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Originally Posted by Sheba
ANN community gonna need to shed that image of hipsters if they are under Kadokawa's thumb. Their new overlords are not going to like gaijins constantly dunking on their isekai ranobe and CGDCT with twitter buzzwords.
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They may dunk on isekai but they sure endear it too. And they already shill for popular titles anyway. Articles about 'Have you let Anya into your heart?' with the angle of making you sound like a terrible person if you haven't. Having 'academics' consider Maria The Virgin Witch to be a masterpiece.
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Originally Posted by Nachtwandler
The issue is they don't. While they dump on some bad things anime medium have, they also dump on some good things while prising some bad things overpopulating US entertaiment industry.
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Example: Having someone watch Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works who had no familiarity with FSN at all then confess in their final episode review that they should have realised sooner it was a middle arc...Also, they are still refusing to even say
anything about Summertime Rendering as a series. You'd think a shounen where the females were on equal standing with the males would have them engaged. Instead, they hone in on the one time Hizuru was referred to as 'the big-breasted woman' in a manga review. (That said, the review conceded it was well written.)
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Originally Posted by Guardian Enzo
They were already pretty much a marketing operation anyway, but this certainly seals the deal.
If you don’t follow this stuff, Kadokawa is substantially responsible for a lot of the problems plaguing the industry and animators.
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This is so ironic given all the bribery charges Kadokawa have copped lately. Or that Kadokawa said they would divert away from isekai 5 years ago but dropped that stance pretty darn quick. Maybe the two deserve each other. ANN can look forward to paid opinions in the tradition of Gigguk and Trash Taste. This is ANN effectively entering influencer mode.