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Your Winter 2024 Daily Streaming Reviews

I voted on The Fire Hunter S2, partly because I do view it as an ambitious, if ridiculously messy & occasionally incomprehensible production trainwreck, but to the shock of no-one it didn't get voted in. Shame that. While I doubt many viewers or reviewers are going to be walking away from that show with a net positive, I still do feel it was given a short shrift, both by its own staff & with a writers unable & unwilling to even remotely attempt to tackle the show on its own terms.

T3rmidor wrote:

Meh, most of the ones I will be watching didn't make the cut. Is really surprising how packed this season is yet how many average shows there are. Maybe id time to expand the reviwer staff to keep up with the spam rate of new shows?

The limit on how many shows are covered for weekly reviews isn't set by the amount of writers available, but by how much interest is shown by readers in the poll. If a show doesn't make the cut, it's because it didn't get enough votes for it to be worth the editorial resources to cover it weekly. It's why the number of shows covered varies slightly season-to-season. More reviewers wouldn't mean more shows getting cover, it just means each writer would cover fewer shows individually.

Ah okay, thanks for clearing my misunderstanding. So it isn't a zero sum game vote, but instead tally according to number of votes, and if they clear athe cut , they get a review?

Shame Ishura didn't make it. They both seemed to be quite a bit different than your usual isekai (unironically this time) with basically playing out like an isekai Baccano/DRRR!!!
Glad the Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic made it tho. Enjoyed the first ep quite a bit.

Kinda of shocked James is reviewing Chained Soldier, was expecting Nick on that if made the list. lol

It's there, 12 places down from the top currently. Below Fluffy Paradise.

Also, to chime in with what others have already said, nobody here is being forced at gunpoint to watch stuff that they actively cannot stand. We're critics, which means we genuinely enjoy getting to write about and discuss art and media, and that includes when it is stuff we don't love, or don't think accomplishes what it set out to do. Negative or middling reviews are just as important as the positive ones, even if they don't make every reader that disgarees feel extra super validated or whatever.

Gina Szanboti wrote:

It's there, 12 places down from the top currently. Below Fluffy Paradise.

I'm not seeing The Fire Hunter anywhere on this page or weeks 2 or 3.

blahmoomoo wrote:

Gina Szanboti wrote: It's there, 12 places down from the top currently. Below Fluffy Paradise. I'm not seeing The Fire Hunter anywhere on this page or weeks 2 or 3.

I didn't even know those pages existed, and I still can't figure out where you found them. This is what I've always used, under the New Anime tab in the blue menu bar.

Strange. I wonder if the default option previously was by the anime season's week rather than by actual week, because the pages I have been using are the same except for the end of the URL. I'll use the by actual week page going forward.