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Incoming Feature: The Shredder


HeraChanAs many of you know, we at the Herald have made great strides to deliver show reviews as quickly and efficiently as possible. With features like Your Bad Anime Night Needs, Semi-Essentials, and our new Impressions section, we’ve been steadily increasing our coverage of the obscure, the new, and the just plain bad.

However, we do still seem to lack in the coverage of releases that are hitting stores here and now. While we do have our long-form reviews, I can’t help but feel that we should be paying more attention to regular releases. Rather than let our reviews remain just an occasional appearance, I’d like to test a new feature, which I’m dubbing “The Shredder.” While this will begin with myself, I do hope to begin including our staff, if the idea proves to be popular enough.

The Shredder will be a space for short-form reviews. Shredder articles will typically cover one’s experience of the first three to four episodes of a season. And, as the name implies, they will be merciless. If a series takes forever to get started, if the characters are terrible, or if it opens with episodes that go nowhere, then no mercy will be spared. Titles that treat the viewer like he has a brain, on the other hand, will be granted praise.

We’ll be preparing the first article for The Shredder tonight. If all goes well, it will kick things off tomorrow evening. I hope you look forward to it, and feel free to give us feedback!

About the author

Samantha Ferreira

Samantha Ferreira is Anime Herald’s founder and editor-in-chief. A Rhode Island native, Samantha has been an anime fan since 1992, and an active member of the anime press since 2002, when she began working as a reviewer for Anime Dream. She launched Anime Herald in 2010, and continues to oversee its operations to this day. Outside of journalism, Samantha actively studies the history of the North American anime fandom and industry, with a particular focus on the 2000s anime boom and bust. She’s a huge fan of all things Sakura Wars, and maintains series fansite Combat Revue Review when she has free time available. When not in the Anime Herald Discord, Samantha can typically be found on Bluesky.

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