[size=16]ANN Readers: Favorite Winter 2016 Anime Theme Songs[/size]
posted on 2016-03-09 15:45 EST by Lynzee Loveridge
One Piece, Myriad Colors Phantom World - Crunchyroll Winter 2016
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[size=16]The Best and Worst of the Season So Far: Week of Mar 4-10[/size]
by Daniel DeLorme, Mar 16th 2016
ERASED had an outstanding chart until that violent drop this past week. Still the best though.
Gundam’s is just a wild Rollercoaster. That’s a nasty sight.
Looks like KonoSuba is finishing strong.
It’s too bad that Phantom World just doesn’t get any respect from ANN. I also don’t get how Active Raid is the worst ranked show. Oh well.
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[size=16]The Best and Worst of the Season So Far: Week of Mar 11-17[/size]
by Daniel DeLorme, Mar 23rd 2016
Love that top 5. KonoSuba reaching the top spot is a proud accomplishment. Here’s the thing about Durarara’s third arc. This has been my thinking through the whole season. This has felt like an uneventful, boring string of episodes. You sense something brewing underneath but came off really unexciting…until episode 11 I suppose? Mikado finally went cray-cray after all. Don’t get me wrong. I love this series to death but Part 3 fell short. The drop is understandable. We’ll see how the finale shakes out. Maybe it can end strong.
Seriously, Konosuba, to me, was the best show this season, too bad the Animation was by StudioDEEN, which is serviceable but nothing spectacular. ERASED needed at least one more episode to do the “Back to the Future” conclusion properly and be more true to the manga ending.
Does Erased really need to be true to the manga though?
Konosuba was great (after that first episode lol). How did it take this long for a real parody of all the “help, I’m trapped in a RPG!” shows to happen? Even taking it straight, it still has the best characters (and the most fun) of any of the shows in that genre that I’ve seen. Character design also wasn’t overly moe, always a plus IMO.
Why Dimension W is so highly rated, and Phantom World so low, are mysteries to me.
If it’s an adaptation, to me it has to be as true to the source material as possible, and I feel ERASED is rushing the ending, when an extra episode would pretty much give us a satisfying conclusion without compromising the ending.
Not to say that deviating from the source material is a bad thing sometimes, I mean, I really enjoyed Arpeggio of Blue Steel - Ars Nova and it didn’t adhere to the manga.
[size=16]GoBoiano Poll: What Were the Best Anime of Winter 2016?[/size]
List by Aaron Magulick - Mar 29th, 2016
###The Best and Worst of the Season So Far: Weeks of Mar 18-24
by Daniel DeLorme, Mar 30th 2016
After examining the server data, a clear pattern of manipulation became evident. Sadly yet unsurprisingly, some people just seem to enjoy ruining the fun.
With the kind of moves some shows experienced, it sure felt like something was not right. Man that really pisses me off but I’m glad they addressed the matter.
Haikyu!! #1. Not surprised. That was a great week. 
So it got the same treatment as some of those Presidential primary post-debate polls? 
I can’t say that I’m too surprised as the site seemed to have less protection against spam than that presidential primary poll: ANN allowed me to vote multiple times from the same IP address. Each device on it allowed me to vote once, and using the Private Browsing mode allowed me to vote as much as I wanted from the same device; the spammed presidential poll was at least “smart” enough to stop you from using private browsing mode to vote.
It’s no wonder why it makes way more sense people should only be able to vote ONCE in these things. How is that so hard? When we don’t seem to think things through, see what happens?
They allow non registered people to vote too. If only registered site voters could be the only votes, the results would be more accurate
These are fun to look at…until they’re not. I’m hopeful these new countermeasures will put the train back on the tracks.
To be honest I wouldn’t mind if it only was registered users who participated, but it is what it is.
###The Best and Worst of the Winter 2016 Season
by Daniel DeLorme, Apr 5th 2016
The final rankings for the entire Winter 2016 anime season are in!
The 5 Best Anime From Winter 2016
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