400 completed entries on myanimelist special

myanimelist link:

https://myanimelist.net/animelist/lktobyx

this isn't really anything worth celebrating,  but i just feel like making a post on my anime watching experience at this milestone.

i once counted the number of series's i have watched and the number was around 150 or less (my myanimelist had around 300 completed entries by then), so that probably means the actual number of series's (i.e. counting multiple seasons as one single entry) should be somewhere about 200.

and here are some shows that occupied the most number of entries:

*title in bold means it's what i'm going to refer it later on this post

- osomatsu-san (3 seasons, 2 movies, 3 specials = 8 entries in total)

matsu is always one of my favourites of all time, i just like how chaotic the show and the characters in general are, and ofc the seiyuus being one of the reasons why lol. but it's just kinda sad that it feels like they are just milking the franchise at this point, as the 2022 movie's quality really dropped a lot comparing to the previous movie and the 3 seasons, tho it's still a 9 cuz comparing to other movies i've watched i still very much enjoyed it.

- free! (3 seasons, 2 movies, 3 specials = 8 entries in total)

free! is one of my favourite sports anime of all time, definitely not because of it having too many handsome muscular men being half naked (im an average female watcher ok). it also goes through every character's backstory and their individual developments, as well as i found myself rooting for them during a match. kyoani's spectacular animation, especially with the underwater scenes, are also on a whole another level of eyecandy.

- food wars/shokugeki no souma (5+1 seasons, 3 ovas = 9 entries in total)

i love how shokugeki no souma manages to incorporate a typical battle shounen troupe into cooking (and a cooking school setting). i see a lot of criticisms over how the quality of the series dropped after the 2nd half of s3, but i would say my slight disappointment was at s5 instead of s3 part 2, but thankfully that ending was a satisfying one and it also completed some character arcs to make the story more complete too. honestly i'd say the whole story ends at s4 and s5 acts more like an epilogue to the story to me.

- strike the blood (5 seasons, 2 ovas = 7 entries in total)

strike the blood was one of my childhood favourites when i watched its s1 at age 12 lol. i know that its more of an ecchi harem romance, which was very popular among light novels at that time, but 12-year-old me got really mesmerized by how big the worldview of this show is. strike the blood and date a live were like my escapes from reality as i found it exciting to live in a world full of other species disguised as humans, and damn everyone has magic and stuff, isn't that so cool (at least to 12-year-old me). revisiting the whole series when the final ova got released last year, not gonna lie it was a bit cringe (lmfao), but probably because of the childhood nostalgia vibes, i still love the big urban fantasy world strike the blood has built up.

- sword art online (4+1 seasons, 1 special, 2 movies = 8 entries in total)

*i still have yet to watch the ordinal scale movie, which was released in 2017

good ol' sao... another one of my childhood favourites, back then i was a sucker for kirito x asuna (until i watched alicization and completely hopped onto the kirito x eugeo train, which 100% has nothing to do with the their seiyuus). my favourite sao arc was actually alicization, as i just really love how it touches near-future technology in a detailed way, which is totally imaginable for it to happen in the next 10-20 years.

- a certain scientific railgun/toaru railgun spinoff (3 seasons + 3 ovas + 3 specials = 9 entries in total)

another childhood favourite. i think everyone, myself included, has once claimed misaka mikoto as their waifu if you were an anime fan back in the early 2010s. the superpower system in the whole toaru series is also very mesmerizing to me, that i would imagine if i live in this world what kind of superpower i would possibly get. 

speaking of the toaru series, i've only watched s1 of index and the accelerator spinoff, but i do plan to finish the rest of index later on. the world building in this series is one of its kind, so special that some personal answers of the commonly seen small talk questions were actually inspired from this series, for example:

"what superpower would you like to have?" my answer is always "electricity";

"which fictional world would you like to live in?" my answer is always the toaru series.

- my hero academia/boku no hero academia (6 seasons + 1 ona = 7 entries)

*i still have yet to complete the 3 anime original movies

honestly mha isn't something that i am a huge fan of, i just started watching it as i got bored staying home during the covid quarantine days lol. however, s3 and s6 are the ones that stand out to me. i almost dropped s5 due to how things are dragged out in it, but s6 managed to bring me back to this series. however, mha is the reason why i got into the seiyuu fandom, and most of favourite seiyuus at least have a role in mha (kaji yuuki - todoroki shouto; okamoto nobuhiko - bakugou katsuki; shimono hiro - dabi; nakamura yuuichi - hawks; ishikawa kaito - iida tenya; yamashita daiki - midoriya izuku; etc), so in order to watch my favourite seiyuus being on the same stage im staying lol.

i should also include my general recommendations in every genre now that i have a chance:

action - attack on titan, noragami, mob psycho 100

psychological - summertime render, code geass, madoka magica

comedy - osomatsu-san, the vampire dies in no time, asobi asobase

slice of life - spy x family, himouto! umaru-chan, how to keep a mummy (miira no kaikata)

iyashi-kei - shirokuma cafe, deaimon, cool doji danshi (play it cool, guys)

ecchi - kill la kill, high school dxd, strike the blood

1-on-1 romance - sasaki and miyano, teasing master takagi-san, ao haru ride (blue spring ride)

harem - date a live, absolute duo, kamigami no asobi

isekai - the eminence in shadow, campfire cooking in another world, the executioner and her way of life

sports - free!, blue lock, tsurune

tearjerkers - given, kakushigoto, a silent voice (koe no katachi)

cgdct - new game!, shirobako, bocchi the rock!

cbdct - kimi to boku, daily lives of high school boys, nijiiro days

non mainstream - scum's wish (kuzu no honkai), vinland saga, i'm quitting heroing (yuusha, yamemasu)

ok that's it for today, i hope i'd be touching more and more good anime in the future :)