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Favorites Lists, Guilty Pleasures, Branding, and ORE NO RUURU!
Favorites Lists, Guilty Pleasures, Branding, and ORE NO RUURU!
Evidently some kind of epic cross-blog discussion began. It starts on hontou ni, though perhaps it truly began months ago on We Remember Love? It spreads like wildfire through the blogosphere, with one post inadvertently being related, and somewhere between the post on FunBlog and the comments ...
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Two Top 5 Anime Lists
Continuing World — ... but this list is the main driver for me to watch more anime. My MAL favorites would be a hybrid of these two lists, based on raw liking alone (#1 is #1 purely because I like it more than #2, and so on). What do you think? Related reading: Stripey starts the ball rolling [->] Author pimps and puts out his own [->] omo has some real fun [->] D-boy and his ORE NO RUURU [->] ghostlightning writes about guilt, with a lot of meaty comments ...

The reveal
Anime² — ... need much more money to be a real otaku — it is like in Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s The Shadow of the Wind: one’s first book becomes one’s best friend for life. The same here with anime. Lucky Star is my friend forever. This art mine list, simple as it is, and now I give the staff further. According to Stripey now one can tell something about me and my personality. Well, go ahead. Further reading RP on marathoning Super rats’ Top 5 Digiboy’s summary on the bloginterdiscussion ...

Top 5 Worst Shows
Eye Sedso — ... shows. Suddenly top ten isn’t good enough? Now we need to narrow it down to top 5? Why don’t we skip the progression and just state our number one? Or go in the other direction and state our top 200 (I can’t do that, because I don’t have enough). ...

Remembering Love On Halloween: Daa! Daa! Daa! and Aka-chan to Boku
The Scrumptious Anime Blog — ... , and digitalboy already posted about this) because all I really want to do is remember love for these two shows. But inevitably, this got me thinking about the way I personally choose my favorites, or the methodology I want to adopt. No rankings though, I hate them to the guts because it forces me to pit my favorites against each other. ...

Playing Favorites: Categorizing Anime
GAR GAR Stegosaurus - the champagne was Canadian... — ... LISTS LISTS LISTS!!! Recently, there’s been some back and forth (and more!) on the subject of ranking one’s “favorite” shows or what one consider to be “good” (or the best!) shows out there. What constitutes a “good” show? Is designating something a “guilty pleasure” legit? Can we make lists for our “all-time” favorites and also have one for “current” favorites? The mind boggles! I have a pretty simple approach to all of ...

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