Submit Your Review to AAW

AAW has a good selection of reviews, but we can't review everything. But... since we aim to provide our readers with as much helpful anime information as possible, this form will let you submit your own reviews of anime not reviewed (yet) at AAW. Here's how it works: You see something that's not reviewed here, and you want to fix that. So, you write your own review, and submit it using this form.

Guidelines: Although we appreciate all the input we get, submissions using this form will be held to a reasonably strict standard of quality, which you can probably get an idea of by looking at some of the existing reader reviews. If you've got enough to say, your review will probably be selected and published as the (or one of the) Reader Reviews for the title, and you'll be given proper credit. If and when an "official" review is written, your review will remain as an alternate opinion.

If you decide to take a shot at it, this form allows you to add as much info as the official reviews; it looks daunting, but we want to give you the opportunity to provide other readers with as much information as every other review, and a lot of it is optional. There are plenty of readers who will appreciate the effort if you put in as much information as possible, so please make sure you've got any information you enter right, to avoid confusion. Also make sure that we haven't already got a review for the series--if we do, you're welcome to submit another review if you have a different opinion, but it's somewhat less likely to be used.

Disclaimer: Submissions that are selected may be slightly edited for grammar, spelling, and punctuation, and will be chosen by the whims of the editorial staff; if yours isn't selected, please don't take offense--it's really not personal. Posting may also take a while, so please be patient. All that said, if you're up for it, get writing--we're anxious to see what you've got to say!

Formatting Tips

  • Typing your review in a text editor like Microsoft Word is a good idea, since you can save it as you go and check your spelling, but "curly quotes" don't work well on the web; please turn them off if you can, to save us having to manually replace them.
  • Lots of paragraph breaks make writing easier to read; to make a break just leave a blank line. Please don't do indenting, though.
  • Text will be automatically processed with EtText; because of this, if you want to include bold or italic text, do so by writing it like this: **bold** or __italic__ .
  • If you really want to write your own HTML, you're welcome to, but we'll probably edit it to match our formatting guidelines.

The Form

About You

Your Name/Handle: (to go with your review)
E-Mail Address: (please note: although we understand privacy and spam concerns, we prefer to have some accountability to go with the reviews we publish, so we require a valid e-mail address. We will format the addres in such a way as to make it difficult to automatically harvest. If you have other concerns, feel free to note them in the additional comments section below.)

Anime Details

English Title: (please be specific)
Original Title: (if you know it) (optional)

Version I'm Reviewing:

Series Type:

Length: (in minutes and episodes) (optional; examples: 50 minutes, 12 25-minute episodes)
Genre: (specific) (optional; examples: "Ninja Romance"; "Time Traveling Comedy")

Broad Genre:

Writing

Plot Synopsis: (a short rundown on the story)

Your Review:

Your Rating:
Bottom Line (a one sentence summary of your opinion):

Notes: (any notes on the production that don't fit in your review)

DVD Review: (optional summary of DVD features and what you thought of it)

Parental Guide

Select a general age category:
Any additional parental notes: (specifics optional)

Violence Level:
Any specifics: (specifics optional)

Nudity Level:
Any specifics: (specifics optional)

Sex/Mature Themes Level:
Any specifics: (specifics optional)

Language Level:
Any specifics: (specifics optional)

Extra Stuff

What's In It (Categories): (if it belongs in any of the categories listed here, let us know)

What's In It (High Points): (a list of any particularly noteworthy features in the show)

Sequels/Spinoffs: (if there are any)

Related Recommendations: (other anime that you think are similar)

Cast/Crew: (optional, if you'd like to type them in)

Any Additional Comments: (not posted, but please include your e-mail address here if you'd like a reply)

A Brief Bio of You: (totally optional, and you only need submit this once; it will be linked to your review(s) to give people an idea of your anime-reviewing perspective. As long or short as you want)

Legal Junk: By submitting a review through this form, you affirm that you are the writer of the review, have the right to give it away, and grant AAW the permanant right to publish your review. That's about it.

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