I can’t believe this was your move. G-Witch was created to bring in a new generation of younger fans because the franchise was stagnant and only popular among middle-aged Japanese men. And you SUCCEEDED, beyond anyone’s wildest expectations, probably even your own, and grabbed a whole new generation of fans and re-engaged some old ones.
And you choose cowardice. You completely failed to understand your own show and what made it so popular in the first place. You created a BELOVED sapphic couple that was loved and important to so many queer and marginalized people and NOW you’re going to hide and call it “open to interpretation?” Just absolute bullshit, Suletta & Miorine are MARRIED, it’s in the text of the show, it’s supported by the entire staff, including Kana and Lynn! Backpedaling now to appease homophobes is an absolutely cowardly move and you just pissed away all those new fans and the goodwill you built up.
Just imagine having sales numbers like these. Having your show trend weekly during it’s airing and multiple times AFTER it airing. Having people celebrate the mention of their marriage so much that Sulemio Marriage trended on Twitter after that interview went live. And you pissed it all away by being cowardly and giving into homophobia.
I want to thank the staff of G-Witch for fighting to give us what we got, and Kana Ichinose for sticking her neck out to say they’re married when clearly the suits at Bandai fought against this the entire way. I firmly believe they had a kiss scene planned (there was even a very reputable leak that a kiss was animated!) and maybe even the wedding (listen to The Way We Wanna Go and tell me you can’t hear that playing during their kiss or wedding). This is completely disrespectful to the staff who worked hard to bring us this show and the fans who supported it.
Regardless, like I said before: they can try and censor current and future content, but they can NEVER take Suletta & Miorine’s relationship and marriage back from us. There is no “open to interpretation”, they are textually and canonically married and nothing Bandai ever does will change how G-Witch ended when it aired.
Its pretty obvious the execs STILL don’t pay attention to what their employees make. Back when G Gundam was being made explicit instructions were given that an on foot human can’t be shown defeating a mobile suit. *Laughs in Master Asia*
So what happened here is the show creators made the gayest show on the planet and the suits didn’t notice until like a month after it ended.
Long short; Namco Bandai is was and forever will be run by idiots and its safe to ignore just about any of their corporate speak.
The Sacklers woulda gotten away with it if it wasn’t for those darned meddling feds
The saga of the Sacklers, a multigenerational billionaire crime family of mass-murdering dope-peddlers, is an enraging parable about how the wealthy, the courts, and sadistic high-powered lawyers collude to destroy the lives of millions, profit handsomely, and evade justice.
But there’s an unexpected twist to this tale. After the Sacklers procured a sham bankruptcy that denied their victims the right to sue while leaving their fortune largely intact, the Supreme Court – yes, this Supreme Court – saw through the scam and froze the process, pending a full hearing:
The Sacklers basically invented modern, legal dope peddling. Arthur Sackler, the family’s original crime-boss, revived the practice of direct-to-consumer drug marketing, dormant since the death of the medicine show, to peddle Valium. An aggressive and shrewd lobbyist, Arthur built the family fortune and, more importantly, its connections:
A generation later, the family’s business company created Oxycontin, and procured misleading and false research about the drug’s safety kickstarting the opioid epidemic, whose American body-count is closing in on a million dead. Armed with inflated claims about opioid safety, the Sacklers’ pharma reps bribed, cajoled and tricked doctors into writing millions of prescriptions for oxy.
you always manage to make me agree to the dumbest shit
GOD DAMN IT. This isn’t a call out, I’m not mad at you, but you add that bottom left picture, of the woman with the glowing skirt?
That’s Naomi Wu. She’s an awesome maker who does a lot of really cool stuff… And she has had no end of trouble over that picture.
It’s a custom skirt. She sewed an LED strip into the skirt itself. And because of this image and similar ones (you sometimes even see this picture used to sell buttplugs on aliexpress!), she’s lost a bunch of work and sponsors.
They don’t want to be seen as sponsoring or working with sex workers (which is it’s own flavor of bullshit) but she never intended this to imply that. Others have taken her perfectly innocent images of her cool electronics project, and implied that it’s powered by buttplugs, against her will. And because of how she looks, far too many people believed it.
It’s just endless infuriating to see this image still going around, given that it has caused her no end of trouble in her career.
Anyway it also doesn’t make any sense. Look at how it looks from the front and explain to me how a buttplug could light up her legs like that?
By the way, as for everyone assuming she’s a sex worker because of how she looks? She does that on purpose. She’s a hacker and security expert who can smuggle lockpicks and other tools right past the guards because no one suspects the “arm candy”. People naturally underestimate her intelligence, and that’s intentional.
But that doesn’t give people an excuse to paint her as a sex worker. There’s nothing wrong with being a sex worker, don’t get me wrong, but the implication that she is one has been really bad for her career.
New research reveals the ancient symbiotic relationship behind geosmin,
the chemical compound responsible for the scent of fresh rain
The distinctive, earthy smell of fresh rain isn’t just wet dirt.
According to new research, it’s the chemical potion bacteria have been
using to attract tiny arthropods for more than 400 million years.
