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NEWS: Funimation Posts 1st Episodes of Anime Series on Gaia

Mikuru wrote:

It seems that the Lance isn't understanding that Gaia has a bad reputation.

...Who cares if it has a bad reputation? People supporting legal anime are people supporting legal anime, from Narutards to the hardcore to Gaians and beyond. Jesus.

SongstressCela wrote:

Mikuru wrote: It seems that the Lance isn't understanding that Gaia has a bad reputation. ...Who cares if it has a bad reputation? People supporting legal anime are people supporting legal anime, from Narutards to the hardcore to Gaians and beyond. Jesus.

Do you want these people representing you?

I don't.

My momma sure doesn't either.

Mikuru wrote:

SongstressCela wrote: Mikuru wrote: It seems that the Lance isn't understanding that Gaia has a bad reputation. ...Who cares if it has a bad reputation? People supporting legal anime are people supporting legal anime, from Narutards to the hardcore to Gaians and beyond. Jesus. Do you want these people representing you? I don't. My momma sure doesn't either.

No one is "representing" me, lord. That's like saying Twilight fans represent me as a bibliophile because they freak out over some of the most terribly written drivel in recent memory. Or that death metal (god forbid) fans represent me as an audiophile. Etc, etc.

Get off your elitist high horse attitude, please. Anime fans are anime fans are anime fans, and more power to any of them actually buying stuff. Am I going to laugh at a Narutard wearing their headband around? Hell no. I might not associate with them, but they certainly get mental props for supporting not only their show in--likely--DVD form, but via merchandise as well.

And that's a hell of a lot more than I can say for most anime-loving entitlement queens.


Also, Gaia does suck. I have some very good friends that are huge addicts and don't fit the stereotype at all, but I'm not going to delude myself into thinking the vast, -vast- majority of the site isn't a huge festering cesspool.

Who DOESN'T laugh at people wearing Naruto headbands?
I am an elitist. I admit that. I don't want the next generation of anime fans to be screaming imbeciles.

I am an elitist. I admit that. I don't want the next generation of anime fans to be screaming imbeciles.

Mikuru wrote:

I am an elitist. I admit that. I don't want the next generation of anime fans to be screaming imbeciles.

Those "screaming imbeciles" are responsible for the industry doing as well as it is right now. Where do you think Funimation would be if the "screaming imbeciles" hadn't bought up Dragonball-Everything by the box full, or the fans that freaked out over FMA on Adult Swim? If it weren't for "screaming imbeciles" purchasing mainstream titles nonstop we wouldn't have jack. You might want to rethink that elitism if I were you. Even I'm not so puffed up as a "hardcore" fan to think we're the ones providing the industry legs to stand on.

I'm pretty sure that this person wasn't refering to the generation who grew up with DB, and FMA. I was thinking more so the generation who was told that all anime must be free.

Now I don't feel like buying anything from Funimation again.
The Gaia-type anime fans are the ones I loathe. A bunch of screaming teens and pre-teens going "LOL POCKY FOR TEH WIN!!111" and thinking that Naruto is the best anime ever made and that Twilight "SHOULD TOTALLY BE MADE INTO ANIME YOU GUYS".

And no, I don't hate anyone who's ever had a gaia account. The site mentality just makes me go crazy. I wish they had never heard of anime.

And people wonder why stuff like Kaiba never gets licensed.

Mikuru wrote:

Now I don't feel like buying anything from Funimation again. The Gaia-type anime fans are the ones I loathe. A bunch of screaming teens and pre-teens going "LOL POCKY FOR TEH WIN!!111" and thinking that Naruto is the best anime ever made and that Twilight "SHOULD TOTALLY BE MADE INTO ANIME YOU GUYS". And no, I don't hate anyone who's ever had a gaia account. The site mentality just makes me go crazy. I wish they had never heard of anime. And people wonder why stuff like Kaiba never gets licensed.

Sorry you feel that way.

One of the main reasons we're putting content on Gaia is to attract the next generation of anime fans.

Toonami was the gateway for many an anime fan whom are in their 20s now.

With Toonami gone, what is this generation's Toonami?

The Internet.

We have to cast a wide net to attract the crowds of Toonami's past.

Lance
Your Friendly Neighborhood FUNimation Guy

Mikuru wrote:

Who DOESN'T laugh at people wearing Naruto headbands? I am an elitist. I admit that. I don't want the next generation of anime fans to be screaming imbeciles.

I'm afraid it's too late. These people walk around calling stuff like Slayers and Eva old shit and think the Naruto movies are pinnacles of animation. This is why our anime club favors retro nights, so people can be forced to see how good older animation is (older than they are).

..What is wrong with you people? Do you really think one of the largest--probably the largest, now--anime studios in the country doesn't do something as ridiculously common as demographic research? Do you really think it's a good idea to make people jump around to sites instead of viewing anime where they hang out for hours on end anyway?

Don't even get me started on this "we don't want them watching anime lol" attitude of yours, god knows enough other elitist prats in this topic are vomiting up the same bile.

Again: If these "attention starved teens" weren't the ones buying up DBZ and Naruto and Death Note and blah blah blah merchandise by the truckload, this industry would be even worse off than it is now.

I'm sorry for coming off a bit harsher than usual in this post, but my god. It blows my mind that anyone remotely decent could make these kinds of comments.