An incendiary GamerGate reference inserted into the 7th episode of Funimation’s Prison School dub has prompted outrage online and a response from the company, though most have greeted it as little more than a cop-out and far from a sincere apology.
Criticism has stemmed both from the line’s irrelevance and deviation from the source material, and its obvious and rather ham-fisted attempt to shove the hugely persuasive “gamers are evil misogynists and the gaming media a paragon of integrity” narrative so beloved of feminists, knights of social justice and gaming industry media shills down the throats of disinterested viewers.
The line was concocted by Funimation write Tyson Rinehart, who has seemingly dug himself a deeper hole by taking a rather sarcastic stand in regards to the incident on his Twitter:
If you think r**e threats against women in gaming are acceptable, I’m glad my script pissed you off. #PrisonSchool #itwasjustonelineyounerds
The “offensive” line:
Whatever the politics of the matter, neither the reputation of dubs in general or their respect for source material seems likely to be improved by the incident.
Kind of seems like you’re triggered by SJWs but ok
SJWs shilling their message in the translations of Japanese media now!? WTF! What’s next, tumblr pronouns in Final Fantasy!? Oh wait. LAWL!
Was neutral in reference to GG. But seriously them responding to this, what nonsense.
They said they cared about corruption but none of them attacked publishers and the big companies instead just little companies and people. Right at the time when they focused on Quinn EA was getting caught bribing YTers, YTers corruption is a huge issue. Even Machinima got caught out and charged with corruption and fined for actual corruption. None of that was mentioned in their mantra, all of that entirely missed by Gamergate because they just got tunnel vision on feminists. Whole affair was embarrassing to observe of both sides. Obviously the dude adding it in was clearly promoting his agenda, considering Prison School isnt in America, which the term got more exposure.
I just find this whole affair so embarrassing and wish everyone just move on.
maybe because publishers aren’t journalists? Journalists are the people you trust to maintain you informed not the publishers. Journalists are the ones that should be calling out the corruption of publishers too.
The little companies and people is another fallacy. Kotaku, Polygon, Ben Kuchera aren’t small companies nor small people either.
Your whole argument is just a mess of misinformation.
The script writer for that episode pissed me off. There is no excuse changing the script like that just to input is own political agenda. Real politics do not deserve to be put into anime. This guy needs to get fired. I hope Funimation makes the right move and fire this guy.
>listening to Fuckupmation dubs
You brought it on yourselves people.