High Guardian Spice - Tumblr: The CalArt Anime

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https://twitter.com/Crunchyroll/status/1032251351844052993?s=19

CalArts Style, Made by fat, rainbow haired feminists, has an obvious left wing agenda, and is made by a company that's site hardly works. 10/10 best idea.

 

[A Useless Fish]

Comments disabled, and it looks to be run by a bunch of people selected for their ideology and hair colors, rather than their qualifications or talent.

 

[rinchan123]

I'm glad I cancelled my Crunchyroll membership.

 

[Inklings]

I love how the main characters literally look like Tumblr OCs what with the hair colors and skintones. All they need are uglier noses.

 

[Helvetica Scenario]

Okay, so it's super duper diverse and has impeccable progressive credentials and the writer's room is full of laydees as opposed, perhaps, to full of people of whatever gender who can fucking write. What's the story about? All I got from that was 'four girls go to magic school'. Why should I watch that over and above anything else about color-coded girls going to magic school? And no, 'one of our hires has a bright pink undercut' is not an answer.

How nice, we're trying this again. Western attempts to do an anime are always cringy, painfully referential exercises in total point-missing that nobody remembers for more than two minutes after they mercifully drop off the radar, and that's when they're not being aimed at an audience of perpetually whiny, unpleasable dipshits who react to everything by sitting there noting down the precise timecode of every single incidence of a 'microaggression'. It didn't work in the 1990s and it's not going to work now, no matter how many dangerhairs they hire or how much Tumblr virtue signalling they cram into each episode.

So, which one of them's going to turn out to be trans? My money's on the blue one, personally.

 

[GhostSweeper]

If this post from 2014 is anything to go by, apparently they took the idea from an artist on Newgrounds.
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/rayetoons/high-guardian-spice-poster

 

[A Useless Fish]

So, which one of them's going to turn out to be trans? My money's on the blue one, personally.

I have a better and far more fun question: which is gonna be the first to be outed as a sex offender?

 

[GhostSweeper]

I have a better and far more fun question: which is gonna be the first to be outed as a sex offender?

I bet the one who was talking shit at other animation studios in the trailer.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

If this post from 2014 is anything to go by, apparently they took the idea from an artist on Newgrounds.
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/rayetoons/high-guardian-spice-poster

They should sue.

 

[Helvetica Scenario]

Looks like it's the same person's work, just four years and a heavy dose of Tumblr and CalArts bullshit later. Of course Raye Rodriguez now identifies as trans, describes themselves as a magical boy, and list their pronouns in their profile.

Newgrounds: RayeToons
Twitter: Raye Rodriguez
Tumblr, because of fucking course: Raye's Art Blog
Personal Site: Raye Rodriguez

If this comic featuring the same characters on their personal site is anything to go by, this show is going to be even worse than it looks.


Bonus shitty comics about how totally trans they are, in which our hero recounts a conversation that definitely happened, and reveals that they apparently think it's a better idea to consult psychics about their mental and physical health problems than, you know, anyone who might actually have had medical training:


I swear there's a factory somewhere that churns out people like this.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

I like how most reactions I've seen to this are negative.

 

[weirdMcGee]

I'm not having high hopes for this. the only show that did the western anime thing right was avatar.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

I'm not having high hopes for this. the only show that did the western anime thing right was avatar.

and even that was pretty autistic

 

[Inklings]

I like how most reactions I've seen to this are negative.

I'd be scared if most reactions were positive

 

[Mister Loser]

I never supported Crunchyroll, even back when I started getting into anime and didn't torrent, I always used those terrible streaming sites with malware out the wazoo. Now that I know that this is what they're doing with the money they've recieved, I feel like I did the right thing.
"Buy a subscription and support the anime industry!" my ass.
Buy official goods if you want to support the industry.

 

[Tranhuviya]

Stop falling for corporate-generated controversies.

 

[eldri]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Literally self-inserts but with more physically attractive traits

 

[HIVidaBoheme]

So now crunchyroll wants to go the "go woke, get broke" route

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

So now crunchyroll wants to go the "go woke, get broke" route

But what if they've been going broke for a while now?

 

[PoisonedBun]

It’s funny, because I’m almost not opposed to the idea of Crunchyroll Originals. Like it or not, thanks to Crunchyroll, a ton of obscure series get translations that never would have had a fighting chance in the wild west fan sub days. I can’t say I hate the service even firs video player is shit.

But when I read the words ‘Crunchyroll Original’ my first thought was that they had collabed with an actual animation studio to make shorts or something a la SHELTER. Not...a Steven Universe Little Witch Academia clone made by dangerhairs? Or at least I think that’s what this is going to be, that trailer is atrocious. Even Gen Zed has some actual animation in its fucking trailer.