While I agree, we now see what every Digi theory comes down to, which is making him look an expert on the subject. If there is ONE thing that might have saved his career or at least provided a reasonable layer of respectability it would be being humble. Now that I think of it he has never ever been humble. But please correct me if you have any memories of him ever saying he was in the wrong or offer a apology (sincere).
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I wouldn't call myself a former Digibro fan if I didn't agree with the core of your statement. Art is art. It's made to entertain and explore. The general strangeness of it all this what is appealing. I have gotten a lot of positive things from Digi. He did a good job straight up declaring some shows as garbage, such as SAO, Asteriks Wars, GATE and the sequels to Stein's Gate and Psycho-Pass. His defense of anime and art have most of the time been entertaining and encouraging. I can say a ton of good things about him. But I can't defend these moves. I don't want play this weird game of chess he is playing. I won't say I'll never subscribe to his channel ever again, but he has to get back on the horse. He is killing his own legacy. The PCP is breaking and no one gives a fuck. It all makes me sad; I was hoping these idiots would be around for another ten years. That is something I'm not expecting anymore. Maybe Nate himself doens't even want the PCP to continue.
Gonna follow Mr. Swanson's guide here, and say that not only was I never a fan of him, I basically always thought he was an annoying attention whoring jerk from when I first heard about him in his BRONY days. He almost always came off as self-important, arrogant, and ultimately poor at thinking out basically everything. It also doesn't help that with almost everything he gets into he acts like a psuedo-intellectual, and seeing people start to follow him for his anime content just made me sad, because I knew he'd burn those bridges again once something new caught his eye.
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As someone who started following him FOR his anime content (I skipped his brony days), that is a very interesting observation. While I will mostly defend his tastes in "good" anime, it doesn't really matter what is "good" as much as what you enjoy. He hates From The New World (Shin Sekai Youri) with a burning passion, while I still think it's an interesting story. But seeing that show is yuri and polygamy central, he might come back on his opinion.
It's cathartic as all hell, especially since he reads these pages. If I get him even one step closer to cleaning up his life it will be worth my ranting. I'd guess 50% of the regulars in this thread just want to see him go back to being an anime youtuber.
I dont really care at this point. I can't really look at him the same way post-troonery
You're not the only one. Back when Digi was releasing his Whirling Dervish podcasts he would talk about his new home ownership in Virginia Beach, having to purchase a lawnmower to mow his lawn, eventually start a family with May, and generally doing well-adjusted respectable adult things. It really felt like the end of an era and that he was moving onto a stable and less drugged-out existence. I was pretty happy for him though; it seemed like he was working through his issues and moving into a normal life. Unfortunately, this must have been the dead cat bounce in Digi's life right before his sanity plummeted through the floor.
I disagree strongly, feels really good to have finally found people who isn't sucking Digi's phimosis cock.
The critique is less about 'The Asterisk War' itself, and more about the whole group of shitty light novel animes.
I think it was one of Digi's better works for the sole reason that it was focused. Each part used the show to not just critque the Asterisk War but to flesh out what he thinks about the subject of most light novel stories. To be honest, calling the Asterisk War review was a misnomer. It was more an analysis of story techniques using the Asterisk War as an example of what not to do.
Felt like beating the SAO horse again for the quintillionth time would've gotten the point across. I still really disagree that some need to make a 3 hour vid to prove a point about obvious shovelware/LN anime. Feels like you can explain why lazy LN shovelware are bad in 30 minutes (maybe 60 minutes if you want more minute details about why LN anime tend to be turrible) rather 180+ minutes.
Just because you can explain it in 30 minutes doesn't mean you can do it in an engaging and interesting way though.
On the anime places I go to, Asterisk War was critically panned after the first episode for being so formulaic/dull compared to Chivalry of a Failed Knight and the only people who watched were the weirdos who watched for the sake of it and contrarians mad at anitubers. SAO was actually unironically praised before the heavy criticism; hell The Asterisk War sold less BDs than Chivalry in Japan (I know that's irrelevant, especially since both were below 5K.)
