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joemuszynski
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Sound! Euphonium remains uncontested, but….. but nothing. A magnificent series. Nice to see a slice of life triumph in these rankings. Anyway, that’s how I feel.
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Angel M Cazares
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I am also happy that Eupho is top. In my opinion this was the number 1 show during Summer because it is a beloved show made by beloved studio KyoAni, which is bouncing back from a horrific tragedy. Don't give me wrong, Sound! Euphonium is a great anime, but it has a very special place in the hearts of many fans. |
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Jabootu
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Seconded that it's great to see a slice of life series at the top. (Even much of Mushoku Tensei this season as slice of life, albeit in a fantasy world.) That's a really strong top ten list, although I admit I find Irregular at Magic High kind of just OK. Still, it has it's fans, and more power to them. I am also happy that Tsukimichi was pretty high at #11, because I really like that show quite a bit. I know the reviewer of the first season (they didn't review it this time around) REALLY didn't like when it went edgelord for one episode, but it turns out to have been a pivotal event as the show continues. Makoto never goes completely over the dark side, indeed, he's still at heart a kind man. He's learned to focus on protecting his own, though, and doesn't feel like it's necessarily his obligation to save everyone. So the edgelord episode just signaled a shift towards a somewhat more realist moral balance rather than signaling a new dark aesthetic. I'd love to see the third season of the show reviewed weekly again. Frankly, it was better than Slime this season, I thought.
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T.A. Barnhart
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somehow not listed? easily the best show of the season. the music is probably the best ever for a music anime, and the cgi was at a level not seen before. so much detail & imagination, almost Bocchi-esque. i loved this show, the characters, the music. all of it. #1.
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Jabootu
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Re: Cry Girl Band
I hear that show is indeed great. However, I think there are probably enough people like me who refuse to steal anime that isn't legally available, or worse, that they just don't want to pay to watch. So CGB if that's true just wouldn't have enough votes to make it register. |
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T.A. Barnhart
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this show was only on Japanese networks. not licensed (yet?). Toei is not a fan-friendly producer. they don't even see the value of letting YTers have fair use for critique and commentary values (something the US rightly allows). perhaps they had no idea they'd produced such a good show. whatever. it's the attitudes of the producers & licensors that drive my decisions. they treat fans like scum & good for nothing but getting money.
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Jabootu
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Exactly, T.A. Barnhart! That fact explains why it's not on the list. Not enough people have seen it to give it a rating one way or the other. Hopefully a legal site will pick up the rights to it someday, and then people can give it a better chance. That's not the situation now, though. And yeah, that sucks.
Well, yes, that's in fact what they should be doing (not the treating the fans like scum part, I think that's a tad exaggerated). But they are a company, and companies exist to get money from customers. They do that by creating wares that inspire said customers to voluntarily give them said monies. That's not a sordid state of affairs in any way. The problem here is that appear to be bad capitalists. They could make more money by selling someone the U.S. streaming rights. Although it's possible that they don't think it's worth it for the amount of extra money they'd make. Maybe they are rightly worried about U.S. companies censoring their stuff and don't want to bother dealing with it on a case by case basis. That would fall under artistic integrity and I would champion that if true. Hopefully HiDive continues to be, in part, the service that doesn't censor their shows past what the rights holders want them to (i.e, supplying HiDive with a censored version to start with to promote Blu Ray sales). But really, you'd almost be talking the same case if they had sold the rights to Disney / Hulu. The percentage of anime fans who pay for those services is probably pretty small. It's better than a given show not being out there at all, but I know I'm not paying top dollar for services that are only going to provide like one anime a season, even if it's a good one. |
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