You’re assuming that the set of people surveyed was truly random, but it never is—people who don’t like answering surveys are always underrepresented (obviously), and the article isn’t specific about how people were recruited for this one. There isn’t enough information to tell how much skew might have been introduced as a result. Surveys are always kind of iffy as information sources: not meaningless, but with a lot of subtle noise in the signal.
Maybe link to a community which can then link to the actual target? Both beehaw and lemmy.world have general anime communities. Not a perfect solution, granted, but it might be a usable workaround.
It’s a parody (with amusingly over-the-top visual set-pieces). If you’re not interested in the kind of overpowered-protagonist-isekai-with-optional-harem show it’s parodying, it probably won’t work for you.
Dropping this one. The first episode combined two of my pet peeves—denial of agency and people who are evil in a non-entertaining way for the sake of being evil—making it a hard nope. In fact, if this were a book, I’d throw it at the wall and then burn it to show my non-appreciation of it. Ick.
There are no less than 7 shows either continuing from a previous season that I’ve watched or where I’m familiar with the source material. (Not including Kingdom, which I might catch up on one of these centuries.)
Other than those, I’ll probably at least check out Metallic Rouge, Sengoku Youko, Meiji Gekken: 1874, possibly Isura, and probably some of the isekais that aren’t labeled as “ecchi” or “harem”. (7 lunch hours/week x 2 eps/lunch = 14 slots to fill . . .)
I don’t know if that is a bug or an oversight,
Probably a licensing boondoggle. Silly, yes, but just as likely to be the result of the copyright holders making unreasonable demands or having sold some rights elsewhere as Crunchroll being dumb.
Well, it’s airing as two consecutive cours, so we’re not quite halfway through yet. Plenty of time for loose ends in the remaining 13 episodes.
Anime treats Christianity about as seriously as it treats Buddhism or any other faith, which is to say not at all. There are comedic takes like Saint Young Men, some exorcist stuff like Vatican Miracle Examiner and the priest character in Ghost Hunt, and occasionally someone will take a look at the history of Christianity in Japan (for instance, the Christians Arc at the beginning of the third season of the original Rurouni Kenshin). If you’re looking for something that’s Christian in philosophy, you aren’t going to find it.
My guess is that the king has no more agency in this than Cless does. He’s a prisoner, somehow.
Or else the person under the “king”'s mask is actually that girl.
The long ones all seem to start as light novel titles, so there’s something about current Japanese light novels that results in their titles being ridiculously long. (Older ones like “Kyo Kara Maoh!”, “Twelve Kingdoms”, and “Crest of the Stars” don’t seem to share the issue—the earliest really bad one I can remember is “What will you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Can you save us?” or whatever it was called.)
Pretty sure she’s the girl who came to young!Helck’s aid towards the beginning of the multi-ep flashback, when he was looking for a doctor for Cless.
Another older one would be Kyo Kara Maoh!, although it’s a pseudo-reverse-harem in which the male protagonist ends up surrounded by a gang of bishounen (he ends up accidentally engaged to one of them, but even that’s pretty mildly treated, and none of the others display jealousy or make passes).
You can justify maybe up to one year of lag with “we overscheduled, oops”. But twelve months should be plenty of time to clean house and get things sorted out. (WIT Studios were actually the ones doing Attack on Titan when they had the four-year break between seasons 1 and 2, and I don’t approve of them doing it either—however, the reasoning behind it seems to have been marketing-related rather than poor scheduling.)
T’be honest, it looks to me like the management team at MAPPA has bitten off way more than they can chew, and that they’ve been following that pattern for a while. It isn’t a matter of taking their time or not, it’s a matter of not accepting more work than they can actually do.
There’s a difference between pausing for a few weeks and letting four years elapse between seasons.
I’m honestly expecting another layer somewhere below this with the nobility having been brainwashed, except that we won’t find out about it until near the end of the story. I mean, in addition to halting most interaction with other kingdoms and all advancement, there are entire classes of luxury goods that a mindless drone can’t produce. No art, no fashion—and those are things that stereotypical aristocrats care about. Plus, how are you going to produce the next generation of drones? Some of those “nobles” might be okay with watching what amounts to the same porn scene over and over again, but how many infant-nappy-changing commands can your average oligarch tolerate giving?
Maybe I’m just too optimistic.
The second episode only just dropped today—I haven’t watched it yet. First one finished on a mild cliffhanger, which may have influenced the vote.
How about . . .
I admit that I’m not sure of the licensing status of some of those.
If I recall correctly, Concrete Revolutio was sort of like the counterargument to Boku no Hero Academia (I’d have to rewatch it myself to be more precise).
The skew is something they’re supposed to take into account, if they realize a given factor is important. Models are seldom perfect, and people can be incompetent or self-centered even when they’re not being actively malicious. I think you’re overestimating both the quality of the statistical models and the purity of the motives behind this survey.