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This Week in Games - Horizon: Zero Dawn

I'm always open to suggestion if anyone in here has ideas for what they'd like to see us do.

An anime fan is allowed to like non-Japanese stuff too.

This is completely true to every degree, yet the real problem lies with the so-called hardcore weebs, who hate everything not having to do with anime. If you're an anime fan that happens to like non-Japanese stuff and you mention anything non-Japanese at an anime con or in an anime forum, you're apparently not considered a "true" fan by said hardcore morons.

Well, if that's the case, then I'd rather not be a "true" fan. I like a lot of things, and I am a fan of a lot of things. And if I had a PS4, I'd play Horizon: Zero Dawn.

There was one year at Anime Expo where cosplayers for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Adventure Time, and Homestuck together outnumbered cosplayers for Japanese properties, which I found pretty amusing, and I understood it's because these people are fans of both anime and other things. (It was one of those years after the bubble had burst, meaning anime itself was of diminished relevance even in its own fandom.) Last year, there was an explosion in cosplayers of characters from Miraculous Ladybug too. I wonder if anyone blew a gasket from these sights.

I wouldn't be surprised if they indeed lost their marbles over it. It's funny yet again in this case, because Japanese folks do enjoy our properties too, so it goes both ways. It's not like when anime conventions are held there, you won't stop seeing their own franchises running about, because to them "anime" means all forms of animations, not just their own.

In the case of Miraculous Ladybug, it was promoted with a Japanese animation trailer, so the show's release was originally a collaboration between North America, France and Japan (despite the fact they couldn't go through with 2D due to specific concerns about marketability and animation difficulties). It's also because the show isn't bad at all and pretty popular with the Code Lyoko crowd.

My Little Pony and Adventure Time have been dubbed in Japanese as well, just like we dub Japan's animated works in English, but somehow North America is always treated as the bad guy for dubbing at all, while Japan always gets a pass no matter how bad it sounds because they can never do anything wrong in the eyes of the weebs (for example, Discord is really shrill and high-pitched in the Japanese dub of MLP, which is the complete opposite of how he's voiced in English; this is proven by comparison of voice clips at Behind the Voice Actors).

The typical double standards of the "true" anime fans. Le sigh...

I am curious as to the idea behind Discord's Japanese voice though.

I'm going to hazard a guess here, but I'm assuming they took one look at his character design and assumed that "he must be insane", and insane characters are usually portrayed with a shrill and often ear-bleeding voice in Japanese to emphasize their insanity.

There was one year at Anime Expo where cosplayers for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Adventure Time, and Homestuck together outnumbered cosplayers for Japanese properties, which I found pretty amusing, and I understood it's because these people are fans of both anime and other things. (It was one of those years after the bubble had burst, meaning anime itself was of diminished relevance even in its own fandom.) Last year, there was an explosion in cosplayers of characters from Miraculous Ladybug too. I wonder if anyone blew a gasket from these sights.

From what I heard that is pretty standard to see Homestuck and other stuff at anime conventions. That's particularly why I never bothered with American conventions. They seem to follow the ComiCon route of abandoning their original premise and just being a generic geek convention.

Has that approach been done before Mark Hamill's run as Joker in Batman: The Animated Series? Personally, I think Hamill did a splendid job at giving Joker a shrill, high-pitched voice and an even higher-pitched laugh, and it popularized that approach in American fiction from then on.