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Time Bandit
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Phantom of the Twilight is really good. They balance fun with dark and I'm all about that. Plus the bishounen are really nice to look at plus have personality, and Ton the protagonist actually has a backbone (like for real!). I will look forward to a review of this once it happens. 
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phia_one
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Everything I wanted got in except for Phantom in the Twilight which is a shame because it's been a blast so far.
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Wingbeats
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Sweeet, all my votes aside from Phantom of the Twilight got in. Man, no love for the bishi shows as usual, I see. But that doesn't mean I can't follow it myself
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jenthehen
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Glad everyone else is enjoying Phantom in the Twilight so far, too!
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CatSword
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Nice. Everything I voted for except for Dropkick on my Devil! made it.
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Florete
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Whoa, everything I voted got in. Happy Sugar Life was my top pick, and after last season's Magical Girl Site I really was hoping this wouldn't meet the same fate. Revue Starlight was my #2, which I had confidence would make it.
Asobi Asobase, Harukana Receive, and Hanebado! were my other three. I hoped one or two would make it but I definitely didn't expect all three to be in. I'm not going to call this a disappointment, but if there's one more I'd like to have seen on here it would be Music Girls, just to see how it goes since I stopped watching it after 5 minutes due to too much cringe. No big loss, though. |
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Hiroki not Takuya
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 I voted for Drop Kick too. Nobody else wanted to inflict (ahem) recommend Island and Blesser of Ragnarok to the reviewers? Really?? BTW, Way to score James!!
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zrnzle500
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Enough voted for the Yuuna to get picked up, though I suspect not to get it “inflicted” on a reviewer. I voted for Island, but mostly because I think it might be interesting to see where it goes (unless it is “dude in his twenties has relations with a girl half that” that the opening seemed to indicate). I think both aren’t terribly apt for hate review (unless Island goes off the rails) as it would seem to be of the kind of hate watching I don’t find agreeable, “I don’t like this genre/type of show, so I want to see it get ripped on for 12 weeks”. Both seem in some ways to be shows of a previous time, harem romcom when comedic violence against the protag was still prevalent and 2000s VNs, and in so far as they would fail, either generally or in the eyes of some, it is in the same sort of ways, both within the series and within their genres. While there are definitely those who want to hear someone preach about the evils of Isekai, harems, incest, and fanservice (for example) week after week after week, I don’t find them interesting or informative beyond a few times. It is one thing if something fails in interesting or unexpected ways, or is an exemplar of a particular kind of badness, I don’t see much value in weekly reviews that boil down to “I don’t like shows that do x,y, and z. This show continues to do x,y, and z, so I don’t like it”, beyond preaching to the choir. Once or even a few times can be informative and even challenging to those who take for granted those genres’ aspects that don’t appeal to non-genre fans, but to go on and on about those same things just leaves genre fans going “Yeah, whatever” and rolling their eyes, or worse. The critic ceases to be a reviewer and just becomes a hater in their eyes, and while some are too quick to deem reviewers to be the latter (in perhaps more high minded seeming terms), I think if we are trying to evaluate a show and help other evaluate them more thoughtfully, we ought to at least try to do so from a perspective that fans can at least see eye to eye with even if they don’t agree 100%, and I think by and large this site has at least tried to aim for that, with those reviewers most amenable (and often most knowledgeable, of both their appeals and flaws) to various genres and types of shows volunteering for them. I think such genre jeremiads run contrary to that aim, and I do not look kindly on efforts to instigate such things. |
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Kendra Kirai
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I'm a little sad to see Jashin-chan not get in, but about everything else I voted for did, so I guess I can't complain TOO hard.
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DerekL1963
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Because he volunteers... The reviewers volunteer to review shows, and then ANN matches those volunteers to the poll results. I'm mostly pleased with the results (that is,as pleased as I can be with Nick on hiatus)... I wish Music Girls had also been picked up, but you can't have everything. |
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Key
Moderator
 Posts: 18194 Location: Indianapolis, IN (formerly Mimiho Valley) |
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Probably be more accurate to say that I make myself available for them. (I usually only go after 1-2 specific titles each season and then say "I'll do whatever needs done off this list" for the rest.) Frankly, though, I think Yuuna is a step above most fan service harem shows, and the fact that it got voted in, when Master of Ragnarok didn't, is a sign of wider recognition of that. |
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MarshalBanana
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I'm surprised, and happy, that Banana Fish got enough votes.
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Princess_Irene
ANN Reviewer
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It was my first choice for what I wanted to cover.  Not that I'm unhappy with what I got - I'm super excited to keep reviewing Kitaro and enjoying the other two shows a lot thus far.
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Zzshcl
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I was expecting to read the shades towards Seven Senses of the Re'Union
how bad
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64BitRatchet
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Everything I voted for got in except for Muhyo and Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation, which wasn't even on the poll.
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