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BIO
Other aliases: Drewski99, Ricochet29.

Yes, my name is a reference. Figuring it out will probably take more brain cells than it's worth, though.

Hello! I am Lucky! A narrow-minded, selfish, asocial, motivationally challenged individual who tries to use Anime and Manga as a way to pull himself out of the deep hole of depression! Some days I'm pretty sure it's actually contributing to my depression... but I'd be damned if it didn't get me passionate enough to write. Whenever the motivation finds me, that is. Vector graphics, photoshop, 3D modeling, basic coding, sketching, writing, engineering, I have a foot in variety of vaguely related subjects.

I consider Toradora! to be my first ever anime. Spirited Away was technically my first, but Miyazaki films hold a special, separate space in my heart away from all the other anime. High School DXD was technically my first anime in the classical sense, but that was me in middle school with raging teen hormones and a bunch of other weird crap going on in my life. If you've ever seen DXD, you know exactly what I'm talking about and why. But Toradora! pulled me out of some some really dark times. I shouldn't have cried. I cried. My weeb-ness has only solidified from then on.

So yeah, I have a soft spot for Romance and Slice of Life and anything that hits me with the feels. But I tend to be pretty critical of other things anime-related. Fantasy is generally cool with me. But to most everything else, I say, "To hell with the community! I will like what I like and your opinions shall not sway me!" So don't take it personally if I like what you hate and hate what you like. A fair portion of the "classic, must-watch animes" are lame, boring, cliché and outdated to me.

I'm currently addicted to the tactical weeb game Girls' Frontline. It's unhealthy the hours I've spent on it over the past month. It's starting to overwrite my life...


MY RATING SYSTEM

I rate animes and mangas on MyAnimeList purely on how much I enjoyed watching them and how excited they got me.

10 - IMHO one of the best animes. Comprises of a handful of titles I hold near and dear to my heart.
9 - Excellent. Titles that go beyond the scope of being simply entertaining to also tickle either my heart or my brain. They stand out from the rest of the pack.
8 - Would Rewatch. A very solid and entertaining anime I would recommend to friends (if I had any). Maybe not the most original, but still very well done.
7 - Pretty Gud. I quite enjoyed this anime. Yeah, it had a few glaringly obvious flaws, but I'm willing to write them off.
6 - Ok, I guess. I had several issues with this series (usually by way of ridiculously cliché plot and characters) but that didn't stop me from finishing it and getting some enjoyment out of it.
5 - Eh. Truth be told, there wasn't anything overtly wrong with the series. However, I couldn't name even one good thing about it if I tried.
4 - Not for me. This anime had some potential in my eyes, but I just did not like it. It was hampered by pacing issues, plot holes or overuse of tropes.
3 - Avoid. Any merits this title might have are outweighed by its poor design or unoriginality.
2 - Waste of time. There are probably hundreds of animes similar to what this tries to be, and all of them are better.
1 - Irredeemable Garbage. Only watch to laugh at how bad it is. And even then...

My method for writing reviews on animes differs immensely. I consider everything about the anime and try my best to leave my preferential biases behind. Of course, writing a review without bias is fundamentally impossible, but I make sure to look at it from all angles. What was good, what was bad, what did other people find good/bad, etc.

As such, my reviews tend to be lower than my ratings. This is 100% intentional. The max Overall score I will ever give an anime is 8 so I can better define what qualities of the series was better or worse than others. There's already a hard cap on gushing at a score of 10. Since I prefer to bring specific notions to light, I choose not to go that high unless there was something really that special in an anime. (*cough* Demon Slayer's animation *cough*)


VARIOUS WORTHLESS OPINIONS

Shounen is mostly garbage. Because when the character pulls yet another new power out of their butt it's just not exciting anymore. There are of course several major exceptions, but the general Shounen blueprint is disgustingly similar across the board.

Most modern Isekai is trash. I agree with you all there. But that doesn't stop me from being entertained by it for some reason.

No Game No Life is overrated. Totally not sorry to say that. It felt like it was trying to be smart. It was, in some ways. But I found the protagonists to be too rudimentary and boorish, the characters are needlessly sexualized, and Steph is criminally overlooked.

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is a masterpiece from it's top-of-the-line art alone. Was it's plotline lackluster? Hell yeah! But as an artist, I can get a high off of that crispy animation and sound quality any day.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood... was good ngl (I'm not THAT much of a monster) but it didn't feel deserving of its cult status.

Angel Beats! was too dramatic to leave a good impression on me. Sure, the character backstories were great. Sure, I may have shed a tear. But it was all over the place. It felt like it was giving kids guns just for the sake of having guns to shoot. Thus far, FMAB is the only anime to display a good balance between modern weaponry and magical superpowers.
Backstory was amazing. Actually story was ridiculously random.

Re:ZERO is amazing, even if the story lacks some motivation and Subaru is highly questionable as a protagonist for the entire first season. Because the series is about how Subaru, unmotivated in his past life, is forced to never give up in a new world. The story is about how Subaru is finding the will to keep going despite all odds. Also, I will never believe you if you tell me it wasn't entertaining enough to keep you on the edge of your seat the whole way through. The series delivers the hits constantly, with a new plot twist, grander in scale than 80% of all anime plot twists, introduced every other episode.

My Hero Academia is overhyped beyond imagination. There are too many characters to make any one of them interesting enough to focus on. The vast majority are forgotten just as quickly as they are introduced. All of them will correlate with at least one of about ten general archetypes. (Come to think of it, I think they were all the same character skeletons built with different traits on top of them) All the women seem to be are boob. And the plot lacks a good forward motivation. It just left a bad taste in my mouth.

...But MHA: Vigilantes makes it feel as if it was all worth it. It's scope is smaller, which means it gives its characters meaningful and colorful personalities you don't see in the main series. The best part is, half of its characters are inherited from its parent, integrating otherwise untold origin stories into its own precursor plotline. Every volume yields another "Hey! That guy!" moment that felt that much more satisfying in this spinoff than in MHA. It's also got an underling plot to drive itself.

Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso (Your Lie in April) could have been good in my book. It really could. The music was incredible, correctly conveying every emotion they intended. The art was brilliant, too. But the pacing was horrendously glacial. The characters were extremely slow on the uptake. The story was told over 22 episodes when it could easily have been conveyed in only 12. The prevailing emotion the series left on me was sheer annoyance.

Konosuba! is the only anime to have made me laugh in a long time. Yeah it's a garbage Isekai. But it's hilarious garbage. Just roll with it.

Tensura is another garbage Isekai I feel like calling by name on my bio for some reason.

Danmachi was unexpectedly good. It's not Isekai, for starters, just a straight up fantasy setting. At the start it was chiefly basic, but got better, much better, with each season.

Goblin Slayer, too, falls under the umbrella of unexpectedly good. I'm not usually one for the overly dark stories, but Goblin Slayer was a refreshing take on the otherwise overly-happy fantasy setting I've been seeing as of late. Sure, there's no shortage of death in most fantasies, but they're all still too well-structured to be medieval-era society.

Disagree? CHANGE MY MIND. I'd enjoy an educated conversation with another human being, for a change.