Anime News Network (ANN), Christopher Macdonald & Co. - "Unbiased" Reporting on All Things Anime Related By Snobbish Quebec-Based Web Company. Acquired by Kadokawa.

Hey dipshit, are you getting PAID by them, you are on their payroll, and, um, ackshulleeyy, they DO want you not piss over their shows, they're japanese, they just don't say the quiet part aloud nimrod, you're supposed to know that, but I guess not, fucking retard...
I sometimes like to think that someone at Kadokawa just had a drunken eccentric Dubai Sheikh type mood where he just bought ANN cause he can have the bragging rights/conversation starter of "Why yes, I own the X (formerly Twitter) handle named "Anime" itself".
Nah, it's obvious why they bought it.
They wanted an american/english press branch for their company, saw that ANN used to have decent reach and clout and thought the staff would be willing to promote/hype up their works.
The poor fools.
But I guess they are getting what they need out of ANN, since they haven't shuttered it yet.
I'm not for people losing their jobs and such, but, I'm not gonna be sad when that day happens to ANN.
 
ANN's worst anime of Spring: https://archive.fo/46jNs
Nick and Farris picked Girls Band Cry, not because they didn't like it but they wanted to complain about the lack of simulcast. I mean bad move on Toei's part, but stick to the assignment man...

ANN misleadingly chose a Girls Band Cry picture as the thumbnail for the article. Lot of people on Twitter taking the piss out of this, and the response from ANN staff and others is a "lol looks like you didn't read". Somehow no one is thinking that maybe it's ANN's fault for the misleading thumbnail choice.
Similarily, there's one guy who took Farris's write-up the wrong way because of his bad sarcasm, and is also getting flak for it with no one thinking maybe Farris could've written the message a bit better.

The other picks? Oh yeah, James back to whining about how much Demon Slayer sucks and whining because fans dragged him for his take, and Lucas sperging about isekai.
 
Only looked at her tweet, but going off of it...shit, Caitlin has gone back to ANN's preview guide this season. Thought job changes were why she quit it last fall...but then again, considering her job, she's probably off for the summer.
 
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I haven't even looked at the preview guide reviews because I don't read those anymore. Surely they aren't trying to make this show tranime?
 
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I haven't even looked at the preview guide reviews because I don't read those anymore. Surely they aren't trying to make this show tranime?
They're trying really hard. Only one interviewer didn't refer to Makoto as "they/them." This is turning out exactly how I thought it was going to turn out.
It's all so stupid, the subtitle of the show is quite literally "This is HIM, can't be anyone else."
 
Don't even have to read the preview guide to know what show set her off, it looks like!
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I also see from her Twitter she likes Quality Assurance in Another World, but of course has to go "unlike other isekai...".
Holy hell!
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Updates ongoing on this one.

In other news, looks like ANN's Jacki Jing was host of a Bandai Namco panel at Anime Expo and just pissed off Digimon fans by laughing at someone who asked about Digimon news.
 
Oh, so now your not a journo or critic or anything that has the capacity to be critized huh Cuntlyn?
You do know though that this is the internet, right?
People are going to take pot shots at you regardless, moreso for who YOU are, you can't escape that.
Get thicker skin bitch, or get off the net... :roll:
 
Ran into some bits of autism from Caitlin on the preview guide and its forum thread. Most were just the usual bullshit, but have her Plus-Sized Elf review:
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I believe you said you're a reader of the manga, so you'll like this one @Xenomorphs Are Cute
Literally fucking retarded. She's semi-right (about it being a ecchi manga), but she says it in such a patronizing way she comes of as cunt like usual.
 
Just found Vrai's premiere review of Senpai is an Otokonoko on AniFem: https://archive.ph/jYPu0

The review itself is about what you'd expect, though Vrai does come across a bit more negative than the ANN preview guide reviewers and takes a jab at the ChudsTM. The comment section, OTOH, is a glorious smorgasboard of autism. Definitely worth the read if you don't mind going off the archive and giving AniFem a hit
 
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That's funny. I thought you closed your AniFem article about that by outright saying the whole series should be disowned because of that director, while dismissing the points you bring up now.
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"the worst shonen slop" because I guess she finally realized she's beaten the isekai dead horse to shreds.
 
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ANN did a very embarrassing interview with the Delicious with Delicious in Dungeon Manga Creator Ryoko Kui where they desperately begged her to confirm their dog shit lefty takes and she answers with a based
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Some examples:
Laois is NOT autistic
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Senshi's underwear shot was not ment be fanservice but to be a gag
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Kui doesn't care that you think Falin and Marcielle are gay

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ANN did a very embarrassing interview with the Delicious with Delicious in Dungeon Manga Creator Ryoko Kui where they desperately begged her to confirm their dog shit lefty takes and she answers with a based
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Some examples:
Laois is NOT autistic
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Senshi's underwear shot was not ment be fanservice but to be a gag
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Kui doesn't care that you think Falin and Marcielle are gay

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C'mon, if you're going to share interviews don't forget to include who the interviewer was!

(it is Lynzee)
 
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ANN did a very embarrassing interview with the Delicious with Delicious in Dungeon Manga Creator Ryoko Kui where they desperately begged her to confirm their dog shit lefty takes and she answers with a based
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Some examples:
Laois is NOT autistic
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Senshi's underwear shot was not ment be fanservice but to be a gag
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Kui doesn't care that you think Falin and Marcielle are gay

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She gets a chance to interview one of the most popular mangaka currently going right now and instead of asking questions about things like the world building or how the series came to be, she instead asks retarded Twitter questions to get Kui to confirm their stupid headcanons that are only ever going to be used for "Take that, Chud" nonsense instead of actual nuanced discussion?

And she still couldn't get any straight answers from Kui lmao.

What a terrible excuse of an interview.
 
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