Thanks, I feel like we’re very much in there minority! But they’re missing out in the end, not me, I guess.

There’s enough throwing of shade and mental health shaming (and yet so little of a point) that I’m happy enough to just disengage entirely.

I mean, read the opinions in the article (and elsewhere) and then read my opinions stating that I liked it AND I already liked the anime. What about that is delusional and not backed up?

You could also argue that I’m defending a moot point, and that is that shows be greenlit/renewed etc based on some new metric that includes whether the show is worth the extra pollution (be it literal or metaphorical) and if it has something important to say. That’s the argument that we’ve been having in games, which…

I was implying more that they had an impact on the general consensus that grew like mould until the show came out, and nobody had any energy left to actually give it much of a chance. Or at least, those in touch and reading these reviews, articles, threads, opinions who were in turn effected by them. I do very much bel…

I didn’t want to give the wrong impression by saying “weeb”, but I did definitely want to make a point, about how infertile these opinions were and the people that gave them.

I think it’s naïve to say that the negative Nancy’s had no part it in, when we know some execs base things like bonuses on metacritic ratings of all things.

I’m questioning why they didn’t consume it enough to be part of a metric that saved it from cancellation, and inferring the reasons myself.

“Nobody opens up a show, in their own home, by themselves, just to “pretend to give it a chance”. Nobody. Those people don’t exist outside your mind. You literally do not understand how human beings work on a really basic level.”

I mean that, you are a part of it, not the cause. People not prioritising it, when they did for Squid Game, seems like excusing not watching it because of whatever holdups you have. The people that didn’t get around to it, the ones that now won’t because it has been cancelled, the ones that watched it and bailed, and…

Not at all, but you asked for me to draw a direct line between the success of Rurouni Kenshin and the failure of Cowboy Bebop.

You were gettting my star anyway, but if I could give more for specifically calling out CW, I absolutely would. I started Flash with my nephew many moons ago, he was young and enjoyed it, I was less discerning. We finished season 1 and then we got out of sync. When he mentions catching up now, I get cold sweats.

I’m not sure how that’s the resolution you came to from what I said.

Well, isn’t that part of the same problem? People had such lofty ideals that they either didn’t watch it at all or only watched some of it, but then talked shit about it online till the cows came home.

You answered your own question without ever realising it, apparently,

“Saying I didn’t “give it a chance to be liked” because I didn’t watch it right away is some wild, 4-D entitlement.”

I can’t help you see it if you won’t even consider it. You don’t seem to understand that people can still start something and pretend to “give it a chance” but with all the bias that they won’t like it anyway (either thanks to their own expectations or the opinions of others).

I mean, the article is literally about “anime purists” (lol wtf is that?) shitting on something because it wasn’t the anime/Japanese.

I watched a streamer try live as they were scrolling and it was already gone. I expect before the show ended every single one was claimed, somehow.

In fairness, Keanu is a meme at this point and I think most of the whitewashing complaints came from white western people.