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The Spring 2007 Anime Preview Guide

...an epic six and a half minute dialogue on the finer points of eating.

Swords? Monsters? Blood? Sign me up!

Given its importance I was surprised at the no mention of Mahop Shojo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS. Aside that, I personally have a total different way of reviewing series (even first impressions), so I don't agree with the choice of writing styles.

My! What a long list of titles! Those reviewers must have been like hikikomori to have sat in a hotel room in Japan and watched all those animes on Japanese tele. Must have put a right dent in going out and seeing the sights.

Moonlight Mile: Could be a prequel to Planetes.

Moonlight Mile is a show about men. Manly men. Virile manly men. To get this point across, the two heavily muscled protagonists spend their time engaged in manly activities such as mountain climbing, baseball, construction work, racing, flying aircraft, imbibing copious amounts of alcohol (with no negative effect) and having sex with many women. Oh, and they're smarter than computers. I think one of them got blown up at some point, but I have no doubt he'll turn out to be alive - it takes more than a few SAMs to kill a real man... Gods I hated this anime. I can only put the fact that I sat through (nearly) 4 episodes down to extreme procrastination. Since none of the characters seemed to be about to die of syphilis or liver failure (either would've been fine, and probably accurate), I've dropped this series.

I think they probably avoided that due to the fact it's the third season of the show... people who watched the first two will watch it, people who didn't won't, so why bother to give people a preview of it?

crilix wrote:

Carl Kimlinger should retire. Period. I've never seen such a straightforward attempt at bashing the moe "genre" without knowing, or more likely accepting its mechanics.

In the same breath you damn someone for pointing out the tired cliches of a genre and then expect him to just "accept" them, as though his purpose is not to objectively review shows, but to say whatever it is that's going to make moe fanboys like you happy.

Beat me to it, but I gotta say I completely agree. The first two seasons couldn't hold my interest, and while this falls to some of the pitfalls of the loli-magical girl genre, it's more like I don't know ... a police series. Which is an improvement.

I really enjoyed the first episode of Hitohira. It reminded me of Kashimashi and Maria-sama ga Miteru, at least in the sense of it being a quiet series that doesn't need to delve into things it could and be a shameless piece of crap like Strawberry Panic.

I can understand someone disliking some show of any genre. I can accept objective negative reviews of shows I do like. However, certain reviewers seem to go into a show, knowing it's from a particular genre, and already set out to dislike it. I feel this is inherently biased and not objective.

If one of the reviewers has some beef against a particular genre (in this case it's being referred to as the moe genre), he should not be sent to write an objective review about series' in that genre. What winds up happening is thus, and complaints about other series and the entire genre are made, and the reviews lose focus what's specifically good or bad about a particular anime.