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Spotlight: Princess Resurrection

What the hell was this?

An info-mercial article?

Who is Jason Green, the author?... He's not listed on the staff page.

This was put into the "spotlight" article category but reads like a paid-for advertisement written by PR people.
There's nothing wrong with companies using the site to promote their shows, as the current Higurashi banner proves, but this "article" is not marked in any way as advertising, nor is it a "review" of any sort. It's this type of line-blurring that is dangerous for any site that claims to be an impartial news source.

samuelp wrote:

What the hell was this? An info-mercial article? Who is Jason Green, the author?... He's not listed on the staff page. This was put into the "spotlight" article category but reads like a paid-for advertisement written by PR people. There's nothing wrong with companies using the site to promote their shows, as the current Higurashi banner proves, but this "article" is not marked in any way as advertising, nor is it a "review" of any sort. It's this type of line-blurring that is dangerous for any site that claims to be an impartial news source.

Jason Green is currently writing features for us. He wrote the Gurren-Lagann feature we ran last month. He has also written extensively for Protoculture Addicts.

This is a very standard sort of article; an introduction to the show, who made it, and what you might expect from it. It is nonpartisan, simply an introduction to the series.

This is, at its core, a magazine-style feature. It profiles a show, and that's it. It's absolutely no different from the "preview" features you read in any major video game (or anime or movie) publications, online or in print.

If you like your horror served up with just a little bit of a lighter side, be sure to keep an eye out for Princess Resurrection when it arrives this Spring.

The Gurren Lagann piece was a lot better IMO. Even though it was clearly a feature it had a lot of research and interesting info about the origins of the show that made it worthwhile to read. This feature, however, contains nothing other than a (glowing) description of the show itself and a bunch of information that ANN already reported.
If you had included an interview or some kind of new information it would make it seem a lot less like a purely promotional piece.

That being said, ADV signed it's death note (every pun intended) when it licensed Clannad. This is a much better license; that being said, that doesn't make this show a winner, it just makes it better than the crap known as Clannad.

Uh, wow. It's deliciously ironic to see a feature for this so 'glowing' when both the anime and manga had been slammed heavily elsewhere on ANN. (the manga in Right Turn Only or perhaps a review (I can't remember),and the anime in a new anime season preview guide)
Naturally after reading both of those reviews on the same site it was very hard to take this seriously at all.

abstract-alchemist wrote:

That being said, ADV signed it's death note (every pun intended) when it licensed Clannad. This is a much better license; that being said, that doesn't make this show a winner, it just makes it better than the crap known as Clannad.

and the quite massive Clannad fan following including the many people waiting to buy it (myself included) disaggree with you. I really don't understand why people conclude something is or will be a failure based on nothing else than "I (a single person) didn't like it." Learn to think and observe people.

Uh, its called different reviewers dude. Its not ironic that this guy had a different opinion than the ones who reviewed the manga and anime back then, its called diverse opinion. Go read the different reviews in the last preview guide and tell me there's no shows there that aren't "slammed" by one person while "glorified" by another. Even between the Shelf Life and regular reviews there's shows that get contrasting reviews, is that "ironic" as well? The ANN staff are not going to have the same opinion on everything, there's no golden rule like that. Sheesh...

...oh and Tyrenol, the fact that you are still parroting your misiformed crap about Clannad is depressing as ever. I still don't know why you think its about 'beating up weak guys who don't fight back' when a) said character is not the main character in the first place and b)He brings it on himself which could be called 'fighting back in advance'. I don't see why you think your retarded proganda has any place in a thread that has absolutley nothing to di with Clannad, though.