The Perfect Waifu

She doesn't exist. Haha, just kidding she exist... in your imagination. 

Alright on a serious note all waifus are perfect, in a subjective way. Unless they are actually perfect then, it's objective and anyone who disagrees is wrong. But they are perfect the same way a husbando is.
Now what is a waifu? Well if you're new to the word it's our weeb slang for an anime character we consider to be a significant other. They are treated with the utmost respect, and one isn't supposed to commit any kind of sin against them. Like sins of the flesh.

I see you, put your lotion away there.

Some people take the waifu and husbando relationship seriously and others take a more casual and
lenient approach.

If you know anything about Korean pop culture a waifu and husbando are the equivalent to an ultimate bias which is just the person that surpasses all others and means more than all others. You can only have one though. (At least that's what I've been told). The waifu and the husbando are important to the otaku culture. I think the best part about them are the fact that they give us unrealistic expectations of actual human beings. Isn't it great?
I'm kidding again. Obviously.
The importance of the waifu and husbando is that regardless of them being real or not, they have certain characteristics that most of us find desirable, thus we'll all probably find great significant others.

As I said, waifus and husbandos have certain characteristics. They are normally very supportive, and loving (sometimes maybe too much), they push and motivate you to never give up. They strive for to be the best possible you. Sometimes testing you, showing that you can truly achieve greatness.

I'm tearing up thinking about the perfect waifus out there.

Now there are different types of waifus and husbandos, they all fall under a 'dere' type. There are 14 types of dere. Oujidere, Himidere, Tsundere (Type A), Tsundere (Type B), Dandere, Deredere, Kuudere, Yandere, Kamidere, Undere, Bodere, Sadodere, Hinedere, and Mayadere. As you can see there a lot, I'm not going to explain each one, so I'll leave a link (Dere Types) that'll do that job.

I'm a Tsundere (Type B) just in case you were wondering. Maybe a Kuudere (Coodere)

One of the best things about a waifu is they they can be from any form of media, not just anime and manga. The idea of one makes the term relatively inclusive, because they are fictional characters. As long as they have the characteristic I mentioned before, they can be a waifu/husbando.

There are people who believe that having a waifu or husbando prevents a person from having a real 3D relationships, which is not necessarily the case. There are people who have both and it doesn't make the person any less committed to both relationships. Of course there are those who take the idea of the waifu too far, but hey, if they aren't hurting themselves and/or others, well do you be you.

All in all, your waifu/husbando is your and thus the relationship is yours. However serious or casual
you go about it, is up to you. They are perfect always.

I'm going to watch anime now!

Junji Ito's Work Should Have Been Left Alone

LOOK y'all I don't know if you've read his work, but he's made some horrifying creations. They're amazing and the stories are quite chilling. I often find myself absorbed unable to stop reading them. I wonder what's going through his mind as he writes manga. To some degree I believe he has to be just a little twisted to come up with some of them. 

Now recently, his work has been made into an anime titled The Junji Ito Collection. It unfortunately is not that great. It's actually pretty disappointing. For some reason the episodes lost seriousness and became comical, which is something I doubt he was trying to do in his manga.

Now here's where I think it went wrong within the art, and animation. I'm not an animator just so you all know, so I don't know a lot about the process, but I feel like based on my many years of consuming the product, I think I can tell decent animation from, well, not decent animation. So that you all know my scale I'll tell you which anime did animation extremely well in my opinion and those that didn't. (Side note: Just because the animation sucks doesn't mean I didn't like the anime). Kiznaiver, Castlevania, and Kakegurui were some anime I thought had great visuals, exceptional to be honest. Anime that I thought could have done so much better, Ajin, Aku no Hana, Quan Zhi Gao Shou, they are really good so I definitely recommend them, but their animation and art style is pretty awful.

I don't think that The Junji Ito Collection is close to the art and animation of Ajin or Aku no Hana, but it wasn't Kiznaiver, but a lot of anime fall into that category, you know somewhere in between. So what's the problem you're probably still wondering, I personally didn't think it was clean, and not in the sense where it needed to lose that grittiness if had, but I feel like because it was animated it should've had that hyper realism. Somewhere in the realm of  Attack on Titan. I know for a while the art style and animation of AoT made it a little terrifying to watch. If The Junji Ito Collection was like that it would have gotten under my skin so much more. There were a few stories like that, like, the one with the jade stone with the holes, but I'm sure that's because it played on a phobia.

Take the episode with the model who was obviously a creature, for example, if that were hyper-realistic, I would have been disturbed tenfold. On top of this, the music didn't help set the mood for the show. The opening theme was upbeat and dance-y, it wasn't misleading, but knowing how psychologically horrifying his work can be, the opening just seemed inappropriate for the anime. There is one anime that comes to mind when I think about appropriate music for the horror and gore it provided, and that's Elfen Lied. That opening theme, Lilium, although I like the song, it gave me goosebumps and to this day I can't hear it without remembering a scene where this girl got her limbs ripped off. But I digress. The music missed the mark completely.

Isn't the magna terrifying 

Like I said I'm not an animator, but I also want to let you all know I'm not a voice actor either. I didn't have any qualms with the voice acting except when some of the characters expressed fear. It kind of reminded me of Scooby Doo, I'm sure that was definitely just me though. Overall I liked his stories in manga form, but watching them, I was disappointed. They were lack luster, with the exception of a few.

If you on the other hand really enjoyed the collection as a whole, please don't be afraid to let me know how I wrong I am to dislike it. Maybe you'll change my mind.

I'm going to go watch anime now!