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Your Winter 2024 Daily Streaming Reviews

Honestly, gushing shouldn't have even been an option. The staff have already been pretty clear on how they feel about the show and the reviewers time would have been better spent on something else.

Honestly, gushing shouldn't have even been an option. The staff have already been pretty clear on how they feel about the show and the reviewers time would have been better spent on something else.

Zomb1e13 wrote:

Honestly, gushing shouldn't have even been an option. The staff have already been pretty clear on how they feel about the show and the reviewers time would have been better spent on something else.

I am sure ANN had the option to not cover it if they wished to.

So the full list of Preview Guide entries that didn't make the cut is:

1. 'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess
   
2. Banished From The Heroes' Party Season 2
   
3. Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki 2: Second Stage
   
4. Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!
   
5. Classroom of the Elite Season 3
   
6. Delusional Monthly Magazine
   
7. Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp
   
8. Fluffy Paradise
   
9. High Card Season 2
   
10. Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable!
    
11. Ishura
    
12. Meiji Gekken: 1874
    
13. Mr. Villain's Day Off
    
14. My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered
    
15. Sasaki and Peeps
    
16. Snack Basue
    
17. Synduality: Noir Season 2
    
18. Tales of Wedding Rings
    
19. The Demon Prince of Momochi House
    
20. The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil
    
21. The Strongest Tank's Labyrinth Raids
    
22. The Unwanted Undead Adventurer
    
23. The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash
    
24. Tsukimichi -Moonlit Fantasy Season 2
    

I am glad Gushing Over Magical Girls made it in.
I am sure ANN had the option to not cover it if they wished to.

Wow, Precure is so off-the-radar that people fail to even mention it among the also-rans.

and that one show about popes with baby hitler

Zomb1e13 wrote:

Honestly, gushing shouldn't have even been an option. The staff have already been pretty clear on how they feel about the show and the reviewers time would have been better spent on something else.

A lot of people vote for shows the reviewers really disliked hoping to get amusing joke reviews, specially if the premiere reviews were funny to read and said show ends up with either James or Nicholas, the ones who normally write high quality memes on the reviews if a show is specially bad. I sometimes reread the reviews on Hand Shakers, Ex-arms and that one show about popes with baby hitler when I'm feeling down. Those reviews are actually works of a r t, and the sole reason I watched those shows back in the day.

Personally, shows that "are so bad that loop back into being good" are super rare, and I don't think this season in particular had any that would be inspired enough to help the reviewers produce high quality memes. Gushing most issues comes from the fact its got some troublesome aspects that can understandably irk people, and that's really the only issue with it --- it's not meme review material, though I'm also pretty sure many people legitimately wanted to see being reviewed, specially once it gets into the meat of manga story.

...Also, I actually didn't vote for Gushing despite an honest interest in it, lol....

I'm fairly certain that's not what the user meant. I think they're just understanbly not excited at the possible prospect of hate-watching reviews. Those are always frankly a waste of time and only benefit those who already dislike the show and are therefore uninterested, while those who care are ignored at best and mocked at worst.

Though, this is obviously all hypothetical. I hope the reviewer who got chosen did not hate the premiere and will provide a constructive perspective.

I can genuinely think of only one time ever that a reviewer was ever “forced” to watch a show, and even then I use that term extremely loosely, since that was when we all got duped and hadn’t realized it was gonna be a stinker. Poor Gabriella (whose last name escapes me) eagerly volunteered for the first two(? Maybe just one?) seasons of Sailor Moon Crystal back when we all thought that series was going to be treated with the respect it deserved, and to her credit, she stuck it all the way out to the painful two-frame twirl of Sailor Moon’s extended Crescent Wand in the finale somewhere.

But she was very clearly not enjoying herself and had not signed up to be a hate-watcher, and that series was gracefully handed off to Rebecca Silverman, who, it must be said, was able to tease out the remaining silver linings in the Black Lady arc up until Crystal finally got a new art director and the horribly sinking ship started trying to right itself for the Holy Grail arc.

I can genuinely think of only one time ever that a reviewer was ever “forced” to watch a show, and even then I use that term extremely loosely, since that was when we all got duped and hadn’t realized it was gonna be a stinker. Poor Gabriella (whose last name escapes me) eagerly volunteered for the first two(? Maybe just one?) seasons of Sailor Moon Crystal back when we all thought that series was going to be treated with the respect it deserved, and to her credit, she stuck it all the way out to the painful two-frame twirl of Sailor Moon’s extended Crescent Wand in the finale somewhere.

But she was very clearly not enjoying herself and had not signed up to be a hate-watcher, and that series was gracefully handed off to Rebecca Silverman, who, it must be said, was able to tease out the remaining silver linings in the Black Lady arc up until Crystal finally got a new art director and the horribly sinking ship started trying to right itself for the Holy Grail arc.