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The Summer 2017 Anime Preview Guide

Agent355 wrote:

it's a whole 'nother story to subject her to psychosexual and physical torture by stringing her up naked...that *really* gives me pause.

Guess it depends on what you are looking for in an anime. I like a bit of everything, and that includes dark stories. What you mentioned is hardly new in real life, and far horrific things have happened to kids too. There are plenty of evil parents and evil relatives doing horrific things to kids behind closed doors. When you start going into institutions that deal with kids far greater dark things can and have happened. But when you go medieval on that you enter and even darker arena. There is plenty of fluffy candy out there, plenty of clean action out there, and there is even a place for the dark stuff.

Mod asked us to move on because we're questioning how ANN handles things. They don't want us to point out what the do wrong because they perfectly know about that, but the rest of people doesn't.

In contrast to ANN reviewers, I don't have a big website, army of moderators and ad money to publish and defend my opinions, so a little offtopic talk must have do. Feel free to ban me if my input isn't welcome here, I'll take my ad revenue elsewhere.

The only exception to that is Key because he is also a reviewer, but he does not get paid to be a mod.

Psycho 101 wrote:

The only exception to that is Key because he is also a reviewer, but he does not get paid to be a mod.

This site has paid reviewers? For some reason I always imagined a room filled with monkeys and typewriters.

Random Name wrote:

Psycho 101 wrote: The only exception to that is Key because he is also a reviewer, but he does not get paid to be a mod. This site has paid reviewers? For some reason I always imagined a room filled with monkeys and typewriters.

They advertised at least twice so far for more paid reviewers. This should have been common knowledge by now.

I suspect at this point it's just the anime adaptation trying to whitewash the more disturbing parts of the original manga, but that the tone will shift more gradually as the show goes on. That's fine. The only thing I'm worried about is child abuse or torture being handwaved as no big deal.

I am actually kind of excited to check out Smartphone, if only because the series intro thing that I read made it seem ridiculously silly. It's like someone said, "This isekai thing is hot, but those other shows just water down the thrill of imagining yourself as the perfect boy with all the magic, all the girls, and all the credit for saving everyone and everything. I mean, Kirito was cool but he just had too many flaws."

Someday I am going to write an isekai LN where the boy is accidentally killed by god, and God just says, "You know what kid, I'm not so good at this god thing, so I'm transferring all my godly powers to you and you are now in charge of the universe. Also, here's 100 virgin girls for you to have all to yourself. Also, I am transforming all other boys into ugly douchebags or gender swapping them into hot girls, just to make sure your godliness has no competition. Now run along you little scamp!"