#come to italy and see elementary school boys crazy about winx so you can kill yourself

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"omg let girls have ONE thing!!" "men always want to be part of girly franchises" "media aimed at boys has IT ALL!" "girly media never gets attention unlike the boys stuff" "stop putting male characters in girly media it should be girls only"

Have you guys ever heard about Gormiti? It's a huge multimedia franchise also made in Italy. It's gonna have its own 20th anniversary next year. It's getting a reboot soon. It is absolutely successful and always has been, the toys and stuff sell like hotcakes, the marketing is a constant, there is an active italian fandom. It was also aimed solely at boys.

Can you guess which franchise is getting news coverage and a whole city hosting its 20th anniversary celebration? Which franchise I see getting TV interviews on its creators and a celebration as a success for the whole country? Which franchise is getting museums, high fashion shows, jewelry, brands and art schools collaborations?

It's not fucking Gormiti

Oh have you guys heard of that other new show Pinocchio and Friends also by Rainbow? It's also rather successful and marketed as gender neutral for toddlers. Yet they made brushable dolls. Aimed at everyone.

Oh one more thing. Have you guys heard about W.i.t.c.h.? They aimed it as "GIRLS ONLY" in Italy and "BOYS ONLY" in the USA. It kinda flopped for that.

Strange isn't it.

It's almost like having a diverse fanbase and diverse characters for your fanbase is a good thing for your glorified toy commercial in the long run and you shouldn't be a weirdo exclusionary over cartoons just because bronies traumatized you over a decade ago!