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NEWS: 'Wanna Be the Strongest in the World' Female Wrestling Anime's Ad Aired

Yeah, that's just bullshit. People disagree with positive statements all the time.

People like SA sneered at those morons who dismissed Free! before it aired just because it was obviously a fanservice service show with dudes, but apparently that attitude is just fine if its a fanservice show with women.

Ya know what's funny? I've never once seen anyone condescendingly tell someone off for looking at a preview and saying "Hey, this looks like it will be really good". But any time someone looks at a preview and says "This looks like it will be really bad" a bunch of people totally lose it and start ranting about how stupid they are for judging it based only on a preview. It makes it pretty obvious that the people preaching are actually just mad because others' initial reaction was negative when their own was positive.

Which has everything to do with a double standard and nothing to do with how Haruka and co. do not spend every breathing moment looking and sounding like they're being sexually assaulted

Just FTR I have. I'm Mexican, pro-wres (or Lucha Libre, as we call it) is big here, and I remember Lady Apache being one of my favorite wrestlers growing up (and Octagón and Máscara Sagrada for the men). She and her peers did nothing of the sort of moaning like she was in heat and everything about roaring, swearing and shouting battle cries. Yes, their outfits are sexy and skimpy like in this anime, but they didn't shove their boobs into the camera, they tossed their opponents all over the ring and crushed them while screaming victoriously.

Then again, pro-wres may have had a 180 degree turn in the ten years it's been since I last watched it, which would be a real shame.

ikc - yeah, I'd agree that people are more likely to take offense at a negative opinion based on a brief PV as opposed to a positive opinion*. So what? No doubt if somebody said Berserk looked "horrible" on the basis of a brief PV you'd think they were a twit, too.

Previews are intended to try and sell us the show, it's the show putting it's best foot forward to try and attract viewers. This show is selling fanservice and girls in compromising positions while uttering grunts of pain. That's most of the PV. A lot of people will judge what they see in previews, almost everyone here has, at some point, decided whether or not they were going to watch something based on a preview.

From the preview I can tell this is something I'm not interested in, but if it gets a lot of positive buzz, I might check it out.

As a general rule, there isn't much useful you can say about any show based on PVs, but coming into a thread and stomping around about how much you think it will suck is easily the least useful thing you can do.

I have never seen a poster claim that a series was going to be great based on nothing more than a brief PV. I have seen posters say stuff like "I'm looking forward to this" but that's not the same as saying, "obviously based on nothing but this brief PV this show must be great." Feel free to point out an example like this if you can.

However, I have seen lots of flip-side comments where people like yourself - who simply don't like any fanservice at all - will assume a show must be "horrible" based on nothing more than a brief PV.

people like yourself - who simply don't like any fanservice at all...