On people with crazy long lists and/or a stranglehold on episode discussion threads

This is something that, for whatever reason, has bugged me for a pretty long time now.  This is also something that might just be jealousy and nothing more.

But holy hell does that ever NOT stop Stark700 and spacecowboy from bothering me.

If you don't know, spacecowboy has one of the biggest (if not the biggest) anime lists on MAL.  I initially friended him because, during my alphabetical/chronological/whatever project, I would just look to see if he had completed an entry to know if it was even available anywhere.

However, I have recently begun to suspect that his account is somehow automated.  No one watches that much anime, season after season, every show each season, PLUS 2 older series without any kind of break whatsoever.  The thought about automation stemmed from a couple things I had already noticed:

1) As part of putting nearly the whole existing database on his list, he also adds every new entry into that database.

2) I noticed on the Stats page of some anime he has on his list, the activity date was Dec. 31, 1969.  Granted, this might be a MAL glitch but it still seems suspicious.

And then there's the matter of Stark700.  The main problem I have with him is simple: he makes all the discussion threads for airing anime despite the fact that it is blatantly obvious he knows little to no Japanese and most likely only absorbs less than half of each episode.  Go check out one of his discussion threads and you'll see stuff like "the ost was good" "seems like" "x character did something obvious" etc.  You'll also frequently see that the post was modified.

A good example of a bunch of words just put together that don't really mean anything, from his She And Her Cat episode 2 thread--"Nice episode, really liked the fact that it shows how the cat lives at home while examining its surroundings".  LOL THE CAT WAS LOOKIN OUT THE WINDOW DURRRR.  Gimme a fuckin' break.

Add to this the following:

1) He has SIXTY currently watching shows, PLUS ONE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED TWENTY THREE currently "reading" manga.  Let me say that again - 1,323.

2) Notice how I put reading in quotes up there.  The reason for this is simple - I've seen numerous times in recent posts that he will start the discussion thread for a manga chapter and then LESS THAN TEN MINUTES LATER will make the next one.  So not only does he have over a thousand manga, he also skims through their chapters.  This is a huge disservice to the creators, and it's all so Stark can consume more and ever more in his relentless quest to be FURST everywhere.

So is it just plain jealousy, or do I have a point and there really is something more going on behind the scenes?

Prep for Spring

Kagewani DONE
Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis ON IT
Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou
Kaitou Joker 1ST SEASON DONE
Hakuouki NOPE
Kyoukai no Rinne ON IT
Terra Formars DONE
Ushio to Tora (probably hold off)
Gakusen Toshi Asterisk DONE

Current State of Affairs

So where am I at today with the AAP, you ask?  Well, let me break it down for you.

Right now, I'm basically doing three different methods at once:

1)  Going back through from the beginning and catching stuff I missed before.  As of now, I'm caught up through Adachi-ga Hara (except for A-Ko the Versus, which I can tackle whenever the fuck I feel like watching the last Project A-Ko OVA).

2)  Picking out the top rated shows by letter.  Right now, that's Bakuman and Zankyou no Terror (I've done all the high ranked A titles already).

3)  Going through seasons in chronological order from Fall 1917.  Currently, I'm on Spring 1967 with Mach GoGoGo.

Oh and I guess there's some other stuff thrown in there like currently airing stuff, watching prequels for upcoming season stuff, etc.  And occasionally going back through and continuing some of my On Hold and/or Dropped stuff.

So yeah, it's kind of all over the place at the moment.  However, this is actually much better than trying to go, in order, through the MAL database.  Coming at it from different angles is key.

Intro Post

Welcome to the (only slightly insane) Alphabetical Anime Project!  I'm Kimura, and for years now I have been tinkering with this idea, re-tooling it, then ignoring it for months, then re-tooling it again...you get the picture.

So what is the Alphabetical Anime Project (AAP), you ask?  Well, it all started back in 2007, the year I joined MyAnimeList (MAL).  Being new to anime, I was binge watching like crazy but picking out what to watch was (for some reason) a daunting task for me.  I very quickly figured out that the Recommendations board was completely useless and, aside from a couple of my MAL pals at the time, I was on my own.

Hence the AAP was born.  Put simply, it started as an idea to watch stuff in alphabetical order, starting with # and going through Z.  It didn't take long for me to realize that this method was batshit crazy and would never work.  So I began to try variations on it.  And more variations.  And more and more.....

So here I am today, in the year 2016, coming back to this crazy batshit insane idea.  I once said something along the lines of "to be original in this day and age, you have to do something so completely off from the norm that it's nonsensical and just completely fucked in every way".

Yeah, pretty much.

Let's do this, shall we?