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INTEREST: Crunchyroll Reveals Most-Watched Series for January to March 2020

Is everyone know why CR do that?

Since the U.S. is not on the list, it seems other countries have us beat when it comes to streaming anime.

From the list at the bottom, "Columbia" is not a country. You either meant Colombia or Crunchyroll decided to list a city in South Carolina in its per-country statistics

Just a reminder kids.
The only thing missing from Colombia is u.

Damn Darling’s been over for whole now.

If it takes a good 100+ episodes to finally be able to say a show is a good, that is not an achievement or a high level of endorsement.

I realize I'm not going to be making any friends for this, but my hope is someone will come across this post and take a moment to think about it or at least not take every critic's word at face value.If nothing else, at least encourage more people to check out Radiant or give it a second chance if you ended up dropping it rather than randomly asking on Twitter or whatever online channel "is it good?"

To be blunt, all of the major anime outlets (including ANN) did this series a huge disservice. While every other shonen airing at the time stumbled to a degree or fell into bad habits, Radiant 2 for the bulk of its run built up momentum by actually allowing its cast to grow with genuine consequences as opposed to relying on old tropes or gags. It added more than a handful of strong, independent characters that adds layers beyond Seth's journey to find Radiant and fleshes out the two main leads in ways most shonen almost never do; at least this early on.

And while I don't fault the mainstream outlets for covering what's popular, it rubs me the wrong way whenever a post or one of the larger Twitter outlets try to sell the idea that whatever is "hot" at the time is suddenly the pinnacle of shonen or just want to jump on the bandwagon.

And while I don't fault the mainstream outlets for covering what's popular, it rubs me the wrong way whenever a post or one of the larger Twitter outlets try to sell the idea that whatever is "hot" at the time is suddenly the pinnacle of shonen or just want to jump on the bandwagon. Just looking at the most recent seasons of the most popular airing shows at the time and breaking them down:

#AnonymousOne wrote:

To be blunt, all of the major anime outlets (including ANN) did this series a huge disservice. While every other shonen airing at the time stumbled to a degree or fell into bad habits, Radiant 2 for the bulk of its run built up momentum by actually allowing its cast to grow with genuine consequences as opposed to relying on old tropes or gags. It added more than a handful of strong, independent characters that adds layers beyond Seth's journey to find Radiant and fleshes out the two main leads in ways most shonen almost never do; at least this early on. And while I don't fault the mainstream outlets for covering what's popular, it rubs me the wrong way whenever a post or one of the larger Twitter outlets try to sell the idea that whatever is "hot" at the time is suddenly the pinnacle of shonen or just want to jump on the bandwagon.

Ugh, you would've been more effective getting your point across if you weren't such bitter fanboy whose butthurt because the anime community and media outlets didn't give your favorite show the time of day and would rather talk about shows that are more worthwhile. If Radiant's first season wasn't so unremarkable then maybe more people would've bothered giving it a shot. Besides bashing whatever's popular is a pretty "bandwagon" thing to do.