It's shameless, I know...I don't know how to market myself, so forgive my blatantly unapologetic self-promotion.
Since people just want to get to the meat of the content before reading meaningless unrelated tangents, here is a link to 2 of my most recent reviews. I have done 4 in total.
[there is some adult content (strong language/crude jokes)]
Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka?
https://youtu.be/AvAFk3CMYvQ
MushiShi & MushiShi: Zoku Shou
https://youtu.be/5oZA8CPRaU4
I mean, I also - on rare occasions - write reviews here on MAL, but, honestly it feels even more pointless, since most of the animes here already have a gazillion reviews on them that my pointless words just get buried under the rest. I will say, though, that some of these reviews I throw-up on MAL are good drafts for the video-format reviews listed above. I have done a total of 4 (and a fifth in the works now) and 2 of the reviews' scripts were borrowed heavily from my review I posted here on MAL, but, then also heavily modified and expanded on to make sure I could meet my loose time requirements.
I'd welcome any feedback if you guys have any; this series has mostly been derived from me with little input from outside feedback, which sometimes leads to personal blinders to flaws.
Also, I'm an itty-bitty, teeny-tiny spec on the radar as far as Youtube channels go - currently at a resoundingly unimpressive 174 subscribers. Obviously, sometimes, you just have to suck up what pride you have and shamelessly shove your content in the face of everyone. I try to be slightly more elegant about that than some are - I at least attempt to only put it on forums that have some relevance to anime (like, I'm not going to go to my audio forums that is strictly about music equipment and hardware and post my anime reviews that, that would be dumb). With that said, I actually don't know a lot of anime networks that I could share my work on, so if you don't have any worthwhile feedback to give on my videos, you can help me out by pointing me in any other direction to shamelessly plug myself and my content :D
Below this point is just useless rambling most people probably won't care about, but if you care about the process or my background it's below (It's also copy-pasted from another forum I posted on - I assure you, however, the entirety of this MAL post is not all copy-paste, I like to take some time to personalize the post for whatever community I am posting on)
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Recently I had been playing Black Desert Online JP, and for those in the MMO crowd, you may have heard of the game, as it's generating a lot of hype.
Since it is...marginally difficult to get into the game (only because it's not a simple "click a few things, download a client, the end") I decided I would review the game...and to my surprise it generated far more traffic than my channel had ever seen. In comparison it was a lot, but I suppose to much larger channels, it was barely a drop in a barrel.
Regardless, with about 70 new subs now expecting more content, I thought about what I wanted to do. I don't think I have much of a great opinion to contribute to the overwhelming sea of video game critics that already exist. I was lucky with BDO, as the game has been getting some hype around it, but there are very few people who have covered the game, thusly, I got traffic through those means; but were it any other game, it would be unlikely to continue.
Fortunately, thanks to channels like Demolition D, I found there is an audience for anime reviews (I also ran a poll on my channel to see if my subs would be interested). In the past few recent months, I have been binge watching a ton of anime. I've grown up with the stuff, though, for a long time I took quite the hiatus from it because I had an animation professor who absolutely LOATHED anime and would automatically fail any student who did anything anime-esque. I looked up to him at the time and so maybe his hatred rubbed off on me a bit.
But, years down the line, I've gotten over that and have come to appreciate the medium again.
And so, here I am. There reviews take about 32 working hours to produce (give or take). I write the script, record the audio, edit the audio sound quality (because I just use a basic Shure 58, and anyone who has ever dealt with audio equipment has come across a Shure 58 before and knows they aren't exactly high-fidelity mics.) and cut the audio where necessary, then edit the video; which involves a lot of time spent finding the appropriate clips.
I'm quite proud of the work I have done, and I hope as you watch you can see the effort put in. But I understand effort doesn't always equate to quality, so, in the regard, I do hope you find it entertaining.
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Thank you, MAL users :D |