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Old 2012-01-13, 05:42   Link #437
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I judge a show by what it tries to achieve and how successful it is in achieving that. Quality is a vague word to me.

Persona 4 is a very interesting show.. but only if you have played the game; otherwise, it has a limited target audience.
But it does excel very well in capturing its intended target audience. I'm surprised how WACKY and entertaining the show can be.

So, I consider this to be a successful adaptation, and thus, a good show despite lacking obvious lack of budget. It's not a good stand alone show, but I don't think it wants to be one.

The judge StrikerS the same way.

Low sales are not an indication of a bad show
but high sales always means that a show managed to give the majority of its target audience what they expected.

So I have to acknowledge that. How much to intersect with the target audience? How much of their interests are my interest? Hmm.. sometimes I wonder about that with Nanoha.

I have enough problems with StrikerS to the point that I would not call it a good show, but I wouldn't go so far to call it a crashed and burned franchise. That would imply that the franchise has betrayed its target audience, but I am not enough to be considered the entirely of that, for the better or worse.
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