Anyone else really bothered at the prospect of there being massive collateral damage in this fiasco?
If toei is wrecking kamehacon over this and funimation as a company goes down because they refuse to do anything but burn with these exceptional individuals, I can't really see that being anything but a Pyrrhic victory.
(Even if you don't hate subs as much as I do, if a lot less money comes from the west into the anime industry and it's harder to gain new fans, that'll affect subs too. Loads of manga and light novels are never translated precisely because they aren't as big and popular as anime)
I remembered saying that earlier on this fiasco that Kamehacon was likely pulling a smart move with their pacifism. And I will stick by that.
Honestly, I'm indifferent about Kamehacon. I like Dragon Ball, but I'm not the biggest uber fan enough to want to head out to a DBZ centered convention for three days straight.
But what interests me more is the powerplay going on with Sabat and Toei. Sabat "mysteriously" cancels out of his appearance, and Toei catches wind of assholes deliberately using assets without permission to promote selfish petty as fuck social politics with profit, then gets Horikawa to stay far, far away from this shit.
I can honestly say that if I was Toei, I too would pull out my voice actor for overseas publicity away from this hotbed of culture war bullshit and make everyone out in their land sort this shit out on their own as well. And in my perspective, this is a test of face and honor by Toei, as the topic goes on. If Kamehacon begs Rial and friends back (a chance highly,
highly unlikely), it's game over. If they just stay put and let all of the SJW spergs get the fuck out to their shoddy hole in the wall virtue signal fest, and not mess with them at all in official capacity, they win (what will happen).
Kamehacon may very likely lose out on money, but that's a consequence of what KickVic and all of its forces are doing. And extending this into the US anime and manga industry, I don't feel bad about this.
This world of anime and manga publication and localization is just as wild as it was 20 years ago. Instead of shitty publishers, we have social bullshit diseased assholes trying to run the translation, and their convention festering bottomfeeders supporting them. Instead of a voice actress going topless and wildly carousing at the cosplay masquerade, we have virtue signaling voice actors tempting fate by holding a "signing" an hour away with city traffic at a hole in the wall all the way across town and going back on their contracts.
"When the world rots, we set it afire... For the sake of the next world. It's the one thing we do right, unlike those fools on the outside."
As I learned last night, the world of anime and manga is an extreme environment where only the fittest and morally outstanding survive. I don't feel bad now that the US doesn't have its own capacity yet to create its own anime and manga industry and community, let alone a
consistently thriving importing, dubbing, localizing, and production industry. It's not the end of the world though; Weeb Wars is only one side of the world. And it needs its battlefields to burn and be trampled upon. Let the world catch fire. It will inspire someone. It sure inspired me.
