anime

much to many peopleā€™s surprise, I am not super duper huge into anime; that is to say, I donā€™t follow whatā€™s currently being released that closely, unless something just really grabs my eye.

western media has an oversaturation of heteronormative and man-centered stories, and part of what I have long loved about anime are the wealth of stories for girls, about girls, and about relationships between girls, so I tend to gravitate toward that.

that being said, the types of anime I tend to enjoy fall into the following categories:

growing up poor in the 90ā€™s without much access to anime (really just whatever aired on basic cable/cartoon networkā€™s toonami block), I basically watched whatever was available whenever. So, for a lot of the things Iā€™m interested in, Iā€™ve seen part of (sometimes even just a middle of an arc), but just never bothered/had the opportunity to finish. hopefully organizing things into this list will help change that! (we shall seeā€¦)

warning near a title denotes series Iā€™ve seen part of but havenā€™t finished.

as for ranking, Iā€™ve chosen to use the same ranking system as one of my favorite mobile games, love live! school idol festival, which is now defunct. ultra rare is the highest ranking, and normal the lowest. I simply did not list things I didnā€™t like, so you can think of anything I assigned a ā€œnormalā€ ranking to as ā€œstuff I enjoyed, but it was kind of meh overall.ā€

all magical girl

if for some reason, youā€™re unfamiliar with this genre, itā€™s about (usually teenaged or younger) girls getting some kind of magical powers and fighting evil; thereā€™s usually cute mascots, heavy themes of friendship (and sometimes yuri/shoujo ai), etc. these are very often aimed at children, but Iā€™ve loved them since I myself was a child. >w< for the sake of simplicity, Iā€™ve also included any series with magic as a focus and a cast of mostly girls.

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smile cute girls doing cute things

this name has been applied to many slice-of-life anime with all-girl casts; usually depicting the day-to-day lives of a group of friends. good, wholesome fun, with a dose of yuri!

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pure horror

for the sake of simplicity, I am looping horror, mystery, supernatural, and thriller together here under the catch-all genre title of ā€œhorror.ā€ anything scary, chilling, dealing with poisonous radio waves that alter peopleā€™s minds, the supernatural, or psychological horror is here.

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cool everything else

sometimes, things that arenā€™t terrifying tales of cute magical girls can be interesting. hehe

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