Questions Meme

[justsomeshrimp]

THE QUESTIONS MEME



HOW TO PLAY:
• Leave a comment below with your name and the characters who you play.
• Respond to others' comments with questions - they can be about their characters, their current in-game plans or things they'd like to play, their CR, RP in general, their canons and fandoms, or most anything else.
• Answer questions you've received! Keep it short or TL;DR to your heart's content, depending on how much you have or are in the mood to say!
• After each answer you give, ask a question back to the person who answered you. Keep the thread of questioning up for as long as both parties are game!
• Go for it - make friends, make new plans, make anything you like!

Comments

[anbu]

Good choices. I love Mizuki, he's up there in my favorites haha. Agreed with the rest of that, DMMD lends to a lot of great character exploration which is why I enjoyed it so much.

Hmm, strong characters probably pull me in more than anything else! Strong stories, too, but the characters often drive the story. As for genres, I'm partial to horror and psychological drama, scifi, and high fantasy, but I'm willing to go for anything. I'm less fond of straight up fluff/slice of life themes or modern settings. I'm not sure if there's a character "type" I'm most drawn toward, but I do enjoy bad boy characters who are secretly much softer deep down. Or very emotional characters. Itachi's kind of different from my usual, because he's much more reticent, and I tend to prefer fiery and combative personalities. But he's rewarding once he does form connections.

Same question for you!

[zunge]

Character-driven stories, that's for certain. The genres I enjoy the most are psychological drama, thriller, sci-fi, and battles, but I also love a really good ridiculous and over the top comedy and most sports series. Another important factor is worldbuilding. For anything beyond the basic modern real world, I like something that's really well developed and detailed, especially when it involves sci-fi/fantasy elements like supernatural powers. This is one of the reasons I got so sucked in to the universe of Toaru Majutsu no Index and its spinoff Toaru Kagaku no Railgun - the dynamics of a massive worldwide underground magic community tied to religion being entirely at odds with the scientific community that experiments on children in the high tech city-state Academy City to turn them into espers. I am a sucker for human experimentation, time shenanigans (time travel, loops, temporal distortions), psychic powers, twisted sibling dynamics, rivalries, human vs non-human conflict, and psychology and morals in general. For character types I am a forever sucker for intelligent and charismatic villains, male tsunderes, "book smart people dumb," abuse survivors, trolls, unpredictable personalities, sweethearts with hidden dark sides, strong women who defy gender stereotypes or gender roles, and unconventional do-gooders. A series that otherwise would be so-so to me can enrapture me all because of a character or two.

Rec me some good sci-fi that you think is underappreciated or less known!

[anbu]

Sports series are pretty good, I enjoy those too. And I just resonate resonate with a lot of what you mentioned in general. I'm not familiar with Toaru Majutsu no Index but I'll have to check it out now! Agreed on the weight of a good character with influencing taste, I feel it's pretty easy to tell when a story has weak characters. The whole thing falls flat.

Hmm, my personal favorite author of sci-fi is Ted Chiang! His ability to mix literate science and philosophical questions with relationships and humanity is unparalleled, plus he's contemporary. He's behind the story of the movie Arrival, if you've ever seen that. (Highly recommend if you haven't watched.) But if anime is more your route, the first thing that comes to my mind as lesser known is the movie Blame! just for a casual watch. I think it has a manga that's supposed to be even better. I'd recommend Akira too, even though that's highly appreciated and you've probably seen it haha. Just a must-see.

[zunge]

Yes, please check it out! Index has 74 eps out across 3 2-cour seasons which adapt the first 22 light novels. (Ignore the Index manga, it skips and omits way too much to be worth it.) Railgun will have 73 eps out across 3 2-cour seasons by sometime later this year (S3 is airing atm), which adapt the manga and also have some... anime original arcs ehhhh. Index is what I lovingly refer to as Science, Magic and Punching People in the Face: The Musical. Kamijou Touma is kind of like straight Aoba in how he destroys people's illusions by punching them in the face with his right hand which nullifies all supernatural powers that it comes in contact with. And this AMV is one I personally love since it focuses on the best character in the series (yes, I am biased).

I am not familiar with Ten Chiang, but I have heard of Arrival, which I keep meaning to watch. As for Blame!, iirc that's by the same author behind Knights of Sidonia, one of my favorite series ever. I keep meaning to read, but I've been lazy.

[anbu]

Oh man, that AMV was excellent. And it's got a song by Assemblage 23, DID NOT expect that (but now I've got a new song to jam to). Thanks for showing me! I'll see if I can check out some episodes.

Haha yeah I'm pretty lazy when it comes to reading stuff vs watching it. Definitely give Arrival or the Blame! movie a shot, they're pretty quick and enjoyable.