To portray a story? Comics are generally more efficient than animation.

I don't care much about stories though, and I like animation more as a medium of personal expression.

Financially independent. Dgas about the rest

All of my traffic is from weird places.

The obscure Russian search engines are probably the most entertaining, though.

saoriiiiii

Amazing Nurse Nanako. Indescribably awful.

Oh, ok then.

Shoujo, for sure.

That's even if we're limiting it to just actual shoujo, and not going into how 75% of the kind of seinen I like is mostly descended from repackaging shoujo for creepy old dudes. I fucks with shoujo.

-Sengoku Otome was a blast.
-Sofuteni was better than people who gave up after the first panty shot would think.
-A Channel was fucking delightful.
-Dororon Enma-Kun Meramera was hands-down the prettiest show of the season, and one of the funniest.
-Yondemasuyo Azazel-San was the funniest.
-Hen Zemi wasn't as good as I was hoping it would be, but it def. had its moments.
-The World God Only Knows II was my all around favorite of the season. Just so much fun, and this is obviously the Manglobe show that got all the money this season.
-Ano Hana was pretty good. I got misty at the end, but it was on the whole pretty straightforward.
-Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko started strong, then just kind of dicked around for a while, though I think it finished strong.
-Deadman Wonderlahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Ha.

Longer shows I finished the first cours of: Nichijou, Tiger & Bunny, Steins Gate, Kaiji 2, Blue Exorcist.

whose eye and/or throat are you planning to get a hair stuck in exactly

Hrm. For the record, I'm assuming a fairly narrow definition of "bishounen" here since there's plenty of overlap here.

There's certainly a lot more traps I can think of that do it for me than bishounen, but I can dig a cute male character whether they're wearing a skirt or not.

Reverse traps over the equivalent opposite "bishoujo" every time, though. Every time.

Got my PC last March-ish. Including an upgrade this January, it's some gigabyte mobo with a dual-core Athlon in it, 6GB of memory, a 550v PSU. Used to have a low-end Nvidia card in it but that died this May. Then, uh, 3.5TB of hard drives and a 64GB SSD for the OS.

Laptop I got at the beginning of this year. It's just a 12" msi netbook that Newegg had a bunch of old stock they were clearing out for cheap.

a dark grey silhouette of a head against a light grey background

full-back mural of miyako from hidamari sketch :V

nah, probably just a small, simple logo. something classy, like the UN Spacy, or the NERV one. or the 501st Joint Fighter Wing if i feel like *really* getting something to regret later

spend $1b on low-risk assets to divide among friends and family of note, pump the other $49b into deserving charities.

probably set aside a couple hundred thousand from that to do whatever the fuck i want for the course of that week. doubt I could even properly think of a way to spend any more than that in person in a week

Actual first: Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz, when I was like 10, on Toonami. It was kind of boring, because I was 10.

First mecha anime I watched with a solid understanding of the concept of "mecha": Uh, probably Gurren Lagann? Which I thought was fairly pretty, and reasonably well told, though underwhelming given its reputation.

I think I've settled on Evangelion (TV for now, though probably including the Rebuilds after they've finished) for my answer to this question: it symbolizes nicely what kinds of things I tend to like in the medium as a whole—character-centric writing, flouting genre expectations, using action sparingly and with a clear purpose rather than just as a goal unto itself, and clever, impactful animation.

There are, of course, other anime I think have done specific things better—Sky Girls hit most of the above, for example, and Katanagatari does all of them, on many counts better than Eva did. But it could be that Eva's my favorite just because it was such a major influence on what I *would* look for in anime I watched after it.

Plus, of course, in the language of fandom it's often more convenient to have a declared favorite that most people have seen or are aware of. Choosing what things to say that you like is a pose anyway, and from that perspective just saying "Eva" usually communicates most of the things that I would want someone to know about my tastes.

the christian god's kind of got it made, no? spend a week pasting together some cosmic construction paper into a universe diorama, chill for about a bazillion years until humans show up, then fuck with them like ants under a magnifying glass off and on ad infinitum.

"Delete my porn folder. You promised."

Commercial, Osamu Tezuka is one for sure. I have a soft spot for Fumikane Shimada, and I'll say Kaworu Watashiya for the last. That last spot is a toss-up between her, Ken Akamatsu and CLAMP, basically I love their simple, clean yet expressive work.

For non-professionals: Inazuma and Ben Newman, definitely. And I'll give the last spot to Chuck Bourbon, since even though he says he hates drawing I absolutely love his work, and Brightest is kind of my latest comic infatuation.

Really, there's just no way I could even begin to narrow down my favorite Pixiv artists to anything like 3.

My "weeaboo" RSS tag has 37 entries. A lot of those are dead and most of them I just skim. That number may go up in the near future, there are a lot of blogs I like but never got around to actually subscribing to.

Colony Drop, Pontifus, Ogiue Maniax and probably Awesome Engine are the only ones I *absolutely* at least glance over every post, though. AniPages I try to read though a lot of his stuff goes over my head. Otherwise, I generally just flip through the headlines to see if anything catches my eye.