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EP. REVIEW: Death March to The Parallel World Rhapsody

Skyletv wrote:

I would like reviews to be done by people who enjoy the kind of show they are watching or at least are neutral towards it. It's as if this guy is tired of the Isekai and doesn't watch them for fun but always expecting a masterpiece. :/ ... Anyway, the show has its flaws but it's been fun so far.

So normally we make every effort to do this. With rare exception (stuff like Hand Shakers or King's Game where it seems like there's no sincere audience for the show but they follow it anyway out of morbid curiosity), we always assign shows to people who genuinely enjoy them or are at least optimistic.

Unfortunately, none of our reviewers felt positively about Death March, so the chips just had to fall where they may. I'm sure James will give credit where it's due if the show improves or changes things up at all, but it sure hasn't yet.

I would like reviews to be done by people who enjoy the kind of show they are watching or at least are neutral towards it. It's as if this guy is tired of the Isekai and doesn't watch them for fun but always expecting a masterpiece. :/ ... Anyway, the show has its flaws but it's been fun so far.

Skyletv wrote:

I would like reviews to be done by people who enjoy the kind of show they are watching or at least are neutral towards it. It's as if this guy is tired of the Isekai and doesn't watch them for fun but always expecting a masterpiece. :/ ... Anyway, the show has its flaws but it's been fun so far.

I know right, they keep assigning people who are highly critical and those who looks for something "New" but immediately trashes a show for having the same concept.
it's obvious that they hate harem, isekai shows

Skyletv wrote:

I would like reviews to be done by people who enjoy the kind of show they are watching or at least are neutral towards it. It's as if this guy is tired of the Isekai and doesn't watch them for fun but always expecting a masterpiece. :/ ... Anyway, the show has its flaws but it's been fun so far.

So normally we make every effort to do this. With rare exception (stuff like Hand Shakers or King's Game where it seems like there's no sincere audience for the show but they follow it anyway out of morbid curiosity), we always assign shows to people who genuinely enjoy them or are at least optimistic.

Unfortunately, none of our reviewers felt positively about Death March, so the chips just had to fall where they may. I'm sure James will give credit where it's due if the show improves or changes things up at all, but it sure hasn't yet.

MsVitchDa2nd wrote:

Skyletv wrote: I would like reviews to be done by people who enjoy the kind of show they are watching or at least are neutral towards it. It's as if this guy is tired of the Isekai and doesn't watch them for fun but always expecting a masterpiece. :/ ... Anyway, the show has its flaws but it's been fun so far. I know right, they keep assigning people who are highly critical and those who looks for something "New" but immediately trashes a show for having the same concept. it's obvious that they hate harem, isekai shows

Go to Google (or your preferred alternative search engine), enter "Death March to The Parallel World Rhapsody episode review" & find one more to your tastes. Or, failing that, write your own. You could even write it in this very thread. ANN do these things because it's what readers want* & on the shows they voted for. Guaranteeing each review is handled by someone on staff who's both knowledgeable of & predisposed to liking each show is not on the cards - nor should it be expected.

*Personally I don't really "get" simulcast episode reviews as a concept, but plenty of people like them so what do I know?

why put James, a person that doesnt like Isekai one bit, reviewing a show that outwardly and proudly admits that its a Isekai/Harem (this by genre and/or description of the source material)

these shows should be rewieved by people that either enjoy them, but can differentiate good from bad, or people neutral to it

nobody wanted to do reviews of this show and instead of just not doing it, they give it to someone who has clearly said he doesn't like isekai. In the end, it is a situation in which neither the reviewer nor the reader benefits.

#872829 wrote:

why put James, a person that doesnt like Isekai one bit, reviewing a show that outwardly and proudly admits that its a Isekai/Harem (this by genre and/or description of the source material) these shows should be rewieved by people that either enjoy them, but can differentiate good from bad, or people neutral to it

Why would that make a difference? Even among isekai fans, Deathmarch is considered trash. About the best that can be said of it is, "At least it's not Smartphone."

Don't know what gave you that idea. Anime not withholding, Deathmarch is one of the more popular Isekai titles to date.

Above all else, what's been presented so far is boring. It just doesn't have the spark to it that the better isekai series from the past couple of years (Overlord, Saga of Tanya the Evil, Konosuba, Re:Zero) have had; hell, it's not even on the level of Knights and Magic. I don't consider that one to be a good isekai series, but at least it had a more dynamic protagonist, a clearer direction, and the sense to push its story along more rapidly.

For the same reason the term "Mary Sue" was coined. Ego trips are boring when it's not your ego being stroked.

I miss the days of The Twelve Kingdoms and Escaflowne.