I'm Back!!

[Tasuke]

hi, i doubt that there's anyone that remembers me,
but i was active for a brief period maybe two or three years back.


i'm a veteran Otaku, pretty much beginning with MACROSS/ROBOTECH
in my early teens, back in the early 1990's.

i gravitated towards Mecha/sci-fi Anime for the balance of the 90's,
and was in prime place to enjoy the "Great U.S. Anime Boom" of the early/mid 2000's.

today, there are a great number of series, vintage and not-so-vintage,
that i greatly enjoy, and always will.

i very much like many earlier Moe works, but most of today's current standards
are just a little too left of my preferred center, i fear.


that said, a sampling of some of my most favorite series;


# Ai Yori Aoshi
# Bubblegum Crisis (original 1987/1991, NOT "2040")
# CYBER CITY OEDO
# The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (not hard to guess my favorite character here)
# Sweel Angel Kurumi
# CLANNAD
# SDF MACROSS/ MACROSS II/MACROSS PLUS
# GUNDAM 0083; Stardust Memory
# Comic Party Revolution
# Card Captor Sakura
# Chobits
# Magic Knight Rayearth
# Mahoromatic
# Ah! My Goddess
# Mamotte Shugogetten
# Shuffle
# Hand Maid May
# Full Metal Panic FUMOFFU
# MOLDIVER
# Inu-Yasha
# Tenchi Muyo
# ESCAFLOWNE
# Elemental Gelade
# Rumbling Hearts
# Galaxy Fraulien Yuna
# Devil Hunter Yohko
# MADOX-01




here's most of my Anime-related collections to date;

[Jasanime]

Wow, that's a great collection. Seeing VHS certainly brings back memories. And I see you love Mikuru! She is pretty adorable. I also really enjoyed Ai Yori Aoishi, I don't see it mentioned very often. Aoi-chan was one of my fave characters ever! I love how classy she is and how she tries so hard and always has a smile on her face!

Anyway, I hope you stick around this time!

[threewolves]

Welcome back and very good collection there.

[Kankiti Shunan]

welcome. You have an amazing collection : D see you around here ^^

[Tasuke]

Wow, that's a great collection. Seeing VHS certainly brings back memories. And I see you love Mikuru! She is pretty adorable. I also really enjoyed Ai Yori Aoishi, I don't see it mentioned very often. Aoi-chan was one of my fave characters ever! I love how classy she is and how she tries so hard and always has a smile on her face!

Anyway, I hope you stick around this time!

yeah... Ai Yori Aoshi was basically my first ever romance Anime. i started it as it was first being released around 2003-ish,
and enjoyed what i saw so much that i stuck through the 2nd season as well, which, unfortunately, isn't quite as good as the first.

myself, i would've preferred the series to stay sharply focused on Aoi and Kaoru's relationship,
rather than head off into stereotypical Harem Anime tropes after the first couple-three eps or so.

regardless, it IS a woefully underrated series, all too often condemned as a poor-man's Ah My Goddess at best...

[Mugiwara-no-Basuke]

Woooh, you're a great fan @Tasuke , great collection, both figures and animes

Wellcome back, surely the AF is more rich with a fan like you keep having fun

[Jasanime]

yeah... Ai Yori Aoshi was basically my first ever romance Anime. i started it as it was first being released around 2003-ish,
and enjoyed what i saw so much that i stuck through the 2nd season as well, which, unfortunately, isn't quite as good as the first.

myself, i would've preferred the series to stay sharply focused on Aoi and Kaoru's relationship,
rather than head off into stereotypical Harem Anime tropes after the first couple-three eps or so.

regardless, it IS a woefully underrated series, all too often condemned as a poor-man's Ah My Goddess at best...

Yup, you summed it up pretty well!

[Jacob's Ladder]

Don't know you, but welcome back!! Any Macross/Robotech fan is a friend to me. lol And wow...talk about otaku!!

[~*Red*~]

Welcome back to AF

[Creasy]

[Mugiwara-no-Basuke]

Ah ah @loyal , so I'll reply with Hero's Came Back (1st opening of Naruto Shipuuden):