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You Must Be Sick of Midseason Reviews By Now.

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Popularity: 11% [?] Published by tj_han November 23rd, 2007 in Anime

Yes, the mighty cartel of animebloggers has struck again! Headed by the Emperor of Malayan Darkness, Owen S, the empire performed a blogging blitz at the stroke of 10 pm Malaysian time, churning out more than 200 identical blog posts on "midseason reviews".

Because they were all so serious about it, we at the counter-culturistic Riuva must make fun of them. So here’s my review of their mid-season reviews!

Jroxas - Well structured and ordered. I like his directness as well as presentation, complete with nice pictures. Also, he and Karura are the only ones who actually did a traditional mid-season review, where individual series are looked at and commented on. So if you like these, then check out these two.
Owen S - I can sense the Malaysian in him. Why? He watches 16 series, so many! (But I watch 22 excluding marathoned series)
Anime Diet - The bastard gets to touch Yukana’s hand! For that, I will give him a low rating. Bastard. Yukana is a dirty slut anyway.
Karura - Yes, this girl is intelligent. She has also noticed that this season is shit. +100 for vision. Creative use of recipe format, which shows that girls belong to the kitchen.
CCYoshi - Needs to be more concise and clear.
End of the World - He likes Mokke. Shocking. I suppose it’s like how some people love plain water while others like beer or iced lemon tea. Or even drain water (Ninomiya-kun).
Hige - His uncle is Brian Kidd, the ex-Man U assistant manager. Despite this, his post is rather insightful. Good job, now Chelsea will win the title.
Xerox - Font too small, didn’t read. Take that.

The problem with blogging the same topic all at once, like I once said before, is that half the battle is lost with regards to content. You draw readers in based on a variety of factors, a major one of which is originality of content. With their synchronised blitz system, this aspect is lost and many readers will struggle to keep their interest in your posts. You might think that it’s their fault for being n00b or uneducated, but the half the point of blogging is to let people read and enjoy your posts.

I also notice that the Emperor of Anime Malaya, Owen S, and his merry friends, are all similar types of bloggers. Most of their posts are rather similar in linguistic style and structure. This is like playing football with 11 Frank Lampards. Yes, the solution is to get someone like DRMchrso, who will spew vitrolic insane ramblings like "OMG LULZ MID SEASON LULZ 4CHAN ROX 4EVA ODEX IS GAY MID SEASON LULZ."

You must be tired from reading text. Here, rest your eyes.

And to pour salt over their already infected wounds, I have my own midseason review below in the spoiler tag.

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This season is as good as a Nazi concentration camp.There are no particularly outstanding ones but a load of shit. These are the shows I still watch, which means they are the best of a bad bunch.

Rental Magica - "Hey attack 23.416143 degrees to your south south east! Yes that enemy that we all can see even without my ridiculously needless directions!"
Kimikiss - Shy boys and shy girls, who all look great.
Shion no Ou - "I just made a great play! But the only way the viewers can tell is by watching the bystanders shout ‘Great Play!’"
Minami-ke - The equivalent of eating potato chips. Tasty junk food.
Jyubu Enshin - "Let’s collect party members with stupid Japanised Chinese names and look the same!"
Bamboo Blade - The Tama-chan show.
Kaiji - Intense game theory anime.
Neuro - As stated, "Police, arrest this criminal now! I found evidence of his crime via my magical DEMON BUGS!"
Genshiken - Actually, it’s better than the manga, a lot of good scenes were added.
Night Wizard - Terrible. If you want a good old-school RPG adaptation, go watch and play Brave Story.
Dragonaut - One of the worst shows Gonzo has ever produced. "GIO!!! GIOOO!! GIOOOOOO!! Oh but I met a hot busty girl instead."
Ghost Hound - It’s great.
Moyashimon - I totally don’t have to study for tomorrow’s Food Science exam thanks to this. Educational.
Shana II - Wow… Shakugan no School Days.
YUA - Proof that anime has evolved and just like how dinosaurs and giant scorpions won’t survive in the modern age, YUA is a goner.
Clannad - Kyoani are really great, but the genre is not to my liking.
Shugo Chara - Evidence of increasingly feminised society. Great show.
Gundam 00 - Other than the wankstastic ED, Wana, and the cool Exia design, it’s worse than Wing.

Thankfully we still have the ongoing shows from previous seasons to fall back on.

Gintama - If God descended on Earth, Gintama is what he’ll have written.
Naruto - Officially the most vulgar show, "Penis" is mentioned 2 times in an episode shown during prime family time?
Kekkaishi - Training arc. Ugh.
Dennou Coil - I actually stopped at 14. It was quite boring, but such needs to be marathoned.

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15 Responses to “You Must Be Sick of Midseason Reviews By Now.”

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1 kokanaden 336 comments Nov 24th, 2007 at 12:04 am

First!

It bodes well for my exams tomorrow.
2 Owen S 144 comments Nov 24th, 2007 at 12:06 am

Please note that this isn’t even a mid-season review, I gave everyone “Autumn 2007″ as a topic and told them to interpret whatever they liked from that. tj has a disease called Selectivitus Illiteratus, we diagnosed him with it today. That is all.
3 Hinano 112 comments Nov 24th, 2007 at 12:38 am

Rofl well Sai and his penis jokes are what makes it hillarious!
4 l-lawliet 43 comments Nov 24th, 2007 at 2:43 am

Oh dear, you missed the best anime of the season named “Kodomo no Jikan”

At the same time, i am surprised you even spend time to watch all that.
There is only 6~8 decent series this season.
5 TheBigN 14 comments Nov 24th, 2007 at 9:36 am

“With their synchronised blitz system, this aspect is lost and many readers will struggle to keep their interest in your posts.”

Wouldn’t you posting about their posts also contribute to this effect? Is that what you’re getting at?
6 korosora 24 comments Nov 24th, 2007 at 11:09 am

BWAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH

RIUVA makes me happy.
7 loltechnos 12 comments Nov 24th, 2007 at 1:13 pm

After you watch the second half of Dennou Coil (episode 18 onwards especially) I don’t think you’ll still call it boring, damn you.
8 0rion 52 comments Nov 24th, 2007 at 2:22 pm

Epic. Entire article QFT. =P
9 suguru 10 comments Nov 25th, 2007 at 7:50 am

If you think the deluge of mid-season reviews is bad, just wait until the “best of 2007″ posts start. I think I saw one already, and it’s not even December yet…be very afraid…
10 karasu 2 comments Nov 25th, 2007 at 9:05 am

I just wanted the nanoha picture why did you log me, riuva!?

WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

on the topic of this post, who the heck has the time to read all those mid-autumn reviews!?
11 Sasaki 41 comments Nov 25th, 2007 at 11:09 am

Heres a midseason review:

Myself; Yourself - Anime girls have never been more stereotyped into their respective genres.
12 Lupus 67 comments Nov 26th, 2007 at 9:42 pm

Watch more Dennou Coil.

And I wish there’s more subs of Kekkaishi in English. All the Chinese sub torrents have been dead for ages (since English is only up to 35).
13 V 22 comments Nov 27th, 2007 at 2:24 pm

Nanoha-only.

Delete the rest.
14 Kurogane 125 comments Nov 28th, 2007 at 3:02 am

Oh I totally missed this happening.

Well, this season is rather a let down, compared to the past autumns I’ve been through, still there’s some good stuff, like the currently overhyped ef, and the unintentionally hillarious Rental Magica. Minami-ke is providing up the laughs and CLANNAD is providing the opposite. But other than that, well, it’s just a mundane season~~

1 From elitist to apologist: “Social watching”, and why Autumn’s quantity isn’t a bad thing » Cruel Angel Theses ♪ Pingback on Nov 24th, 2007 at 1:03 am

Do not use any < and > for your own sake. It will end the comment there and then. Also, there is an automatic IQ filter which weeds out comments made by those who accidentally got transported from the stone age.

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