Just like the last time I checked out a season's preview, the quality is absent. The whole enterprise seems like an enormous trolling effort, born out of a condescending to the lowlife of the Internet. Naturally, by diving into the septic tank so forcefuly, ANN only serves to legitimize and perpetuate the trolling. In my world, ANN's preview has no relevance whatsoever. This season, Scott Von Schilling's enormous love of self-aggrandizement reminded me about the silly thing, and delivered my eyeballs there. ANN's advertizers salute you, Scott!
When I wrote about "extremely poor quality of articles" back in 2008, I didn't quote anything. To correct the regrettable oversight, here's the lead from an article by one Summer Mullins:
I should have just stopped watching the first time I threw up in my mouth, which was a few minutes in, but I masochistically decided that I should push myself as a reviewer to watch something that is outside my normal viewing diet. That said, it was a terrible mistake. This episode managed to squeeze in an amount of blushing-moe-girls-in-maid-outfits-and-swimsuits previously only accomplished by three regular otaku-bait episodes, and for that, I salute Akinai-chuu. It gets right to the obsessions with no need to set up a plot. Although, if you're interested, it's about a cougar (a woman, not an actual cougar) who runs a maid café staffed by all the moe stereotypes -- including a girl pretending to be a boy -- plus one hideously offensive guy []
According to ANN, Mrs. Mullins was an editor of Anime Insider, a paper magazine. You cannot get more mainstream than that. So, time and time again I'm surprised by the monstrous negligence (Master is a cougar?) from the people who are supposed to be blogger's betters. They are the lowlife of anime halo, not we. And Von Schilling wants to become one of them!
UPDATE: Summer's boss Zac Bertschy twitted: "Sora no Otoshimono and Natsu no Arashi 2 previews up. they both look toxic" (12:06 PM Oct 5th). Who are they, reviews or shows?
UPDATE: DS threw a strip. Heh. It's like shooting fish in the barrel.