Sigh, the chief character designer for Re:Zero season 3 paused their xitter after being attacked for un-lewding the lolis.
I mean, the original designs were bikinis showing underboob and sideboob godammit, that's not broadcastable in many places. They got changed to croptops and short shorts to un-lewd them, so should be fine, right? It's not like they were changed to full burqas. The lewdness was never part of the characters anyway, it was purely unnecessary fanservice. People go crazy over ankles and armpits anyway *cough Ubel* *cough Serie*.
Video about news:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Eyrr6dyC_g
@anianimalsmoe I wonder, why they are still on the the site. They are better off moving over to Japanese Twitter aka Misskey.
@anianimalsmoe@sakurajima.moe There's so much to be excited for with re:zero. I hate that people are complaining about something that makes total sense to change instead of focusing on all the exciting story to look forward to in season three. hell, I'm even thinking about cracking open volume 16 and struggling through the really hard Japanese vocab to read it beforehand.
I wasn't on Fedi when the last part of season two came out so I haven't talked about it as much but Re:Zero is one of my favorite anime!
@robustjumprope
I agree, it's a real treat. Subaru has improved so much, and his insecurities make him a better main character for it.
@robustjumprope @anianimalsmoe if you don't want to read the JP, come on over to Witch Cult Translations ;)
@anianimalsmoe@sakurajima.moe @cirdanlunae@mastodon.social I might do that, we'll see! I'm going to give it my best attempt in Japanese and see if I have too much trouble The Witch Cult Translations project is amazing, btw!
@anianimalsmoe Liliana and Capella's designs in the Light Novel weird me out, NGL. These anime changes are very welcome IMO.
Boy, I can't wait to see the outrage when a...certain Arc 6 character...gets a slight redesign for the same reasons haha
@anianimalsmoe Weebs don't care about broadcast issues. It's why e.g. too American fans constantly demean and insult all the TV broadcast anime* from before 2010 and call it "censorship!!!111", never caring or not knowing that broadcast dubs were a gateway for many anime fans + dubs *generally* were done to follow the FCC rules. Heck, many make 4kids jokes and it's always the people who weren't there, and only know like the 5th generation VHS copy of the history lol. (No, this does not mean we can't critique them but I'll take a reasonable critique vs "hur durr all anime dubs are cringe because everything was censored")
*Unless you're Dragon Ball, I guess.
Kinda sucks that this is the only source for the news though, aside from the character designer's tweets. I'm not surprised people were mad at Sagawa; folks always love to harm the person who had no choice in the matter, instead of the big guns.
@anianimalsmoe I watched that video and now I just think the whole thing is stupid LMAO I hate ppl who hate censorship solely bc that's how it's meant to be viewed lmao