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Ah yes. Just as expected. Reviewers of "Gushing Over Magical Girls" are affraid of getting cancelled if they write anything positive about show with 14-year old uncensored boobs. Well, we know they don't even exist and are just drawings but people on twitter defend rights of drawings harder than real people so... Well, if you like this show better don't admit it and sign it with your name Wink

I mean, I don't claim it's a great show but it's still pretty evident here xD
But maybe I'll get suprised and someone comes out with fair, normal score instead of dead doves etc?

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ab2143 wrote:

Will anyone be reviewing Pokémon concierge?

Yes, we have a full-length review that will be published soon (along with continuing reviews for fall shows that wrapped up)

Ani-Mad Libs time!

It's been [period of time] since the sudden appearance of the [synonym for entryway]. Since then, certain humans, called [Edgelord Chunibuyo BS name] have awakened to [supernatural/cosmic/spiritual] powers!

Thespacemaster wrote:

Sometime i wonder if Ecchi titles can truly ever get a fair review as can u critisize a show in terms of story, characters, direction and artstyle if the main foucs is the ecchiness in the first place? im talking about Ghusiing over MAgical girls but im also talking about these types of shows in general.

Ecchi gets a fair shake all the time on here. Your problem seems to be that you want them to only comment on how well the titties be bouncing, and that's a boring review.

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A lot of people go in reviewing a show like this with disdain or harsh critcism but if the story in question is providing exactly what it was intending, shouldn't the point of the review is focusing on reviewing if does correctly what it sets out to be done? instead of all this harsh tone?

...They did review the content that was provided. It made them uncomfortable due to the fact that the characters were 13 years old, but they all talked about the content.

As said before, if a reviewer finds the content to personally disgust them, then they say so because it's literally their job to give an honest opinion.

flamemasterelan wrote:

Ecchi gets a fair shake all the time on here. Your problem seems to be that you want them to only comment on how well the titties be bouncing, and that's a boring review.

I think reviews trashing on the show for being what it wants to be and delivering aren't exactly entertaining either. That's the problem. It's all samey and predictable reviews every time an ecchi show like this comes around. Feels like complaining about the gore in Genocyber. Or making a large part of a Record of Ragnarok review a complaint about how it's mostly fights (instead of the animation quality and other stuff). Most of the content of these reviews is "ecchi bad and scary" and there's the problem

I feel like complaining about the treatment of lewd titles on the this site loses a lot of validity after the absolutely glowing reviews lavished on 100 Girlfriends last season- and that was not a particularly reserved show.

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b-dragon wrote:

I feel like complaining about the treatment of lewd titles on the this site loses a lot of validity after the absolutely glowing reviews lavished on 100 Girlfriends last season- and that was not a particularly reserved show.

It was, lmao. All the fanservice is some ocassinal nudity (not very common and doesn't even show nipples) or kisses. In terms of fanservice it's pretty vanilla. Lots of shows that go much much further: DxD, Triage X, Higshchool of the Dead, Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai (https://anidb.net/anime/12324, not to be confused with the other Nanatsu), Queen's Blade, Shinmai Maou Testament,Valkyrie Drive,Futoku no Guild. 100gfs isn't 100% all ages wholesome, but it's far from being super-ecchi or anything. It's quite low on the lewd scale. At least the first cour/season that just ended

Perhaps someone who is reviewing an ecchi comedy anime should enjoy ecchi comedy shows to be qualified to write a review. The reviews by Nicholas and James seemed to be entirely focused on feigning concern and condemnation for a clearly advertised ecchi show instead of discussing any of its actual appeals or merits.

As a viewer, I'm not concerned with the reviewer's repetitive and exaggerated prudish declarations -- I want to know about the show!! Was it exciting or boring? How was the animation? The music? The characters!?

Thank you Rebecca for actually describing the episode.

There is a balance to be had in ecchi comedy shows as to the content in them. Some of them feel like the whole thing is just an excuse to show boobs as often as possible while others also have some interesting characters, story and more going for them. If the only thing of note is the (underage) ecchi and you feel particularly strong against that....yeah, I can see it turning that person off real bad. As mentioned though, 100 Girlfriends is plenty ecchi yet did great on the site, so it is not like the site is anti ecchi.

b-dragon wrote:

I feel like complaining about the treatment of lewd titles on the this site loses a lot of validity after the absolutely glowing reviews lavished on 100 Girlfriends last season- and that was not a particularly reserved show.

Execution is key, for anything. The protagonist in 100 Gilfriends is really likeable, everyone in that story is absolutely onboard with the horny and are having fun with it. It's wholesome. I'm not even a fan of harem and ecchi, but not only I could see how someone could have a blast with that, I enjoyed some of the episodes.

Besides, are you really comparing *this* to 100 Gilrfriends? Absolute heresy. Even if we ignore the problematic elements that could easily turn people off, this show just ain't in the same level of quality as 100 Girlfriends.

Tbh, people get too hang up on the scores. The reviewers did say that someone who's into this sort of ecchi may enjoy the show for what it is: mindless (softcore) porn.

They weren't into it because of the rest of the baggage the show brings, which is absolutely fair, on top of the fact that the show just isn't good at anything else other than the underage BDSM porn, thus the joke/low scores. Personally, I really enjoy when they use joke scores, numbers are boring and words do a better job of explaining the show to me Laughing

The Dead dove image had me rolling, even if it's not quite how people normally use that tag.

Besides, we all know each reviewer's taste and this site general stance on this stuff. This ain't a surprise my people. People coming here, surprised pikachu style, to say the obvious is amusing. You are supposed to find a reviewer whose taste aligns with yours, in general, and pay extra attention to their take on the matter to see if you'll enjoy a show or not.

bassgs435 wrote:

I think reviews trashing on the show for being what it wants to be and delivering aren't exactly entertaining either. That's the problem. It's all samey and predictable reviews every time an ecchi show like this comes around. Feels like complaining about the gore in Genocyber. Or making a large part of a Record of Ragnarok review a complaint about how it's mostly fights (instead of the animation quality and other stuff). Most of the content of these reviews is "ecchi bad and scary" and there's the problem

Except, that's not the content of their reviews. They don't have a problem with ecchi, they have a problem with the content in this series. Each of these reviewers have given positive impressions or reviews of ecchi series before.

riefu24 wrote:

Perhaps someone who is reviewing an ecchi comedy anime should enjoy ecchi comedy shows to be qualified to write a review. The reviews by Nicholas and James seemed to be entirely focused on feigning concern and condemnation for a clearly advertised ecchi show instead of discussing any of its actual appeals or merits.

Nice first post. "Only people who like this content should be allowed to review it."

[EDIT: Personal insult removed. No matter what you think of the person or their viewpoint, you don't do that here. - Key]

MahoAko is a very raw series where sexual assault is the name of the game, it's a given that most people are going to be repulsed by it
I find focusing so much on the middle school thing is a bit silly in the sense that being high schoolers wouldn't really be any better as anime middle and high schoolers are virtually identical in terms of depiction and behaviour. The choice of school age is there simply because that's the setting of most mahou shoujo shows.
But to each their boundaries

Anyway I do have a lot of respect for this series. In that wild maelstrom of perversion, silly jokes and funny faces there are many legitimately cool moments and great character interactions. Don't worry if the characters aren't showing a lot of personality now, these introductory chapters are more preoccupied with introducing its concept. The characters and plot come later. And for anyone worried about the little girl on the opening and ending spoiler[ nothing lewd ever happens to her. Even this series has boundaries]

flamemasterelan wrote:

Except, that's not the content of their reviews. They don't have a problem with ecchi, they have a problem with the content in this series. Each of these reviewers have given positive impressions or reviews of ecchi series before.

It’s most of the content for this review. The focus is “ecchi bad”. As I said, the ecchi shows that did better are much lighter on the content

There’s a reason I compared to Genocyber or Record of Ragnarok, which have a similarly focus on gore and fights respectively as MahoAko has on ecchi

b-dragon wrote:

I feel like complaining about the treatment of lewd titles on the this site loses a lot of validity after the absolutely glowing reviews lavished on 100 Girlfriends last season- and that was not a particularly reserved show.

riefu24 wrote:

Perhaps someone who is reviewing an ecchi comedy anime should enjoy ecchi comedy shows to be qualified to write a review. The reviews by Nicholas and James seemed to be entirely focused on feigning concern and condemnation for a clearly advertised ecchi show instead of discussing any of its actual appeals or merits.

The combination of these posts being made one after another, nine minutes apart, amuses me.

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Yet, while I went into Solo Leveling with as open a mind as possible, I couldn't help wondering through the whole thing why, exactly, this was the seasonal Chosen One.

Newly scanlated chapters of the webtoon were once known to regularly crash the scanlation community's preferred website for them. I'm pretty sure it was bigger than any other Korean webtoon in those circles, even the likes of the earlier Tower of God. And I, too, once checked it out and couldn't help wondering, "What's the big deal?"

I've since seen comments to the effect that the original novel it's based on is nothing special, but the webtoon has really pretty art. And… I guess? Gonna take more than that to compete in the anime world, though. I'm pretty sure the premise of "so one day videogame dungeons started appearing in the real world" is a dime a dozen in any language with a thriving webnovel scene -- Korean, Japanese, English, Chinese, etc.

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I used that classic Arrested Development gag up there as a rating for the premiere of Gushing Over Magical Girls, not because I am trying to imply that watching the show is literally like snacking on the rotting carcass of a neglected fowl, but because the title for this anime should serve as the same kind of warning as the note taped onto that suspiciously soggy looking bag.

For those of you in this thread whose time of peak activity in the fanfic scene was over a decade ago, like me, it's also seen a fair amount of use as a warning tag on AO3.

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