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INTEREST: Aspiring Animation Creator Alleges Corporate Bias Against Diverse Creators

Ermat_46 wrote:

Frankly, the only way Crunchyroll could save High Guardian Spice is to put it on HBO Max instead of Crunchyroll. Putting it on HBO Max will expose it to people who are non-anime fans and are possibly ignorant of the show's controversy, and it might find its audience there. Putting it on Crunchyroll's platform will just provoke the loud angry reactionary mob.

Again, execution is the key. If the shows proves to be successful, then the reactionary mob would not matter in the end.

The fact people could tell easily tell it was about High Guardian Spice kind of defeats the purpose of not naming names so I'm not sure bridges have not been burned already. Especially since creative industries are very anti-criticism of your peers. When you start bad mouthing fellow cartoonists or shows, it's a very quick way to get blacklisted. Especially if you're criticizing things like diversity in a progressive dominated workplace..

That being said, High Guardian Spice easily had one of the worst trailers I've ever seen, easily surpassing Mighty No 9's. It's not really surprising it caused a domino effect and backlash, especially given it was supposed to be Crunchyroll's flagship original series. It wouldn't be out of place at all on Netflix or Cartoon Network which air shows very similar to it, but trying to market that stuff towards anime fans on an anime platform seemed so tone deaf and not really knowing what anime fans actually like or are into.

AmpersandsUnited wrote:

The fact people could tell easily tell it was about High Guardian Spice kind of defeats the purpose of not naming names so I'm not sure bridges have not been burned already. Especially since creative industries are very anti-criticism of your peers. When you start bad mouthing fellow cartoonists or shows, it's a very quick way to get blacklisted. Especially if you're criticizing things like diversity in a progressive dominated workplace.. That being said, High Guardian Spice easily had one of the worst trailers I've ever seen, easily surpassing Mighty No 9's. It's not really surprising it caused a domino effect and backlash, especially given it was supposed to be Crunchyroll's flagship original series. It wouldn't be out of place at all on Netflix or Cartoon Network which air shows very similar to it, but trying to market that stuff towards anime fans on an anime platform seemed so tone deaf and not really knowing what anime fans actually like or are into.

Are you implying that there shouldn't be diversity on Anime?

Are you implying that there shouldn't be diversity on Anime?

Ryuji-Dono wrote:

Are you implying that there shouldn't be diversity on Anime?

I'm not sure how you got that from my post, but I'm saying if one of the main selling points of your show is it has an all female writing team in an industry where CLAMP have been active and popular since the 1980s then it comes off as a very odd statement. I'm saying if creators and companies think the same marketing tactics that work in the American animation scene are going to work for anime fanbase then they're going to find it's not going to work. Anime is quite diverse in itself given so many series take place in Japan and star POC characters.

very unprofessional way to deal with this

I was referring to this statement: " It wouldn't be out of place at all on Netflix or Cartoon Network which air shows very similar to it, but trying to market that stuff towards anime fans on an anime platform seemed so tone deaf and not really knowing what anime fans actually like or are into."

But I guess the guy above me already clarified it to me.

Kougeru wrote:

very unprofessional way to deal with this

Yeah. A professional way would be saying that they should pay more attention to marketing and other unheard voices, but throwing profanities left and right and implicitly insulting the creator of other works would only burn bridges.

After all, if the backlash didn't matter, CR will not make an effort to actively bury the show's existence.

The problem is how do you convince people to invest enough time into the series to see if the story is any good when they've been burned by these garbage productions? Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I often have to question if a show with a diverse cast is trying to tell a story or push an agenda. I absolutely hate that I think that way now, but so much garbage was produced just to virtue signal that I get bad vibes from anything that looks like it could possibly fit under that umbrella.

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Remember the old days when you paid X cents per text message? Someone should have a business where a user impulsively posts something off-the-cuff, but instead of it automatically posting to Twitter, FB, or wherever, it goes to a "social media filtering professional". This person could charge, I dunno, 50 cents to a dollar a message and then writes a more sanitized version, or simply advises the user to not let it appear at all. Think of the careers that will be saved! It could revolutionize the economy by providing more work-from-home jobs too! Just saying...

EDIT: My wife just advised me that there may be security issues with this scheme, but I'm floating an idea and choose not to entertain such a triviality at this time.

Remember the old days when you paid X cents per text message? Someone should have a business where a user impulsively posts something off-the-cuff, but instead of it automatically posting to Twitter, FB, or wherever, it goes to a "social media filtering professional". This person could charge, I dunno, 50 cents to a dollar a message and then writes a more sanitized version, or simply advises the user to not let it appear at all. Think of the careers that will be saved! It could revolutionize the economy by providing more work-from-home jobs too! Just saying...