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I would've thought Bamboo would reprise her role in some form with the relaunch of stream reviews, but I guess The Stream really left a poor aftertaste.

What is Bamboo assigned to write about these days? I don't read all the articles posted but how could it be that I haven't yet encountered a single post by her? She's the best ANN writer in my books and I hope she wasn't relegated to some dark corner of the site.

walw6pK4Alo wrote:

Thanks for some clarification, Zac. I do see one problem though: cluttering the front page with new reviews every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

We'll space them out as best we can (maybe one per hour or something) but there's nothing we can do about the TV schedule being what it is. There's no point in doing these daily if we spread them out so much that stuff that airs Saturday doesn't get written up until Monday.

I'm curious as to how this will work once a new season starts. Will the episode reviews run concurrently with the Preview Guide? And how will the process of who gets what show go when everyone has at most one episode of the show to work with? Will there be a bloodbath as everyone fights for the shows that look good, leaving the losers with the shows that look to be crap? (With the full acceptance of the possibility that a good-looking show can turn out to be crap and the crap-looking show will turn out good, of course...)

bin1127 wrote:

I would've thought Bamboo would reprise her role in some form with the relaunch of stream reviews, but I guess The Stream really left a poor aftertaste. What is Bamboo assigned to write about these days? I don't read all the articles posted but how could it be that I haven't yet encountered a single post by her? She's the best ANN writer in my books and I hope she wasn't relegated to some dark corner of the site.

She writes the Shelf Life column.

Actually, I was wondering too how this was going to work in combination with the Preview guide.

I'm just afraid that if all of the reviewers pick their shows, and they generally choose genres they like, it'll be difficult to tell which new shows are good all-around and which are "if you like the genre, you'll probably like it" shows.

(I have a pet hypothesis that there's so much good TV nowadays and so much anime that it's impractical or impossible for a critic to keep up with both).

If you write about media a lot, like a lot of us do for our blogs or other sites or whatever, you often find the shows you have the most to say about aren't necessarily the ones you think are the BEST. Sometimes they are, but often you're more eager to write about something you think has some flaws.

Out of curiosity, could we know which were the two shows that had to be assigned?

bin1127 wrote:

I would've thought Bamboo would reprise her role in some form with the relaunch of stream reviews, but I guess The Stream really left a poor aftertaste. What is Bamboo assigned to write about these days? I don't read all the articles posted but how could it be that I haven't yet encountered a single post by her? She's the best ANN writer in my books and I hope she wasn't relegated to some dark corner of the site.

She writes the Shelf Life column.

Right now your option is to go to animenewsnetwork.com/news for just news and animenewsnetwork.com/interest for just interest.

Sad to hear that no one wanted Nobunaga Concerto. I consider it one of the most underrated gems of the season, maybe even the year, and easily the best Nobunaga anime I've watched.

Understandable that the front page clutter is the more high priority issue as it is kind of annoying currently. I would just like to agree with the idea of having the episode review threads be the official series thread in the anime forum when you get around to it. Assuming its possible it seems like a good idea since the series threads are already talking about a show as it airs so a separate review thread would probably end up really similar to the series thread.