Jim Pyke I think it's 50% humility and 50% genuine self assessment. Most artists worth their salt are usually pretty self critical.

Go watch the Japanese equivalent of the HGS trailer, "Hayao Miyazaki Makes Ramen at Studio Ghibli". Neither said anything about the product, though actually HGS trailer says things that shouldn't be said. The things they said are the province of critics and customers, not the studio.

@@alfredschlicht2662 Ugh, tell me about it... I look back on stuff I drew when I was fifteen and even back in 2008, and think:"OMFG, this looks terrible. To think I drew this! Hell drawing comics takes me longer than I think it should because I'm a bit of a perfectionist. :p

@@DemonicRemption That's a good sign of progress I think. And as a fellow artist all I can say is perfectionism is a beast that must be tamed immediately.

If mother freaking Ghibli is more humble than them then you know it's bad

Hell, there're even some notable female hentai artists. These idiots really need to stop acting like female representation is a thing that needs to be pushed, because it isn't, far from it. All they're really doing is pissing people off by making shitty products that were made by horribly unqualified people only hired due to affirmative action, to say nothing of the dumbass, hateful comments they make on social media that are oftentimes misandrist (and ironically misogynist, given how much they infantalize and degrade the women they claim to be helping by acting like they're incapable of just doing this shit on their own merits).

Not to mention CLAMP (the all-female mangaka team of Cardcaptor Sakura fame), and how in the HELL can anyone forget Naoko Takeuchi and SAILOR FRIGGIN' MOON?!? Probably one of the most, if not THE most, successful 'Girl Power" anime/manga franchises EVER! Twenty-five years and still going strong, last I checked!

KaiserFrazer67: I actually made a different comment after posting the first one saying how I wanted to meet CLAMP and personally thank them for designing the characters for Code Geass. ovo Also I thought Sailor Moon was an obvious one? YamatoFukkatsu: Thank you for your entire comment. I believe Cras Sola is a female doujin artist, whose made my absolute favorite SuzaLulu doujins(SuzakuxLelouch from Code Geass) and did an absolutely wonderful job of keeping all the characters involved in character. Fylus might also be female.

@5Geass: Sometimes the most obvious ones are the most overlooked and forgotten. Yes, I'm a SM fan, and a pretty late-coming fan at that (I was in my late 20's going on 30 when Sailor Moon first got popular here in the U.S. in the mid-90's and have just gained interest in it over the last 6 months or so). I've watched several of these KZfaq critiques and everyone seems to forget mentioning Sailor Moon like it never even existed. (At least in this critique it was briefly shown onscreen, if not specifically mentioned.) Never mind it was IMHO the #1 game-changer in opening up many doors for women and girls in the anime/manga genre. NOT TO MENTION that it was, and remains, good enough to hold a male following as well as the demographic of teenage girls it was aimed at. I'm sure there are plenty of even earlier examples to choose from. It just strikes me as how incredulously blatant and asinine these statements are of the so-called "writers" of HGS. It couldn't be more obvious they're trying to push an SJW agenda over promoting their actual show. What they're saying they're trying to do has, in fact, been done over and over again dozens of times in the anime (and manga) field over DECADES, and everyone with even a beginner-level degree of familiarity with anime and manga knows better. Their promo trailer actually comes off as a scam to me--why are they trying to sell themselves and not their product? Perhaps the quality of their product isn't up to par, or as many suspect--an outright ripoff of something that's already been done? Hmmmm... Also do some digging on some of the people connected with this sham and you'll find, as several others have already pointed out in the comments section, that they're misandristic, hate-filled people who are all agenda and no creativity--not the least of which is Kate Leth. When these names come out and one starts to follow the paper trail--and one doesn't have to dig real deep (Marvel's Hellcat, anyone?)--the more it looks like this whole HGS project is little more than an elaborate shell game.

Mhm. One of the first things they said in the trailer rubbed me the wrong way. The thing about the show having a lot of heart that they don't think any other studio can do anymore(paraphrasing). Like? How *absolutely condescending* can you be? I'm pretty sure they didn't mean it like that but? To outright say that just sounds incredibly rude. The moment I saw Kate Leth...oh lord. How quickly was her comic cancelled again? I just know it was pulled fairly quick.

Kevin Black hell yeah

ALL OF ZE HAIR COLOR! Yahoo! We're so damn special ❤️

I understand you’re joking but just because someone has dyed their hair doesn’t make them diverse. They’re posers pretending to represent minorities when they wouldn’t even dare help the real ones in need, like homosexuals in countries where coming out of the closet could lead to their execution

They talked about the cast being diverse. Not the ppl who work on the show

When talking about the cast, you are talking about the voice actors

Her twitter is full of man hatred Imagine my shock

She hates men, and her prior work is unbelievably bad. Go try and read Marvel’s extremely short lived Hellcat series. It’s unbelievably bad, insufferable, incoherent and insulting writing.

Oh yeah, Kate Leth is a major death flag for an already leaky schooner.

What do expect, she's a compatriot to Noelle Stevenson, the tumblrina She-Ra showrunner...

Revkor yeah the way she treats men. Holy hell she disgust men and top of that she dispise them and the way hellcat went she destroy the comic and hates Stan lee

I’m surprised a bunch of SJWs think it’s OK to culturally appropriate Japan.

Well apparently cultural appropriation is bullshit because it looks more like cultural sharing because when you look at the creations of authors from all the world, they are kind of using other things from other cultures.

What does being female have to do with their takes? I’ve seen equally compelling and nuanced opinions from male content creators and I didn’t give a fuck that they were men. Their gender’s got nothing to do with the video at hand

Thank you for pointing that out.

Crunchyroll didn't even enable comments on the trailer when it first came out. They disabled the like bar when it showed 1052 dislikes for ~6700 views. They closed their forum on High Guardian Spice and threatened punishment if they started a new forum thread outside of misc. They closed their poll on High Guardian Spice when it showed a 96% disinterest and dislike on it. They reopened these threads on their forum recently. CR did not handle their PR well.

digichu007 do you have links to these forums? I want to see al the ranting taking place rn

+mjtanner Okay, one of your hosts in this podcast said something that she wasn't trying to imply that because Clamp exist that there can't be other all female writing teams. I'm addressing this because I don't know who's dumb enough to see her pointing out Clamp as an implications that there shouldn't be any more all female writing teams. If anything it implies that it can be done, it has been done, and there's nothing wrong with it. The problem only comes from when you get the impression I got from this High Guardian Spice trailer, that this team doesn't care about what they're writing or creating.

2D currently isn't all that profitable. It doesn't get butts in seats like 3D animation does, and considering it's more expensive to do 2D animation, it's not worth the risk. It's not like animation is completely lost in terms of 2D hand drawn animation. But it's a more niche market, the two switching places in the last 10-15 years. But you still need hand drawn storyboards. There are instances where 2D and 3D are blended together for a hybrid. I think these women don't know what the heck they're talking about.

This comment needs more likes, look how important it is.

So powerful, I set a tear-

How is everyone sleeping on this comment? It’s honestly inspiring ✨ What a masterpiece

The last part got me 😂

Alondro77 claymore is fantastic.

​@@danmagnumxl agree (⁠ㆁ⁠ω⁠ㆁ⁠)

Soul eater, RWBY, little witch Acedamia certain magical index.

Didn't the manga version of Soul Eater just ended on a whimper moment... Pink Hair guy didn't die but they impair there's more stuff in SE but skip that noise and make a new firefighter manga. lol

@@barrybend7189 they use Index ideas on this?

@@accelerator8558 I'm just pointing out similar shows index kinda has what this has.

@@barrybend7189 Index have more tham this have a full battle of Science and ESPERS vs Religión and MAGIC

The Otaku Gamer Tumblr sucks

And K-ON has been a hit with teenage girls in Japan...

Kigiru Drewko funny thing is, not all of their writing staff identify as women.. seriously check out the writing staff's Twitter accounts. Pronouns galore

@@AmaryInkawult A SJW is not a SJW without mentioning their pronouns

Alondro77 At least Spaceballs was funny.

Yes, which is part of the reason why I used it as an example. It was how a parody or satire is PROPERLY constructed, while not purporting to be part of the source material for what it's poking fun at. Another example would be the faux Doctor Who episode "Curse of Fatal Death", with Rowan Atkinson.

I love the new Voltron and I grew up on the classic Voltron.

The new Voltron is lit

It fell apart in the last few seasons, but it's still better than the She-Ra reboot... I mean, the Netflix cartoon that is coincidentally called She-Ra.

voltron wasnt even respectful of its source material. Go Lion was the superior product.

In regards to RWBY, I hold out hope the writing will improve, that RT does read their critiques and are genuine in their desire to put out a good show. The alternative is that it winds up unfinished like so many other show out there that suffered from critical author existence failure.

Shay Usu Also, the current people in charge of RWBY are focusing on completely the wrong things.

RWBY Vol 1-3 were the best. In my opinion anyways.

*Sees Madoka on the list* BRUH...That shit gave me crippling depression

@@brupts7297 there, there, have a cookie to calm yourself^_^

I wouldn't say diversity is a TOOL for them. More like a weapon and a shield. And a victim card to play when they inevitably get called on it. Sometimes I wonder if deep down they WANT to fail so they can martyr themselves.

Yes. For an example, Riri WIlliams, Ironheart, the black female Iron Man replacement had a flashback to when she was younger, in it she said she wanted to be a scientist, and her teacher said it was a great idea, and Riri was upset the teacher didn't tell her she can't do it. She literally was upset someone didn't stomp her dreams down so she could bravely fight back against the "oppression" she had to deal with as a black woman. This scene encapsulated all that NPCs want and think. If they are not victims they have nothing.

If they were truly doing this out of any sense of doing OBJECTIVE good, they wouldn't release press statements crowing about how woke and progressive they are. That's the whole thing about doing good, you aren't supposed to expect a reward for it. Being a hero means doing what you feel is right no matter what it costs you. Wanting to do good shouldn't exempt you from criticism. If you put ANYTHING out there, you should be prepared for the possibility of rejection. A thick skin should be required. You cannot reap the rewards for success if you arent also prepared to deal with rejection. That's how life is. Look at William Shatner. He KNOWS what people think of his acting. He KNOWS he can't sing. HE DOESN'T GIVE A SHIT. This is a man who knows the risks of putting yourself out there and handles criticism like a champ. He still makes albums because he's having fun doing it.

"looks at kampfer" memes

Yaoi and Yuri don't count because it's meant to fetishize homosexuals. Shounen and Shojo Ai are the correct terms

And ThunderCats 2011 was my favorite!

Yeah but they never officially published them but CLAMP consistently made good manga. And on a fun fact the Gundam Origin manga was drawn by CLAMP.

I am not that knowledgeable or anime, but it seems from the video that Clamp is a natural coming together of people with like interest over time. This is how succesful teams form. The writers of HGS seem like they were put together just because they were women, and someone was more interest in a narrative than the actual product the team produces. "Look at all us woman with our token man......Oh and before we forget to mention, we are doing some moving drawing stuff, but dont get destracted by that. The point of this video "trailer" is WE ARE WOMEN, SO YOU BETTER DAMN WELL WATCH."

yep, from what I remember CLAMP were just regular artist with like interest that formed a doujin circle until the got famous.

@@triggerfairy4070 they actually started as a D&D friends group believe it or not. Most of their fantasy stories ( Magic Knight Rayearth, Rgveda) were born from those sessions.

that's interesting to know, Rayearth is what I prefer these "in another world" anime to be more like.

There are two people 😊. At first I thought there was only one person. Hehehe

Same here, I thought she/ they was/ were schizofrenic at first

@@igcometa thanks for telling guys I was really worry I did go mad crazy.

We're identical twins who look and sound the same. Maybe we should change our intro to make that more clear. Sorry about that.

@@mjtannertwins oh that make sense sorry I really didn't know.

If it’s from America there’s probably a bit of feminism involved so no thanks

What about avatar the last Airbender? it was a pretty cool anime influenced cartoon, well for me it was.

@@pilgram974 which one? The first one with aang or the reincarnation of aang?

Yeah I totally get what you mean about being more Western style n more cartoonish.i myself also want more Japanese style anime easily but good stuff can come from America not including feminist bullshit agenda and etc if course.

Hyaku Shiki May he dance in Heaven forever.

I agree, it's ok for a story to be subject to interpretation, it's not ok for it to deliberately pander to the audience, or shove an ideology down their throats. (cuz that worked incredibly well for Ghostbusters, Star Wars, and likely the new Terminator film) If the staff has to virtue signal throughout the trailer instead of letting the show sell itself, which is the whole point of a trailer. I'm going to make the prediction that High Guardian Spice will be poorly written garbage not worth anyone's time. It doesn't matter how pretty the visual are, if the story is trash, no one will watch it.

@@Prich319 i got 2 good example of anime that has all female staff. Salormoon and card captor . Nether of them boosted about thwmselves and both are still top anime today.

chucheeness oh you mean condemning normal people as being bigots and evil because they don't agree with the cast?

Rebecca Sugar ftw. Her show is so much more enjoyable and I can't wait for the next arc.

That line pisses me off to no end. Every good anime and cartoon has so much heart in their own way.

then maybe they can donate some of those heart because maybe someone needs it?

That sounds really interesting tbh I'd really love to read that of you ever complete it.

Try to create first a Light Novel about your story... Next try to draw some parts of it... It worked for me.

Just keep drawing,you'll improve over time. :)

LoneLimpLizard has the right of, keep drawing if you like it, you'll get better! And I'd read your comic.

Just remember the basics and go from there. Circles...squares....triangles....everything has a basic shape. Just take away the 3d the shading ..the color...until you have the basic shapes. :)

Joseph Nichols agreed! But I think that the “Sony Ghostbusters” marketing plan has quickly lost its ability to intimidate. Too many companies have lost too much money following this path at this point. I mean a Star Wars movie didn’t even break even after they pulled this stunt on the prior one. Electronic Arts stock just tanked on the backlash caused by a similar campaign (“damn dirty sexist nerds! Of course WW2 was won by the actions of ass kicking female cyborg super soldiers! It’s bigoted to expect otherwise in an authentic WW2 simulation game!”)

It was just teen ben 10 in a dress.

Nolberto+ For SJWs it is most important to talk about themselves and how diverse, original and whatnot they are. So you got a perfectly fine trailer.

Its not how low quality the art is its how well they work in the bounds of it.

Animators working in a sweet shop?! That's awesome! Well.. unless they have diabetes. Then it sucks. ;D

Incidentally from what i hear from people's who working in game studio and some animation place they do hop them up on sweet, junk food, and red bull to help them stay up late and energize to meet deadline.

I’m sure that the “all female” crew that we see are just the writers and designers. The actual task of animating it will be farmed out to a Korean sweat shop as in the norm. That’s the reason we don’t see any actual animation samples. They don’t have any. They will be outsourcing those overseas to a not so Woke studio.

It does look like them.

jakzine540 Do you mean with High Guardian Spice? Because I don’t think we can say anything about a show that... never happened. Like, yeah, the trailer wasn’t a smart way to market, but, hey, at least it isn’t talking about rebooting a beloved franchise. And then, the show, while I hear they’re done putting it together, has had one 5-second spot in a collage-style trailer since this, and not even it’s own proper trailer since. There’s virtually nothing to have thoughts on, in that area.

The diference: CLAMP is good.

well what is your p.o.v in HGS now after 1-2 years of it releases (:

@@z0w0z. still 🗑🚮

I've been wondering about High Guardian Spice lately too. They've been very quiet. Maybe they're hoping people will forget the backlash by the time they actually release or maybe they just dropped it? Got to admit I'm kind of curious as to what the final product would be.

5Geass they were the creators of card captor Sakura

oh snap... I was wondering if was one person trying to have a conversational type video.... It was very confusing... but they have great points.