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NEWS: Monica Rial, Ronald Toye, Jamie Marchi Also File Motions to Dismiss Vic Mignogna's Lawsuit

She does, calling herself "the Matriarch". (Spoiler!) King Bradley, "the Fuhrer", is a genocidal villain definitely based partially by Hitler, so it's still a bad look for your dude.

If anything it continues to show that Vic had such a poor reputation that people would assume that the reason she doesn't want to be his assistant is because he kissed her or made her uncomfortable.

Just to be clear, you are aware you're going to bat for the man with a criminal record of lying to the police by filing false police reports

SyranoGravely wrote:

She does, calling herself "the Matriarch". (Spoiler!) King Bradley, "the Fuhrer", is a genocidal villain definitely based partially by Hitler, so it's still a bad look for your dude.

I suppose if you wanted to be completely disingenuous it would be.

HaruTheWizard wrote:

gilgameshi wrote: SyranoGravely wrote: (a fanbase led by his mother that refers to Vic as "the Fuhrer" i beg your pardon It's an inside joke based on a Fullmetal Alchemist reference, a series where Vic voices the protagonist. I don't know if his mother runs the fanclub or not. .. I don't think she does?

If you dig online, you can find her Livejournal posts where she completely unironically calls Vic "the Fuhrer". She also mods the Risembool Rangers discord, where she calls herself the Matriarch and more or less grooms teenage girls to jump at Vic's command.

It's like those low-budget horror movies about small-town Christian cults, except this case is 100% horrifyingly real.

We've been through this before - the anime community did nothing of the sort. A small subset of the community, fans of Vic (with assistance from some less-than-savoury people not in the anime community at all) donated to the (lost) cause.

Are there others? If not, this is nine, as opposed to a dozen.

Look, I get what you're trying to say, but at the same time you and I both know if I said "the anime community came together to raise money for KyoAni after their fire" you wouldn't be nitpicking my post and telling me it was actually only the small part of the anime community that cares about KyoAni and some tagalongs who did that and not the anime community as a whole, so it's a bit of a bad faith argument at the same time.

On that note, having the gall to draw comparisons between Vic Mignogna's circumstances and the aftermath of the Kyoto Animation fire is probably the peak of bad taste that this thread is ever going to achieve.

Egan Loo wrote:

Are there others? If not, this is nine, as opposed to a dozen.

To be fair, I did say 'or so' I was thinking of Martial Arts and More, but yeah, it's not a convention if we're being stringent. But I still stand by my point that the narrative has reversed and both places and conventions are open to having him again. Maybe not all of them, especially not the ones run by people in bed with the parties involved in this litigation who clearly won't recant no matter what happens, but I'd still call it a success. I don't know how many cons the average anime English dub voice actor goes to a year, but 9 in the span of 5 months doesn't sound like a bad number.

I don't like Nick. I think he's very immature for his age and profession.

I think neo nazi is a stretch too far though? I thought the guidelines for these forums were politeness.

The thing that annoys me is, even if you think he's innocent, Funimation still has no obligation to keep using him. They're allowed to employ and contract who they want.

Just to be clear, you are aware you're going to bat for the man with a criminal record of lying to the police by filing false police reports in addition to his previous boss stating he's untrustworthy? It might be more effective to just cut him loose at this point and say his affidavit isn't important so it being thrown out is no big deal.