The usually lighthearted and comical Yoko Taro (director of Nier: Automata) has seemingly assumed a more serious stance as a series of tweets he made has been directed towards “haters” who criticize poor fan art and cosplay, with the accomplished director saying that such individuals should “stop talking”.
Yoko Taro’s 3 tweets on the subject:
“I was looking at an image of 9S vs. a bunch of 2Bs (the one from the tower) and thought ‘Oh, that was a good idea to take a bunch of photographs for a duplication thing,’ but then I was amazed to realize that it was actually just a bunch of 2B cosplayers.”
“The reason I don’t post URLs or actively RT cosplay and illustrations is because I want to avoid sending weirdos their way. However, I do post things when it’s part of their occupation. I think getting public exposure is part of the job. That’s just the standard of operations at our company.”
“I’ve always thought that there are way too many people who complain about fan art and cosplay of others. Even if the illustration sucks, or even if the cosplay is completely different from the character, at the very least they still make me happy. These people basically do it because that’s what they like to do, so outsiders should just shut up and stop whining, at least that’s what I think.”
Whilst artists can probably survive without his protection, they will at least be glad to know he is not in favor of suing them into oblivion…
The basic message is fan art and cosplay are both signs of GOOD publicity for Nier: Automata and the director has no concerns about the supposed quality or attention to detail. The POINT is that people appreciate Nier: Automata and are showing that appreciation in their art.
And it is a learning process, most pros in the industry were fans at some point, and some of the pros still do the semi-pro fan thing during the big sight event.
Yet he is telling others that do to shut up.
Did you even read the article moron? The people he is telling to shut up are the bitches that are whining about the fan art and cosplay.
The people that are complaining about “art” that is publicly displayed are part of “others” moron.
You’re not making any sense haha
I miss when people had better things to do than go out of their way to look for stuff to whine about.
It’s the sign of prosperity. When people no longer had to worry about dying from cold, hunger and disease, they find some other petty nonsense to bother themselves with.
Criticizing bad fanart is kinda silly, artists will always have to be bad for a while before they can git gud.
Yoko taro is my hero
Ahw, that guy is ADORABLE! As far as consumerism goes this is the best.