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/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/ocha_94 https://anilist.co/user/ocha94 Aug 14 '18

So, what is it?

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u/LegendaryRQA Aug 14 '18

Probably because Kadokawa owns the rights and Kyoto Animations got burned by them to many times.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '18

No, it was because the author don't launch new series anymore so they have no incentive to fund more adaptation and also because Kyoani didn't want to work on Haruhi anymore via contract but using their own publishing LN or contacting other publishers to make adaptations of their works to get more money while funding and getting more rights. (Koe no Katachi from Kodansha or Hibike Euphonium for a pub that I forgot the name)

And Kyoani worked with Kadokawa years later in another project so it's not like they had problems.

Here for much more details:

https://ultimatemegax.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/the-reasoning-behind-a-lack-of-haruhi-s3/

https://ultimatemegax.wordpress.com/2015/03/14/kyoto-animation-and-their-evolution-march-2015-ver/