Prefacing this with her pinned tweet that's relevant to localization sperging, using a bad analogy to defend localization:
Meet Caitlin Moore, the saddest person to come out of Anime News Network and Anime Feminist. She has been one of the main staff on the latter since its founding; and also got hired for ANN by Lynzee in 2020 where she continues to write shitty reviews including shit takes on every new anime's first episode in their "preview guide" alongside the other reviewers (Nicholas Dupree and James Beckett who aren't much better, Rebecca Silverman and Richard Eisenbeis who are infinitely more tolerable but still kinda suck). Below are just some insights into Caitlin:
Isekai hateboner:
Shield Hero and its false rape accusation plot broke her so much
it was once living rent-free in her head for the longest time (she even decied to read several volumes of the LN for the sole purpose of writing
an AniFem hitpiece), but likely because of that she also hates the isekai genre as a whole and is prone to whinging about it at any time:
This long thread going on about how bad modern isekai is, where in the replies and some QRTs she got stroppy with people who dared disagree
Taking an opportunity to sling shit at isekai during the Uchikoshi discourse
Popping in an ANN forum thread about a newly-announced isekai LN adaptation unwarrantedly just to tell someone hyped for it they're wrong
Can't even promote her favorite dark horse seasonal without having to drag down isekai with it at the end
Even wants licensors to stop licensing isekai titles, because the industry must cater to her tastes all the time and only hers. F**k people who like isekai, and just ignore that there can be both isekai and shojo licensed at the same time, it must be all about me and my tastes!
She of course also has a similar disdain for CGDCT anime, though not as vocal about it as she is isekai.
The human being she really is:
Last month, she discovered OtakuDaiKun's video criticizing AniFem. Rather than accepting someone disagreed with her site and moving on,
she needed to defend AniFem's honor.
She was even willing to argue with Dai himself (
page 2,
3,
4) while
others latched onto her bullshit (
page 2).
Incase you can't tell, she does indeed have a history being stroppy with people. Multiple smaller cases, just of her replying to reasonable comments with a tone coming across as patronizing, I won't be getting into those. As a bigger example, back in May 2022 during the Twitter discourse about ANN reviews crediting translators, she and another ANN staffer (Andy Pfeiffer/ATastySub)
flatout berated and gaslighted a dude who was insisting that reviews should be crediting translators (warning: long thread of back and forth arguing).
And she does not like
being criticized.
AT ALL*.
*Speaking of
the thread that came from, I do want to bring up
her outright saying women can't be into the certain isekai titles she hates!
Frog-kun did bring up Redo of Healer's female audience which Caitlin just ignored and didn't even like the reply.
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/anime-news-network-ann-christopher-macdonald-co.57026/post-15313049
Also, I'll just leave this here.
Censorship:
Of course she's pro-censorship, couple of receipts:
Supported the censorship of Kodomo no Jikan, outright equating it to real-life pedophilia
Said Seven Seas should've left Mushoku Tensei unlicensed instead of releasing it censored as they had, as if the thing not being available at all isn't an even worse form of censorship
Reviews:
Yes, her shitty reviews on ANN and AniFem. Honestly, since writing for ANN's Preview Guide (+ AniFem's seasonal premiere reviews before she started writing for ANN) means she reviews nearly everything, there's so many of these I won't get into them. I can just tell you her writing and opinions is indeed the worst out of any "critic" you've seen, including plenty of eyerolling takes.
She is of course so negative even other ANN reviewers frequently disagree with her (
2), as if she really is incapable of enjoying anything. She of course doesn't like being told she's wrong in her reviews; on the forum thread of her Nekopara review
she played the quote cherrypicking game with someone who pointed out ANN's biggest problem,
she also played that game when forum posters pointed out she was misrepresenting the "Who Says Warriors Can't be Babes?" manga in her review of it.
