The woke staff and users at Anime News Network are gatekeepers that basically make it impossible for any Ecchi or any anime for straight males in general to be considered good. Since ANN are not just the main news/review site anyone uses, but also pretty much the only one, their reviews and opinions set the standard for the western anime community. They immediately give every Ecchi a bad review from episode 1, forming the opinion that it's a bad show and first impressions are nearly impossible to overcome. So every Ecchi starts out with a bad rating and can never overcome it. This leads to less Ecchi getting dubbed (even though Ecchi is one of the most popular genres) since all Ecchi are considered bad. Meanwhile Shoujo trash, which no one but a very small amount of anime fans actually likes, always get a good review since their for women and gay people and therefor automatically good in the eyes of ANN. This has lead to a ton of Shoujo and BL nobody likes such as Twilight out of Focus, Cherry Magic, The Gorilla God's Go-to Girl, and Anyways I'm Falling in Love With You getting dubbed directly instead of some of the most popular Shonen anime of the year such as Days with My Stepsister, Love is Indivisible by Twins, I'm Getting Married to a Girl I Hate in My Class, and Please Put Them On Takamine-San, all of which are ridiculously sub-only since the liberals at ANN and Crunchyroll hate Ecchi, High School anime, and anything for a straight male audience. ANN is also a so called anime news website that can't even define anime. They constantly call Chinese, South Korean, and even Western cartoons such as To Be Hero X and Anne Shirley "Anime" even though they are not. Anime are Japanese. A series that wasn't created by Japanese people cannot be anime by definition. This blatant misinformation peddled by Anime News Network has lead to shows that aren't anime (such as Link Click and Tower of God) getting dubbed by Crunchyroll, another so called anime company, instead of actual anime. They have normalized the blatantly false idea that anything can be made into an anime, as long as the production is done by Japanese people. That begs the question then, what is the point of anime if it isn't distinct from cartoons? The thing that makes anime different in the first place is Japanese culture. A show like Anne Shirley doesn't have a single ounce of Asian culture at all, let alone Japanese culture. The fact it's animated by Japanese people instead of westerners is something you won't even notice while watching it, unlike cultural differences which are blatant. Thus Anime News Network's definition of anime is no different from cartoons from any country. I would think a liberal website like ANN would tell you that trying to change something from another culture is the very definition of cultural appropriation. That's exactly what ANN are doing when they call some western cartoon an anime. They intentionally exclude English dub fans, which make up at least half of the anime fanbase, from their "Your Weekly Anime Ratings" section. It would actually be impossible to include dub fans in this since more than half of anime aren't dubbed, and the ones that are dubbed mostly don't come out at the same time as the subtitled episodes. However, for such a liberal website to exclude an entire group of people seems entirely hypocritical. Aren't they supposed to be inclusive? Why do dub fans get no say or voice in the anime ranking system? An alternative to this system that actually includes ALL anime fans would be to move to a "Your Monthly Anime Ratings" system instead of doing it every week. I don't see ANN ever doing that though since they (and sub fans in general) clearly enjoy the power they get from being gatekeepers - being the only ones who get to have their opinions read while dub fans aren't included. ANN are also run by people who can't even tell you how many genders there are (for anyone at ANN reading this, there are only two - Male and Female). They insert politics into things constantly, they pretend anime aren't significantly more censored than they used to be (because they are pro censorship but they know censorship is unpopular, so they claim the fact anime is censored garbage now is a lie or exaggeration). I'm not sure if it's even possible for anyone who works for ANN to see anime from an apolitical viewpoint. A news website is supposed to be unbiased. I don't know if I've ever come across a more blatantly biased website than ANN. If you value truth, sanity, and most of all normalcy, I'd suggest avoiding Anime News Network.