In which Nick reveals he doesn't actually know as much about production as he thinks
He predictably ignored the guy's explanation for that cut.
The show is Dahlia in Bloom, where Nick has made it a weekly routine to dismiss the entire show over its visuals resulting from the infamous production issues. His latest episode review actually didn't talk about that for once, though I still sort of don't get the gripe he had there instead. In an earlier episode review this was one comment he said:
I understand that some folks do not care at all about the animation and will muscle through anything for the story, but I maintain that the audio and visual elements of an audio-visual medium are just as critical as the writing—otherwise, we'd just read the books this thing is based on.
Then why the f**k haven't I seen you read the manga/LN? You've never tweeted about it, and it isn't in your Anime-Planet manga list. "just read the books this thing is based on" alright I was wrong, turns out he previously read just a bit of the manga and liked it. My bad.
Since I'm on the topic of Nick again, I ran into this recent forum post of him sperging about isekai:
Pretty sure Executioner isn't the grand deconstruction of (his generalizing view of) isekai he's making it out to be. Also don't think he gets to make that last line re: female-led, when I'm pretty sure for most of those he just watched episode 1 from an anti-isekai lens and nothing else.
Then again, considering he types "
99% of isekai leads are guys" and "I've also seen more than enough female-led isekai [...]" in the same post, maybe there wasn't much thought put into the post in general.
