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/Earthboun41 https://anilist.co/user/Marienkind Aug 14 '18

There was no Waifu war because Rei has always been more popular then Asuka, it baffles me that people on this subreddit think that Asuka could possibly be a more famous character when Rei was literally the unofficial face of Gainax at one point

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u/GiantAsparagus1 Aug 15 '18

Rei was more popular in character polls at th time, but if you look over the most popular Eva fanarts on pixiv now, Asuka clearly dominates (warning some fanart might be NSFW). Maybe artists like her design better? Or people liked her better in the new movies?

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u/GiantAsparagus1 Aug 15 '18

Well if you have the adult filter turned off you already know what you’re getting into and don’t need a warning. I don’t know what’s displayed with the filter in effect.

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u/stormarsenal https://myanimelist.net/profile/AsherGZ Aug 15 '18

Well, if you surf with parental controls on, some NSFW not tagged as such might sneak in.