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So last ones to be eliminated early from consideration are Deltora Quest, Kiba, Sakura Wars, The Soul Taker, and The World of Narue. Now that it's down to the final 30, might as well reveal the small twist I came up with. Once this is finished, in addition to the top 10, I'm gonna randomly pick 3 shows from the middle ten, and 2 from the bottom ten to watch as well. Just because... well, it's kinda boring in a way to watch just stuff that other people like. Gotta mix it up a little every now and then, right? 4 Durarara 2 Ghost Stories 2 Le Chelvalier D'Eon 2 Nadia The Secret of Blue Water 2 Phantom Requiem for the Phantom 2 Shura no Toki 2 Soul Eater 2 Spice and Wolf 1 Cat's Eye 1 Dirty Pair 1 Kamichu 1 Kaze no Stigma 1 Kodacha 1 Shakugan no Shana 1 Skip Beat 1 Toward the Terra 0 Elemental Gelade 0 Otogi Zoshi 0 Pumpkin Scissors 0 Rumiko Takahashi Anthology 0 You're Under Arrest -1 Battle Athletes -1 Happy Lesson -1 Jinki Extend -1 Kurogane Communication -1 Macross -1 Miami Guns -1 Rideback -1 Sands of Destruction -1 Space Adventure Cobra

Excel Saga 1 - 4 So... that fried my brain a little. I wonder how many times Excel's VAs (both the English and Japanese, but especially the English one -- OMG her voice is like nails on a chalkboard screeching sometimes) lost their voices throughout recording for this. I'd wager easily at least half a dozen for each of them.

Wagnaria's actually about the only one out of all of these series that I've seen a good portion of already. I watched the first season a while back and loved it, which is how come I decided to include it even though I haven't had it sitting around nearly as long as most of these other shows . Thems the breaks though. Ah well. I'll get to the rest of it eventually. Edit: Next ones eliminated are Fighting Spirit, Madlax, Mermaid Forest, Sol Bianca, and Zone of the Enders 4 Durarara 2 Ghost Stories 2 Soul Eater 1 Cat's Eye 1 Le Chelvalier D'Eon 1 Dirty Pair 1 Kaze no Stigma 1 Kodacha 1 Nadia The Secret of Blue Water 1 Phantom Requiem for the Phantom 1 Shakugan no Shana 1 Shura no Toki 1 Skip Beat 1 Spice and Wolf 0 Battle Athletes 0 Deltora Quest 0 Elemental Gelade 0 Kamichu 0 Kiba 0 Kurogane Communication 0 Macross 0 Miami Guns 0 Otogi Zoshi 0 Pumpkin Scissors 0 Rumiko Takahashi Anthology 0 Sakura Wars 0 Sands of Destruction 0 The Soul Taker 0 Toward the Terra 0 The World of Narue 0 You're Under Arrest -1 Happy Lesson -1 Jinki Extend -1 Rideback -1 Space Adventure Cobra

That was a pretty uneventful day. Least it makes updating the totals easy. Next five out of running anyway are Hero Tales, King of Bandit Jing, Sacred Blacksmith, The Third, and Wagnaria.

Canaan 10 - 13 Well that show seemed all kinds of pointless. Guess I shouldn't have expected much. The basic premise of characters having blended senses seemed kind of silly from the get go. I mean what if you're out for a walk and see a pile of doggy doo? Does mean mean you'll taste...? I mean ew. Sounds more like a super curse than a super power to me. Also, anytime you sensed another person, wouldn't that take you one step away from being a cannibal? LOL I know I think too much about this stuff.

Day one is done, so the five shows randomly removed from cosideration then are Gai-Rei-Zero, Ghost Sweeper Mikami, Magic Knight Rayearth, Power Stone, and Tower of Druaga. 👋 Bye bye. Current totals are... 4 Durarara 2 Ghost Stories 2 Soul Eater 1 Cat's Eye 1 Le Chelvalier D'Eon 1 Dirty Pair 1 Kaze no Stigma 1 Kodacha 1 Nadia The Secret of Blue Water 1 Phantom Requiem for the Phantom 1 Shakugan no Shana 1 Shura no Toki 1 Spice and Wolf 0 Battle Athletes 0 Deltora Quest 0 Elemental Gelade 0 Fighting Spirit 0 Hero Tales 0 Kamichu 0 Kiba 0 King of Bandit Jing 0 Kurogane Communication 0 Macross 0 Madlax 0 Mermaid Forest 0 Miami Guns 0 Otogi Zoshi 0 Pumpkin Scissors 0 Rumiko Takahashi Anthology 0 Sacred Blacksmith 0 Sakura Wars 0 Sands of Destruction 0 Skip Beat 0 Sol Bianca 0 The Soul Taker 0 The Third The Girl With the Blue Eye 0 Toward the Terra 0 Wagnaria 0 The World of Narue 0 You're Under Arrest 0 The Zone of the Enders -1 Happy Lesson -1 Jinki Extend -1 Rideback -1 Space Adventure Cobra

Canaan 5 - 9

Funny Bunny? That's one of my favorite Pillows songs. I think I'll go listen to it right now. Thanks.

I'd be cool with it. Only problem is they'd want to delete that word from your sentence there, along with probably anyone who disobeyed them. Still, robot apocalypse is better than plenty other ones I could imagine.

Wow. Yeah, three weeks is a long time to be sick with something. Glad to hear it sounds like you're through the worst of it and hope you feel all better soon.

Somebody call Will Smith to come and save us. With Hollywood shut down he should have plenty of time now.

Or maybe he just thought they were and didn't know them that well before. I think when people are younger they tend to act more superficial and hide a lot of their deeper thoughts about things because they're worried it might cause people to look at them differently and seem uncool. As people get older and get more confident about their place in the world then, they cease to care so much about what other people think about them, and are then more free to let their true thoughts show. That's how I see it anyway.

Normal is a state of mind. The pesimist in me anyway says things will never be quite the same, as folks will be much more aware I think that even when we manage to get a vaccine and beat this thing back, that it's just gonna be a matter of time before it mutates or another virus comes along and we could be put through this all over again. Hopefully the government in the future will take a long look back at all the stuff that went wrong and put some serious effort towards getting hospitals better prepared and making sure when infectious disease control experts ring the alarm bells next time they're taken seriously and steps are taken to immediately contain any potential outbreak. The optimist in me on the other hand says that curve will bend down in a month or so, prompting some areas of the country to try and 'open up' again, leading to a second but less exacerbated wave of the virus. People will eventually adjust for the rest of the year to getting out and back to work in certain areas to a limited extent, but with certain precautions and safeguards, until a vaccine comes out early or around the middle of next year. After that, I expect stuff will resume for the most part as it did before, but without so much hand shaking or physical contact for quite a while.

Never seen it, unless you count a trailer for it. Seemed like some type of murder conspiracy or mystery type show. Normally I'd be down for that, but I heard the anime was unfinished, so that's how come I shyed away from ever checking it out.

Actually, if you think about it, we're never the same, even moment to moment. Anytime you eat, go to the bathroom, sweat, rub your skin, or even breathe, we're constantly cycling out particles of your body for new ones. "According to researchers, the body replaces itself with a largely new set of cells every seven years to 10 years, and some of our most important parts are revamped even more rapidly [sources: Stanford University, Northrup]." That's just on a physical level, too. Our minds are contantly absorbing information and integrating it into our personality as well. It's just the nature of being alive.

So, I did this back a few years ago. It's been a while, so last time might have actually been on the old Adult Swim forum. Anyway, it worked out pretty well, so figured I'd give it another go. I've got quite a few shows in my backlog that I've had for like a decade or more that I somehow still haven't watched, so that's how come everything on the list below is fairly old. Voting will be open for one week. You can vote once a day, and vote each time to add a point to up to 5 different shows as well as subtract a point from up to 5 different ones. Top ten finishers will be the next series I'll have to watch. Bottom ten will be ineligible the next time I should do something like this again. Also, to help simplify things, at the end of each of the first four days I'm gonna randomly eliminate 5 titles that have yet to be voted for from the list, until there's 30 left. Edit: Voting is now over. Thanks to everyone who voted for participating and helping me out by offering your opinions The final results are... 1) 5 Durarara 2) 5 Phantom Requiem for the Phantom 3) 5 Soul Eater 4) 4 Shura no Toki 5) 4 Le Chelvalier D'Eon 6) 3 Ghost Stories 7) 3 Kamichu 8) 3 Skip Beat 9) 3 Spice and Wolf 10) 2 Nadia The Secret of Blue Water 11) 1 Toward the Terra 12) 1 Cat's Eye 13) 1 Dirty Pair 14) 1 Kodacha 15) 0 Miami Guns 16) 0 Kaze no Stigma 17) 0 Shakugan no Shana 18) -1 Jinki Extend 19) -1 Happy Lesson 20) -1 Sands of Destruction 21) -1 Kurogane Communication 22) -1 Space Adventure Cobra 23) -1 Macross 24) -1 Otogi Zoshi 25) -2 Battle Athletes 26) -2 You're Under Arrest 27) -2 Rideback 28) -2 Rumiko Takahashi Anthology 29) -2 Elemental Gelade 30) -3 Pumpkin Scissors

Canaan 1 - 4

Strawberry Marshmallow OVA 1 - 5 I kind of wonder what these girls would be like were they to do some type of grown up spin off version of the show. Most of them would probably be pretty normal 9 to 5ers I imagine, but Miu would probably wind up as a comedian or a professional wrestler I bet.

Survivor

Strawberry Marshmallow 10 - 12

Strawberry Marshmallow 4 - 9 Miu's just a nightmare of a friend. Love her. Without her this show would be so boring.

Okay, just one more, but I swear this is the last one. And appropriately/inappropriately? I've saved the lamest for last. Mississippi So why is Mississippi hard? 🤔 Cuz, duh, it's hard to spell! 🙄 I mean, seriously, who hasn't had trouble trying to figure out how to spell Mississippi before?

Strawberry Marshmallow 1 - 3 Catchy OP. Everytime I hear it makes me want to get up and dance. Ah, but poor Ana. It's kind of funny though, but by judging a book by its cover, Nobue sort of wound up learning to never judge a book by its cover. 😄 Of course, hmm, that would mean by doing so she actually learned an important lesson. 😕 But if that's so, maybe sometimes then you should judge a book by its cover, in which case the lesson she learned was wrong, meaning it was a waste to do so after all, meaning ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! 😵💥 Actually, now that I think it, I'm not really sure she figured it out and learned anything, but whatever. Fun show.