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The Spring 2008 Anime Preview Guide

samuelp wrote:

Mohawk52 wrote: samuelp wrote: Well, I'm in Japan, have been watching them on TV, and wholeheartedly say "I agree with the reviews and everything said in all of them". Now you can read them without worrying about moral issues I'm afraid I don't see the link between morallity, and editorial correctness. All you have to do is consider all the reviews as nothing more than reflecting MY opinion, instead of the authors, and then you are reading the opinion of someone who legally and without moral ambiguity watched the shows. Or at least that's what I was going at.

Nevertheless, this doesn't really change the fact that the source of the information being read is derived from viewing fansubs, so that's a difficult disassociation to make.

The fact of the matter is, though, that without these fansubs it would be difficult if not impossible for ANN to offer an effective season preview. Of course legally provided review material would be preferable, but because they are currently lacking somewhat, fansubs are the only means by which ANN reviewers can stay up to date on anime being aired in Japan.

Again I would have preferred they did, and if they had decided not to provide a preview because of not being able to legally obtain source material I would not miss it one bit, and would have thought more highly of them as I'm sure the industry would as well. Our UK based anime and manga magazine NEO has a correspondant who lives in Tokyo, or at least says he does, and gives a very concise report of what's new on the Japanese tele. If such a low budget operation like Uncooked Media can have someone there doing preview reports, I can not see why ANN can not do the same. Hell maybe they could even contact NEO and find out if their man in Tokyo wouldn't mind doing reviews and previews for ANN as well. He might be glad of the extra work. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

calawain wrote:

The thing I find the most amusing out of this whole discussion, aside from the fact that people complain that the reviews are both too diverse and too similar, is that the usual legion of ANN anti-fansub crusaders seem to be absent. One would think they would nay miss a chance to vehemently state how the watching of any fansub is evil and punishable by death!

Zac already pointed out that Fansub hatzoring is his position and not the entire staffs' position.

If anything, the one thing I find amusing is how much people are willing trash talk about the previews. It's such a completely different response than you see on any anime blog. Maybe people are expecting more ANN than they do from blogs O-o

Well ANN holds itself out to be a proper "news" source which engenders some responsibility for being journalistic. Thus, they are held to a higher standard than an anime blog which hold itself out merely as a place for the opinion of the author. So the fact that these reviews are pretty lackluster in quality may lead people to harp on that notion and be quite critical.

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They're written by the same bloody author o,o He wouldn't write them if there wasn't an intention to go in that direction. That's like saying the data books for bleach are irrelevant to the story.

You're hopeless, people who have actually read the novels say they consist of one long arc, is the manga one long arc? Why would Shouji write comedic side stories for FMP if is going to end dramatically, it doesn't make sense according to your logic!

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Most of the time when people get to the point when they start using sarcasm and a derisive tone they tend to be emotionally attached to the topic of discussion. You've been acting offended if not insulted >.>

So if you say the Lakers suck and I call you an idiot I'm emotionally attacked to the Lakers even though I'm a Miami Heat fan? There's a difference between pointing out the obvious and getting offended, learn it. As for the sarcasm you said something that deserved a sarcastic response. Do you always try to shift the argument onto something else when you're not winning?

calawain wrote:

The thing I find the most amusing out of this whole discussion, aside from the fact that people complain that the reviews are both too diverse and too similar, is that the usual legion of ANN anti-fansub crusaders seem to be absent. One would think they would nay miss a chance to vehemently state how the watching of any fansub is evil and punishable by death!

Zac already pointed out that Fansub hatzoring is his position and not the entire staffs' position.

If anything, the one thing I find amusing is how much people are willing trash talk about the previews. It's such a completely different response than you see on any anime blog. Maybe people are expecting more ANN than they do from blogs O-o

Kinda weird considering this is the format everyone asked for the last time around =\

On that note, I think they did a great job this time and was gratified to see skew of reviews by Key, who generally out of the entire staff is the only reviewer I agree with O_o;;

The description for the preview guide lists Glass Maiden and Crystal Blaze. These are actually the same show.

I'm going to post a conversation from the start of lord of the rings, it's about fireworks, clearly because of that entire conversation the novel is about fireworks and it's not about some epic quest to destroy the one ring. I mean why would the main characters talk about fireworks if the novels weren't about fireworks?

From someone who has read the novels

spoiler[AFAIK the novels only contain long arcs. They are not side stories like the manga.

Spoiler for manga's timeframe:

BTW the stories in the manga set place after Kurenai (temporary) finished dealing with Murasaki's family. Murasaki doesn't need Kurenai's protection anymore. Thus you can say that Murasaki is just tagging along with Kurenai.]

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spoiler[It follows the general guideline, but changed and add a lot of the thing. The Novel is awkward enough, the anime's change is even more odd. Especially the whole "arm might go berserk" that anime has added, it felt so random.]