An email from Arc System Works Japan that had been floating about Twitter confirming Guilty Gear‘s Bridget to be male and not female as the mentally ill contingent wants him to be has been confirmed to be fake from both the English and Japanese Arc System Works Twitter accounts, which some might claim to be a lie merely to quell the chaos.
Not so long ago, the mentally ill degenerates of the West were celebrating Guilty Gear Strive, as the DLC content for trap character Bridget had him claiming to be “female”, despite the fact he was born male.
Though, the perfect ending of Bridget’s story instead left things open to interpretation as opposed to having him outright claim to be female, but this hasn’t stopped the worst people of the Western hemisphere from continuing to lie and vandalize Wikia pages.
Since then, an email from Arc System Works Japan’s customer support was circulating on social media, which claimed that Bridget is in fact male and an “otoko no ko”, which was written on the website and has been known by fans of the franchise since the very beginning:
Hello, this is Arc System Works, Inc. user support. Thank you for your continued patronage of our software.
We want to take this opportunity to answer your inquiries.
Bridget is a character from our company’s game “Guilty Gear Strive,” who was born a boy and struggled with their identity throughout the story due to a difficult upbringing. In Japan, he is cherished as an “otoko no ko” and is a big part of our culture. The term is what we use for boys with feminine qualities.
By completing the arcade story in “Guilty Gear Strive” without losing once, you can watch a dialogue with a character about “not being able to change himself” and “accepting everything.” Bridget indicates that he wants to learn from his ways, which we interpret as Bridget no longer being conflicted about being a girl and accepting her feminine sides as part of her true self.
This is naturally accepted as an “otoko no ko,” and the development team felt that it was necessary to convey a positive perception of the character abroad.
Thank you very much for your valuable feedback.
Both the official English and Japanese Arc System Works Twitter accounts have claimed that this email is fake, which some might be skeptical of:
The Japanese tweet says essentially the same thing but also warns players to be cautious of forgeries.
Not wanting to end the conflict with a direct answer might be deemed evidence that the developer doesn’t want to upset the mentally ill individuals that reside in the Western hemisphere and obsess over “gender” and “representation” as if it is nonexistent, even though most such individuals don’t play video games.
Similarly, the developer might not want to also induce rage in actual fans by claiming Bridget is actually a “female” or “transgender”, as such a claim is not true and would also act as an insult due to his backstory.
Of course, it’s fake. There’s no way they’d make such an explanation through email. Especially a Japanese company. They don’t give a f♥♥k about fans’ opinion.
yeah whatever they meant they meant if they want to apologize or change something they always do it publicly.
could have guessed but i was still weary. Japan doesn’t see gender like people do in the west and you also got the fact that translators and localizers will intentionally skew specific meanings of terms like otoko no ko which they have done numerous times.
lmao please stop with this bullshit and accept that Japan is woke
Like they tried doing with astalfo
Let’s be more precise, the whole world doesn’t see gender the same way as US do, not only that but localizers from europeans countries don’t use memes unless they are willing to be fired asap.
I don’t really know what’s happening in the US but the absurd lack of unification which led to multiple movement seems to widening by weeks, let alone war with the russian or chinese, the next war US will know will be a civil one caused by an excess of freedom and lack of regularization.
Sorry that we in the US aren’t Dictatorial and as fascistic as the country your from. We value freedom and freedom of thought unless your one of the alphabet cultists.
US pales in comparison to China’s fascism and authoritarianism.
Seethe and Cope, s♥♥t for brains.
some people have to learn the hard way, you being one of those people
Kill yourself, brain dead faggot.
Cope, fuckhead
This is just cope from ArcSys fanboys who refuse to believe that the company has gone woke despite all the evidence.
Of fucking course ASW would clarify this is fake but doesn’t clarify if Bridget is or not a boy, they should stop being pussies and fucking say once for all that he is a man
the drama draws attention, they have every incentive to not answer that question
When you actually give a f♥♥k about fictional characters, that it affects your life? You should seek help.
Today, one character could be this, and tomorrow when a new person takes over as CEO or director or something, it could be that.
People really need to learn how to disconnect themselves from entertainment. It’s not entertainment anymore, when it’s dominating your life, and your mind.
You could fill an entire mental asylum with Sankaku users only.
projecting again, mutt?
Because “mutt” is used to refer to “mixed blood” since Sancuck is full of #pureblood #maga #kag #TrumpWon N4z1 dipshits
No need to samefag, subhuman fatherless genetically inferior mutt
When are you going to do the only amusing thing you will ever do in your walking abortion ad mistake of a life and hang yourself on livestream?
That is true.
You could say the same about non-fictional characters as well.
The person you idolize today could be outed as a pedophiliac rapist tomorrow.
Unless you already idolize pedophiliac rapists, in which case you have nothing to worry about.