Kokoro connect incident
BDs are super expensive in Japan after all, and you can't help but feel a distance after something like this.Please note, you will not receive a certificate of completion for watching these videos. Of course, intentionally advertising a boycott movement is different from having your will to buy the BDs stripped because of this incident. What these boycotters are essentially doing is letting the house burn down on not just the fire-starters, but everyone else left in the building as well. Justification and punishment are secondary. You usually put the fire out before worrying about who caused it, because you want to save as many lives as possible. If you can't pick out the actual perpetrators and punish them only, the next best option is to simply put the fire out as fast as possible for the sake of the series. It's worse than not doing anything at all. In other words, if they really cared for the well-being of the anime, they would most certainly not take this form of action. These boycotters are no different from the jerks who pulled off this prank. 2ch residents are just using this incident as fuel to party up their poor lives.
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I feel like there has to be a better way to get across, then to hurt the series as a whole. Just don't forget though, this has nothing to do with the quality of the anime, at least up to the latest episode before the incident had its fuse lit, and certainly not the light novel series. It has caused problems for all viewers, the cast and staff involved, several uninvolved VAs and especially the original author. However, all in all, it is safe to say that this was one of the worst ideas an animation production staff could ever think of. 2ch residents wouldn't try to think about doing anything else. They're boycotting the BDs, because that's just about all they're capable of doing, and also because many are "enjoying the party", costless as it is to boycott so-to-speak. Internet makes things easier for Japanese people certainly, but 2ch residents wouldn't have any guts to do anything about something like that in reality. VAs like Tomokazu Sugita (Kyon, Gintoki etc.) have openly shown disappointment in public, but Japanese people in general would not follow suit. However, this one just happened to take things to an extreme he had never faced before, in the face of the public audience.įor two, because this was intended as a source of entertainment for the audience attending the pre-airing, many of the staff members including the cast may be laughing off the whole thing on the surface (as most Japanese are inclined to do, wiki honne and tatemae for more details), and so their responses in various publicized occasions are not exactly accurate in delineating their stance on the situation. He is experienced in this sort of stuff, and according to his other talks in other projects, many VAs are accustomed to this sort of joke-like penalty game (at least behind the scenes). There's a lot of misconceptions about various individuals involved.įor one, the victim of the "prank" (which was officially held by the staff and part of the cast as a side-entertainment for the Kokoro Connect pre-airing, not just some random unplanned off-the-top-of-the-head deal) is not exactly a newbie. *In Spanish, but apparently a lot more accurate than Kotaku's (go figure) This article is apparently wrong on many aspects so take it with a grain of salt. As of now, the cast members linked to it are Takuma Terashima (Aoki), Hisako Kanemoto (Yui), and Takahiro Mizushima (Taichi). There have talks to boycott the show and even chances that it will stop airing. As a result, there has been a large uproar pretty much ruining any chance for Kokoro Connect to succeed. What happened is they gave the role to newbie VA, who was then told that the whole thing was a fake and was given a job as a PR person as compensation. Basically what happened was employees of Silver Link (the studio that does Kokoro Connect) and some cast members have been linked to a prank where they created a fake audition for a small supporting role on Kokoro Connect. This is to explain about what happened recently involving members of the cast of Kokoro Connect.