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"My Brother's Husband," a drama about a father and his relationship with his brother's gay Canadian husband. Japan's rather right-wing, but no matter how uncomfortable it may be for some, it's important to explain to our kids why a family member might choose to marry a Canadian.
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Anno exposes Gainax. Apparently, they had struggled for a long time, and Anno saw the writing on the wall and left. Gainax kept borrowing money from the man. He agreed in exchange for the rights to FLCL & Gunbuster, but they duped him and moved the rights to a shell company.
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Let's talk about the graduation of Kiryu Coco. In the wake of the pain, bargaining, and utter shock of her announcement, I think there's a lot to be gleaned about the way international cultures interact, the operation of vtuber agencies, and virtual youtubers in general.
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Then theres all the kiddy diddling stuff recently, and Japanese press is painting it as "Eva Guy studio diddled kids" so Anno is pissed and wants to make public how much he hates Gainax now. Distance himself from the diddling.
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The cut that Masami Obari is accusing Studio TRIGGER of plagarizing in Gridman. Original on the top. Watching it side by side, it's impossible to say that this wasn't an intentional copy. TRIGGER is known for homage, and this scandal raises questions about the distinction.
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@KHolosimp This does also seem like a convenient way to deflect blame. Maybe a bully is singled out as the source of Selen's trauma, gets ousted as well, and people return to a neutral position toward the company itself when their anger runs out.
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Geoff makes two hours of video about Aka, without even reading his Instant Bullet, like, THE Aka manga. This is the problem with anitube. No research, no insight, just stretched out nonsense for the algorithm. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing.
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Specifically, Gainax asked for a loan of several million, which Anno gave interest free (Unheard of) because he had many friends still at Gainax. In exchange he wanted the Gunbuster rights and the rights to FLCL for his protoge Tsurumaki at Khara.
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Years go by and Gainax stops paying or responding. They ghost Anno. Eventually, Anno decides to take legal action in 2017. Anno sues gainax for the money hes owed and the production material he made working on Nadia and Gunbuster. Gainax fights publicly and loses.
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But before the deal was final Gainax changed their mind and wanted even more money for the rights to FLCL and Gunbuster. Time passes and Anno finds out that Gainax sold those properties for more money to a third party (Hence, the FLCL sequels), bypassing all the original creators.
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However, Anno discovers that the Gainax hes been suing has long since become a hollow shell. All the company's assets have been moved to shell companies while the suit was ongoing, like Gainax West and Gainax Fukushima. So he gets nothing.
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Lets talk about Uruha Rushia's recent graduation from Hololive. While she's been wrapped in controversy for a while now, this sudden escalation is straight out of left field, to say the least, and there's a lot of feelings left muddled.
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Animator Masami Obari is accusing Studio TRIGGER of plagarizing his work in Gridman. According to Obari, he wasn't consulted at all for a cut that's basically as 1-for-1 match for one he drew.
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Since "Your Name" is apparently getting a Hollywood remake, I nominate Idris Elba to play Taki and for Mitsuha let's also get Idris Elba.
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jacksfilms is a drama channel along the lines of keemstar but somehow creepier.
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I have to say, I'm losing faith in Hololive. Mano Aloe, a Vtuber from their latest generation, has been suspended from her job for being doxxed - through no fault of her own. Details are a bit hazy over here in the west, so let's take a dive, because the details are infuriating.
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When you get into an argument with someone on the internet, it's important to remember that the other person is human, just like you. He or she has a family that loves them. And that's an exploitable weakness.
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I follow you, but that doesn't mean I agree or endorse most the crazy stuff you say. If association is all that we need to assume guilt, no one would ever interact with anyone controversial. Is that what you want?.
Of the fewer than 600 people Pewds follows on Twitter, among them are Paul Joseph Watson, Stefan Molyneaux, and Lauren fucking Southern, three blatant white nationalists, but sure, he's wholly innocent in this. Heart goes out to all my Islamic followers right now <3.
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Are you freaking kidding me? Pop Team Epic had a gag with where a fortune would jump between about three dozen different jokes. Crunchyroll did this. I want to like you, Crunchyroll. I really do. But come on, are you kidding me? Why bother writing anything at all?
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I have my doubts, but I'll keep from being too cynical. However, if they re-start another Hololive CN branch after Coco's graduation, then I think there's good reason to believe that was their plan all along, pressuring Coco to quit so they can recapture the Chinese market.
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Western discourse surrounding controversial media, like Andy and Leyley or Ui's Lolikami, tends to treat them not as works of fiction that play with nuances and grey areas, but as moral guidelines for their fanbases, leading their defenders to create bizarre rationalizations.
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Are you arguing that spreading ideas is tantamount to murder? The killer wasnt a killer because Ben Shapiro or Pewds convinced him to. He was a killer because he was a fucking killer. Blaming people for "bad ideas" is taking away personal responsibility from someone truly evil.
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Please, make my culture your prom dress. It's really hot. Who cares? Cultures grow by appropriating other cultures anyways. You think the Chinese invented the Qipao? It was the damn Manchus, we hated those fucks. With their stupid hairdos. And we stole it cause it was sexy.
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Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is a great manga, but I wish people would stop treating it like some LGBT anthem. Feels like you're devaluing a powerful memoir, or just seeing what you want to see, when you reduce it to that.
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I hate to say this.But @SentaiFilmworks did bad.On Senryuu Shoujo. The First Episode .Did not translate her poems.In Haiku Meter. It's not all that hard.To write in Five-Seven-Five.Please put effort in. Otherwise pirates.Might have to step in and fix .These sad releases
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No more Hololive merchandise, or live events, or concerts or Chinese streamers of ANYONE in Hololive in China. The Chinese power play had backfired, and Hololive decided to instead invest in a Western Market.
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Quick thoughts on Magical Destroyers. For an anime all about Otaku, it feels surprisingly. Un-Otaku. Despite one of the most well-produced openings of the season, it comes off as underwhelmingly bland.
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These aren't your pewdiepies or Ninjas here, these are pretty fragile people who use a virtual mask to shelter themselves. And for those vtubers to be hit with a barrage of antis on the level of Gamergate - it must be hell.
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Furthermore, the ordeal had convinced some members of Cover's upper management that China was more trouble than they were worth, and so, instead of firing Coco, Hololive instead decided to pull out of China entirely, firing their entire Chinese branch.
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In September of 2020, Coco did a stream where she briefly showed her viewer demographics. Google analytics displays Taiwan as a separate country to mainland China, which blocks Youtube anyways, so Coco mentioned that Taiwan had her second largest audience outside of Japan.
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Over 40 injured in the Kyoani fire, 10 comatose and in critical condition. The police have arrested a man who claimed to have started the fire.
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@PedanticRomantc @G0ffThew This is a strawman. Complain about idiots not thinking their terminology through, sure. When people complain about games being political, they're not making some statement on the broad metaphysical ramifications. You know that. This is nitpicking to make them look bad.
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Kiryu Coco debuted as a vtuber under the agency Hololive's 4th generation in December of 2019. She quickly rose to prominence as the most popular of her group. Being bilingual, she engaged with an international audience even before clippers made vtubers popular abroad.
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Anyone who disagrees is an explicit enemy of the state, using a technicality to attack China. Thus, the issue of Taiwanese sovereignty isn't one of statehood, isn't a conversation on self-determination versus history, but an explicit pro- or anti- China message.
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Coco quitting is her own decision, but this context helps us understand the complex dilemmas that a vtuber faces when navigating popularity in an international space.
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Hololive CN's talent was even discovered to be egging on this Anti-Coco movement, which largely called for the resignation of Kiryu Coco. This was the largest shitstorm that the vtubing scene had EVER witnessed. A whole nation of fans joined in solidarity against one person.
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What the Chinese fans didn't expect, though, was that Cover would call their bluff. At the time, Coco was their largest vtuber. Coco represented a large western audience, one that Cover was eager to milk with the soon-to be announced HoloEN
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I think here's a good point to acknowledge that a big part of the reason that people turn to vtubing in the first place is as a refuge, to escape persecution and judgement for the way they look or act or talk, behind a cartoon avatar.
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The response to this 10 second or so clip was. Inordinate, to say the least. Massive boycotts, doxxing, Chinese fans quitting en masse or organizing harassment campaigns against Coco, more nefarious plots that sought to get her banned or fired from Hololive entirely.
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Kyoto Animation employs around 150 People. 33 have died in the fire, and 40 or so injured. That's about 50% involved in the fire, either dead or severely crippled and likely disabled, and even more who might suffer PTSD from this event. Kyoani, as we know it, is over.
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This seems as good an excuse as any to talk about the history of Ahegao, cultural objects, and diffusion. Buckle up, buckaroos. This is a fun one.
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A seizure prevented me from addressing it at the time, but I want to talk about the uproar around @Vox_Akuma about two months back. The circumstances are unfortunately common, but he responded in a unique fashion, with unique consequences, it's a riveting case. A long 🧵
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In China, information is limited, and propaganda is treated as fact. All people are taught - from a young age - things like, say, how Taiwan is undeniably a part of China, and the whole world recognizes this fact.
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How are you gonna brag about making a 140 minute video without doing like, the most basic fucking background work.
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Cover hasn't treated Coco very well since the incident regardless. And if this is the case we should keep a careful eye on Cover and Hololive's actions from now on.
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This isn't me being daft, it's common consensus for the Chinese. That's why they didn't just demand an apology from Coco - they demanded her gone. She was an explicit enemy, Americanized, there to corrupt their pure idols against the obvious truth of Chinese dominion.
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And a strong work ethic and shrewd business sense resulted in Asacoco live, a morning show she hosted that delivered rapid-fire content while also cleverly circumventing Hololive's regulations, allowing her to leverage the popularity of her senior vtubers in short skits.
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But for a year now, Coco has found herself inexorably tied to this massive drama that has had ripple effects throughout the whole industry and changed the way vtubers interact with international audiences, while costing the company literally millions of dollars. Tension exists.
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Coco has, at this time, around 1.2 million subscribers. Her channel is healthy, her videos gather plenty of views, and she has positive and fulfilling relationships with her co-workers, having moved into a house with two of them last year. By any metric, her channel is thriving.
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It may be difficult to comprehend such a vitrolic and popular movement against a single person, though I suppose gamergate was only a decade ago. But I think it reflects the way that the Great Firewall has really created a divide in the way the Chinese and Westerners think.
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This is in line with Japanese policy in recent years, where a combination of Sinophobia and a moral conflict has caused the government to subsidize companies pulling out of China. It would not surprise me to find out that a big part of the decision involved a tax rebate.
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This anti-Coco sentiment became a movement - frankly, it would be difficult to just call it "drama". Chinese Nationalists rallied against Coco, pinning her as a corrupting influence on the other girls of Hololive.
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And these hard-line tactics have been a staple of Chinese negotiation with other countries, where the Chinese can leverage their massive monetary value into forcing companies or individuals to take the knee. In particular, this was a very popular strategy with the issue of Taiwan
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This sort of thing is no big deal in the streaming community, but with idols it's a major faux pas. There's this obsession that idols must remain pure in every way, they are your fantasy girlfriends and it's humiliating to get cucked. Well, maybe the west isn't THAT different.
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This became a serious problem, as while Coco herself was resilient and experienced, some of her colleagues were not, and many experienced breakdowns after the Coco hate spread to them. Even Coco broke down crying on one stream after a particularly vitriolic string of Chinese hate.
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I don't usually delve into theories like this, and the source here - Narukami Sabaki - is a known gossip who likes to stir drama within the vtuber community. But he has also played whistleblower in the past, being the first to expose Hololive's sexual harassment of Yozora Mel.
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Visiting China for the first time in 10 years, spending time with family in the military and reading chinese perspectives, I find the western view more misguided and condescending. But that may be difficult to understand outside of the country. So I hope to elucidate it a bit.
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We have free* speech online, this kind of unilateral patriotism can be hard to empathize with, but consider that any dissent, any criticism of a pro-CCP position is scrubbed, and it becomes a feedback loop, where no one is ever exposed to any contrary opinions or forms their own.
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So I don't necessarily blame the antis themselves, they were instilled with patriotic fervor and a culture that encourages the use of cyberattacks as a form of "spreading awareness".
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How can Blizzard be anti-Hong Kong when Mei is so good at stalling a payload?
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The incident where a staff member "accidentally" gave powers to a Chinese troll might have not been so accidental after all. She was also not allowed to collaborate with HoloEN members until recently as well, only after she promised to leave.
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Furthermore, Coco became a vector. Anyone who collaborated with Coco was seen as "diseased", and harassment spread from Coco's stream to theirs. There was a sense of despair in the CN community, seeing their oshi "side with the enemy" instead of denouncing her.
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@Digibrah As Digi continues his descent into madness, I can't help but feel nostalgic. I think every hardcore fan has had a phase like this, of disillusionment toward the current state and longing for some lost golden age of anime. Because the grass is always greener on the other side.
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At this point, the Chinese opposition had largely one voice, and an ultimatum. Fire Coco, or we abandon Cover. I believe this was largely a bluff, since most of these fans cared far more for other streamers, Coco wasn't very popular in China to begin with.
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But I digress, the ultimate result was mass disappointment and anger from the Chinese audience, and the whole issue blew over in about two months. Sort of. It never really blew over, we just got used to it after the HoloCN firings.
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Kaguya-sama wants to be confessed to chapter 110, in which a favorite manga of the main characters' gets an anime adaptation, referencing Kaguya's own adaptation announcement. In it, one of the characters quotes Hanekawa from Bakemonogatari. Knowing Aka, this is hinting SHAFT.
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Were it a one-man show, I think Coco could have persisted inevitably, but to see the hate she brings onto the other Holos might be too much.
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The managers of the Hololive girls' channels on Bilibili - the Chinese equivalent of Youtube where Hololive streams are simulcast and where the streamers occasionally broadcast exclusive content - Most notably Minato Aqua's League of Legends streams - Mass resigned in protest.
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They stepped up their harassment, constantly barraging her chats with hate, insults, and accusations. At one point, a Chinese troll gained moderator position on a Coco stream somehow, and the chat became literally nothing but a deluge of disgust.
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The passionate, nationalistic haters of Coco now had her to blame not only for insulting China and spreading misinformation, but also for destroying Hololive CN, among many other things.
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@moricalliope Coco, Towa, Mel, Rushia now. Hololive has a long history of throwing talent under the bus to quell the raging fans, because ultimately the talents are just tools for them to extract money. Neither the mental health and livelihood of the talent nor the audience matter to them.
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Yagoo has said before that he created Hololive to give voiceless girls a voice, and empower them through the use of virtual avatars. How about you actually live up to that, and try to be less of a hypocrite?
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This sort of thing has definitely happened to other vtubers before, but most off them laugh it off and treat it as no big deal. However, Towa's organization - Hololive, one of the largest vtuber companies - has always pushed this "idol" image for their talent.
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This culture of victim blaming in Japan is ridiculous. I've said before that I was glad vtubers are leaving a move away from traditional, invasive idol culture, but maybe this is just as bad.
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But let me offer an alternate, somewhat more conspiratorial explanation of Coco's Graduation. That it might not just be burnout, but something a little more sinister at play. While Cover didn't explicitly fire Coco, they didn't want her to stay, and pressured her to leave.
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A bit more context, Towa was taking a break and thought her mic was turned off, and a man's voice - identified as a friend of her's from before she became a vtuber, came on briefly before they caught it.
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I have a hard time entirely buying Narukami's narrative, Never assume malice when incompetence explains the situation, after all. But he did post his video the moment Coco started her stream, implying he knew exactly what she was talking about and had it pre-recorded.
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They don't see anything wrong with it, the same way we might not see anything wrong with sending death threats to Casey Anthony or doxxing a Klan member. To them, they're trying to get an obviously malicious influence off the internet.
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Yuru Camp has the texts in its opening change over time. "Rin, let's go camping together!" .Episode 1: "No Way." .Episode 8: "I'll think about it.".Episode 12: "Let's go.". DEEPEST.LORE
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McDonogh was eccentric in that he allowed his slaves to buy their own freedom and supported colonies of former slaves in Africa. He was also a philanthropist who educated the poor. No one is purely good or evil and complex legacies are ignored by a mob looking for any target.
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@KHolosimp Companies will eat shit when there's a tangible decrease to the quality of their product. Selen had a huge fanbase and was one of Niji EN's most popular talents, the loss of her will have a much greater impact than outcry, which is honestly not that hard to recover from.
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@Digibrah I'm just going to make a little counter to Digi's issues with Yorimoi. Digi can have his own preferences as to what to enjoy - if he likes realism and subtlety, that's fine. But Yorimoi's dramatized, externalized, heavy-handed approach isn't in and of itself "wrong" or anything.
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If a character is gay they are gay. If a character is explained to be gay in a tiny paragraph bio in a game without strong story or character elements it's tokenism. If they reveal a character is gay months after launch, pop champagne and throw confetti, it's virtue signaling.
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For 40 dollars and/or two large Papa John's meat lovers pizza I will write an extensively researched article or a script on any anime or Otaku related topic of your choice. And even with an offer like this. I doubt anyone will take it.
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After the incident, Hololive did place many, many new content restrictions on Coco, ostensibly for her own protection, but she was also not invited to large collaborations and many of her ideas were shut down.
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The state of anime YouTube.
If Demon Slayer and Attack on Titan aren’t in your top 10 anime of all time, you’re bugging, I’m sorry 😅
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@Digibrah A show like SAO is a miracle. It breaks every single facet of good storytelling. It's a terrible, terrible show. Yet it makes gabzillions of yen. That's not something to scoff at. That's something to explore! How did it succeed in spite of everything being against it?
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