#anime elitism

[divinecomedyproductions]

“RahXephon is just an Neon Genesis Evangelion rip off”

Me: *watches it*

“Skeleton Knight in Another World is just an Overlord rip off”

Me: *watches it*

“Fairy Tail and Sword Art Online is just feel good fantasy anime and the struggle isn’t heavy enough”

Me: *watches it*

“Digimon is a Pokémon rip off”

Me: *watches it and defends it*

“Why do you have such trash taste? Because it makes you feel good and you got what you wanted?”

Me: *Pours my heart out as to why with the themes, what these stories get right*

“Nah, you just like it because fan service and getting your way, you should just consume approved alternatives-”

Me:

[shandsformation]

hmmmm

[starscream-is-my-wife]

LL Megatron gets transported to the G1 cartoon (pre movie) guns don't kill anyone, everyone is more focused on their one liners then battle, wizards are real, days dont mean anything, what a silly universe

Edit: Comic based on this idea here

[messymerr]

Drew this because it was on my mind and i think it fits. A means to practice more on drawing bots eh, references are so important

Bonus :

I made Bee's speech a mix of the OG Comic and a clip of the Movie. Here's the reference

[katzske]

I found this old "comic" in my folder so I thought it would be time to post it.

(Blurr is a professional spy ofc he's not gonna let his boss catch him photoshopping his likeness)

[diblmetta]

Screenshot redraw

Non flashback version below

[priichu]

Lowpoly Rika and her ace pokemon Was trying to go with a 3DS look

[nyr0mn1ac]

Imao, Imagine if Prettypoison WAS Starscreams Legal/Og name and just changed it cuz it sounds like some stage name you would hear from a Str1p Club. Can't have the future 'Leader' of the Decepticon being called PrettyPoison.

He totally probably still uses his og name for undercover missions.

[marciaillust]

bro fuck it im workposting. i did illustrations, i storyboarded, i directed. I did many cool things in 2024 and millions of people all over the world saw em. that has to count for something

[music-wrestling-nascar-fangirl]

[billfrancois]

Made Rika a gliscor outfit for Halloween! Would you let her bite you?

[divinecomedyproductions]

Fandom and Literary Woes: The Arrogance of The Information Age and Literary Intellectuals

One thing I've noticed with the RWBY fandom and pretty much modern pop-culture and literary intellectuals is this nasty habit of locking concepts and tropes down into theories and formulas and try to completely rationalize what is "interesting" and what's "boring" and ruling everything else as corruptions or worthless little parasites upon what's the supposed "objective reality" and the end-all-be-all of a concept.

My first experience with this was with the "literary experts" coming out to rule out what's the end-all-be-all of concepts like Jaune and Pyrrha and Arkos in epic fantasy/sci-fi after the RWBY Volume 3 Finale

Baically

"Arkos ended tragically worked, ergo all couples and characters in epic stories like Jaune and Pyrrha(the dork knight and the warrior woman isolated by society) especially if they are directly inspired by them must also end that way to raise steaks and consequences, and they only way they can have a happy ending is in a sitcom/romcom. Doesn't matter what the epic story is about, what happens, their roles, or why, or why it makes audiences happy, if they don't end up dead in an epic, it means nothing."

Any anyone who actively disagreed either was exiled to RWBY Chibi, or been implied

"Okay, do your thing(AU/OG Work), but keep in mind, it ultimately means nothing, it contributes nothing, its nothing but a worthless little parasite upon the glorious meaningful tragedy that is Arkos and same can be said what you plan to do with the rest of RWBY.

You have no objectively good reason what makes you happy unlike us who have every objectively good reason in the cosmos for our satisfaction and contentment."

with and underlying gnostic attitude of

"Because we, the experts, know what things truly are, what they can ever be, and in what specific ways and genres and you don't."

and much like Andrew Ketterley, they are often arrogant and hypocritical and are not bound by the rules of logic like everyone else.

"Men like me, who possess hidden wisdom, are freed from common rules just as we are cut off from common pleasures.  Ours, my boy, is a high and lonely destiny.”-Andrew Ketterley, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew

When snobs consider your work or what you enjoy a bad because its only enjoyed by a smaller audience which then they pride themselves on they liking something thats enjoyed by the masses "it speaks to the human condition"

Then if you like something thats resonates by a larger audience, they flip it to "enjoyed by the unwashed masses" which then these prigs boast like something thats niche its because "we enlightened few understand something deeper and higher."

When it was the reverse logic 5 minutes ago

Cliche, niche, broad, what makes money, and tampering around with concepts in dissent and distaste is "bad" unless "the right people" like it and get what they want

Because they alone are the alchemists who can turn lead in to gold

Which is why they say its "interesting" to make evil superman out spite for superheroes like that in The Boys but a sexy magical girl Captain Marvel with her own set os sailor scouts like in Kamen America, especially made out of dissatisfaction and distaste how the inspiration was handled is "derivative" because the "experts" supposedly know what's the objective end-all-be-all reality of a concept and we don't.

They know, with a capital "G" and we don't.

And because they have "The Gnosis" and perfectly rooted in "objective reality" logic is fluid to whatever makes their way right.

They hav exclusive dominion over these concepts and tropes

Because again, they have "The Gnosis" and we don't.

Because it’s the Information Age and we have so much info, those who are oh-so objective and intelligent can use said information to find what’s the apex of a concept or a trope rule out everything else.

All as they judge, shame, and lecture us peons high up in their ivory towers hundreds of yards away on social media now to supposedly stay “objective” and not catch the disease of “subjective feelings” which they never elaborate

And like RetroBlasting said in his doing nothing video it’s no longer the analogue world and they know better than anyone else so they see our stuff on their feed and stop and jump in and lecture us

And and the critics often the resort to greedy reductionism(aka “Nothing Buttery”) to reduce our stuff to whatever makes it sound stupid/immoral which then they proceed to gloss over, ignore, and label the details

[the-army-brat-and-the-nerd]

Clark Kent beaming and blushing for being entitled to the cutest most adorkable nickname in comic book history

[d3adring3r]

SHE DOES THE TWIRL THING LIKE IN THE GAME

[grubhumor]

who up inconstistencing they art style

[alienate-it]

Have some Cynthia having to deal with the Pokémon sinnoh league, specifically with Flint and Volkner