Hello! I read your Beck review and I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one who didn't think the series was good as others made it out to be. I agree with your points on the lack of production quality the show had. Seeing Madhouse as the studio for the anime, I had high expectations but was pretty much disappointed with the bland-ish color schemes. Your review was brief but informative, cheers!
Greetings Bdiah, I saw that you watched a few Winter 2017 shows.
At the Anime Guild our main specialization is being a Seasonal Club. We are getting close on making that final turn this season.
We do choose the best Opening, Ending, Character and of course Anime of the Season with also a Discord Channel and a Power Ranking Group.
If that seems appealing to you, make sure you participate in our activities for the rest of Winter 2017 by joining our club.
I have already sent an invite as well as provide a link to our club ^.^ - http://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=63899
What I'm doing with it currently is matching scraped AP anime titles against a pre-generated AP-->MAL list. That probably won't be too useful for you, since AP titles will in all likelihood be quite different from ANN's titles.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/181781/ap-mal-mapper.py might be of more help; this is what I'm using to generate the AP-->MAL mappings. It has a 5-second timer set between MAL searches, but even with that in place, I've found that the API seems to start dropping searches really quickly once you've submitted more than a few searches in succession.
You might want to start by matching ANN titles to entries in ap-mal-map.json (in the zip file) as far as possible, before resorting to MAL search (you might need to get your own MAL user agent string at http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=692311). The json format is described in anime_planet_xml_list_exporter.py (in the zip file).
I hope this helps ;) Feel free to get back to me if you have any questions (although I should say first that I'm only a days-old python scripter and probably won't be of that much help).
I really should hang out there since I don't need to be in a lot of channels I'm in already. Haha. Not like I'm doing very much work these days either. It's all pretty darn boring. You'll see me pop my head in from time to time.
Great review on an anime flick that's not all that well known. It was an amusing experience to say the least as it's not something I expected when I first watched it.
