do you guys agree???

[Fatal Outlaw]

i just cant stand zac bertschy a.k.a. Answerman (a reviewer of anime)! he gives the WORST reviews, and some of his reviews for anime titles, he hasnt even finished watching yet! (like dual etc.) anyway, i just saw the OMG dvd vol.1, and i looked for a review for the adventure of mini goddesses, and here is:

Reviewer: Zac Bertschy
Episodes reviewed: 1-26, subtitled Grade: 77% (C+)

Adventures of the Mini-Goddesses is, well, not quite what anyone was expecting. Ah! My Goddess!! is one of the most revered anime series available, for numerous reasons. The most important of these reasons being that the three girls in the series, Belldandy, Urd, and Skuld, are all archetypes of the types of women guys are attracted to. Hence, many a late-night discussion over "which Goddess is the best" has been spawned, and a legion of fanboys has popped up for the series. The original Ah! Megami-sama!! OVA was intensely serious and only occasionally comical; perhaps they were going for the exact opposite with this series.

Running as a part of Anime Complex, an anime anthology show, Adventures of the Mini-Goddesses episodes are only 5 minutes long. Each episode follows Urd and Skuld and their Looney-Tunes-esque adventures with Ra-chan the rat, voiced by Mitsuo Iwata of Golden Boy fame. The most striking thing about this series is the fact that essentially, every episode is 5 minutes of predictable sight gags. You half expect Wile E. Coyote to show up, since Ra-chan has been beaten, smashed, disintegrated and blown up in nearly every way that that venerable old Warner Brothers character has. Urd and Skuld simply provide ways for Ra-chan to get pummeled. Naturally, this gets old after a while, and you wonder where Belldandy is (her voice actress was far too busy to partake in this silly series) and why they decided to go with raw visual humor rather than typical Ah! Megami-sama!! relationship-style humor. It's a bit frustrating, although for about 10 episodes, it's cute enough to hold your attention. I wouldn't recommend Adventures of the Mini-Goddesses to anyone except hardcore Ah! Megami-Sama!! fans and otaku who miss the glory days of Warner Brothers. Everyone else should just watch the original OVA series.


so, do you guys agree on this? is that a bad review? cuz im going to email him to complain on how bad he does his reviews.

[Yui_Reborn]

What site does he review for? Never heard of him.

If you want to send an e-mail, just be careful not to say anything offensive, it is of course just his opinion.

Many reviewers nowadays seem to get puffed up with their own imagined importance and have to sound like they're passing judgement on everything. It's annoying, but he's no different than most of them.

I'll admit that was an especially ill-thought out and flippant review though. I haven't seen the minigoddesses, but if the reason for OMG!'s popularity is because the three goddesses are the three archetypes of females guys find attractive, then how do you explain the huge fanbase of females like myself? Of course guys like the goddesses, but OMG!'s popularity has a lot more to do with the quality of the writing and art, and the genuine emotion of the story.

[Nulani]

I don't think he've seen all of them :dodgy:...

Personally I like AoMG, it's plain hillarous (I got one epiosode and the manga).

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If you're gonna send that e-mail and complain; Just remember to be polite or it'll most likely end it's days in the trash can never read finish.
Besides, it IS his opinion...

[cloakactive]

Its only an opinion. I've never liked review critics anyways. :down:

[Fatal Outlaw]

Originally posted by cloakactive
Its only an opinion. I've never liked review critics anyways. :down:

i know its his opinions, but its on a VERY popular website(scifi.com/anime) where people read reviews first before seeing the series, if someone decides to check the review for dual (which he gave a bad review and he hasnt even seen the whole thing yet) before seeing it and sees that it has a bad review, chances are he wont watch it, and thats what i hate the most. all of his reviews are too one-sided and biased, like knights of ramunes, he gave it an F and says it doesnt have a plot, but i saw it and it does have a plot, although i agree with some of the things he said, but i would have given it a C+ or a B-.

[cloakactive]

Originally posted by Fatal Outlaw


i know its his opinions, but its on a VERY popular website(scifi.com/anime) where people read reviews first before seeing the series, if someone decides to check the review for dual (which he gave a bad review and he hasnt even seen the whole thing yet) before seeing it and sees that it has a bad review, chances are he wont watch it, and thats what i hate the most. all of his reviews are too one-sided and biased, like knights of ramunes, he gave it an F and says it doesnt have a plot, but i saw it and it does have a plot, although i agree with some of the things he said, but i would have given it a C+ or a B-.

Yea scifi is a somewhat popular site. ANN is a popular site as well... and so is AoD.... all 3 sites do reviews. AoD does alternate angles. AoD prolly is better handleling reviews then ANN and scifi. Basically people are (usually) smart enough to know that not all reviews are unbiased. Everything, no matter how unbiased as it may claim to be, is always affected by bias. In other words if you want to do something about it, write up your own review and post it on their forums! You dont' always have to be sinlent and complain. Let your voice be heard and object (within reason of course)

[iwakura]

like knights of ramunes, he gave it an F and says it doesnt have a plot, but i saw it and it does have a plot, although i agree with some of the things he said, but i would have given it a C+ or a B-.


It's difficult (jiggle jiggle) for some (bust zoom) to see any (boing boing boing) plot (wiggle) in Knights of (topless shot) Ramune because (girl-on-girl fondling) the fan (masturbation as meditation/prayer) service is so (forceful groping of women) distracting. I would have also given it a C+/B- if it didn't show women enjoying the act of being forcefully fondled. That sends the wrong message... :nono:


But back the main subject, this guy seems fairly clueless. He is comparing it to early Warner Bros stuff, when it is much more similar to Digi Charat. I adore Digi Charat, so I have get the Mini Goddess episodes as well. Don't think he understands the power of chibi kawaii.:kawaii:

[Falinah]

I must say I don't agree with his opinion at all, but i rarely do with critics. I just don't read that stuff anyways...

Go Chibi Kawaii! :kawaii:

[Mr_Bug]

yeah, I never trust critics either...

I love the mini goddess shows, and Im not going to let some critic influence my opinion..

it is too bad though, that lots of people will read it and base their opinion on that article. I hope most people are smart enough to try to form their own opinion instead of accepting someone elses.