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Chris Beveridge
05-29-2009, 08:09 AM
We're curious!

bci110
05-29-2009, 09:40 AM
Just the US DVD ones mainly, but sometimes I do read the manga reviews if it involves a title that I'm interested in.

WTK
05-29-2009, 05:05 PM
US DVD and Blu-ray.

joelgundam01
05-29-2009, 05:07 PM
US DVD and Manga for me!

Classical
05-29-2009, 05:13 PM
I mainly read US DVD reviews, manga reviews, and digital reviews.

Prede
05-29-2009, 05:58 PM
I try to read almost every new US DVD review on this site. I give the manga reviews a read once in awhile as well. Hope I helped :) .

Dack Ralter
05-29-2009, 06:08 PM
The US DVD Reviews and Manga reviews, for the most part.

Just Passing Through
05-30-2009, 06:01 AM
Mostly UK reviews and digital, but occasionally US reviews for a compare and contrast of content.

GrateSaiyaman
05-30-2009, 08:02 AM
I'd read more of the manga, digital and BluRay if I was thinking about a purchase along those lines, but I'm broke and we're on short work weeks.

As far as the digital reviews go . . . with the lower quality free streaming unless you don't have the time, why not watch? If there is that option.....

;)

For me it's the US DVDs mostly.

ArcticMech
05-30-2009, 08:45 AM
US DVD, Blu-ray and Manga - probably in that order. If there were more Blu-ray titles and subsequently more Blu-ray reviews, then that's where most of my time (reading reviews) would go. The emphasis on packaging, audio and video quality is the primary reason why I give AoD reviews the edge over those from other websites. I check out digital on occasion, but usually only for the first few episodes of a series I'm interested in viewing.

njchobitsfan
05-30-2009, 08:48 AM
US DVD and Manga mainly, with an occasional Blu-Ray.

wagr
05-30-2009, 01:02 PM
Mostly US DVD and Blu-ray, but a fair number of the manga and digital review as well. I skip just about anything with "samurai" or "robot" in the title or the more commonly known titles with such, and I occasionally first check which studio is releasing it, since I boycott VIZ.

I occasionally skim through (but didn't vote for) the UK reviews just to see if there are any major differences.

Since the move to Mania, and especially in the digital reviews, I dislike the top page first sentence, since they are always the same. In the old site, we could read at least a summary impression before deciding to look deeper. It would be nice if the top page included an extra sentence or two.

Orihimes_Boyfriend
05-30-2009, 01:12 PM
I read the US DVD reviews and the manga ones. For the DVD ones my main interest is how is the audio and the packaging

Chris Beveridge
05-30-2009, 01:27 PM
Since the move to Mania, and especially in the digital reviews, I dislike the top page first sentence, since they are always the same. In the old site, we could read at least a summary impression before deciding to look deeper. It would be nice if the top page included an extra sentence or two.

Do you mean the lead-in line? That varies by reviewer in how they do them. For my digital reviews, I don't re-use lead-in lines but write something reflective/teasing for that episode.

The Great Bear
05-30-2009, 01:39 PM
Since the move to Mania, and especially in the digital reviews, I dislike the top page first sentence, since they are always the same. In the old site, we could read at least a summary impression before deciding to look deeper. It would be nice if the top page included an extra sentence or two.

Do you mean the lead-in line? That varies by reviewer in how they do them. For my digital reviews, I don't re-use lead-in lines but write something reflective/teasing for that episode.

If it's just a matter of changing the lead-in line at the top, that can be easily done. How many other people want more of a teaser for the entire review to start off the piece?

Suwako Moriya
05-30-2009, 02:57 PM
Let's see here, I've read Digital, Manga, and US DVD reviews. Although there is a chance with the ability to watch Blu Ray, I may one day decide to read those as well.

Which makes me wonder if I should hold on voting. Then again doing so for a maybe would be kind of silly. Either way, I tend to read more based on title than format.

Q'sMinion
05-30-2009, 04:50 PM
Just US DVD mainly. I'll give a manga review a glance every now and then, but I don't keep up with them regularly.

Damius
05-30-2009, 11:09 PM
Mostly US DVD. But, since I began buying manga last couple of weeks I read some of them too.

davesimmons
05-31-2009, 12:11 AM
DVD and blu-ray. Rarely manga, I usually only read manga to continue a series I watched on DVD.

(For some reason the black & white art doesn't work well for me unless I can mentally color it in from seeing the DVDs. Odd.)

DocWatson
05-31-2009, 08:01 AM
U.S. hentai DVD, and most hentai manga, reviews, along with a few non-adult manga reviews. Since I assume that I will acquiring most non-ero anime series, I don't read those reviews.

Daimao Raki
05-31-2009, 11:38 PM
US DVD and Manga