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[lilypadpanda]

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[kintatsujo]

Um... This is going to sound like a weird question, but... you watched Yu-Gi-Oh back when it was still airing, right? What was that like? Did you have any theories or predictions about what would happen? Were they confirmed? What was the fandom like? Was there discourse? I ask because I was so little back then that I only caught snippets of episodes, so by the time I actually got into the fandom the series was over and I got spoiled pretty much immediately. Sorry if this is out of the blue!

okay lol sorry for taking a bit to answer this it’s been

one of those weeks

Okay so yes!  Yugioh was the first fandom I was actively in and yes, there was fandom fighting

We basically fought about literally everything; it’s a lot more laid back even if you consider that I’m better at picking people to be in a community with now

Some Debates included 

what continuity was Better (much like today but complicated by the fact that for a while it was harder to get one’s HANDS on certain continuities; which is why there are people who think Series Zero was Super Serious as opposed to being Pretty Silly)

Shipping wars, as you’d expect, but Silentshipping was actually a pretty huge ship at the time (and I’m still convinced its rarity now was because of a concerted bullying effort, given the reaction I still see to @shizukazilla every time someone finds it)

Whether or not Alister was a dude or a chick in the Japanese, which lasted about a week but was quite vicious

“Yami Terrence,” where someone insisted Malik was going to be renamed “Something stupid like Terrence” randomly on her personal shitty-ass Geocities site (which was literally just a profile about herself with a random rant about how much she hated the Yugioh dub) and then an entire section of the fandom took it as gospel that this was going to be his name until the episode he’s first called “Marik” aired

Lots and lots and LOTS of Tea bashing, which I am quite relieved most of the fandom has moved on from because I Have Seen Things Which Cannot Be Unseen

“It’s impossible to do a good nexgen”

I did indeed have at least one theory confirmed and that was basically that Atem was going to die (and I feel bad about that in retrospect but my tendency to be too genre savvy for my own good is one I’ve had for a long time)

The biggest subset of fandom theories was generally about what Atem’s actual name was going to turn out to be and they were pretty much all wrong

Also: The reason I never much got into Yugioh The Abridged Series is because initially it was literally all jokes we were literally all making with some shit that made me genuinely uncomfortable thrown in, go figure I guess?

There were a lot more fics and speculation based on the video games than there is now and I honestly miss it even though I never did play them

At its height Yugioh was absolutely more popular than Pokemon.  Like, I’d walk through the store and there’s Mai on the TV Guide.  I have so much random ass packaging from cereal bars and cereal; also the cereal was basically triangular Captain Crunch and again I genuinely miss it

The readership for one of the fan magazines thought Johnny Depp should play Malik in a live action movie and I’ve never forgiven them

A “dueling tutorial” DVD that one of these magazines put out where one of the kids insisted on calling Celtic Guardian “Seltic” Guardian like the basketball team and clearly was very smug about the dub pronouncing it “wrong” (the dub isn’t pronouncing Celtic wrong btw)

actually on that note of non-digital fandom both Junior and Senior year of high school I basically sat and watched my Junior year boyfriend’s buddies play Yugioh and DBZ every lunch and one of the kids insisted on calling his all-female monster deck his “Vagina Deck” (I know), plus there was a lot of ragging on Exodia

SO MANY little independent fansites like oh my god, like if the internet were a vast ocean and Tumblr were a continent these would basically have been the Pacific Islands 

one of the most notable fansites was run by this guy named Edo and a Big Theory is that Edo Phoenix was actually named after him; he actually made this like, really broken little computer game for the card game I think he never finished but which Invid played for like weeks worth of hours

There was a Mary Sue Test people kept referring people to that was more stringent about character design than whoever drew the Battle City background characters

there’s

there’s a lot

it was a lot

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Hot Take: Was there anything you liked about the Sailor Moon Dub (DiC or Cloverway)?

Okay folks, let us now have the Official List of the Only Good Things About The DiC/Cloverway Sailor Moon Dubs:

-Lita’s voice actor Susan Roman was always EXCELLENT, loved her, she did great work.

-The girl they had voicing Serena for the like first six or so episodes was REALLY GOOD I don’t know what happened to her or why they switched her so quickly, she was my favorite Serena voice actor by a long shot.

-While changing Zoisite to a woman was BAD AND WRONG, the voice actor who voiced lady Zoisite and also Esmeraud was GREAT. Consistently hilarious and committed, she was a treat.

-Rini’s voice actor from the Cloverway version was great (especially compared to DIC RINI who might top my WORST list and frankly was probably 75% responsible for the rabid Rini hate that plagued the fandom for a good deal of the early 2000s)

-I’m way less hard on name changes than I used to be, so I think ‘Serena’ (and the subsequent ‘Rini’) were actually pretty good decisions.

-Almost all of the original songs they added in were great ( “My Only Love’, ‘The Power of Love’, ‘Carry On’, etc.) and heck were sometimes better than the insert songs they replaced (sorry but ‘Moonlight Densetsu’ is just not a rousing anthem for a final battle).

-We all know that removing that nonsense dinosaur episode from R was a good decision.

-That sick guitar solo they added into the theme song (granted the shitty child singers they used for the theme song nearly negates this)

-“But I’m the one with the most TALENT here.”

-And it’s not exactly the usual definition of ‘good’ but how transparently rushed and awkward and shitty the line reading is when Amy says “HOW UNUSUAL IT’S A GIRL COUPLE AND ALSO COUSINS IN THIS CONTEST.” 

And that’s it. Those are officially the only good things about the Sailor Moon DiC/Cloverway dubs, everyone go home now.

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KomaHinaNami

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Yuma

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life | MY CHILDhotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | CUTE | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would banghogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuffbest quality: his smiles r pure. He goes through a lot of development. He's not perfect at all, and doesn't start out amazing at card games. I love The Boyworst quality: kinda impulsive (he learns tho) people seem to dislike how much he cries??? whyship them with: Ryoga, III, Kotori (dub only), Astral, Vector, Alito, Cathy (I love almost every Yuuma ship, wow)brotp them with: the Numbers Club (minus Tetsuo) p much all the ships above, the Barians, Haruto, Kaito (?)needs to stay away from: Tetsuo. Bad. Mean. Also Yuuya.misc. thoughts: why do people compare Yuuma and Yuuya so violently. Like, just like them both, neither or one. It's not a competition which is not to say Yuuma wouldn't win

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https://shipping-isnt-morality.tumblr.com/post/170817805883/rottenboysclub-lilypadpanda

“Okay, um, hi. I’m a gay guy that speaks Japanese. Fujoshi is just the Japanese language’s equivilent of “slash shipper” (it’s actually broader as it covers canon m x m couples too). If you’re a women and you ship m/m of any kind, that makes you a fujoshi in Japanese. I don’t know who told you otherwise. We really don’t have another term for it. In Japan, “fujoshi” means a female fan of m x m fiction (not “yaoi” specifically) and “fudanshi” means a male fan of m x m fiction. Furthermore, “yaoi” as a term is misused by western fans. In Japan, “yaoi” originally refers to a specific subset of anime parody doujinshi (fan comics) that satirizes the “no homo” male-male bonding of earlier (usually) shounen series by portraying it as romantic or sexual, like in “CLAMP in Wonderland 1994 Summer” and how they portrayed Jotaro and Kakyoin’s relationship. It was originally called “aniparo” for this reason. If you mean 18+ pwp, you have to understand that in Japan you don’t use different terms if the BL is sfw or nsfw. There are no seperate terms for if something is R-18 or not. You just give it a rating, but it’s all still BL. The Japanese term for a woman who harsses and objectifies mlm is “okoge”, and is similar to the English term “fag hag.”Also, in Japan otaku just means “geek” or “enthusiast”. You can be a train otaku or a book otaku. It doesn’t mean the same as “weeaboo”. For some reason, westerners like to use Japanese terms to mean “the worst of x” and it’s kind of insulting to people in asian fandoms who are simply using the words in their original context.”

[kintatsujo]

@lilypadpanda I got your ask and I can and will answer with enthusiasm as soon as possible