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I consider if I should watch Re:Zero after reading just the beginning of this review, I think I really should:  
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Seriously, it’s like he originally wrote “I’m a self-absorded douchebag” into every sentence and then reworded it to make it less monotonous, but with the same basic statement. It doesn’t help that he needs a long time to even mention the anime itself, so much that it doesn’t even appear in the preview.
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@ghostfacekiller39  
I’m not actually serious, I think it’s pretty stupid to watching something out of spite. At least, solely out of spite. It can be a good motivation for something you’re interested in anyway.
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Way I see it, they write things like that for the express intent of keeping people away and drawing attention towards other things they wrote good reviews for. The act of writing reviews in general is just a method of trying to put yourself in a position where you can have as many people as possible liking what you like and disliking what you dislike that’s just dressed up as some bogus pursuit of intellectualism or QA, when in reality it’s all just orated in a way to try and make people feel like they’re enjoying something that can make them feel good about themselves, or hell, even just less bad about themselves, for agreeing with the writer’s opinion. I always feel like that motive particularly obvious whenever they write an opening paragraph like that, full of nothing but hyperbole and self-adoration while simultaneously putting down the unwashed masses of people who liked what they didn’t, albeit only particularly stupid people wouldn’t be able to catch on to one like this.
 
I think doing the opposite of what people like him want me to do is an act worth enjoying in of itself, plus it can be an easy way to find new things anyway, so no real loss even if I end up ceding their opinion to them. Helps that I do disagree with people like that when it comes to priorities and what I’m looking for 9 times out of 10, from my experience.
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The act of writing reviews in general is just a method of trying to put yourself in a position where you can have as many people as possible liking what you like and disliking what you dislike that’s just dressed up as some bogus pursuit of intellectualism or QA, when in reality it’s all just orated in a way to try and make people feel like they’re enjoying something that can make them feel good about themselves, or hell, even just less bad about themselves, for agreeing with the writer’s opinion.
 
Eh, strikes me a bit of an over-generalization. Although there sure are a lot of these kinds of reviews and they tend to be rather popular. But maybe I’m just projecting, because when I write reviews (which doesn’t happen often), I do it just for fun. As such, I’m also not trying to sound smart, but just express my opinion (whether I do that well is another question, I’m not exactly a master of rhetoric). And while I do want other people to like what I like (who doesn’t), it doesn’t always have that much motivation on what I write reviews about. My first MAL review was about Bikini Warriors, of all things. And I just wrote a review of Kill La Kill, in which I devoted an entire paragraph to say that it has been done before, but better (and I never wrote a review of Gurren Lagann, nor do I plan to).
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