★ Amy Star ★finally watching GWitch
WOOOOO GET HIS ASS
OOPS NEVERMIND bandai namco just put out a statement emphatically stating "no homo"
this is why I don't watch anime anymore :')
I love how I was waiting until the dust on this series settled to see if it stuck the landing. and then it did!
and then bandai namco's homophobic board members are like "oh whoops nevermind no homo no homo no homo"
i was even thinking of maybe getting the protag's gundam as a fun little build project
incredible
I'm so tired of being even slightly interested in any mainstream media at all.
abolish all intellectual property. abolish copyright. bring storytelling back to the people.
this feels almost identical to me deciding, finally, to start Owl House, only for it to be cancelled immediately after me watching the first episode.
fans: "Bandai is only doing this so they can appeal to the Chinese market!"
me, a yuri fan, who has been queerbaited every single time for the past 25 years: 
Japan is not a modern country
ijo Stella@AmyZenunim pretty much had the same happen lol. still amazing what they managed to do with it tho
Kate@AmyZenunim the end is a bit rushed but they did great with the time the studio gave them :/
demize@AmyZenunim I haven’t watched it yet but I just caught up on all this and what the fuck
If I’m understanding this right… they made a show that is pretty unambiguously about two lesbians who end up getting married, they let an interview with the lead VA go to print talking about that marriage, and then… seemingly invented a controversy, removed just the word “marriage” from the digital version of the interview, and then both Bandai and Kadokawa put out independent statements apologizing for the gay?
??????????
apophis@AmyZenunim this kind of thing is why i have a strict "if it cannot be found in the work itself, it is not and cannot be canon" approach to everything
@apophis my understanding is that it is literally in the text. they get literally actually real-married.
which makes it even more baffling to try to backpedal like this.
Llama@AmyZenunim Wait, what. Source? (And how do they even think anyone will believe that?)
@Llammissar https://g-witch.net/news/detail.php?id=20824
tl;dr: there was an interview that went live online with someone saying "the two characters were married" and then Bamco struck it off the internet and said "ACTUALLY we're not confirming anything it's all up to your ~interpretation~ :^)" and the fandom is dragging them hard
jubilee@AmyZenunim @Llammissar this reminds me a lot of Tomino's comments about how the boys weren't the real fans, the girls were long before any boys (something something Chamuro), yet this is clearly being done to play to the feelings of the boys.
@AmyZenunim @Llammissar if instead of gay marriage this had been a defamatory statement the lawyers would be telling them to make a very generous offer to settle
BigPete@AmyZenunim I saw that ending. It’s yes Homo and they can’t tell me anything different. Stupid suits trying to ruin everything.