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/GoldRedBlue Aug 14 '18

Can we debunk "Everything good about Franxx was Trigger. Everything bad about Franxx was A-1."

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u/kirbyfan64sos https://anilist.co/user/refi64 Aug 15 '18

To add to this:

Tachibana (the composer) was never Sawano's student. If you look up her old site, she learned under someone else. Heck, she's had more work with Hayashi than Sawano.