Anime News Network (ANN), Christopher Macdonald & Co. - "Unbiased" Reporting on All Things Anime Related By Snobbish Quebec-Based Web Company. Acquired by Kadokawa.

[Mothra1988]

yeah but my point is that there's more valuable websites than ANN that have what kadokawa ma want.
the only asset kadokawa wants from ANN is their name, brand.
probably they want a magazine for LNs shilling.
but be prepared for ANN to change a lot regarding anime. most popular LN nowadays is a kadokawa sneaker bunko romcom that has plenty of sexual scenes and the classic imouto that wants her brother's d.
theyr WILL have to shill that. its their flagship title and even kadokawa CEO praised the novel personally.

grab popcorn.

ANN also owns @anime on Twitter for who knows what reason, probably one of the spergs there just grabbed it first.

 

[Haruka Konishi]

ANN also owns @anime on Twitter for who knows what reason, probably one of the spergs there just grabbed it first.

ANN was founded by terminally online ironycels that used to bitch about anime online, so yeah u are probably right that one of those spergs grabbed it.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

ANN also owns @anime on Twitter for who knows what reason, probably one of the spergs there just grabbed it first.

And much like thier ANN Twitter account, it also possibly has bots that pretend to have real engagement with what's left of their audience that posts on their forums.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

The fact that Kadokawa bought them means that someone had money and time to burn. Of all the things you could have bought for the benefit of your company, you bought a tabloid anime website. Good job.

 

[The Token Ethnic]

Edit: Read somewhere that wokester Mike Toole was behind something called "Hentai Jump." It appears to have been some kind of hentai website with reviews and forums. Does anyone know anymore about this? I found an archive for a review he did, but I don't know if I'm allowed to post hentai links here.

It was his site full of snarky "deconstructed" reviews and branded it as "The Straight Dope on Hentai Anime." He joined ANN and nixed the site before that. Here's his intro/FAQ page:

He's had a bad reputation for being a licensed anime shill. Here's quite an old forum post where someone calls him out on this:

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Man, either ANN knows how to shoot itself in the foot or they're really trying for that trollbait revenue.

Oh, and I'll be happy to post up the ANN Kadokawa Buyout asshurt.

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Man, either ANN knows how to shoot itself in the foot or they're really trying for that trollbait revenue.

Oh, and I'll be happy to post up the ANN Kadokawa Buyout asshurt.

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ANN posters are not a real fan of Final Fantasy, and they don’t get how they’re also the cog of the machine when they are being corporatized right under their eyes. This is just like Crunchyroll being bought out by Sony all over again.

 

[I Love Beef]

He's had a bad reputation for being a licensed anime shill. Here's quite an old forum post where someone calls him out on this:

HAHAHA

And the skeletons start pouring out from the closets now!

ANN posters are not a real fan of Final Fantasy, and they don’t get how they’re also the cog of the machine when they are being corporatized right under their eyes. This is just like Crunchyroll being bought out by Sony all over again.

Oh in-fucking-deed, my friend. Anime News Network has always been the biggest stir pot of hypocrites and selfish deflecting projecting whiny manchildren angry that their hobby isn't getting them laid or vindicates them getting wedgies and being called nerds in high school. It's cathartic to see that users are roadrolling Lynzee the Witch and that staff has effectively given up trying to enforce their moralizing horseshit. Here's hoping they all mutiny and send this place on a fiery crash landing.

I'd also usually figure ANN users are also insufferable as much as their anime tastes in regards to video games.

also fuck IGN

 

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[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

He's had a bad reputation for being a licensed anime shill. Here's quite an old forum post where someone calls him out on this:

And it worked for him, since now he's one of the bosses at Discotek which for some inexplicable reason are considered "the good guys who you should totally support by buying their DVDs."

 

[The Token Ethnic]

Lynzee's unfortunate face shows up on the latest ANN podcast titled: "Live! From The Omaha Parking Lot" as another opportunity to throw a jab at Vic and talk shit about him. One of the idiots who was filming Vic and uploaded it on youtube took to the forums to let her know why he took down the video. Here's the segment where they talk about Vic:

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[5t3n0g0ph3r]

Lynzee's unfortunate face shows up on the latest ANN podcast titled: "Live! From The Omaha Parking Lot" as another opportunity to throw a jab at Vic and talk shit about him. One of the idiots who was filming Vic and uploaded it on youtube took to the forums to let her know why he took down the video. Here's the segment where they talk about Vic:
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"Most Trusted Name in Anime News", my ass. This is just kicking the dog at this point.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

"Most Trusted Name in Anime News", my ass. This is just kicking the dog at this point.

At this rate the National Enquirer or even the Weekly World News looks more trustable than the "most trusted name in anime news".

 

[Mothra1988]

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This is some serial killer returning to the scene of his crime type scumbaggery. Reminder, ANN, karma is a bitch. Keep piling up that bad karma and taunting the fans. I'm sure it will never come back to haunt you and your scumfuck employees.

 

[NickDigger]

And it worked for him, since now he's one of the bosses at Discotek which for some inexplicable reason are considered "the good guys who you should totally support by buying their DVDs."

Perpetually fat Mass-hole Toole is just a freelancer like most of their non-Florida based staff.

Spoiler: Now for a power-level:

As for Discoshit's rep for being "the good guys", part of that can be blamed on 4chan's /m/ board. Those sad-sacks being into niche shit that was at best paid lip service to (mecha) and at worst perputaly neglected (toku shit), and suddenly there's an avenue of whales who are willing to dump money to a business that hires known, grade-A assholes just as long as they get their cartoons subbed (especially now as fansubbers are in short supply). It's obvious when they have threads covering their live streamed licensing announcements whenever someone proffers someone ask a question Twitch watchers are too dumb/nervous to ask without an initiative (one specific example was whether or not their upcoming Gunbuster bluray would be uncensored with re-instated pubic hair shots; every time someone in the thread asked for it, some fanboy/shill would agrily respond "THEY DONT ANSWER SEX PEST QUESTIONS SHUT UP").:

So yes, you can partly blame Discotek's ascendancy on a segment of 4cuck crossing over into the realm of buy-faggotry because of feeling pandered to.

 

[Travoltron]

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[Jonah Hill poster]

"Most Trusted Name in Anime News", my ass. This is just kicking the dog at this point.

At this rate the National Enquirer or even the Weekly World News looks more trustable than the "most trusted name in anime news".

It also does not help that one could make the honest mistake into accidentally reading “ANN” for “CNN”, yet in this case believing that anime made in Japan is the same as inserting current day political agendas from North America into Japanese anime.

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

Well.. I mean it's not like the site could get any worse. Will hopefully put a stop to their SJ crap.. I fear though that it might work the other way around given what their new owners have said in the last year or so though.

Be prepared for massive light novel shilling and even more biased reviews singing praises of Isekai Adventure With a Harem #4964. More censorship incoming in the forums too - badmouthing Kadokawa properties will simply not be allowed.

We can only hope. (seriously)

It makes it so much better knowing how much it is fucking killing them to do so. After a decade of these kind of pompous cunts shitposting games and anime/manga, I don't think it's unfair to get enjoyment out of their displeasure!

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Man, either ANN knows how to shoot itself in the foot or they're really trying for that trollbait revenue.

Oh, and I'll be happy to post up the ANN Kadokawa Buyout asshurt.

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Wow FVC is a whiny pretentious cunt!

The image in that one screen is not only so very true but fucking epic and I would have loved to see the reaction!

 

[Mothra1988]

Perpetually fat Mass-hole Toole is just a freelancer like most of their non-Florida based staff.

Spoiler: Now for a power-level:

As for Discoshit's rep for being "the good guys", part of that can be blamed on 4chan's /m/ board. Those sad-sacks being into niche shit that was at best paid lip service to (mecha) and at worst perputaly neglected (toku shit), and suddenly there's an avenue of whales who are willing to dump money to a business that hires known, grade-A assholes just as long as they get their cartoons subbed (especially now as fansubbers are in short supply). It's obvious when they have threads covering their live streamed licensing announcements whenever someone proffers someone ask a question Twitch watchers are too dumb/nervous to ask without an initiative (one specific example was whether or not their upcoming Gunbuster bluray would be uncensored with re-instated pubic hair shots; every time someone in the thread asked for it, some fanboy/shill would agrily respond "THEY DONT ANSWER SEX PEST QUESTIONS SHUT UP").:

So yes, you can partly blame Discotek's ascendancy on a segment of 4cuck crossing over into the realm of buy-faggotry because of feeling pandered to.

That's fucking sad that /m/ is that cancerous. The lower tier boards on 4chan always have to ruin everything. /co/ is ran by Tumblr troons, so I could definitely buy /m/ being ruined by the same brand of oldguard fart sniffers that inhabit ANN's forums and probably read garbage like that Colony Drop blog. The non-stupid fans should be more forceful in running these people off back to their hugboxes.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Perpetually fat Mass-hole Toole is just a freelancer like most of their non-Florida based staff.

Spoiler: Now for a power-level:

As for Discoshit's rep for being "the good guys", part of that can be blamed on 4chan's /m/ board. Those sad-sacks being into niche shit that was at best paid lip service to (mecha) and at worst perputaly neglected (toku shit), and suddenly there's an avenue of whales who are willing to dump money to a business that hires known, grade-A assholes just as long as they get their cartoons subbed (especially now as fansubbers are in short supply). It's obvious when they have threads covering their live streamed licensing announcements whenever someone proffers someone ask a question Twitch watchers are too dumb/nervous to ask without an initiative (one specific example was whether or not their upcoming Gunbuster bluray would be uncensored with re-instated pubic hair shots; every time someone in the thread asked for it, some fanboy/shill would agrily respond "THEY DONT ANSWER SEX PEST QUESTIONS SHUT UP").:

So yes, you can partly blame Discotek's ascendancy on a segment of 4cuck crossing over into the realm of buy-faggotry because of feeling pandered to.

Oh I knew all that, I've long hung around /m/ and I know /m/ can be just as trash as anything else. But to be fair, Discotek did get us some good subs.

That's fucking sad that /m/ is that cancerous. The lower tier boards on 4chan always have to ruin everything. /co/ is ran by Tumblr troons, so I could definitely buy /m/ being ruined by the same brand of oldguard fart sniffers that inhabit ANN's forums and probably read garbage like that Colony Drop blog. The non-stupid fans should be more forceful in running these people off back to their hugboxes.

I remember Colony Drop being shilled on /m/ at the same time they shilled it on /a/ and IIRC /jp/. I remember telling them to fuck off since it was pretentious shit.