[dreamcastegirl]

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Originally Posted by IndigoArms

For one thing, they'll focus on "diversity and inclusion" and make character X and Y, just because.

Without wishing to come across as confrontational, there is a danger, I feel, when people act so casually dismissive of "diversity and inclusion" of throwing people who genuinely yearn for that inclusion under the bus. The things that you love are not diminished by entertainment catering to a broader audience, the will still be there, unchanged by whatever new interpretations arise.

Again, I'm not trying to raise your ire, but please consider this.

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Originally Posted by Yarlick

It's more like "We are alienating our longtime fanbase in the profit of another one that in the long run won't stay"

As above, sentiments like this make me worry, because it comes across as if you very much want to keep people out of what you consider to be "yours" and that makes me somewhat sad, because, well, for a start, it seems absurd for adults in the West to wish to have the final say on who is "the longterm fanbase" for a show aimed at Japanese children.

I'm not trying to pick on either of you, but I also wouldn't feel right in not raising this because I think there is a broader discussion about media, and about the way it has catered to a specific audience in the past, and the way that audience is behaving now.

Not, of course, to defend any of these big companies, whose only real decision making process is what will make shareholders happy. Still, we make our own fun, I guess; we interpret media in our own way.