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Your Spring 2021 Daily Streaming Reviews Schedule

I don’t know if it’s because Covid messed with the typical airing schedule and made this year look particularly filled to bursting by comparison or what, but I felt so spoiled for choice that I already knew that a lot of what I was personally hoping for probably wasn’t going to make the cut, even with all the new voices added to the reviewers pile. That said, have we seen work from Callum before? I didn’t see their name on the Preview Guide, but they got nominated for 86; I was kinda hoping to see what their writing style was like.

whiskeyii wrote:

I don’t know if it’s because Covid messed with the typical airing schedule and made this year look particularly filled to bursting by comparison or what, but I felt so spoiled for choice that I already knew that a lot of what I was personally hoping for probably wasn’t going to make the cut, even with all the new voices added to the reviewers pile. That said, have we seen work from Callum before? I didn’t see their name on the Preview Guide, but they got nominated for 86; I was kinda hoping to see what their writing style was like.

You might know him better as CanipaShow or The Canipa Effect. He also wrote this rather popular piece for us about Ex-Arm.

http://4NN.cx/.166117

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheCanipaEffect

octopodpie wrote:

whiskeyii wrote: I don’t know if it’s because Covid messed with the typical airing schedule and made this year look particularly filled to bursting by comparison or what, but I felt so spoiled for choice that I already knew that a lot of what I was personally hoping for probably wasn’t going to make the cut, even with all the new voices added to the reviewers pile. That said, have we seen work from Callum before? I didn’t see their name on the Preview Guide, but they got nominated for 86; I was kinda hoping to see what their writing style was like. You might know him better as CanipaShow or The Canipa Effect. He also wrote this rather popular piece for us about Ex-Arm. http://4NN.cx/.166117 https://www.youtube.com/user/TheCanipaEffect

Any chance of animation break downs from them on ANN?

This is one of the highest numbers of reviewed titles ANN has ever had for a season, with some titles making it in that definitely wouldn't have made the cut in 2019 or early 2020. Everything that I was interested in seeing reviewed that I thought had any chance of making it did make it. (I was not expecting Cestvs to make it, even though I voted for it.)

I wonder why ANN didn't review Thunderbolt Fantasy 3 in the Preview Guide. Crunchyroll says episode 1 was available on April 3 for premium users and on April 10 for free users. To Your Eternity was available for premium users on April 12 and was in the Preview Guide. Could it be because it uses puppetry instead of animation? I'm guessing Thunderbolt Fantasy 3 would have gotten more votes if it was in the Preview Guide.

octopodpie wrote:

You might know him better as CanipaShow or The Canipa Effect. He also wrote this rather popular piece for us about Ex-Arm.http://4NN.cx/.166117 https://www.youtube.com/user/TheCanipaEffect

Expect a lot of animation coverage in the 86 reviews!

Hi yes I'm the guy who voted for the inclusion of Joran. I (tentatively) don't agree with the sentiment that it's a bad show. It's got a satisfying visual flair, and while most of the characters are unlikable, amoral, self-centered killers, the fact that we're only three episodes in and have already had multiple betrayals and double-crossings means that it won't be boring, at the very least

Malsang wrote:

Hi yes I'm the guy who voted for the inclusion of Joran. I (tentatively) don't agree with the sentiment that it's a bad show. It's got a satisfying visual flair, and while most of the characters are unlikable, amoral, self-centered killers, the fact that we're only three episodes in and have already had multiple betrayals and double-crossings means that it won't be boring, at the very least

Me too! I don't know where the hate comes from. The animation is OK, the world-building is interesting, the characters have more shadows than lights, true, but that's interesting too, at least they have SOME personality, even if a dark one. Of course it can derail later, but quoting a great man
"This is no Gibiate boy! No Gibiate"

(I am grateful to the forumite who referred to it as "Shimbo's Himbos")