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So I just finished watching the entirety of a certain anime titled “Toradora!”

I don’t quite get genre labeling for animes so I’ll just call it a romantic, goofy, passionate high school love story.  A kind of long one, but quite a lovely good one.

I tend to rate the animes I watch in a scale that compares the worst anime I’ve ever watched (Popotan = 0) and the best (Puella Magi Madoka = 10).  Be sure to understand this isn’t your typical scale where 10 is perfect and 0 is “should not exist.”  It’s just as I said in that it merely compares whatever anime to the best and worst I’ve seen.

Anyway, Toradora! Gets a 8/10.  It was formerly 7.5 until I realized there was a post credits scene on the last episode that really helped the ending.  II’m still immersed in the ending hype so I may be biased, after a while the hype will wear off and I can provide a proper less biased rating.  Fun show though.

I tend to come off as abrasive to some people but I am SUCH A DAMN SAP.  Or atleast half of me is, if you want to drag my split personalities into this.  I switch between action to romance with anime.  Last was Akame ga Kill and now it was Toradora.  I suppose I will look into Koyomonogatari since I ejoy that show despite it only being in subs (don’t start).  But otherwise I suppose  I’m on the lookout for another action or particularly good romance one.  My favorite person who ever recommended anime to me was on the now defunct Snafu forums but I could still contact her via steam chat though I’m not sure if she’d be alright with that.  Trying won’t hurt but I feel a need to mention that just after the forum was destroyed one individual made it a point to mention that no one wanted to see me.  Doubtful but some peope are douches who’s statements can’t be trusted.  I am tangenting hard and I’m sorry.

So in case you haven’t guessed I have decided not to do a part 2 to my prior writing tidbit.  I felt that I said everything I wanted to (which was mainly venting) though I am sorry if I got you excited for it.  But as a wise artist/writer once said: 

“Do not commit to anything. As you continue working on something it may and probably should change.” -Plague of Gripes

While my application of his saying seems a bit off I will use it anyway.  On the plus side that vent session was a good step towards where this place might as well head towards.  You see my problem before was that I was expecting higher quality works consistently and thus my quality control got in the way o actually posting any content.  I’m likely not going to get better at this if I keep nixing everything I do just because I’m not perfect.  I’ll still try to keep things up to a certain par.  

But the idea is that when I want to write something I’ll do it here now rather than my previous location, which had over 1k views btw.  Though that was a decently popular forum and unfortunately with all forums there is a risk that one day the admin will say “Aw fuck it.” and junk the entire website to avoid criticism of his abuse of fair use and technical copyright violations.  It makes me rage a bit that it all went poof like that but alas I find myself hunting for another forum.  Meanwhile I will post my writing tidbits here when I want to write.  In the event I do find a new forum I will link this place in my sig and continue writing in both places.

But I digress, if you’re looking to improve I can only suggest to dtaw freely and seek feedback, things like ‘does something look out of place’ or ‘is there adjustment needed’ then the age old repetition will make more sense. I can’t say much for motivation, creativity isn’t my strong suit but to yse an old quote; “Those who do not learn from their mistakes, are doomed to repeat them” that is to say to improve, cnsider what you feel is wrong and explore the corrections but never forget, art is expression, there isn’t a solid right or wrong

For me, it’s not about developing some style that others may envy, its about doing it my way. I have a couple of friend who do great hand drawings but are in awe how i can line-scribble something random so easily, i don’t understand how they can spend hours pouring over an image, as impressive as the result may be.