Magical Girl Friendship Squad - Imagine Sailor Moon if it was created by creatively bankrupt millenials who wouldn't shut the fuck up

[Super-Chevy454]

Hilariously enough literally nobody remembers that show

Yeah but we still remember Matt Damon performance in Team America.

Clownfiah TV vlogged about that Magical Girl Friendship Squad where one youtuber nicknamed it "Social Justice Garbage".

 

[Secret Asshole]

Quality seems to be an important thing in Japan, and they don't seem to cave into this BS of being forced to like something just because it checks Id-pol checkboxes.

And because of that, women creators actually deliver good stuff and earn admiration and respect...imagine that.

Yup. Also women in Japan draw porn and hentai too. Women in Japan really don't give a fuck, they want to make good shit and draw pretty characters, not ugly garbage.

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Seriously, what is with their fascination for period blood?

Because 'muh feminisms'. Really, that's it. Because its fucking disgusting. I don't talk about my shits or bodily excretions, I don't want to fucking hear about yours.

 

[Mysterious Girlfriend X]

I wonder how many of them are never going to let it go, if they'll be obsessed with Trump for the rest of their lives even when he's out of office like how I believe some people were forever obsessed with Nixon.

It'll be because the fact that it happened at all that will forever make them bitter and angry.

They're never going to get over Trump because never getting over their losses is one of the biggest defining traits of the left. That's why they're still bitter about losing to Reagan, even though he left office over 30 years ago and has been dead for almost 20 years. That's why they're still bitter about W Bush. There are people who weren't adults or even alive during their terms who are bitter about their side losing to them.

They're never going to get over Trump because never getting over losing is part of their DNA.

Yup. Also women in Japan draw porn and hentai too. Women in Japan really don't give a fuck, they want to make good shit and draw pretty characters, not ugly garbage.

Some of the most successful and popular manga artists are women, and they're on a level that you'd be hard pressed to find an American of either gender that could hold a candle to them. Especially these days.

 

[Secret Asshole]

Some of the most successful and popular manga artists are women, and they're on a level that you'd be hard pressed to find an American of either gender that could hold a candle to them. Especially these days.

Oh yeah, the West cannot fucking compete against manga, which is why comics are dying. Nor can the West adapt and make manga, because it is a lot different than comics.

 

[I Love Beef]

Nor can the West adapt and make manga, because it is a lot different than comics.

I'm probably no surprise to this sentiment, I ooze it after all, but just what in the flying fuck is so hard about making anime and manga elsewhere and not fucking that up? Is it a culture barrier? Some form of fucky thinking? Something in the water that people are drinking?

Like, anime and manga definitely are their own breed, obviously you could not merely duplicate them simply by eyewitness alone. I am fairly sure that even if you gave overseas aspirees the techniques and the equipment, they'd fuck that up. I talk about cultural study and insightful analysis, but even then that can be lost in the long run. How hard is it to want to make a geniune anime like story outside of Japan?

Twenty some years and counting, fellow anime fans. Magical Girl Friendship Squad is not helping in this case.

 

[The Cunting Death]

I'm probably no surprise to this sentiment, I ooze it after all, but just what in the flying fuck is so hard about making anime and manga elsewhere and not fucking that up? Is it a culture barrier? Some form of fucky thinking? Something in the water that people are drinking?

Like, anime and manga definitely are their own breed, obviously you could not merely duplicate them simply by eyewitness alone. I am fairly sure that even if you gave overseas aspirees the techniques and the equipment, they'd fuck that up. I talk about cultural study and insightful analysis, but even then that can be lost in the long run. How hard is it to want to make a geniune anime like story outside of Japan?

Twenty some years and counting, fellow anime fans. Magical Girl Friendship Squad is not helping in this case.

I have a feeling it's possible, its just a mixture of dumbass executives who only just now realized cartoons aren't just for kids They're also for manchildren and incompetent showrunners being the biggest reasons

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I talked with my brother and Yakitate Japan came up. For those who don't know, Yakitake Japan is a parody about shonen show that is an endless string of tournament arcs about baking bread that still makes the viewer invested despite how ridiculous the premise is (and it only gets more ridiculous as it progresses). It made me realize that the most important thing about a good parody is having love for the original genre.

At least from watching the snippets here, it doesn't seem like the show has any respect for the genre it is supposedly lampooning, just endless cynism and the sochiopathic tendency to use it as a political cudgel. The over-abundance of cynism is the biggest problem in western media right now - nothing can be enjoyed, everything needs to be approached from a standpoint of smug superiority.

If you want a better actual parody then I recommend Magical Girl Ore, where the girls turn into macho man (with the overly cute dresses), the animal companion is a Yakuza guy and fighting villains is beating them to a pulp with a blunt object. Even the macho magical girl looks more feminine than whatever the heroes are in this dreck.

 

[Sun Shihong]

I remember seeing somewhere that SJWs are "as subtle as a brick to the face". This is the perfect embodiment of the phrase.

They just don't have even the basic notions of the material they're dealing with; Senshi the Merchandising, Magical Girl Ore and even the silliest Maid RPG session with your friends are better parodies than this... thing? Is it supposed to be Anime?

Is it even supposed to be a parody?

I'm probably no surprise to this sentiment, I ooze it after all, but just what in the flying fuck is so hard about making anime and manga elsewhere and not fucking that up? Is it a culture barrier? Some form of fucky thinking? Something in the water that people are drinking?

Like, anime and manga definitely are their own breed, obviously you could not merely duplicate them simply by eyewitness alone. I am fairly sure that even if you gave overseas aspirees the techniques and the equipment, they'd fuck that up. I talk about cultural study and insightful analysis, but even then that can be lost in the long run. How hard is it to want to make a geniune anime like story outside of Japan?

Twenty some years and counting, fellow anime fans. Magical Girl Friendship Squad is not helping in this case.

The closest things we ever had to "western anime" were Avatar and Afro Samurai, though Legend of Korra butchered everything when they used the "scissoring dykes is a political statement" card. But then, as we see with the animesque webcomics, people don't seem to care about anything besides emulating the seasonal Battle Shonen/Isekai/Harem comedy fads, or just shoehorning whatever tropes they like and political points of view they have.

And the concept of "doing something fun for people to watch" is nowhere to be seen... oh, yes. SJWs hate anything that's fun because fun things are "racist", "bigoted" and "problematic".

 

[Dick Justice]

more importantly Congress especially the democrats who despite their REEEing in front of the cameras wanted them hell of a lot more than Bush.

Care to elaborate?

The closest things we ever had to "western anime" were Avatar and Afro Samurai,

Yo where the boondocks at. Mcgruder wore his love of the genre on his sleeve for three straight seasons. Incidentally The Boondocks just happens to be one of the best animated series ever.

 

[Dysnomia]

I have a feeling it's possible, its just a mixture of dumbass executives who only just now realized cartoons aren't just for kids They're also for manchildren and incompetent showrunners being the biggest reasons

That and it would end up CalArts style anyway.

 

[Ma_Hooty]

I sometimes have flights of fancy to pitch ideas, then I see abominations like this getting pissed out and I clutch said ideas a little tighter.
This is why indie creators and crowdfunding sites are the last holdouts for decent entertainment, and even then that's getting throttled by the puritan degenerates of Woketopia.

Like seriously? Period blood? Are you fucking kidding me?

 

[💗Freddie Freaker💗]

Interesting concept, terrible execution. The art style is bland, the writing is awkward and the social justice crap is just obnoxious.

The closest things we ever had to "western anime" were Avatar and Afro Samurai, though Legend of Korra butchered everything when they used the "scissoring dykes is a political statement" card. But then, as we see with the animesque webcomics, people don't seem to care about anything besides emulating the seasonal Battle Shonen/Isekai/Harem comedy fads, or just shoehorning whatever tropes they like and political points of view they have.

And the concept of "doing something fun for people to watch" is nowhere to be seen... oh, yes. SJWs hate anything that's fun because fun things are "racist", "bigoted" and "problematic".

You forgot Neo Yokio. Jaden Smith voices the main character.



There's also a bunch of European anime and European-Japanese collaborations like Wakfu, MFKZ and the Moomins.

 

[The Cunting Death]

Wakfu, MFKZ

Gonna autistically clarify those two since I'm a huge Ankama follower (the production house behind those two)

The Europe and Japan stuff with Wakfu was only two specials, one by Studio Ghibli and one by Madhouse. MFKZ was mostly just animated in Japan, its all based on French material.

 

[Sperghetti]

I'm probably no surprise to this sentiment, I ooze it after all, but just what in the flying fuck is so hard about making anime and manga elsewhere and not fucking that up? Is it a culture barrier? Some form of fucky thinking? Something in the water that people are drinking?

Like, anime and manga definitely are their own breed, obviously you could not merely duplicate them simply by eyewitness alone. I am fairly sure that even if you gave overseas aspirees the techniques and the equipment, they'd fuck that up. I talk about cultural study and insightful analysis, but even then that can be lost in the long run. How hard is it to want to make a geniune anime like story outside of Japan?

Twenty some years and counting, fellow anime fans. Magical Girl Friendship Squad is not helping in this case.

I’ve often wondered this, too. Even aesthetically, most western artists can’t get it quite right. They still have to inject kind of a western animation or quirky “this is my art style” thing into it that makes it look off. Of course, there are all sorts of different anime/manga styles, some that are even very strange or unique in their own right, but for some reason most western artists can never quite blend in.

I almost wonder if a big part of it is the structure of media industry over here and how we view stories and art. Manga especially is just so different in how it’s created and formatted than mainstream comics are — it’s more like how novels work, with each story being its own thing and written and illustrated by a single author, or small collective. Most mainstream western comics, on the other hand, switch out writers and illustrators like cogs in a machine, which is why the same basic story with the same characters had a laundry list of different “continuities”. It’s like western comic artists are just working from an entirely different template of what constitutes a good story, from the ground up.

I talked with my brother and Yakitate Japan came up. For those who don't know, Yakitake Japan is a parody about shonen show that is an endless string of tournament arcs about baking bread that still makes the viewer invested despite how ridiculous the premise is (and it only gets more ridiculous as it progresses). It made me realize that the most important thing about a good parody is having love for the original genre.

At least from watching the snippets here, it doesn't seem like the show has any respect for the genre it is supposedly lampooning, just endless cynism and the sochiopathic tendency to use it as a political cudgel. The over-abundance of cynism is the biggest problem in western media right now - nothing can be enjoyed, everything needs to be approached from a standpoint of smug superiority.

If you want a better actual parody then I recommend Magical Girl Ore, where the girls turn into macho man (with the overly cute dresses), the animal companion is a Yakuza guy and fighting villains is beating them to a pulp with a blunt object. Even the macho magical girl looks more feminine than whatever the heroes are in this dreck.
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Having love and respect for the original genre really is key, and I agree that it's something western media is sorely lacking right now. I think another example of this is that Japanese parodies often seem to work by taking the genuine elements or structure of a genre and inserting silly, irreverent, or absurd stuff into it, whereas modern western parodies just seem to rely on making fun of tropes and throwing in some edgy or gross humor. Even if the creators claim that they actually love the thing they're parodying, the parody itself always gives off this vibe of "this thing is so stupid, and I'm way too cool for it".

I definitely get that same feeling from a lot of Tumblr artists who claim to be anime fans, and the creator of this show. It's as if they like the idea of anime in the sense that they want to enjoy something animated and geeky that other self-professed geeks like, but they don't actually enjoy anime, which is why they're constantly trying to convert characters to their own lumpy art style to "fix" them and coming up with headcanons and alternate universes.

The basic SJW opinion of all media seems to be "I want to like this thing because it would give me hipster cred, but I don't actually like it the way it is. You need to change it around so I like it more."

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Having love and respect for the original genre really is key, and I agree that it's something western media is sorely lacking right now. I think another example of this is that Japanese parodies often seem to work by taking the genuine elements or structure of a genre and inserting silly, irreverent, or absurd stuff into it, whereas modern western parodies just seem to rely on making fun of tropes and throwing in some edgy or gross humor. Even if the creators claim that they actually love the thing they're parodying, the parody itself always gives off this vibe of "this thing is so stupid, and I'm way too cool for it".

I definitely get that same feeling from a lot of Tumblr artists who claim to be anime fans, and the creator of this show. It's as if they like the idea of anime in the sense that they want to enjoy something animated and geeky that other self-professed geeks like, but they don't actually enjoy anime, which is why they're constantly trying to convert characters to their own lumpy art style to "fix" them and coming up with headcanons and alternate universes.

The basic SJW opinion of all media seems to be "I want to like this thing because it would give me hipster cred, but I don't actually like it the way it is. You need to change it around so I like it more."

If something like Space Balls had been created by modern directors and writers then it would have been dripping with contempt towards acutal sci-fi fans, would have added political sperging that would heavily date the movie and pay lipservice to the most basic ass tropes rather than do something interesting with both the tropes and the plot.

 

[DamageJoy]

Oh hey. Yet another ugly looking cynical garbage that appeals to nobody except a few people on Twitter and Tumblr.
Also ugh Sailor Uranus and Neptune with shitty re-designs and toonboom friendly style. How creative.

Oh yeah, the West cannot fucking compete against manga, which is why comics are dying. Nor can the West adapt and make manga, because it is a lot different than comics.

I will drop my two cents on this. In Japan you grind art skills hard, animators and mangaka and their assistants basically work themself to death. In the west you have lesser burden also the artist culture is way more forgiving. I mean all of them are on Twitter signalling about political bullshit and not drawing.

Also the artfriend-artist pipe line is much more streamlined there. They have an insane need to make art, illustration comics etc. And manga magazines can be brutal. They can drop a veteran's work if it's not going high in the popularity poll. See Samurai 8 made by Kishimoto (the guy who made Naruto) and it was cancelled like it was made by a newcomer.

Contrast that with the hateful creators who make ugly comics about characters hate to an audience they hate yet they still get the job somehow.

 

[The Cunting Death]

Tfw you're slowly seeing people praise this hunk of shit

 

[Maurice Caine]

I'm probably no surprise to this sentiment, I ooze it after all, but just what in the flying fuck is so hard about making anime and manga elsewhere and not fucking that up? Is it a culture barrier? Some form of fucky thinking? Something in the water that people are drinking?

Like, anime and manga definitely are their own breed, obviously you could not merely duplicate them simply by eyewitness alone. I am fairly sure that even if you gave overseas aspirees the techniques and the equipment, they'd fuck that up. I talk about cultural study and insightful analysis, but even then that can be lost in the long run. How hard is it to want to make a geniune anime like story outside of Japan?

Twenty some years and counting, fellow anime fans. Magical Girl Friendship Squad is not helping in this case.

I'm pretty sure we could replicate manga/anime easily if authors just gave a shit.

 

[DamageJoy]

Tfw you're slowly seeing people praise this hunk of shit

Of course, if something is hated you will have contrarians who will defend it for "politics" or something.

 

[Dick Justice]

Interesting concept, terrible execution. The art style is bland, the writing is awkward and the social justice crap is just obnoxious.


You forgot Neo Yokio. Jaden Smith voices the main character.
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There's also a bunch of European anime and European-Japanese collaborations like Wakfu, MFKZ and the Moomins.

When your IRL hair is crazier than your animu hair.