#Vic Mignogna

[matt0044]

Neil Gaimen’s time has come. Is anyone ever surprised by this point?

Not because “Oh, I never really liked them” or “I knew they were bad news.” Rather because… no one gets this famous without something to hide.

Here's something a lot of people have to understand: EVERYONE has skeletons in their closets and those with fame especially. Some more grotesque than others and in need of clearing out but either way, there's a reason "Never meet your heroes" is a terribly timeless cliche.

This artist, that writer, this actor, that director? Each of them have some sort of dirt that can be used against them. Be it something they did long ago they hoped to bury rather than make right or a reoccurring pattern of bad behavior behind the scenes. There's something.

For those who made a big impact on the world or in a niche of said world, their work was not a fluke. They were or became very bad people but produce works of art that spoke to the human soul. J.K. Rowling's queen of the TERFs but Harry Potter was still a worldwide phenomenon. It wasn’t a fluke, it didn’t trick us, it was just that good.

Vic Mignogna has been a creepazoid since the nineties for those willing to do actual research on the claims. BUT many of his roles in Anime are considered legends even among sub-onlies. His voice acting as Edward Elric speaks for himself. Still a sleezeball.

I could go on but the point is we can and should recognize these artists for their bad behavior but know that they garnered fans for a damn good reason. That's nothing to be ashamed of in this age of Social Media where more are empowered to have a voice compared to real life.

There will be many more Rowlings, Gaimens, Austin St. Johns that either reveal their true colors or change into something nearly different from who they were before. We weren't "swindled" or "tricked." We just didn't know. And some of us, I bet, wish we never did know.

It's selfish but natural to wish that these allegations weren't coming out of the woodwork and up-ending your escape from the world that's already a crapsack. But we can never truly escape reality. Take a break, sure. But our letter to Hogwarts was always a pipe dream.

[traegorn]

So Marzgurl put out an excellent 11 hour video on anime voice actor and notorious sex pest Vic Mignogna.

I've been live-posting my reactions to it as I watch it in hour chunks to a thread on Bluesky for anyone curious about my thoughts.

[gay-pirate-anime]

Everyone talking about their experiences meeting Neil Gaiman got me remembering when I met the voice actor Vic Mignona, who was canceled a few years ago for SA and so many other similarly gross behaviours. I met Vic when I was around 16 at Fanexpo. I was a huge Ouran/FMA fan. I approached him at his table with my male friend, same age, and we all chatted for a while and I got my manga signed. Things turned weird when Vic whispered something in my ear using his Tamaki voice, a dub quote or something, and then after saying goodbye he kissed me on my cheek. Without asking. My friend got a hug although I can't remember if he was asked first. Anyway I was on cloud nine for the rest of that day, but over a decade later... knowing now about the nasty allegations and charges against him... its just so obvious to me how wrong that was. He was a grown ass adult man kissing a 16 year old girl without consent.

Back to Gaiman— I see a lot of folks struggling to reprocess their fan encounters with him and I just want to say I totally get it. It's okay if at the time your interaction with him made you the happiest nerd in the world. It's hard to deal with memories like that tarnishing, so don't beat yourself up over your own ignorance and innocence. These predators are getting what they deserve.

[boogiepopmeup]

BABE WAKE UP ITS THE 11 HOUR VIC MIGNOGNA VIDEO ESSAY PREMIERE!! https://youtu.be/n5Yh04dJOKc?si=Uqhwt-wUCg_OSXn_

[capesandshapes]

I love that vampire knight's legacy is just being that one fucked up anime that everyone watched for the visual aesthetics

And that like eventually kaname overwhelmed literally everything else in that show with his weird ass bullshit

I've never seen anyone going like "god that what a masterpiece of an anime," or "wow the clothing designs and the attention to detail when it comes to movement in them was amazing"

It's always "yeah the fucked up incest anime. She really did end up with her brother who was also maybe her grandpa. It was really unclear. They got vic to show up and do that yelling thing in the English dub, but the rest I can't tell you. Shit ton of plaid tho. That kaname's a creepy fucker."

[thingstrumperssay]

I watched this eleven hour long video on Vic Mignona while I was really fucking sick and it confirmed something that I kind of had a feeling was going on.

So basically thanks to his creepy behavior to women in the workplace and towards children his audience went from teenage Edward Elric and Tamaki fan girls to middle aged conservative men.

My whole view on Vic was basically "I heard that there's a law suit going on. I'll just wait for the results of that." And then he complained about COVID restrictions and I decided that rather he did those things or not I don't like him anymore anyway. Then I forgot about the lawsuit until the video came to my attention. (The lawsuit was apparently practically a joke.)

Anyway, even before that I've noticed a pattern between the people who would defend him and the people who would defend other right-wing pedophiles, and not those who would defend somebody who they're a legitimate fan of.

Like, when people defended the developer of FNAF to me they didn't defend his donations towards massive queerphobes. They defended the games and used "Markiplier got popular thanks to FNAF!" (which isn't true, for the record) and had nothing to do with the man himself.

But with Vic the arguments weren't "but he's a really good voice actor and he helped dubbed anime's reputation" or even "what proof is there?" It was shit like "the Me Too movement is going to enslave all men with false accusations!"

I've even noticed the weird amount of blank reviews on any anime that dared crawled above Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood on MyAnimeList. (That's not even the better one of the two.)

Frieren is currently at the top and if you look at the profiles for some of the low-effort 1 star reviews they also happen to have Brotherhood at a 10 without a review attached to it. (By "low-effort" I mean they use some of the most basic language to describe Frieren, like "it's uninspired," while not talking about the anime itself.)

At least unlike some people, Vic Mignona actually seems to be right-wing for a while, and not overnight when he knew that the accusations are coming.

This might also explain the trend of weird right-wingers who pretend to be anime fans while clearly having no clue what they're talking about.

So... I guess it feels nice to have confirmation on this?

...No, I lied. It's not nice.

What's weird is that I was going to meet him in 2019, but he got kicked (lol) from the con I was going to go to. I was able to meet some of the best voice actors that year (I got to meet Jerry Jewell, J. Michael Tatum, Ian Sinclair and D.C. Douglas while there!) so I really didn't actually care.

And from what I've seen in that video it didn't look like I would have enjoyed meeting Vic Mignona. (We'd probably get kicked out since I was there with my husband and with a couple of friends who are a couple. I dunno who would've punched him first.)

Then again we were all in our mid-twenties, so maybe he wouldn't have bothered us since we were at least ten years too old for him.

[kirinfishace]

I know Sabo would PERSONALLY smack down Toru Furuya & Vic Mignogna if he was real

[werewolf-cuddles]

Fuck it, I'm still not finished yet, but I'm just gonna go ahead and link to the video.

If you're still on the fence about Vic, or still adamantly defending him because the only thing you've heard is that stupid jelly bean story, please give this a watch. It goes into SO MUCH DETAIL.

I mean, you'd expect it to, right? Considering it's over 11 hours long

[marzgurl]

For those following me because of the Vic-Mignogna-potentially-tried-to-have-me-murdered longpost (if you're new here, you're definitely gonna wanna click that link and read, read, read), here's an important update that especially applies to anybody who had a harassing experience with Vic (of whom I saw MANY telling stories that they had in the notes of the longpost).

Farah has been hyping up the fact that she has filed a police report about the incident with the Irving PD (Texas). It's real, by the way, and while they give very minimal information, it's possible to locate the report to prove that it's real.

Interestingly enough, apparently the reporting officer you see here in this report may not be the officer working the case anymore, as Farah seems to say in other posts online that Vic's sycophant chud followers kept calling her desk and harassing her to the point where she asked to be removed from the case, so now another officer has been assigned to this. As if harassing the cops is a smart way to make this all go away.

I am hesitant to get anybody too excited, but Farah seems very positive that after all this time, the police want to get things done. From the video and other social media posts, the police want to talk to anybody with more info, they've talked to people at Funimation who you may remember held their own internal investigations on Vic in 2019, and MAYBE the FBI is involved because there's a lot of dirt on this guy? Look, I wanna be realistic here. I'm just repeating what she's saying. I don't know how true any of that is. But if there's any truth in it, I want to help.

She mentions it in the above video, but also makes mention in a much shorter and more pointed TikTok video (click link to see yourself) that if you were ever victimized by Vic in any way that came across as harassing or could be construed as assault, no matter how long ago it was, Irving PD wants to know about it. You'll have to file a police report with your own local PD (or the area where it happened?) and tell them to tell Irving PD. Give them case number 23-17071. If they're really going to build a case and seriously consider doing something about him, then the least I can do is tell you about this.

And believe me, I get it. There are a MILLION reasons why a victim would not report their assault or their harasser. I've already seen the victim blaming for the last four and a half years. "Why didn't any of these people file police reports rather than just posting about it online?" Because it's none of your fucking business. But aside from that, it's terrifying, you don't know how it will affect your work, if your harasser will retaliate, if they will send their flying monkeys after you, or any number of other reasons (not the LEAST of which might be ACAB).

That having been said, I figured the best thing I could do after posting that whole story would be to share this update. And again, I don't know how far along this really has progressed. But there IS a police report that we can prove really exists. To that extent, this is not a lie. The police really, truly are involved.

If you were ever victimized, and if--ONLY IF--you feel confident enough and safe enough to help build a report against Vic, it sounds like now is the time to do it. Farah is also trying to be as supportive as she can, I know. Talk to me about it if you want. Maybe we can figure out safe ways to make this happen. BUT DON'T FEEL OBLIGATED IF YOU DO NOT FEEL SAFE DOING SO! At no point are you required to put yourself in danger. Just, if you want to, if you feel safe, if you are ready, this looks like the route they're trying to build to actually finally do something about this guy.

Just so that you guys are aware. That's all.

[anarchic-miscellany]

Conflicted tales from physical media: "Persona 3" got a re-release, and the dubbing job was redone pretty much entirely from the ground up. On the one hand: hooray, no more of the terrible (and honestly kind of always overrated, I never got the hype. Kirk Thornton was where it was at) Vic Mignogna as Junpei, so well done there guys. But no Tara Platt (best actor, playing best girl), no Michelle Ruff, no Karen Strassman, no Liam O'Brien (though honestly, dude must be exhausted by now!), no Grant George, no Dan Woren (great as the villain, damn!), and no more credit to the (rather unusually) unknown actor who played Fuuka. Hell, even the Wikipedia article on the characters doesn't credit a lot of them from the original (for the record I think it was Mona Marshall who played Ken, if memory serves). Kind of sad really. "Hey, here's some great work, some wonderful performances, some from actors who we don't even know, and some from actors before or around the time they were really hitting their stride! Well, gone now!" I appreciate the remaking of these games to update the jank and keep them around, but games are honestly kind of a time capsule and should be preserved as all art should. Kind of sucks man.

[sonicspeeddemon]

For junpei fans that’s no longer an issue

[creaturefeaturecommando]

From my own experiences a lot of IStandWithVic members target children. I was literally a kid having these grown ass men explain to me why Vic was innocent, why him kissing on these underage girls wasn’t harassment and why him inviting people, young girls especially, to his hotel room for “bible study” was okay and that I should be upset that I can never meet or hug or get a kiss from Vic. Like I have stories. Personal stories. And these people knew I was like 15 years old.

Then I turned like 18 and realized that none of the stuff this man did was okay once I did my own research and looked into it and didn’t have grown men in their thirties and forties yapping in my ear about how he was innocent and misunderstood.

Glad the drama is almost dead and buried but like… just coming to terms with the fact that it was grown men telling me all of this shit

[daystarvoyage]

VOICE APPRECIATION RYAN COLT LEVY 💖

He is the perfect replacement for dark mousy AKA phantom dark FROM DN ANGEL

Why I’m saying this we need VA men to do shojo/josei anime cause it’s obscured daily then shonen so here’s the effect time since dn angel is getting a comeback

BRING BACK SENSUAL DEEP WORKS OF MEDIA💖

AND NO I’m not TOUCHING CHAINSAW MAN CAUSE ITS TOO SCARY, OF HOW VISAULLY FRIGHTENING it is, BUT Im FAMILIAR WITH HIS OTHER WORK, WHICH IS GREAT.

But I hope we discuss the great aspects of shojo and josei anime impact

[theboyonthehighcastle]

Rooster Teeth Just Got SHUT DOWN Forever! Clownfish TV Was RIGHT?!

HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! KARMA HAS GOT TO YOU! 

GO WOKE GO BROKE! THIS IS FOR VIC MIGNOGNA!

[someawesomeamvs]

Warning: None

Title: Fangirl Frenzy

Editor: Aqua Sky Productions

Song: Ms. Yaoi-Obsessed Fangirl

Artist: The Risembool Rangers (Vic Mignogna)

Anime: Gravitation, Ouran High School Host Club, Yu Yu Hakusho, Excel Saga

Category: Comedy

[capesandshapes]

Actually I think if we just redub all of vic mignogna's parts with less annoying voices then we will officially end the recession and start a new cultural Renaissance