The overly dramatic events of Darling in the Franxx‘s 14th episode seemed to have greatly upset the anime’s western audience, as numerous fans have been complaining about the conflict between the show’s 2 main love interests (rather than its constant sexual innuendos).
Myanimelist’s ratings of the previous 13th episode:
The drastically different ratings for Darling in the Franxx’s 14th episode:
Some of the many enraged comments from watchers (naturally spoilers are in abundance):
The episode:
the most autistic fanbase of 2018
i’ve seen worse
rick and morty fanbase is bad? why no one says s♥♥t about the fucking samurai jack fanbase? they thing their show is the greatest thing in the universe, f♥♥k off with those kids with their very overrated show.
btw, ichigo is such a bitch now even asuka looks great.
funny cause i think asuka is the only normal person out of all the 5 children. shinji is too fucking pussy except only if rei is in trouble. at least asuka would do his job without complains even if it kills her.
Agreed. Asuka and Mari is the most human one out of all. Shinji is the worst of all only do something when thing already too late.
Rick and Morty fans want to have a word with you. As soon as they stop eating their crayons.
LOL!
I thought is was craft paste they were eating.
Nah, Rick and Morty fans eat the s♥♥t out of their toilet and the dog s♥♥t found on someone’s yard.
comparable to Re:zero?
nothing can be worse than rz 🙂
Rick & Morty.
Or quite simply the most butt-hurt…
So true.
It’s so funny, how westerners continue thinking that their opinions matters anything. No one consider you as an audience anyway! Drop it, don’t watch it, no one cares 😀
And for not paying attention to those in the West, is that in Japan they still produce bullshit animes like this. Ah kid
s♥♥t loving retards exist not only in america
actually we do matter considering that the majority of those companies revenues are from legal online streaming!
those these fourm junkies are in the absolute minority of western fans who liked it!
we ain’t in 2005 anymore. Most of the revenue from anime these days, outside of merchandise, come from streaming sites like Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Crunchy Roll, etc. which are like 90% Western audience. Go read Japan news and get with the times. Some of the most influential anime companies already embarked on a joint with several of these streaming sites to make anime tailored to a Western audience, like for example Devilman directed by Masaaki Yuasa.
“Most of the revenue from anime these days, outside of merchandise, come from streaming sites”
LOL! of course not. BDs, figures, premium/limited stuff. Japan’s anime/game projects makes their profits selling, not streaming. You don’t really think those “pay ¥1000 a month for unlimited access” plebs are making any visible difference, are you? And “Devilman”, you say? The way how it failed miserably shows us how well things “tailored to a Western audience” exactly do. Don’t get wrong ideas. Western companies keep investing in Japan’s projects just because even those Japanese shows, that don’t consider west as an audience are being more successful than shitty western shows, that are made for west in the first place. It’s as simple as that.
the reason netflix is willing to risk making anime is because its incrediably cheap to make at between 2.5 and 5 mil a 13 ep series meanwhile a single movie they make can cost that much for a much smaller run time and a single tv series like strangers things can cost 10x that easily. lets face it anime is cheap and if netflix really wanted to for the cost of probably black mirror, stranger things, and santa clara could fund a entire seasons worth of anime or over 20 shows without even worrying, devilman was a testing the waters sort of thing as they could make 10 devilmans season for every stranger things season and if even one of them gets as popular as stranger things itd be a homerun for them as making more of it would be incrediably cheap.
>making anime
They fund it, actually. Creators have said that working with Netflix gives them more freedom than with traditional productions, and are not pushed to leave out certain portions. Basically, this just means that there’s an alternative for studios who want to produce content for Netflix market.
Yep. Most western normie would likely only pay ¥1,000 for streaming and that’s it.
Facts are: BD cost ¥6,000, a regular 12 episodes long would cost ¥36,000, an OVA cost ¥8,000. High quality 1/7 figure in 2007 cost ¥10,000, now in 2018 most high quality 1/7 figure cost ¥16,000. Some exclusive figure even cost higher like Xenoblade Chronicles 2 – Mythra currently pre-order cost ¥19,800 and most of the time a figure like this most likely to go out of stock before it even released. Nendoroid ¥4,000. Music CD ¥2,000. Wall scroll ¥4,000. Dakimakura ¥13,000. Shirt ¥3,000. Parka ¥6,000. Hat ¥4,000. Phone case ¥4,000. Poster ¥3,000. Keychain ¥1,000.
And if you want to import any of that, expect to pay double of whatever price is listed.
This so much. It’s difficult to influence overseas creators when all of their income is from otakus paying out the ass for BDs/DVDs and merchandise. Japanese fanbases have enough people to lash out at and keep out anybody who negatively go after things they like.
NeoYokio saved the anime industry….
😀
All that happened was streaming showing up as a stream of revenue. Not a very large one, I think it’s around 3%, but it showed up at last. That was 2016. Maybe it’s at 5% now. Once you shell out 500 bucks for a single 12ep series, maybe the anime industry will pay more attention to what you want.
Its the same everywhere it seems, aussies were yelling at us over gun control not too long ago, apparently they forgot whom they were yelling at. :^)
And when you say “us” you mean western people in general or those from an specific country?
Is funny how some think the world ends in their country borders…
Just the self entitled ‘murican idiots. Most of us are actually somewhat reasonable.
That’s cute, you think the country with more people doesn’t matter.
OMG! India is the one that matters the most for ya 😀
Err, China is the first country in the population rank with 18.5% of total world population, India is second with 17.9%.
China and India, right… but they pay to watch anime? do they buy original merchandise?
They dont, they pirate the shows and buy local made merch. As far as I know, americans are the only ones that like throwing money at stuff.
To the industry that doesn’t see them as their “target” audience, yes.
American education at its finest.
Soooo…. let me get this straight. People are throwing hissyfits, calling for the death of the writers and animators, including their families after 14th episode and calling the show s♥♥t, based solely on that episode, instead of waiting for the series to end and then decide if it’s s♥♥t of not? Is their attention span that short? That’s like judging a fucking book based on a single page, which these people obviously don’t read.
I guess modern viewers don’t have a fucking clue how stories are told. You can’t make happy and good things happen one after another.
Yet one more sign that the world is swirling down the drain. Like we needed any more of those. People in general are becoming way too emotional, sensitive and irrational, not a good combination.
It’s more like judging the book by the middle chapter, and only the middle chapter.
I mean, I saw the 14th episode and Ichigo pissed me off. But that’s a good thing, I got an emotional response from a character who’s actions, in context, I didn’t find to be unreasonable at all.
Except Ichigo’s response was totally logical. Zero two tried to kill hiro, why wouldn’t she want to protect him? But yeah, the fanbase is pretty autistic.
Except her actions don’t benefit Hiro in the long run. Hiro can only pilot with Zero Two. With her gone Hiro is now useless and will have to leave the team.
So it’s better for him to die than leave the team?
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If we swap the characters gender SJW would jump all over this and call this anime misogyny because Zero Two-kun hurt Hiro-chan lol.
Yes because he’s a straight, white MALE! He should stay in an abusive relationship to feel what it’s like to be powerless mwahahaha!
that’s what happened if normies come to anime
I watched the 14th episode, and I didnt find it any worse than the rest of the show.
Writing was Fuckuda tier, now the bitch apparently dies and because of plot armor returns in next chapter to f♥♥k the MC. Anime is s♥♥t nowadays.
Agreed. The problem is not about the anime is good or bad.
Most reasonable person would judge if the anime is good or bad until they watch it until the end. Even if its bad reasonable person would just not watch it again or just give a constructive and reasonable comment to why this anime is bad.
The problem is western fans are just that snowflake and retarded.
I actually like it when there are some twists or something like this happened to stir things up and then it would have interesting events as to how they gonna fix things up or this is just the beginning of how things in the story start to tearing apart until the end. And all of that in the end the viewers is the one who benefit from all of it.
here here dude
Western Anime/Manga Hype-tard fans in a nutshell.
Thank you!
uh no their not doing that
WESTERN FANS ARE NOT OVER THE TOP ZEALOUS JAPANESE FANS that go nuts and write death threats to someone cause they don’t like a series ep or ending!
i mean western fans complained about oreimo’s ending, but not one of us went full on psycho mode and start threatening the author and his family cause of its ending unlike the japanese fanbase that did it in spades! the same for SAO’s author while he was still writing the fairy dance arc!
so while the western fanbase’s complains arent warranted and uncalled for, AT LEAST WE’RE NOT THREATENING TO KILL ANYONE!
yea but thats because thats japans fanbase job see in america the death threats go to video game devs and that kinda thing
read the rest of comments here 😀 western fans are the same retards.
What’s wrong with Oreimo ending?
The only thing that matter is that they love each other, nothing else is matter. What rights western fans have to judge other people and tell them how they should live their live?
The show was trash to begin with. However, people started getting their hopes up with episodes 10-13 because things were actually starting to get interesting.
Then 14 pretty much destroys any momentum the show had and it is back to being trash. I don’t see it recovering much.
it was okay, but there’s not really much actual story development. There’s just so much character development that this feels like it could have been just a high school romance thing.
Their anger seems to stem from that they can’t view the situation from the other character’s perspectives. Ichigo’s actions are pretty justified if you view them from the perspective of Ichigo.
What happened here tell us a lot about western fans, typical spoiled brat. They expect everything to go their ways like they wish, if not they gonna get upset. Even story in a fiction. This is typical selfish and self-absorbed personality.
Truth
All I’m seeing is “WAAAAAH I didn’t get my way! Anime should cater to ME ME ME! Well I didn’t like the show anyway, even though it had an overwhelmingly positive rating! Ichigo should kill herself for saving Hiro’s life.” etc.
Just so we’re clear I didn’t like what they did with this episode either and I’m also prefer 002 > 015, but acting like autistic children because you didn’t get what you want right away is frankly moronic. Also if you wanna blame someone blame the adults, or blame Hiro for not stepping up his game.
This.