History WebVideo / BeatriceTheGoldenWitch

* StupidSexyFlanders: In her "Digi Bros Discuss" video for ''Anime/YuriOnIce'', she (not out as trans or queer yet) admits that she'd go gay for [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys most of the characters]] in the show.

* SherlockScan: At the beginning of "The Asterisk War Sucks", Beatrice talks about how she can predict so many of the problems she’s going to have with this show just by noticing a whole bunch of details in show’s poster image on Crunchyroll.

* StupidSexyFlanders: In her "Digi Bros Discuss" video for ''Anime/YuriOnIce'', she (not out as trans yet) admits that she'd go gay for [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys most of the characters]] in the show.

* HitlerAteSugar: In "On Closing Comments", where she's criticizing the prevalence of the idea that a [=YouTuber=] disabling comments on a video is some kind of crime against free speech, she cites a tweet by [=YouTuber=] [=ChaseFace=] saying he was getting so tired of reading the same ignorant comments on his videos that he felt like he'd have to stop reading them. Beatrice suggested just disabling comments on the most controversial videos, to which [=ChaseFace=] said something like, "I don't want to be like [[WebVideo/FeministFrequency Anita Sarkeesian]] and close comments. I feel like that would be a bad thing." Beatrice thinks this is an example of the "Hitler Fallacy": people will say "oh, Hitler also said that, so it must be wrong." But Hitler also drove a car, and nobody would ever say that just driving a car is evil. So just because someone you think is bad did something doesn't necessarily mean that thing is also bad. Furthermore, several highly popular [=YouTubers=] like Creator/{{Totalbiscuit}} and LetsPlay/PewDiePie have closed comments on their videos and kept forums for people to discuss their videos so that they don't have to deal with all the headaches, demonstrating that there can be legitimate reasons for closing comments.

She's had over ten different channels on Website/YouTube, most of which are inactive. Her main [=YouTube=] channel can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/user/DigibronyMLP here]], and her several other channels including [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrNNYICtHM3OxLFOKsvGywA/featured Digi Does Anime]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/user/DigibronyAfterDark/featured Branches Of Ygg]] (formerly Digibro After Dark); originally these were merely places she used to upload other things like podcasts, impressions of movies and videogames she's experienced, and other stuff unrelated to her main focus, but which have been frequently used since then to house her main content. This is because her channel was taken down a number of times as a result of [=YouTube=]'s flagging and content policies, which prevented her from posting videos with long-form footage of shows. Regardless of what was going on on [=YouTube=], Beatrice would post her reviews in text form on her blog, "[[https://myswordisunbelievablydull.wordpress.com/ My Sword Is Unbelievably Dull]]", which was also intended to help people who couldn’t access her videos for whatever reason. Another one of her channels was [[https://www.youtube.com/user/VABHermitSociety Digi Bros]], in which she and her younger brother Victor would play games with their girlfriends. She was also a member of a group of [=YouTubers=] called [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-6IzAdy_yVVwPgk0I59dOw The Pro Crastinators]] and appeared in their regular podcasts; besides this she was the co-host of fellow Pro Crastinator member Best Guy Ever's anime review and reaction show "[[https://youtube.com/c/KHANTEHNTShow KHANTEHNT!]]" Finally, she is very into music and uses her platform to share her original rap albums and music videos.

Beatrice was engaged for a couple of years to another anime [=YouTuber=], May, and they collaborated on videos for the Beatrice channel as well as May's channel, [[WebVideo/PantsuParty Pantsu Party]]; they separated in fall of 2020. Beatrice is now in a relationship with Bird.

* AccentuateTheNegative: The entire point of her Sword Art Online, Asterisk War and most recently Steins;Gate Zero videos.

%% * PetTheDog: When describing the flaws of the Asterisk War series, specifically the main character's UnwantedHarem, she pointed out that even Kirito ended up getting past the 'dorky, afraid of being intimate' stereotype. She even bumped up SAO's rating by .5 on the premise that it could be salvageable, whereas Asterisk War isn't.

* {{Anvilicious}}: [[invoked]] In one of her vlogs, she criticizes Joker Game for being incredibly hamfisted and corny about its rather basic ideas.

* BileFascination: [[invoked]] The main reason why she keeps making SAO videos even after saying she wouldn't watch season 2 is because she loves to hate the series.
* BoringInsult: In the PCP episode about "Plebs", she tells Nate that the worst thing she can say about Sword Art Online is that it's really boring.
* ClicheStorm: Invoked, and is her main criticism of Asterisk War. She talks about how annoying it is to see a show full of poorly done clichés, because she's bound to have seen them done far better in other shows. In fact, the final episode of her series on the show centers around ''Literature/ChivalryOfAFailedKnight'' instead, simply because it has a nearly identical premise and hits a lot of the exact same points, but with way better execution.

* CrowdedCastShot: She discusses this in her videos on ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate0''. She says that the anime frequently goes out of its way to place as many named characters as possible in each scene, regardless of how little sense it makes plot-wise, to give them as much screentime as possible [[PanderingToTheBase to please their fanbases]]. She says that this results in them being totally superfluous and irrelevant to what is actually going on in the scene, and could be replaced with inanimate objects or completely removed and the story wouldn't change a bit.

* DawsonCasting: [[invoked]]When talking about ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' in her discussion of Summer 2015 shows she dropped she makes note of this trope. Particularly she talks about how she finds [[Creator/MasakoNozawa Masako Nozawa's]] voice to be unfitting for Goku as it is very clearly the voice of an old lady. Though she does mention that her voice would have worked for the original ''Dragon Ball'' in the 1980's.

* DesignatedHero: [[invoked]] This is one of her biggest complaints with Sword Art Online, as she considers Kirito to be incredibly unlikable and annoying, and hates how the show's narrative keeps propping him up.

* EveryoneHasStandards: She notes that even people who liked the first arc of [=SAO=] tended to have problems with the second arc, mainly revolving around the villain, which makes her happy because it means most people seem to understand when a show just goes too far.
* FakeDifficulty / ItsHardSoItSucks[[invoked]]: In one of her update videos in her Beatrice channel she complains at length about VideoGame/DarkSoulsII and its design decisions, stating that it's difficult in mean-spirited ways that aren't fun or satisfying. In particular she complains about the enemies' tendency to track your movement, which she finds annoying. Averted for the rest of the [[VideoGame/DarkSouls Souls]] series, as she considers Bloodborne and the first Dark Souls to be some of her favorite games of all time and DifficultButAwesome.

* InvincibleHero: Among other things, she says that Kirito is so overpowered and unnaturally good at everything that it drains the story of any dramatic tension. She also notes how quickly the main character from The Asterisk War works his way into this, noting how he quickly obtains the most powerful weapon the series had shown at that point in episode 2, and how he already surpasses all the best fighters in the academy at the beginning of the show.

** In one of her vlogs she discusses this criticism in the context of two different series, ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda''. She states that she grew tired of God of War by the third game as she felt the games didn't really do enough to distinguish themselves besides generally polishing the first game's base and maybe having a few different segments every now and then. She disagrees that this is a valid complaint to apply to Zelda, as she notes that many of the games have a number of different approaches and mechanics that make them all distinct in spite of them having many of the same items, scenarios and plot structures, such as The Adventure of Link's 2D side scrolling action, Majora's Mask time limit, Wind Waker's story, visuals and overworld, Skyward Sword's motion controls, etc.

->'''Beatrice:''' ''Gen Urobuchi had enough hype at the time that people actually ''did'' watch this bizarre, CG, ugly-ass, weird fucking thing that he wrote, that is the polar opposite of what I'm saying should have happened.''

* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: She acknowledges that not understanding why Kirito outed himself as a "beater" in episode 2 of SAO was a big mistake on her part, but only because it caused a lot of people to dismiss her other criticisms in her ''Sword Art Online: An Analytical Diatribe'' video. She was particularly frustrated because when she was told the actual reason why Kirito did it, she still thought it was stupid, narratively broken and it did not improve her opinion of the show at all.

** ThanksForTheMammary, to the point where she considers any scene in a show after [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Neon Genesis Evangelion's]] subversion of the concept to be the worst scene of any show it's in.
** She really hates it when restaurants are used as the site of exposition, because she finds it incredibly dull and lazy. In her SAOII videos, she even kept a counter at the bottom and spent a good almost five minutes of the first video ranting about it.

--> This is what TV Tropes people mean when they invoke the ''Rule of Cool''. The rules of this universe are literally defined by what will look the coolest in animation. I'm willing to bet that there was a production meeting for this show where someone said, "We want there to be lots of big explosions of blood and gore. What can you think of which would create the biggest, most satisfying explosion of blood and gore?" "Well, what about driving a massive fucking train through a horde of zombies? Yeah, that works." "We also want to have people fighting the zombies up close and personal, but there's a limit to what we can do if those people are bound by the laws of physics and logic." "Well, if we introduce a race of super-powered zombie-human hybrids then we can pretty much animate whatever our imaginations can conjure." Now, I'm not saying that ''Kabaneri'' couldn't have possibly had a better story or more interesting characters, and still have been exactly as badass as it was...but I do have to wonder how anyone made it three episodes into this show and thought that it had any priorities other than animating cool shit.

** In part 12 of her ''Asterisk War'' series, she states that this is her overall opinion on ''Literature/ChivalryOfAFailedKnight'', but she stresses that by even reaching this benchmark it is already better than the ''Asterisk War'', which she just finds horrible, and the entirety of the video is comparing both and explaining why Chivalry is better. She also notes how the series has at least a few things going in its favor that make it at least somewhat worthwhile, notably [[spoiler: the aversion of LastMinuteHookup by having the main couple get together by the end of episode 4, nipping any would-be harem in the bud]].
** Ultimately ended up being her opinion on ''Literature/ReZero''. While there were aspects of the show she liked (Some characters such as Rem, Ram, Felt, and Wilhelm, episodes 15 and 18, and the animation direction) alongside aspects she disliked (Subaru's characterization, the White Whale arc and final arc, and the attempts at being meta) she had no strong feelings on it whatsoever. She does admit that the show isn't offensive or incompetent and that her score for the show was more a result of her finding it to be boring rather than her actually thinking its bad.

** [[invoked]] She hates how Asuna, who she considers the best thing about SAO, was repeatedly degraded and shoved aside by the show's insistence on propping up Kirito, instead of having her contribute to potential character development for Kirito and being an actual deuteragonist who is on par with the main character.

** Laments how after episode 3, SAO completely drops the tension of the first few episodes to go on a bunch of uninteresting and pointless side stories, instead of maintaining the tension and urgency of the death game scenario, focusing on Kirito's character development, and fleshing out the setting and culture of Aincrad.

* TooDumbToLive: In the "Analytical Diatribe", she talks about how despite the presence of 1,000 Beta testers in SAO, and the logical probability that the remaining 9,000 would be hardcore gamers who were willing to invest in the probably expensive Nerve Gear and wait in line to get the game before it sold out, we see far too many people who seem inexperienced with [=MMOs=], and hardly anyone besides Kirito seems to pick up on the correct way to play. It actually shouldn't be very hard to survive in the game through careful grinding and avoiding unnecessary risks, but we frequently see people make stupid mistakes which cause them to get killed.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: [[invoked]] One of her main complaints about the second half of SAO's first season is that the gratuituous quasi-rape scenes have absolutely no place in SAO, which is mostly a childish and simplistic show which doesn't have the writing chops to pull off something like that, as evidenced by how disgusting and offensive she found them.

** In "Is There Meaning In "Subverting" Shounen Tropes?" she talks about shonen series such as ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' and ''Manga/OnePunchMan'' that many people claim to be subversive or deconstructions of typical shonen series. However her stance on them is that they're straight up battle shonen series that are just better executed than most shonen in terms of subverting the audiences' expectations in comparison to series like ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' or ''Manga/FairyTail'' that fail to do so. She cites ''Anime/SamuraiFlamenco'' and ''{{ComicBook/Watchmen}}'' as actually deconstructing superheroes by extensively commenting on the history of Main/{{sentai}} shows and {{superhero}} comics, respectively, while showing actually becoming a superhero as an unattainable fantasy (at least until ''Flamenco'' pulls a GenreShift).

** ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' is not really a deconstruction of MagicalGirl shows; it's just DarkerAndEdgier, and a lot of the things it does were already done by other magical girl shows, as she expounds upon in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8PrJFOlKWc Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica - What it Did and What I Thought]]": ''Anime/CuteyHoney'' (considered in retrospect to be an UrExample of the genre) was not only aimed at boys, but it contained lots of violence, nudity, and action; The original ''Manga/SailorMoon'' manga featured CharacterDeath, and both that series and ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' are known for dealing with surprisingly dark themes; ''Anime/PrettyCure'' began to draw the attention of Otaku audiences with its well-animated fight scenes, which may have influenced the purely otaku-oriented ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' franchise, which was also pretty dark and violent. Madoka is somewhat unique in that the main heroine doesn't transform for the majority of the series, but even in this it could be compared to ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'', in which Sakura never actually transformed, but was really just putting on different outfits while using magic. There's also ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', since while Utena does ostensibly have a sort of transformation, the series is more about her long-term character arc and how she transforms as a person in the end. The idea of a completely tragic magical girl show has even been explored in the likes of ''Anime/PrincessTutu'', and both that show and ''Utena'' do way more to subvert and deconstruct the magical girl genre than ''Madoka'' does. Indeed, ''Madoka'' has a lot of themes in common with other magical girl shows, and its BittersweetEnding is actually pretty hopeful and inspiring. In her opinion, you have to be rather ignorant of the genre to think ''Madoka Magica'' is a deconstruction, and considering it as a member of rather than a rebellion against the genre allows one to see how flexible and diverse the genre can be. What ''really'' gets her goat is that Watchmojo didn't even have ''Utena'', a genuine magical girl deconstruction, as anything more than a shout-out at the end of the video!

* OnceOriginalNowCommon: [[invoked]] In a video talking about how her tastes have changed over time, she mentions how ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven'' was one of her favorite movies at one point. After rewatching it with Davoo she didn't think much of it, partly because ''Series/GameOfThrones''. She also talks about how many shows she used to love she doesn't think highly of anymore since newer shows have come along that are better versions of those shows, or what she values changes over time.

* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: She acknowledges that not understanding why Kirito outed himself as a beater in episode 2 of SAO was a big mistake on her part, but only because it caused a lot of people to dismiss her other criticisms in her ''Sword Art Online: An Analytical Diatribe'' video. She was particularly frustrated because when she was told the actual reason why Kirito did it, she still thought it was stupid, narratively broken and it did not improve her opinion of the show at all.

* CondemnedByHistory: [[invoked]] In a video talking about how her tastes have changed over time she mentions how ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven'' was one of her favorite movies at one point but after viewing it with Davoo he didn't think much of it with the advent of ''Series/GameOfThrones'' being part of it. She also talks about how many shows she used to love she doesn't think highly of anymore since newer shows have come along that are better versions of those shows or what she values changes over time.

* WTHCastingAgency: [[invoked]]
** In her video on ''{{Manga/ERASED}}'', one of her problems with the show was that Satoru was voiced by a newcomer voice actor with no anime experience, while the other characters are voiced by experienced anime voice actors.
** While talking about the first episode of ''Literature/JokerGame'', she mentions how a minor character in the first episode was given a Japanese voice actor despite being American and talking English. Made all the more jarring when the character speaks Japanese, and he sounds more fluent in that language than his native tongue.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: [[invoked]] In a video talking about how her tastes have changed over time she mentions how ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven'' was one of her favorite movies at one point but after viewing it with Davoo he didn't think much of it with the advent of ''Series/GameOfThrones'' being part of it. She also talks about how many shows she used to love she doesn't think highly of anymore since newer shows have come along that are better versions of those shows or what she values changes over time.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In her "Anime Is Getting Lazy With Its Meta" video, while discussing the "Little Sister" genre - specifically, the genre codifier for anime, ''LightNovel/{{Oreimo}}'':

* YouSayTomato: Beatrice pronounces words however she likes, whether because of her upbringing, or because she likes her own pronunciation better than the "correct" one (she likes to say the word "niche" as 'nish' rather than 'neesh'), or because she had NoPronunciationGuide back when she started and finds it way more tedious to re-train herself than just not to care. As far as she's concerned, as long as someone understands what word she was trying to pronounce then they shouldn't complain about how she said it. She goes on an epic rant about this in the Pro Crastinators Podcast.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: [[invoked]] In her video on anime voice actors she makes mention of how Creator/HiroshiKamiya has voiced two characters who were older brothers to characters voiced by Creator/EriKitamura.

* ItMakesSenseInContext: During the debate with ''WebVideo/{{Gigguk}}'' at Crunchyroll Expo, Beatrice mentioned she admires "that guy's passion for drawing a twelve-year-old's genitals". Gigguk immediately responded: "Someone clip that and post it somewhere out of context.", which she actually did ''herself'' in her "Anime WebVideo/YouTubeRewind" video. Context: Beatrice was talking about an animator for ''LightNovel/EromangaSensei'', a show which she, ironically enough, loathed.

* BetterThanABareBulb: Her "Anime Is Getting Lazy With Its Meta" video discusses the shallowness of the attempts modern Light Novels make at subverting popular cliches. She brings up ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' and ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' as counterexamples to highlight the difference between actual subversion and merely telling the audience you're using a cliche while playing it straight.

* CultClassic: [[invoked]] In one of her vlogs she talks about how many of the good anime don't start getting popular until a while after they've finished airing citing ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' and ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' as examples. In fact a good number of her favorite shows are cult classics.

* InfoDump: Generally not fond of this trope as seen with her opinions on ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'', ''Literature/RokkaBravesOfTheSixFlowers'', and ''Literature/JokerGame''. The only exceptions are if they are presented in a particularly over-the-top fashion like the "walking in circles" scene from ''LightNovel/FateZero''.

* NaiveEverygirl: In her ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'' discussion, she considers the female character “[[InSeriesNickname the Steph]]” to be like this. She doesn’t think outside of the norms she learned as a ProperLady, so she doesn’t realize that the rules of reality go further than her personal ones.

* NotBloodSiblings: Pretty much the first thing that ''LightNovel/EromangaSensei'' does in the first episode is put out there that Masamune and Sagiri are not blood-related siblings. Usually what a show will do is reveal this halfway through the story so that the audience gets to be excited by the taboo before finding out it wouldn't "really" be incest, so they can have their cake and eat it too. Beatrice feels like the way this is usually done is a cop-out, but ''Eromanga Sensei'' is so brazen about putting it right up front that it's kind of hilarious. What Beatrice finds really ridiculous is that they are hardly even adopted siblings either. Masamune never really got to spend time with Sagiri as his sister before her mother died and she shut herself in her room, and she's pretty much been a stranger to him ever since. Therefore, whenever Beatrice teases Masamune for being a shameless siscon, she has to remind herself that these two are hardly siblings in any sense of the word: they're more like two kids who happen to share an appartment, and since there's really nothing taboo about their relationship she doesn't see why they had to be written as "siblings" in the first place. It also comes off as really weak when Masamune later denies his feelings, saying he can't get together with Sagiri because she's his sister.

* JustForFun/OneMarioLimit: While discussing ''LightNovel/EromangaSensei'' episode 2, Beatrice points out that Megumin from the show shares her nickname with Megumin from ''Literature/KonoSuba''. Though Best Guy Ever cautions against reading too much into what could just be a coincidence, Beatrice notes that a character with the same name as a much more popular character who's on TV at the same time is bound to be overshadowed.
* OffModel:
** In her video on ''Literature/KonoSuba'' she mentions how part of the charm in the series was the rather rough in-between animation, as well as how the different animators were allowed to draw the characters the way they wanted instead of sticking rigidly to one style.
** On the other hand, in "We Have Accepted Mediocrity", Beatrice criticizes the lack of polish that goes into the character animation of most anime since the GoldenAge of TheEighties ended--and especially since the 2008 recession. It used to be that a good director who got his hands on a really good script or IP could obtain the kind of budget, staff, and advertising needed to take the risk and make a classic with potentially MultipleDemographicAppeal, but nowadays when Netflix teams up with Creator/MasaakiYuasa to make ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'', they aren't willing to go all-in with their investment so that it can be properly animated and made to appeal to the Western viewership they're trying to court. ''Anime/NinetyOneDays'' had a really ambitious concept, but Studio Shuka made it before they had developed the capacity to animate it well and it ended up looking janky. Even in ''Anime/SwordOfTheStranger'' there are background extras with derpy off-model faces, and anime fans don't notice because the main character animation is slick and they've been conditioned to ignore lazy extra animation, but Beatrice thinks that this complacency is holding anime back from mainstream appeal. Normal people get turned off by off-model faces and lazy animation, and as long as studios keep cutting corners the market for anime will be restricted to an increasingly unprofitable niche of people who don't care about quality animation. We’re seeing a constantly multiplying number of small studios flooding the market with an increasing number of generic light novel adaptations each season—serving a niche audience willing to just gobble up more and more forgettable shows all the time—while praying that they'll sell enough to stay afloat. Anime is going nowhere right now, so what the industry really needs to do according to Beatrice is consolidate the studios, take some creative risks, and do whatever they have to do to appeal to new, more mainstream audiences.

* TheSociopath: Calls Jibril one in her ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'' video, in the sense that she feels no remorse and no respect [[FantasticRacism for other races she sees as having a lower status]]. While in other stories she could be a villain, in here the danger is removed by having her follow the demand of the protagonists.

** In ''LightNovel/EromangaSensei Every Week with Best Guy Ever'', Beatrice and her guest are able to spend hours talking about how almost every situation or occurence in the show is so implausible that they can't suspend their disbelief:

** ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' is not a deconstruction of {{fanservice}}; it's merely [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] and PlayedForLaughs while ultimately giving you the same kind of fanservice.

* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable:
** On numerous occasions, she's pronounced "during" by emphasizing the "ring" part. Her stated reason for doing this is that "it made the sentence flow well". One example of her YouSayTomato philosophy.
%%* AllAccordingToPlan: From the second half of April to the second half of August, about 4 months, the subscriber count of her channel stopped growing, getting stuck around 350k. During this time, Beatrice had begun doing somewhat different stuff, apparently trying to rebrand herself. There would be regular small dips in her subscriber count, which was seemingly getting stale. However, on the 21st of August, it started growing, and within a few days she gained ''thousands'' of subs a day. Both afterwards and a while before this, she heavily implied that she expected this to happen. (nevermind, she has expanded on it and it's not this trope)

* FourPointScale: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] and [[DefiedTrope Defied.]] Beatrice is a believer in using the full scale, and even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KETsihEO5Zk released a VLOG on the subject]] regarding scoring some shows like Asterisk War, SAO, and Erased on the lower end.
* FreakOut: Has a positively epic one in the third part of her Sword Art Online II review when she's informed that the characters are physically incapable of logging out of the game during the tournament. With epic music from LightNovel/WelcomeToTheNHK behind her she begins demanding how that makes any sense from a logical standpoint (rather than as a plot device) while the video zooms out and trainwrecks and other videos of people flipping out in front of a computer start playing in the background.
* FreezeFrameBonus: Has a few in videos but a standout is while talking about Sword Art Online II, in the sped up footage of a balloon drifting by a hospital window, she inserts a quick parody of "99 Red Balloons"

** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkkminwseh4 just shittalking other anime youtubers for like half an hour, oh god what have i done]]", she goes on a long, angry rant about various other reviewers whom she has a beef with, or whom she wants to criticize. WebVideo/{{Gigguk}}, The Canipa Effect, [=RCAnime=], and [[WebVideo/{{MothersBasement}} Mother's Basement]] are just a few of the individuals she calls out for one thing or another: for example, she rags on Gigguk for not getting to the point in his video introductions, and complains about Mother's Basement's attempts to monetize his channel. The "weebcast" afterwards gave Beatrice and some of the [=YouTubers=] she criticized such as Gigguk and Mother's Basement a chance to talk at length about the impact of the video while discussing the criticisms she brought up from their perspectives, and they pretty much started off by saying that for the most part, their viewers got more angry about it than they did and they thought it was ActuallyPrettyFunny. Gigguk's initial response video "Don't Be Like Digibro" suggested that Beatrice (going by Digibro at the time) was criticizing anyone whose style wasn't like hers, and that everybody should do their own thing instead of imitating someone else. In "the Artist is not Abstract", Beatrice clarifies that she actually ''wants'' to see people trying different styles and wasn't trying to imply that hers was the only good way to make anime videos, but that she also thinks [=YouTubers=] should learn to deal with criticism from people like her who don't like their content. After all, reviewers already make a living criticizing the work of artists who are real people and not just some kind of abstraction, so she thinks it's hypocritical to say that just because [=YouTubers=] all know each other they should treat each other with kid gloves.

* InfoDump: Generally not fond of this trope as seen with her opinions on ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'', ''LightNovel/RokkaNoYuusha'', and ''Literature/JokerGame''. The only exceptions are if they are presented in a particularly over-the-top fashion like the "walking in circles" scene from ''LightNovel/FateZero''.

* JustHereForGodzilla[[invoked]]: Discussed in "We Have Accepted Mediocrity", in which she states that people would watch the anime ''Anime/{{Expelled from Paradise}}'' because Creator/{{Gen Urobuchi}} wrote it. To give some context: she doesn't think Gen Urobuchi should waste his skills on things like this.

* NaiveEverygirl: In her LightNovel/NoGameNoLife discussion, she considers the female character “[[InSeriesNickname the Steph]]” to be like this. She doesn’t think outside of the norms she learned as a ProperLady, so she doesn’t realize that the rules of reality go further than her personal ones.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: In one of her SAOII videos, she mocks author Reki Kawahara for the fact that he made two of his villains to be rapists to make them more despicable and creepy, and in an earlier video, she pointed out that such content shouldn't have been in SAO in the first place, as she feels that shows like SAO, at their core juvenile power fantasies, are fundamentally ill-equipped to tackle such a heavy and serious subject.

** Describes this as the reason why Anime/KabaneriOfTheIronFortress exists, and why it's silly to talk about it getting dumb at some point when it made no pretence about being anything else from the start:
--> This is what TV Tropes people mean when they invoke the ''Rule of Cool''. The rules of this universe are literally defined by what will look the coolest in animation. I'm willing to bet that there was a production meeting for this show where someone said, "We want there to be lots of big explosions of blood and gore. What can you think of which would create the biggest, most satisfying explosion of blood and gore?" "Well, what about driving a massive fucking train through a horde of zombies? Yeah, that works." "We also want to have people fighting the zombies up close and personal, but there's a limit to what we can do if those people are bound by the laws of physics and logic." "Well, if we introduce a race of super-powered zombie-human hybrids then we can pretty much animate whatever our imaginations can conjure." Now, I'm not saying that Kabaneri couldn't have possibly had a better story or more interesting characters, and still have been exactly as badass as it was...but I do have to wonder how anyone made it three episodes into this show and thought that it had any priorities other than animating cool shit.

* TheSociopath: Calls Jibril one in her LightNovel/NoGameNoLife video, in the sense that she feels no remorse and no respect [[FantasticRacism for other races she sees as having a lower status]]. While in other stories she could be a villain, in here the danger is removed by having her follow the demand of the protagonists.

** During the penultimate video of her Asterisk War series, she says that its tournament arc is constructed extremely poorly, missing out on several opportunities to increase tension and create actual narrative stakes (like, for example, having the guy who's obviously Ayato's sister's killer be his final opponent), not spending enough time and effort to make Priscilla and Irene good adversaries that the audience might care about, and then completely flubbing the jobbing attempt that was present with Lester, not only because Lester was never established as being a powerful or credible threat so that beating him would mean anything, but because Irene actually needed to ''get serious'', meaning she's closer to his power level than Ayato's, and actually diminishing her threat instead of upping it.

* NeverMyFault: Her video discussing an article written by Justin Sevakis on Anime News Network has elements of this. In it, Beatrice admits that while she was wrong about how Crunchyroll helps the anime industry, Beatrice shifts the blame about her CriticalResearchFailure to people like Justin for not "adjusting to the current standards of anime journalism" (Youtube videos instead of written articles), therefore making it harder for them to reach people like Beatrice, causing those people to neglect. Basically; she seems to say it wasn't really her own fault, it was people like Justin for not providing her the information.

* CriticalResearchFailure: [[invoked]] In her SAOII video series, she points out how Death Gun's [[spoiler:aka the Shinkawa brothers]] MO of killing people is completely farcical, even inviting one of her friends who works at a hospital to explain how [[spoiler: obtaining the muscle relaxant in question is not nearly as trivial to obtain as the show makes it out to be, even with the excuse that their father owns the hospital in question. This is because hospitals have very strict safety precautions to prevent theft and abuse of its drugs, which the show doesn't seem to acknowledge or care about at all.]]

** Feels as if the 2003 version of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' started falling apart in the second half when it began to focus on anime original material.

* ClicheStorm: Invoked, and is her main criticism of Asterisk War. She talks about how annoying it is to see a show full of poorly done clichés, because she's bound to have seen them done far better in other shows. In fact, the final episode of her series on the show centers around ''LightNovel/ChivalryOfAFailedKnight'' instead, simply because it has a nearly identical premise and hits a lot of the exact same points, but with way better execution.

* DuelingShows: She notes how ''Liteature/TheAsteriskWar'' and ''LightNovel/ChivalryOfAFailedKnight'' were shows with pretty much identical premises and near exact character types and plot beats, and that both happened to get anime adaptations at pretty much the same time. She considers ''Chivalry of A Failed Knight'' to be noticeably better in a number of aspects, and though she hesitates to say the show is particularly great, it's still far and away better than ''Asterisk War'' just by virtue of being '''adequate''', with ''Asterisk War'' replacing ''Sword Art Online'' as her least favorite anime.

** In part 12 of her ''Asterisk War'' series, she states that this is her overall opinion on ''LightNovel/ChivalryOfAFailedKnight'', but she stresses that by even reaching this benchmark it is already better than the ''Asterisk War'', which she just finds horrible, and the entirety of the video is comparing both and explaining why Chivalry is better. She also notes how the series has at least a few things going in its favor that make it at least somewhat worthwhile, notably [[spoiler: the aversion of LastMinuteHookup by having the main couple get together by the end of episode 4, nipping any would-be harem in the bud]].
** Ultimately ended up being her opinion on ''LightNovel/ReZero''. While there were aspects of the show she liked (Some characters such as Rem, Ram, Felt, and Wilhelm, episodes 15 and 18, and the animation direction) alongside aspects she disliked (Subaru's characterization, the White Whale arc and final arc, and the attempts at being meta) she had no strong feelings on it whatsoever. She does admit that the show isn't offensive or incompetent and that her score for the show was more a result of her finding it to be boring rather than her actually thinking its bad.

** When discussing ''Manga/ChivalryOfAFailedKnight'' she makes mention of various shots that use cool color and lighting effects in the final episodes.

** [[invoked]] In her overview of ''Literature/TheAsteriskWar'', come the tournament arc she claims that the host of the tournament [[spoiler: (who is the masked figure in the beginning of the first episode)]] would have been a good candidate for an overarching opponent in the tournament arc. She apparently isn't aware that in the original {{Light Novel}}s, [[spoiler:Mesa is the BigBad (though in her defense, the novels weren't translated to English until several years later and Mesa's role in the first two tournament arcs is minimal)]].
** One of her problems with ''LightNovel/ReZero'' was how the show kept on introducing characters that seemed important but ended up only appearing in a handful of episodes. In particular she was annoyed with how Felt [[spoiler: didn't appear beyond the Royal Selection]], and Rem, Ram, and Wilhelm all being pushed to the side after various different points in the story.

She first came into prominence as a pioneer in the WebVideo/MLPAnalysis community, and for a long time she was chiefly known for her MLP videos. She eventually lost interest in the show and retired as an MLP analyst. After that she chose to channel her passion for media analysis into other mediums, anime being only the most prominent. While she does examine anime she enjoys, she has also received significant attention for critical and largely negative reviews of ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' and ''LightNovel/TheAsteriskWar'', with multiple videos dedicated to pointing out her gripes with both series at length.

* DuelingShows: She notes how ''LightNovel/TheAsteriskWar'' and ''LightNovel/ChivalryOfAFailedKnight'' were shows with pretty much identical premises and near exact character types and plot beats, and that both happened to get anime adaptations at pretty much the same time. She considers ''Chivalry of A Failed Knight'' to be noticeably better in a number of aspects, and though she hesitates to say the show is particularly great, it's still far and away better than ''Asterisk War'' just by virtue of being '''adequate''', with ''Asterisk War'' replacing ''Sword Art Online'' as her least favorite anime.

* InfoDump: Generally not fond of this trope as seen with her opinions on ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', ''LightNovel/RokkaNoYuusha'', and ''Literature/JokerGame''. The only exceptions are if they are presented in a particularly over-the-top fashion like the "walking in circles" scene from ''LightNovel/FateZero''.

** [[invoked]] In her overview of LightNovel/TheAsteriskWar, come the tournament arc she claims that the host of the tournament [[spoiler: (who is the masked figure in the beginning of the first episode)]] would have been a good candidate for an overarching opponent in the tournament arc.