KyoAni’s “BL Betrayal” – “They Abandoned The Moetards!”
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Mar 10, 2013 23:44 JST
- Tags: Fujoshi, Kyoto Animation, Otaku, Production Controversy, Video Gallery, Yaoi
The recent revelations that Kyoto Animation’s latest magnum opus is to be a gorgeously animated tale of lithe young men in swimming trunks have proven controversial amongst their fans, many of whom are now revolting in more ways than one – although fujoshi everywhere are doubtless ecstatic.
The trailer:
Traditional fans seem to regard anything other than a stream of familiar ‘blobs as a major betrayal:
“This is totally aimed at womed – poor moetards!”
“Creepy CM!”
“Sexy stuff.”
“Please don’t become some creepy rotten homo anime studio!”
“As opposed to churning out creepy moe anime? They are creepy enough as it is. Apart from Nichijou all their recent anime look identical.”
“They have forsaken the moetards!”
“No homo stuff please. At least put one girl in there!”
“They’re even shaving their armpits…”
“They sure do run like girls.”
“Those abs are overdone.”
“Tamako was pretty awful too, so now they’re aiming at women?”
“Tamako bombed so hard and was not well received by the moetard core, so now it looks like they are abandoning them completely with this. Honestly, switching from extremes of fringe moe anime to extremes of fringe BL anime seems to be just repeating the same mistake.”
“Seeing that K-ON! was actually popular with JKs as well as otaku seems to have precipitated a change in direction, starting with Tamako and now this.”
“This is probably part of some scheme to get at all the taxes the Tokyo government is wasting on its Olympic bid.”
“I am ashamed to say I actually thought this looked pretty good.”
“Tamako flopped so they want to try hitting the fujoshi demographic with this, seems reasonable.”
“It really reeks of KyoAni’s usual extreme quality.”
“Munto is awaiting its successor.”
“As Munto proved, KyoAni has no aptitude for original projects. Most anime studios are the same – just look at Gonzo.”
“With hits like Tiger & Bunny, Kuroko, Tenipuri, Utapuri and so on, it is not hard to see why KyoAni wants a slice of the rotten pie. Even DEEN managed to get Hetalia selling well despite it being total trash anime.”
“There seems to be a lot of anticipation overseas as well – something like this seems to be in demand.”
“Finally some nipples from KyoAni…”
“For once, here’s hoping they cover these ones with beams of light!”
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Lol. This one is probably too lacking in the female character department (if only they'd at least put ONE cute girl in there...) for me to watch it, but I don't hold it against KyoAni for making an anime aimed at the female demographic for once. I can totally understand why they would try it, and there are enough other shows for us guys anyway. Good for the girls I guess. ; )
Somebody please make a S2 of Ouran Highschool Host Club though. I may be a guy, and mostly watching Seinen and Shounen, but Ouran was so damn funny I enjoyed it even though it's Shoujo and Reverse-Harem. Only one of it's kind that I liked though.
At last, a sane example of a moe fan. You're a beacon of light for all otaku. Let's hope the majority of them can learn to be human like you...
Im not gonna lie, I'd watch it.
A gay anime?
Is so gay like K-on! was yuri, in other words isn't gay
I like how people are downvoting this...
Keep being retarded, guys lol
The Kyoani fanbois will still slurp all of this up anyway. Nothing has changed.
Loyalty to a studio can change if it starts producing stuff that the fans don't like/won't accept. Fans aren't stupid, nor are they blind.
Fujioshi aren't that different from people who enjoy hentai. They both want graphical fanservice so can we just respect each others choice in whatever the shit they want to see?
I mean I could talk about how extremely bigotical of Japan it is for wanting another female in there, not wanting "gays" as well as the abs being overdone
But you know,
acknowledging and respect.
Shouldnt be that hard.
Eh, I don't like BL stuff because I don't like gays. I guess once this sells like crap they'll go back to normal. Everyone knows women don't have money. Thank you income disparity.
lol
If your worldview was any narrower, you'd be violating the laws of geometry.
I'm not saying I dislike actual gays, I just dislike things like that. It's like saying I don't like mecha, but those guys spend a lot of money on things, so we'll never get rid of it.
I like that 0:30, did you come up with that yourself? I gotta use that sometime!
@Anon 00:30 - Anon 00:11 has the right to dislike whatever he sees fit. Trying to force your tastes and world views on him (and everybody) shows YOUR world view is that narrow, not his.
Sounds like you want the world to revolve around your tastes because you can't handle other people liking something you dislike.
I was not commenting on his tastes in anime. Nice srawman.
Are you a retard or what? Woman don't have money. Open those damn holes you call eyes.
I can't. Mother is from Taiwan. ;_;
Maybe the women don't have money but they daddies have
anon above live in fairytale countries where every women is only to satiate lust and every fujoshi don't have money to back up their fujoshi needs...
... or maybe just someone from middle east ._.
Close, but no cigar. America is the place. Come for the guns, stay for the sexism. Yeehaw!
If I wanted guns I'd go to Switzerland.
There's nothing to indicate here that this show would be BL or yaoi.
I guess they've figured out the amount of fujoshi are increasing so they're trying to market out to that segment. Now they'll have moetards and fujoshis under their spell >.>
I for one welcome fanservice for women, especially for my very ecchi girlfriend :3
I just don't want any annoying male version of moetards to be created from this new market... >.>'
Don't any women find men like Kenshiro from Hokuto no Ken to be sexy? C'mon now...
No, only men find Kenshiro sexy.
Can I also add for those who whine about the abs being overdone, people could say exactly the same fucking thing about girls boobs being way overdone and sexualized in general animes?
Double standards much Japan
They look fine to me (hetero male here). They can have as many ab packs as they want, 6, 12, 200.. as long as I can have my boobs in peace :3
Those abs look SOOOO GOOD
Welcome to how girls feel when Kyoani releases something only aimed at moetards.
I'm going to bet all I have it's not even homo to begin with.
though the trailer sure is gay.
You do know that K-On! is horrendously popular with girls as well, right? Heck, it's so family friendly, it's airing on the Disney Channel.
Just because a show is "moe" (obviously the wrong definition is used here) doesn't mean that it's filthy, exploitative or cheap. Nor does it mean that girls can't like it as well.
That's what makes it all the more creepy and unlikable for a lot of people, though... the fact that something that would otherwise not be even considered to be sexual, has actually been used as fap material and idol worship before the "innocent" even laid their eyes on it. I for one will always see it with this stigma that when they designed Mio's smile, it was meant to get otaku off....
Have you ever heard of Rule 34? By your logic everything will be creepy. You will never look at your toothbrush or a cucumber the same way again.
Isn't gay is moe-manly
I thought girls loved K-On? Besides, only insecure guys would call this gay or yaoi. We don't even know what the actual plot or story is about, let alone the title.
I'm a woman and I fucking love K-On! (I claim that mai waifu is Mugi-chan) and other assortment of moe, female-only characters anime, in fact wasn't the movie popular even with the non-anime crowd?
So far the only complaints I've heard from were either people who love to hate popular stuff, people who hate moe-blobs and people who hate anime in general, but nobody so far who hated K-On was mainly female.
Uhm, KyoAni's shows have been hits with female otaku as well as male, and like them or hate them they all have SOME substance besides "girls you can wank to". It doesn't at all compare to the utter shallowness that is the girls wanting them to turn a 30 second commercial into a series for absolutely no reason other than that it has scantily clad guys in it.
There's the character interactions, the expressiveness of the animation, the fact that the water was PROPERLY ANIMATED, and the fact that it's a new direction for Kyo-Ani. All of these reasons are more than enough to warrant this anime.
Four muscular swimmers by themselves at the pool training to be the best? Sounds kinda manly.
Like no one ever was?
Nice try -_-
I kind of want to watch it, since I'm a former swimmer... but I'm not gay.
you really thing this is about swimming?
About what other thing it can be, is totally about swimming
It honestly looks like it's just about a bunch of (attractive) guys swimming. I don't know what else you guys are freaking out about here.
It honestly looks like it's just about a bunch of (attractive) guys swimming. I don't know what else you guys are freaking out about here....
KyoAni HQ:
Manager: "Alright Gentlemen ! Let's start a new anime!"
*Written on paper*
[Moeblob]
Manager: -_-
*Written on paper*
[Moeblob....BUT GAY!]
Mangaer : (^O^)b
And here we are.
Heh this comment is win XD.
Hey Primus, fancy seeing you here ^w^
How can you call gay something so manly, yo!