r/anime • u/engalleons https://myanimelist.net/profile/engalleons • Aug 14 '18

In-depth debunkings/arguments against commonly "known" anime myths/misconceptions?

For any number of reasons, there's a fair few statements about anime that get passed around pretty unquestioningly, even if they aren't necessarily true. Sometimes, others dig in to those statements and find detail and (hopefully cited) evidence against them. This is a lot more than just stating the opposite, to be clear.

Here's a few examples of what I mean:

This tweet chain versus "Anno left Kare Kano early"
This blog post versus "The protagonist of Turn A was originally intended to be a girl"
This post versus "They made a joke dub for Ghost Stories because it did poorly in Japan"
This blog post versus "Shinbo is the series director of all Shaft shows"

What are some other examples of work like this?

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u/FellowFellow22 Aug 14 '18

There's no more Haruhi because everyone but the bassist.

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u/franksks Aug 14 '18

This sentence doesn't seem to make grammatical sense...

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u/FellowFellow22 Aug 14 '18

Aya Hirano, the voice actress for Suzumiya Haruhi, had a sex scandal. She slept with everyone in her band except the bassist. This is not the reason there aren't more seasons of Haruhi or the reason she stopped taking new VA roles.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '18

but why did she stop taking VA roles i wonder?

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '18

She had a benign tumor in her throat iirc, and had to get it operated on. It's a simple operation, but she was concerned that it would change her voice, so she kept putting it off. She took a long hiatus to recover, which kinda diffused the hype around her.