characteristic in anime, and oftentimes it's the antagonists within series whom fit this criteria and also happen to be begrudgingly well written villains on the side. Show me any character alike and fat chance that I'm to fall in love (platonically). Characters obnoxiously gung-ho about their ideals will not make my list. It's not that I'm expressly in favor of morally grey characters, though, far from it: I've just grown to value this certain serenity in people, one rarely reflected by characters in anime. This can be a defining trait for a character or an overarching ambience, so long as the show is greatly affected by its presence.

I am male myself and generally gravitate more toward male characters when thinking of my favorites. I don't include women nor girls as not to confuse whom I like strictly as characters with the ones whom I'm attracted to. My list of favorites would be roughly 65/35 in favor of male characters were I given the chance to expand it to a hundred.

As of February 2026 I have not read any manga or even opened a light novel or a webtoon not once in my life. Where I live the selection of manga is meagre and accessibility to it is limited (talking about physical copies, as I am a man of principle and avoid reading off my phone) This happens to also be cause the majority of my free time is spent on consuming and discussing music or animated media, and aside the mandatory literature chosen from a tiny, localized selection in school I rarely even read in the first place.

How come I even have titles submitted into "plan to read" then? That's pretty simple. As I'm set to move out in the not-so-near future, I'll start buying physical copies in bulk. It's good to have these things in place anticipatorily!

There are people on MyAnimeList that turn their profiles into interactive playgrounds, just know that I'm not one of them. I joined this site in order to get my queue in check, as updating a physical list is rather cumbersome. Signing up has proved very convenient even outside of that; I've begun developing a proper interest towards seasonals as my years on here have come to pass.