Hahahaha, maybe it's my inner weeaboo, but I'm still mocking the big comic giants for trying to capture a part of the anime pie. I hope they have some shitty irrelevant scene to be woke like in the Justice League movie, where there were neo nazi skinheads trashing a muslim store simply for no justifiable reason other than virtuesignalling.
At least Marvel China I can give credit for them making new Chinese superheroes for the Chinese market, but I know they're going to try to milk that for all it's worth in the end too.
"yeah, take that comics obviously aimed for boys and preteens! How dare you uphold the patriarchy? Believe All Wahmyn!"
I bet MultiShipperFandom is a fucking riot to be around in real life. What she doesn't know could fill the ocean.
They effectively are just a different form of "normie" IME, they know just enough to pretend they're not at face value but they effectively are. You see this a lot with major franchises in many spheres especially with video games and anime where people effectively only live in one maybe two spaces and they're all the ultra popular ones.
It is like being a "JRPG fan" when all you've played is a couple of Final Fantasy games, but you know just about nothing about anything lesser known then that such as Tales Of or Xenoblade except that you've heard of them once because Xenoblade 2 had too much big anime tiddy. More cult classic things that only someone genuinely interested in that gaming genre would actively seek for will likely just fly over your head such as The World Ends with You, the Ys series, Eternal Sonata, or the Trails/Kieski series etc because they aren't the big popular thing everyone talks about constantly.
To put it another way, IME with the anime sphere most people who really really like RWBY unironically and claim to be anime fans have probably no idea what a long running Shonen anime truly is beyond maybe MHA, because MHA also has this sort of cult of popularity and it is newer. I noticed this with Attack on Titan where for some reason AoT managed to garner non-anime people to be 'anime fans' for a little while but they don't know what the hell anime is besides maybe Dragon Ball Z and the big 3 shonens from the 2000s (Bleach, Naruto, One Piece) but they've likely never seen those either. As another example just about no one in this sort of sphere would know what Berserk, Ghost in the Shell, or Trigun even is beyond that they might have vaguely heard about it once.
I agree with your statement here but you need to replace Final Fantasy with Persona lol. That series has taken over as the normie jrpg and its unfortunate because I love Persona and SMT in general but I do not like the normie interest in it.
But this is genuinely the thing. Animu has surged in popularity to the point where it now has consoom product status so now everybody considers themselves an animu fan. I had this realization myself when I went convention hopping and after chatting up some people who, while they knew the big stuff like MHA and DBZ, had no idea what Yu Yu Hakusho was.
Yu Yu fucking Hakusho. How do you not know one of the GOATS?
This is what garners a lot of hate for mainstream sensation. A lot of people tend to forget that the mainstream is eager to prey on the weakness of aesthetic and presentable pleasantness: ie as long as they can sell the sizzle, they can sell anything before collateral damage comes in.
Honestly, it's like poetry and the case of "you are what you eat": RWBY attracts fans who are barely anime fans in the first place. For all of the flak I give to Teen Titans and Avatar, I know at least a lot of the fans are more than just otaku levels of fans for their shows and that both of them stand out on their own uniqueness. RWBY is one half competent potential but one quarter poser material and another half unrefined composition. It, again, is like a mid 2000s anime webcomic that only wants to be like everything else because the author is only in middle/high school and fan sperging about everything they see, but in this case, it's two writers that can't even have that distinction because they never watched anime in the first place. The original creator knew his shit, and is now fuckin' dead, rest his soul.
Again, if anything else a whole lot more competent came out of the blue and fought for its spot, it wouldn't even be a contest. Hell, it would make a launch pad out of it and go even higher. I seriously don't know what the hell caused all of the inspiration of western anime fans in the 2000s to just up and die out. I have speculations, I have working theories, but this is as just as mysterious as the Bermuda Triangle at this point at how western anime fans in the 2000s barely sprouted anything from that boom. If anyone else from that timeframe was able to provide competition to RWBY, I'm sure things would be much different.
On an off path subject, honestly, Attack On Titan is ironically what every normalfag thought was anime was in the 90s: gore porn with shallow premises while animated to be subversive and alternative media for shock value, and this comes from the guy who loves 90s and 80s OAVs. I can at least vouch for the other OAVs that they had a lot more creative potential to bloom and weren't just gorn than Attack On Titan. Attack On Titan only gains its popularity thanks to Japan being known for kaiju movies, and in this case it's now the little guy versus the big monsters. Nothing against those who like it, or the show itself, at least the lowest common denominator got the upper hand, even if it's not my thing.
also aylmao at JRPG casuals nowadays, hahaha, talk to me when you play real JRPGs, like Wild ARMs, Legend of Dragoon, Mystic Ark, or the original Tales of Phantasia, Shin Megami Tensei, and Seiken Densetsu 3.
