Yeah I really do have a problem with “random anime girl” as the mascot to the WOTC union.

First of all: Tired of young girl characters being a mascot. Cuz the male mascot character are more active Like being a super hero where female mascots are just there to “be cute” and nothing more. Like an animal.

Second of all: MTG and D&D are not “anime”. They aren’t anime properties. They might have had anime art recently, but they’ve been the mainstays for “Western fantasy art” media. So random anime girl is like… yeah I see you there 4channers.

Third.: There’s a lot of female characters within both story lores that they can use if they REALLY need “pretty face to put in this”. (that are also not children)
Chandra comes to mind. (MTG)
There are SO MANY for D&D.
So I can only see that they want “anime waifu” for their union which.. It reeks of gross to me.

Maybe fourth or just rambling.
There’s a lot of history to anime. Most people are NOT media literate to see the trends in anime and anime fandom and just regurgitate whatever new word they learn like “waifu”*.
They don’t even think about what “We have anime girl mascot!” and what that says in it’s relation to anime and Japanese culture as a whole.

Like when you learn why Hatsune Miku is 16 and how that ties into idol culture and how little girls are to a point literally consumed (as objects to buy and sell). It’s fucking gross. (I would even go so far to say it crosses the line into pedophilia considering gravure exists).
Women are thought to be “past their prime” only at age 25 and at 35 you are considered an “old lady”.

[Note: Kaito doesn’t have an official age. Men are allowed to simply exist. Len only has an age (14) being twin to Lin.
Gakupo and Meiko are based on Gackt and Haigou Meiko (actual humans) so their ages are probably whatever age the singers are]

Basically: Little girls in anime are seen as a consumption item. Having an anime girl mascot says SO MUCH without using words. Even if it’s not intended.
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* Waifu (ワイフ): This is just the English word “Wife” so using it as “waifu” conveys a bit of racism (I’ve been told) due to making fun of the Japanese language and the way Japanese people speak English.

It was a term Japanese feminists adopted as the other term “kanai” meant ‘in the house’.
Now Western anime fans have turned it into ownership. “Wife material”. <Insert history of marriage as property ownership

It’s use in English/Western lexicon is from some character simply saying “my wife” in Azumanga Daiyo, so people putting a spin on it to have the whole “this character belongs to me” nuance on it is…(gross)

Cuz let’s be real here. Before that, tons of people liked characters and maybe some said character was “their wife”, but making it out that EVERY female character EVEN WHEN THEY AREN’T 18 is “wife material” is fucking gross as shit.
So if you use “waifu” unironically. Not only are you being that bit racist, but also a bit misogynistic.

Note: Husbando was created AFTER this and I’m not sure it’s even Japanese in origin as use and simply a reaction of a “Japanified” word. So.. more racism?
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I want to say I originally read the term was used in Japanese VN/dating sim communities as a way to refer to their fave characters. And it feels that the English use comes from this.
But it’s hard to find in the sea of the word being everywhere.

MIRU: Watashi no Mirai

Dropped!

Killed a girl in the first few minutes then we find out she’s this gross old dude’s daughter. She’s soon replaced by a new recruit that’s sort of like her that of course young.
The realistic character style of him is contrasted by the sexualized anime character style of her.
Not good for a first episode. I have no idea where the whole “time travel” part comes in. Maybe save the daughter.

Busu ni Hanataba (Bouquet for an Ugly Girl)

Stalled! (e 06)

I stopped myself at episode 6, because the anime is still airing.
It’s FINALLY a shoujo anime about an ugly girl that’s getting the pretty boy and she doesn’t have to lose weight (Kiss him not me), isn’t ugly in the first place (Kimi ni Todoke, Yamatonadeshiko Shichihenge) or needs men to ‘fix’ her (Love Revo)
Really don’t like the nice girl but is evil character, however she hasn’t done anything to truly sabotage our main character.

Onmyou Kaiten Re:Verse

Stalled! (e 07)

Another anime that I stalled at since it’s still airing.
FINALLY a (n isekai) shounen anime that isn’t an isekai ecchi slave harem. Being seemingly created by two women, it does a lot of things right to keep it from falling into the pits that most all shounen do. Having female characters that are humanized is one of them. However it does have it’s shounen anime tropes. A lot of the neutral ones like “male protag can’t use his power unless it’s in an actual battle” sort of thing.
Also has Onmyouji that’s a favorite of mine. Most people say it’s “Re:ZERO” but with mecha and they are SO WRONG.

Princess Session Orchestra

Two part “1st” episode

I like the fact that the colors are Red, Blue, Yellow and the main character isn’t PIIIIIIINK like every other fucking mahou shoujo. In fact pink really doesn’t exist here. The red one has pink hair but that’s it.
OF COURSE being a shoujo the main character has to have 500000 flaws and be a weak as shit at the start. Meanwhile in shounen land he’s being awesome from the get go and just needs a bit of direction.
Might turn out to be a good shoujo.
The subtitles I have are WakuTomete and they mistranslate Muse Chikara (Muse Power) as Musessence. Bes shiuld be either Beth or Bass (Bass fitting the whole music theme)

Guimi Zhi Zhu: Xiaochou Pian (Lord of Mysteries)

Might drop
Audio: Chinese

Fansubs I have include the Japanese and Chinese audio and I use the original language audio when possible.

This one seems to be complex with Epochs, gaining powers, transmigration. Either way don’t do luck rituals before dinner.
“invented Tarot Divination” like… there’s really no such thing. Tarot cards were playing cards and diving with cards (cartomancy) was there before tarot. It just happened the two go put together.
Also this anime has confonts and…. I love confonts. Radiant Tale has one and I’d love to get my hands on it. This one looks like just Latin as a base with bits changed.
Has an ending set to Moonlight Sonata

The main crux is that this is a poor detective story. Detective stories are supposed to give you enough clues to let you solve the case. This one however just info dumps on you in Chapter 11 and 12. Chapters 1-10 feel like you just spin your wheels getting info you already know about then the game just tells you who the killer is. We then get treated to a “feel sorry for the killer” epilogue.

If you thought the other games had pointless things to waste your time. Does this one deliver!

• You are stuck at a bus stop. You literally have to go through the whole menu over and over and over and over. Before someone comes yo pick you up.
• There is another time you are stuck with Kamihara in a car and have to suffer too long about him being hungry.
• Another one with an old man, but this time he might have a clue? Oh no he just wants to comment on women’s bodies.

Then there’s the constant sexual harassment of the women.
You have chance to stare at a woman’s breasts. The game will comment on this. MC and Fukuyama have a face off over Ayumi. Kamihara lusts after Kuze.
Even kids in school sexually harass a woman. Remember boys, if you see a woman you like, just run up to her and don’t leave her alone. Make comments about her appearance.
This kid hasn’t even started puberty yet and the misogyny taught to him is strong.
Then Fukuyama shows up and “he stands way too close” and Ayumi is just ignoring it. He also gets Ayumi’s number and then the MC is weird about it later because women can’t exist in this game without men doing SOMETHING. Later on the MC and Fukuyama have a “face off” about Ayumi as if she’s a piece of meat.

This shit should have been left in the 80s where even then it was gross as shit.

Aymui’s route either involves talking to school kids or having dates with Fukuyama and she doesn’t even get any good info. Especially the first time you play as her. It’s more time wasting.

In the end a woman gives up her job to be with a man. It’s so she can help with her brother, but still it’s a very weak excuse.
Yeah Kuze’s motivations are unknown to me why she did what she did, but the narrative sure did put her in her place of being strong by making her a scared little girl as an adult. Then make her action mean she has to leave the police. (Not that I like the police.) The text tries to reassure us that “well any man would be as scared as her” but we never see it. We only see Kamihara rushing in to be brave and saaave Kuze. The other woman we see that’s supposed to be strong, is scared and screaming about a fucking bug.

Next is the translation! It’s so bad. Tantei-kun becomes “Boy Detective” which ruins it when the text is ‘shounen tantei no boya’ Boy Detective Kid. ‘-kun’ isn’t used exclusively for males and doesn’t mean “boy”. Women at work will have the -kun affixed to their names for example. There’s another spot where ‘shounen tantei’ is used and it’s like, they messed it all up with the tantei-kun nonsense.
There’s a spot where they make the text awkward to about saying ‘kohai’ because that’s TOO JAPANESE, yet ‘senpai’ isn’t. Fukuyama literally says “I’m the senpai and you are:” the answer is “kohai’. Either translate it out or use ‘kohai’.

This entry is really weak. The best entry so far has been Missing Heir, with Girl Behind a close second.

This is the weakest one by far. You have two sexual predator old men. Kumada (the doctor) being a pedophile. He’s already way older than her and he lusts after her picture when she’s 16. If he was a minor character it’d be easy for forget, but he’s not. Heikichi lusts after a married woman (Yukiko). It’s like every man in this game is a fucking sexual stalker. The only one that isn’t is the main perpetrator. Even the main character has a few comments, which is gross when you have to play him. √Letter is worse however. I’ve already started playing Emio and yeah, it doesn’t stop here.

The story also feels like it just takes to much time to get anywhere. It DOES suffer from the other games “Ask the same thing multiple times.  Ask other things you’ve asked before multiple times and then go back to the other stuff you’ve asked.” You go to places, especially the Clifftop, where you gain nothing but have to go there anyways. Women in this are to look pretty, die, be moms and die, or pine after a man. And Yukiko, the one pining after a man? We don’t even get closure on her story, you have to just imagine it. And yes we do have all the pieces for a conclusion.

Especially has the: Try an option you’d never think to try because you never had to use it in that way until now. Which can make you think you are soft locked.

Ultimately the story is weak, you don’t feel bad for the people that died. The killer has a lot of sympathy GIVEN what the family did.

Dubs are inferior. This is a statement of fact. Not subjective.

WHY?!!

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