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The Summer 2024 Anime Preview Guide

The fact Mori Calliope lives rent free in some people's heads and causes them so much anguish will never not be funny to me.

:sigh:

Whenever I read these things, I always get the distinct impression that, outside of the one or two subgenres each reviewer likes to the point it can do no wrong, everyone seriously hates 95% of all anime from the past three decades, and takes a distinct pride in making that contempt as clear as humanly possible.

Sure, we've all seen thousands of anime over a span of decades, so it can be a little hard to muster much enthusiasm about reviewing the latest iteration of a concept done to death, but there is a difference between making an attempt at an objective evaluation of something you are bored by, and literally dripping disgust all over the screen while clawing at every issue you have with an entire genre that you feel you can expand into a paragraph.

Sure, Maougun Saikyou has so far done nothing that hasn't been done before, but no one is going to watch it expecting anything of the sort. It's a basic fantasy power-fantasy series, and makes no attempt to hide that. And, for what it is, it's perfectly fine. It doesn't do anything to elevate itself, but it doesn't do anything significantly wrong, either. It's a classic example of a Big Mac series - you know exactly what you are going to get. Attacking it for being exactly what it is supposed to be just seems petty. Especially after one episode.

And Pre-Cure has been going through the same motions for 20 years now, and I know for a fact some of you jump onto each new iteration like an addict in withdrawal into a mountain of white powder.

If you're going to hate a series from the moment you read the title, knowing you hate the entire category of anime it exists in, you are not qualified to review it - specially when you don't even try to hide it. When the entire review can be replaced with "SSDD, FML", everyone is better off with it not existing in the first place. I know, you are obligated to write it because it is your job, but also, it is your job, so be professional? Reading those impressions are seconds of my life I will never get back, and there wasn't a single line of value in the whole lot. A poop emoji would have been a significant improvement.

I really don't even know why I even bother coming here anymore...

it's also not uncommon for first few days to have nothing but mediocre shows, and appropriately mediocre reviews, just because that's how the timeline ended up.

I don't know if I buy the whole “Amanda Waller thinks it's a good idea to invade another world for water and natural resources” bit (it sounds like some BS Flag made up)

Bertram wrote:

The fact Mori Calliope lives rent free in some people's heads and causes them so much anguish will never not be funny to me.

100%. She has done some weak and cringe songs, but this is definitely not one of them (Giga and TeddyLoid sure help).
At this point it feels less like disliking the indidivual track and more like personal hateboners or seething at another weeb "making it".

Flü wrote:

Bertram wrote: The fact Mori Calliope lives rent free in some people's heads and causes them so much anguish will never not be funny to me. 100%. She has done some weak and cringe songs, but this is definitely not one of them (Giga and TeddyLoid sure help). At this point it feels less like disliking the indidivual track and more like personal hateboners or seething at another weeb "making it".

None of the reviewers nor anyone in this thread have said anything about the artist at all, just that they don't like the ED and/or it's visuals. Stop trying to drum up imaginary drama.

None of the reviewers nor anyone in this thread have said anything about the artist at all, just that they don't like the ED and/or it's visuals. Stop trying to drum up imaginary drama.

Except in this case it is actually about the artist. A surprising number of people actively loathe her (primarily on the western side) and sometimes it genuinely feels personal.

I'm indifferent to it all myself and am not interested in getting involved in a day long debate over 90 seconds of mori calliope music for a suicide squad anime, but I've observed a good bit of vitriol firsthand.

Everything from Marvel Future Avengers and X-Men to Batman Ninja and Witchblade has been disappointing

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I don't know if I buy the whole “Amanda Waller thinks it's a good idea to invade another world for water and natural resources” bit (it sounds like some BS Flag made up)

I may not buy Waller thinking it's a good idea to invade another world for water and natural resources, but I do buy someone in the US government thinking it's a good idea to invade another world for water and natural resources, and The Wall unquestioningly carrying out the plan.