Vic Mignogna fired from Funimation & RoosterTeeth over accusations of sexual harassment

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Funny story about that. That's an old wives tale people like Greg Ayers and Monica Rial told people back in the mid 2000s when we weren't as connected with Japan as we are now and couldn't fact check these things. Ghost Stories was actually huge hit in Japan. It got a 10-12% rating consistently when it aired in Japan, putting it in the Top 10 anime of the time, and it has routinely had numerous rerun spots in Japan . The most recent reruns were from.. 2016 I believe

Basically these actors have been in the bullshitting game for decades.

Do you have a source for that?

I mean, the series is legitimately boring AF in its original form. I tried to watch a couple of episodes of it subbed, but couldn't make it through more than a few.
 
I don't think I've ever seen a convention be this unprofessional. Makes me glad I don't fucking go to them anymore.

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The vlog posted in September 2017 ranted about Funimation and it might be worth to be mentionned again if it was already mentionned in the past.

I quoted one Youtube commenter as a reaction to that video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IfOUQlQz-Y&lc=UgzN4V1CtC1SJ8cJ5nV4AaABAg

Jesus christ. This was from 2017? Just goes to show how isolated weebdom is from the rest of society. This is...disturbing. on many levels. But the most disturbing thing to me is this is a violation of fidelity. Fidelity in the artistic sense means to be faithful to the intentions of the artist. When it comes to translation however, fidelity is not just something that is needed. It's a sacred duty.

The reason people used to learn foreign languages in ye olden times and even in the modern era, is to bridge the gap between people divided by language. For the religious, it is to make manifest the commands of God as written by his followers. This is what makes bible translations so fraught. For diplomats, it is to insure the words of one ruler are not misconstrued by another as fighting words that will get a ton of people killed. Translation is not just a menial task. A translator has a duty that borders upon the religious to be faithful to the word and intent of the message he is translating.

What is shown in this youtube video, trite, weeb drama, clearly meaningless in the broad scope of things, has only one word to describe it.

Heresy.

Some vile human being deliberately mistranslated a work of art, to fill the dictates of a political agenda not supported by that art. They did so knowingly. In so doing they betrayed the sacred trust people held in them to hold true fidelity to the work they were viewing.

Such a betrayal is vile, and an affront to the collective memory of man. It is heresy, and should be burned as such. Even if it is meaningless weebshit. Because heresy always prospers first in the mundane. Because the mundane does not matter. Right? But it is in the mud of the mundane that we let evil prosper, and grow, and only when it blooms upon what really matters do we notice. But by then it is too late.

This is heresy. Know your enemy.
 
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I mean, the series is legitimately boring AF in its original form. I tried to watch a couple of episodes of it subbed, but couldn't make it through more than a few.

Well it is a kids show all about esoteric Japanese yokai that probably wouldn't appeal to many people. I can buy they gave it a gag dub because they figured Americans wouldn't know or care about the stuff, so I dunno why they need to lie about anything else.

Sources are linked in this Reddit thread.
 
Pensacon is retaliating and wants to sue EVS for Defamation:
https://twitter.com/EthanVanSciver/status/1097658219491659778
:story: What escaped straight jacket is running Pensacon? They just keep making exceptional decision after exceptional decision. Let’s count them:
  1. Threaten to have their attendees arrested.
  2. Revoked press pass for making videos in defense of Vic.
  3. Claims to have been sent a bomb threat and doesn't report it to authorities, making the claim suspect.
  4. Threatens to sue someone for actually contacting the FBI about it.
Just amazing.

(I probably forgot something, I'm just skimming through this thread)
 
I don't think I've ever seen a convention be this unprofessional. Makes me glad I don't fucking go to them anymore.

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Defamation? Come on now, as much as EVS has fallen in love with the youtube drama, I don't think he's dumb enough to bullshit with the FBI for clicks. If he says the FBI agent didn't have reports about the bombing until they contacted EVS, unless Pensacola PD is spectacularly shitty with paperwork, I'm inclined to believe him.
 
This is why I've never gone to a convention before, and why I have no desire to meet anyone famous (even mildly famous, like a lot of these VAs). I just know that if I had a personally bad experience meeting someone who created something I love, I would never be able to separate that experience from the thing I enjoy.

Never meet your heroes, kids.
I've found that more child friendly VAs for franchises from Disney and Nintendo have been a lot better than those who star in mostly anime. I've met Charles Martinet and Bill Farmer, the voice of Mario and Goofy respectively, and they actually were really funny and nice and answered a few questions I had (Bill even did the Sam voice when I asked him about why he could never reprise the role in Sam and Max's Telltale series of games, giving me a lesson about unions.) My first and only (currently) con was my favorite but I feel with all this coming out it'll be a lot different.
 
EVS has fully declared war at this point. 1,400 people in a livestream right now. He is saying he was called by a special agent from the joint counter terrorism task force. By joint, that means Homeland Security and Department of Defense. This weeb drama has now pinged on the radar of the fucking US military. We are reaching power levels never before seen.

 
So, remember when @AnOminous brought up that sperg Renfamous? Well, apparently it's been a rough week for the fugly troon in his ongoing campaign to remain relevant lately, and he decided to escalate, mostly after deciding, apropos of nothing, that a bunch of CGers who had fuck all to do with this scandal, were somehow responsible for the alleged SWATing:

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Of course, it's become increasingly aware that this SWATing never happened, since many of the pictures in it are direct copies of ones that happened back in 2016 that was also a hoax:

The Alleged Swatting Pics:

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The Original Facebook Photos:

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The police department in question also has no knowledge of the alleged SWATing. Oops.

Can we escalate Renfamous to his own thread already? Christ.
 
So, remember when @AnOminous brought up that sperg Renfamous? Well, apparently it's been a rough week for the fugly troon in his ongoing campaign to remain relevant lately, and he decided to escalate, mostly after deciding, apropos of nothing, that a bunch of CGers who had fuck all to do with this scandal, were somehow responsible for the alleged SWATing:

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Of course, it's become increasingly aware that this SWATing never happened, since many of the pictures in it are direct copies of ones that happened back in 2016 that was also a hoax:


The police department in question also has no knowledge of the alleged SWATing. Oops.

Can we escalate Renfamous to his own thread already? Christ.

We have entered the twilight zone. Comicsgate led by EVS, Star Wars Drama led by Jeremy, the Global War on Terror led by the JCTF, and law enforcement led by the FBI are now united...in an autistic jihad around a voice actor losing his career due to #metoo in english dubs over Japanese television dramas.

I am just making this post at this point so everyone is aware of what has just happened. I think we have hit peak internet.

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Jeremy just joined the stream. 2,400 viewers. Weeb War is now official. Total nerd rage at this point.
 
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Well it is a kids show all about esoteric Japanese yokai that probably wouldn't appeal to many people. I can buy they gave it a gag dub because they figured Americans wouldn't know or care about the stuff, so I dunno why they need to lie about anything else.

Sources are linked in this Reddit thread.
The only lie is that it flopped in Japan. Everything else is true like how the licensor let the localizers fuck with the show.


I feel the voice actors were either misinformed about it flopping in Japan or were in on the lie.
 
That would just be giving her exactly what she wants. She still keeps using her victim points from that time we doxxed her.
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PS she's an True and Honest woman. I'm still 67% sure she's a troon tho.

...No he isn't.

If that obvious wig, caterpillar eyebrows, stereotypical "tranny angle" and necklet to hide the throat aren't clear enough indicators that that thing has a dick, then the facial structure is. Spend enough time on the Rat King subforum and you too can spot Troons in seconds.

We have entered the twilight zone. Comicsgate led by EVS, Star Wars Drama led by Jeremy, the Global War on Terror led by the JCTF, and law enforcement led by the FBI are now united...in an autistic jihad around a voice actor losing his career due to #metoo in english dubs over Japanese television dramas.

I am just making this post at this point so everyone is aware of what has just happened. I think we have hit peak internet.

No, we just hit a particularly rich Autism node. Sadly it won't last, especially with the rate these clowns have been burning themselves out.
 
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