I’m kind of glad, actually.

I always say that the problem with fan service is not that it exists, but rather that it’s completely out of balance.

This series helps to balance things a bit by delivering fan service that is not for straight males. And let’s not kid ourselves: there’s a untapped audience for that. Let them…

“Spirit Tracks” was not undercooked at all.

I’ll always defend that game as one of the most underrated in the series.

It pretty much fixed all the issues “Phantom Hourglass” had (particularly the dreadful Sea King Temple), it had a lovely story based on Link and Zelda’s dynamic (it did it before “Skyward Sword”, and…

That’s because silent protagonists ARE a thing people like.

In the correct context, that is (and Zelda games are one of those), but that’s like any other narrative tool.

“Spirit Tracks” says hello.

(Yeah, I know it’s not throughout the entire game, but still. That game is one of the most criminally underrated games in the entire franchise)

We know they’re not going stay dead. Forget about knowing there are sequels coming. Any comic book fan worth their salt knew this was going to happen the moment Thanos showed up in the post credits scene of the first “Avengers” movie, double down when they announced that the last Avengers adventure would be a two…

Oh, crap, people are going to start now to ship them, are they?...

What about the News section? They announce new games over there and it highlights the most interesting ones, with a direct link to their page on the eShop. Even the unlock screen shows you the three top news.

Yeap, unfortunately.

They had record downloads, but people who actually paid for the full game was less than 10% of that. The last solid figures I saw was 4 million sales out of 78 million downloads (granted, that was when the game was released on iOS, but things didn’t improve on Android in any meaningful fashion).

And…

That applies to you, troll buddy. Not me, nor anyone who really knows how FEH works.

As in, that you can play the vast majority of the content without spending a dime thanks to how many orbs and items the game gives you by logging in and completing missions and challenges.

You looked wrong.

After the failed experiment of “Super Mario Run”, I doubt they’ll do that.

Geez, the “Japan’s age of consent is 13" myth again...

You know who are the target audience of the vast majority of those 16-year-old waifus? 16 year old boys.

The cultural difference is not that Japan thinks is OK for an adult to hook up with a minor. It’s that they recognize sexual urges appear before 18.

I never understood the whole “people in their 40s dating people in their 20s are taking advantage of them” mentality.

We talk a whole lot about “two consenting adults”, but apparently we reverse to being children when the age gap gets arbitrarily big.

Yeah, but the core team is supposed to be somewhat small. If they had people leaving because of those usual reasons you mention, then they’d be just a couple of them at most.

Not to mention that usually higher-end positions are filled by people who are already in the company who are looking or proposed for a promotion.

A few anime shows may have mainstream popularity, but they are the exception, not the norm. Anime as a whole is far away from being socially common in the West.

If the offer is in Japanese, then that means that they actively want Japanese speakers. If they’re going to be part of the core team, they’ll have to go to meetings with other senior members, and we know they can’t speak English. So it makes sense.

However, is it a bit concerning that they “core members”? This is…

Yeah, pretty much. Shibuya in Tokyo is the rough equivalent to freaking Times Square in New York. So I’d say that’s a pretty good price, all things considered.

“oh you’re into that kinda of anime.... the mainstream ones”

Glad to see not even not even Hollywood stars are free from taste-shaming from anime elitists.

I think...

They already made other character finish off the big bad in the previous arc, with Future Trunks finishing off Fused Zamasu.

People tend to forget the fact that most modern anime evolved from Osamu Tezuka’s style, who in turn imitated Disney’s style.

Disney characters also have stylized features that, on paper, sound identical to those from anime (big eyes, small noses, etc.), but they don’t feel the same at all once you compare them.