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INTEREST: Fans Take to Change.org To Bring Back Former Kemono Friends Director

So basically, all of their doing for now is just trying to have the IP all over by themselves (even if it means of it's dying on thr peak), and saving their face from the completely outraged fanbase by doing cheap moves, like seiyuu apologizing for them.

The facts clearly say that Kadokawa by any means wanted to gain full control on the Kemono Friends IP future products, even if it means to kick out the ones who made it gold in the first place - the same thing that Konami did long ago with Kojima. Their statement about "misappropriate use of their IP" (not even copyright infringement, because they can't claim it - just misapproriate use!) was the blatant lie - JRA and Nissin, that dragged to all of this bullshit, refuted the claims and says that they did had Kadokawa agreement to their collabs - exactly opposite of Kadokawa's statement.

So basically, all of their doing for now is just trying to have the IP all over by themselves (even if it means of it's dying on the peak), and saving their face from the completely outraged fanbase by doing cheap moves, like seiyuu apologizing for them.

I need more details on WHY he got fired before I can take any side. As far as I know, he might've deserved it. People are being unfair by assuming he's innocent and Kadokawa guilty. I'm not taking Kadokawa's side though, I just think it's best to get the facts first. I doubt we'll ever get the facts though...

WANNFH wrote:

So basically, all of their doing for now is just trying to have the IP all over by themselves..

They don't "try to have it".

Kadokawa has the IP. Period. They can do whatever they want with it.

As an anime director Tatsuki better understand he should do what IP-owners want, otherwise his career in this industry is very short.

What I wonder is what Kadokawa hopes to achieve bringing this whole mess?

Japanese corporations are notorious for back stabbing employees for petty reasons and this certainly looks like one of those cases.

...more like if they asked Miyazaki to step aside for Castle in the Sky after him directing Nausicaa a few years earlier...

...they gave Tatsuki absolute control over the series, when the franchise was close to dead, and he did it gold despite all of the hardships. But apparently, after it's sudden profits, Kadokawa doesn't wanted to just make the money from IP, but completely being at control for all of it...

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Viewers criticized the apology as a ploy by Kadokawa to pull out the "voice actress guard" to deflect blame off of the company.

It also doesn't help that the JRA and Nissin are none too happy about being indirectly dragged into this because it unsurprisingly turns out they did get clearance from Kadokawa first.

They've poisoned most of their customers against them now.

I meant KF specifically. They lost way more than they could have potentially gained by this stunt.

That's honestly just a theory. FACTS a provable. Can you prove, 100%, that that's their motives? Again, I'm not saying I don't believe you to be wrong, I just don't see it was a concrete fact. I thought they already had full control over it to begin with.

I'm not even sure if he made it "gold" in the first place....it might've ended up that way with a different director.

The existence of the anime itself might've been enough for it to be popular. It wasn't really a good anime by any means.

And yeah, claiming that the anime "wasn't very good" is your own opinion, that you can say... but the guys who's now fighting for the director and making really BIG uproar about his removal (all of events about this go to worldwide Twitter trends, and even japanese media and TV all talking about this scandal for two days) doesn't think the series "wasn't very good". And the japanese fans aren't even care that much about staff change from any series - so when it comes to the level of national level uproar about the removal of just one man, this all is the big, big evidence of the series popularity in the first place.