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FilthyCasual
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Curses, foiled by reviewers having actual agency. Where's the corruption in Anime Journalism when you need it? |
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Time Bandit
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Yay, almost everything I wanted is getting reviewed! That makes me a happy happy girl.
I am also on the sad bus about Beatless though. I am really enjoying the show (especially these past few episodes!), and Theron really did a great job with those reviews. Also bummed about Amanchu and Rokuhoudou Yotsuiro Biyori...I love me some nice calming shows. And I was kinda hoping for Fist of the Blue Sky...not pretty in the slightest, but I'm looking forwards to the story and violence. |
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CrowLia
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Agreed that I'm glad MGS didn't make it, even if a part of me kind of wished it would get trashed just to spite the nazis on twitter. But yeah, no one was gonna enjoy watching that, no point wasting time and energy on it, I actually didn't vote for it. OTOH, I did vote for Devil's Line because it seemed a good fit for trashy show of the season, I'm a lil disappointed it didn't make it through. I'm very curious as to what will be the Chaos Dragon of the season, there doesn't seem to be any obvious candidate. Maybe Caligula?
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Gina Szanboti
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I don't even need to post, when you say it all for me. 
I'm kinda sad about Beatless being dropped too. I nearly dropped it myself, but reading the reviews first made me want to see the episodes, even if I didn't have much to add to the discussion. Without that nudge, I might not make it to the end. :/ While that sounds like damning with faint praise, what I'm trying to say is that the reviews were really useful to me and I'll miss them. I'm surprised to hear that Ramens nearly got voted in last season, given the total cold shoulder it was given afterwards here. I will say again that I hope this season This Week in Anime will be used to cover series that don't already have a dedicated weekly review. It just seems like a waste to have two more people reviewing something that's already got weekly coverage, along with inevitable mentions on the podcast (plus the occasional feature article), while ignoring "fringe" series altogether. Anyway, looks like a pretty good season to me. My dance card is certainly filled! |
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ThatGuyWhoLikesThings
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Comparing Caligula to Chaos Dragon is ew imo. Out of all the shows picked for streaming reviews, there doesn't seem to be any clear choice for "that one trashy show everyone enjoys dunking on". I guess if Golden Kamui has an awful CGI bear every week, that's probably our best bet. |
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zrnzle500
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Albeit for the past month or so, it’s been “What’s new on Netflix?” more often than not. I do agree that I’d like to see that column acting more as a complement to the other coverage here than just another view of shows already covered weekly. |
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Terrible90sDub
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I also voted for Devil's Line as the hate watch choice. Parts of the first episode of that one at least fall into hilarious territory, and while it's usually less amusing, the second episode gives us "I came via telephone pole" ... *proceeds to leave by hopping on telephone poles like a vampire-bunny* Both Magical Girl Site and Doreiku were ridiculous and poorly made yet were only unpleasant to watch. You'd think a show involving mind-altering slavery dental retainers would own its own absurdity (or own its fetishy parts as, well, fetishy), but instead it went for trying to come off as serious and pretentious. Magical Girl Site was even worse with how edgy it was trying to come across.
Every season I look for another Vatican Miracle Examiner fun-horrible caliber anime, but alas... So yeah, I'm glad both of those titles didn't make it in, and I'm particularly happy that Ore won out over Site. I'm also surprised that everything I voted for - other than my hate watch choice - made it in this time, as that never happens.
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Takkun4343
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I dunno, I actually kinda like that approach. At least, I like how it appears through my watching lens. |
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jr240483
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it should get a proper review! sure its not the prettiest and the most uber violent and ultra abusive series yet when it comes to the dark magical girl genre, but there have been worse. also if the series is 100% faithful to the manga, it does get better later on in the volumes! so while the series definitely leaves something to be desired, its not gutter trash just yet! |
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Lord Vaultman
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Really excited about most of these shows.
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Florete
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I guess I'll be the different one when I say I'm disappointed Magical Girl Site didn't make it in. Yeah, in a way I'd feel bad for the reviewer, but I think the reviews would be entertaining, and I think watching it alongside the reviews would be fun.
I am a little surprised Uma Musume didn't make it. I am not surprised Amanchu Advance didn't make it, being a sequel of a less-popular show. And that was three of my votes. Go figure. Another of my votes, and one that I actually didn't expect to be picked up, is Comic Girls. I guess it left more of an impact on viewers than it seemed. I will also be following Steins;Gate 0, Gun Gale Online, Golden Kamuy, and Cutie Honey Universe, the latter two of which I'm not actually watching but waiting to see if they'll be any good. |
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Gina Szanboti
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Well that's ok (heck it could be a whole separate column!) since by the time series jailbreak out of Netflix purgatory most times people have forgotten they exist and could use some incentive to go look for them. But yeah, using that space as a resource for otherwise overlooked anime seems better than just more views on already saturation-covered series. |
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Mad_Scientist
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Not a bad lineup, but I am deeply disappointed Horse Girls didn't make it. I guess I'll just have to look forward to possible This Week In Anime/full season reviews for it down the line.
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Hiroki not Takuya
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An outside possibility is Magical Girl Ore if it falls on it's face but so far looks like it wouldn't. To answer an earlier post questioning if people are picking shows just to rip on, I think that's a misunderstanding. As one of the connoisseurs of stinkers, the goal isn't to rip on poor shows for the heck of it but to get entertainment from a reviewer pointing out and sometimes making fun of all the many ways some shows fail. A show to be worthy of this can't just have bad visuals or plot holes but must fail across many areas that sometimes compound with each other. Vatican Miracle Examiner Ep1-4 is a recent example but the rest of the show became just poor and so was not really worthy. It seems many of us have the same set of shows that we are unsure of as all my picks are represented (had no interest in MGS). 
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Time Bandit
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...yeah...I'm noticing this as a trend as well... Last season we didn't get reviews for Saniro Boys, Touken Ranbu 2, and IDOLiSH7. And this season we didn't get Libra of Nil or Rokuhoudou Yotsuiro Biyori. Kinda sad 'bout all of these cause I voted for all of them. I love me some bishounen. <3 I still stand by IDOLiSH7. This show is really really good, and it's sad that it gets so little recognition here. It's not just pretty boys, but amazing music and a damn good story (that I was not expecting in the slightest!) as well. Honestly, I am crossing my fingers that the app will get an English release, cause hells yes will I play that. |
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