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It ain't fucking anime if it isn't from Japan. It can be emulating anime, but if can never truly be it.
(Tbh, sounds like cultural appropriation to me)
 
Truthboi said:
"SUPPORTING THIS SHOW WILL HELP THE ANIME INDUSTRY BECAUSE UH MUH REPRESENTATION IN JAPAN!"
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As if anyone in the West has or will have any say on the future of the anime industry. The tiny percentage of revenue that foreign markets contribute directly to studios all comes from China and S. Korea, and they're more than happy to consume whatever studios are already making.

Hell, I'm willing to bet that Latin America is a bigger consumer of anime per capita than North America. US influence in Anime goes about as far as importing Disney movies to Japan after WW2 wiped out their domestic entertainment market, and that's about as far as they'll ever get.
 
Far as I'm concerned, I find it funny how creators living in a nation that has a reputation of being xenophobic and insular manage to write "PoC", women and even LGBT characters better than the dangerhairs ever will.
 
Gaijingate, seeing as it's mostly white women writing the show.

Crunchyroll does operate on the same basis as Netflix, with money coming back to animators via view clicks of premium members and ads played.

So if this is the bag of crap everyone thinks it is, it simply won't matter and the other three boring, generic ass shows they have in the pipeline won't proceed.

Oh, actual plot synopsis btw:

High Guardian Spice is a coming-of-age story about four girls: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme. The girls have been brought together at Guardian Academy to refine their magical talents and fighting capabilities to become guardians themselves. The description teases that the girls will be facing the usual trials and tribulations as they grow up while preparing for a powerful threat that could destroy them.


GENERIC: The Sort of Anime!
 
I think that the very own concept of anything that is referred to as """western anime/manga""" is autistic and weeaboo as hell.
 
Changeofheart said:
"""western anime/manga""" is autistic and weeaboo as hell.
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Fun fact: The use of Weaboo originally refers to Wapanese, a short for "Western Japanese". In the early days of 4chan the word Wapanese were commonly used to refer to Gaijin. Eventually they auto-corrected every instance of Wapanese into Weaboo, which replace the term Wapanese entirely.

So if anything can be truly described as "Weaboo", this ""anime"" definitely is.
 
Ponderous Pillock said:
Oh, actual plot synopsis btw:

High Guardian Spice is a coming-of-age story about four girls: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme. The girls have been brought together at Guardian Academy to refine their magical talents and fighting capabilities to become guardians themselves. The description teases that the girls will be facing the usual trials and tribulations as they grow up while preparing for a powerful threat that could destroy them.


GENERIC: The Sort of Anime!
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You know, when RWBY was announced and had the same generic premise, it at least made up for it with interesting character designs and good fight scenes.
 
ChevroletBlackboard said:
You know, when RWBY was announced and had the same generic premise, it at least made up for it with interesting character designs and good fight scenes.
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Yeah, and RT also had the smarts to sell the fact they were going to keep adding layers to the show as it went on. Even at its basic, generic start point it had stuff going for it. A good sound track, interesting character designs that were highly distinct from a glance, fight scenes that were well choreographed and amazing trailers introducing each individual character with their own personal sound track.

Ah yeah, you also had Monty's name attached to it, someone the RT community knew well and who's own record stood for itself. The show was all trailers teasing something fairly awesome and different was coming. Even if you go off of the trailers you have zero fucking clue what any of this is building towards but you want to know more.

You don't get that with this blithely idiotic backpatting Ellation and Dean decided to go with their trailer. We currently know more about the fucking idiots behind this thing than we do about the actual damn show. What we do know it's a generic as hell premise with an art style that barely pays homage to what it's supposed to be learning from.
 
Commander X said:
We're already at the "People are only having negative reactions to High Guardian Spice because they're sexists/Anime fandom has a 'misogyny' problem" stage of the backlash against the backlash. Here is only one small example of a sentiment that's making the rounds:

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Check her twitter profile, also in the answers she stated that did not bother to even watch the video and only want to piss off people to shill her terrible RPG Maker game
 
Cubanodun said:
Check her twitter profile, also in the answers she stated that did not bother to even watch the video and only want to piss off people to shill her terrible RPG Maker game
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Let's be honest here: the Crunchyroll tweet in which they announced the show just reached 9600 likes (and only had less than half of them the same day it got announced) meanwhile her tweet has more than 14.ooo likes already. Do you honestly think that the show has so many defensive fanboys already or is it just the outrage mob of twitter that always comes in defense of anything at the slightest hint of soggy knee/rayceesm/etcetera and doesn't even care about the backstory or is not even interested in crunchyroll or anime? It's the same thing as the Cyberpunk tweet and all those furries suddenly coming out of the woodwork claiming to be the biggest fans of the game since day 1.
 
Ponderous Pillock said:
High Guardian Spice is a coming-of-age story about four girls: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme.
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Oh my fucking God they actually are named after spices, what the fuck. What, was "Basil", "Ginger", "Clover", or even "Cinnamon" too normal for them? Why not "Pumpkin"? What a bunch of posers.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Oh my fucking God they actually are named after spices, what the fuck. What, was "Basil", "Ginger", "Clover", or even "Cinnamon" too normal for them? Why not "Pumpkin"? What a bunch of posers.
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Could also just be a reference to Scarborough Fair.
 
Changeofheart said:
I think that the very own concept of anything that is referred to as """western anime/manga""" is autistic and weeaboo as hell.
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It reminds me of the early 2000s where "anime style" was huge and people thought big eyed school girls, spiky hair, and giant robots made something "anime".

In reality, the split is dumb and misses the point that anime is just the shorthand for animation Japan uses. The real difference comes down to cultural influences rather than there being a literal "anime style". A westerner could capture that feeling if they have a decent enough grasp of Japan and animation popular there, obviously not in the "I binged a lot of harem anime" sense.
 
As much as folks like Metokur are saying "the hordes are at the gates" there's a fair few bastions to counter any SJW nonsensical narrative about anime's "problematic" ideas.

  • The main producers of this medium don't give a fuck about the ideology and will just carry on doing shit their way, knowing there's an audience.

  • Linking in to said content producers, this is probably why Ellation has had to go into the business of making HGS themselves. No Japanese studio wants to take the hit making some garbage that might threaten domestic contracts.

  • You have lots of strong female leads in various shows, usually with more coming out all the time; Hanebado! Angolomois, My Hero Academia, Stein's Gate 0 and AoT Season 3 all featuring strong female characters, casts and leads just off the top of my head for the current season alone.

  • CR, for now, will continue to fund the Jap anime studios properly.

  • CR has also, via the press release, launched into full blown damage control with the promise to migrate to the HTML5 player within the next few months and to assure people that the core mission has not changed. It mus retain the hardcore anime fans and it nearly managed to piss them all off in one fell swoop with a shitty trailer.

  • The Anime News Websites seemed lukewarm at best with most sites I've seen (like the one I had to find the synopsis from) simply releasing a bland press release clearly handed to them by Ellation themselves.

  • The Anime News video and review guys however, have called it the pile of crap it is and it's nigh on universal as a result.

  • CR's a fucking minnow in this pond compared to the other two players in the West. Namely Netflix, who's own orders for originals is larger than Domestic TV networks are offering, and Netflix is also willing to take creative risks compared to the TV networks to get the best results. Amazon is not far behind, nabbing interesting shows of their own and commissioning stuff as well. Both the bigger budget producers have also already learnt their lesson from the SJW menace, and have stopped pushing for so many stupid fucking projects like "Dear White People".
 
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